May I ask what brand of LECA you use? I’ve read contradictory things about pH of LECA being basic. I got a bag of Growit, and tested it with tap water - the water is indeed very basic compared to my control even after lots of rinsing and repeated soakings. I’m wondering if some brands are better at living up to claims of being pH neutral than others.

I do the same - except I upgraded to 64 GB at a point in my life when I was doing Haskell programming on a largish project, and I learned that 32 GB is not sufficient to run the LSP and the compiler at the same time.

When mine goes over 99 it just rounds up,

I also appreciate how the meter and rhyme match up!

Oh neat! Most of what I know is my recollections from the Revolutions podcast. I haven’t read Citizen Lafayette yet

Because he’s a pirate! That’s why he should be in a meme with an eye patch

Yes, but it’s the thought that counts. The Bastille had a history of being the place the government disappeared people to. Some of those were nobles who were treated very well. Others were regular people who were… not given the noble treatment.

From what I understand Parisians didn’t know how much the prison population had dwindled. Either way, the Bastille was a symbol of oppression.

Now tbf the people doing the storming were motivated to get in to grab the gunpowder that had been hoarded inside. But the unjust detentions were a part of it too.

Ah, good clarification. Thanks!

For a moment I thought the lower image was from Les Misérables which would be a fitting singing tie-in. It would also be fitting because Bastille Day is coming up on Monday.

Les Misérables depicts the June Rebellion which took place a month before the 43rd anniversary of Bastille Day. That would have been prominent in the minds of the people rebelling. Bastille Day is still celebrated as a critical point in the French Revolution when protesters stormed a detention center to free people who had been detained without due process.

I’ve been meaning to make a meme, but I’m too lazy to find the stills. Remember when Book gets a field commission? He says “Aye aye!” before Burnham corrects him, saying “One aye. We’re not pirates.” Then I think about half of the SNW cast say “Aye aye” at some point or other.

I was keeping in mind the same caveat, that City of London ≠ Greater London. But still, cycling is up by a huge amount, and car traffic is down. So what they’re doing is working! It’s another example to point to to show that if you build cycling infrastructure people will use it.

The video also spends a lot of time looking at ridership increases in Hackney. It’s another small part of Greater London (although much larger than City of London), but it’s more progress, and shows off strategies that are working in residential areas. It looks like Hackney has encouraged cycling by creating “low traffic neighborhoods”, where they use traffic filters to close residential streets to through-traffic.

Sometimes you hear arguments against large investments in bike infrastructure along the lines of, “Biking works for Holland, but we don’t have a bike culture here.” Examples of cycling trending up in more places helps to make the case for infrastructure elsewhere.

I’ve heard something about juggling exercising brain hemisphere connection. Maybe try spending a bit of time regularly juggling, or doing something else that requires bilateral coordination. I mean, besides typing

Some more points about Nix:

• It’s a fast way to get to a specific setup, like a particular DE or Vulkan gaming support, thanks to abstraction that NixOS modules provide
• There are tons of packages
• Because packages are installed by adding a config entry you don’t accumulate random software you forgot you installed
• Immutable updates and rollbacks - this is similar to benefits of atomic ostree distros, but the nix solutions are more general, so you have one system that does more things with a consistent interface
  • in addition to updating the base system, rollbacks also roll back user-installed packages, and configurations if those are managed via Nix
  • devshells provide per-directory packages and configuration using the same package repos as the host system, without needing to manage docker images
• Nix is portable - much of what it does on NixOS can also be used in other distros, or even on Macos or Windows with the Linux subsystem
  • Configurations often combine NixOS and Home Manager parts. The Home Manager part can be used à la carte on other OSes is a way that is fully isolated from the host OS package management. For example on Macos this is a much nicer alternative to Homebrew.
  • devshells also work on other OSes
• similar to Guix - but NixOS uses systemd, and is (from what I understand) more tolerant of non-free software (whether these are pros or cons is up to individual interpretation)

Arch wiki is the best! I reference often, even though I’m generally applying the information to other distros

My guess was the point is that it’s difficult to install CLI tools using Flatpak

Hey, I’m sorry that “Jesus Christ” as an expletive feels alienating to you. I hadn’t thought about that perspective. As a lifelong atheist my feeling is that Christianity, and by extension blasphemous expletives, are so thoroughly enmeshed in Western culture that that’s what comes out when I’m startled. I don’t feel like I’m using the words to show distaste for another group; I feel like the words are part of my culture even though I’m not religious. My guess is that saying"Jesus Christ" is generally not intended to be a statement on Christians. But I can see how someone who is religious might see it differently. I suppose lots of people see their relationship with Jesus as a part of their identity that distinguishes them from people who don’t believe, and from that perspective I can see how a perceived attack on Jesus feels like a personal attack.

I’ll also mention that since I didn’t have a religious upbringing I was never taught to have any particular reaction to blasphemy, which tends to make me see those expletives as less-offensive alternatives to scatological or sexual expletives. I don’t have a good perspective of what such language feels like to someone who was taught that blasphemy is bad.

And why not add one more paragraph - I agree that when I view him as a moral philosopher and proto-socialist I find a lot of what Jesus said and did to be admirable.

Hospitals are required to provide emergency treatment - what we call ED or ER visits - regardless of ability to pay. Patients are expected to pay for that treatment. It’s just that the hospital isn’t supposed to deny treatment based on whether they think patients will or won’t pay the bill. This is getting-stabilized treatment.

This is an important point in arguing for universal healthcare: if people can’t afford treatment, they’re more likely to go to the ED where they won’t be turned away. ED visits tend to cost more than non-emergency, so that drives costs up.

Thanks for your findings, and for the pictures!

I looked up “RO water” - that’s water filtered with reverse osmosis, with nothing added?

One of favorites cds to the root of a project directory from a subdirectory,

# Changes to top-level directory of git repository.
alias gtop="cd \$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"

That’s a helpful one! I also add a function that creates a tmp directory, and cds to it which I frequently use to open a scratch space. I use it a lot for unpacking tar files, but for other stuff too.

(These are nushell functions)

# Create a directory, and immediately cd into it.
# The --env flag propagates the PWD environment variable to the caller, which is
# necessary to make the directory change stick.
def --env dir [dirname: string] {
  mkdir $dirname
  cd $dirname
}

# Create a temporary directory, and cd into it.
def --env tmp [
  dirname?: string # the name of the directory - if omitted the directory is named randomly
] {
  if ($dirname != null) {
    dir $"/tmp/($dirname)"
  } else {
    cd (mktemp -d)
  }
}