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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Is there some individual news story this relates to?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

A meme that comes quickly, goes quickly.

It's not an actual organised group, if you didn't know. Anyone can hack something and then say "Done by Anonymous".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes, computers in their various forms are now so user friendly (and often locked down, because fuck you) that you don't learn much using them. The golden age for learning tech on the fly seems to have been 1990-2010 or so, because computers were both accessible and still had exposed inner logic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Based on the latest this morning, these were devices manufactured by someone mysterious (Israeli intelligence) and just licenced to use a known brand name through a shell company in Budapest. They presumably had a small explosive charge built in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Yes. That being said, it matters which language you choose. COBOL is always a bad choice, unless writing in COBOL is the whole point. There isn't really a universal best choice, either. Python is often a good one, but if you're doing something big it will become this meme.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I don't think that's quite right. It's more like if you have to choose a language before you know what you're doing, Python is the best choice. For anything large enough it's multiple places down the list, but you really don't want to have to learn Rust and possibly reinvent wheels for your quick boilerplate hack.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

It's been a bit over a year for me, otherwise this would be the answer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Oh my god, that's amazing. I'm getting on something that can be rooted posthaste, but in the meanwhile...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Mentally make the background foreground, if you can, so the bottom corners are something like legs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I’m not sure what you mean about the sombrero potential only being partially observed. It is a principle only, and you could observe it fully by simply making a sombrero shape and putting a ball in the middle and observing how it falls multiple times.

You can see the model do that, but not the actual quantum fields. The transition is supposed to have happened irreversibly once in the instants following the big bang.

The difference is that supply & demand is presented as a foundational and ubiquitous law to high-school students, whereas the sombrero potential is presented honestly.

It was never taught where I went, but that could be. High school teachers should knock it off, if so. It seems to work exactly as theorised in most sectors, bulk commodities being a common example, but there's definitely other sectors that are broken, some of which I mentioned.

I'm a fan of regulation to address that. So are both orthodox and most heterodox schools, to various degrees.

Either they don’t exist, or your story about that isn’t complete.

I'm sure someone is dumb enough to try it, but I'm actually not convinced it's widespread. In Canada, we literally just don't have enough houses for a first-world nation of our population - which has been measured - and all of our tradespeople are swamped. (Sorry if I brought that up already, this has been a long-running thread)

However I’ve never heard of a scientific discipline where there is an “orthodox” school, except in economics. It’s the orthodox school that I have a problem with. Supply & demand is just emblematic of that issue.

Hmm, now that is a good point. There's various small offshoots of anthropology and psychology, some of which are questionable (there's people that still use Freud), but nobody really divides it up like that. Alright, you've sold me on economics probably having especially bad lab politics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Well, not by that name. There's other sorts of legal agreements for shared buildings, though. People complain about condo boards up here too, but it sounds like the American HOA is particularly nasty. I don't know why.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Yes, this is the unappreciated other end of shitty small-scale power tripping. Normal people don't want to do jobs like internet moderator or HOA president, because nobody appreciates them and it's boring. So, people who get a different kind of value out of it take their place, and around we go.

 

Example: On here vs. on Lemmit itself.

I don't know if this is our end or theirs, but nobody seems to have commented about it on their meta community, which makes me think it's not broken for users on bigger instances.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Reposting because it looks like federation failed.

I was just reading about it, it sounds like a pretty cool OS and package manager. Has anyone actually used it?

 

It's not really news after a decade, but I still think it's worth a look. This is something I think about sometimes, and it's better to let the actual scholars speak.

For whatever reason it's not mentioned as a candidate great filter very often even though nearly all the later steps on the path to complexity have happened more than once, and there's lots of habitable looking exoplanets.

Edit: To be clear, this says that just because life started early on Earth, doesn't really provide much evidence it's an easy process, if you allow that it could possibly be very unlikely indeed.

 

The mod log.

I can't see what other issues there could possibly be with this. It wasn't even spicy as anti-Zionism goes, and all the factual content was accurate.

I can see how the comment from months ago could be seen as insensitive, although my intention was more to point out the inherent racism in the opposite position. That's not the one that did it, though.

 

An interesting look at how America thinks about the conflict when cameras aren't pointing at them. TL;DR they see themselves 20 years ago, and are trying to figure out how to convey all the lessons that experience taught them, including "branches" and "sequels", which is jargon I haven't heard mentioned before. Israel is not terribly receptive.

Aaand of course, Tom Cotton is at the end basically describing a genocide, which he would support.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

It's a good candidate since it sounds like there's no precision mechanical components like there would be in a hard drive. Does anyone have ideas for how I'd go about this? Is there a barrier I'm not considering?

I know how to make basic semiconductors already, so that's not an issue.

Edit: I've got an answer written down in the comments now. TL;DR you'd still need lithography to do it the OG way, because of the patterned magnetic material that directed bubbles around the medium, but material requirements are actually pretty flexible.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I feel like this explains a lot more of how I think about the the geography of the world today than any other map I've seen recently. This is why Australia seems strange and distant while China is familiar, despite the much higher language and culture affinity I have with post-colonial Australia.

 

Am I the only Zoomer? I see a lot of "I remember"-type responses, so I have to wonder.

 

A few months old now, but it was news to me. Basically, the F-16 will allow Ukraine to keep doing the same thing they are now, but are just as limited for the purpose of providing support on the front lines.

If Ukraine doesn't manage to breach Russian fortifications in this offensive, the West will have to find a different way of giving them an edge, if we want to avoid a war of pure attrition.

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