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villasv,

I agree with the engineer, this is kinda ridiculous.

I don’t disagree with the court decision, but the whole affair is barely newsworthy.

villasv,

So the very basic solution to the mystery is that winter foods are those that are usually harvested to be eaten during winter :-|

villasv,

But for a community to thrive and remain inclusive, it has to change—or the alternative, at least in Gibsons, is that we sprawl all the way up the mountainside and cut down all the trees.

And the decision has been sprawl. And that’s not really an alternative, because sprawl is not inclusive and inevitably kills the “thrive” part as well.

villasv,

Pakora are fried veggies, samosa is pastry, paneer is cheese, naan is bread. You can eat any of those with rice and sauce, but you can also have them without. Indian food has a lot of variation on flavours, texture, visuals, as expected from any cuisine with such a rich history.

Can you recommend something from Indian culture that isn’t what I have described above?

No because “overkill on spices, sauce and rice” is subjective. If “it’s always the same flavor” then either 1) you’re keep ordering the same stuff 2) the restaurants you’ve been to do lowest cost easy menus 3) it’s not the same flavor but it looks like so to you because you’re not used to it.

Next time ask the server for “solid food, no liquids” instead.

villasv,

What a strange move, of all things for them to pick a fight about. This went over my head, I guess I don’t understand politics enough to grasp this.

villasv,

This is a manufactured controversy, there’s no balancing act necessary between safety and free speech. Universities deplatforming hate speech is not an attack on free speech, never was and never will be. This is touted by conservatives that cry foul on their bigotry getting expelled from moderated public spaces, but we all know how hard it is to deplatform outright unhinged people - to the point that going ‘overboard’ in safety is damn impossible.

villasv,

A slap on the hand 👍

brb after a sabbatical

villasv,

It’s for show, security theatre. In practice BC driving laws are not tough at all. A few days ago we saw a judge assign a 6 year old kid 20% of the blame for being hit by a car.

villasv, (edited )

Sometimes in the effort of making a topic palatable, it’s stripped of its sprit completely.

If this was published by The Sun or something I’d understand as a positive - at least it’s an article not bent on demonization and at least advances a nuanced and humanized view -, but from the Walrus… this level of two-sidedness is probably in the lower end of what the readership expects already?

Still, I thought it was insightful. I still don’t read as many feature-length trans testimonial/articles like this as I probably should.

villasv,

Any unhinged literate person can, you just have to get a few technical questions right; then you can go on to exercise the opposite of what you answered to get that grade

villasv,

Unfortunately a lot of office towers are unsuitable to be converted into housing.

How much is “a lot”? I’ve seen several retrofit projects that seemed incredibly challenging take off and be successful, so I don’t really know if there are really that many buildings downtown that would be terminally unsuitable. Specially given the somewhat uninspired and homogenous trend of glass towers, and the wild income potential of rentals in downtown.

villasv,

New Kurtzgesagt video, a new opportunity to improve my filter bubble by blocking anyone who starts parroting factoids about their ties with the Gates Foundation 🤭 great day

villasv,

Show up and vote non-Poilievre, people. Please.

I implore you. Turnout is the lowest effort good thing you can do to help prevent a cycle of conservatism from wrecking the littlest good things there are to celebrate. It’s too tragic to observe this with ABC-driven municipalities right now, having that on federal level too will be too much.

villasv,

Morning Show seasons 2 and 3 condensed in a single week

villasv,

Firefox is just the only decent option. And while at it, use Piped or Invidious while you still can, people!

villasv,

Mine has been working fine, but the instance did lose all my “Mark as watched” videos, and for some reason one specific channel never makes into the Subscriptions panel, but I just have it as a favourite and it ends up almost the same. The instance I was using for Piped is now borked, so I’m hanging onto Invidious for now.

villasv,

I just toss my enameled cast iron in my dishwasher every day, and deal with it being poorly seasoned by seasoning on the fly every time I cook on it. Scrubbing by hand isn’t that much work, but it’s still more than ten times the effort of just throwing it in the machine…

villasv,

BookWyrm on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bookwyrm

Glad someone is finally taking on a fediverse alternative to GoodReads

villasv,

You’d still need an account, but I think you can plug Zapier into a group to create RSS feed items from posts.

From there you can use your RSS reader of choice, FOSS or not

There’s also the graph API if you want to DIY, also needs a token with group permissions

villasv,

What a complicated way of getting a building floor reassignment

villasv,

Holy guacamole, Argentina was at the precipice’s edge and finally decided to take a step forward

Sorry for the comrades who will have to deal with this hell

villasv, (edited )

It’s called a slope chart and it has several benefits compared to bar charts:

I for one think this is much better than using a bar chart for this use case, as the angled arrows make it immediately obvious the information that matters the most here (the rate of change) while still keeping it contextualized (by relative positions). The bar chart version of this would inevitably look more cluttered and would not be more effective in conveying the incredible progress in solar costs.

Americans are explaining why they don't say 'you're welcome' in customer service settings after foreigners complained that 'mmhmm' comes off as rude (www.insider.com)

I was watching a video from two years ago about different social norms and this showed up. Found someone questioning the same eight years ago on reddit (when it seemed less normalized). It feels so weird not being aware of this shift, even as a foreigner.

villasv,

So really it’s just a polite way of saying “yeah you better be thankful.”

lol that escalated quickly

When I hear “you’re welcome” the only thing I think of is that I’m welcome

What's stopping banks from creating FOSS (or atleast open-source) banking solutions (apps)?

Let’s say, I create a bank with the caveat that all of my banking phone apps and webapps are FOSS (or if they depend on non-free components — banks probably do to communicate with each other —, then just OSS). Am I going to be behind the competition by doing this?...

villasv, (edited )

Am I going to be behind the competition by doing this?

Yes, because you are due a lot more diligence with open source, and that will slow down your releases.

If the most secure crypto algorithms are the ones that are public, can we ensure the security of a bank’s apps by publicizing it?

You trade security by obscurity for security by expert oversight. I’m not a lawyer or baking auditor, but I’d say while zero-days are problematic for open source software projects; they can be life-ending for banks.

Is there a technical reason they don’t publicize their code or is it just purely corporate greed and nothing else?

This is a false dichotomy. Financial reasons to not publicize the code are technical reasons. Finance is technical.

villasv,

I think you might have read it backwards, I equated closed source with security by obscurity. And obviously you can have both, if you pay extra.

Sure, finance is not technology, but I think it’s worth it pointing out that it’s not arbitrary or just greed or whatever, it has technicalities too.

villasv, (edited )

I’m in total agreement that OSS builds more secure software. What I’m saying is that these companies are not in the business of building safe software.

From there, I see no advantage to closed-source here.

I think the easiest mental map is this: doing things well has a cost; doing things poorly can be cheaper; if it’s way cheaper and there’s some method available to de-risk it even if a little bit, no matter how little effective it is, it might be financially advantageous to pick the inferior option. This is not just for security, but pretty much everything.

villasv,

It can be useful for bureaucracy

villasv,

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

villasv, (edited )

Is that redemption? Does the show call it that?

No & No.

Does anyone else treat it as him having redeemed himself of his earlier genocide?

Unfortunately yes. Edgy dudes out there don’t put enough weight on what attempted genocide means, despite (perhaps because?) how common that is chosen for the villain goal.

I do agree with the fundamental thesis: it’s boring to see it over and over that villains tend to have a sympathetic origin story. Villains are either branded muscle-types with a thing for violence, or traumatized victims seeking help. It’s refreshing to see something different.

I don’t agree with “The Perfect Villains, Despite Their Lack Of Depth”, though. Most villains suck because most X suck, for any X. It’s not because they have gray morality.

villasv,

The most obvious comparison would be BC Liquor Stores, which is doing pretty good in fact. But we’ll see how they’ll fare once we get alcohol selling on supermarkets… by the end of this century perhaps

villasv,

Should? I don’t think so. Could? Certainly, I don’t see why not.

villasv,

We really are social creatures. Went big on Orkut, Facebook, WhatsApp, and of course the current trends are YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. I think the only one that didn’t really take off that much (relatively speaking) was Snapchat.

Even finance apps had way too much social features, looking at you PicPay with the worst timeline feature ever: see people’s payments to each other lmao

villasv,

Is this the man responsible for all the focus on the swagger train?

villasv, (edited )

Is it their fault when some dingus […] goes walking into the forest where no path is? No.

Picking a single aspect to assign total blame is kinda pointless, and so is trying to address that through Yes/No. Every incident is the compounded result of multiple contributing factors. One of these contributing factors is that Google Maps displayed inaccurate information, even though common sense should have worked as error correction. The fault is in our stars.

villasv, (edited )

Uh, sure? Walking off trail in the woods isn’t as surrealistic as taking a car down a staircase so the analogy doesn’t seem useful to me. Even if the instructions of driving down some stairs were truthful it would still be blatantly illegal/unsafe.

A less silly example: it’s possible to sue the government if one gets into a crash due to bad signage. Even if the driver is the one who technically broke the law, the city may be liable for confusing signage that contributes to accidents.

villasv,

I used the car down a staircase story because it happens all the time.

Ah sorry, when you said “I tell you to drive your car down a staircase” I thought you meant you gave literal “take the stairs with your car” as instructions, instead of giving an abstract map/drawing that the person would follow. Then yeah, in this case the analogy makes more sense. My mistake.

I tell you to walk down a path in the forest where no path actually exists […] you are entirely responsible for having to be rescued and airlifted out by helicopter

lol k

villasv,

Fuck yeah way to go Folke!

villasv,

I’m placing my bets on piped video instead, for now at least. YouTube needs something more tragic, like getting acquired by Elon Musk, before it bleeds for real.

villasv,

Yes, it’s a client. Well, for better or for worse, no chance that this huge of a user base will move to piped. I don’t understand why it’s not super famous yet, but I guess invidious and piped are simply fringe tech still.

That’s why I said that YouTube would need a major tragedy to get a real hit, real alternatives like Peertube are going to struggle a lot against the network effect. Nebula has a much better shot given the amount of content creators invested on it, and it’s still a long shot.

villasv,

Not unpopular with me at all, my wife also prefers regular YouTube because the video quality tends to be better. YouTube just handles variable connection speeds better, and the buffering and quality switching is very smart. I mostly agree, the watching experience is superior.

But YouTube ads are among the highest annoyances of my daily life right now, they simply could not be less relevant for me. Because I’m in NA it’s adamant that I buy an EV or an SUV, a bunch of fast food ads, it’s just too much. I’m willing to spend 20 seconds waiting for Piped to buffer instead of 8 seconds of YouTube ads.

And I’m not really hoping Piped will ever go mainstream, because as you said, if that happens they’re toast. Piped and Invidious have to stay niche to keep flying under the radar - well not really under the radar, YouTube already sent a Cease and Desist to Invidious, but I guess for now they’re not invested in enforcing it yet.

villasv,

Of course, the most backwards council strikes again. Next election cycle some of these dudes have to go.

villasv, (edited )

Hm, cool I guess. How many schools were not teaching this already, though? I would never have though this was not already taught everywhere, but I guess it doesn’t hurt to put it in writing right there in the curriculum.

villasv, (edited )

H-h-how? HOW? do they ‘anonymize’ DNA?!?!

If you really curious, it is possible depending on the sections of the DNA being shared and how aggregated they are. Not saying that this will be the case - it’s quite likely that this sale would be done prioritizing value instead of privacy - but it is possible. The key part is to not treat the whole DNA as a data sample, but specific sequence sections, as isolated as possible.

And the Netflix example is instructive but not super relevant here. If you already have your SNPs in a public database out there, then yeah 23andMe might not be able to effectively anonymize your samples; but you don’t (I hope).

villasv,

At this point I’m just holding for dear life to piped.video, because illegal front-ends are my only hope to keep watching YouTube.

villasv,

My retirement dream is to setup a crow box to train these fellas to pick up cigarette butts and trade them for peanuts. A decade later, hopefully all Vancouver crows will be primed to attack smokers to steal cigarettes.

villasv, (edited )

You did say earlier that you cook once a day, meal for two. When I do that, all dishes for the day take a third of the maximum load on my machine, so I could wash once every three days, therefore averaging like 3 L per day tops? You handwashing every day are spending 6-8L daily which is more than double.

If it is true that you can spend <8L for an arbitrarily large amount of dishes, though, then I guess there must be an amount of dishes that you will outperform a dishwasher. They cannot handle an infinite amount of dirt, unfortunately. If you hand wash every 7 days you will be averaging less than 1L a day which really does sound unbeatable.

villasv,

One of many of life’s mysteries, such as why people get defensive about their water usage due to handwashing.

villasv,

We don’t prove negatives in science

That’s simply not true as a general statement lol it very much depends on the negative in question, or what you define as a negative

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