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inportb commented on Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons alinpanaitiu.com/blog/dev... · Posted by u/alin23

kleiba · 3 months ago

My biggest grief with wooden utensils replaceing plastic ones and cardboard(-ish) cup lids replacing plastic lids is the texture - I almost shudder everytime these environmentally friendly replacements touch my mouth, to the point that I eat in the most ridiculous way in order to avoid having to touch the wooden fork when I'm trying to get the food off of it.

And the reason is exactly the finish. Metal and plastic spoons, forks, lids, etc. are nice and smooth and don't get in your way. Cheaply made wood or cardboards ones are rough and tacky.

Of course you could argue that from an environmental standpoint, that's not a bug but a feature: now I'm using even less disposable stuff (first, no plastic because it's been replaced by other stuff; and second also the replacements because I hate using them).

inportb · 3 months ago

Try bamboo chopsticks. They are smooth because they are made parallel to the grain. There is minimal end grain surface area, so you rarely have to interact with the rough bits. And they do almost everything you'd want a consumer-oriented utensil to do.

inportb commented on Burner Phone 101 rebeccawilliams.info/burn... · Posted by u/CharlesW

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t · 7 months ago

I dare you to do the following:

Charge phone to full 100%. Turn it off.

Put it into a faraday cage, e.g. a steel box, for 7 days.

Take it out again and wonder why the battery is empty.

(The faraday cage has the effect of making the modem have to switch bands constantly, which costs more electricity than sleep mode in LTE)

inportb · 7 months ago

Interesting, but you should probably use a control. Two phones, same hardware, same software. One inside the faraday cage, one outside, both in the same room with the same conditions otherwise.

Repeat the experiment a few times. Then cross over: liberate the caged phone, cage the free phone, and repeat the experiment a few more times. Or alternate the phones' positions between experiments. This mitigates hardware and software differences that might've been overlooked (such as a faulty battery, etc).

Analyze the results, draw your conclusions, publish, and encourage others to reproduce.

inportb commented on When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines jazco.dev/2025/02/19/impe... · Posted by u/cyndunlop

inportb · a year ago

An interesting solution to a challenging problem. Thank you for sharing it.

I must admit, I had some trouble following the author's transition from "celebrity" with many followers to "bot" with many follows. While I assume the work done for a celebrity to scatter a bunch of posts would be symmetric to the work done for a commensurate bot to gather a bunch of posts, I had the impression that the author was introducing an entirely different concept in "Lossy Timelines."

inportb commented on Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs? seangeiger.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/huerne

inportb · a year ago

Profit.

I use these guidelines all the time in the PDF format for free, and I'd love to have these in a structured format. For $3000/year you could get 50 users access to PDF prescription templates to speed up their work. That's not bad, but it's still all PDF.

For the nice low price of "contact us for pricing," though, you could have EMR integration. They couldn't justify $$$$ for EMR integration if all this information is easily accessible.

https://www.nccn.org/compendia-templates/nccn-templates-main...

inportb commented on Voyager 1 breaks its silence with NASA via radio transmitter not used since 1981 smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/elsewhen

cmonreally123 · a year ago

What's wrong with the Boeing case on needing to be rebooted.

It doesn't seem much worse then memory leaks in missle guidance tracking systems that exceed flight time. We have finite resources, if the effort to correct is minimal what's the harm?

inportb · a year ago

Nothing, but I do find it amusing that we're comparing Boeing aircraft with guided missiles. How the mighty have fallen :)

inportb commented on GDDR7 Memory Supercharges AI Inference semiengineering.com/gddr7... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

hmottestad · a year ago

"With this new encoding scheme, GDDR7 can transmit “3 bits of information” per cycle, resulting in a 50% increase in data transmission compared to GDDR6 at the same clock speed."

Sounds pretty awesome. I would think that it's going to be much hard to achieve the same clock speeds.

inportb · a year ago

If it could really do that, then it wouldn't be DDR, right?

inportb commented on Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary lists.ubuntu.com/archives... · Posted by u/aquova

shriphani · a year ago

I still have all the CDs from the shipit program - such a great project.

inportb · a year ago

Came here to say the same. The shipit program relieved a major pain point that prevented me from getting into Linux at the time: dial-up networking. It was a clever idea :)

inportb commented on WatchYourLAN: Lightweight Network IP Scanner github.com/aceberg/WatchY... · Posted by u/thunderbong

DavideNL · 2 years ago

I assume this detects "new devices" by its MAC address?

Seems unreliable, with modern devices changing to a new random MAC address frequently.

Then your data would be spammed with new devices constantly?

inportb · 2 years ago

I use this and this was the first issue I encountered. And I fixed it by making an exception for my home network.

Now if anyone showed up with random MAC addresses, well, it ain't me :)

inportb commented on Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place netboot.xyz/... · Posted by u/thunderbong

mrinfinitiesx · 2 years ago

This is like Ventoy? I'll give it a try for when I re-do a flash drive. Can I put windows tools on here as well for removing spy/malware etc to fix PCs? With Ventoy I just make a dir and I can select them when the OS boots, but still boot every ISO image at post

inportb · 2 years ago

This is more similar to iVentoy, which implements PXE boot, but is closed source. netboot.xyz, on the other hand, requires boot images to be extracted and served in an iPXE-friendly format, which their CI/CD system does automatically. These solutions are good for facilitating OS installations across a fleet of computers on a network.

But for system rescue purposes, Ventoy still wins. You bring your own boot images, which could be arbitrary ISOs, and don't have to worry about networking availability.

inportb commented on Student uses black soldier flies to grow pea plants in simulated Martian soil phys.org/news/2024-06-aer... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

SeanAnderson · 2 years ago

This article seems misleading. Is it just me?

"As a byproduct of digesting this biomatter, the black soldier fly larvae produce frass, which is essentially insect waste."

"Even with 0% frass, he saw flowering and pod growth in plants potted entirely in Martian soil."

"Mendoza found that exceeding anything greater than 50% frass would destroy the plant's ability to grow but adding 10% frass to the Martian soil was the optimum amount for plant growth."

There's no information on growth rate delta between 0% and 10%.

I expected this article to say that plants do not grow naturally in Martian soil, but that the frass provides sufficient nutrients for them to grow. Instead, I learned that plants do grow in natural (simulated?) Martian soil, that an amendment helps an undefined amount, but that too much of the amendment kills the plants. I didn't find that especially compelling.

inportb · 2 years ago

It's not surprising that seeds need little more than moisture, earth-like atmosphere, and gentle heat to sprout. They contain all the nutrients and instructions required to start new life.

It's also not surprising that too much frass would inhibit growth. Even in earth-like soil, too much fertilizer is toxic.

But it's good to know that Mars-like soil doesn't inhibit plant growth.