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- Comment on Evil 2 days ago:
Yes, but the “shall be used for Good, not Evil” part is part of the json license, not the PHP extension? json.org/license
- Comment on Evil 4 days ago:
OK but how can json have a license? I understand a particular json parser having a license, but how can a specification, which contains no code, even be considered “software”?
- Comment on Evil 4 days ago:
The complaints about yaml’s quirks (
noevaluating tofalse, implicit strings, weird number formats, etc.) are valid in theory but I’ve never encountered them causing any real-life issues. - Comment on nuclear 6 days ago:
Back in middle school, our science teacher decided to make the class do a debate about different types of energy sources in order to learn about their advantages and disadvantages. I was on the pro-nuclear team, and we were wracking our brains trying to come up with a rebuttal to “but what about the waste?” until some madlad basically came up with this great argument:
We can just dump all of the nuclear waste on Belgium. It will take a really long time before it fills up, and nobody cares about Belgium anyway
The anti-nuclear team had no good response, and we actually got a point for that argument because we looked up the relevant statistics (nuclear waste output, belgium surface area, etc.) and calculated exactly how long it would take to turn belgium into a radioactive wasteland.
- Comment on Percentages 2 weeks ago:
🫡
- Comment on Percentages 2 weeks ago:
Can’t believe nobody has linked the relevant xkcd yet
- Comment on Anon gets home from a long day at work 3 weeks ago:
based old.reddit.com user
- Comment on Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been. 3 weeks ago:
I just have a pair of hiking boots that I wear indoors. I have them laced up very loose so that I can just pull them on without undoing the laces, almost like slippers. They’re very warm and comfy.
- Comment on 8 yr old me after my parents did my woodworking assignment 3 weeks ago:
Also, my cat doesn’t routinely give misinformation about the capabilities of the products made by their companies.
💀💀💀
- Comment on Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been. 3 weeks ago:
I mean that’s just the theoretical power from adding up all of the PSU ratings. Actual power is less, since it’s just the video cards working, optimized for hashes per watt (i.e. not maximum power draw), and most of the time it would be two or one computer running, since the others would be away from their desk or playing games or doing something important
- Comment on Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been. 3 weeks ago:
My old housemates were the opposite lol. We tried saving every penny on heating costs. In the winter, we taped the windows over with cardboard for better insulation (they are old single-pane windows), and fashioned an automatic door closer from an elastic cord to keep the door into the living room shut (our “warm zone”). Instead of using gas heating, we mined ETH with our gaming PC’s (this was before ethereum went proof-of-stake). Between the three of us, the total energy output was close to 2kW, so totally viable for keeping the living room warm. Pretty sure we ended up earning money from heating the house lol.
- Comment on Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been. 3 weeks ago:
Figure out a system to prevent overuse
If we’re going down the “government should pay for it” route, then a good solution would be subsidizing thermal insulation. It’s a big investment upfront, but will save a lot of money for both homeowners and the government in the future. Not to mention the obvious ecological benefits.
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- Comment on Drink the climate change away 4 weeks ago:
Ecofascism tries to solve the looming problem of mass extinction with… mass extinction.
- Comment on Enshittification only hurts product itself, not users. 1 month ago:
Yeah that’s my experience so far. The only things Microsoft has managed to ruin so far when it comes to Java edition is the launcher. Luckily there are many great FOSS launchers out there (Prism is my favorite). Everything else is working just fine, and the gameplay updates from the last couple of years have been good.
- Comment on House Centipedes 2 months ago:
Fake, they’re government surveillance robots /j
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 2 months ago:
When I hear “AI”, I think of that thing that proofreads my emails and writes boilerplate code. Just a useful tool among a long list of others. Why would I spend emotional effort hating it? I think people who “hate” AI are just as annoying as the people pushing it as the solution to all our problems.
- Comment on Which one is you? 2 months ago:
Maybe I’m confused, but from what I understand, “declarative” means you tell the computer what you want the final thing to look like, and “imperative” means you tell the computer what steps to take. So Dockerfile would be imperative because it’s a set of commands that are executed in-order to create the image. Meanwhile docker-compose.yml is declarative because you say which containers are used with what options and how they’re interconnected. IDK tho, as far as I understand the definitions aren’t that rigid
- Comment on Which one is you? 2 months ago:
TIL, thanks!
- Comment on 50% survival rate 2 months ago:
- Comment on Which one is you? 2 months ago:
This (and systemd bugs) is the main reason I moved away from nixos on my homeserver. Nowadays if I want declarative configuration, I just cram everything into docker containers and write a huge
docker-compose.ymlfor everything that I want to run. Would still recommend nixos for things that don’t require a lot of tweaking. Like if I had to set up a simple website for a small business or something. I love how you can set up SSL certificates for nginx with autorenewal just by switching it on inconfiguration.nix. - Comment on This means I close the tab, regardless of what is on the site. 2 months ago:
Ususally just turning off javascript using ublock makes these notices go away. And if turning off javascript breaks the website… well then I guess whatever I was trying to read isn’t really worth my time.
- Comment on Which one is you? 2 months ago:
Void on laptop, alpine on homeserver. Yep, checks out.
Love how the indian guy sitting meme perfectly sums up how I feel about alpine, nixos, and freebsd, even though those are completely different projects with different directions and goals. “It’s boring and it just works”.
- Comment on 50% survival rate 2 months ago:
Yay!
- Comment on Having fun with text scams 2 months ago:
John Oliver did a nice explanation
Basically they pretend to have the wrong number, but then start chatting with you, gain your trust over a period of months, and then ask you for money or similar.
- Comment on 50% survival rate 2 months ago:
So…
- normal people are scared because they fall for the gambler’s fallacy,
- mathematician is feeling fine because a 50% chance is a 50% change,
- and the scientist is feeling extra fine because the experimental data shows that the surgery is actually safer than 50%
Did I get it right?
- Comment on Anon finally touches grass 2 months ago:
Okay, then that means I misunderstood your comment. Seems like we’re on the same page.
- Comment on Anon finally touches grass 2 months ago:
I’m often hearing that 4chan is “unmoderated” or has “the bare minimum of moderation”, which just doesn’t line up with reality. Many boards have strict and specific rules about what content is allowed, what is banned, and how said content should be presented. Just listing some rules off the top of my head: you must have a minimum number of pictures to start a thread of /s/. Normal hentai porn goes into /h/, weird fetish stuff goes into /d/. No western art allowed on either. Content that breaks the rules gets removed within hours, sometimes minutes.
If you see something that you find disagreeable on a 4chan board, it’s likely there because it’s allowed to be there. They aren’t struggling with moderation. The fact that it’s still online in the clearnet after so much media attention proves that they have enough jannies to take care of the illegal stuff at least.
- Comment on Anon finally touches grass 2 months ago:
Funny you say that lol. I study electrical engineering, and my friends from uni ABSOLUTELY talk about linux, self hosting, and privacy. Still looking for someone to fill out the “bad thing that amazon did today” niche.
