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kattfisk

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  • Bees don't have lungs.

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  • Never found even harvesting to require more than the occasional puff of smoke. But we had Buckfast, and made sure to replace the queen of any aggressive colony. Maybe you have more aggressive breeds.

  • Bees don't have lungs.

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  • Looking around there does seem to be people who use tobacco. I guess poisoning the bees probably makes them more docile 😅 Still a bad idea though

  • Bees don't have lungs.

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  • This sounds strange. You really don't want to make them abandon the hive. You want to disrupt the hive as little as possible.

  • Bees don't have lungs.

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  • I don't believe they'd use tobacco, as nicotine is especially toxic to insects (and has a long history of being used as an insecticide).

    Beekeepers burn paper, woodchips, or really anything that burns well that they have on hand (that isn't toxic). Source: Have used smoker while handling beehives.

  • Am I reading this right? You came from a... happy, loving home?

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  • I honestly feel that the motivations for someone from a happy home are often better. They are people who want to adventure for some very compelling reason (that you are forced to come up with). They are invested in the world, with things to loose, things they want to accomplish, loved ones to threaten, history and interests they want to share etc.

  • Consequences

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  • If you actually look into it, the original accusation was completely made up.

    Even if it had been true it would have been a storm in a teacup. An incredibly tiny indie developer had their lover write a positive article about their incredibly niche indy game. Who gives a shit?

    Gamergate was a psyop to politicize young white males by making them believe their hobby was under attack by feminists. It was largely created by Steve Bannon through Breitbart News and its editor Milo Yiannopoulos.

    The ongoing "culture war" is not an accident or an emergent fenomenon. Powerful figures have worked long and hard to bring about fascism.

  • BuT I CaNT MaKE cIrCLeS in GiMp!

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  • I could change it in the settings. I just hadn't used it in a long time and it took me a bit to realize that this default was why I suddenly had trouble telling the tools apart.

    But if the differences are that big I'm probably still on 2. Looking forward to seeing what 3 will bring then :)

  • What is one moral you have that most people don't agree with?

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  • If it's pornography of an unwilling subject, surely the distribution and consumption is harmful to the subject, as it's a violation of their privacy and integrity.

    If someone had put secret cameras in your bedroom, would you be completely cool with them selling the pictures online?

    What if you were abused, let's say threatened with a weapon and forced to undress in front of a camera, a traumatic experience for sure. Afterwards you learn that the film is being traded between people who get off on this stuff. Would that really not feel like a further violation?

    Would you really be unaffected by the knowledge that for the rest of your life, at any time, there could be creeps getting off on your abuse?

  • BuT I CaNT MaKE cIrCLeS in GiMp!

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  • I found Inkscape when I needed to make some diagrams, and even though that's not really what it's for, it blows dedicated diagram tools out of the water.

    Inkscape is actually fun to use because it strikes a nice balance between easy and powerful.

    My only problem with GIMP lately has been that by default it's used monochrome tool icons which are really hard to tell apart. Which seems like a real form-over-function decision (likely made by the distribution though).

  • BuT I CaNT MaKE cIrCLeS in GiMp!

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  • My experience with Jetbrains was that they did not rely on vendor lock-in, but on actually making a product worth paying for. I could move my projects away from their suite easily, the build tools and scripts where all third-party open-source. I just didn't want to.

    But perhaps things are different in other spaces. I can imagine using Kotlin might lock you in more.

  • trapped in the middle with u

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  • It's not necessarily true. There are other interpretations that are equally valid as far as we currently know. They are just less famous.

  • spaghett.

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  • I've yet to see any that are of any use.

    A pet peeve of mine is documentation that describes how the code works. If I want to know that, I can just read it (perhaps assisted by an IDE or debugger).*

    What I need documented is why the code works like that. How is it intended to be used? What quirks and gotchas are there?

    *If the code is not readable it needs to be refactored, not documented.

  • 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media

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  • Just shifting the tax burden from salaries toward capital should make it less of a problem. When capital income is taxed less than salaries wealth concentration gets worse as workers are replaced.

    But hey, GDP line goes up, so it must be good right?

  • EU calls for households to stockpile 72 hours of food amid war risks

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  • Completely depends on how you live.

    Someone who lives in a house with plenty of storage and a 30 minute drive to the nearest store will have a lot of food at home. Whereas someone who lives in a tiny apartment with a five minute walk to the store will not.

    In general, places like American suburbs, with huge single-family homes, no stores and complete reliance on cars, are rare in Europe.

  • Journalist publishes every damning text from war plans leak

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  • Good thing the US doesn't recognize the authority of the International Criminal Court, so there's no risk of them having to face consequences for their war crimes.

    They even have a law that makes it illegal to cooperate with the ICC in bringing US personnel to justice, and that allows the president to use any force necessary to prevent it from happening.

  • Why Great Engineering Orgs Thrive on "Normal" Engineers

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  • Moving fast doesn't have to mean poor workmanship.

    To make an analogy, if you want to be able to make a cup of coffee fast, you need to make sure that the coffee beans, the water, and the brewer are all near each other, that there is electricity and that the water is running. These are all things that enable you to move fast, but they don't decrease quality, if anything they increase quality because you aren't wasting time and effort tackling obstacles unrelated to brewing.

    Which is in fact the point of the article. That you should make sure you have a good development environment, with support systems and processes, so that you can work effectively even if your developers are not savants. Rather than trying to hire people who are good enough to do a decent job even in the worst environments.

  • Do you interpret a 👍 as a rude reply?

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  • Inching closer to the grave every day

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  • I found this report from NIST that estimates tape to last 20 years, CD-R and DVD-R 30 years, and M-DISC 100 years 🤷 (I didn't even know optical was used professionally, and found the term "optical jukebox" to be hilarious :)

    https://www.nist.gov/publications/digital-evidence-preservation-considerations-evidence-handlers

    But more importantly, an actively maintained storage system will last forever (as long as maintained). And for example AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive costs just $0.00099 / GB / month*, so you can store terabytes for the price of a cup of coffee.

    *Plus extra fees for access and stuff, but the point is managed storage isn't particularly expensive unless you have very large amounts of data or heavy usage.

  • Inching closer to the grave every day

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  • What forms of media are you taking about that have short life spans?

    I think that as storage density goes up and price goes down, what used to be cumbersome and expensive amounts of data become easily manageable. So the only reasons we loose data will be business or political. Which will also decrease as there's now money in buying failing platforms.

    But yeah, I'm also happy none of the social media I created when I was young still exists, and the platforms are buried by the sands of time. Having everything you do on the internet stay around forever feels like a nightmare.