When its your choice, yeah - it's a matter of personal preference. But when it's like "hey surprise, you're not getting the work you thought you were getting" - that's not so cool.
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if you are getting “punched down” (aka offended) by a joke posted on lemmy, by a random guy, you should realize that it is simply not that deep
I think you've misunderstood what punching down means. It has nothing to do with being offended. It's about the relationship between the person telling the joke and the subject of the joke. For example, it's generally fine for anyone to make jokes mocking rich people; but its not ok to make jokes mocking poor people unless you yourself are very obviously a poor person.
Probably anyone who ever gotten any pressure about handling last-names after marriage might care. It's definitely something that some people care about, and some people cop flack for their decision.
The joke is just a joke, but the problem is that this joke punches down. That's generally poor form.
It stands to question that with a fraction of the users on Lemmy, why is the interaction/engagement considerably higher?
I think the answer is fairly clear. Lemmy's topics & votes system funnels condenses the user-base to focus on particular things at particular times. The total number of users may be smaller than Mastodon, but basically everyone on lemmy is looking at the top posts on the front page first, and then exploring to other stuff later; whereas on Mastodon everyone is just doing their own thing.
Focusing people on one topic means that there will be discussion at that topic at that time; and discussion leads to people checking back to read and reply to responses...
I routinely use both Mastodon and Lemmy. I see a lot more varied content on Mastodon, but it is more fleeting. i.e. very little discussion, and fairly short window of interaction with posts. Lemmy has a lot less 'stuff', but a lot more conversation.
I think the difference is interesting, but it definitely isn't something we should use to say which platform is doing better or anything like that.
I'd suggest "nothing" for the time being.
There are a lot of different people around here, and different people get angry about different things. So there's always going to be a lot of different bad things said about a large instance like lemmy.world. But whether or not those things are actually a real problem is for you to decide.
Yeah. I've been interested in AI for most of my life. I've followed AI developments, and tinkered with a lot of AI stuff myself. I was pretty excited when ChatGPT first launched... but that excitement turned very sour after about a month.
I hate what the world has become. Money corrupts everything. We get the cheapest most exploitative version of every possible idea, and when it comes to AI - that's pretty big net negative on the world.
"Just pay everyone more" is nice idea - but obviously that would require a lot of additional money. Whereas "lower CEO pay and raise employee pay" does not require additional money.
We're no strangers to that meme. But you know the rules, and so do I.
This is not loss.
I didn't look at that until I saw your comment. And looking at it now, I see why I didn't notice it - it looks like a blurry mess. But yeah, even so blurry it is a massive hint. I reckon you can probably turn down the sensitivity on your moronometer though.
I guess not. Its just that when I hear 'theoretical physics' I immediately think of particle physics (and related fields). I have this idea that in most branches of physics people just say the topic, eg. astronomy, material sciences, or whatever; and don't usually specify whether they are doing theoretical work or experimental/empirical work. But in particle physics ... my impression is that people are more likely to specify. Anyway, that's just my own bias I guess.
Fair enough.
I personally don't care about the broken clock thing, but a phrase that does annoy me is "if it ain't broke..." So I can emphasise with the idea that a popular simple proverb often oversimplifies and misrepresents and distorts what people are actually trying to discuss.
Is that because you're too young to have grown up with analogue clocks everywhere? (Clearly the phrase is wrong if a broken clock shows nothing at all...)
The lines are the crocodiles wide-open mouth... ... but yeah, I'm not a fan of this kind of mnemonic. It requires remembering a heap of details, such as which way the crocodile is facing, and does it prefer to attack the larger number or the smaller number - and how the relates to negatives... Which I think is surely more difficult than just remembering that the large end of the wedge is the larger number, and the small edge of the wedge is the smaller number.
That said, having multiple different ways of remembering something is often helpful, particularly when getting started. (I remember having a bunch of different ways to remember which was "left" and which was "right" when I was a child. But now I don't think about any of those things anymore.)
Huh. That's interesting.
Earlier you were saying that you reckon people are oversensitive about use of 'dude'. You took the angle that it can be ungendered, and so people shouldn't be oversensitive about its use. But now you mention 'race-swapping' and trans women. Apparently it is you who is oversensitive. You are upset about the way people express themselves in cases where it has no practical impact on you. You could just ignore it completely, with no cost and no impact, but for some reason you rail against it instead. It's interesting what riles some people up.
My computer has a problem where occasionally it will become completely unresponsive. (Mouse cursor doesn't move. Keys have no apparently effect. Whatever app is running freezes. I think its a hardware problem with the graphics card, but I don't know what. Logs at the time it freezes say "the GPU has fallen off the bus".)
Anyway... I recently learnt about Magic SysRq. And I've been able to shutdown the computer from this unresponsive state with
SysRq, R E I S U O. Where as I understand it, the "E" tells processes the end nicely if they can; and then the "I" just ends them by force.(At this point, I'm realising that the
Eis SIGTERM, not SIGINT - so that screws up the relevance of my story; but I figure I'll keep going anyway.)The point is, I've been using key combo with a nice pause between each key, thinking there was some chance that processes might be ending gracefully. But when I tried it while the computer wasn't frozen, the computer was able to inform me that the E and I commands were disabled. (I don't know why.) So even though I wanted to give a nice "please end" signal, in the end that just wasn't happening.
I guess I misread that and responded too quickly, Miles.
Hmm. I've always thought that bananas released the most ethylene; and that they can be used to ripen other fruit (or ripen themselves faster if you put them in a bag or something). ... But this seems to suggest it is apples that should be used for that - unless there's a significant difference between 'produced' and 'released'.
In any case, I guess it's something I might revisit and reassess.