qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

(...I think you may have gotten whooshed...)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 21 points 1 week ago

Open, or standards-compliant local-only gear is the way to go for smart home stuff IMHO. Never had a problem with a Zigbee, Matter, or ESPHome device suddenly deciding it would stop working because manufacturer said so.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah it's missing the text, "...then the Planck X would be..." for the first two.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't think this is the black and white issue that the headline suggests.

Homeless advocates appear to be on board with this, at any rate: https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds

It sounds like the "more beds" campaign promise was somewhat misguided, as slapping a bandaid on homelessness isn't a fix; more beds is, to an extent, just for show. Hopefully we'll be able to get actual, research-based solutions to homelessness here.

I'm not super optimistic, but changing course on a campaign promise because the experts and advocates say your current plan is bad shouldn't be criticized out of hand IMHO.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

One of the best things about having an instant pot is the ease of making refried beans from scratch. They're fairly low effort, and so so much better (not to mention cheaper).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 67 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/12/550465000/behold-the-fatberg-london-s-130-ton-rock-solid-sewer-blockage

You're not just "sticking it to the man" when you do this though


you're being a dick to your city, its residents, and employees.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 2 weeks ago

Alligator Alcatraz ~~detainees allege~~ proponents boast about inhumane conditions at immigration detention center

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago

And a big plastics shill, unfortunately.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Move ‘em 2 millimeters in the wrong direction and you’ll have a bad time

Are you referring to getting, I dunno, yogurt in places outside the digestive tract?

My understanding was that gut bacteria play a pretty crucial (beneficial) role in overall health, not to mention the whole gut-brain stuff.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 13 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Pretty sure those "horrible little scalawags" play some pretty crucial roles in the human microbiome...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Or just a San Francisco resident


these ads are everywhere on BART (+Muni I guess) right now. (As far as ads go, they're pretty good I guess


and no, I don't even use them, much less work for them.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 3 weeks ago

For back-of-the-envelope or mental calculations, pi is often 3 or 10^(1/2).

The latter is better than 1% accurate, and has nice properties when doing order-of-magnitude/log space calculations in base 10.

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