_Mantissa

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radicale is the simplest CalDAV/CardDAV server I've ever set up⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ive experimented with it over the last couple weeks but it ended up not being what I was looking for.

  The use case for me was making my sonarr calendar public while keeping sonarr itself private. It would have been nice to point radicale to my local address for sonarr to fetch calendar updates then make them publicly accessible but that didn’t seem (easily) possible.

  What I ended up doing instead was running a cron script to wget the sonarr calendar and place it in my caddy directory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That might be true about DNA data but these places gather every public genealogy record available. If your country has a census, for example, they probably already know more about your family then you do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Behold The Hyundai Uni Wheel. Transportation May Never Be The Same⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are, that’s the motivation behind this. You still need to convert the high rpm of an electric motor to a high torque output at a continuous speed though. But this will open doors to smaller motors for each wheel and torque vectoring

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Citizen Kane was a not-so-subtle criticism of William Randolph Hearst to begin with. History really do be repeating itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right now, a month is 4.345 weeks and 30.4167 days. it makes scheduling and budgeting kind of a nightmare. in a 13 month calendar, each month has 4 weeks exactly and 28.096 days. the 0th of january/july isn’t a day of the week like Sunday, it’s just an extra day. That makes it a lot easier to call it a holiday, pay out like it’s bonus time, add at the end of calculations, etc. I think it’s actually easier to grasp conceptually than our current way of handling leap years. The main benefit though is that even if you did include 0th days as a day of the week you would still only have ~4.1 weeks per month. The decimals are much lower and as a result much less frequent. 30.4 days per month is atrocious, it’s basically a coinflip. Doing any kind of math on our current calendar system is a giant pain and would be much improved with any system that can lower that decimal value.

  As for practical benefits for the majority of folk that don’t make budgets or deal with scheduling, Every month now starts on Sunday and ends on Saturday plus we get a new holiday, neat. Every 16th, for example, is now a Monday. Honestly, everything about it sounds better to me and it’s not even my favorite alternative calendar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are pros and cons to every alternative calendar. Just as there are pros and cons to the metric system, hybrid cars, and renewable energy. There is a short term cost to switching to better systems and a long term reward. The earlier we switch, the more reward we reap. Not saying that 13 months is the best alternative but the reasoning of systemic changes hinges on being willing to front costs that we know will be worth it in the long run. Our current one is not causing enough issues and it’s upfront cost to switch is too high so we will likely not even seriously consider changing it for a long time. But we can still acknowledge that we should use a better system and that adapting earlier will only benefit us in the long run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philosophy meme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They sure do, we try very hard to get as close as we can to what an objectivist would consider ‘true’. But nothing in objectivism states that we will ever know what the objective moral truth is. How many stars are there within 100 million light years outside of the observable universe right now? We don’t know. We can’t know. But there still is a correct answer even though we don’t know it. Just as an astronomer might average the count of stars in a similarly sized region and make an estimate of the correct answer, humans will share ideas of morality and endlessly critique them in hopes of getting a closer approximation of what “moral truth” might be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk patch 2.01 now available⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So many improvements from when I played back at launch. The one thing that still bothers me is how boring the high difficulty modes are. In the Witcher 3 the tanky enemies encouraged you to research them and build effective counter measures. But tanky enemies in cyberpunk just feel like a chore/break the immersion. Instead of encouraging you to explore more of what the game has to offer, it limits you by making some play styles essentially obsolete. Def recommend lower difficulties and just focusing on enjoying the story and feeling like a god. I hope difficulty is the next thing they rework

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice needed, son wants to learn how to program⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  On the subject of games, I highly recommend autonauts (scratch programming as core gameplay) and Turing Complete (perhaps better suited for 11-15 year olds. It may be a tad dense for an 8 year old).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you read that report you’ll find their conclusion is that plastic marked as recyclable is not being recycled. Not that it can’t be recycled. Merely that it isn’t. Very big difference. This is a good piece of investigative journalism on the topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That poor animal displayed fear of the humans that tortured her. How could anyone defend this. I get it, implants are super cool in sci-fi but jesus christ. If they have to be researched this way then they shouldn’t be researched. And if they don’t then this is just profit motivated medical torture. Horrifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Collectively, Lemmy has a substantive comment issue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Many people find content they enjoy to become more enjoyable when they can empathize with other people who also enjoy it. I don’t but somebody is up voting those comments so I assume. Not like it hurts me so meh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Network mapped volumes, I assume

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does there exist a factory game or zachlike that's like this?:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I actually know exactly what you’re looking for. Factoryidle (.com) is a “idle” game but is very involved and nuanced. As you progress you get small expansions to your factory floor space but the real boost in productivity comes from upgrades that make things more efficient. Each upgrade impacts different resources, thus changing your optimal ratios and forcing you to redesign the factory several times to be be optimal. I will say that a downside of this “build better not bigger” game philosophy is that it’s basically been solved as there are community made factory layouts that can’t be beaten