You know, this is true. And I've read any number of "you should never use dd, use this instead" articles over the years. But man, do I love me some dd.
dd is the software equivalent of removing the riving knife from a table saw.
Then again, I get very paranoid when I write software that has to delete arbitrary files recursively. One bad string gets in there and it's a very bad day.
You can't imagine how insufferably smug everyone who lived there would be? Living lives all happy and nice and not horrible? Gosh, what a terrible place it must be!
The 15 minute city is sold as a place with amenities within easy. The reality will end up being forced to live within a small area in some kind of gated community with a curfew.
Besides which, where are these amenities nowadays? Small businesses were decimated by discriminatory lockdown enforcement. Physical libraries and community centres are being shut. As are bars and cafes. If there was a real 15 minute city, it's in the past. The internet is no substitute for in person interaction.
I’d argue that any sufficiently dense city is naturally a 15 minute city, and tens of millions of people (including myself) live in them. For example: in New York, Tokyo, London etc. one can feasibly access all the amenities they need within a “15-minute walk, bike ride, or public transit ride”.
The key thing is that these cities developed this way organically. There is nothing stopping me leaving my 15 minute radius if I want to, and I regularly do.
The suburbs aren't in most major cities. The idea of being stuck in that small area is nightmare fuel... Like Melbourne, Victoria telling that residents could not travel more than a few KM/miles away four years ago.
I get what you mean, it’s hard to retrofit/force this concept on low density, car dependent suburban sprawl.
But I’m not sure if I understand the conflation of 15 min cities and covid lockdowns? I don’t think any government would want its people to be permanently geofenced to 15 minute bubbles, this would absolutely kill commerce.
It's not a conflation at all, it's all coming from the same mentality. The rulers trying to work out what to do with the ruled. In the Middle Ages, peasants were limited in how far they could travel, what they could eat and which fuel they could use. There are people on top who would like to see that return, and we see signs of that returning.
Lockdown killed off a lot of commerce, and we're still paying it off. Whether it was necessary or unnecessary, it was mismanaged. Automation will take almost any job if it keeps proceeding this way, and so that means the masses will become of little use to the ruling class economically. There are several ways to address that problem. One is restricting their interaction and movement. Another would be to create artificial work just to keep them quiet. As for the other possibilities, they are pretty dark.
You’ve been reading/watching too much propaganda and disinformation, and are weirdly focused on COVID precautions that are long over. You should break out of whatever online communities you’re part of that consume this sort of nonsense.
Who decides what is "disinformation"? Oh yes, it's the same groups already running everything. Covid precautions are not long over. They are only three or four years ago and still affect global food prices. Some businesses are still struggling to pay off that shortfall if not bankrupted. It's also allowed the ruling class to use ever more scaremongering as a means of social control... And use the "misinformation"/"disinformation" labels to shut down public debate.
Also half the stuff they came up with was not scientific like allowing flights to continue while shutting small businesses.
By the way, most of what I am talking about is what I saw at street level. You couldn't be much radicalised by online activity. I got censored by Facebook for asking simply about the mental health cost effects of lockdown. Absolute disgrace. I knew several people who died from the isolation including one who drank himself to death.
There’s nothing wrong with judgment. Judging someone’s character based on whether they use generative “AI” is a valid practice. You may not like being judged, but that’s another matter entirely.
Yep, if you churn out a bad change - AI or not - I'm going to be more careful with reviewing what you put out*. This is judgement, and it is a good thing - it helps us prioritise what is worth doing, and how much time should be spent on it.
If your attitude is consistently "idk the AI made it" and you refuse to review it yourself. For 1, I am insulted that you think I should pick up your slack, and 2, I'm going to judge you and everything you put out even more harshly - for my own sanity, and trying to keep debt under control.
Judgement isn't a bad thing, it's how we decide good from bad. Pretending that it is because it uniquely discriminates against bad practise only proves to me that it's worth doubling down on that judgement.
* - I won't necessarily say/do anything different, but I am more careful - and I do start to look for patterns / ways to help.
This is not judgment as much as it is programming a community and is perpetuating the opposite of correct judgment since it's inserting an emotion and opinion into a collective mind and discourse (the headline alone which might be all a lot of people scan and a tone-setter). It's going to cause reactions like the one you just had at many points in time used against people that decide to use modern tools. If Discurse wanted to start a discussion that might solve a problem they could have used a better headline.
What exactly is the problem with having an opinion? People are allowed to have opinions. People working in a field are allowed and even expected to have opinions on that field’s current state and goings-on.
Your opinion, if I had to guess, is that generative “AI” can be good and useful. My opinion is that it’s an insult to humanity that causes considerable harm and should not be used. These are both valid opinions to have, although they disagree with each other.
Don’t fall into the trap of “I’m objectively correct, everyone else just has opinions”.
>There’s nothing wrong with judgment. Judging someone’s character based on whether they use generative “AI” is a valid practice. You may not like being judged, but that’s another matter entirely.
You and I know that using AI is a metric to consider when judging ability and quality.
The difference is that it's not judgment but a broadcast, announcement.
In this case a snotty one from Discourse.
I mention that it lingers because I think that is a real psychological effect that happens.
Small announcements like this carry over into the future and flood any evaluation of yourself which can be described as torture and sabotage since it has an effect on decisions you make sometimes destroying things.
Washing rice is one of those hygienic practices that evolved into a social more and was incorporated into regional cuisine thereafter. If you're living in a developed country with effective food safety regulations, you don't need to wash your rice.
Which doesn't mean that it's a bad idea to wash your rice. But it's certainly not inherently wrong to not wash rice. For certain cuisines you're actually supposed to not wash the rice, like when making risotto or paella.
So rice. Out of the plant, rice is not that white grain we're used to see. It has a protective layer (called bran). It has all kind of nice nutrient in it, but also contains quite a lot of oil and can go rancid. So for conservation purpose, it's usually removed. The way it's removed is by grinding it until we get to that white layer we all know.
Now this white layer is mostly starch. And by grinding the grain up to this white layer, you necessarily make a lot of microscopic starch powder (I'm simplifying).
When you rinse the rice, you remove this microscopic powder. So when cooking, it cannot gelatinize and provide that creamy (... or goopy, depending on your point of view) texture.
Note that this preference depends on the cuisine, cultivar and even recipe. As other mentioned, risotto is supposed to be creamy, banh chung is held together by magic, pilaf have distinct grains, etc...
There's nothing wrong with liking it that way, it's just more porridge-like because of the starch if you don't wash it and some people prefer individual rice grains.
Your somewhat inflammatory "rice contains a lot of arsenic" isn't supported by your source, which has the much more equivocal "rice may have arsenic in it — potentially high levels".
I doubt they meant it as being inflammatory. It's just a fact, if you don't read it as being perfectly literal. I parboil my rice and pour off the water before cooking it to try and avoid arsenic exposure (which is more or less a washing procedure). This also gives it a nice fluffy texture, but if asked why I do this, I would say something similar to GP.
"Rice has a lot of arsenic" reads the same as "rice may have arsenic in it — potentially high levels" if you don't take it as literally applying to all rice in all circumstances.
If you want to significantly reduce the arsenic, it is apparently better to cook rice like pasta in a large amount of water, and then drain it (in a sieve / strainer)
If you can afford it and have space in your kitchen I'd recommend you get a rice cooker, preferably one with 'fuzzy logic' and ceramic bowl. It removes the starch preparation almost entirely from the meal preparation process and allows more focus on the rest of it, and it becomes trivial to turn some leftovers into a decent meal or make 'fast food' by putting some pre-/factory-made dumplings and greens in with the rice. Commonly rice cookers allow setting a start time in the future, so you can prepare dinner or lunch at breakfast and it'll be ready at the appropriate time.
The 'pasta method' is fine however, ignore people that whine about it. It's also rather easy to learn how to make paella and jollof and similar, which is a really nice way to cook with rice.
Did you use a rice cooker? Rice cookers operate by “sensing“ when all the water is boiled off, by means of a temperature sensor that detects when the temp goes above 100°C. (If you have just the right ratio of water in there, this is what you want.)
Having too much water in a rice cooker is indeed terrible for the end result, but only due to the nature of how a rice cooker operates… I’m sure if you treat it like pasta and take it off the pot after 10 minutes or so ( not waiting for the water to boil away) you’d get much better results.
It's really not that bad, you drain the extra water in a strainer or something, and the residual water that's left mostly gets absorbed into the rice.
Still not the same texture as traditionally cooked rice and my Asian wife doesn't care for the cooked-like-pasta rice herself, but I personally don't find it objectionable when I've had it.
So far the arsenic doesn't seem to have any quantifiable negative effects on me, so I'll continue as I've already been for decades. Your concern is appreciated, however.
i’ve wanted to play KSP with telemetry visualisation and basic remote commands only for a while. i guess that makes me a masochist, but you could say the same of enjoying KSP at all.
You can absolutely solve 1000 captchas in a day. If we say it takes 10 seconds on average to solve a captcha, that’s 10.000 seconds for 1000 captchas, or just under 3 hours.
In their early days they "accidentally" deleted my servers and backups, and their engineers had the gall to attempt to blame me for their process failures.
I had posted about it on HN awhile ago and had to provide proof to Dan to be able to be allowed to share my story.
They responded to my HN comment apologizing and trying to claim that those people shouldn't have been interacting with customers, don't work for the company anymore and blah blah, but there is no way I could trust a company a second time after losing a month's worth of work.
It was the not apologizing and doubling down on their mistakes that put me off.
unfortunately this one expands past my viewport on mobile in all directions and then doesn’t let me scroll horizontally or vertically. i think it’s a pity, considering that even an extremely barebones HTML layout is responsive by default (Motherfucking Website et al.)
> after all some normal passenger airports are a few thousand feet above sea level
The parent commenter is referring to airports at high elevations. They mean to say that opening the doors is almost impossible at cruising altitude, which is far above any airports. Hence, the doors can only be opened when not on the ground during early ascent and late descent.
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