naught101
@naught101@lemmy.world
- Comment on [Inverse Thinking] How do I make sure my place gets messy again after I thoroughly cleaned and organized it? 2 days ago:
Wait until the you run out of dishes before you start to wash any.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
You and everyone else.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Hilarious. I’m in.
- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 5 days ago:
I would say someone getting offended by you communicating is not “nothing”. At least it would be a problem for me.
- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 5 days ago:
Seems possible.
But the answer might be highly culturally dependent, and also contingent on a tonne of extra context, so you’re probably not going to get a reliable answer from the internet.
You could try asking him his intentions directly. Or telling him that you’re not interested.
- Comment on Itch.io Re-indexes free NSFW content, are in ongoing discussions with payment processors to re-introduce paid content 1 week ago:
That REALLY isn’t how things work
It definitely can be. I haven’t dealt with payment processors in this way, but I’ve had (spurious) DCMA takedowns that required my service providers to act immediately, or else they’d get sued. They did notify me, but gave me about 2h to figure something else out.
A payment processor is in full control of payments across your entire site (unless you have multiple, I guess). They can pull the rug with no notice if they want. Doesn’t seem nice, but nice isn’t part of the business model.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 1 week ago:
The other part is that normal people as party of a well functioning society need to actively maintain systems that keep fuckwits from accumulation to much power, and we haven’t been doing that.
- Comment on Confused about the economy? You’re not alone 1 week ago:
Confused about the economy? You’re not alone
All the mainstream economists are too!
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 1 week ago:
Ok
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
I’ve played with switches before, and some DIY electronics, and have done some network admin. I’ll grant that the actual internal electronics and software are far to complex for even me to understand.
But again, if you talk to someone with some interest in what you’re doing, you can find a level they they can understand. Maybe using metaphors like human-operated old-school telephone switch boards, that’s an image that most people will have seen, and can understand at a coarse conceptual level. You CAN have an interesting conversation at the level, if YOU want to be interested in it (and if they do, which is partially contingent on you being able to connect with them in the first place).
If you think climate is simpler or more accessible, I’d suggest you have a quick go at explaining the Navier-Stokes equations, Darcy’s law for fluid flow through porous media, or why convective storm activity needs to be parameterised in climate models (and at what scale it doesn’t). Climate isn’t easier, or more accessible than network admin - both require years or tertiary education to start understanding even parts of the underlying principles, and no one person understands either field completely. It IS probably more familiar for most people, because it’s in the media all the time. But again, that’s just a matter of finding the extent of their knowledge and interest, and coming up to their level.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 1 week ago:
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3100 - Co-hosting communities across instances (e.g. “sharding”)
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 1 week ago:
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 1 week ago:
Use a different software then? Federation is a core aim of lemmy, what’s the point complaining about it?
Or alternatively, perhaps present some kind of alternative solution that you think would deal with this problem as you see it…
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 1 week ago:
although that isn’t the place for random complains. Well laid out bug reports and feature requests, for sure though.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 1 week ago:
I use subscribed feeds, sorted by “scaled”. It pushes stuff from smaller communities I’m interested in up higher. Scaled doesn’t work that well on All though. It does mean I need to subscribe to things first, but I generally just subscribe to everything I’m interested in. I also browse All sorted by Top 6h regularly, to see what else is happening. Pretty good combo.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
I don’t though, because I actually know how to talk to normal humans. It’s not that hard. You start high-level, and then gauge their curiosity (via questions and body language), and then go a bit deeper, and if they start getting confused, then you back up a bit, and you just stay at their level, not at whatever insane depth your own brain might be at at the time. You use metaphors to link what’s happening in your work to things they have experienced in their life to build understanding at their level. Simplify and abstract, without dumbing it down.
My brain is fully stuck in philosophy of science mode at the moment, and thinking about how to integrate climate science with financial risk models (and how that doesn’t make sense in some ways). I have talked with people from across the spectrum, from people working in climate science or finance for decades, to people with a high-school education. The conversations are nearly always interesting (for both of us), and usually decently long. It’s really not that hard, if you just make an effort to meet people where they are.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
I don’t necessarily mean trying to convince people of something, I more mean conversing with interested, but less educated people. Convincing people is a whole separate skill set to just explaining your technical knowledge in plain language (which is the part that’s beneficial here).
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 1 week ago:
A messaging app is extremely hard to “spin up bespoke solutions” for, because a solution’s success is 99% dependent on the network effect.
Perhaps when a protocol like signal but decentralised is available, then we might be able to say that.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
whelp, I guess that’s the end of that joke thread
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
I just did. The age verification is the only thing that looks slightly confusing, and anyone keen enough would deal with that fine. It’s not a technical skills/knowledge barrier, it’s just reading comprehension.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
How bad this is in practice is something you can choose to mitigate simply by regularly talking to normal people.
Source: I’m a climate scientist, I do this all the time (and only rarely get looks of complete confusion)
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
No, farmers know barley, average people bearly know
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
Do you think creating a Lemmy account is that much harder then creating a reddit account (or any other website account)?
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 1 week ago:
I can totally see Australian politics being OK with signal leaving, since that would push users on to other less secure/more compliant apps
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 1 week ago:
Well that would be incredibly fucked.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 1 week ago:
Sounds like that shit with dodgy smoking detection in a hotel from last week…
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 1 week ago:
Interestingly, this is basically the approach of some of the best management/leadership thinkers these days (e.g. Cynefin). I think the basic premise is “the world is changing so fast that any plans you make now might be meaningless in a decade, so focus on what’s knowable in the here and now, and your next step”. Dave Snowden from Cynefin points to Ana’s “The Next Right Thing” from Frozen 2 as excellent advice 😅
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 1 week ago:
Pretty good approach. Most of the most interesting people I know started adult life doing one thing, and eventually switched to another thing. Maybe after one or two years of an undergrad, maybe after 15 years of a career.
I’ve got one friend in his late 30s who has been a highschool teacher for over a decade, and is still thinking of switching careers to be a train driver. He does public transport activism a bit too. I reckon you could head into the train network with IT skills anyway - maybe as some kind of network operator. Not quite the same thing, but aligned…
I would say that you should absolutely take maximum advantage of any electives offered to get as broad a taste of what’s available as possible. That’s what will give you ideas about where to head next.
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 1 week ago:
Great answer, flexibility and adaptability is underrated.
You’re almost never gonna get a perfect opportunity. But you’ll get good ones that kind of match your skills now and then. And if your skill base is broad, then you’ll find good ones way more often. And if you’re happy to deal with the temporary discomfort of learning some specific skills quickly, then you can make use of many of them.
I think being capable of being deeply interested in many diverse things is a critical part of this.
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 1 week ago:
Good answer. Ironically, pretty much all the answers here are good, and worth looking at (because they are mostly broad, general advice)