Hamartiogonic @ Hamartiogonic @sopuli.xyz

Who reads this anyway? Nobody, that’s…. Oh wait. Some people do. I guess I

---

Read more

Posts

8

Comments

1,362

Joined

2 yr. ago

I have mixed feelings about this. Even though I totally love these pictures and the chill vibes they spread, I have to ask something. There are 2 other capybara communities, so why do we need to have multiple communities for the same thing? Doesn’t the biggest capybara community suffice? Regardless, I subscribed in case this community has something the other ones don’t.

The real unpopular opinion is in the comments.

That’s roughly how open pit mining works. In some mines, you start with a pit, but later make a mine shaft if you need to go even deeper.

A pit is relatively cheap to start with, but it becomes more expensive as you go deeper. Eventually, a traditional mine shaft becomes cheaper than continuing with a pit.

If you have a ridiculously deep mine shaft, you begin to run into various problems like walls collapsing and the temperature increasing. There can also be lots of water you need to pump out constantly.

Eventually, the shaft becomes so deep and the problem so large, that continuing becomes a nightmare. That’s why even the deepest mines aren’t really that deep considering how thick the tectonic plates are.

That’s a very Linuxy thing to do. The devs allow you to do whatever you want. If you want to have several 4K displays and find your cursor by shaking it, go right ahead. If you want to cover the entire display with a massive cursor, be my guest.

Microsoft and Apple seem to love limitations, whereas FOSS devs want to give users the freedom they deserve. Besides, there’s a valid use case for many things that would seem completely absurd to you and me. The devs can’t know what kind of weird situations the user have, so “sensible limits“ would only end up being infuriating.

If it rains, the ground gets wet. (If A, then B.)

If the ground is wet, it won’t cause clouds to start raining.

If the ground is wet, it may have been caused by a recent rain, but there are other possible causes too.

I have a cheap espresso machine (Princess) and a moka pot, so I can compare them easily.

The cheap machine can make some sort of espresso, and it can make hot milk foam. Microfoam seems to be impossible, so you can forget about doing latte art.

The moka pot can make strong coffee, but it’s not as strong as espresso, unless you use it in a very particular way. Here’s how: use the Hoffman method, but cut it short. You need to stop extracting a little bit before you actually run out of water. Also the flow rate should be as low as possible to give the extraction enough time.

If you do that, a moka pot can make strong coffee that is so close to what I can make with my cheap espresso machine that I can’t tell the difference. However, pulling it off requires patience and skill.

Since the cheap espresso machine can’t make nice foam, you might as well just use a moka pot and microwave the milk.

Hmm… I think that’s related, but not quite what we’re looking for here. Maybe this one would work better.

Oh, there’s a flatpak for it. That would have solved the problem very easily. However, the thing is, that many new users try to do things the hard way, or they end up trying to something it isn’t even worth doing.

I recall having issues like that when I tried to do things the wrong way. The forum posts just tell you wow to do something, but they rarely question if it’s the sensible thing to do in the first place. If Standard Notes isn’t in my repositories or if I can’t find a flatpack for it, I would just ditch the whole idea and switch to whatever note app is easily available. If something is not easily available, I just ignore those apps completely. Going through hours of trickery and hackery to build a wobbly tower that will collapse next week is not worth it.

Also, the HRV graph is something that watch can’t provide. Some other watches do measure HRV, but you only get a daily average, so you can’t really draw any conclusions about the shape of the graph.

I expected to see microbes here first. Insects have a slower reproduction cycle, so evolution should take longer.

Doing chemistry by mixing chemicals is like fumbling in the dark. You tend to have ridiculously low yield, because you can’t really control which reaction takes place. It’s just a game of probabilities, which makes this gamble really expensive.

Living cells are doing chemistry the right way by combining specific materials and making specific products. Enzymes are very picky, but with them you can actually control the reactions. Making enzymes is just next level complexity and a story for another time.

Maybe hundreds of years from now we can synthesize nutrients without involving any living cells. At that point, it could be seen as unethical to enslave, murder and eat billions of microbial cells. For the time being, our life still depends on other living things, so better get comfortable with having mixed feelings about survival.

Oh, that’s a very good point. Makes me wonder why Mozilla doesn’t talk about donations very much. Must be a strategic decision or something.

As someone who is severely allergic to ads, I really don’t like this transition, but I understand why they’re doing it.

Mozilla seems to be facing a tough problem. How do you make money when your core audience isn’t enough to support the company, but you can’t realistically pivot to a new audience without kicking out all of the old users. Would it be better if Mozilla just faded into irrelevancy and focussed on developing Thunderbird instead? The FOSS community would have to continue to support Firefox, which would slow down development to such an extent that it probably wouldn’t be able to keep up with the rest of the web.

But it is still unpopular, so it belongs right here, now doesn’t it? Being right or wrong isn’t in the definition, so either way is fine.

If it’s wrong, there’s probably a good reason why it’s unpopular. If it’s true, we can have a very interesting discussion.

The cable that came with my cheap scale is borderline e-waste. The resistance of that abomination is many times higher than with any USB cable I’ve ever measured, so it’s pretty clear which corners were cut in production. I wonder how bad the battery is though… Better be careful when charging it.

Lajittelun voi vaihtaa mieleisekseen. Hot, scaled ja active tuntuu toimivan vähän eri tilaneissa.

In summary: You and me, we’re in the same tribe, and we hold the superior worldview. Those people over there in the out-group are wrong. They also do things the wrong way, because they aren’t in our tribe.

Hearing this sort of talk pulls some strings in the human mind. There’s this interesting default setting that says tribalism = TRUE.

It was the same thing with IE back in ancient times. A popular browser violates web standards so many sites were designed with that rogue browser in mind. If you use a browser that actually follows the standards, some sites just won’t work properly for you.