excitingburp

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[–] excitingburp 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

it would not turn into a gas at normal conditions.

It does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_pressure. In an airtight container you would have an equilibrium of alcohol vapor and liquid. In open-atmosphere, the atmosphere basically behaves like an infinitely large volume for the vapor - so the alcohol will completely vaporize (and cool the surface it is on in order to do so).

It's also trivial to demonstrate by pouring alcohol onto a surface, it disappears in seconds. Same with gasoline and numerous other liquids you've surely seen do this (another example is hand sanitizer, which is basically pure alcohol).

Being diluted doesn't really help with any of this though. Also alcohol is kept in bottles, which are usually airtight until they are first opened.

[–] excitingburp 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Voters in other states could rely on the precedent if the SC specifically upholds the judgement. You can bet such lawsuits would happen, so it would indirectly result in the same thing happening in all states.

If the SC overturns the judgement then Biden could become Dark Brandon and just stay in power, ignoring a Republican victory.

[–] excitingburp 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't learn Docker, learn containers. Docker is merely one of the first runtimes, and a rather shit one at that (it's a bunch of half-baked projects - container signing as one major example).

Learn Kubernetes, k3s is probably a good place to start. Docker-compose is simply a proprietary and poorly designed version of it. If you know Kubernetes, you'll quickly be able to pick up docker-compose if you ever need to.

You can use buildah bud (part of the Podman ecosystem) to build containerfiles (exactly the same thing as dockerfiles without the trademark). Buildah can also be used without containerfiles (your containerfiles simply becomes a script in the language of your choice - e.g. bash), which is far more versatile. Speaking of Podman, if you want to keep things really simple you can manually create a bunch of containers in a pod and then ask Podman to create a set of systemd units for you. Podman supports nearly all of what docker does (with exception to docker's bjorked signing) and has identical command line syntax. Podman can also host a docker-compatible socket if you need to use it with something that really wants docker.

I'm personally a big fan of Podman, but I'm also a fan of anything that isn't Docker: LXD is another popular runtime, and containerd is (IIRC) the runtime underpinning docker. There's also firecracker or kubevirt, which go full circle and let you manage tiny VMs like containers.

[–] excitingburp 4 points 1 year ago

Products for stupid people

I stopped agreeing with that after they added 5 finger gestures.

[–] excitingburp 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, correct, that's a summary of what #1 said.

[–] excitingburp 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Succeeding at buying from Amazon is easy:

  1. Make sure that the local brick-and-mortar doesn't have the thing you want first.
  2. Avoid products that have SEO titles ("fish bowl for fish container fish aquarium for fish"), or nonsensical manufacturer names (FDRTNHY).
  3. Weep quietly because it's page 50 and there still aren't any listings that don't violate #2.
[–] excitingburp 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently it breaks group chats, notwithstanding that it's an Apple problem, Signal exists and doesn't feature any of this nonsense.

[–] excitingburp 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Btw COW isn't necessarily (and isn't at least for ZFS) a performance trade-off. Data isn't really copied, new data is simply written elsewhere on the disk (and the old data is not marked as free space).

Ultimately it actually means "the data behaves as though it was copied," which can be achieved in many ways. There are many ways to do that without actually copying.

[–] excitingburp 40 points 1 year ago

As of 2017 he still contributes and said "it's fun." I assume he did.

But even Linus has since admitted that his behavior was unacceptable.

[–] excitingburp 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

CAD (cardboard aided design) is really powerful. You get to fail fast: figuring out things don't work before more expensive manufacturing steps (such as laser cutting).

And using inkscape is fine, but even better if you print it out and stick it to cardboard.

[–] excitingburp 2 points 1 year ago

Larger engines (such as those in power plants) are also generally more efficient. And RVs don't use oil to drive the oil to where the car can get oil - we have the grid (a modern wonder of the world) to do that for us.

[–] excitingburp 4 points 1 year ago

... so long as you're not leasing them, the lifetime energy cost is night and day.

The current rhetoric against EVs is reminiscent of the rhetoric against nuclear power. Yes, it's not great. Yes, it's not renewable. However, it gives us more time to more deeply address these issues. The successful anti-nuclear Green Peace campaigns against nuclear have done immeasurable damage to the environment in the long-term (I'm now convinced they were a big oil sock puppet all along). The same could be said for the anti-EV crowd, but the "EVs are sexy" campaign seems to be gaining more traction this time round.

Make no mistake though, the "EVs are just as bad" is a myth perpetuated by big oil.

If you can do a bike, then please do a bike (or a scooter, or one of the many options). If you can't, then an EV is a good choice. If you can't afford an EV. But never, ever, lease.

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