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felbane commented on I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_... · Posted by u/hnaccount_rng
totallymike · 4 months ago
What your manual says is common to most dishwashers.

You can tell if your dishwasher has a pre-wash cycle if it does a short run, then you hear it draining, and then it does a longer full run. I expect it probably does.

Also, you can always add a bit of detergent to the main compartment of the dishwasher for prewash. The normal detergent compartment has a lid so the the detergent stays dry until the main wash cycle, and most prewash compartments are just an open tray.

Come to think of it, if there is a latching door on the detergent tray, your dishwasher definitely has a prewash cycle, or else they’d skip the door entirely

felbane · 4 months ago
> Come to think of it, if there is a latching door on the detergent tray, your dishwasher definitely has a prewash cycle, or else they’d skip the door entirely

Alec also mentions this briefly in the linked video; if manufacturers could avoid the cost of a latching mechanism, they absolutely would. Its presence means a pre-wash cycle exists.

felbane commented on A single, 'naked' black hole confounds theories of the young cosmos   quantamagazine.org/a-sing... · Posted by u/pykello
sandworm101 · 6 months ago
Well, the black hole isnt hydrogen. This is the gas around it. And being pure hydrogen seems sus as there should be some helium in there according to most models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis

Not only that, but getting stars to form using pure hydrogen is tricky. That helium helped early stars collapse and ignite. Not seeing any helium in an early-universe object is a big deal, suggesting some sort of error.

felbane · 6 months ago
Bug fixes:

- Corrected an infrequent issue with getResultingProtonCount that would cause it to always return 1 for certain origin bodies.

(In the merge request comments: "This why we don't let junior devs commit unreviewed code to critical branches, guys.")

felbane commented on NPM debug and chalk packages compromised   aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug... · Posted by u/universesquid
stathibus · 6 months ago
As an outsider to the npm ecosystem, reading this list of packages is astonishing. Why do js people import someone else's npm module for every little trivial thing?
felbane · 6 months ago
Extreme aversion to NIH syndrome, perhaps? I agree that it's weird. Sure, don't try to roll your own crypto library but the amount of `require('left-pad')` in the wild is egregious.
felbane commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file   al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez
eadmund · 7 months ago
> I am not going to completely change my editor and rebuild two decades of optimization just to use two Emacs tools.

Change your editor and rebuild two decades of optimisation in order to use Emacs, two Emacs tools, and also every other Emacs tool out there. Org Mode, TRAMP, Magit, gptel, eglot, flycheck, elfeed, ERC, Emms, EWW … there are a ton of reasons to use Emacs.

Or you can keep using less-capable systems and being annoyed when folks recommend that you upgrade.

felbane · 7 months ago
Your argument highlights its own flaw; changing your editor opens up a world of tooling that's certainly adequate for most use cases you can throw at it, but it also requires either discarding or (worse) un-learning all of the tooling that you've learned for your current editor.

For example, I'm perfectly content to use nvim as my primary editor, and this was born out of having to develop for and administer literally tens of thousands of linux servers professionally. I have all the plug-ins and configuration necessary for productivity on my development machines, and when I'm on a remote system ad hoc editing a configuration it already has a built-in lightweight version of the editor I'm already used to.

If I switched to Emacs locally, I'd still have to maintain a working knowledge of vi and context switch when in a remote shell. Changing to Emacs would require more cognitive bandwidth when the whole purpose of "switching for org mode" is to reduce mental load.

felbane commented on The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
barrenko · 8 months ago
May be unrelated, but it's also kinda funny how to cut / process / shape stone and rock you need a crap load of water, all the drills and saws for stone are wet in a way.
felbane · 8 months ago
You can cut and shape rock with chisels. Isn't the water used primarily for dust control in powered stone drills/saws?
felbane commented on Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry   github.com/psviderski/unr... · Posted by u/psviderski
jillesvangurp · 9 months ago
Right now, I use ssh to trigger a docker compose restart that pulls all the latest images on some of my servers (we have a few dedicated hosting/on premise setups). That then needs to reach out to our registry to pull images. So, it's this weird mix of push pull that ends up needing a central registry.

What would be nicer instead is some variation of docker compose pussh that pushes the latest versions of local images to the remote host based on the remote docker-compose.yml file. The alternative would be docker pusshing the affected containers one by by one and then triggering a docker compose restart. Automating that would be useful and probably not that hard.

felbane · 9 months ago
I've built a setup that orchestrates updates for any number of remotes without needing a permanently hosted registry. I have a container build VM at HQ that also runs a registry container pointed at the local image store. Updates involve connecting to remote hosts over SSH, establishing a reverse tunnel, and triggering the remote hosts to pull from the "localhost" registry (over the tunnel to my buildserver registry).

The connection back to HQ only lasts as long as necessary to pull the layers, tagging works as expected, etc etc. It's like having an on-demand hosted registry and requires no additional cruft on the remotes. I've been migrating to Podman and this process works flawlessly there too, fwiw.

felbane commented on Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable   ourworldindata.org/childh... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
akharris · 9 months ago
My dad started his work as a Pediatric Hematologist Oncologist in the late 60s. He had a firm belief that cure rates could and would climb as a result of research and better clinical care. He spent his life pursuing both.

When people would ask him how he managed to stay so positive - he was one of the happiest people I’ve ever known - he’d reference the trends highlighted in this article.

That didn’t change how hard it was when he lost a patient, but I know he always had his eyes and his mind on the future.

This is an incredible example of science and medicine. Thanks OP for posting it.

felbane · 9 months ago
Sounds like you already know this, but your dad's a hero. Infinite respect for the folks who dedicate their lives to helping others.
felbane commented on A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air   blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-... · Posted by u/Tycho
chrisweekly · 10 months ago
> "remove water from air? A dew years back"

"dew" was a funny typo there :)

felbane · 10 months ago
The loss of tactile keyboards on mobile devices is a tragedy.
felbane commented on By default, Signal doesn't recall   signal.org/blog/signal-do... · Posted by u/feross
encom · 10 months ago
Been using Linux for ages, but only for a few years on my home desktop, because Steam is now that good, and gaming is a major part of that computers duties.

HOWEVER - I've yet to find a good email client. Kmail is good, but uses Akonadi with is a disaster, and literally doesn't work. I have to restart it multiple times a day, because it silently stops working. I have found bug reports about this issue going back years which are either ignored or marked fixed, which it clearly isn't.

Don't say Thunderbird.

felbane · 10 months ago
mutt is all I'll ever need...
felbane commented on Rocky Linux 10 Will Support RISC-V   rockylinux.org/news/rocky... · Posted by u/fork-bomber
rob_c · 10 months ago
Even better title: Rocky will take the RHEL work and rebrand and sell the boards at a discount from China and claim a win and that they're being attacked by IBM.
felbane · 10 months ago
Man some of y'all really have beef with Rocky...

u/felbane

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