Sanyanov
@Sanyanov@lemmy.world
- Comment on To buy no longer means anything :( 8 months ago:
Now you’re completely entitled to join the Minecraft piracy world
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 8 months ago:
I see, thanks for the inside look!
It certainly rings very badly.
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 8 months ago:
Would you like to tell more on the gatekeeping aspect? Imma be honest, I’m not a seasoned volunteer and would like to know more.
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 8 months ago:
Maybe take some volunteering, then?
Or would it be too hard to force yourself to start doing something like that?
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 8 months ago:
It’s a loop that is hard to quit once you’ve entered it.
I wish you success; maybe a good digital detox on the countryside with some simple books, field work and joys may help to reset your mind?
- Comment on Good luck out there 8 months ago:
Just started yesterday!
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 8 months ago:
Not before their brains start to rot by using those in the first place
It’s scary to see how even the older generation gains reduced attention span, reduced ability to learn and need for instant gratification on this short dopamine machine.
- Comment on Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin 9 months ago:
Alright, let’s settle on that.
- Comment on Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin 9 months ago:
That’s a job of central banks, and they normally manage it well enough. Sure, crypto offers more reliability on that front by making it impossible to control emission. But at the same time, this means money can’t be printed when it would be highly beneficial for the economy, for example when recovering from economic crisis. At the end of the day, the fiat emission is agile for good reasons.
- Comment on Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin 9 months ago:
I’ve kinda answered it already - because most governments will keep it alive by never ever going crypto. After all, this will probably be in the best interest of the general public as well, and it doesn’t appear that concepts of going full crypto are popular among masses.
- Comment on Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin 9 months ago:
People had 15 years to “wake up” now, yet they didn’t. Partly due to volatility which makes planning near economic future impossible, but most importantly because they still get their wages in fiat, pay for products in fiat etc.
The state doesn’t have incentive to change the regulations that favor crypto because crypto is generally worse as actual money as opposed to store of value for the reasons described above.
Crypto bros will shill “crypto everywhere soon” narrative every time they can, and I’ve seen it since at least Mt. Gox era. But until the regulations will be there (and they won’t), nothing is gonna happen.
- Comment on Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin 9 months ago:
Solana currently has 1777 validators - which doesn’t look like much compared to Bitcoin, but is actually way more than enough for any practical intents and purposes.
- Comment on Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin 9 months ago:
Uhm…people would use traditional finances? Banking system ain’t going nowhere, and CBDCs make their turn - as dystopian as they are, it’s super easy to force them upon people.
What would be wishful thinking is assuming most countries will happily adopt crypto. And besides - that’s even more of a dystopian scenario.
- Comment on Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin 9 months ago:
Crypto capitalism is super bad idea exactly because it’s uncontrollable, i.e. all the bad stuff of capitalist economy, uncaged.
It encourages money hoarding, which cripples the capitalist economy, it does not allow to control emission, which is actually bad because it’s essential to driving economy out of crises, it does not allow to block criminals’ access to money and transactions, it severely complicates taxation and other important economic actions.
Crypto capitalism has the potential to exacerbate inequality, and cause a giant slew of problems sending modern economy into chaos. But yes, your 500 ADA salary will be truly yours.
I’m pro-crypto, by the way. While posing new risks, crypto can be super helpful as means of unsanctioned money transfer, breaching artificial limitations, keeping governments in check by always being able to support protesters, etc. But making it the world go-to currency is a bad idea.
- Comment on Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin 9 months ago:
While Lightning doesn’t need you to open a channel for every new recipient and has smart routing through other participants, I still think it’s an inconvenient solution we don’t have to take.
We have Solana, a 300.000+ TPS Layer-1. We have much smarter Ethereum Layer-2’s that don’t require this bullshit. We have many ways to tackle this problem, it’s the hyperfocus on Bitcoin that, in my opinion, makes people to go for Lightning network anyway.
- Comment on Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin 9 months ago:
Transactions per second
- Comment on Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin 9 months ago:
Mining is barely transactional in nature. Pretty much all of it is calculating hashes, which, on one hand, is super important as part of Proof-of-Work consensus, the most decentralized one we have, but on the other we have other reasonably secure options that waste two orders of magnitude less power.
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
Firefox user since ever. Never looked anywhere.
- Comment on Good news, everyone! We temporarily stopped the orphan crushing machine! 10 months ago:
Work 27 years without a day off, following every advice to “stop being lazy and work” Still not being able to afford housing without generous donations
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
I’m pretty sure the time ans date format is not what makes a culture special, though.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
12:30AM is something that completely breaks my mind :D
We’re talking 00:30, right? And what if there is 0:15, for example?
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
“Three in the morning” is super weird, like, it’s not morning, this thing is called night :D
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
Please, correct the link, cause now it has closing bracket included.
On substance - even that makes more sense, with 4 zones designating morning, afternoon, evening, and night. 2 zones conflate them.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
That’s entirely a matter of habit. There is nothing special about 0°F or 100°F, you’ve been lied to.
We don’t think -18°C to 38°C, we think -50°C to +50°C, with 0°C differentiating between snow/ice, “wintery” weather, and rain/mud, “non-wintery” one. That’s how we know whether to take umbrella (no point if it snows, hat is your best friend), what kind of shoes are the best fit - cold-resistant or highly waterproof - or which kind of jacket is gonna fit the situation.
When it’s not winter, normal range is 0-40°C, with 20°C designating comfort temperature.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
Seconding this.
The reason we even care is that maintaining two systems is heavily impractical and adds to confusion all around the world - simply because 4% of world’s population can’t bother to make a change.
We wouldn’t care what you use - perfect barbecue temperature scale, length unit of football field, weights in blue whales - if it wouldn’t affect the rest 96% of the world who have to decipher your blubber.
Everyone uses Celsius and metric, make a damn switch, it’s not that hard and you won’t lose anything. You only use it because you’ve used to it, there is literally nothing else to it. Everyone switched, everyone’s happy with it. Do it already.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
Does anyone feel the difference of 1°C?
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
Sure, there’s a lot wrong about the way we work with time and date. Months are not even tied to lunar cycles, we have around 13 of them in a year.
But conversion from 12 to 24 hour format is already there and easy to switch to withiut losing anything. Let’s start going rational.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
Fahrenheit’s hometown is certainly the metric everyone should use /s
Celsius is not arbitrary, it is based on objective physical reality, qnd the only arbitrary thing about it is atmospheric pressure, which is more or less equal on the sea level. The rest is us finding convenient patterns, not the other way around.
On sub-zero, it is the same idea: -5°C is a weather for a light winter jacket, -15°C is a weather for a heavy winter jacket, -25°C is for heavy jacket and some pullover, etc etc.
The 0-40 argument demonstrates that we don’t need some arbitrary scale based on Fahrenheit’s recording in his hometown in order to conveniently estimate temperature. The groups for each dozen of degrees are just for easy reference. 17 degrees is optional for your taste, to me it’s light jacket weather in overcast or t-shirt weather when sunny. There are no perfect temperatures for anything and anyone, and it just doesn’t make sense to get into more detail.
As per granularity, people invented decimals, but normally it’s simply not necessary to tell the difference between 17°C and 18°C, let alone between 63°F and 64°F. There are so many factors influencing the temperature feeling, and one degree ain’t one.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
In my country it’s normal to pronounce time in either format, and it doesn’t make any confusion.
Also we don’t use AM or PM when using 12-hour format: we say night/morning/day/evening. Like “3 in the day” means 3PM, or 15:00.
“Fifteen-o-o” works just fine as well.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
Why should anyone cut time in two zones? How does it help or benefit anyone? If anything, it only serves to add extra confusion. In the era of electronic time keeping, there is a wonderful opportunity to ditch an extremely stupid decision that was proliferated by analog clocks.
We have 24 hours in a day, just count them one by one. Boom. Problem solved. No confusion, no complications, no nothing.