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tylerag··on Why is desalination so difficult?
They're concentrating maple syrup. It comes out of the tree with the sugar and flavors already dissolved in it.
tylerag··on The disappointingly ongoing success of WvDial (2009)
> WvDial is a modem dialer and nobody uses modems anymore.

I was using dial up until probably 2007 or 2008, and I was certainly using wvdial with it. The reason I was using wvdial is because it was the only option that actually worked. I think I tried to get Gnome's GUI to work, but was never able to. I think I still have the non-winmodem PCI card too, spent a lot of money (for a teenager) on it.

tylerag··on Pornhub blocks access to entire state of Virginia
And if you're curious who Cherie Deville is, here's a mostly-sfw page: https://wikifid.com/cherie-deville/
tylerag··on The KDE Free Qt Foundation: 25 Years of Celebration
KDE was created with open source Qt. As in, the developers that wrote KDE used the LGPL version of Qt.

To repeat myself, “Prohibited Combination” shall mean any effort to use, combine, incorporate, link or integrate Licensed Software with any software created with or incorporating Open Source Qt.

tylerag··on The KDE Free Qt Foundation: 25 Years of Celebration
I dunno, that isn't terrible.

The terrible part is where if you pay for a commercial license to use it in a proprietary application, you can't stand within 50 feet of the LGPL version.

https://www.qt.io/terms-conditions/:

“Prohibited Combination” shall mean any effort to use, combine, incorporate, link or integrate Licensed Software with any software created with or incorporating Open Source Qt, or use Licensed Software for creation of any such software.

So you can't use KDE to write a program that links against the proprietary QT libraries.

tylerag··on The damaging results of mandated return to office
I won't argue with you, but I will ask how many laptops have you tried?
tylerag··on Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
Shitty behavior isn't excusable just because there's a setting to disable it.
tylerag··on Pink Floyd, 'The Wizard of Oz,' and me
I suppose different people appreciate different things about them, but for me, it's just the experience (for lack of a better word). It's the musical equivalent of being in the flow state, and tickles my brain the same way. The crescendo of Echoes or Brain Damage/Eclipse makes me feel the same way as when I find the perfect solution to a problem I've been working on. You can't link to part of a song and say "this is the epitome of Pink Floyd." There are certainly certain segments that are better than others, but to fully appreciate it, you have to have listened to the previous parts of the album. The songs build on themselves.

Some people like the lyrics, I think Roger Waters bloviates too much. Weed certainly makes it more enjoyable, but it isn't necessary.

tylerag··on FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process
To give you an idea what I see every time I checkout,

https://imgur.com/a/6PcJLFY

tylerag··on Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling
I didn't post a link because I thought it would be easy to search for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histamine_intolerance https://duckduckgo.com/?q=low+histamine+diet&atb=v376-1&ia=w... https://old.reddit.com/r/HistamineIntolerance/comments/cr9pf... https://www.mastzellaktivierung.info/downloads/foodlist/21_F...

Anecdotally, I've had major digestive issues my entire life. It's particularly frustrating because foods that are supposed to be extremely healthy (low fodmap! gluten free! whole 30!) are still bad for me. Following the last list I posted has actually helped.

Although now that I think about it, the original poster's migraines could be caused by chemicals leaching out of the can liner.

tylerag··on Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling
Older food has more histamine in it.
tylerag··on On the road to KDE Plasma 6
Just want to say, I switched to KDE (Plasma 5) on Debian testing a month ago, after running Windows 7/10 for the last 10 years. I'm very happy with it. If nothing else, it's so nice to have a desktop UI that's cohesive. I feel like everything is designed to be used by a mouse and not touch, which is OK because it's a desktop. It's also surprisingly refreshing to have scrollbars and buttons be styled the same everywhere.
tylerag··on Melange 1.0: Compile OCaml / ReasonML to JavaScript
In the unlikely event you are confused on the difference between ReScript, Reason, and ReasonML, I recommend this post:

https://ersin-akinci.medium.com/confused-about-rescript-resc...

tylerag··on They Used to Be a Big Shot, Now Eagle Is No More
I tried to use it 10 years ago, before AutoCAD bought it. I wasn't very successful, although admittedly I didn't know what I was doing. Today, KiCad is more than capable for anything a hobbyist would work on. Eagle is just an interesting footnote.
tylerag··on Grass makes better ethanol than corn does (2008)
I used to mow lawns. We would dump the clippings into a pasture to feed the cows. They absolutely loved it, and would come running when they heard our truck. The rancher told us to stop after one of them died of a weird illness. There's a a lot of nasty shit people spray on their lawns to make them look nice and green.
tylerag··on From SVG to Canvas – A new way of building interactions
There's a difference between mouse down and mouse up. A click needs both.
tylerag··on Spotify lays off 200 employees, or about 2% of its workforce
Excellent. Maybe they can stop fucking up the UI now. Although the bug that perforates my eardrums when I switch from my laptop to iPhone will probably never get fixed.
tylerag··on Ask HN: Could Usenet get revived, to replace the soon to be unusable Reddit?
It just isn't indexed nearly as well.
tylerag··on YouTube Is Killing Stories
All of the recommended videos on my front page are wrenching, welding, carpentry, fabrication, or related. For some reason, my recommended shorts are all women with heavy makeup, cleavage, and nice legs. Yeah, you're definitely going to be working on a running engine with that long hair dangling into the fan.
tylerag··on A Microscopic Look at Snail Jaws
I just went for a walk in the redwoods here in Northern California, and was amazed at how many redwoods snails there were.
tylerag··on The Rimac Nevera Just Shattered Pretty Much Every Acceleration Record
Gordon Murray built his first car in his early twenties.

Koenigsegg founded his company when he was in his early twenties.

tylerag··on The regenerating power of Big Basin’s redwoods
Redwoods are touch even when you do cut them down. The trunks will put up water shoots immediately, and you'll have another small tree in a couple of years. The problem is all the other species that live in an old growth forest can't survive in a brand new forest.
tylerag··on Don’t use sugar substitutes for weight loss, World Health Organization advises
I eat a lot of veggies and some nuts. Vegetables and fruit have a lot of starch in them, which slows down the rate your body absorbs the sugar. I rarely eat fruit, most things are too sweet and disgusting.
tylerag··on Don’t use sugar substitutes for weight loss, World Health Organization advises
I've completely eliminated sugar from my diet. People are genuinely confused on how I do it. (the answer: just don't eat it.) But honestly, your sense of sweetness adjusts to it. Things with sugar in it are foul, as in I can't even eat them (for example, A1 steak sauce or spaghetti sauce).

The other thing that the article doesn't mention is that some of the alternative sweeteners are terrible for your gut biome, and an unhealthy gut biome is already linked to obesity.

tylerag··on The basics of decoupling capacitors
When an 0805 is 2 cents in bulk, I can't be bothered to do it any other way.
tylerag··on The Beauty of Pulse Arc Welding
And therefor you don't need to maintain a puddle in the workpiece. I'm assuming silver tig welds like copper, the heat flows away from the puddle so fast that the entire thing turns into a blob.
tylerag··on It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT
This is the kind of thing that humans are the worse at. Our brain skips over the words, filling in what we think it should say.
tylerag··on Moving from Rust to C++
My thought process:

> Moving from Rust to C++. Unusual, but probably interesting.

> Written by Raph Linus? Fuck me, he must have a good reason.

> Oh. It's April 1st. I'm going to go organize my garage.

tylerag··on Nearly 20% Adults May Have Misophonia – Significant Negative Responses to Sounds
TBH, I'm pretty sure it had some type of resonator to make it even louder than a straight pipe. It had an extremely obnoxious timbre, and having driven vehicles with no muffler (only temporarily!) I'd say this car was significantly louder.
tylerag··on Nearly 20% Adults May Have Misophonia – Significant Negative Responses to Sounds
Ended up having a lawyer write a letter, got the entire neighborhood to sign it (which shows how pissed I was, since I'm very nonconfrontational), and sent it to his landlord. Funny enough, his landlord is named Elmer, and has the social skills of Elmer Fud.
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