I’m sorry, that came off very passive-aggressive, I really shouldn’t post at 3 am when I can sleep.

The whole dark ages, and golden ages thing is just very annoying, made up during the renaissance, in part as a useful tool to go “look how shit everything is, I will make it great and amazing like it was before”, still a favorite to use by populists (in reference to whatever time is most suitable) and it’s been repeated so much, it actually works, everyone kinda just accepted it. But then when you dig into it, the middle ages weren’t really worse in terms of invention/art/etc. than the renaissance, nor was there this big stagnation after the decline of the roman empire, and people always made art, new inventions and great achievements, along with cruelty, bloodshed and other awful things. But then this has been a relatively recent shift in historical research, so not that well known

In other news, dark ages are a myth disproven by science.

I don’t actually know how nostr deals with messages if you’re offline, if at all, not that familiar with the protocol. But your idea sounds workable.

I tend to come at it from the other side, I like the federated model, but think the “supernodes” could behave more like dedicated relays. Like, a lemmy server right now does a lot of things, like serve a frontend, do expensive database queries to show a sorted feed, etc. and a lot of that does not scale very well. So having different kinds of nodes with more specialization, while still following a federated model makes sense to me. Right now if one of my users subscribes to some community, that community’s instance will start spamming my instance with updates nonstop, even though that user might not be active or might not even read that community anymore. It would be nicer if there was some kind of beefy instance I could request this data from if necessary, without getting each and every update even though 90% of it might never be viewed. But keeping individual instances that could have their own community and themes, or just be hosted for you and your friends to reduce the burden on non-techies having to self-host something.

Or put another way, instead of making the relays more instance-y, embrace the super instances and make them more relay-y, but tailor made for that job and still hostable by anyone, if they want to spend on the hardware. But I’m still not clear on where you’d draw the line/how exactly you’d split the responsibility. For lemmy, instead of sending 100’s of requests in parallel for each thing that happens, a super-instance could just consolidate all the events and send them as single big requests/batches to sub-instances and maybe that’s a good place to draw the line?

SBPlaysGames, super tiny lets play channel, but has been consistently uploading for 10 years and she picks some really good indie games (as well as board games) that i would otherwise never would have heard of. Plus pretty good analysis of the games, though of course the lets play format means it’s pretty spread out across episodes. And by analysis i don’t mean reviews, but more like movie analysis level. Though I’d love it if she’d lean into that part a bit more.

and i specifically picked her because it’s one thing to consistently produce good content when you have millions of views (and dollars?), but doing so with 28k subs and maybe 100-200 views, for over 10 years, that takes real dedication.

Oh and on the topic of video game channels, AnyAustin is amazing. Fucking weird but amazing. He also does video game analysis but not how you’d think…

this article and the accompanying discussion from lobsters is very relevant. Though the article itself is a bit one sided in favor of nostr, it doesn’t do a great job arguing why a relay really is better

the biggest issue for me is that it seems impossible to find those small channels anymore, whatever you search for, it’ll just give you big ones, even if not really related to your query

Clickspring is great! I’d also like to add Blondihacks, which is just very down to earth machining content, mostly with very traditional techniques/tools, and also just high quality educational content. And she has very wholesome vibes

And also NotAnEngineer, another aussie doing machining with humor similar to ToT. Working out of a small cramped garage, his wife/partner doing a lot of the recording. And the projecte are usually quite unique

so the obvious solution is to just have humans execute our code manually. Grab a pen and some crayons, go through it step by step and write variable values on the paper and draw the interface with the crayons and show it on a webcam or something. And they can fill in the gaps with what they think the code in question is supposed to do. easy!

Yes a days earning, at least 30.-, at most 3000.- per day, can be converted to equivalent time in jail* or equivalent time doing community work(4 hours community work = 1 day fine). at least 3 days, at most 180 days (more would mandate jail).

suspended means there’s a trial period where the punishment isn’t enforced and after which it can be fully or partially dropped if the guilty party didn’t commit another crime.

And in this case it’s 30 days worth of fine, how long the probation period lasts isn’t specified. It’s usually 2-5 years

*not going to figure out if jail or prison is the right term…

Or even worse, reading online that there’s some super special item you could have gotten 20 hours into the game if only you didn’t open that one regular chest in the starting area in the first 5 minutes of the game. I forgot which Final Fantasy did this? 9 maybe? Pissed me off to no end, i’m not playing through everything again for this… just seemed mean spirited.

More generally, when decisions early on influnce later stuff that you have no way of knowing about yet. I’m not going to play your game 50 times to see all options. So either i play with the wiki open to not miss anything, ruining the fun, or i realize later on that i could have gotten something but it’s now forever locked because of earlier decisions, pissing me off.

Baldurs Gate 3 had a lot of that…

oh for going out ours will sit in front of the entry door and look in our direction, even if we’re two rooms away. we really need to pay attention to notice if he suddenly disappears and then check the entry.

It’s really interesting how you start to be able to distinguish the different kinds of look they give you, like I couldn’t say how but I know if he needs help, needs to go out or if he wants to play depending on how he sits and looks.

My dog is pretty smart, but sometimes he’s smart in pretty stupid ways.

One thing he does is, if he needs help he will sit in front of the thing he needs help with. That’s it, just sit there. Now, he’s a black dog and he will sometimes do this in completely dark corners of the apartment. Maybe he played with his food ball and a treat has fallen under some furniture, he will just sit in front of it in the dark and expect us to help him, just sitting there for 20 minutes sometimes. Usually we only notice once he lets out a sad grumble after having sat there for a long time but I’m sure there’s other times where he just gave up and we didn’t notice at all. And this is not something we taught him, he just figured sitting quietly in a corner is the best way to get attention.

That and he likes to check if there’s anything going on behind him while on walks, which often causes him to walk head-first into obstacles…

Yes I think that summarizes it nicely 🙂

I don’t think it’s circular reasoning. more like kicking the can down the road, instead of deciding needs, you need to decide goals. but once you have a goal it helps determining the needs. So it’s a different framing that can help a bit to untangle the mess. Maslow is also just 4 goals in a hierarchy and then the needs for each of them.

As for how to decide on goals, idk, that changes all the time and I don’t think there’s any hard set rule to figure that out. In the end it’s all just made up 🤷 But I think asking yourself “what are my goals in life” is more productive than asking yourself “what do I need”, at least it comes more naturally to me.

I think a need is neccessarily tied to some goal and can’t really be discussed without mentioning the goal.

If the goal is survival the needs are water, food shelter. if your goal is not to continue living, then e.g. poison would be more of a need than food, water and shelter.

If the goal is having a fulfilled life the needs also include social contact, intimacy, something meaningful you can spend your time on etc.

so i don’t think you can just say something is a need, you need to decide what your goals are, probably with some hierarchy of goals, and work backwards from that to the needs. Or conversely, to know if something is a need, think about if not having it would keep you from your goal.

All the oil and coal being burned that causes it used to be organic matter, like plankton. and before those died and captured it, all that co2 was in the atmosphere, and the earth was much hotter.

no matter how hot it gets because of this, there will be life left. and we’ll likely die before we can make it bad enough that only single cell organisms survive. It’ll still be terrible and take a long time to recover. but life will be fine in the long run

But what if your phone comes with nice AI filters? The fake videos get more and more real and the real videos get more and more fake

“people get to choose”… last time the second place got picked because the committee didn’t like the first placed one. It had different scale things on them, an atom for the smallest bill and our galaxy for the largest. But for a middle denomination one there was an image of a fetus and they didn’t like that.

so the public can join but the national bank still has final say

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results from last time if anyone is interested

Been using it for over a year now and not being scared of trying operations is such a boon. It helps so much with learning when you know you can just roll back to an earlier state.

I’ve had zero issues with it so far and no one at work noticed anything different, other than there being a bit more rebase spam on PRs.

It’s a buzzword in crypto but has real applications outside of that