Avid Amoeba @ avidamoeba @lemmy.ca

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Oh wow, they actually wrote this title. 😯

Forwards and upwards from here! A 1Zpresso, a scale and now a clean shower screen!

Some discussion here. The problem is relevant to espresso machines with brass boilers.

I'm aware of all that. It doesn't address the mechanism I described which prevents or reverses progressive changes if enough people are against them. I'm trying to explain why change isn't happening and what's needed for it to happen in our system. What I'm saying is no amount of scoffing at Chow or whoever else we elect would help get out of this mess unless we and our representatives convince enough people on the ground to vote for building housing. Chow was elected with 37% of the vote, not 50 or 80.

I hate that too often politicians base their decisions on what could happen in futire elections.

I struggle with this point. Isn't respecting their constituents' democratic wishes their civic duty? Isn't this exactly what you'd want from a mayor or city councillor you voted for? If she steamrolls her voters, they'll elect a John Mandatory who promises to listen to them and they'll reverse the zoning changes. On one hand what constituents want could be counterproductive, on the other, going against their democratic wishes is also counterproductive. The only case where I can see steamrolling them is if you can make a change so quickly, so that they see the material benefits from it and change their mind as a result. Otherwise I think you have to get the democratic buy-in from people for the changes you make. E.g. work with councillors to propose solutions to what people resistant to density are afraid of, or give them something in exchange, in order to get enough buy-in so that that changes and likely you survive the next election. Meanwhile rezone parts of TO that aren't as opposed to density.

But make no mistake, very few people want construction projects going on around them for years, without anything to soothe the pain. If you tell them you'll freeze their property tax for 10 years because the new development would pay more, then they may be okay with listening to construction noise for a few years.

I don't mind construction noise too much but if I had the choice to have it or not have it, and didn't see a good reason to have it, I'd vote for peace and quiet. Now I do see there's a good reason so I would've voted pro-density if I was in TO (am just across the border in Peel), but the west end of TO around me is full of "Fight the Height" and "Stop the Lot Split" signs.

A significant decrease in the amount of surplus value society produces going towards tech companies producing proprietary software, whicj is most of them. Basically the costs of using software for a whole lotta things are gonna get lower. This would make that society's products cheaper for itself and export. It would allow its labour to do more useful things, one of which could be new FOSS software. But also helping out with the green transition, taking care of the ageing population, education, etc.

Or join the US as the CHERISHED 51st STATE, and then the smoke would be AMERICAN smoke and ket me tell you - don't we love american smoke!

A moderate Democrat worth tens of millions proposes to tinker around the edges without consulting anyone, fails.

Recently learned that de-scaling a boiler exposes you to lead leaching from the brass walls till it acquires some scale. 🫠

Shower screen, the thing that spreads water over the coffee bed in an espresso machine. It makes it so that the water wets the coffee roughly evenly instead of at a single spot. This helps with even extraction. The left is a diffusor the right is the shower screen. The diffusor has the same function but it does rough water distribution to six points in this case. The shower screen spreads it further.

Where did you dig up this ancient post from.. 😄

But yeah things aren't going spectacularly. A Kier Starmer scenario looks more likely at the moment.

They just stopped using a blade grinder recently.

Still being scrubbed. This residue is years old.

All-in, I wanted something on the order of 1MB for client app, server, all dependencies, everything.

Okay that's gotta be radically different!

I was thinking along the same lines but then I thought about other neighbouring countries like Lebanon. Being recognized states didn't stop Israel from doing whay they did to them. Not saying there's no difference, I'm just not sure what the practical difference is. I'm probably ignorant.

Probably not.

Some hopium here.

Actively dismantling international law, I see.

Well, you gotta start it somehow. You could rely on compose'es built-in service management which will restart containers upon system reboot if they were started with -d, and have the right restart policy. But you still have to start those at least once. How'd you do that? Unless you plan to start it manually, you have to use some service startup mechanism. That leads us to systemd unit. I have to write a systemd unit to do docker compose up -d. But then I'm splitting the service lifecycle management to two systems. If I want to stop it, I no longer can do that via systemd. I have to go find where the compose file is and issue docker compose down. Not great. Instead I'd write a stop line in my systemd unit so I can start/stop from a single place. But wait 🫷 that's kinda what I'm doing isn't it? Except if I start it with docker compose up without -d, I don't need a separate stop line and systemd can directly monitor the process. As a result I get logs in journald too, and I can use systemd's restart policies. Having the service managed by systemd also means I can use aystemd dependencies such as fs mounts, network availability, you name it. It's way more powerful than compose's restart policy. Finally, I like to clean up any data I haven't explicitly intended to persist across service restarts so that I don't end up in a situation where I'm debugging an issue that manifests itself because of some persisted piece of data I'm completely unaware of.

The CEO.