hinterlufer

@hinterlufer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I host a site for sharing notes for peers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for mediawiki

  Although you really need to consider the peer group you are working with, and make the contribution as little work as possible. In my experience, as soon as the course is over people won’t want to do any extra work like change the formatting or integrating with existing materials. And requiring to use a specific format (even if it’s something dead simple as markdown) might already be too much friction.

  In my experience shared cloud storage (GDrive, Dropbox,…) works quite well, even if the feature set is very limited. Being able to simply plonk your .docx/.pdf/.whatever into there is very easy and low friction.

  A different solution I saw that worked was a forum where you could also upload files that could be categorized into the different courses and were then accessible by others. If you were to self-host this, you’d really want to make sure somehow that it’s not exploited to spread malware or worse.

  Anyways, I wouldn’t think too much about how well the material can be represented, but rather how you can get your peers to continuously contribute to it. The best representation is useless without the data going with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  2 kW is a ton of power required to keep a single room warm assuming you ran that continuously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Websites: Then vs Now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t forget autoplay video and music

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The one made out of plastic? That one sucks compared to the one I mentioned before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ikea OMTÄNKSAM

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks, Logan.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, if someone comes up with such a comparison it immediately tells that they don’t know what they’re talking about. Like, linseed oil was also used for waterproofing (oilskin), yet it is quite healthy. Other applications/occurences of a substance simply don’t tell you anything about it being good or bad for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pumpkin spice!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How can you make sugar water taste bad? Or am I not getting something here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So sick!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no bit of branding on there though and the artwork is pretty neat. I wish the print was higher quality though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I started to get these daily at random hours, even when I'm sleeping. Someone's trying to hack me?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can create an email alias for your Microsoft account and then only enable login from that account. If you then do not use that email for anything but the login, you should be pretty safe from credential stuffing attacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do a PhD, they said.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone in an important position once said to me, having a PhD shows that you have frustration tolerance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT Do it.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t. You could try overleaf or some wysiwyg editor for LaTeX, but both need some getting used to and at least a minute amount of effort. Overleaf probably has the lowest barrier of entry (0 set up required), but is a paid service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT Do it.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yep, markdown is a great alternative to LaTeX if you don’t need fancy layouts or anything special

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨blast me off, fam⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I’ve found on safety datasheets it should be more like 3 g/kg. The numbers on this seem a bit off in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people give videos English titles when the videos themselves are in some other language?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you speaking of YouTube? YouTube has a “feature” that will auto-translate titles of videos to your account language (the creator may have to enable this, not sure).

  If you google for the issue you’ll find multiple people with the same issue, but afaik there’s not really a proper way to prevent the translation. If you do understand the original language, you can add it to your account languages to stop translation though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ot says max. 0.3% caffeine content in the coffee dry matter. Roasted Arabica beans have around 1.5% caffeine (although it may vary significantly), meaning that decaf may have as much caffein as 20% of regular coffee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do empty nesters deal with over cooking?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you also found that their serving sizes are way too small or is it just us?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Does Fabric Conditioner Do? And Should I Use It?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Powder is mostly filler though