Hehe, good point.

people need to read more code, play around with it, break it and fix it to become better programmers.

I think AI bots can help with that. It’s easier now to play around with code which you could not write by yourself, and quickly explore different approaches. And while you might shy away from asking your colleagues a noob question, ChatGPT will happily elaborate.

In the end, it’s just one more tool in the box. We need to learn when and how to use it wisely.

Much like that comment. Can you give a better example, or express why it’s a bad example? That would bring some quality in.

FYI you can self-host GitLab, for example in a Docker container.

Because religion evolved to thrive in us.

It’s like a parasite, and our mind is the host. It competes with other mind-parasites like other religions, or even scientific ideas. They compete for explanatory niches, for feeling relevant and important, and maybe most of all for attention.

Religions evolved traits which support their survival. Because all the other variants which didn’t have these beneficial traits went extinct.

Like religions who have the idea of being super-important, and that it’s necessary to spread your belief to others, are ‘somehow’ more spread out than religions who don’t convey that need.

This thread is a nice collection of traits and techniques which religions have collected to support their survival.

This perspective is based on what Dawkins called memetics. It’s funny that this idea is reciprocally just another mind-parasite, which attempted to replicate in this comment.

One is multiple parallel goals. Makes it hard to stop playing, since there’s always something you just want to finish or do “quickly”.

Say you want to build a house. Chop some trees, make some walls. Oh, need glass for windows. Shovel some sand, make more furnaces, dig a room to put them in - oh, there’s a cave with shiny stuff! Quickly explore a bit. Misstep, fall, zombies, dead. You had not placed a bed yet, so gotta run. Night falls. Dodge spiders and skeletons. Trouble finding new house. There it is! Venture into the cave again to recover your lost equipment. As you come up, a creeper awaitsssss you …

Another mechanism is luck. The world is procedurally generated, and you can craft and create almost anything anywhere. Except for a few things, like spawners. I once was lucky to have two skeleton spawners right next to each other, not far from the surface. In total, I probably spent hours in later worlds to find a similar thing.

The social aspect can also support that you play the game longer or more than you actually would like. Do I lose my “friends” when I stop playing their game?

I don’t think Minecraft does these things in any way maliciously, it’s just a great game. But nevertheless, it has a couple of mechanics which can make it addictive and problematic.

Claims it is a literature movement. Fails to give a single example of a book that can be defined as solarpunk or that self-defines as such.

Really!? Wow, that is poor. Thanks for saving my time!

Edit: And for the update.

You can check wether it has something to do with “[ ] Show Read Posts”, a checkbox in your settings.

It confused me once; because it counts your own posts as “Read Posts” and hides them accordingly.

At least that’s what it did in the last months. Since the recent update to 0.19, I see Read Posts no matter how I toggle that setting.

when your server is a raspberry pi of some underage kid

You couldn’t be further from the truth. sunaurus has been an exemplary admin, with clear communication and obvious competence. He’s even contributing to the source code and helped other admins in troubling times.

Yes the situation is/was bad, but for anyone who followed the server, as an exception. Coincidentally right around the holidays.

It’s fine if you rather want to move to another instance, but can you do so unlike an underage kid, slinging fabricated dirt on your way out?

the server performance in general seems to be a lot better than before

For me it’s the opposite. All good, then I took a break around Nov/Dec, and now it’s a slug for more than a week already. Pages take second_s_ to load and sometimes don’t load at all.

Then null will be returned, as the value of b.

There’s really not much we can do about it?

Let’s just hope it is a function of size and that we’re still growing.

For those who don’t know what Firefish is: https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_is_Firefish%3F

I am still not convinced, that the issue can be solved completely through prevention.

Alone for the reason that families are different, and sometimes even move in other countries or continents.

Regardless how great the overall system is, there will always be differences between families and locations.

Some parents just don’t care, don’t understand, did not treat their own issues. Some children cannot escape that.

It’s refreshing to see someone hate these abominations with the same passion I do, and bring up very similar points. Thanks.

“Monad” is a shorter term though. “Structured data type” reads almost as bulky as “Curve of constant normal intersection points”.

Correct and an important distinction generally. But in the given context, what difference does it make? Would we ban a NS-Nazi, but not a Mussolini-fascist? In the brevity of the comment which started this chain, I think “Nazi shit” referred to both. Since both has no place, and both are very similar to each other for all intents and purposes of Lemmy moderation.

Yes, we could simply use the correct term and oppose ‘fascists’, but internationally, both terms are practically synonyms.

I guess you hit it.

So on a more theoretical note: There are contexts in which the word lost it’s meaning. Some leftist groups are quite trigger happy with words usually reserved for the extreme right. I also heard in Russia, ‘Nazi’ has a different meaning than in the west, literally more “bad/evil”, a more general ‘enemy of Russia’.

However;

Just because someone used the word wrong doesnt mean …

That design, which the team tested on the roof of an MIT building, efficiently converted the sun’s energy to evaporate water, which was then condensed into drinkable water. But the salt that was left over quickly accumulated as crystals that clogged the system after a few days. In a real-world setting, a user would have to place stages on a frequent basis, which would significantly increase the system’s overall cost.

In a follow-up effort, they devised a solution with a similar layered configuration, this time with an added feature that helped to circulate the incoming water as well as any leftover salt. While this design prevented salt from settling and accumulating on the device, it desalinated water at a relatively low rate.

In the latest iteration, the team believes it has landed on a design that achieves both a high water-production rate, and high salt rejection, meaning that the system can quickly and reliably produce drinking water for an extended period.

The key to their new design is a combination of their two previous concepts: a multistage system of evaporators and condensers, that is also configured to boost the circulation of water—and salt—within each stage.

It seems a considerable amount of research and testing went into controlling the eddies such that they auto-cleanse the system from salt.

That doesn’t necessarily mean the end result is too complicated to make at home, but maybe.

Either way, if promises hold true, this could mean passive, very cheap, decentral, efficient, low-maintenance desalination devices. Huge if true.

The obvious solution is to abandon your project not too late; leave on a high note.

I also found it very useful to document every step of my setup procedures, right after I figured out what works. At least the respective CL.

Right, exactly my position.