wizzor

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wizzor ,

Vault dweller witch of Vault 3.

wizzor ,

I think for most web apps it doesn't make sense to allow the width to get so wide, except when the content being displayed is a columnar list and even then it's a pretty marginal benefit.

What I've done is limit the max-width to some amount of px/chars and allowed the remaining space be empty, with an exception for when displaying tables. Even with tables, the bigger width is only beneficial if either the contents of the columns are large enough, or there are very many columns to show. The solution in my mind is limiting the column widths to the longest content.

wizzor ,

I am happy they mark down the side of the fuel cap.

Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report ( www.theguardian.com )

Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new...

wizzor ,

This might be the only latin joke I ever get.

wizzor ,

Someone thought me the concept of a legal fiction and I still think about it.

Land ownership, companies, nation states, citizenship: all exist because we agree that it does.

wizzor ,

As someone who comes from a country where we do require photo ID for voting, not requiring one feels absurd, so I asked the same question. Apparently in the US, there is a part of the population that doesn't normally get photo ID and that part is mostly poor people and minorities and photo ID laws are used as means of disenfranchisement, similar to having the voting days during business days (when many people can't come to vote) or having voting stations far away in an area with limited public transport options.

Where I live in Finland, the police will actually grant you a temporary photo ID only for voting if you don't have one, although most people have passports. There are early voting stations in basically every post office for a week and the main voting day is always on a Sunday. No excuse to miss voting.

I've only missed one voting during my life, at a time when I was living in another country and there was no consulate in the part of the country I was in. Nowadays there's also the option of mail-in voting when outside the country, I don't know if it wasn't a thing back then or I just didn't know.

That's not to say I didn't want some improvements in our system: I'd like to see ranked choice voting or something similar here, there are some smaller parties I've been voting and it seems they seldom have a chance.

wizzor ,

I feel like there's a simple solution: Government issues free photo IDs to everyone, you need to pay for it if you destroy/lose it while it's still valid.

wizzor ,

The ackshully faces of the two blue shirts are perfect

AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )

A controversial bill that would require all new cars to be fitted with AM radios looks set to become a law in the near future. Yesterday, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) revealed that the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act" now has the support of 60 US Senators, as well as 246 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, making its...

wizzor ,

I don't think I've ever heard of AM transmission in my life, is there a benefit relative to FM or digital radio?

wizzor ,

I think there might be two options to the right (yellow stickers) indicating eg 95E15 and 98E10

wizzor ,

Although I understand the sentiment, the instrument under which the funding has been granted is called NEVI and has pretty strict requirements about what gets built (150kW rated, payment terminal equipped charging stations along major roads) as well as transparency requirements about reliability.

wizzor ,

Is it really so? The specs are open, and Tesla has been permissive about letting other companies use their patents, but what would happen if they changed their minds?

wizzor ,

I can hear the dude shouting through the text. Love it.

wizzor ,

Yea, Chinese people understand when you do that, but they first look at you with this confused look thinking 'he wants two chopstic pieces?' and then realize you have a vocabulary of a two-year-old.

Source:lived in China long enough to learn yo ask for things, but not long enough to learn the countable nouns.

wizzor ,

A moist bint lobbing scimitars at people in the middle of jänkhä? Sign me up.

wizzor ,

You want mosquitos? That's how you get mosquitos.

wizzor ,

Thanks for the tip, I'd like a pond, so this is good to know!

wizzor ,

We have seen mosquito larvae (and had problems with) very small rain barrels.

wizzor ,

I have never heard of this game, but the reviews are overwhelmingly positive and price is 10€.

wizzor ,

By the police or...?

wizzor ,

I was attempting to make a dark joke about police shootings of civilians in their homes, but unsuccessfully.

wizzor ,

In Finland that's what we do (if you have a 'market priced' contract). I have my heating set up so that it will 'overheat' my apartment when power is very cheap, effectively using the interior space as a rudimentary thermal battery.

There was an incident a few months ago, that caused power price to became absurdly negative, someone made a wrong bid and people used 90M€ worth of power in a few hours as a result.

wizzor ,

Wouldn't that line of thinking imply that women don't have any agency about anything? Whatever they decide can be framed as a reaction to internalized fear.

Not to mention that gender roles also affect men.

wizzor ,

I can actually imagine my grandpa doing this. I wouldn't call him a computer wizard by any means, but he has surprised me before. He will just go to the library, and have the librarians find printed computer magazines which would deal with various connectors, learn about HDMI and composite. Then proceed to find another magazine which has reviews of adapters and take a bus to the big electronics shop to ask about adapters and have them place the order for one.

He actually did this when he needed to digitize some tapes. Granted, he ended up with a firewire-connected external sound card and a tape deck from a hi-fi store connected to Audacity, when all he needed was my old walkman, a 3.5mm cable and Windows Recorder, but hey, it got the job done.

He used to be a researcher and he somehow sees these things just as requiring time to find the right source of information... And time he has.

I could imagine someone's grandma being the same.

wizzor ,

Well, he did move to live on a remote island (no power, no other people, no access for 5 months out of the year without a helicopter) at age 72. Lived there for several years. Also grew much of his own food for a almost 20 years.

wizzor ,

Don't need windows if you live in a basement (and use Linux).

wizzor ,

I get the sentiment in here, but the poster is missing an important point: there is a reason some group of lunatics (called the TSO or Transport System Operator or in some cases other power producers) are willing to pay for people to consume electricity when there is too much of it; They are not doing it for the sake of being lunatics, the electrical system cannot handle over or underproduction. Perfectly balanced (as all things should be) is the only way the grid can exist.

The production capacity in the grid needs to be as big as peak demand. The challenge we face with most renewables is that their production is fickly. For a true solarpunk future, the demand side needs to be flexible and there need to be energy storages to balance the production (and still, in cold and dark environments other solutions are needed).

In off-grid, local usages we usually see this happen naturally. We conserve power on cloudy low-wind days to make sure we have enough to run during the night (demand side flexibility) and almost everyone has a suitably sized battery to last the night. The price variability is one (flawed) mechanism to make this happen on a grid or bidding zone level.

wizzor ,

Yes, also it doesnt technically have to be sand, there are concrete mixes and even just bedrock that can be used for similar purposes. I've been looking at sand batteries myself for this reason: run the battery hot when power is cheap, let it cool when not.

This sort of thing is of course why it's useful to have a market mechanism for energy, it can encourage us to build environmentally friendly solutions.

wizzor ,

I have been running the numbers on one myself and it seems to me the best case would be to actually have one inside my home, since the waste heat will also end up heating the space. I admit it is similar to just having a lot of thermal mass in the house.

wizzor ,

Interesting, thanks for sharing that!

wizzor ,

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars

It's a hundred thousand light years side to side

It bulges in the middle, six thousand light years thick

But out by us, it's just a thousand light years wide

We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point

We go 'round every two hundred million years

And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions

In this amazing and expanding universe

wizzor ,

... Yea. How come this just gets done?

wizzor ,

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

wizzor ,

They would already know to a very high degree, because the device associates with a specific cell tower, and the cell size is quite small for 5g networks, especially in cities. I don't see why they would need a more accurate info.

wizzor ,

Sounds talaxian.

wizzor ,

Thanks for sharing this, interesting recipe too, I will try it. The cross section of the air fryer was cool.

wizzor ,

So that's what a skull cap is.

wizzor ,

Also look into donating to your instance maintainer. They literally pay for the server costs, so it's fair.

wizzor ,

I have been wondering why my maintainer doesn't remind people to donate more often. I set up a small recurring donation, so I don't have to remember, but I think it'd be okay to regularly remind people.

finn1sher , (edited ) to Everyday Carry. What essentials do you carry on a daily basis?
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Made a fix with my EDC duct tape

@edc

I came across this chair at my university that had its back falling off. It'll take a long time before it's properly fixed, or worse still, they'll toss it and replace the entire thing, so I wrapped some tape around and it's very solid now!

I have some duct tape folded around an old card in my wallet and used my victorinox knife to cut it.

wizzor ,

Your flat duct tape packing is very clever. I'm going to shamelessly steal it.

wizzor ,

I thought so too, but its log scale, so who knows.

wizzor ,

I feel like there are some missed opportunities

  • Sensors that don't work because a proprietary driver is missing
  • Having to add repositories to get wifi working
  • Voice assistant that only works if you know terminal command parameters by heart
  • More tool windows
  • More xorg.conf to get displays working
  • A flame war about the relative benefits of obscure infrastructure componemts
  • 7 package managers, 3 if which are needed to install 90% of needed software. The remaining 10% somehow still needs to be installed via shell scripts
  • Completely new UI in each version, still looks like it was designed by german ocelots in the 90s
wizzor ,

Oh behave!

wizzor ,

Scientists: we have built the unstoppable killer robot from the sci fi classic don't-build-killer-robots.

wizzor ,

That's not a bad song, is it really mashed together from 7 other songs? Literally unbelievable.

wizzor ,

I am very impressed by the detective work there. How do you even...?

wizzor ,

That's one dial down, are the rest for when the first inevitably falls off?

wizzor ,

Tea, earl gray, hot is vastly different from hot earl gray tea.

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