Bilbo Baggins @ Bilbo @hobbit.world

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What type of games is this about? Like gacha games that are just gambling? Or mmos that are a social addiction? Or Dark Souls which is awesome except for the frustration which is an important part of it.

I can't think of any other options. For anything else you should just drop the game and play something else. And you shouldn't play gacha games at all.

I've read theories about white holes and such. I'm not a physicist though. But ultimately, sometimes you just need to shrug and say I don't know. Any assertions without evidence are meaningless guesses.

I hope you're wrong. If there's one job I want AI to do, it's to improve health care.

There are many excellent doctors, but also many very average doctors. And even the best doctors seem to be biased towards the most common illnesses.

And I've read that many people with persistent pain, especially people of color, cannot get medicine because doctors suspect everyone of being abusers. But, giving it out like candy isn't great either.

We need AI doctors.

I did a bit of searching and the initial size you mention seems to be the initial size to which extrapolation is possible given information we have and that past that point it's unknowable?

Could easily be a feedback loop. Everyone sees the same posts, so those posts keep getting new comments which keeps them active.

If userbase is increasing, new users will see these old posts under active for the first time and make them more active.

These are the philosophical questions that every traveler must answer for themselves. I am but a hobbit. I didn't even remember to bring a handkerchief!

Oh, is this just for kids? That's the worst option since it means checking and privacy invasion.

I'd rather they just flat out ban them. Loot boxes never make anything better.

Optoma GT1090HDR

I'm pretty happy with it, although it doesn't do 4k. But, it's super bright at 4200 lumens.

Won't help you code. But I think you mentioned gaming. And it improves pretty much any live video, so many YouTube videos or movies would be improved.

You're right, although if you ever get the chance to browse a real physical encyclopedia, it's a unique experience.

Not practical, but it's a bit like playing a record or playing a game on a real NES. It's a unique experience.

I have a full 2007 set of Encyclopedia Brittanica in the same room as my vintage computer collection. I browse it occasionally.

Projector beating is a bold claim! I doubt I'll ever get a big TV again. The idea of trying to move a 98" TV up the stairs seems crazy. I've got my 120" retractable projection screen and I'm happy.

You didn't mention HDR! It makes a world of difference. I'm loving my LG 27" 144Hz 4k 27GP950-B.

I actually use namecheap. It's only a few bucks first year, but .world domains cost $31.98 per year after that. So not $35 like I remembered, but pretty close. Or maybe that is the price with tax.

However, if I wanted a .nl domain, it's only $7.98 per year. Looking at other domains, it's crazy, but .inc is $2198 per year.

At the moment, just communities. I thought about letting people make accounts, and might still do it, but I don't want the responsibility until I'm sure the system is reliable without much extra work. It seems like the lemmy.world people are running into a lot of problems.

Totally agree about the amount of coordination overhead. That is a huge amount of time to do anything.

But even so, it's even slower, by a lot, once you pull the ripcord and need to keep the site working while you update it.

Prior to release you don't need to have branch and release then QA then deploy. You can just modify schemas and drop existing user data without needing to migrate anything. You can change the look of the interface without angering users who generally hate change.

Just the cycle of releasing new features carefully is a ton of overhead.

I've spent entire days just rolling out code to change which domain name is used to refer to some images because doing it quickly would overwhelm the image servers due to the caches being unpopulated. 100% of that would be unnecessary prior to going live.

I'm using the easy Lemmy script to run the docker instance. How do I take a backup of a running docker instance.

The backups I've done so far are full shard backups. But I don't have a way to automate that.

If you're asking what the $6 gets, I'm talking about a single shard which allows me to host a Linux instance that runs a Lemmy instance. I wasn't sure if that was sufficient, but honestly, the performance via Jerboa is better than when I was using an account on lemmy.world. It has only been a week, so don't know how much disk will get used up over time. Long term I might need to bump things up for storage.

Fair enough. I'll look into automating it using some sort of storage from another provider.

This is a concern, but luckily this isn't required. I set up hobbit.world to host my Tolkien related communities. It only costs $6 a month plus the $35/yr for the domain name to host a tiny instance like this. I don't need to depend on anyone but my hosting provider.

To be safe I should download backups once a month or so.

But the point is that for big communities that people put a lot of time into, there should be an instance for each one owned by one of the mods.