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  • cogman@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlshit...
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    3 months ago

    Some stuff has to be consumed, like food. And that’s a major problem with plastic. Plastic is being used to protect and preserve foods, but it’s also being used as a cheap binding for shipments.

    The right solution introduces an added logistic hurdle to send back packaging for reuse and to reprocess/clean that packaging.

    There is actually a way out of this, but marketers hate it. It’s standardized reusable containers and outlawing or severely limiting the use of plastic and inks for product distribution.

    Sure, it’d turn our grocery stores into a warehouse-like feel, but it would also make it easy and possible for reuse and recycle centers to process and redistribute packaging with very minimal waste.

    It’d also make it a lot harder for companies to play the shrinkflation game.

    Standardization like this does wonders.




  • cogman@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlLinux Directory Structure - FHS
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    10 months ago

    usr does mean user. It was the place for user managed stuff originally. The home directory used to be a sub directory of the usr directory.

    The meaning and purpose of unix directories has very organically evolved. Heck, it’s still evolving. For example, the new .config directory in the home directory.



  • I’m a former mormon, and I can tell you that love bombing (from a cultists perspective) is never from ill intent. They are just trying to share “the truth” and they believe that if you adopt “the truth” everything about your life will be made better.

    If someone is love bombing you for an organization, first thing to do is investigate that organization. Read the stuff they don’t want you to read. Particularly, don’t pull that information from their media/materials. You should seek out the opinions of ex-members of the organization to get a real feel for what it’s all about.

    For example, imagine if the rotary club was trying to recruit you. What do you think an exrotarian would say? Well, you can google it. And, surprise, it’s mostly “Yeah, I moved and just sort of lost interest”.

    Now go visit /r/exmormon and see the miles of shit they have to say about previous membership.

    That, to me, is the acid test. Are exmembers that way because it was just sort of a “meh” event. Or did they get there because the organization was abusive?




  • Yes and no.

    Some salts are easier to work with than others. Kosher salt, in particular, is fairly hard to over season with because you can visually see just how much you’ve thrown onto a steak or such. Fine salt, on the other hand, is a lot easier to over season with.

    But then it also depends a lot on the dish. Sauces are really hard to over season. The sea of fluid can absorb a fair amount of salt before it’s noticeable. Meats are similar. A steak can have a snow covering of kosher salt and it won’t really taste super salty.

    Bread, on the other hand, will be noticeably worse if you throw in a tbs of salt instead a tsp.

    But salt wasn’t specifically what I was thinking when I wrote that. Herbal seasoning garlic, rosemary, thyme, sage, etc, generally won’t overpower a dish if you have too much of them. Especially if you aren’t working with the powdered form. (Definitely possible to over season something with garlic salt/powder).







  • All solved problems with well known solutions.

    Networking is solved by processing commands in lock step (quake actually pioneered this).

    Pathfinding has well known solutions like A*. That’s really integrated with fog of war. In fact, it’s easier to do today because computers are faster

    Unit formation can be added but does not need to be. If you are doing high cps like in games like StarCraft, it’s even preferable to the gameplay that you don’t solve that problem.

    And let’s not forget the for these big studios, the solutions to these problems already exist in previous titles. They aren’t starting from square one.

    These problems are so well known that Indy game devs routinely solve them solo (see, games like factorio). Heck, the fact that you know to cite them speaks to how well known they are.

    What’s blocking new rtses by AAA companies is nothing technical, it’s financial. Creating the assets, levels, and story are almost certainly a bigger blocker than any technical problem.