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[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

What'll you be drinkin'?

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Homebrew remains cheap and easy. Apple juice is annoyingly expensive to get, though, for my cider. :(

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

That makes sense. We don't get much snow here.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Are studded tires a mountain biking thing? I can't imagine it would help my commute.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago

Avoiding civilian deaths is woke

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Some of it is metallurgical coal..but yeah, big drop will happen eventually

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah. I'd like to see fighter planes, or heavy drones, built without the needs of g-sensitive, heat-intolerant, oxygen-needing meatsacks. The major problem is communication links and jamming, but on our own territory, keeping a pilot in a bunker with a good link to a plane seems like a better bet.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

There's a pretty massive qualitative difference between 1 and 0. A small amount of jets means we can actually respond to flyover probes. Yes, the threat is asymmetric, but there has to be some token ability to respond.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

True, maybe a bad example. Although there are a few conventionts it might not bother to explain, like WASD for directional input, or scroll wheels, or whatever.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 65 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Going into it cold without knowing the tropes of the genre and the visual design language would be a massive disadvantage. Gamers in the 80s would have a set of expectations and strategies that we wouldn't lean on today. Giving someone from 1985 Factorio might lead to some similar confusion until they got the hang of it.

Similar to giving an English reader some Chaucer.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Get out of our house.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago
 

They are cats.

 

On the ravine heading to the Mystery Lake transition cave, looking between a couple rocks, I see this, looking maybe north-northwest.

I'm betting that's the road to Keeper's Pass, after the prisoner transport bus tunnel cave-in.

Pretty neat, never noticed it before.

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by rbos@lemmy.ca to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world
 

I've been wondering whether it's better for memory pages to be compressed at the hypervisor level, or on the VM level.

I'm leaning toward the VM level, because

1: VMs have better knowledge of memory pressure by the application, and can better decide when to swap pages out to zram. The VM has access to information about memory pages that the hypervisor doesn't have.

2: if pages are compressed on the hypervisor level, the VM doesn't "see" any increased memory available. The host box gains free memory, but the application never sees it to make use of it, it'll just see the same 8GB as it always has, so it never really benefits. This maybe lets you host more VMs on one box, but at the cost of the applications not being as efficient.

Is this a reasonable position? I'm wondering if I'm missing something obvious.

 

By Krueger - https://www.indiedb.com/games/the-long-dark/images/island-map-great-bear-fan-made

It really lays bare some missing pieces. Like there's no road that goes to Mountain Town currently that connects into the wider network. And the future rail link after it terminates in Coastal Highway certainly has to go north to either Port Mary or Perseverance Mills.

 

I learned two things today.

1: the quonset in CH is named "Quincy's Quonset".

2: It has what looks like an EV charger station now. Nice. That was definitely not the case a few years ago.

 

Various bugfixes.

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Maru was ... (en.wikipedia.org)
 

I'm a little choked up.

18 years is a pretty good run for a cat, but yeah.

 

Now that something like a quarter of car sales in BC are EVs, I am starting to think their privileged access to HOV lanes is no longer a sustainable concession. There are just so many that the priority should shift back away from single occupancy vehicles.

Alternatively, we could keep the allowance, but add a second HOV lane, leaving gas vehicles to whatever's left on the highway. But that probably be unpopular. 😀

Who in government would I write to express this opinion? MP or MLA?

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by rbos@lemmy.ca to c/bestoflemmy@lemmy.world
 

Interesting comment on a post.

Tldr: Zebra Mussels reach a balance that prevents them from being a totally catastrophic invasive.

 
 

Some pretty neat stuff in here about upcoming visual changes, and minor updates about episode 5 and Blackfrost.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by rbos@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

"The Department of Government Efficiency, Musk's vehicle. made news by "discovering" the General Services Administration uses tapes, and plans to save $1M by switching to something else (disks, or cloud-based storage)."

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