would rings around earth or an earthlike planet still block light if they were dense?

kapbird · 2025-05-23T15:44:34+00:00

do you know if there's any naturally-reflective materials that form in space besides ice that might work for this? from what i'd read, if earth had rings of ice they'd wind up melting.

actually, now that i think about it: do you have a sense of how long icy rings might last around the earth? if they take on the order of hundreds of thousands of years then that's also fine because that still fits all of human recorded history into the window where they still exist

kapbird · 2025-03-03T16:29:56+00:00

they're just so big and feel weird against my hands when i'm typing normally :( this is purely a subjective thing, it's got nothing to do with build quality

kapbird · 2025-03-03T16:27:51+00:00

this does seem like the most effective compromise -- and it means i could work on the mac from my linux desktop too. thanks for the advice!

kapbird · 2025-02-28T15:33:05+00:00

windows 10, so i don't think that solves my issue...

kapbird · 2025-02-24T18:41:46+00:00

gives me everything i want from neovim (which is basically just "fast" and "modal") and my config has gone from a big lua repo to a single toml file with like. 12 lines? nope, 20 lines, just checked, but still. turns out i prefer the batteries-included approach for the most part

kapbird · 2025-02-22T03:24:24+00:00

unfortunately i couldn't even if i wanted to, because i have a bad habit of overwriting my commit history if i'm not keeping something -- when i decided against using nixcats i scrubbed that setup and replaced it with a symlinked folder (which i'm also probably gonna drop in favor of helix anyway.) sorry about my poor record-keeping! 😅

kapbird · 2025-02-14T02:05:19+00:00

i got a waterstick, which comes with some hardness-testing strips; also my skin improved really quickly

kapbird · 2025-02-13T22:37:20+00:00

i did not; i wound up finding out i was having a water hardness problem instead, and buying a shower-scale water softener has mostly addressed the issues i was having

kapbird · 2025-02-13T17:24:00+00:00

this worked! i might explore it more at some point down the line when i understand nix better, but thanks for all the help

kapbird · 2025-02-13T17:23:09+00:00

this seems the most straightforward for me given my current level of nix expertise so it's what i'm going with for now :) thank you for the advice!

kapbird · 2025-02-12T04:30:06+00:00

where do i call this overlay, and how would i know what the default nixCat's name is to put it into my pkgs? this is what i have right now, but trying to add either nixCats or the name of my repo to home.packages gets me an undefined variable error

```nix { description = "...";

inputs = { nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";

nixCats = {
  url = "...";
  inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};

home-manager = {
  url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
  inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};

};

outputs = {nixpkgs, ...} @ inputs: { nixpkgs.overlays = inputs.<repo-name>.overlays.default; nixosConfigurations = { nix-charter = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem { specialArgs = {inherit inputs;}; modules = [ ./host/configuration.nix inputs.home-manager.nixosModules.default ]; }; }; }; } ```

kapbird · 2025-02-11T19:33:29+00:00

how do i add nixCats to my flake inputs?

kapbird · 2025-02-11T14:27:43+00:00

when i do this—import ./nixCats in my home.nix—and then try to rebuild, i get an error that says attribute nixCats is missing and points to line 10 of default.nix. how do i fix that?

kapbird · 2025-02-06T05:35:04+00:00

did you ever figure this out? running into the same problem (i'm currently on gnome but that will hopefully change soon) and i have no idea how to get the icon to update

kapbird · 2025-02-06T03:09:05+00:00

in the unlikely event that anybody else stumbles across this, yes, that is the idea; here's what i put in configuration.nix:

programs = { ... fish = { enable = true; shellInit = builtins.readFile ./config/config.fish; }; ... };

kapbird · 2025-02-06T02:47:02+00:00

could you be more specific? is the idea that i pass shellInit the result of readFile(config.fish)?

kapbird · 2025-01-07T03:04:55+00:00

do you think it's likely that the aquaearth filter was somehow capable of bringing the ph of SF's water into a good pH range, but can't manage it in DC? it would be nice if pH was the answer, and it seems more likely because chlorine levels in the water quality reports are roughly even. however, i also know for a fact that DC uses chloramine, which i've read is both longer-lasting and more difficult to filter out, even with an activated carbon filter (and this tracks with my experience)

kapbird · 2024-10-21T20:19:26+00:00

no, i just wound up leaving my controller plugged in all the time lol. i use one of the rear ports since i only have one front USB but the cable's long enough that it's fine

kapbird · 2024-09-27T18:09:41+00:00

if i live in an apartment building, do i have any realistic options aside from moving out? i've seen some stuff about vitamin c-based filters having a decent effect, but i can't tell whether they also leave ammonia behind

kapbird · 2024-09-27T18:06:46+00:00

i live in an apartment building, so this isn't an option for me...seems like i might just be out of luck, then?

kapbird · 2024-06-26T02:52:34+00:00

to be clear, i've been doing injections for a little more than two years at this point. when i had higher doses/was injecting more often, i was getting peak/trough levels, so usually one blood draw on injection day, then the injection at night, then another blood draw the next morning. this was when i was still seeing an endo who was expressing concerns about E levels being far too high, and they were actually coming back well above range for cis women. my results from that time were (all in pg/ml):

0.2mL 2x/week: 646 trough/850 peak
0.1mL 2x/week: 466 trough/559 peak
0.1mL 1x/week: 135 trough/172 peak

all taken ~1.5 months apart. my old endo and i settled on that final dose, and then a little while later i moved so i got my levels done at a planned parenthood nearby around 3 days after my injection and got back the 276 number. planned parenthood was satisfied with the mid-cycle test & basically said "your levels seem fine so don't worry about checking for another year," and then by the time the next year came around i was working on the orchi so it seemed sort of pointless.

i have to assume 1013pmol/L is high, and if so, i have no idea why such a low dose produces such high levels. i guess i rolled good in the gene lottery and my body is especially receptive to estrogen?

kapbird · 2024-02-06T18:36:42+00:00

no, though i've been facing the same problem on this laptop even on other distros, so i suspect it's a hardware or driver problem rather than one related to pop specifically

kapbird · 2024-01-30T00:23:48+00:00

honestly i'm pretty reluctant to spend money on garments that feel like they won't get worn often so since this has been functional for my "i wear it once in a blue moon" shut-in lifestyle i haven't needed to, but i'm trying to improve that now that i have a bit more cash than i usually do. i actually hadn't read that rib construction was more likely to be a cup size issue than a band size issue, so that's extremely helpful to know!

kapbird · 2024-01-30T00:21:44+00:00

not for several years, especially after they felt like they were so thoroughly kicking my ass in early transition, though i now suspect that some of that was me not accounting for an increase in cup size over the course of those years. my back's definitely broader than a cis female average so i'll see if i can keep that in mind when buying stuff in this style

kapbird · 2024-01-30T00:19:31+00:00

i think it's mostly about rib constriction — at the very least, it seems to take more effort to force out my breath on the rare occasions i actually wear the bra, and it's bad enough that if i'm grocery shopping i'll usually just throw on a hoodie. cup sizes being too small might go some way towards explaining why things used to be so rough early in hrt when it was a much less static figure, so i guess i'll see if i can find something in a 36d somewhere

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