high demand groups, specifically Mormonism, but generally applicable
High demand groups must always have an enemy. This enemy must constitute an existential threat to the group (real or imagined). It's what enables the group to make the demands it does of its members. The ends need to seem to justify the means, though actually achieving those ends are unnecessary. In fact it's not even desirable, because once they do, they need to manufacture a new enemy.
This understanding gives interesting context to the Mormon obsession with the quote "there needs be opposition in all things." There literally does.
I miss the days when a simple TUI application could easily fit on a 1.44MB floppy disk. Just compiled a simple program I've been working on and it's over 8 freaking megs! That's absurd!
I remember when a full featured application was a kilobyte to 60 kilobytes and was extremely fast getting work done. And the user interface was quite good and thoughtful
I've been slowly migrating my media collection over to a newly created Jellyfin server. It turns out that virtually none of my anime collection is from this century.
@Spacegoat No server (does sshfs count?). Just a big 'ol drive with a bunch of media files and a handful of DVDs I haven't ripped yet. It's just that Jellyfin is picky about the directory structure.
@Spacegoat Actually I had some stuff on Nextcloud when I wanted to watch it on the actual TV (via an Amazon Fire Stick), but it was a very non-ideal solution and kept locking up and crashing the browser.
aye. I've been a long time Plex user, have a lifetime Plex pass I bought forever ago. I've been thinking about switching my setup over to something else, like jellyfin, for years now because of the direction and decisions Plex keeps going and making. But it all really works quite well and has mobile TV interfaces, so I just keep sticking with Plex. Plex is really the only media server I've really used. Always curious to hear about others experience making the move.
Pi is an irrational number. This means that its digits continue indefinitely without ever repeating. Every possible finite combination of digits is therefore contained therein. This would technically include a digital representation of every possible copyrighted work.
Just because an irrational number's digits continue indefinitely without ever repeating, does that necessarily mean that it contains every arbitrary finite sequence of digits?
Is there at least one finite sequence of digits that isn't represented in pi? If so, there are probably an infinite set of finite sequences of arbitrary numbers not represented in pi.
*something something* Cantor's infinite set of infinite sets...
OTOH, if every finite sequence of arbitrary digits is represented in pi, then we should be able to find in pi a representation of, say, Euler's number to any given precision...
@Bob Jonkman So I've been told. I also took it as a given that the numbers never repeat. I have a mathematical proof for at least the non-repeating part now at least.
@bobjonkman No. Consider 1.0100100010000100001..... This is irrational but it doesn't contain any sequence of digits containing digits other than one or zero.
As for the irrational number pi, I think maybe it is unknown whether it contains all sequences of digits, but I don't know where to quickly check that.
Mastodon is the ONLY space where I receive racist comments to my posts
Mastodon, for me, is often indistinguishable from today’s Twitter
And now that Bluesky is fully operational, you can’t use “oh, that’s just the Fedverse” because I posted there at the same time and it’s NOT the same experience at all
Fix this shit or this “thought experiment” will not survive the shifts that’s happening
@cmdr_nova I saw this explained in another thread. They're not coming from "racist instances". People just keep signing up for new accounts on big instances to evade suspension, so its a game of whackamole/death of a thousand cuts.
I've scrolled so far I've scrolled past all this dopamine like 3 times already. I'm so high on dopamine right now I'm spinning in circles trying to catch my tail and I'm not even a cat and I don't have any tail. Could be this ain't dopamine tho...
OK, I'll be "that guy" because someone has to! This is the most terrible structural formula of an organic molecule I've seen in a long time. It sure doesn't look like dopamine.
i would like the people who are like "who needs content warnings just opt out using filters" to know that i am now on my 7th spelling of "us politics" for my filters
I don't know, but to avoid that explore tab, I switched to tusky. I know, I could've customised something but sometimes it's just better to use simple methods. FYI, I'm not American, so I don't exactly want to see those posts anyway and neither I would be able to get the context behind them.
I think about 1/3 of the crap that makes it through my filters is bare screenshots. Unfortunately people who don’t put alt text on images are also unlikely to use content warnings.
I feel like a lot of people who complain about using CWs don't get the point of them VS filters. The way I use them, I use CWs for things that would annoy or upset most people like spoilers for a movie or TV series, or discussions of politics or spiders or whatever. And as convenient way to shorten long posts too.
But I also use filters because I have a couple of specific topics that I know I have issues with, that aren't things many people would think of putting a CW on. And sometimes I use hashtags when I want a post to be responded to or discoverable.
Filters aren't a replacement for CWs, nor should they be. Same goes for hashtags. They're not intended to fulfil the same functions. And in the time it takes to type 10+ hashtags, one could simply put in a CW.
I have a messenger bag that I typically carry around with me. Sometimes things go in there and I forget about them.
Katy was looking for something and discovered that for some reason I had put our marriage certificate in there. The last time I needed the physical certificate was years ago, so it must've been sitting in there and I've just been carrying it around with me unknowingly for quite some time.
I imagine I should probably find a better place for it.
I should probably also go through it to see what else I've put in there and forgotten about.
In what may be the first time in the history of the world that anyone has done this, I just managed to use super glue without getting any on my fingers.
I've stated before that I'm not the CW police and I'm not going to dictate how others should use them, but if you're looking for a general guideline on when you might consider using them, this seems a reasonable guide:
I find that hlint is a great tool for pointing out where your code can be improved, but sometimes its suggestions are... interesting. Case in point, it just recommended changing
map (\(a, b) -> {- ...stuff... -}) $ zip as bs
to
zipWith (curry (\(a, b) -> {- ...stuff... -})) as bs
I hope, for the sake of the poor soul at the other end of the finger, folks take this opportunity to learn from aviation regulators and use the "Swiss cheese model", possibly even with the no-blame or just-culture add-ons. E.g. skybrary.aero/articles/just-cu…skybrary.aero/articles/acciden…
Since it's more than one bad patch, it's a systems failure on many levels, right?
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One key to the successful implementation of safety regulation is to attain a “just culture” reporting environment within aviation organisations, regulators and investigation authorities.
Convincing a large portion of critical systems operators to install your garbage in kernelspace so you can make money telling them a Security Product, rather than a system of practices & policies, is keeping them safe, IS a cyberattack.
@irelephant it probably wasn’t a cyberattack. My post was a joke though, riffing on a famous Arthur C Clark quote - perhaps you missed the reference? "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Income inequality is an abstract concept sometimes hard to visualize, except when a Downtown Brooklyn thrift store needs to employ 3 full-time security guards, one at the main door and two at the drop-off door.
@A Sweet Gentleman Today was quiet on the sidewalk in front of the thrift store, probably because of the heat, but usually there are several unlicensed merchants selling second-hand wares out of a sheet right in front of the thrift store.
@A Sweet Gentleman It's close, but Goodwill is way more corporate than the private Parisian flea markets, which makes the contrast with the sidewalk peddlers even more marked.
PSA: If you are in a group and there exists one or more individuals within that group who must not be criticized under any circumstance, you are in a cult.
I would worry an "update" might be an anti-root patch to prevent owners from adding features and higher sampling rates found in much more expensive models
@Spacegoat From what I overheard it sounds like it was a drug bust. They hauled the driver away and eventually towed the car after a bunch of them turned it inside out.
We have to order @Benny's food from the vet because he's on a prescription diet. Tried using their on-line ordering option. We ordered his food a week ago. It just arrived this morning.
@wing Been meaning to give Jellyfin a go ever since you and Hex mentioned it. Finally got around to it. You'll be happy to know that the first video I tested it with was, in fact, Big Buck Bunny.
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I have done this several times as a fancy “Don’t waste my motherfucking time” especially when someone wants to block out seven people for one hour to decide whether to let me do two hours of work
I like meetings that are timely, informative, and brief. I only get 35 hours a week to get shit done, tops, so anyone trying to block out two hours to honk their own horn in my face sure feels like an assault on my livelihood
@flyingsaceur I also like the “anyone can ignore any meeting request without an agenda included.” (No, I don’t owe it to you to decline a request or let you know I won’t be there if you haven’t bothered to tell me what needs to be discussed and achieved.)
I'll never begrudge someone spending their free time on something they enjoy. At the same time, for *me*, some things became better to buy vs build, for my own valuation of my free time. But that's a me decision, not something I expect others to adhere to, like building a NAS or something.
not criticizing if they wanna go through the legwork. For *me*, at my point in life, I'd rather just buy a Synology with decent hw/sw tradeoffs than comb through hundreds of specs on individual hardware choices.
I sell products ready-assembled, and do-it-yourself kits for building the same products. Some of my customers buy the kits because they really like building kits, and that's great.
But others buy the kits because they think they're entitled to the finished product at a lower price, and they begrudge every second of effort they must put into building the kit. Those people really exist and they are the market for tools that purport to save "the value of your time."
@Matthew Skala Yeah, that's valid. If you're doing it to save money - that's fine.
But this is a criticism of the *argument*, not the sale. People can and should sell preassembled things, kits, and more! Not everyone wants to build! But if someone is building on purpose, don't tell them to value their time.
A trailer for the Sierra On-Line documentary has just dropped!
It features both Ken and Roberta Williams – the founders of the most important PC gaming company ever. Certainly, it was the most influential American gaming company after Atari.
Roberta Williams was a huge influence on me and millions of children who primarily gamed on PCs. She brought us King’s Quest, Laura Bow, Phantasmagoria, and a host of beautiful PC gaming classics. To me, she was as good of a game designer as Shigeru Miyamoto.
I wish Sierra still existed. I miss the magic that they created.
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