thebestaquaman

@thebestaquaman@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub Is Down⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously: What kind of good options exist for migrating a couple GitHub repos (including CI pipelines that work across repos to deploy to azure) cleanly and quickly (i.e. including PR’s, issues, etc.) to a different provider?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At the same time, all mammals are evolved from a common ancestor on land, which means that whales, seals, dolphins, etc. are the evolutionary result of land-based mammals “re-entering” the ocean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That simply is not what people want when they look for information.

  What? Is there anyone out there that prefers to find small bits of information lying around various sources over a concise summary followed by a solid fleshing out, all in one place? I honestly cannot imagine a use case where I would prefer that a source omits a bunch of information rather than just structure the information so that I can find what I’m looking for. Wikipedia does that. That’s why you have dedicated articles for all those battles in WWII, with their own table of contents and summaries to help you digest them. There has literally never in human history existed any source of knowledge coming even close to structuring and summarising this amount of information as well as Wikipedia has, and you’re advocating that they should make it… not that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see why you would want to hide the hoard of knowledge that is a good Wikipedia pare behind a button. There’s already a summary at the top of the page and a table of contents for when you want more on some topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Draw!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen an interview with a guy that said, with a straight face, “for legal reasons I’m not allowed to disclose to you whether or not I have an NDA with <company>”.

  I’m pretty sure they make NDAs where you’re not allowed to disclose the other party as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one of the most fundamental principles of chemistry and physics. It was discovered by Antoine Lavoisier in the late 18th century, and you can only meaningfully break it during nuclear reactions (fusion/fission). If any container is gaining mass, it is either a dying star or there is more mass entering the container than leaving it. This also applies to the human body: If you are gaining mass, it is because there is more going in than out, otherwise you’ve broken pretty much all known physics (or you’re about to go supernova).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You won’t gain net weight my that mechanism though, you’ll just grow more dense. Mass is a conserved quantity, so if you’re gaining more muscle mass than you’re losing fat, that extra mass is coming from somewhere. That somewhere is your food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or conclude that they were accumulating mass some other way, such as

  • Accumulating water
  • Being severely constipated
  • Some obscure bone disease that causes them to accumulate absurd amounts of minerals

  My bet would be on (1) and/or (2).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Water content could be increasing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I spend more time than I would like to admit on reddit 50/50…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will never forget the time I posted a question about why something wasn’t working as I expected, with a minimal example (≈ 10 lines of python, no external libraries) and a description of the expected behaviour and observed behaviour.

  The first three-ish replies I got were instant comments that this in fact does work like I would expect, and that the observed behaviour I described wasn’t what the code would produce. A day later, some highly-rated user made a friendly note that I had a typo that just happened to trigger this very unexpected error.

  Basically, I was thrashed by the first replies, when the people replying hadn’t even run the code. It felt extremely good to be able to reply to them that they were asshats for saying that the code didn’t do what I said it did when they hadn’t even run it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  here you go

  I trusted the upvotes, and dared to click. It’s a safe, informative piece on the topic at hand that I recommend reading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I seem to remember reading that the US navy comes in second (which makes sense considering that a single carrier has a larger air wing than most countries air forces) but the point still stands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing could go wrong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For all the shit that can (and should) be thrown for the blatantly illegal attack on Venezuela: Putins wet dream is that he could have pulled off the same attack against Ukraine.

  Full disclaimer: The attack on Venezuela’s integrity is horrendous and I condemn it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belief⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One has to wonder if that’s truly a highly specific incompetence, or intentional.

  I’ll apply Hanlons razor again: These people are stupid, therefore doing “everything in their power” involves using woefully ineffective means to achieve their goal. I have no problem believing that most anti-abortionists genuinely believe that they’re trying to save innocent lives. However, being relatively dumb people means they are primarily driven by feelings rather than logic, and are easily manipulated. This results in them using the means that they “feel” should be effective, rather than proven methods. It also means that the few people that actively are looking to oppress others can manipulate their feelings to make them support means that hurt the people they’re trying to help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anything from the lemmy universe ever went viral before Reddit or Tictac or Insta?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know for certain, but can’t really imagine that being the case. There are several reasons I can’t imagine something going viral off lemmy per now:

  1. The combined user mass of lemmy is probably smaller than the critical mass needed to really go viral 1a. This could be “worked around” if someone reposted from lemmy to some other, larger network. Still, I wouldn’t say that meant something “went viral off lemmy”, since that would imply it went viral before being reposted.

  2. Lemmy doesn’t (by default) push heavily to get trending stuff into everyones feed. 2a. I say “by default” because I’m assuming someone could set up an instance designed around maximising the views of trending material.

  3. Slightly related to 1, but afaik, there are few, if any, very big social media personalities on here. For something to go viral, you’re basically reliant on either an algorithm catching on to your stuff and shoving it in everyone’s face or some person with a huge following shoving it in everyone’s face.

  4. The very system of lemmy (following communities rather than users) makes it extremely difficult for any individual user to gather a large enough following to make things go viral by posting/sharing them

  Basically: Too small user mass, no big personalities, and a “following system”/visibility algorithm built around promoting interesting and healthy media consumption rather than cultish behaviour prevents things from going viral off lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨w e a k n e s s⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨w e a k n e s s⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I want to make a low-effort shitpost without spending energy worrying about whether anyone actually can, or even wants, to read it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨w e a k n e s s⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny, creative, smart woman that makes a living messing around with building cool stuff… was there anyone that didn’t have at least a little crush on her?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"i can hear the difference"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so glad this is illegal where I’m from

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  With modern tv/streaming, tickets aren’t a limited resource anymore, in the sense that by far most of the viewers are not in place live.

  Sure, you could price live tickets following “normal” market rules, since you still have the practical limitation regarding the number of people living in reasonable distance from the stadium. The idea of using pricing to regulate demand/consumption for streaming services doesn’t really make sense the same way, since the marginal cost of another viewer is essentially zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to admit that, without wanting to defend absurd wages for anyone, there’s a pretty decent explanation in the case of athletes. If you’re one of the top ten boxers in the world, there are tens (hundreds?) of millions of people that want to see your matches. It’s not unreasonable to ask for some compensation for providing entertainment, so let’s say each viewer is paying 1 USD / match. After paying the costs of setting up the match, you’re still left with millions of dollars per match.

  Specially in the case of top-level athletes, we’re in a situation where very may people want to see very few people provide entertainment. Even if they take a very low price, they’re still going to be making buckets of money. I don’t really think that would be unfair, provided they actually charged some small amount. What irritates me is that the sports associations have decided to charge absurd amounts to squeeze people fore mine to make even more. That should definitely be illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under what circumstances or axioms do spheres (the shape) have infinite surface area?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’m completely open that my factor is likely wrong here, the expression you provided is definitely wrong in both the 2D and 3D case (I’m assuming the r superscript on the pi was a typo), since it gives neither n = 2 => A = 2 pi r nor n = 3 => A = 4 pi r^2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under what circumstances or axioms do spheres (the shape) have infinite surface area?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the surface area of an n-dimensional hypersphere is (n - 1) pi r^{n - 1}. In that case (I may have some factors wrong here, just going off memory), an infinite-dimensional hypersphere has infinite surface area as long as it has non-zero radius.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hospital Bill 1961⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds so dystopian I’m having a hard time comprehending it… what happens when they provide the mandatory emergency care and invoice someone who just doesn’t have the money to pay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hospital Bill 1961⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wat? Are you saying that people who give birth in a hospital are sent a 13 000 USD bill afterwards? Like, is that actually what happens? I feel like I have to ask, because I actually cannot comprehend that being the case.

  What if you don’t have the money? Do they expect you to just hold it in until you’ve saved up? Or do they just prefer that people give birth at home with no access to medical care if something goes wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever considered THIS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know people that were actively hoping for twins and got them , twin-twin!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is fossil fuel still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That almost seems like a wilful misinterpretation of what I wrote, since I never claimed anything of the sort.

  What makes you completely wrong is that you’re using the fact that petroleum companies are filthy rich and bribe politicians to hell and back as an explanation for why we’re still reliant of fossil fuels. The basic answer to why is that “fossil fuels and combustion engines are pretty damn hard to beat” to the point where we still haven’t found a viable alternative for some applications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is fossil fuel still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get why you would say this, but it’s an oversimplification to the point of being completely wrong.

  Fossil fuels have an absurd energy density. They’re just really hard to beat. Modern batteries and liquid hydrogen don’t even come close. Pair that with the fact that we’ve spent a couple hundred years optimising the steam- and internal combustion engines, compared to some decades (in practice) for electric-based stuff, and you start seeing why fossil fuels are so hard to push of the top of the hill.

  Until very recently all alternatives were pretty much worse under every conceivable performance metric. There’s a reason electric planes are still in the prototype phase. It’s just technically really really hard to even get close to jet fuel and combustion engines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Thought I Knew You⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All else aside, the biggest problem with putting a data center in space is cooling it. Getting rid of megawatts of energy at around 100 C when you have only radiative cooling to work with is an absolute bitch. For that reason alone, the “data center in space” idea is complete crap.