derek
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- Comment on Why don't urban/suburban streets and roads use a center storm channel? 1 week ago:
One of the reasons is flow control. You want to be able to move a lot of water slowly until it’s where you want it. Many small inlets distributed along the surface is a simple and effective method. I’m sure achieving the design you’re speculating on is possible but it would be more complex and expensive for that design to reliably achieve similar goals/metrics.
Permeable pavements like pervious concrete and porous asphalt allow some of what you’re interested in without requiring a reinvention of the wheel.
- Comment on The speed of light 5 weeks ago:
It makes sense after accepting spacetime is mutable. Reference frames are merely referential localization.
- Comment on wat 1 month ago:
Because parallelism is not relevant.
I did not suggest you ought to discard anything.
I have considered your point. I then addressed the framework you seem to be using to build that conclusion. You’ve assumed axioms from what you see as related disciplines are still useful in a context you’re admittedly ignorant of. I suggest that familiarizing yourself with domains on which you are ignorant will provide the answers you’re looking for.
It’ll also explain why others already familiar with the topic find your reasoning falls short or isn’t interesting enough to meaningfully engage with.
- Comment on wat 1 month ago:
The way you’re talking about the CMB and the questions you’re asking about it suggest that you’re unfamiliar with the topic’s particulars. I’d start here: en.wikipedia.org/…/Cosmic_microwave_background
You’re making intuitive assumptions based in what you currently believe you know. Some of the concepts you’re using to framework your thinking simply don’t apply.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I replied to a similar thread from the lemmy.world selfhost community here: lemmy.world/post/24406909/14550114
My reply reviews what concerns you might want to consider before running your own email server.
To address your post specifically: yes. Kind of.
You can purchase a domain from a registrar. You don’t really own that though. You have to renew your registration periodically so it’s more like renting than owning for those at the “consumer” level. Still, if you register a domain then you can manage its Domain Name Service (DNS) records. Email routing is handled by DNS Mail Transfer (MX) records.
Once you’ve got a domain name you need to decide if you want to selfhost or purchase email services that let you bring your own domain. Both are doable but bringing your domain to a service provider is likely the better path for you.
Tuta mail and Proton mail are popular providers that let you bring your own domain.
- Comment on systemd 1 month ago:
- Comment on Ant warhammer 2 months ago:
If I wanted to introduce someone to the genre then Empires of the Undergrowth would be my first recommendation.
The gameplay, narrative, and progression mechanics are top-notch. The developers understand what makes RTS mechanics compelling and have designed systems that are more intuitive and accessible for everyone.
For instance (no spoilers) unit groups are built-in to base management. No hotkeys or group micro management required. It happens automatically as a functional result of more obvious concerns.
My only critique of the game, if I were forced to offer one, that the UI can seem a bit clunky at first. That aside though the team’s expertise and care shine through in ways which prove the user experience was well considered throughout development.
It’s fun, too!
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 2 months ago:
Oh, buddy. Ooooof.
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 2 months ago:
I was ignorant but curious.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf
She’s got a Doctorate of Philosophy in English Literature from Oxford, is a feminist author, and conspiracy theorist. At a glance I can understand why she’s developed a reputation of a certain color.
Care to share any specific grievances?
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 3 months ago:
It is also a sexual innuendo.
- Comment on Is "dark humor" generally acceptable or is it just my parents/culture more sensitive towards jokes? 4 months ago:
I’d argue that isn’t even dark humor. The joke’s focal point is how ridiculous that position is. You’re taking up an untenable and patently absurd position in faux support of the initial absurd position. That’s ridicule. Now I will grant that lampooning a rhetorical opponent’s position can lean “dark”. Unless the punchline relies on taboo for the heavy lifting though it isn’t crossing that line.
You didn’t say anything offensive or taboo. You criticised someone’s bad take using contemptous analytic hyperbole. I grew up with this kind of humor in my family. It was mostly used as a learning tool which avoided direct confrontation of idiocy while allowing the temporarily embarassed idiot to save face, realize they weren’t thinking clearly, and choose to be in on the joke at their old self’s expense. There are other choices, or course, but if you chose to die on mount stupid then you’d better expect to get buried underneath it as well.
Your family doesn’t seem to be receptive to that brand of social therapy. That’s ok. My point is more to encourage you that you didn’t do anything wrong (and that it’s even normal to joke like that elsewhere).
Your mom might not think you’re funny… But I do!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
No, silly, you’re thinking of Ken from MXC (and right you are, Luddite). Schwifty-Five is just a song.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 5 months ago:
One way this question could be interpreted and restated is: Trans people don’t have blanket immunity against critique, right?
If that is the legitimate heart of your question then: No. They do not. No one does.
Let’s say some puppy kicker happens to be trans. I publically and vocally oppose their puppy kicking. They respond by labeling me transphobic. That’s nothing more than a weak response from a bad person using their minority status as a cover for their shitty behavior/beliefs.
That said, and I cannot stress this enough; that is not how your question reads and the above is an overly charitable interpretation.
If that is not the legitimate heart of your question then all I can do is refer you to the bible: genderdysphoria.fyi/en
- Comment on Is the RAM prices explosion another manufactured crisis to corps drain money from people before the AI bubble collapses? 6 months ago:
The use of currency in an open market is not Capitalism. This conflation is propaganda used by Capitalists to further the “Capitalism is a Natural state” fairy tale.
- Comment on Caption this. 6 months ago:
“Stop pulling! You have to press in to release the trap.”
- Comment on What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say? 7 months ago:
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- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 7 months ago:
If I must to trade one thing to get another then what I recieve is not free.
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 8 months ago:
I’m not confident you’re participating in good faith here but, on the off-chance you are; I’m not sure I take your point.
Can you substantiate your initial claim? “The floor on confidence in knowledge is now basically nothing” seems too broad a statement to meaningfully defend.
Even if we assume you’re talking about US 8th graders you’ll have to be more specific. The US has seen degraded academic performance across the board but the degree varies by State (and often again by County).
What’s “necessary help” is up for debate as well. There’s a hint of something I can agree with here though. I do agree that, for certain vocations, it’s important for individuals to have firm graps on the fundamentals. Programmers ought to be able to code without IDEs and Mathematicians work problems without calculators. I don’t agree that the common use of good tools by those professionals results in the brain-drain bogeyman you seem to be shadow boxing.
What am I meant to be alarmed about, exactly?
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 8 months ago:
An exquisite typo.
- Comment on ... huh... 8 months ago:
This is an affront to Starfish everywhere.
- Comment on Tell me I'm wrong 9 months ago:
😐😑🙄⬆️
- Comment on Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World 9 months ago:
That makes sense. Not a misconfiguration on the site’s end then. Thanks for the clarification.
- Comment on Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World 9 months ago:
Weird. I’ve tested on a desktop and mobile device. Both loaded the archive.is link via Tor Browser (no extensions) without a problem in both “Normal” and “Safer” modes. “Safest” mode fails at the CAPTCHA page but that’s expected.
Maybe the node(s) you were connected to were having issues with that domain at the time.
- Comment on Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World 9 months ago:
What browser are you using and with what plugins?
- Comment on We keep the entomologists in the basement. 9 months ago:
This is true! Saying figs is wasps is silly in the same way that saying plants are dirt is silly. Like… Kind of? From a certain odd perspective, “sure” with caveats. It’s a reductive understanding that’s neither literally nor technically true but who am I a botanist? No. I’m not. I do know a lot happens between pollination and the fruit we might eat though and most fig varieties we grow for food or buy from stores aren’t the kind pollinated by wasps anyway.
I found a decent write up with more detail here: www.treehugger.com/are-figs-vegan-5203202
Dirt is the byproduct of life after its been on a planet for a while. Plants figured out how to recycle life and death’s leftovers. Then mushrooms came along and filled the gaps in weird ways. Animals eat the plants and fungi. Other animals eat those animals. Siiiimbaaaa, right?
We typically don’t think we’re eating our ancestors when having a salad. We aren’t beholden to the idea that we’re eating wasps when munching figs either. Even in the odd case where we’re eating those specific kinds of figs.
- Comment on Me too. 10 months ago:
Weird flex but… Ok.
- Comment on Me too. 10 months ago:
That makes more sense. Thanks for the response! I’m not sure if can agree with your conclusions. It may be that I’m still missing context you’re working within. My best guess is you’re assume some axioms that I am not. That doesn’t necessarily mean I think you’re incorrect. We might just be operating with different frameworks.
I agree that strong emergemce and weak emergence seem different by your definitions. I’m not convinced strong emergemce is a thing. Is there a compelling argument that the perception of strong emergence is actually a more complex weak emergence that the observers have not fully understood?
Something something Occam’s Razor / god of the gaps something. I find these sorts of discussions quite compelling. Thanks again for engaging. :)
- Comment on Me too. 10 months ago:
I don’t see how either sentence follows. Rephrasing your comment and supplementing it with context to explain your reasoning may better communicate your point.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 11 months ago:
Ublock origin is the only way to fly these days. I’ve walked a few family members through using the Element Zapper and explained how the plugin identifies which domain is loading the content and why websites do that now. They’ve all taken to it pretty well.
Having a default backup browser for sites that give too much grief when they can’t get all of their spyware to work correctly definitely keeps me sane and made adoption less stressful for the uninitiated. I give myself three or four tries to make a shitty site work before either abandoning the site and trying an alternative or, if it’s important and necessary, loading it raw in the backup browser.
+1 for LibreWolf too. Dope project.
- Comment on shrooms 1 year ago:
Well, two, actually.
