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New comment by pastage in "Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland"

pastage — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:07:55 +0000

The key is "maybe try doing something", does not mean to destroy our culture. My child choose to be vegetarian but I just can not be bothered. I am too lazy. That does not mean I do not try to adapt. You can find the things that are wonderful with other ways of life.

New comment by pastage in "Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland"

pastage — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:02:57 +0000

Vegetarian options are easier, cheaper and better to produce per gram of protein. Especially if you want to live in an society and not on the steppe.

New comment by pastage in "Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland"

pastage — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:58:52 +0000

It's probably not the tone. You only choose to hear that tone and close up. (From my experience)

I hold some fringe ideas, e.g. helmets are bad. So I have lots of experience with handling discussion where people close up for any rational argument. Because I am just wrong by definition. That really lets you explore how people react to ideas they do not support.

New comment by pastage in "Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland"

pastage — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:49:21 +0000

I am not vegan, will never be, but I have known vegans for more than two decades and they are doing fine. We need to make it easy to make the right choice about food, and one way to do that is to stop making meat meat meat the ONLY cool thing. I am fine with vegans serving me tasty food, they make alternatives easier. If you do not want to be a full time vegan just switch to 3 out 7 days of the week or something like that.

New comment by pastage in "Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network"

pastage — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:52:47 +0000

Last time I saw this an obscure single letter root password was still "secure", now days seems like almost all non-alphanumeric chars works. % is my new root password it still has not been brute forced.

New comment by pastage in "Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript"

pastage — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:54:43 +0000

Do you not think there are ways to organize tabs that should be applications specific?

New comment by pastage in "After the AI Crash"

pastage — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:50:31 +0000

They still need the protection and enablement of free trade.

New comment by pastage in "After the AI Crash"

pastage — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:48:46 +0000

I think the Hormuz saga and how China just quietly stopped importing oil are signs that we are nearing the end of the "free trade as a service" from the US. There are so many aspects of that I do not understand yet: how much oil trade will be done in yuan in the future is one that leads to other question about the current wars and what will happen when those end.

New comment by pastage in "More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle"

pastage — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:23:19 +0000

> I care about

Feels like you have my problem: "I can not be bother to switch from another app".

When every one wants their e-reader with custom setup you get that long list of options. Since the beginning of computing I have always wanted a custom UI on apps, i.e. add an icon here that does these three things in the app, or "add this view to that window". Even browsers plugins have a hard time getting it right.

New comment by pastage in "User Interfaces of the Demo Scene"

pastage — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:08:31 +0000

> [a ripper written to look for sources] in memory after the computer had crashed

I used this to reboot my machine faster, keep info in RAM and just continue were you left off after reboot. I think there even were ram drives that could persist crashes/reboots, someone did really fast reboots with it.

New comment by pastage in "Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol"

pastage — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:36:10 +0000

delete

EDIT 2: I think they are non-toxic and inert. But I tried to find my source for this and I am failing badly. so deleting this comment

EDIT: I agree they are very waste full since they do not live that long. I have owned three non-stick pans, my cast iron pans have outlived all of them by decades.

New comment by pastage in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"

pastage — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:10:21 +0000

Make it joyful

Read books yourself

Make book an important part of your life

Read to the kids

Teach them to read early

Little to no phone use early on

New comment by pastage in "Why migrants come to Germany for work and then leave again"

pastage — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:38:34 +0000

Using "Race" like this is really bad in Germany and Sweden. As is pointed out in this thread [1] how we use words differs. TIL race has a different meaning in English and Swedish. I use it in both but I've never thought about the difference in how I use it in different languages.

Categories are not fixed between cultures, even colours and numbers are hard to get right. So when you hear a word you can not be clear it is used in your broad meaning, or the narrow meaning.

This was actually my favourite way of nerd sniping back when I was young.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816222

New comment by pastage in "Historical memory prices 1960-2026"

pastage — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:47:32 +0000

So total system cost per unit of memory is going up.. 2GB costs in 1985 was $2 million (from the graph), a cray-2 was $16 million (from wikipedia). A GPU server with 8xB200 today can be had for ~$500k (estimate), 1.5TB memory is $25k (from the graph).

New comment by pastage in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

pastage — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:05:11 +0000

> It probably isn't a very important problem

The amount of languages are decreasing on the earth, I would also say that dialects and accents are decreasing as well. I think this is a problem.

New comment by pastage in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

pastage — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:02:14 +0000

Interesting. I have never heard kernel modules being regarded as non-linux, not in 30 years of LKM. Further compiling a monolithic Kernel is rather straight forward, in this day it is even possible to find wifi devices that do not require a an on device firmware blob uploaded from the kernel.

New comment by pastage in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

pastage — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:13:56 +0000

You are right that there are many of us who prefer the package manager, there are so many reasons why a package manager makes your life wonderful. Debian has always been a proponent of dynamic linking. When you create a Linux distribution that is a big plus.

For me install size matters and statically linked stuff are too big sometimes. Of course a 100MB go statically compiled binary has huge advantages now days.

New comment by pastage in "India's surprise baby bust"

pastage — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:17:44 +0000

> heavily pushing subsidies has not been shown to work

Subsidies only come into affect after you have children. They can not work alone society has a much greater affect. They work wonders at making parenting possible while being part of the work force. You only get the subsidies when you have children, the question is how you are supposed to feel secure enough to have children.

New comment by pastage in "I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC"

pastage — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:31:20 +0000

A quick search say that this is a standard feature you cache the prefill and load it at PCIe bandwidth so it should be about 0.2s

New comment by pastage in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

pastage — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:42:13 +0000

That is a good question. The existing data center map above is commercial so creating a free version with a clear goal seems to align with why OSM was started. The social aspect of OpenStreetMap was more important than the technical part.