Troy @ troyunrau @lemmy.ca

Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary S

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I just checked and my cache was over 5GB. I agree that cache wiping should occur once in a while. Oh well, doing it manually worked well enough.

Making jelly out of our grapes. One plant produced 8kg of grapes this year, which meant 3L of juice. This froth is the cauldron where I'm boiling it with a metric fucktonne of sugar...

If it's a game I'm going to get hundreds, or sometimes thousands of hours from, then I'll pay more. If you look at price per hour spent on entertainment, it's hard to compare. However, you often have to wade through a bunch of shitty overpriced games to find those gems.

Okay, back to EU4 now ;)

So, Stray?

The lighting bothers me. The froth was transient however and I didn't really have time to adjust lighting.

Can't remember. But it was worth a picture

Oh good, some minor regression on those graphs to (checks notes) second worst year since records.

When I ordered, the server comes up and says: we're out of Nutella pie -- can we substitute this other pie? And we basically burst into tears because it's a cocktail topper pie slice...

In Canada, it's just a Caesar. And literally no one orders a Bloody Marie here (Caesars are basically our national drink now). We have egregious overproduced version like the above as well. Took this photo of a menu in Vancouver.

If the Kindle is a tablet, then yes. If the Kindle is an e-reader, then no.

I don't think Kobo has that option. I just toggle on my wifi hotspot on my phone though and that works just fine.

Comics and graphic novels mostly. Maybe scientific papers and textbooks.

Oh you mean the point for Amazon? Extract money

Articles like this always tend to overlook the fact that Bell Labs wasn't unique in its time. And other companies had very similar labs running. A famous example is Xerox Labs which invented the computer mouse and graphical windowing, among other things.

Google had this vibe too, prior to going public.

This has a Toronto Island feel to it. Where is it?

We could award a certain percentage of grants and grad students should be able to get degrees doing replication studies. Unfortunately everyone is chasing total paper count and impact factor rankings and shit.

Meow

Ewww - the whole point of peer review is to catch this shit. If peer review isn't working, we should be going back to monographs :)

The author of this comic has a number of excellent coffee table compilations: https://www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2 (unaffiliated -- I just like them :))

The subset of doctors that overprescribe narcotics because they're getting kickbacks from the drug companies? Fuck 'em. The rest are fine :)

I'm not aware of any bartenders selling narcotics (using the commonly assumed definition of the word) -- unless you're being intentionally obtuse by using the medical definitiion which would include alcohol. In particular, do you refer to your bartender as your narcotics dealer?

Another one. Ugh.

That said, a story like this once a year blowing up in the media will make it seem like all sports coaches are pedophiles. I'd wager that the percentage is significantly lower than the background average (due to all the screening that most coaches have to go through). It's just high profile when it happens.