INeedMana

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PHP is the English of programming languages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  After decades I am still uncertain of some grammatical rules and word choices. I still struggle with spelling often, and once in a while I find a word that I have been pronouncing wrong my whole life.

  Get more contact with native speakers. No shade but half of them don’t even know the rules

  I know how you feel, I also feel that. I am not always sure how to navigate cultural connotations of words, sometimes a native surprises me by using a phrase, that I have known before, in a way that I knew is the proper use but would have never come up with that myself. Yet, since I started spending more personal time with native speakers, I would often be asked to take a look at a draft of their message. Or they ask me how would I word something. Because “you are better with words” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  The difference is, you and I pay attention to what/how we say it. Native speakers often just say it as it comes

  Granted, as we already established, I am not a native speaker but by looking at your posts I would not say you are struggling with English

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delusions of a Protocol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  With AP does the exchange have to be http requests? If every instance had a stream instead, would that break the protocol?

  With decentralized AT, who would be maintaining the stream? On the image I don’t see a connection between the alternative firehose and right-side pds’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delusions of a Protocol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  From the looks of AT, its farily linear because its really just operating on a set of giant event streams (like kafka).

  Wouldn’t that mean that this stream will have to scale horizontally?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delusions of a Protocol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but those could be just “read instances” spinned up by a peak in requests at load balancer. Not running all the time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delusions of a Protocol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It gets DDOSed because after the boost, all the subscribers’ instances are calling it to retrieve the content?

  Do you think a load balancer might help?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delusions of a Protocol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  But is that a limitation of AP?

  As far as I understand one could split a fediverse instance into three parts: data, backend and UI.
  The data is not shared 1to1 - each instance gets a copy of the activity and from that creates it’s own copy. Hence the same post on different instances will have different id
  The problem we are speaking about is the capability of the backend to process incoming copies. Meaning, I also understand that the part that serves the local data to UI should not be the problem

  What if there was a queue at the front and from the backend a scalable ingestion worker would be split off? Those would only do the putting the actions onto the data. Probably with per community(?) FIFO topics/partitions, so we can process data in parallel and not worry about an updoot for a post that does not exist yet

  Those would still be fairly easy to deploy and be vertically scalable, right?
  Or is there some bottleneck in the protocol itself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delusions of a Protocol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  ActivityPub works fine now because the community is fairly small, but it will reach its limits as it is currently designed. Its basically an event driven model vs a push and pull model. Sure a docker image can more or less jusy be deployed, but that simplicity is a ticking time bomb.

  You mean that when there’s more traffic, the instances will start to DDOS each other?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a noob in heist games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the suggestion

  I know that one too. I don’t remember how far I got but somehow at some point I lost interest. I felt that either I ace if the guard will go left or right, or I’ll end up with alarm and swarming enemies without much to mitigate the situation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a noob in heist games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I remember some early tech demo videos from that one. Is it able to provide a challenge when everything can be torn down?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a noob in heist games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm. Interesting insight, there might be something to it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a noob in heist games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for suggestion
  I played it and it was cool. Gunpoint from the same developer was also a blast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a noob in heist games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For some weird reason with RL it’s easier than with co-op heist games :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a noob in heist games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory yes. But I feel that in multiplayer I might miss a que to time something. In single player I’m the only moving part

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a noob in heist games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do that too but I still feel unprepared for the real thing

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would anyone like to moderate my instance?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I’m curious :D. Did joining a few communities help or something more was needed for the federation to start?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shouldn’t it be enough that you join a few communities from other instances on yours?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Machines might not be able to reproduce themselves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I already bought epub of Diaspora

  I think what is on the authors site are only explanations of science he references in books

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Machines might not be able to reproduce themselves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was… an incredible read. I felt my mind bending
  I need to find the full thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Machines might not be able to reproduce themselves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The very first compiler was written by hand in assembler. Then the next version was compiled using the first one. Now when we come up with a language we first write a compiler in another language and then move to compiling new versions with their predecessors.
  If machines had enough “connecting the dots” (doesn’t even have to be full AGI, IMO), why do you think those couldn’t build their next versions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  pre release reviewers said, too. It’s light on RPG elements

  In that context, “RPG elements” means stats and mechanics based on stats. Not roleplaying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got hooked on browsing openalternative.co is "Most Popular" list⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

  Shall I make you some popcorn too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  :D

  Not that I have any sympathy for them but technically speaking, can we say "Microsoft does X" when it was just a "brand protection LLM"?
  For sure they chose it to be an outward connection but are we really now stating that an LLM can represent a company? I feel like that's both "you are stupid for using LLMs that way" and empowering LLMs at the same time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activity Pub: Can I join a PeerTube or Mastodon server using a Lemmy account?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For some reason if you copy the url when on Mastodon.social and paste it into browser it redirects.

  If you want to see this community on Mastodon, go to some mastodon server, search for fediverse@lemmy.world and scroll down. You will find your post with our responses etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activity Pub: Can I join a PeerTube or Mastodon server using a Lemmy account?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you can't access Mastodon

  Small nitpick. Lemmy communities are present on Mastodon and can be followed and replied to by Mastodon users. One can see a comment written by someone from Mastodon. We only can't follow a Mastodon user or Mastodon tags from Lemmy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The line between what is ai and what is programming will be very blurred in the future⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  should treat prompts as specs, and that a good spec can generate the code you need

  "Tell me you've never compared what user said they needed vs what they actually needed, without actually saying it"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most people don't have boxes of USB flash drives sitting around⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember using 512MB MP3 player for storing files next to the music before pendrives got reasonable prices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immortals must be riddled with cancer thanks to gene errors in their dna replication.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism is like an RPG game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all RPGs have D&D's power creep