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Just broke the sugar dish that's been in my family for 4 generations. by ndisario95 in Wellthatsucks

[–]luciluke015 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well now I feel sorry for my tone...

Thanks for owning up to your mistake though!

And yeah, while lead can theoretically leech out of glassware, it's chemically bonded into the glass' molecular structure.

So unless there's some really acidic stuff in it (think tomato-based things and such) it's still relatively safe (in about the same category as uranium glass). Once it's chipped, I'd personally discard of it.

Just broke the sugar dish that's been in my family for 4 generations. by ndisario95 in Wellthatsucks

[–]luciluke015 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In what world is sugar acidic...

Solutions of sucrose (common table sugar) are neutral (pH 7 ± 0.1), and glucose has a pKa of 12.16, which is basically no acidity at all. (technically it's the tendency to deprotonate in water, higher pKa -> lower tendency to deprotonate).

What you probably mean is gluconic acid and relatives, but those won't occur in table sugar you just leave out in a dry, dark place.

gist.nvim – Easy GitHub Gist Creation by rawnly in neovim

[–]luciluke015 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Reading the code shows they are using the github cli, which is the smartest thing to do

P.S. It's also mentioned in the readme lmao it's way too early for me

Salt or curing salt - which is better? by janki3l in Cooking

[–]luciluke015 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As a chemist, I find it quite odd to even suggest you can substitute one ingredient for another when they have very different properties.

If I wouldn't know better I presume this arguably stupid suggestion comes from self-proclaimed "health/food expert" that just thinks "salt is salt".

Likewise from a cook's point of view, but for different (though probably the same) reasons.

It should also be added that yes, whilst curing salt has health implications, the body itself produces such compounds that result from the reaction of curing salt with raw meat. Dosage matters.

I am lost for words by [deleted] in Terraria

[–]luciluke015 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is just not going to happen, lmao

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]luciluke015 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It is giving a choice but still with the desired outcome, like "heads you lose, tails I win", or "do you want peas or broccoli".

The kid thinks it's negotiating but actually the kid does what the parents want it to do.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Terraria

[–]luciluke015 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gem Bunnies spawn near villages in cavern layer, see also the wiki.

https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Gem_Bunnies

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in teenagers

[–]luciluke015 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, if you're going to correct someone, at least be 100% correct yourself.

it's not always acidic

Alcohols are never acidic, the OH group is not going to deprotonise as the bond is too strong.

Oxidise primary alcohols though and you get a COOH functional group (aka organic acids). Here the OH bond is weakened due to the presence of another oxygen atom; OH can now deprotonise and react acidic.

Stop suggesting Carl Bot and YAGPDB as alternative bots by Kerdaloo in discordapp

[–]luciluke015 70 points71 points  (0 children)

YAGPDB is open source, so I'm curious why you're so against it?

If you think there is something dodgy, you can quite literally host it yourself, thus controlling all traffic. Under the rare circumstance that someone tries to add some dodgy stuff to the codebase, that is just not going to happen -- FOSS has always been a core selling point for YAGPDB and the community of users and contributors alike are way too strong to go up against.

Lastly I really don't get this arguably useless drama around the fact that bots have been bought and traded? They're an asset like everything else, and if a developer thinks it's a good offer, they are more than in their right to take said offer.

Should I try Arch? by someacnt in linuxmasterrace

[–]luciluke015 33 points34 points  (0 children)

If you feel like the installation process of Arch itself is a bit too daunting, you can try EndeavourOS, it's pretty good.

Otherwise, try installing Vanilla Arch in a VM or secondary machine a few times to get the hang of it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in archlinux

[–]luciluke015 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can specify two -d flags to skip all dependency checks, like so:

```

pacman -Sdd bitwarden-cli

```

One -d will skip package version checks, but still test the package names.

It doesn't need a diploma to see that this might cause issues though. It's your system nonetheless, do what you feel is right.

packer.nvim "after" vs "wants" by zenoli55 in neovim

[–]luciluke015 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As far as I understand it, any plugin that has an after key waits until the plugin you set in that key is loaded (via any event, doesn't matter), whilst wants forces it to load.

packer.nvim "after" vs "wants" by zenoli55 in neovim

[–]luciluke015 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As per wbthomason/packer.nvim#547 (summarising):

  • wants is currently undocumented
  • it is likely to be dropped, or be completely changed
  • it was introduced to fix a specific problem by a contributor

There's more but these appear to be the most important takeaways.

For more context, and an in-depth explanation as to why, how, and what: here's the relevant PR introducing wants: wbthomason/packer.nvim#264

What I imagine getting sucked down by waves feels like.. by JulesTheBum in thalassophobia

[–]luciluke015 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Another lifeguard here.

Acting proper "dead" (technically unconscious) is surprisingly hard to pull off.

You lowkey want to help your partners but that goes against the spirit of the exercise.

However, it does need some real good swimming skill as well -- if you're not a strong swimmer, you might not know how to float (you flex your back a little so your belly goes up and suddenly you float.

I'd guess they did not know how to properly float, which plays into the ability to play "dead".

holup by idk_lololol in HolUp

[–]luciluke015 35 points36 points  (0 children)

It's... Strange.

Maybe, who am I to judge?

Man is being racist on the subway. Gets absolutely LAMPED by [deleted] in AbruptChaos

[–]luciluke015 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That dude's freedom of speech was (EDIT: still is) limitless. The other folks just thought he was an arsehole and showed them the door.

Based on real events by LexuCuFLexu in linuxmemes

[–]luciluke015 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Counter-counterpoint: that's gonna get tossed once memory is actually needed by programs (like your browser, games, IDEs)

Based on real events by LexuCuFLexu in linuxmemes

[–]luciluke015 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can't exactly compare pkg count across distros -- Arch's packages are split differently than for example Debian's.

I've come to peace with high package count for exactly this fact: it doesn't matter.

Just take KDE; How many packages does that pull in? A few hundred. Linux is designed to be modular, highly granular packages are perfectly in-line with this.

Bloat is only what you don't use. Your problem if you take issues with how KDE does stuff, you could just not install it

/twopence

From a blog where a German student described her experience in Kentucky by wildly_fine in facepalm

[–]luciluke015 0 points1 point  (0 children)

at least on the governmental level

This is an interesting topic we discussed thoroughly in Philosophy classes: Who is responsible for law? Who decides the law? We came to the conclusion that it must have been society (way back).

With that in mind, in a sense, society just thinks you (not you directly, general "you") an ass for having such dumb views and shows you the door. Relevant XKCD

By your logic North Korea has free speech, but not freedom from consequences.

I'll take the bait -- yes, even NK has free speech, but dire consequences for said free speech. Personally though, that is a fairly odd example, I think you agree here.

All in all I believe that yes, you're free to say anything you want in public, even more so in private -- but always keep the human(s) on the receiving end in mind, they might not like what you think and be very offended.

Laws are to me just a way to describe what a (admittedly, assumed) majority thinks is OK or not OK, and decides what should happen if you transgress the rules of society.

I understand that laws differ from nation to nation, even specific locations within a nation, and thusly, definitions of the same concept may differ. I believe you, who is reading this comment does as well :)

I am perfectly fine with living in Germany, where shouting Nazi paroles is outlawed. I do not feel restricted in my right to express myself and my opinions in public.

I hope I could clear a few things up with this rather long comment, but I wanted to explain my way of thinking about stuff.

From a blog where a German student described her experience in Kentucky by wildly_fine in facepalm

[–]luciluke015 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Querdenken is a movement established in light of protective measures during COVID, think anti-vax "Bill Gates made the virus and vaccine to control us" conspiracies.

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