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chamomile Chamomile ๐Ÿ‘ @furry.engineer

Large sheep the size of a small sheep! Late 20's queer sysadmin, release engineer and programmer. Likes tea, DIY, and nerd stuff. Follow requests generally accepted but please have a filled out profile first!

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Anon questions physics
  • @SorteKanin

    This also explains why evaporation cools down (like when you sweat): the molecules with the highest temperature are the ones evaporating, so the average temperature decreases as those high-temperature molecules leave the system. Only the relatively colder molecules are left behind - thus it cools as a whole.

    The main principle at work here is the enthalpy of vaporization. When matter changes state, there is an associated amount of energy that is absorbed or released - in the case of vaporization, energy must be absorbed. So when sweat forms on your skin and evaporates, it absorbs heat energy from your body in order to undergo that state change.

    For water, the energy involved here is remarkably high, much higher than the energy stored by a few degrees difference in temperature. For example, if you wanted to boil off 1kg of water, it would take about 300 kJ to bring the temperature up to boiling from room temperature and over 2000 kJ to boil it all into steam.

  • The Benefits of World Hunger
  • @sharkfucker420 It's a good thing "A Modest Proposal"[1] wasn't titled "The Benefits of Cannibalism" because I guess people would have taken that at face value as well.

    [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

  • This might also apply to conferences.
  • @fossilesque Don't forget those of us in the back row because we slept in and got there late!

  • Vance agrees that raising grandchildren is โ€˜whole purpose of postmenopausal femaleโ€™
  • @MicroWave

    โ€œWhy didn't she just keep her job, give us part of the wages to pay somebody else to do it?โ€ he asked. โ€œThat is the thing that the hyper-liberalized economics wants you to do. The economic logic of always prioritizing paid wage labor over other forms of contributing to a society is to me ... a consequence of a sort of fundamental liberalism that is ultimately gonna unwind and collapse upon itself.โ€

    โ€œIt's the abandonment of a sort of Aristotelian virtue politics for a hyper-market-oriented way of thinking about what's good and what's desirable,โ€ he added. โ€œIf people are paying for it and it contributes to GDP and it makes the economic consumption numbers rise, then it's good, and if it doesn't, it's bad ... that's sort of the root of our political problem.โ€

    It's really funny when conservatives are like "See the problem with Wokeness is <describes capitalism>"

  • Why does my treadmill want my email address?
  • @snow_bunny Nah, it was Sonos. Which, I guess the app ecosystem is their whole thing - but I didn't know that at the time. I just wanted a basic sound bar, and the reviews didn't really mention that all that extra fluff was mandatory.

    In retrospect Sonos sucks for a lot of other reasons too, so I guess it was a bullet dodged.

  • Why does my treadmill want my email address?
  • @The_Picard_Maneuver I once bought a TV sound bar that wanted me to download an app, make an account and give it detailed location information just to use it as a wired speaker. I returned it.

  • I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Sociopath
  • @SPAUZPiMP @scarabic Oh wow, did he literally say "irreducible complexity?" That is SO blatant lol.

  • Sacrilege rule
  • @zephr_c @nifty The character in the drawing is Hatsune Miku, so this is alluding to vocaloid music which could be produced purely digitally as you say.

    Completely agreed otherwise, though.

  • Keeping the playing field level
  • @WoahWoah Not to be the obnoxious didact in the room but I do feel compelled to point out that vegetables/herbs soaked in oil at room temp are generally not a good idea unless you like botulism poisoning: https://extension.oregonstate.edu/food/preservation/herbs-vegetables-oil-sp-50-701

    Just for anyone who's not aware! Honestly, immediately shitting yourself was not even close to the worst possible outcome lol.

  • Holes in Your Bitbucket: Why Your CI/CD Pipeline Is Leaking Secrets
  • @kid TL;DR: If you have a secret variable in your CI/CD pipeline and it's written to a file that subsequently gets artifacted, anyone who can access that artifact can also read your secret variable.

    Feels like a "no shit" moment but I guess I can see how someone could make this mistake in a more complicated setup than the example in the blog.

  • What's a common occurrence in your hobby that you think shouldn't be?
  • @solitaire @erev Jesus, I had completely forgotten "tits or gtfo." Every now and then I get hit with a reminder of how much more pervasive that kind of thing was as little as 10-20 years ago and it throws me for a loop.

  • The whole internet loves Kagi, a lovely paid search engine that can find things! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the CEO is an unhinged narcissist who will harangue you in email
  • @shadow @V0ldek > What Iโ€™d really like to find is something like a pihole for search, where you have your blocklist, cache of things youโ€™ve searched already (your own mini search engine?), and then a fallback engine (DDG, bing, Google, whatever) for things it doesnโ€™t already know.

    I think SearXNG sort of fulfills this, from what I've heard? It's more or less a self-hosted search engine that can combine indexes from various other engines, and I presume that means you can set your own rules and filters and such. There are public instances as well.

  • Rebase Supremacy
  • @agressivelyPassive You should still clean your kitchen though, that's my point.

  • Rebase Supremacy
  • @agressivelyPassive @technom That's a self-fulfilling prophecy, IMO. Well-structured commit histories with clear descriptions can be a godsend for spelunking through old code and trying to work out why a change was made. That is the actual point, after all - the Linux kernel project, which is what git was originally built to manage, is fastidious about this. Most projects don't need that level of hygiene, but they can still benefit from taking lessons from it.

    To that end, sure, git can be arcane at the best of times and a lot of the tools aren't strictly necessary, but they're very useful for managing that history.

  • [RFC] Use of Automated Moderation Tools
  • @crashdoom I'm generally very wary about any sort of automated system that can ban or limit accounts without human input. Perhaps an alternative system to give moderators time to respond would be something that limits accounts that are reported by multiple local users in a short time period? That does have the potential for abuse as well and I think we should carefully consider the avenues for it, but at our community's scale it seems feasible to me.

  • [Defederation] pisskey.io
  • @crashdoom Thanks for the prompt response here, as always. Got followed by an account with blatant Nazi symbolism in their profile last night and uh... yeah, pass.

  • Join or ignore the anti-meta fedi pact
  • @crashdoom @brodokk I don't think a discussion of whether or not they will attempt to/successfully EEE the fediverse even matters. We already know what Meta's track record is for moderation - I came here to avoid that, and I think that's going to end up being reason enough to cut them off. It just seems like it's going to be impossible to manage otherwise. I suspect that at the very least silencing them will be necessary.

  • What's everyone's thoughts on split or tented keyboards?
  • @improbablynotarobot I do! My main keyboard is an Ergodox, and I make heavy use of the extra thumb keys. Having enter/del/backspace on my thumbs alone is really nice, and I also keep a layer toggle next to them. Commonly used keys, like my navigation cluster and a numpad stay close to the home row on two different layers.

    The one thing I don't make much use of is symbols on layers, which takes a bit more getting used to than I've put time in for. Instead I just use the dedicated number row.