Kichae @ Kichae @kbin.social

Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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"People who study how society oppresses certain groups, and how those groups adapt and remain resilient in the face of that oppression, are brainwashing your kids!" - Dudes in the Oppressor's Seat

"Embarrassingly parallelizable" is just the term for a process that can be perfectly paralleled.

The current boom is an embarrassingly parallel task meeting an architecture designed to run that kind of task.

Plus organizations outside of the FAANGs having hit critical mass on data that's actually useful for mass comparison multiple correlation analyses, and data as a service platforms making things seem sexier to management in those organizations.

There's nothing wrong with graphs whose y axies don't start at zero. They can be used to misdirect people, but if you're capable of actually seeing the numbers in the axes and doing a little bit of thought, they tell you exactly what one that starts at zero does.

Plus, the opaque spike is shown on the secondary y axis, which does start at 0. It's the translucent layer that's mapped to the primary axis.

You already know the answer to that.

Alberta's not a monolith by any stretch, but a significant percentage of the province is neck deep in the myth of rugged Albertan individualism and supremacy.

Negative utility is still utility, right?

I don’t want to. I just want to have them in my home feed.

Fair enough. I'm glad there's something out there that meets your need, then.

I like the "antennas" feature a lot

For the uninitiated, Firefish's antennae are saved searches, where you can specify lists of keywords and users and come back to them over and over again. It's similar to Mastodon's hashtag follow feature, only more flexible. Though, IIRC, it doesn't add the search results to your home feed; it keeps them separate, and undiluted.

From an administrator's point of view, Firefish's Recommended timeline is super cool, and is similar to Akkoma's 'bubble' feature. It lets you specify a list of other federated servers to display posts from, creating a kind of "super-local" timeline. It's the kind of thing I'd love to see in Lemmy and kbin.

Firefish is definitely a bit of an unfortunate rebranding. Though 'Calckey' wasn't exactly setting the world on fire, as a name, either. But at the end of the day, we really need to learn to recontextualize fediverse plataforms as software that runs a service, not the service itself. They're website engines that power social websites, not a social brand in and of themselves, kind of like how WordPress is a quasi-static website suite that is used for a huge number of blogs and quais-static websites.

No one shares something from, say, the TechCrunch website, or Time website, and goes "Hey, Iook what I found on WordPress!"

Can confirm. I find Firefish (formerly Calckey) a much nicer, much more refined, and much more expressive piece of kit.

I've liked Akkoma, too. And there's something really comforting about Friendica, with its "Facebook as it should have been" interface.

It's not a false narrative at all. It's an ideological difference.

You think personal property is a financial investment. Some of us see it as a home.

You're emblamatic of what's wrong with the housing market.

If they existed to feed people, not to maximize profits, there'd be no issue. But like so much else that has emerged in the last 15 years, they came to be because money was free and the people with it were taking bets on "disrupting" technologies. Now that money has a cost again, investors are unwilling to wait on the tech to mature, or on the existing markets to crumble.

Right. So, the actual danger here is... Search engines?

Let's assume your hypothetical here isnt bonkers: How, exactly, do you propose limiting people's access to linear algebra?

I thought her fans were mostly young girls

Uhh, that was 15 years ago. The core of her fan base is, like, in their 20s and 30s now.

This was definitely one of the cutest of the shots I got. Though, theyhave this feathery plumes on their fronts and backs that make them kind of adorable from all angles

Now do Pathfinder goblins.

The idea has merit for anyone living in remote areas (northern Canada, war-torn areas, etc.)

I will grant you war torn areas, and remote islands, but rural continental communities are better served with terrestrial infrastructure. Just because someone's willing to fill the sky with space junk as a means of masturbation doesn't mean it's the best solution for public infrastructure.

Modern depictions of Jesus in shambles.

Land of the free, home of the "long hair is only for girls".