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yannic , (edited )

Probably people who have heard of these scientists being recently credited for their work.

The phrase “all the credit” is a bit sensationalist, and it’s too easy to poke holes in, although I do concede that “Most of the credit” is vague and “All of the Nobel Prize recognition and prize money / peer accolades” is a bit too wordy.

It’s important that we don’t weaken the cause by easily disprovable exaggeration. These scientists did not get nearly enough credit; true.

yannic ,

I agree, it’s infuriating.

yannic , (edited )

There are many examples of this, but one that comes immediately to mind is the evolution of my favourite LDAP-enabled music player, airsonic-advanced

Subsonic begat libresonic

Libresonic begat airsonic as well as a whole bunch of other projects.

Airsonic begat airsonic-advanced

Airsonic-advanced begat kagemomiji/airsonic-advanced, however the maintainer of the parent codebase, randomnicode, wants to do the right thing and get their code up to snuff with the opensubsonic API (not sure where that fits in to thr history) so kagemomji can take over.

yannic , (edited )

They all have their quirks, but until airsonic-advanced catches up with the latest opensubsonic API, I’ve been trying out Audinaut, DSub, and Ultrasonic. I had to reorganize my whole library, though.

I’m not a fan of these album-based apps. most of my music falls under “Various Artists”. As such, I’ve been playing around with Musicbrainz Picard to try different tagging in an attempt to try to find something that works across both at the server and client end.

Subsonic doesn’t work for me, I’m guessing because it refuses to fall back to earlier versions of their API. I could be wrong.

yannic ,

Well, the [vehicle] has been towed outside the environment.

yannic ,

Read between the lines in Amazon’s response.

They probably monitor the drivers for lip movements to see if they’re talking on the phone, but their monitoring can’t differentiate between singing or talking to one’s self and talking or singing to someone else, so everyone gets flagged. The drivers know the best way to avoid the ire of management is to simply not move their lips.

It may not be an outright prohibition, but it does have a chilling effect, which makes it as good as one.

yannic ,

[In my best nature documentarisn voice] Behold, what appears to be moving goalposts to the outside observer is actually a side-effect of the first-past-the-post system’s tendency towards two dominant parties.

yannic ,

This story is more uplifting:

theonion.com/worlds-youngest-person-born-18195687…

yannic , (edited )

I’m surprised you haven’t found many people who meditate. There are a lot of people who follow abrabamic traditions on meditation (though they use a different word for it), and they can be found pretty much worldwide except for a few scattered spots.

I should caution you, though, the terminology used by these groups may seem quite foreign, but you’ll have to trust me – they meditate even if some of them don’t call it that.

yannic ,

I don’t think they’re suggesting taking it away from the rightful owner.

yannic ,

HVAC systems.

When my wife and I we had to replace our forced air furnace and central air system in the late autumn due to carbon monoxide literally the evening before our son was to be born, I felt under pressure to get something in place.

I told them I needed a more powerful air conditioner for all the unique heat-generating equipment in my basement, especially since our old system had trouble keeping up. They said that the new unit was more than enough for the square footage. I reiterated again, that air conditioners don’t cool square footage, they cool BTU’s, and the average home doesn’t have a grow op and server farm in the basement generating heat. Then, they decided to hit me with the old “I’ve been doing this for {x} decades” speech.

Needless to say, I’ve had to consolidate servers, stop indoor gardening, replace the bulbs in the house with those shitty blue-hued LED’s that can’t dim right (and dimmer switches to handle the change in load characteristics), take the weather into account when cooking indoors and clean both sets of A/C coils on a more frequent basis. The air conditioner still can’t keep up and when we have a string of hot days, we can’t always count on the cooler evenings to get the house back down to “room temperature”.

Oh, and now our old chimney drips water into the basement.

yannic ,

The grow tent was mostly self-contained and humidity-controlled and monitored inside and out. It actually had to be indoors because of our short growing season, risk of germination from nearby industrial crops, and federal licensing requirements for the type of plant at the time. Regardless, the HVAC experts were here on-site and they could have opened their eyes to what I was telling them. There’s was no heat load calculation. They said “this is the unit we install for your type of house and it’s more than enough. Trust me, I’ve been doing this for…” etc. etc.

Of course condensers and evaporator coils work by pushing entropy around. I’m not sure what in my comment would have led you to believe I thought otherwise.

Short cycling would be a happy problem at this point. Over the past month the shortest cycle was on a 16 C day, when the A/C ran from 6:41am to 9:15am, and the longest were on those 32 C days when it started at roughly 7:45am and didn’t finish cooling until 5am the next day. You suggest that it won’t do anything on a hot day, but the temperature gradient indoors when the outside temperature is high is measurably lower when the system is cooling as compared to idle.

Maybe the HVAC guy was thinking I was just one of those same customers you’re complaining about. Nobody’s asking for a system ridiculously overpowered – Just properly powered. I understand the value of properly sizing a system. For instance, I know that a properly-sized furnace should run nonstop on the coldest day of the year. I also know that you don’t have an entire month’s worth of “coldest day of the year”

My house can be 60 degree warmer than the outside temperature in the winter, so I just have to point the blame somewhere when it can’t stay 10 degree cooler than the outside throughout summer. And yes, I know cooling is a lot more complex than heating, but I’m giving the A/C a 50 degree headstart.

…And that is why I think there should be a trial period for HVAC systems.

yannic ,

Squeezebox has been through several names through the years. It’s now called the “Lyrion Music Server.”

yannic , (edited )

qt(333/106) and qt(355/113) are closer approximations anyway, with 4 and 6 decimal digits of precision, respectively.

There’s also 22/7, which is slightly more precise than 3.14 alone, but if you ask me, the first two nines which appear in pi lend themselves to a nice rhythm in English that are easily worked into a sing-sing mnemonic that keeps up until the “79” after the 12th decimal, when that falls apart. As a result, I’ve only memorized the first half of my rhyme:

3.14159

2653589

7932384

Sorry to say I don’t know more

yannic ,

E-mail, too. You could have all the latest security features to confirm you’re legitimate, but based on the simple fact that your message volume is low (ironically enough), messages you send with your server will often get filed under junk by default.

yannic ,

I wonder what it’s like being one of the businesses next to them.

yannic ,

…hospitals sell your information, too.

I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.

yannic ,

…hospitals sell your information, too.

I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.

yannic , (edited )

I’d disagree, unless you want to say pop punk isn’t punk (and if that’s what you’re saying, that’s fair).

Stuff like this springs out of acts of popular piety. When you teach that the relics of people in heaven can work as prayer aides, it’s a foregone conclusion that some may want to decorate (or even wallpaper, like the photos of the skulls) a prayer space with the highest class of relics.

This is how altars came to have a relic in a stone that the priest kisses at the beginning of every Mass.

It’s an unanticipated but popular reaction to authority and came from the bottom up rather than top down, ergo pop punk.

Just because something is old enough to become mainstream doesn’t mean it’s not punk. Green Day. Blink 182, et al. started out being labeled as punk before the term pop punk became widespread.

yannic ,

I edited for clarity to explain that I’m referring to the subgenre pop punk, which one could easily argue is not punk.

yannic ,

I once realized so many of my favourite businesses were cooperatives. I started thinking of what other co-ops I could start and grow. The excitement faded once I realized it would have to not be about the money.

yannic ,

Catholics believe the principle of double effect could act as a moral compass here.

In a direct abortion, the intended effect is to end the life of the fœtus. There are probably other medical procedures that could achieve the desired effect of saving the life of the mother, unfortunately I’m guessing they are not sought out due to cost and the low likelihood that both lives would be saved.

yannic ,

They’re different, but not opposite. It’s like comparing height and colour.

yannic ,

Are they the same ones that claim “we are all sinners”?

yannic ,

Was it one of the segments in Square One Television?

yannic ,

If the water is cooled with a low-energy method like a Peltier cooler, the heat has to go somewhere.

yannic ,

It’s been radiated to another environment.

yannic ,

Yes.

yannic ,

Also, it was grape flavour, not cherry flavour Flavor Aid.

yannic ,

Ditto. She always called it “poor circulation” and explained it’s genetic. Didn’t know it warranted a name.

I always blamed these particular genetics for my cold induced urticaria.

yannic ,

First a bishop, now a priest, too?

yannic ,

It’s the other way around in Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba, isn’t it?

yannic ,

More like the actor Robert Patrick having a severe anaphylactic reaction.

yannic ,

The Gospel of Matthew was written for a Jewish audience, so that’s saying a lot.

yannic ,

There are two creation narratives in the book of Genesis, and both are considered to be historical allegories.

yannic ,

Are we still talking about Catholics?

yannic ,

Comfortable doesn’t even come close to describing it. My parents had a loaner once, and it made me regret buying “just” a Camry when I was Corolla-shopping. That car was a dream.

yannic ,

I thought they spoiled the punchline a bit too much by using the word “bar” to describe tanks of compressed gas.

yannic ,

Humanity.

yannic ,

I have no experience in this specific matter, but you could look up how to switch the sector size from 512 bytes to 4096 and, you know, just do the opposite.

yannic ,

Missing: Interior Semiotics

yannic ,

Good human.

yannic ,

This was definitely an unnecessarily gendered post. My wife’s secondary function is transforming food into heat energy.

US transportation head says no grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 planes will return to air ‘until it is safe’ (www.theguardian.com)

The US transportation secretary announced on Wednesday afternoon that no grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 would return to service “until it is safe”, after Alaska Airlines announced the cancellation of all flights on its 737 Max 9 planes at the direction of the Federal Aviation Administration....

yannic ,

Good Lord, of course they’re grounded until it is safe This isn’t like putting your kid in timeout.

Russia announced it had deployed, to Ukraine, its best new artillery-detecting radar. Hours later, the Ukrainians blew it up—with artillery. (www.forbes.com)

Ukraine plinking a Russian GPS-jammer with a GPS-guided bomb. Ukrainian drones blowing up Russian drone-jammers. Ukraine’s cruise missiles striking Russian air-defense sites whose missions include, you guessed it, shooting down cruise missiles....

yannic ,

Anyone else, here read, the title in Christopher Walken’s voice?

yannic ,

That’s partialism, Patrick.

yannic ,

Ten 9/11’s?

Jesus, that’s… 8 and 2/11.

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