SorteKanin
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- Comment on Why are so many new programming languages being developed? 1 week ago:
Keep in mind that software engineering as a field is like, incredibly new, compared to a lot of other fields. Computers have not been around for that long, historically speaking.
It’s honestly to be expected that some of the first established languages did not turn out to be the best language that could be. We’re still figuring out how programming languages should be.
In 50 years, there will probably be another series of programming languages. They might even be optimised for LLM usage rather than for human directly, who knows. This stuff is all so new.
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 2 weeks ago:
Considering coal is pure C, I can’t really imagine an alternate fuel that would change the math substantially
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 2 weeks ago:
Yea probably within an order of magnitude or so - then again, elephants are probably within an order of magnitude of size of humans. I don’t see why elephants couldn’t eventually evolve to an intelligent civilisation, given enough time. I’d say that’s still pretty large.
But yea I mean the blue whale and the largest dinosaurs are probably about the limit of how large life can get, at least with Earth conditions.
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 2 weeks ago:
But maybe you wouldn’t need as much fire cause bigger animals tend to hold heat better?
I thought the same thing. Then again, fire is not only needed for heat, but also for cooking food and creating new materials (metallurgy essentially). But surely a large creature could just make fires the same size as humans do if they needed to do those things? But perhaps it’d be impractical to cook food at a tiny fire hehe
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 2 weeks ago:
Smaller I suppose, but larger? Why not? Wouldn’t you just have a really large fire?
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 2 weeks ago:
Not kinda, exactly like it - it is just another example of it :)
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen such a small flame, I think they can’t exist. Why? I don’t know.
Your intuition is correct and it’s quite simple really. A small fire cools down faster than it can keep/generate its own heat.
Surface area of the fire (which correlates with how quickly it cools) grows with the square of the size of the fire. Meanwhile volume of the fire (which correlates to how much heat it generates, how much fuel it is burning) grows with the cube.
At small sizes, the surface area can win out against the volume. However, because it grows with the cube, the volume eventually wins as the fire gets bigger. So a fire can only get so small.
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 4 weeks ago:
There’s a group of people who have a hard time seeing the perspective of newbies and unfortunately that group overlap heavily with hardcore nerds. For whatever reason, hardcore nerds are generally bad at UX and generally bad at moderation. It’s sad.
Hopefully this will change as the hardcore nerds become a smaller portion of the user base and more regular people start using Linux.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures 1 month ago:
Fuck the commission.
The EU is definitely a net-positive thing, but the way the commission works is too undemocratic for my tastes. Stop Killing Games seem to have wider support in the parliament, which is the actual democratically elected part of the EU. The commission and all the other undemocratic parts should just be abolished honestly.
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 1 month ago:
European English
Is this a thing? Isn’t it just “British English”?
- Comment on LTT - I Don't Think I Can Go Back To Windows... 1 month ago:
I think it was a very fair take on some of the issues that Linux has and totally get that they are partially staying on Windows for certain niches - hopefully those niches can be supported by Linux soon! I really resonate with the points that Linus brought up about the community. The community honestly often bites itself in the foot. People need to be more welcoming and saying “you don’t need X” to someone literally asking for X is just rude and unhelpful. We need to acknowledge people’s preferences and choices and their user experience.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
I disagree that the reasoning you have makes gacha not gambling. It’s definitely still gambling if you ask me.
The crucial thing to note is that gacha and other loot box mechanics activate and exploits the exact same human psychological weaknesses as traditional gambling does. The point is to incite the player to keep playing “just one more time” because they might get that big win, that dopamine high fix.
That’s the underlying problem with gambling and the problem is the same for gacha and loot boxes. So I think it may as well be called gambling. But even if you don’t agree on using that term, hopefully you agree the the psychological effects are the same.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 2 months ago:
Okay, but surely upon arriving to said address with a huge swat team and discovering nothing amiss, no panicked people, no gunfire, no anything, their first reaction is to raid the house? The US sure is a strange place.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 2 months ago:
abusing emergency services
I don’t understand - someone called the swat team on her? Why would they go to a private house with a giant swat force based solely on some anonymous tip? That makes no sense in my head.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 2 months ago:
Confused european here - why?
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 2 months ago:
The Talos Principle is amazing and the sequel is super good too. Devs recently came out with a remaster of the first game too.
Outer Wilds is a masterpiece, although it’s not completely chill at all times (actually can be scary but only rarely and you can disable that too). But it’s a really really really good game.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 2 months ago:
So is air cooling actually feasible but we don’t do it cause it would make data centers look like nuclear reactors? Or is it just not feasible?
- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 2 months ago:
I think there would be a whole lot of excitement, possibly a lot of religious turmoil.
I’d recommend the movie “Contact” which explores this exact scenario :)
- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 2 months ago:
What do you mean “meet”? The way we would reach contact is by radio signals at first, not by actual physical visits. So at first we would only be communicating with probably a very long light delay as they’d be very far away. Realistically speaking neither would be able to visit the other in any feasible way, unless they have technology that is far, far beyond what we can imagine right now. Interstellar travel is very hard.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 3 months ago:
It’s actually easy if you think about it.
Rich people love comparing their wealth to others, so they can feel better about themselves. So we know quite precisely how much each billionaire is worth, cause they really like measuring those dicks.
Anyways, we can use this against them. You just tax the wealth. Not the income. Not the surplus or the profit. You tax the wealth.
For instance, during the Danish election, there were some parties who proposed the idea of a wealth tax such that all wealth above, say 30 million DKK would be taxed by 0.5% to 1% (depends what party you ask) every year. Someone worth 100 million Danish kroner would therefore need to pay 70*0.01 million or 700.000 kroner in taxes every year.
You could do more than 1% and 30 million for billionaires if you ask me.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 3 months ago:
Anarchy is a political structure where there’s basically no one in charge, right?
That’s a very literal interpretation of the word. As I understand it, anarchy is more like a class of ideas, rather than any concrete idea. Two people who both call themselves anarchists can have very, very different ideas about how society should run.
So the answer is: it depends what kind of anarchy you’re talking about. Your question is asking how a broad category would work but it’s so broad that I don’t think you can give a concrete answer. You’ll need to be more specific.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 5 months ago:
Yea makes total sense - so you’d go for the logical yyyy-mm-dd format then, to fit with how you speak the date? Right? 😅
- Comment on If a person assassinates a king or queen its called Regicide. What is the killing of a leader/president/head of state etc? Why is it called that way? 5 months ago:
While the other answers are funny, the real answer nowadays is either “murder” or “assassination”. There is not really a more specific word for it.
- Comment on Anon's job has perks 7 months ago:
What is the point? Genuine question.
- Comment on Anon reality checks your fantasy 7 months ago:
“That’s fucking why” - why what? I don’t get it. What “why” question is anon answering?
- Comment on What is this colour? 7 months ago:
I would say no, ochre would have more of a red or orange-y tint.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
but it doesn’t stop them from existing on the fediverse.
Well of course, nobody has absolute power over the fediverse like that. Anyone can start an instance and create millions of bot accounts if that’s what they wanted. But “the fediverse” is only what it looks like from the point of view of your instance. If stuff is blocked or defederated, it may as well not exist.
The point isn’t to eliminate all bad behavior on the fediverse (that’s not possible, by design of the system, and that’s good). The point is to allow users to seek towards those instances that keep bad behavior out.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
You only need to stop it on your own instance. You can’t do anything else anyway. Users will go to the instances that aren’t flooded with bots.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
There’s nothing that can be done to stop it
That’s not true at all. You can definitely do something:
- Make a sign up process that filters out most low effort bots (e.g. applications, invite trees)
- Get more moderators to catch the bots earlier. In a similar vein, encourage users to report bots.
- Defederate from instances that don’t have similar measures and don’t take bot prevention seriously.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
It definitely does. You just defederate from the instances that don’t do something to avoid bots.