baltakatei
@baltakatei@sopuli.xyz
/ˈbɑːltəkʊteɪ/. Knows some chemistry and piping stuff. TeXmacs user.
Website: reboil.com
Mastodon: baltakatei@twit.social
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- Comment on sus 5 days ago:
Is there a poly equivalent of something like the Magna Carta?
- Comment on Attacks on Judges Undermine Democracy, Warns Ketanji Brown Jackson 6 days ago:
Found via slrpnk.net/post/21618198
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- Comment on Anon plays ff14 1 week ago:
にゃ～
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- Comment on Relatable 1 week ago:
Let me channel your loved ones: Bring a walking stick with you whenever you go. They make convenient collapsible ones. But better yet, just use a stick wherever you go. They’re convenient to have when encountering rough or slippery terrain since it’s like adding another limb to your body.
- Comment on Relatable 1 week ago:
Ya’ll need to add ”walk an hour”, “eat a salad”, and “do calisthenics” to your daily routines.
- Comment on Possession 1 week ago:
I too wish I could inhabit a blåjaj.
- Comment on Give me your company 1 week ago:
Looks like something the part in Atlas Shrugged Explained in Memes explaining Hank Rearden’s unwillingness to sell his steel foundries and secret steel recipe.
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- Comment on Trump Wants to Reverse Coal’s Long Decline. It Won’t be Easy. | Coal has been displaced by cheap and plentiful natural gas and the rapid growth of wind and solar energy 3 weeks ago:
The only plausible reason I can see for bringing back coal is that it requires almost no education to make work compared to solar. It’s the fuel of an anti-intellectual society.
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- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
Most problems people have with Linux, I think, come from trying to be Linux power users from the start by performing very advanced techniques beyond their time and patience: dual booting multiple operating systems (so they don’t have to buy Linux-dedicated hardware), using any graphics card (the latest and greatest GPUs are all closed source and developers who work on Linux do so because they despise closed source), using the least expensive hardware (which are typically closed source and buggy with anything except Windows), and emulating Windows apps so they don’t have to learn new workflows or abandon their favorite games (technically, Proton with Steam allows Windows games like FFXIV to be played, but it’s a neverending journey to get it working and keeping it working.
If you switch to Linux, accept that for a smooth experience you’ll have to pay more than you would for a Windows machine (e.g. System76, Framework) And if you want graphics card support for your emulated Windows games on Steam, you’re going to have to use the specific flavor of Linux the manufacturer supports.
That said, if you value free/libre open source software, then making the switch from Windows is totally worth it.
- Comment on Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On 4 weeks ago:
The Times verified the location and timing of the video, which was taken in the southern city of Rafah early on March 23. Filmed from what appears to be the front interior of a moving vehicle, it shows a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck, clearly marked, with headlights and flashing lights turned on, driving south on a road to the north of Rafah in the early morning. The first rays of sun can be seen, and birds are chirping.
The convoy stops when it encounters a vehicle that had veered onto the side of the road — one ambulance had been sent earlier to aid wounded civilians and had come under attack. The new rescue vehicles detour to the side of the road.
Rescue workers, at least two of whom can be seen wearing uniforms, are seen exiting a fire truck and an ambulance marked with the emblem of the Red Crescent and approaching the ambulance derailed to the side.
Then, sounds of intense gunfire break out.
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The Palestine Red Crescent Society spokeswoman, Nebal Farsakh, said in an interview from the West Bank city of Ramallah that the paramedic who filmed the video was later found with a bullet in his head in the mass grave. His name has not been disclosed yet because he has relatives living in Gaza concerned about Israeli retaliation, the U.N. diplomat said.
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- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 5 weeks ago:
Which website gave you those instructions? Name and shame.
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- Comment on Musk Donates to G.O.P. Members of Congress Who Support Impeaching Judges 1 month ago:
The US has advanced from regulatory capture to state capture. France escaped it via political violence in the French Revolution. If US government officials fail to respond to protests and civil disobedience to shut down oligarchy, then I don’t really see any way to effect change except through political violence as the French had to resort to.
- Comment on RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread 1 month ago:
Sounds like practicing eugenics on animals before applying to Homo sapiens.
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- Comment on How much progress have we made on climate change? 2 months ago:
- Comment on modern psychiatry be like 2 months ago:
Historically, I think with queer/unusual behavior were simply exiled/forced into suicide if they couldn’t mask. I’m glad I live in a part of the US that isn’t a monoculture as political originalists would have it revert to. Witchburning and lynchings are for losers.
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 2 months ago:
Personally, I think a definition of life can be boiled down to whether something can record and then selectively rebroadcast information patterns in a different medium. Intelligence is a function of how long a delay there can be between recording and rebroadcast in addition to how much information is transcribed.
Transcribing DNA/RNA into peptide chains obviously meets the criteria.
Wildfires are ruled out since, although wildfires can propagate themselves, information in fuel is almost immediately lost during combustion; if wildfires are alive, it is only in combination with other life forms that can selectively preserve and sacrifice parts of themselves through fire, such as pine cones requiring fire to clear away undergrowth for new sprouts.
A computer meets the criteria, but the selectivity of information storage has historically been tightly controlled by humans. It’s more accurate to say humans and computers form an augmented hybrid lifeform.
