Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, stoic, democratic socialist
Batteries weigh less after discharging.
Hard drives weigh more with data stored on them.
There is a minimum amount of energy required to erase one bit of information (Landauer's Principal).
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Alt-D, "chr", Enter
Who am I kidding, I use Firefox.
I recently attended a Beyblade birthday party and it was rad.
Your last point hinges on a false equivalency. Imprisonment is also a crime, but we let the government imprison dangerous people for public safety. It's different when the government does it.
Obviously the death penalty is a different situation, but your logic doesn't hold up in either case.
To be clear, I don't support the death penalty. But people on the Internet seem to hate it when I play devil's advocate to sharpen an argument.
Use Jujutsu jj and you won't have this problem
Look up Operation Paul Bunyan AKA The Korean Axe Murder Incident
I'm not making a larger claim here, I'm just asking the vegetarians to explain the logic of their belief.
It sounds like now you're saying that you want to reduce pain rather than the killing of intelligent/conscious life.
In that case would you be OK with slaughterhouses if they treated the animals humanely and killed them as quickly as possible before they could feel significant pain?
You're so right. I guess it doesn't matter what happens between now and the inevitable future. -_-
It is in my country.
Did you read the comment I replied to?
For me there's no morals tied to the level of consciousness. That allows for cherry picking.
No I wouldn't. But I would kill and eat an insect, fish, or bird.
Ok but plants are also living beings so you should not eat them by your rule.
How is it not? The most popular GPT models are trained on copyrighted works.
AI generated?
don't demonize tools, demonize what people do with the tools that's damaging
Depends on what tool you're talking about.
Sadly in this case the tool, in its product form, is already in breach of a moral principle, because it is a derivative work and stealing labor without consent.
If you are referring to the GPT algorithms, that's more subtle. We need to figure out how to regulate it better.
Is your belief based on an animal's capacity for consciousness? If so do you think all animals, regardless of their intelligence, deserve the right to not be eaten? Where would you draw the line?
Not exactly, not by the protocol anyway. It's true that bittorrent supports DHT search with magnet links, so in that way, particular torrents are distributed and decentralized. But AFAIK the trackers indexers do not share any protocol other than the fact they are hosting torrent files and magnet URLs.
I'll use it after they fix https://github.com/ente-io/ente/issues/1166
Is it possible to stay anonymous when joining a private tracker community?
I was just reading through the interview process for RED, and they specifically forbid the use of VPN during the interview. I don't understand this requirement, and it seems like it would just leak your IP address to the IRC host, which could potentially be used against you in a honeypot scenario. Once they have your IP, they could link that with the credentials used with the tracker while you are torrenting, regardless of if you used VPN while torrenting.
Impressed by Fedora Sway Atomic!
I'm preparing for a new PC build, and I decided to try a new atomic OS after having been with NixOS for about a year.
First I tried Kinoite, then Bazzite, but even though KDE has a lot of features, I found it incredibly buggy, and it even had generally poor performance, especially in Firefox. I don't really have time to diagnose these issues, so I figured I would put in just a little more effort and migrate my Sway config to Fedora Sway Atomic.
I'm glad I did. The vanilla install of Fedora Sway is awesome. No bloat and very usable. I haven't noticed any bugs. Performance is excellent. And it was very straightforward to apply my sway config on top without losing the nice menu bar, since Fedora puts their sway config in /usr/share/sway.
I'm also quite happy with the middle ground of using an OSTree-based Linux plus Nix and Home Manager for my user config. I always thought that configuring the system-level stuff in Nix was the hardest part with the least payoff, but it was most pro
Critique my idea for a language
I've never felt the urge to make a PL until recently. I've been quite happy with a combination of Rust and Julia for most things, but after learning more about BEAM languages, LEAN4, Zig's comptime, and some newer languages implementing algebraic effects, I think I at least have a compelling set of features I would like to see in a new language. All of these features are inspired by actual problems I have programming today.
I want to make a language that achieves the following (non-exhaustive):
- significantly faster to compile than Rust
- at least has better performance than Python
- processes can be hot-reloaded like on the BEAM
- most concurrency is implemented via actors and message passing
- built-in pub/sub buses for broadcast-style communication between actors
- runtime is highly observable and introspective, providing things like tracing, profiling, and debugging out of the box
- built-in API versioning semantics with automatic SemVer violation detection and backward compat
Oh yea, that's the good stuff huffs glue
What's the point of terminal file managers (mc, ranger, nnn, etc)?
Who are these for? People who use the terminal but don't like running shell commands?
OK sorry for throwing shade. If you use one of these, honestly, what features do you use that make it worthwhile?
How do you balance rapid iteration and merging/upgrading?
More specifically, I'm thinking about two different modes of development for a library (private to the company) that's already relied upon by other libraries and applications:
- Rapidly develop the library "in isolation" without being slowed down by keeping all of the users in sync. This causes more divergence and merge effort the longer you wait to upgrade users.
- Make all changes in lock-step with users, keeping everyone in sync for every change that is made. This will be slower and might result in wasted work if experimental changes are not successful.
As a side note: I believe these approaches are similar in spirit to the continuum of microservices vs monoliths.
Speaking from recent experience, I feel like I'm repeatedly finding that users of my library have built towers upon obsolete APIs, because there have been multiple phases of experimentation that necessitated large changes. So with each change, large amounts of code need to be rewritten.
I still think that approach #1
Why does a small Lemmy instance perform better when accessing federated content?
After moving from lemmy.ml to programming.dev, I've noticed that web responses are fulfilled much more quickly, even for content on federated instances like lemmy.ml and lemmy.world.
It seems like this shouldn't make such a big difference. If a large instance is overloaded, it's overloaded, whether the traffic is coming from clients with accounts on that instance or from other federated instances.
Can this be explained entirely by response caching?