John BS @johnabs@qoto.org

@Paulos_the_fog @glynmoody I wasn't talking about all of Europe, and keep in mind that the Netherlands is arguably the best country in the world at public infrastructure and transportation. I suspect many of the taller individuals there either ride a bike, take the tram, or walk because their country is designed to prioritize these modes of transportation, and designed with their taller than average populace in mind.

I understand the fad of SUV purchases is unreasonable; however, it's equally unreasonable to expect your country's infrastructure to change overnight to accommodate you. Sometimes personal choice is the only option many people have, unlike the very fortunate Dutch, of which I am quite envious. In my original post, I was just advocating for people such as myself and my friends who are as tall (or even much taller) to have transportation options that are designed with them in mind, rather than needing to be part time contortionists to go places.

@Biggles @freemo @trinsec @jellycrystals Hah, of course I do, what kind of uncouth ruffian do you take me for? Honestly, you peasants never cease to amaze me 😏...😂😂😂

@freemo @trinsec @jellycrystals Preach! All the more reason to buy both a bidet and ventilated seats in your car 😂

@trinsec @freemo @Romaq @khird I've never used wordpress personally, though I've used static site generators like hugo and jekyll. I suppose my first question would be what are the benefits of using wordpress in this particular usecase over a simple index submission page or similar? This is where I'm not the most knowledgeable, but I'd love to learn if you have time to educate me trinsec :3

As for the journal stuff though, I have loads of experience creating journal templates, peer reviewing papers, proofing work, experimental design, etc. Also, I have a few novel ideas for using distributed micro-server maintenance as an alternative for journal membership fees and such, along with mandatory steganographically embedded digital signatures to validate that the data on the servers has all been peer reviewed...I'll try not to spam this thread but I have loads of ideas for various use-cases if we need to consider niche ways of running things in a lean way! :D

@freemo @trinsec @Romaq @khird

I have to say I agree with trinsec and romaq about not splitting the instance, but I love the remaining ideas.

How about an index site/page/feed that people can post their blogs to that allows interested parties to rapidly search the index? That way each person can manage their own static site blog, but any content tagged specifically for QOTO (e.g. tutorial, etc) gets crawled and added to the index?

I 10000% think that having a set of learning resources and tutorials would be excellent, but I also think there are lots of benefits to individual site maintainers to keep their sites that way, rather than needing to interface with some alternative posting strategy.

Finally, *inhales* I WANT THE ACADEMIC JOURNAL IDEA TO BE REAL AND I HAVE IDEAS FOR THIS THAT I'VE BEEN SITTING ON, PLEASE CAN WE DISCUSS THIS? *exhales* I've wanted to help set up a journal and data store for AGES. I even have ideas on how to manage membership structuring/fees, journal requirements including replicability/code review, peer review, grant/funding opportunities (if that's a future option under consideration and we get big enough) etc. please let me help or at least chat with y'all about it 🥺

@freemo In the immortal words of Miley Cyrus: "everybody make mistakes, everybody has those days...just, preferably not with highly reactive chemical species" 😂

@Paulos_the_fog @glynmoody I purchased one because I don't fit particularly well in most sedans due to my height, and made sure to purchase one with even higher gas mileage than my previous sedan (a hybrid with 40mpg, as compared to my 'old' sedan's only 36), and the improved safety features that it offered (namely merge cameras, among others).

Admittedly, this isn't the absolute best mileage I could have gotten (nearly 60mpg with a hyundai ioniq!), but it's a huge improvement over what I was previously driving in terms of both comfort and mileage.

I think the conquering of the road by SUVs is extreme (particularly when many people are poor drivers), but I think there is a legitimate use case for people who have to contort themselves to fit into shorter vehicles: being able to sit upright, rather than reclined, is a great improvement to my posture and back/feet pain on longer trips when I need to take them to visit family.

@freemo I can forgive storing chemicals with jewelry freemo, everybody's done it, but an elemental halogen? You crossed the line this time: everyone knows you store your halogens WITH your alkali metals and electrolyze AS NEEDED. Free halogens just say "screw it, *un-electrons your atoms*", and then everyone has a bad time 😂

@robby @cel7t@emacs.ch If you don't mind, could you provide an example use case? I'm not seeing the utility, but it's likely because I'm new to Guix in general 😅

Re-writing a graph library's inbuilt functions to use matrices instead of their inbuilt graph data structure is literally giving me 10x performance boosts in nearly all of my calculations.....I'm not sure what be up, but something, indeed, be up.

Edit: Their implementation is actually WAY better, the problem is I need to do conversions into matrix forms which is insanely slow, which leads to a bottleneck which is beaten just by using the matrix implementation, apparently.

@trinsec What happened?? Can you link me to an article (preferably in English lol) about what you're referring to?

@freemo This is my white-whale pen: https://www.penchalet.com/fine_pens/fountain_pens/visconti_leonardo_da_vinci_machina_fountain_pen.html

Hand etched vegetal resin scrimshaw illustration, an excellent power-fill, and an iridium tipped paladium nib, not counting the amazing icosahedron wooden storage box and other fixings...I'm hoping to get it as a present either for finishing my PhD or for getting Tenure/a good paying job, depending on where I decide to go after I wrap up my degree.

So I just made "honeyed egg-fried-rice", just to see if I would like it. It's incredible, and I highly recommend the recipe, which I will attach below. Please note, nearly all ingredients are "to taste" or guesses, but once I really have time to tweak the recipe, I'll post another toot with the amounts I found to be the best for me. I'd also like to recommend adding cured pork, like charsiu, and glazing that in the honey as you cook the dish, but the following is a vegetarian version.

Ingredients:
1-2 day old rice (should have been kept refrigerated, in case that needs to be said, lol) ~ 2 cups/500g
Large Eggs ~3-4
Oil (preferably olive, or neutral)
Onion Powder
Garlic Powder
Chinese Black Vinegar (or normal rice vinegar, your choice)
Soy Sauce (I love lee kum kee for this)
MSG
Peas+Carrots (or any sufficiently small veggies)
Raw Honey, preferably crystallized (or just pure honey with no adulterants, unlike what you get in the US...)

Nonstick pan (ceramic, wok, etc. stainless steel will NOT work)
Wooden spatula

First, coat the bottom of your pan with oil, and allow to heat up until shimmering but not smoking.
Add the rice and break up in the oil to coat and separate all the grains.
Add eggs, and stir-fry rapidly to coat the rice, but slow enough that you don't destroy all the curds. Allow the eggs to nearly set before proceeding to the next step. If you can't get this step right for some reason, pre-cook the eggs (keep them slightly runny) and add them here.
Add all seasonings except soy sauce, honey, vinegar and MSG to taste/smell (rough estimates would be ~1-3TBSP (15-45g) vinegar, onion powder, garlic powder, per cup/225g of rice.
Add the MSG, vinegar and soy sauce to taste, in that order. Be careful with the MSG as it's quite salty, you can always come back to add more after adding the soy sauce to dial in the flavor as you like it. Note: overdo the salt and vinegar notes a bit, these will be rounded out when you add the honey.
Allow the rice to get to the point from "hissing" to "popping" in the pan to build up a nice crust. Keep the rice moving so it doesn't get too crusty in one place (crucial to get an approximation of wok hei without a real wok).
Add the honey (approximately 1-2TBSP per cup/15-30g per 225g) and mix vigorously. It will slowly melt when exposed to the heat, and coat the rice, adding another layer of flavor complexity to the dish.
Finally, add the peas and carrots to the rice (you don't want them overcooked or you'll lose their brightness). Do a final tasting and correct as needed.
Top with any garnish you want (e.g. thin sliced, fresh spring onions) and serve.

Ah, yes, all 4 biological sexes according to Cronometer.

@vicgrinberg Well I suppose maternity tests are even less common...so you can charge even more! 😂