2 decaf and 1 caf Lipton bag in a pot of boiling water, let it steep for 10 minutes or so, then pour the lot over ice into a gallon pitcher and fill it up the rest of the way with cold water. I then pour it into a glass of ice and drink about half a gallon a day.
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survivalmachine@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do we make search results show lemmy pages?9·1 year agoInfiltrate a search engine and develop fediverse-aware indexing that boost fedi pages in search results based on engagement and reach.
In my country, we can buy pre-paid credit cards in the supermarket using cash. I guess that is still traceable using supermarket security cameras and facial recognition, but if you’re attempting this, I’d make it as difficult as possible.
survivalmachine@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•is there any way to losslessly convert a whole recursive file directory of .m4a files to .opus9·1 year agoDisregard. The answer is ‘no’. Opus is a lossy format, so there is no way to losslessly convert to it, regardless of the tools available to you.
survivalmachine@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•is there any way to losslessly convert a whole recursive file directory of .m4a files to .opus2·1 year agoWhat platform do you have to work with?
survivalmachine@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only.5·1 year agoYou detest Rowling’s attitudes towards transwomen, but your only other suggested author is a huge anti-gay advocate? Riiiiight …
survivalmachine@beehaw.orgto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?7·1 year agoComputers have ruled the planet for longer than the Greeks ever did. The history lesson is appreciated, but we’re living in the future, now, and the future is digital.
survivalmachine@beehaw.orgto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?4·1 year agoK/M/G/T/P = decimal prefixes. K is 1000. M is 1,000,000. etc.
Ki/Mi/Gi/Ti/Pi = binary prefixes. Ki is 2¹⁰ (1024), Mi is 2²⁰ (1,048,576), etc.
It’s a disambiguation of the previous system where we would use KB to interchangeably mean 1000 or 1024 depending on context.
survivalmachine@beehaw.orgto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?43·1 year agoThe American way would probably be still using the units you listed but still meaning 1024, just to be confusing.
American here. This is actually the proper way. KB is 1024 bytes. MB is 1024 KB. The terms were invented and used like that for decades.
Moving to ‘proper metric’ where KB is 1000 bytes was a scam invented by storage manufacturers to pretend to have bigger hard drives.
And then inventing the KiB prefixes was a soft-bellied capitulation by Europeans to those storage manufacturers.
Real hackers still use Kilo/Mega/Giga/Tera prefixes while still thinking in powers of 2. If we accept XiB, we admit that the scummy storage vendors have won.
Note: I’ll also accept that I’m an idiot American and therefore my opinion is stupid and invalid, but I stand by it.
survivalmachine@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is there any medicine that can give me happy hormones and does not need a doctor's prescription?9·1 year agoDepression is a chemical imbalance in the brain. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Sometimes it’s fixed through diet/exercise. Sometimes it’s fixed through therapy. Sometimes it’s fixed through medication. OP is seeking a solution that doesn’t involve prescription meds, so everybody is suggesting other possible solutions. While exercise may not have worked for you or me, there are plenty of people who have successful results with it.
In short, yes, it definitely varies across people.
survivalmachine@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is there any medicine that can give me happy hormones and does not need a doctor's prescription?8·1 year agoThat’s common, and why therapy works in a lot of cases, but not universal. Sometimes a chemical imbalance is only balanced with chemicals.
The POSIX standard is more portable. If you are writing scripts for your system, you can use the full features in the main man pages. If you are writing code that you want to run on other Linux systems, maybe with reduced feature sets like a tiny embedded computer or alternates to gnu tools like alpine linux, or even other unixes like the BSDs, you will have a better time if you limit yourself to POSIX-compatible features and options – any POSIX-compatible Unix-like implementation should be able to run POSIX-compliant code.
This is also why many shell scripts will call #!/bin/sh instead of #!/bin/bash – sh is more likely to be available on tinier systems than bash.
If you are just writing scripts and commands for your own purposes, or you know they will only be used on full-feature distributions, it’s often simpler and more comfortable to use all of the advanced features available on your system.
survivalmachine@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What music video do you wish was a full movie?3·1 year agoAphex Twin - Come To Daddy. I felt even the directors cut was a bit rushed and left several unresolved themes.
Just bite the bullet and move to the best fit. I jumped from spotify to ytm and I lost some features that I loved, but gained others.
Trust, though? Neither. They’re both terrible companies, but I am currently living in southeast Asia working for an American company, so it’s nice to pay $4 usd worth of local currency for a full youtube premium family membership. I know Google is spying on all the media I watch, but it’s convenient as heck to let my kid watch their YouTube channels with no ads and I get good music out of it.
survivalmachine@beehaw.orgto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•It's just a matter of perspective13·1 year agoNot gonna lie, Data breach sounds like a violation of one of Geordi’s crewmates.
survivalmachine@beehaw.orgto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Not to be that guyEnglish8·1 year agoYes, I torrent Linux ISOs for any version or distro I want to install, and then I seed them until I download an updated version of whichever distro (and occasionally I’ll clean up old ones if I stopped using that distro but the version I have is ancient).
But of course when we talk about torrenting in public forums, it’s funny to only mention all the Linux distros we are torrenting and remaining hush-hush about other things we may be sharing.
survivalmachine@beehaw.orgto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•How can I access my own ebooks?English16·1 year agoHonestly, I just self-host. I download my ebooks, use Calibre to clean them, convert them to my favorite format (ePub), and tag the shit out of them with metadata. My Calibre library lives in a folder that gets synced to all my devices (I’m currently using a commercial cloud storage platform from one of the big providers, but working on spinning up a Nextcloud instance). Then I just open my ebooks in Moon+ Reader Pro on my phone and read away.
survivalmachine@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is a gender neutral replacement for man, guys, buddy, etc?1·1 year agoI’ve never had an issue with y’all and “dude/dudes” in gender neutral ways. They’re the natural words I grew up with. On rare occasions, somebody doesn’t prefer “dude” and I’ll use different terms for them and around them.
In professional settings such as work email, I tend to use the more formal gender-neutral terms like “people” and “everybody” and “they/them”, but I’m also in a region where “y’all” is accepted in formal conversation, so I often use that.
survivalmachine@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is a gender neutral replacement for man, guys, buddy, etc?2·1 year agoOr if you’re near Pittsburgh, “yinz” is the proper spelling/pronunciation.
If it’s done by the Westworld peeps, i wouldn’t be surprised if there aren’t 2 years between seasons.