adhocfungus
@adhocfungus@midwest.social
- Comment on Anon is an astronaut 4 hours ago:
This is very very loosely the plot of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. They weren’t sent to necessarily convert the aliens, but the Catholic Church were the only ones willing to bankroll a trip that would take at least 60 years and have no possible ROI.
It definitely does not go as planned and, maybe unsurprisingly to modern readers, ends with the Catholic Church being cast as a bunch of perverts in the public eye.
- Comment on LAN Party House 1 week ago:
You can exchange money for goods and services? I thought it all had to go to the rich overlords.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing? 2 weeks ago:
I think size is the biggest factor. OS ISOs are pretty big, so having a managed download is helpful. If the 100 GB triple-A games were open source I would certainly expect torrents. But the FOSS things I download directly are pretty small, and the vast majority are done through a package manager or docker compose. So there may be a Goldilocks zone in the middle where it’d be helpful, but in those cases I’d expect a small installer that downloads the bulk of it for you.
So not much benefit for the consumer, but what about the provider? Spreading the traffic would reduce load on the hosting server which is a positive. You’d still have to handle the bulk of the traffic until the seeders outpace the leechers, but on long enough timescales it’d be helpful. Except you can’t really update a torrent, which means each release needs to start fresh. This still works for OS creators because updates tend to be far apart, there is a large user base, and there is still some market for older versions. For regular programs you may only get one of those three, at which point adding torrents may be more hassle than it’s worth.
- Comment on I support this 1 month ago:
I’ve never understood this either. If someone is holding things in their arms it’s helpful, but if they have a cart then nothing is really gained. I can easily fill the conveyor belt by the time the person in front of me finishes paying. So getting started early feels like I am crowding them for no reason. Like flooring it between red lights; you’re just wasting energy to wait anyway.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 1 month ago:
Was it from the [youtu.be/Jm7nZMHX2Cs](Octopus Lady)? She’s always great.
- Comment on Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 1 month ago:
It’s so beautiful.
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 1 month ago:
“Chat, is this real?”
- Comment on dating profile 1 month ago:
Surely he just means that he left the church and is no longer a pastor at… 18!
- Comment on Thank me later... 2 months ago:
I heard the dev didn’t intend for those to stack and it’s nerfed in the next patch.
- Comment on Are Memoirs and Autobiographies partly fictional? How the f do people remember so much detail? 2 months ago:
I’ve been trying to write a memoir and this is legitimately true. I have basically no concrete memory of my childhood, but when I start writing what I do remember it opens some floodgates. Admittedly I still have to fill in a lot of gaps with what I think is funniest.
- Comment on FMK 2 months ago:
The fact that it sounds so much like “papacy” is making me laugh extra hard at this for some reason.
- Comment on house rule 2 months ago:
If you had just put Vicodin instead of Morphine it would have been 100% accurate. Although he does take Morphine a couple times as well, so maybe that’s just splitting hairs.
- Comment on When your father is clueless 3 months ago:
If you’re not masturbating with me then you must be masturbating against me.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I’m curious about the cute mason jar. I’ve got plenty in various sizes, including roughly the volume of the pictured jar, but they’re all taller than wide. Not sure what I’d even put in it, though (besides tater tots).
- Comment on Tiiiiiiiiiime, its on my side. Yes it is! 3 months ago:
Yeah, that’d be a great template.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I haven’t seen the movie, but the book is very detailed about how the death march is tearing apart their bodies and minds. Some basically sleepwalk and get the tiniest fraction of rest. But even those that do are driven insane.
I’m not really a fan of most of King’s work, but The Long Walk is worth a read even if you don’t like his other stuff.
- Comment on What would you name this New vehicle outta science fiction movies 3 months ago:
Madder Max
- Comment on Ah yes that's my bad 3 months ago:
Posting AI output in here almost feels like cheating.
- Comment on Are you? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Acetaminophen-American 3 months ago:
Don’t worry, the official standards are changing soon. Elon and others are already training us on the correct way to honor our supreme leader!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Exactly what I thought of. No way this guy is serious; he just wants a wider dating pool.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 3 months ago:
That’s exactly what I thought too. I had to stare at this one for a while to get it.
- Comment on don't eat wild carrot 3 months ago:
Is there something I’m supposed to be doing with Queen Anne’s Lace? It gets more out of control every year, but I just rip it out and compost it.
- Comment on Entering hyperspace 4 months ago:
I always get the thought, “This can’t be normal. Guess I’m dying.”
- Comment on meal 4 months ago:
Is that salami or raw ground beef?
- Comment on These pesky airbags 4 months ago:
WHIPLASH
- Comment on Always so loud 😒 4 months ago:
I gained it after having a kid. I don’t understand it, so I’d like to see a study as well.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 4 months ago:
I was going to say Feynman for the same reason. Outside his classes it sounds like the guy was a lot of fun to be around.
- Comment on BE NOT AFRAID, MORTAL 5 months ago:
I can imagine those words coming out of that jar.
- Comment on What MLK fought for 5 months ago:
We at that combination Popeyes and Starbucks!
