Tlaloc_Temporal

They’re also incentivized to keep the same size packaging (both for logistical and public perveption reasons) and ship less product in those packages. People are willing to pay $6 for a big bag of chips, despite the big bag weighing 150g less than the normal bag 5 years ago.

They don’t get paid by the gram, they get paid by the bag. A bigger bag looks more impressive, and thus can be sold for more. Same for those tall skinny beverage cans. They look bigger than the regular cans, but are actually 25ml smaller, and yet go for a similar price.

This will continue until the price per gram is what people look for (emphasis on this at the point of sale would help), or the mass of each product is standardized. 50g, 100g, 200g, 350g, 500g, 750g, and whole kg sizes only, none of this 489g nonsense.

That’s why a lot of us are here after all.

Also, who’s going to call them out on that? What court wouldn’t throw that out immediately? And even if you did win, the company wouldn’t even notice. You probably signed away the right to be part of a class action lawsuit in the Terms of Service anyway.

That’s true to a point. 50% gas by fill level is ridiculous though.

I’ve come across several sites with abhorrently short password limits, as low as 12.

Worse, 2 of them accepted the longer password, but only saves the first n characters, so you can’t log in even with the correct password, untill you figure out the exact max length and truncate it manually.

Even worse, one of those sites was a school authentication site, but it accepted the full password online and only truncated the password on the work computer login. That took me an entire period to suss out.

It’s more appealing than the Did Not Finish command. That’s to thematically close to flaming crashes for my liking.

I thought so too for a while. Apparently there’s a bit of setup you need to do for it to work. Just browse the site setting a bit and choose a server.

Word of mouth has always been far more powerful, and especially now in the internet age.

What’s wrong with dirt?

On a planetary scale, all soil is dirt, because it’s all been displaced so many times from glaciers and mountains and oceans and taking part in the biosphere, you can’t tell where each particle was originally weathered from or which plant first captured it from the air. No one can trace sod to a fault line.

It’s hard to have a rich history when evwn sharks are older. I bet you can’t even tell if a soil is from regolith younger or older than Pangaea!

Thaghome!

Better than Thagburgh.

Rough approximation: Earth as opposed to sky, becomes earth as opposed to sea, becomes earth as in the known world as opposed to the places we don’t settle (sea, sky, hell, etc.), becomes the place we live as opposed to Mars or Betelgeuse.

We walk on dirt, we live on dirt, we live on Dirt.

It’s the state of the industry.

And I know several automotive repair facilities that so incompetent it must be malicious.

I’m not opposed to allowing ads, but until there are enforceable limits it’s too risky. If a service that serves a malware ad or a scam ad risks its entire system being blocked across all sites, then maybe we could get somewhere.

We’d need something like ad server whitelists and fast-acting disqualifications. No ad server anonymity or rapid name changes, no adding backdoors for your friends. If your break the guidelines, you loose the ability to do business anywhere for at least a day.

I’ve only had two mentionable issues with Linux so far: A GPU bug that causes a few games to reliably hang my GPU (which may have been fixed recently with newer mesa drivers; I haven’t checked), and Helvum not recognizing anything (which was probably me installing it wrong or something).

Windows however… Changing system settings with no warning, forgetting network configuration out of the blue, GPU crashes that hard rebooted windows, and driver updates that prevent booting at all. Some software gets installed without notice, others get removed without notice. The forced update debacle has lost me more than one open document. I’ve had critical audio issues on every machine I’ve used, including individual school machines that should be identical. Several of my remaining windows machines have issues with various system programs maxing out the disk write speed and locking up everything for dozens of minutes at a time.

And then more recently there’s the security violations, always online behavior, enshitification, and removal of user choice.

This may be a tad biased as I’ve used windows for a few decades and Linux for just over a year, but going back is always a chore…

Man, a monospace fixed size array would be really nice for ASCII art eh? Kinda like a text image. I suppose you could take a screenshot, but then there’s image hosting issues in the future.

Sorry, random idea.

Prism runs better than the official launcher on both windows and linux, I don’t what the issue is. Java maybe?

Bigger problem, even if they know about MAN pages, remembering what their looking for is hard. You can’t type ‘man dnf’ if you don’t remember what your package manager is called.

I wonder how feasible searching MAN pages is.

On the rare occasions you need to use a terminal, how often is it for something completely new? Something you need to look up to understand?

Also, how often is the MAN page enough lookup, without having to sift through 17 sites than are describing subtly different things?

That article just throws out a number. I found a couple papers that give green light absorption numbers between 50% (for lettuce) and 90% (for broadleaf evergreens). Sadly they are paywalled.

The paper that article links talks about pairs of absorption peaks targeting steep portions of the available light spectrum, as a method of reducing power noise in changing conditions. The reason for avoiding green light here would be because the spectrum is too flat around green: there are no pits to help stabilize incoming power. Despite blue light having nearly identical intensity, green plants strongly absorb blue light, supposedly because there’s a steep drop off in intensity moving into purple and ultraviolet light. I don’t think this explains the decently strong red light absorption though, as the terrestrial spectrum is still rather flat there.

I’d argue this is more a holdover from competition with simpler purple Haloarchaea in ancient oceans, the Purple Earth Hypothesis . Perhaps this avoidance of the otherwise strong green light is what allowed green plants to develop complex structures and those complex structures need much smoother power input, precluding the development of green light photosynthesis. Also possible is that developing new photosynthetic pathways is just too difficult, and green plants are too specialized to try.

Some of those specializations may be the use of green light to direct non-photisynthetic processes, detailed in this paper, which is also more directly relevant to the original point. Some green light increases yields significantly, despite maybe not promoting photosynthesis as efficiently per watt as red & blue light.

That’s going to be less efficient per watt though, plant’s are green because they don’t use the green light, hence red+blue grow lights.

Not all plants reflect the same range of wavelengths though, and different plants will use different wavelengths to grow. This is basically an exercise in finding which wavelengths we can drop without significantly slowing growth for each plant.