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barsoap

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  • Einstein-Landauer culinary units

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  • There's a better way: German flour types. They're specifying mineral content, e.g. standard "white flour" is Type 405, meaning that when you pyrolyse 100g of flour, 405mg of ashes will be left. As the minerals were all in carbon solution before, and temperatures are low enough to not melt them into slag, you're essentially left with single atoms. Close enough at least for an assumption. If you disagree I shall hand you a mortar.

    Of course, that doesn't specify everything. I suggest also measuring the released energy, then jot both numbers down on the complex plane. So you have joule-moles of flour.

  • Vibebugger

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  • Not really, they'd clash all the time. 8080 is the default port for a non-privileged webserver, that is, web server, something you put your own stuff on, not applications/daemons that happen to have a web interface. E.g. ComfyUI uses 8188 for its web interface, deluge 8112, neither will serve your index.html.

  • ultimate storage hack

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  • Because PATH_MAX is? Also because it's a 4k page.

    FILENAME_MAX is not safe to use for buffer allocations btw it could be INT_MAX.

  • ultimate storage hack

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  • 255, generally, because null termination. ZFS does 1023, the argument not being "people should have long filenames" but "unicode exists", ReiserFS 4032, Reiser4 3976. Not that anyone uses Reiser, any more. Also Linux' PATH_MAX of 4096 still applies. Though that's in the end just a POSIX define, I'm not sure whether that limit is actually enforced by open(2)... man page speaks of ENAMETOOLONG but doesn't give a maximum.

    It's not like filesystems couldn't support it it's that FS people consider it pointless. ZFS does, in principle, support gigantic file metadata but using it would break use cases like having a separate vdev for your volume's metadata. What's the point of having (effectively) separate index drives when your data drives are empty.

  • I'm so hungry

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  • Gesundheit.

  • I'm so hungry

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  • Nah, you're just occupying another spot on it. And unless you're an algae or something, literally living from light and elements floating about in the air and sea, you're not at the bottom.

    The ecology expands beyond your pet ethical considerations.

    Side question: Would you begrudge your dog eating your corpse? If you love them so much, why don't you feed them, when that is all you have left to give?

  • I'm so hungry

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  • Your dog would not mind eating your horse. Your dog also wouldn't mind eating you.

    There's two principal reasons why people make a difference between cats/dogs on the one side and horses on the other: The degree to which they're family, but very crucially also to the degree to which horses, or cows, very much aren't carnivores, it's about position on the foodchain, how much heavy metals etc. accumulate, that's not just a modern thing it's always been the case. That's why eating dogs is an exception among human cultures, while with cows not eating them is the exception.

  • I'm so hungry

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  • Horse meat is absolutely tasty, and if it wasn't so unpopular it'd probably be in the same price range as beef, overall the market is quite small, and absolutely zero horses are raised for meat. Bluntly said at the end of a horse's career an owner is asked "do you want an urn, vacuum packs, or not pay anything I'll sell the meat". If your dietary preference for meat is animals which have been loved and pampered all their life horse is a very good choice.

    Trouble with the scandal back then was that it was all untracked horse meat. And there's plenty of horses around which get treated with veterinary drugs that make them unsuitable for human consumption because no owner is prioritising slaughter over their health.

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  • It's a category. All lines are arbitrary to a degree and "interbreeds and produces viable offspring" is not exceedingly arbitrary. You can have arguments around populations which could and would interbreed if they weren't geographically distinct, you can argue about whether offspring needs to be viable no matter which way around the sexes of the parents are, or how large the percentage of viable offspring needs to be, but in the end, yep it makes sense to have a distinction somewhere around that bunch of criteria.

    House cats and European wild cats are considered distinct species not because they're genetically incompatible, but because they don't interbreed to any significant degree -- too many behavioural differences, and we're not speaking about culture, here. So even if they could intermingle in theory in practice they don't, so they stay separate, so they're different species.

    It's kind of... a behavioural view on the genome? If you have a better idea, field it, there has to be some dividing line because taxa for the taxonomy god.

  • MAGA melts down over ‘WOKE MARXIST POPE’ who is a ‘Never Trumper liberal’

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  • completely upending the view of homosexuality as a sin.

    Nono you don't get it that is how it always was. Something along the lines of "chem sex parties associated with so-called gay culture are a sin", who said anything about actually loving relationships? Going back through all the official proclamations you probably won't find anything that contradicts the new stance: They have a habit of writing in grand generalities that can be readily re-interpreted. The church doesn't change it just forgets that it was different, that's the only way a ratchet can even work on the conservative side. And yes they'll never condone chem sex parties.

  • MAGA melts down over ‘WOKE MARXIST POPE’ who is a ‘Never Trumper liberal’

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  • I suppose its plausible that a child abuser wouldnt go to confess that if they knew the priest had to pass that information along, however I think the logical inconsistency is that they would then be at risk of dying without having confessed such a grave sin. Which hypothetically if they were a true believer of what the church teaches would be worse than any earthly punishment imaginable.

    If they believe to that kind of extent then they'd just turn themselves in, no priest necessary. Confession is something trained into people culturally, habituated from a young age, on the level of individual behaviour it doesn't really have anything to do with Catholicism in particular, or theological doctrines, it just so happens that Catholicism is a culture which does that kind of training. So we're not relying on paedophiles being faithful, but having a habit of spilling stuff every so often.

    Lutherans, too, know confession but it's not much of a cultural practice. I'm pretty sure there's cultures that do practice regular confession but aren't Catholic or even consider it part of a religious context, though granted the best I can come up with on the top of my head is sweat lodges which are not about confessing your wrongdoings, but giving thanks. Oh, Marxism-Leninism but there it functions as a humiliation ritual. It kind of shows how the whole thing becomes toxic AF when it's public1.

    The other thing is that is must be psychologically tormenting to some degree for priests to know other people are heinous criminals and being powerless to stop them other than saying “turn yourself in”.

    They're supposed to have support networks for that, just as therapists etc. have.

    I can't give a solution here. There simply is none, there's no avenue that would stop this kind of thing, at least not by tinkering with confessions. And either way the impact of a change would be marginal. Other practices such as backing up your kids when auntie wants to slobber them but they don't want to be slobbered, teaching kids early on that they have a right to bodily autonomy, are way more impactful.

    1 Inb4 tankies come in here saying "ML isn't a religion": Yes it is, it's speedballs for the masses. Get bent.

  • Elon Musk is responsible for “killing the world’s poorest children,” says Bill Gates

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  • See the point about random companies selling it for profit. A patent license does not have to cost anything. Don't know if AstraZeneca did give it away for free to poor countries which do happen to have the right kind of production capability under a "produce for yourself but don't sell it" kind of deal, but it's definitely a thing that you can do.

    The patent itself isn't evil, it's all about how it's used. And btw open source licenses rely on copyright law, especially anything GPL-like would not work without it.

  • MAGA melts down over ‘WOKE MARXIST POPE’ who is a ‘Never Trumper liberal’

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  • Lifting the seal won't help a thing, on the contrary it might make things worse because then paedophiles aren't going to confess, any more, and priests can't tell them that god wants them to go to the police.

    It's akin to requiring therapists to tip off the police when you confess that you consume illicit drugs: All you're doing is stopping people from talking about it in the first place.

    Are there therapists who are drug dealers and abuse that confidentiality for their own business interest? I'm reasonably sure. I mean there are a gazillion of therapists in the world, there has to be at least a couple of drug dealers among them. But that's no excuse to make it worse for everyone else.

    People like teachers and of course child care workers should be reporters regarding this kind of stuff, but on the flipside the reports should go to a place where the victim then can find confidentiality. And maybe that's even what at least some priests are doing (afterwards confessing that they broke the seal), important bit being that the perpetrator can't know that the tip came from confession, and the official doctrine, "confession doesn't leak", is still intact.

  • MAGA melts down over ‘WOKE MARXIST POPE’ who is a ‘Never Trumper liberal’

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  • They're a ratchet. Calling them progressive would be a straight lie but they do go with the times, maybe 100 years behind, picking up all stragglers that can reasonably be picked up.

    In 50 years, mark my words, they will marry gay couples, or at least bless them before the congregation (without sacrament, or maybe they'll invent a new, same-but-different, sacrament). Why? Because the Vatican recently gave priests authorisation to bless gay couples in private: Blessing the relationship, not just the individuals. Click.

  • Elon Musk is responsible for “killing the world’s poorest children,” says Bill Gates

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  • I did try to find unit costs for Cuba's vaccine but failed. While doing that I found a paper analysing distribution costs in Vietnam and long story short it can easily cost four bucks just to get the stuff from the plant into people's arms.

    Not patenting it would allow them to create their own

    Patenting it and licensing it also allows them to create their own, but now they need a plant to do that, which requires things like reliable electricity, infrastructure to enable supply of raw materials, whatnot. It's not like you can brew that kind of thing in a bathtub. What patenting also does is stop random Indian pharma producers from cooking it up and selling it to Botswana without giving you a cut, that is, the wrong private enterprise profiting off it. One that didn't incur costs doing studies so that regulators would greenlight it.

    From what I gather most of the doses used overall in the world were AstraZeneca, and much of it was given to countries for free, with western countries stemming the bill, not AstraZeneca. The EU apparently (it's in your wiki link) brought the price down to €1.78 because the EU was supplying the production capacity, and €12 for Pfizer/Biontech, which was never in the race for distribution to poor countries in the first place because it requires a tight, and very cool, cooling chain. Forget about the four bucks per dose for distribution in that case.

    Would this all have been better in a socialist world? Yes. But that's not what the situation on the ground was during the pandemic so stop making the perfect the enemy of the good, western countries (excluding the US) were up to the task not getting fucked over by big pharma, and passed that on to other countries.

  • Programmers then and now

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  • awk is practically made for record processing, within the shell you can set $IFS. The reason so many ancient UNIX file formats use : as separator is because that's the default setting of $IFS.

    It's all a huge PITA, though. I mean there's a reason why people started using perl instead. Nushell is great for that kind of stuff, even more so if you have random json or such lying around it loads just as easily. "Everything is a string" was a mistake.

  • Programmers then and now

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  • You quit it just like you quit ed or ex, just that you have to enter the prompt (:) yourself as vi is not by default in prompt mode. And you should know ed, ed is the standard editor.

    I use Helix btw.

  • Programmers then and now

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  • The large initial percentage of female coders was due to computer having been a female job, because secretary was. Their role within companies didn't change, what changed is that they were using machines to do the computing instead of doing it by hand.

    We're kinda lucky to have the woke trifecta (Ada, Grace, Alan) (first programmer (woman), inventor of compilers (woman), absolute unit (gay)) to keep the chuds at bay. Even if we weren't all socially inept nerds (or pretending to be so to bosses) there's only so much you can do, culturally, if the population is growing exponentially. Uncle Bob (yes I know he's a chud) did the maths at some point IIRC it was something like the number of programmers doubling every two years. Which also means that at any one point in time roughly 2/3rds of programmers have no idea what they're doing, which explains the javascript ecosystem.

  • parseInt(5)

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  • Probably not an article about integer parsing, though. If the docs are that long, then because Microsoft does have a tendency to be overly verbose for things they think you need, just to have no docs for the stuff you actually need.

    For reference here's the relevant rust docs.