Doc Avid Mornington @ docAvid @midwest.social

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Do you not understand what a primary is?

My GF is GF, so today I made GF waffles for my GF GF.

I see what you mean, and sorry, I hadn't previously associated your two comments as being the same person.

I think that your second hypothesis is more or less correct. The long gluten chains give the dough the elasticity to stretch and contain the bubbles.

I've heard other people say that a sourdough works better, as well. You have a good point, maybe some combination of a yeast and a bacteria that act more symbiotically together could be beneficial.

I'm not sure how the bacterial action that creates sourdough improves a gluten-free bread, though. It seems intuitively unlikely to me that it would be by breaking anything down, as we want more elasticity that, in wheat based breads, comes from building up the long gluten chains by kneading.

Maybe it is the bacterial bodies themselves? Xanthan gum is very commonly used in gluten-free flour to help it hold together and have more elasticity. Xanthan gum, as I understand it, is derived from the mash made after fermenting sugar with a specific bacterial strain.

Yeast has no gluten naturally...

I mean, private ownership of capital should just not be provided and enforced by government in the first place, that would be a lot simpler than some automatic death-bed transfer. End capitalism, before it ends us.

There is no more reason in morally characterizing a political party than in morally characterizing a corporation. A party is a tool, a lever of political power. Look at how Trump has taken over the Republican party. They were terrible before, but he made them worse. The Democratic party used to be the party of slavery; then it was the party of FDR and a coalition driven by socialists; now it is the party of capital and neoliberalism, but still the one most capable of being taken back by the left. Organize, communicate, educate, and never give up. Control of the Democratic party can change hands again.

No, it isn't. It's abstaining.

Funnily enough, he didn't, that was just his propaganda.

Biden is definitely not, eh, good. His support of actions is the Netanyahu government is a very bad point, but he has shifted somewhat on it. He has some good points as well. He's the best and most progressive president of my lifetime, but that's because the office has been dominated by sleazy neoliberals and conservatives for a long time. It almost feels like "good" when we get not-as-bad after all that. We will see what he does in the next term, when he doesn't have reelection to worry about - that will be the true measure, and I'm really hesitant to guess which way he'll go.

I agree with your reasoning, but wouldn't this still allow for faking candidates who are not currently in office? We should, if we don't already, have laws to protect the interest of the public in having reliable information.

Well, we could end capitalism, and demand that AI be applied to the betterment of humanity, rather than to increasing profits, enter a post-scarcity future, and then do whatever we want with our lives, rather than selling our time by the hour.

Even when Emacs had two GUI versions, the default keys were pretty much the same between them, as far as I recall, excepting features missing from one or the other. For a very long time now, it's all been reconciled as GNU Emacs, anyhow, whether CLI or XWin GUI, or even on a Mac or (shudder) MS Windows. I just use my local running Emacs, with my preferred configuration, to edit files anywhere, such as inside a running container on a remote server in AWS, so it's pretty consistent for me.

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At the same time capitalism has built almost everything we have.

Almost everything I can see and touch has been delivered by a for-profit business operating in a capitalist society

There's a couple ways to interpret these statements.

Are you talking about innovation, progress, invention? Realistically, no. Occasionally capitalists put enough resources in the right hands that somebody working under capitalists manages to invent something good, but most real innovation doesn't happen without government funding. Capitalists are very hesitant to risk their capital on the kind of critical R&D that is necessary to make progress. Even when it happens under capitalism, there's no reason to think that capitalist control of the market caused it to happen - any system that gives creative people the time and resources to work on things will have as good results, at least, and it's easy to construct a system that gives that time and resources to more creative people, with fewer bosses interfering and squashing anything that's not seen as profitable. Capitalism is, though, very good at capturing and controlling innovation, sometimes even just killing existing innovations outright - see "embrace, extend extinguish".

Are you talking about manufacture and delivery of final products? Sure, under capitalist systems, of course it's all done by capitalism, as other options aren't available, or at least, aren't given any room. If somebody builds a fence around the lake that everyone fishes in, and takes over the fish and sells them to people who used to catch their own, do you praise that person for providing fish? Do you think landlords are providing housing?

Capitalism isn't just commerce. Capitalism is an antidemocratic economic trait, where the production and distribution of goods, services, and information is controlled by unelected, private owners of capital. Does it "destroy everything we build" as the person you were replying to said? No, not everything, but it does destroy a lot, and control and pervert most of what's left.

Good idea, but it would be much faster if you do the double-check on true instead.

Can I use AwesomeWM, XMonad, or StumpWM on Wayland?

Can I run a GUI program over ssh?

Does it support the X selection and clipboard protocols?

(These are not rhetorical questions, I'm really asking.)

Well, yeah, although that path is really risky. But they also don't need a second Trump term to do that. In fact, the court has clearly gone rogue even from the Republican party, and appears ready to keep throwing out the rule of law as long as they can get away with it, whether the party wants them to or not. Republican leadership absolutely didn't expect their radicalized court would actually, for real, reverse Roe, and the party is paying for it. Now is certainly the time to hit them hard and take full advantage of that, until the Democrats have a filibuster-proof majority and can't make any excuses.

I mean, I'm very concerned that a second Trump term may result in a successful coup and... All that you said. But they're not going to get a filibuster-proof majority, so even in the worst case, they won't do all that. And no, they won't end the filibuster to do it - for that, they would need a simple majority of MAGA Republicans in the Senate, and that's not on the table either. The filibuster is antidemocratic and toxic, but it is a minor comfort at the moment. Of course, it would have never gotten this bad to begin with, without it.

EDIT to add: I think my above message was confusing, as it sounds like I said I'm concerned they would do all those things, and in the next breath contradict that. What I meant to say is that, barring a coup, even if the Republicans capture the House of Reps, Senate, and Whitehouse, it's unrealistic for them to be able to do all of that legislatively. A coup, though, is a very realistic possibility, and as PugJesus pointed out in a reply, the Supreme Court can and may do all of that as well - but that remains true even if the Democrats control the other branches. It's a terrifying time. Vote, please.

I think I misunderstood you, when you said "manually", to mean as a human intervention in the process. What you're showing here is an extra processing step, but I wouldn't call that manual. Just want to clear that up, but I'm still down to play.

Instead of three greps, you could use one sed or awk. I don't think there's anything particularly wizardly about awk, and it would be a lot less cryptic, to me, than this chain of greps.

But a much better idea would be to use sensors -j to get json output, intended for machine reading, and pass that to jq. Since I don't have the same sensors output as you, I'm not sure exactly what that would be, but I am guessing probably something like:

    
sensors -j | jq '."nvme-pci-0200".Composite.composite_input'

  

I look forward to seeing how you would do this in PS. As I said previously, I don't know it at all, so I'm not sure what you're comparing this to.

first grepping some output to get the line you want and then removing the leading and trailing garbage on that line manually

That's not what we do, though. Give me a more concrete example, and I'll let you know how I would expect to do it in a nix environment. I'd be curious to compare. Since I have zero experience with powershell, I am not really sure what to expect. The couple times I've glanced at a powershell script it looked awful, but I could be falling into Paul Graham's blub paradox there. OK, I don't think so, but maybe.