actual_patience

@actual_patience@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Contrary to standard cosmological theories where the accelerated expansion of the universe is attributed to dark energy, our findings indicate that this expansion is due to the weakening forces of nature, not dark energy,” he continued.

  So both dark matter and dark energy don’t exist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Psychopathy is a popular catch-all term. “Low-empathy” is better, but I think you’re just a critical person and most people don’t like criticism or self-reflection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I notice Indians speaking English tend to speak very fast. Are the Indian languages simply spoken faster?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, so I heard a thing a long time ago about information density in languages, and that there’s a specific amount of information conveyed per second which is pretty consistent across languages, even when the number of sounds is higher or lower.

  This is true.

  Which means that a single word in English, for instance, would convey more information than a single word in Hindi.

  I don’t think that’s the right interpretation. There are words in English that would require sentences to be made for each if conveyed in a different language. But the same is true vice-versa.

  Have a look at subtitles for movies from one language to any other. Translators struggle conveying what should be paragraph long sentences of context behind a single word for one language. Do not get me started on double speak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am all for having more people, but being an obscure “site” is a good filter imo.

  The Voyager App has some bugs, but for what it is, I’m amazed by the polish.

  On Reddit, all I did was look at memes from the top subreddits, spending my day filtering through the vastly unfunny majority. It’s also through memes that I kept up to date with the news.

  On Lemmy, I decided to not fall into that sort of doom scrolling again. I blocked all meme communities. I browse through “All” to find any obscure community that peaks my interest, block the ones that don’t and add the ones that do to “Home” or “Favourites”.

  This means my feed is much more curated than the slop I was ingesting on Reddit. I still doom scroll sometimes 😅, but it’s better now than it was before, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Memory-safe languages so hot right now, agrees Lazarus Group as it slings DLang malware⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  China-based Sandman which was recently observed using Lua-based malware, believed to be part of a wider shift toward Lua development from Chinese attackers.

  Wait lua? Why lua?