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On the context of ethics, oysters are probably the safest thing from the animal kingdom to eat. They’re really the closest thing we have to a meat based plant. Many who consider themselves vegan have no issues wasting them.

> No it's not. Sign up for a virtual mailbox for $15-$25/month.

You are out of touch.

Yeah what you’ve described a basically how I saw many forums collapse over the years as well. While they all have the basic problems of bringing in and retaining users, many stacked on top of those issues an unremovable set of hostile admins/mods driving away people from the kingdom they usurped.

The people who have the most time and energy to give for moderation, are the same ones most in love with the control for it’s own sake.

That’s really interesting, I’d never hear of this before and wouldn’t have ever considered there to be a relationship. Thanks for bringing it up.

Do they have a proper thermal pad + heat sink for the drive? There’s no mention of it in the article.

They could have a faulty drive, or the controller could just be overheating.

The need for a heat sink on an NVMe drive typically goes like this:

PCIe 3.0: Rarely

PCIe 4.0: Usually

PCIe 5.0: Always

FYI, before reaching for PDE5 inhibitors, please be aware that these seem to be ototoxic in some way. Common side effects are tinnitus and to a lesser extent hearing loss.

When taking these, you should track if there are changes to your hearing and cease immediately if you notice something. The damage seems cumulative and based on dose, and may resolve quickly, over months, or not at all. You should also look into any other medicines you take to see if they are ototoxic.

Wow, now that’s an amazing blog, thanks for linking it.

I use iPhones (paid for by work) as a tool for my agronomy job. I take a large amount of photos throughout the day to help document what I find in the field.

Since at least the iPhone 12, holding the phone still and letting scene sit for a few seconds will result in a sharper photo. I’m not sure if it’s a subtle version focus stacking or a sharpening algorithm, but it’s definitely there.

On my 16e, immediately looking at a photo just taken can result in the image noticeably sharpening after a second or 2, so this may be a post processing step as well.

Funny enough the parts of the lawn that are still grass are what force me to go out and mow it before the seed heads start spewing pollen. Though if you’re allergic to the hay too (curiously, I’m not) you have my sincere sympathies. That said, even if I didn’t have bad grass pollen allergies, I’d still have to keep the grass from getting too big because deer/dog ticks will start to host there, especially with all the critters we have running around.

Most of my yard (not tiny, but not big either) is clover/legumes now, and I only mow it once it’s seeded and matured, to encourage a new flush of flowers for the bees/flies/beetles and such. As a bonus the clover tends to push out the catsear too.

I’m also fond of my mint patch, and all the little mint moths fluttering about it.

It’s one of those sort of articles by someone who has a hobby of philosophy. For non-hobbyists trying to extract information from it, it becomes an effort of self flagellation. A good litmus test is if any attempt at satire would be inferior to the comedy of the real thing.

I find it best to quickly realize that I am absolutely not the target audience, and move on.

Better clarified here: https://elmiram.github.io/anime-professions/

>The headline: 17 jobs anime never names

>Renderable ISCO occupations with zero confirmed mentions — even across millions of dialogue lines. Note: our method detects named jobs; some of these are surely shown but never labeled.

Though I’m not curious enough to actually go through and confirm if the series does in fact fail to mention the job names, or if it’s an error on the classification llm.

Another thing to look into if you love plasma, are toroids (donuts).

Example video demonstration: https://youtu.be/Q4sUre79ncA

More if you liked that:

Zerg Labs [TeslaCoilPro]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRKfNzc7-524yD8nlyZC5Zg

BackMacSci: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7D566ClLdr1By2JnKh_DgA

zilipoper: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeTqOt4xDuL2imX7zYnJlw

I love plasma so much, I have multiple “Jr.” globes from Aurora Plasma Design (which have a voltage? adjustment knob), some gas tubes, ancient indicator bulbs from Ukraine/Russia, and an ancient VTG/Rabbit Systems “Eye of the Storm” E-6000 globe from 1987 (which has two adjustment sliders, and a few cheapo globes.

If you are interested in a globe, I’d highly recommend the “Phoenix Rising” Jr. globe they offer. At lower powers it’s near silent, and you can typically adjust them down to have 3-5 small tendrils wafting around each other lazily. APD’s gloves also have thicker glass, and are rated for running all day at below 80% power. At full power my phoenix rising globe uses ~12 watts, and at the lowest power it’s something like 3-4 watts. Unfortunately tariffs, inflation and noble gas cost have hammered the price in the last year.

I definitely prefer silent and lazy looking plasma instead of the frantic screeching storms that most globes have. I uploaded a few example videos here: https://imgur.com/a/bg8fsCW

One thing you can often do is take a cheapo Chinese glove, and use a voltage adjustable power supply and tune it down that way, though I couldn’t tell you if that’s ok for the electronics long term or not.

It’s the opposite, they do it to fit in more commercials, because apparently people don’t switch away when they talk over songs.

Listening to the local collage radio during my teens was formative, and the exposure to all kinds of things I would have never had heard otherwise still heavily colors my musical taste to this day.

Most of the time songs were played randomly from a huge list, there were no “hits”, and this was exactly what I wanted.

If there was a song I liked, I had to quick record it to tape, because otherwise I likely wouldn’t hear it again for days or weeks.

There would at times be people DJing for time segments, but it was relaxed and music focused, not person focused. I’ll take some dead air and a soft spoken young adult just giving the name of the next song vs bombastic “personalities” any day.

Another big key to it, was my college radio station didn’t have advertisements. Radio ads are grating and repulsive and I simply cannot tolerate that shit. Same thing with TV ads, which is a big reason I basically stopped watching TV in my late teens as well.

I cherish and miss the radio experience that I personally had, but when I hear what others subject themselves to I simply cannot fathom why.

These days my tastes are mostly adjacent to doom or psych-rock, and my modern day radio replacement is following some curators on YouTube whose hobby/side job is to find new releases in these genres and dig up old gems. Which makes it easy for me to quickly find and add (mostly through Bandcamp) new songs into my own collection every so often, which I then self host and further rate/curate via navidrome.

Basically I’ve always been a very active, rather than passive music enjoyer.

I suppose anything thing to bring up, is if I was listening to people on the radio doing something interesting, then I end up either needing to be randomly cut off from it to do something else, or try to constrain my schedule to their show. Not fun at all.

This reads like it’s been machine generated.

The “it’s built so everything is under compression” is great thing to bring up, but fyi your link is AI generated, filled with senseless repetition and “it’s not just x, it’s y”.

Looking it up on archive.org shows it was generated this year.

Had this happen to me just last week. Had forgotten to change the “to download into” directory in an GOG archive script after migration to a new system. Filled a folder on the system disk instead of my intended ZFS array.

Naturally ncdu wasn’t installed, so it took me a bit to figure out what the heck happened.

It’s interesting and ironic how so many things in proxmox that would normally release space, instead become nonfunctional when the disk is full. Things like deleting old VM disks or cached iso’s will fail via the interface. I think the web console also broke, had to ssh in to manually free space up.

Damn. As a commenter on the page put it, this was “compulsively readable”, I didn’t expect to read the whole thing.

Definitely a great read if you have a parent that has had severe failures. This essay is a great example of taking a confused and fragmented mess of childhood experiences, expectations and emotions and crystallizing them into something digestible.

I have a dodge ram (work provided truck) with lane assist. I had it completely disabled for two years because it was awful and possibly dangerous as you mentioned, though I’d enable it on rare really long multi-hour drives across states. Fortunately the button to turn it off stayed that way instead of having to set it every start.

This year I never turned it off. I’m guessing they updated the algorithm because it seems a lot more subtle, I don’t feel it being aggressive like before. When I deliberately cross the line (which happens a lot right now, lots of summer road fixing going on) I don’t notice it fighting me.

The videos don’t seem to load for me. On iPhone/ios, tried safari Orion, Firefox.

https://imgur.com/a/mN7PRXJ

Same here, on iPhone tried with safari, Orion, and Firefox, all basically the same.

Looks like: https://imgur.com/a/AlEHsQQ

I work for a large agricultural company, in my part of it we sell fertilizer, chemical, and agronomic services. As part of this, we end up putting out a lot of trials so we can actually say something true instead of “buy our stuff it’s great I promise ;)”

One of my favorite slides is when we compiled dozens of trials on something that’s basically a nitrogen fertilizer, which as much of a guaranteed positive effect as you can get in agriculture. When compared in a graph most of the trials show an overwhelming effect on increasing yield over an untreated check, however there’s always a portion of the trials where the yield decreases compared to the (untreated) check.

Real life is extremely noisy for a multitude of circumstantial reasons that are either not practical or possible to control for, so a single trial is generally worth fuckall. It takes a lot of testing to see a consistent trend across them.

Science if finally catching up to Werner Herzog

>Of course there's a lot of misery, but it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain.

But seriously, the articles you posted are inappropriately repurposing words normally associated with conscious experience, in order to get attention.

There is lots of evidence plants react to stimuli. There is no evidence they feel.

Hah, yeah same. I grew up in a house built with hand tools sometime around 1910 (family bought it from an old lady whose father built it), not a single corner was square (though things were generally good vertically by some miracle), but it wasn’t noticeable until whenever were doing major work.

Also learned that lath and plaster needs some special consideration when screwing/nailing things for securement, as the lath (wood strips) could split, causing a subsequent crack in the plaster. Basically for screws or bigger nails, it’s a good idea to drill a small hole first to lessen the pressure, or do a bigger hole and use a spring bolt anchor.

That would actually be an interesting thing to read about

> "Those who do not understand Unix

Funny enough, that right there is the actual fundamental problem here.

I am reminded of a post or blog long ago that talked about programmable thermostats and how awful they are for most people to use despite how powerfully in the weeds one can get with them. Basically summarizing the issue as something like “People do not want to learn your arcane system, they just want the benefit it’s advertising”. A good UI knows how to minimize that gap.

In case you haven’t considered, HDDs work great for this, since write wear out isn’t really a factor for those. ZFS can also help batch together TXG’s until they hit time or size limits before commit it at once to the disk.

For me it’s Dark Reader (https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader) which can be installed on at least chrome and Firefox desktop browsers, and safari and Kagi on iPhones.

I use it to keep from getting flashbanged by my monitor. In this case it also fixes the above site, however some websites need the color filter mode changed to work better, so realistically I’m not ending up with less fixing of websites, just easier fixing.

For Asrock, it should be fixed in any bios with 1.3.0.1b

Looking at Asrock consumer motherboards, it’s been rolled out to some but not all yet. The AGESA for that Asrock rack board looks way behind, so I’d definitely make a request to them to update since the squeaky wheel gets the grease if it’s going to at all.