chonglibloodsport
@chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 7 hours ago:
Everyone has their breaking points. The enshittification will continue until morale improves (by leaving Google).
The only Google properties I still use are YouTube and Scholar (occasionally).
- Comment on Housing prices 6 days ago:
The biggest issue is lack of construction. We’re building fewer units now than we were in the 1960s, despite having double the population today.
- Comment on Housing prices 6 days ago:
Or they’ll be bought up and turned into rentals. Student houses, Airbnb, etc.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The way you put all that is extremely gross. The same kind of reasoning could be applied to displacing indigenous peoples of North America from their land and forcing them to live in a modern city with a basic income.
Utopia for you isn’t Utopia for everyone. People should have a right to self determination. If people want to farm when replicators are available, I think it’s wrong to tell them not to farm.
The Maquis didn’t start the war with the Cardassians. They had nothing to do with the Federation’s treaty negotiations. The Federation traded away their planets without even giving them a seat at the table.
- Comment on Gender neutral guide 2 weeks ago:
I thought a fishmonger was someone who sells fish at market, not the person who catches them.
- Comment on Malone comes in all sorts of ways 2 weeks ago:
You missed one!
- Comment on Work harder, afford less? 3 weeks ago:
The main reason houses are bigger today: they’re more profitable. Building bigger houses on smaller land nets developers a big profit.
McMansions is what they’re affectionately known as in the architecture world. They’re not proper mansions (enormous 20 bedroom country estates), but hardly any of those exist anywhere.
- Comment on Work harder, afford less? 3 weeks ago:
A 1950 single family house was 1000 square foot AND it had 3 or more bedrooms (I’ve seen up to 5). A 1000 square foot condo built today is 1 bedroom, not at all built for a family.
The difference? Basements don’t count toward square footage.
As for cost on existing old homes, they’re expensive today because there are so few of them and they’re in demand. That proves my point.
US population in 1950 was 151 million. Today it’s 342 million. Yet if you look at the data, housing construction has been flat since 1968.
- Comment on Work harder, afford less? 3 weeks ago:
One thing I haven’t seen anyone talk about in this discussion is the size difference in houses that are being built today vs 1950.
Typical homes being built in the 1950s were around a thousand square feet. Today they’re over two thousand square feet. The kind of homes that would be a starter home for a working class family back in the 1950s just don’t exist anymore.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Corporate culture. Microsoft may be one company to us outsiders, but internally they are a ton of different divisions divided into teams. All those teams have their own agendas, priorities, and competing visions.
If you just look at the Windows kernel project, it’s really good.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
Ahhh, but that’s a lesson on writing clearly, not a cooking lesson!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
If your goal is to lower a population over time, neuter and release can be very effective. Neutered males will still try to mate but they will not succeed. The females they try to mate with might not mate with another male, so they miss the chance to create a new generation.
- Comment on Summer Games Done Quick 2026 has ended, raising US$2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders 5 weeks ago:
The line is drawn by the community themselves. They decide what the rules for the category are.
This is how all speedrunning communities work. They make rules for each category. Mods aren’t the only thing that can skip large chunks of a game. Major glitches are as well. Many, many speedrun categories prohibit major glitches that skip large sections of the game.
- Comment on I don't allow crime in my neighborhood 😡😡😡 5 weeks ago:
Yes. It doubles as a spicy bayonet!
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 5 weeks ago:
For large group behaviour you’re better off looking at cooperative game theory which is a branch of game theory that deals with games of more than 2 players and the formation of cooperating groups known as coalitions.
It’s a much more complex topic than basic 2 player strategic game theory, so I don’t see it discussed nearly as much outside of subject matter experts.
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 5 weeks ago:
I guess I should explain a bit more then.
The term “player” in game theory doesn’t mean a person, it means a collection of rows or columns in a payoff matrix. Basically just a table of numbers. One player is all the rows, one player is all the columns.
A strategy can be either a pure strategy (select one row or one column of the table) or a mixed strategy (assign percentages to every row or every column of the table, so that all percentages are non-negative and the total equals 100%).
In a 2x2 payoff matrix, each player has 2 possible pure strategies (pick column A or column B, row 1 or row 2) but infinite possible mixed strategies (e.g 33.186794% column A and 66.813206% column B) since an infinite number of pairs of percentages can add up to 100%.
Mixed strategies can be thought of as introducing probability into the situation. If you choose a mixed strategy of 50% column A and 50% column B you could think of it as using a coin toss to make the decision. But game theory itself doesn’t do the coin tossing, it just assumes the expected values of the percentage times the payoffs in those entries of the payoff matrix.
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 5 weeks ago:
Any mathematical textbook will do it. Try Springer.
It’s quite simple really. Games in game theory are represented with a payoff matrix which shows the utility for each player. Pure strategies are defined as rows or columns in the payoff matrix. The math of game theory doesn’t care about why a player chooses a particular strategy, only its payoff.
I would define a purely rational player at minimum as one chooses a dominant strategy, when one is available. You’re free to expand that to mixed strategies and games where (strong or weakly) dominant strategies do not exist. Irrational players would be anyone who is otherwise not a rational player.
This isn’t very interesting in basic game theory. It becomes a lot more relevant in cooperative game theory, which can have more than 2 players and players forming coalitions.
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 5 weeks ago:
You clearly have not studied game theory, as you are talking out of your ass. Go pick up a textbook and learn something.
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 5 weeks ago:
On the contrary, game theory doesn’t assume rationality or irrationality whatsoever. Game theory looks at all possible outcomes and investigates different strategies that lead to those outcomes.
Rational strategies can lead to defection in games like the non-iterated prisoner’s dilemma, and this is a Nash equilibrium. However, the infinite iterated prisoner’s dilemma allows cooperation to emerge even with rational strategies.
The superrational strategy leads to cooperation even in a one-shot gang of prisoner’s dilemma
- Comment on Sony 1 month ago:
I already have more games than I could ever finish in a lifetime — in 10 lifetimes — and they’re all digital, in big folders full of files. If I had those thousands of games in physical form I’d need a library in my house full of shelves to store them all, yet digitally I can carry them all around in my pocket!
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 1 month ago:
I think you misunderstood me. I’m not saying that gatekeeping doesn’t exist in Linux communities. It absolutely does, and I wouldn’t quibble if you said Linux was rife with gatekeeping.
What I’m saying is that gatekeeping isn’t unique to Linux in any way. Gatekeeping is everywhere, and I argue that it’s a default social behaviour that arises in communities above a certain size, unless specifically guarded against through community norms.
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 1 month ago:
I see that as essentially having a community norm against gatekeeping. It’s not a feature of every community and it needs to be intentionally maintained. Gatekeeping in that light is a kind of Hobbesian state of nature behaviour that is being deliberately policed.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 month ago:
My oven goes to 500F/260C. The previous one I had went to 550F/288C, but it didn’t have convection (unlike my current one).
I actually use 500/260 on my oven quite frequently, using the “convection roast” feature. It’s excellent for roasting veggies and reheating pizza!
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 month ago:
Never cook frozen French fries or fish sticks or chicken fingers in your oven? They pretty much always recommend 450F/232C
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 1 month ago:
It’s not a Linux thing at all. I have a lot of different hobby interests and I find gatekeeping everywhere. I don’t even think it’s limited to hobbies. Gatekeeping seems to be a natural human social behaviour.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 month ago:
What’s the reason? Doesn’t sound like a good one.
Some of the best chefs around don’t use recipes at all.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 month ago:
Nutritional calories are kilocalories, so you’ll need to multiply by 1000.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 month ago:
At the cost of having a machine that applies stickers to every box, as well as keeping inventory of stickers for C and F.
I don’t think that would save money vs a properly designed supply chain and manufacturing process.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 month ago:
It’s a good thing you only spent 50 euros on your pyrolysis oven. I used to use that feature on my old oven until it was destroyed by it.
I believe the excessive heat from the cleaning cycle rapidly accelerates the ageing of the electronic components on the oven’s main circuit host. Electrolytic capacitors in particular are susceptible to failure from heat exposure.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 month ago:
What oven only goes to 200C? I live in Canada (where we use C for everything except cooking, which we use F for) and pretty much everything I cook in the oven is at 218C or above. 200C isn’t even hot enough to bake frozen French fries properly without drying them out.
