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- Comment on The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible 6 days ago:
Don’t let Java try hallucinogens. It will get lost in the
public static void. - Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 1 week ago:
Borders have existed as long as humans have claimed territory. Borders are only meaningful to the extent they are enforced, so border control has existed in some form or another for all that time.
Borders have been a bit fuzzy at many times and places. The farther one travels from a seat of power, the harder it is for that power to patrol and control the area. Thus we get borderlands, places at the fringes of a government’s authority.
In addition to borders, documents analogous to passports have existed for millennia. If you wanted to travel from your kingdom to another kingdom, your monarch might send you off with an official letter requesting your safe passage through whatever kingdoms you need to cross.
- Comment on I'm looking for a particular community in Lemmy. It's kind of like ask Lemmy, But with really bad responses. It's more of a joke community. I've seen it in the past but can't find it 3 weeks ago:
Maybe one of these?
!shittyasklemmy@lemmy.ml
!shittyasklemmy@lemmy.uhhoh.com - Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 3 weeks ago:
Yep, he adopted the stage name of his father, Martin Sheen (Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez).
- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 3 weeks ago:
I think the issue is people getting hung up on the gender identity, not the name. I have known lots of people who go by preferred names, whether chosen themselves or given to them by friends as nicknames. Hell, there are a few people I knew for years only by their preferred name/nickname without realizing it wasn’t their given name.
And stage names make a lot of sense from a practical standpoint. Being famous by your given name can make it hard to separate professional life from personal life.
- Comment on be gay, do crimes (in space) 4 weeks ago:
Headlining this Friday night! With special guest Gay Zombie Super Soldiers
- Comment on Can we consider degenerating from maga.place and hilariouschaos.com? 4 weeks ago:
[puts on my Admin hat…]
sh.itjust.works has had hilariouschaos.com on our instance block list for quite a while. If you see content federating from there, send me a link and I will check it out.
As for maga.place, as @captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works said, that’s a good topic for a discussion post in !agora@sh.itjust.works.
[takes off my Admin hat…]
maga.place clearly looks like someone’s personal troll instance. However, I notice their local feed is currently dominated by someone making anarchist posts in !Antifa@maga.place. A piece of me is curious to watch how this is going to play out.
- Comment on Who has access to our email addresses? 5 weeks ago:
I believe user IP addresses are stored and correlated with a user’s session token. Those tokens are valid for a while. The database does not have a post-by-post record of a user’s IP.
Disclaimer: I am not one of the admins with direct database access, so I cannot confirm that this is true. My statement above is secondhand information from memory. I may be wrong.
- Comment on Who has access to our email addresses? 5 weeks ago:
Each instance’s database contains the email addresses of local users only. Lemmy does not share email addresses between instances.
Viewing users’ email addresses requires directly querying the database. They are not visible through the API.
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 5 weeks ago:
I remember an mp3 going around where a guy turned it into a song, complete with the chorus, “I don’t like the DMCA.”
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 1 month ago:
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 1 month ago:
And it continues up to the present day. There was a Ukraine war fundraiser where you could pay to have a custom message written on munitions.
- Comment on Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing? 1 month ago:
Originally, fire departments only dealt with fires. In the 1960’s and 1970’s it became clear that a rapid response health service would be beneficial. Rather than create a whole new system from scratch, that function was tacked onto the existing fire service by having EMTs and paramedics on staff. And the initial focus was primarily on providing rapid transit: delivering the victim to a hospital as quickly as possible. Response time was the dominant metric used to grade emergency medical providers. It took more decades to fully appreciate that treatments applied at the accident scene or in transit could be as important as, or more important than, response time.
There’s a good argument to be made that modern fire departments are largely obsolete. They spend most of their time dealing with medical and mental health issues, not fighting fires. We would probably benefit as a society by replacing a lot of firefighters with house call nurses to help manage people’s long-term health issues before they become emergencies.
- Comment on What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely. 1 month ago:
I am 100% in favor of the message behind this flag, but holy crap it’s a real eyesore. Same with the Progress Pride flag and some of the other LGBTQ flags. I keep hoping some skilled graphic designers out there will come up with cleaner designs.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 1 month ago:
One of the main Lemmy devs is working on a federated wiki project called ibis:
https://ibis.wiki/article/Main_Page
I only know that it exists. I have not used it so I can’t give any opinion of its maturity or usefulness.
- Comment on What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?) 1 month ago:
V-TECH toys. Noisy, annoying garbage that people love to gift to infants and toddlers.
After that it’s a toss up between a phone, tablet, or Chromebook.
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 1 month ago:
Every kid in my high school knew the “half your age plus 7” rule for bounding are gaps:
Age of younger person in the relationship = (Age of older person in the relationship / 2) + 7
So if you are 30 then you can date from 22 to 46. Science!
Though, really, beyond your mid-20s I think you can date as old as you like. As long as everyone is consenting, open, and honest, then have fun.
- Comment on The Biogeography of Lions 1 month ago:
There are a couple, but they don’t roam very far.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 month ago:
Yep. Robert Putnam’s book “Bowling Alone” turns 25 this year, and it’s as relevant as ever.
- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 1 month ago:
Nah, wood is expensive with the tariffs and all. That’s just the new range staffer holding the target.
- Comment on Engineering Breakthrough Opens Door to Cheap Hydrogen Power 2 months ago:
There are two practical ways to make hydrogen:
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Split water molecules via electrolysis. This is thermally inefficient and not cost-effective at scale.
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Strip hydrogen atoms off of hydrocarbon molecules, usually natural gas. It’s much cheaper. Unfortunately, the leftover carbon atoms leave the process as CO2. AFAIK all commercially available hydrogen is made this way.
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- Comment on off to learn themrodynamics and statistcial mechanics 2 months ago:
That was glorious!
- Comment on Is it worth selling on eBay in 2025? 2 months ago:
It depends what you are selling. It has to be an item valuable enough to make the shipping hassle and seller’s fees worthwhile. Search for the thing you want to sell, and then hit the Completed Listings filter. That will show you what it has been selling for.
I use eBay to but/sell used bicycle parts and miscellaneous outdoor gear. Also sometimes used clothing if it’s niche or higher-end. Getting screwed by other users is very rare in my experience.
Craigslist is still sometimes useful, though it isn’t active like it used to be. It’s best for things you just want gone: post them in the free section and leave them out on the curb.
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 2 months ago:
I started with basic goals:
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I want to make enough money that I don’t have to worry about money. Not like “annual tropical vacations” kind of money, but “if my car is stolen tomorrow I can buy a new one without having to worry about covering other expenses” money.
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Do work that is creative and technical.
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Do work that somehow benefits society.
When I got to university I pulled up the list of majors and started highlighting ones that sounded interesting and would likely fit those goals. I ended up going into engineering. And after bouncing around in industry, for a few years, I found a niche that fits me well.
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- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 2 months ago:
I’ll third.
- Comment on Why is so hard for musicians to have a good living and be famous? 3 months ago:
To add all the other good comments here…
As a recording artist, it’s nearly impossible to stand out unless you have a marketing machine behind you. That means a record label that can promote your work, get your songs placed on radio stations and streaming platforms, and (in the old days) manufacture and sell physical media through many different retailers.
As a touring performer, you also need a large crew of people working for you: booking venues, marketing your shows, ticketing, managing the logistics of set-up/tear-down/transportation, operating lights and sound during the show, etc.
In both of these scenarios, the musician is only one small cog in a large machine. And there are enough good musicians in the world that they are treated as largely interchangeable.
- Comment on Is WW3 more likely to accelerate or slow down anthropogenic climate change? 3 months ago:
NCD is leaking
- Comment on What is happening on Programming. Dev instance? 3 months ago:
Whatever the issue was, it was short-lived. It’s now back to normal and only a few minutes behind.
- Comment on What is happening on Programming. Dev instance? 3 months ago:
It looks like programming.dev is suddenly falling behind reddthat.com. It’s currently ~40 minutes behind and getting worse. @snowe@programming.dev @Ategon@programming.dev, FYI.
I’m not savvy enough to know what causes this, but it has happened before between instances. @MrKaplan@lemmy.world might have some insight.
- Comment on Which Lemmy instances use Photon? 4 months ago:
If you like Photon, you might like Tesseract. It’s a Photon fork. Here are a few instances that host Tesseract frontends:
dubvee.org
tesh.itjust.works
tess.lemmy.ca
tes.leminal.space
