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When you moved to a reduced ergomech, how long did it take for you to adapt to layers?
  • I kept a standard layout keyboard handy for about a week, it took me probably 3 weeks to transition fully. I fall immediately back into bad habits of typing on both sides of the keyboard on standard QWERTY keyboards without the ortholinear split layout, sometimes I even try to reach across the split after a day or two and hit T or Y with my index finger from the wrong hand.

  • Almonds consume as much California water as all household use
  • Well, I did a little analysis and almonds sure are a consumer of water in California, but I'd encourage you to look into the water, land use and emissions impact of cattle and dairy, I know, you are worried about exporting away all your water, but there are larger impact agricultural products and you said everything should be scrutinized more, so here is more scrutiny.

    tl;dr: In 2022, California used this much water on these agricultural products: Almonds: 9 billion m³ Beef: 20 billion m³ Cheese: 4.4 billion m³ Butter: 1.3 billion m³

    This doesn't factor in other dairy products because the data doesn't line up well enough to compute and I'm just some internet user, so what do I know?

    Anyways land use is crazy, beef alone used 1 million acres, while all other field crops used 627 thousand acres. (Source: cdfa stat review)

    2022                  1000 pounds  metric ton              m3 water usage
    Almonds (with shell)  2565000      1163476.36759503        9362494330.0372
    Butter                685953       311146.239680668        1346018632.85857
    Cheese                2460538      1116092.71523179        4402985761.5894
    Sour Cream            199309       90405.9693368412
    Yogurt                377839       171386.646103602
    Milk Nonfat           860246       390205.02585503
    Milk condensed        108237       49095.9811303638
    Dry Buttermilk        60090        27256.6451964075
    Ice Cream             77939        35352.8984849859
    Lowfat Ice cream      36140        16392.9964619432
    Cattle Calves         2197765      996899.664338202        20154320513.9254
     
    Water use (m3 /ton)   green        blue              grey  total
    Milk                  647          60                89    796
    Butter                3519         324               483   4326
    Milk Powder           3007         277               413   3697
    Cheese                3196         310               439   3945
    Almonds (with shell)  4632         1908              1507  8047
    Beef                  19102        525               590   20217
     
    References:
    https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/PDFs/2022_Exports_Publication.pdf
    https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/PDFs/2022-2023_california_agricultural_statistics_review.pdf
    https://www.waterfootprint.org/resources/Report-48-WaterFootprint-AnimalProducts-Vol1.pdf
    https://waterfootprint.org/resources/Report47-WaterFootprintCrops-Vol1.pdf
    
  • Almonds consume as much California water as all household use
  • Top commodities for export included almonds, dairy and dairy products, pistachios, wine and walnuts.

    https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/

    It kind of seems like a lot of dairy is exported. Dairy was valued at $10.4 billion, Cattle and Calves: $3.63 billion, Almonds: $3.52 billion. I mean, unless California is consuming over 70% of $14 billion in cattle and dairy products, but exporting all the almonds.

  • Looking for a portable ortholinear
  • Ergodox EZ is fantastic, I've got zealpc zilents installed in mine for silent tactile. Expensive switches, but I've been transplanting them between new keyboards. I got the EZ from a friend when he wanted to go to a moonlander.

  • Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created
  • I my experience it generally breaks it. Leveraging cookies on the auth domain is fine, but once you are redirected to another domain, that application needs to take the access and refresh tokens and manage reauthentication as a background process. Simply don't store those things as cookies though.

  • Before your change to Linux
  • XP when I started going main on Linux. Windows 7 was the last version I had installed for games on a dual boot. Linux was always just more fun. I always felt like it was my computer and I wasn't constantly fighting the computer to make it work for me. Going to a tiling window manager was the point of no return though, my workflow changed so much that my productivity outside a tiling window manager plummeted.

  • Can iron fertilization of the oceans help solve the climate crisis? (commentary)
  • Please don't buy into geoengineering. We need to repair our relationship to nature through rewilding. We should be changing the way we live, giving up large monoculture crop that goes toward animal husbandry and rewilding the planet to sequester carbon emissions. We are in this situation because our ancestors changed the land and the wildlife so radically in our attempts to industrialize. We overfished, killed whales, ran large predators into extinction, removed most old growth forest among many other things. Humans have tried geoengineering before, we dam rivers, flood planes, dig canals, level the earth and introduce species where they are not native, among large chemical, mineral, metal and other injections to the ground, sky and water. The climate models see carbon sequestration, SRM and geoengineering as attractive options because it lets us continue business as usual. We do need rapid change, of the way we live and with our relationship with the earth.

  • Can iron fertilization of the oceans help solve the climate crisis? (commentary)
  • You are correct this is called geoengineering and it is born of the hubris of humans thinking they should control the planet like a machine or something. The person you replied to I believe is appealing to other people who think Promethean action is irresponsible and instead we need to modify our relationship with the environment, by not continuing down the path we are on.

  • we love open source!!1!
  • It is a bot that these communities on discord can invite to specific channels that will index the discussion to provide a search engine interface. Ideally search engines could leverage the answeroverflow API to help people get access to the technical discussion that now happens in discord instead of forums or mailinglists which do come up in search engine results.

  • new copy pasta dropped
  • Honesty, I'm OK with slowing down and consuming less if it is night and the wind isn't blowing. Lets just use that time for rest, instead of being in hyper production mode all the time.

  • Tensions grow as China ramps up global mining for green tech
  • People are already dying. Our existing system which is built on exploitation causes countless people to be sacrificed to support the way we live right now. How many people are you willing to sacrifice with poisoned waterways and medical conditions caused by unsafe working conditions, as mentioned in the article?

  • Tensions grow as China ramps up global mining for green tech
  • I'm ready to start taking steps toward a society that does not exploit people or the earth, if that means our lifespan is impacted, I'll take that as fallout. Obviously I'd give up more of my own lifestyle as an able bodied person to support others and provide whatever I can for a just society. So yeah, if we can't do this together, I'd rather not do it at all.

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