MachineFab812 @ MachineFab812 @discuss.tchncs.de

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Americans don't need to be cool about shit. We've been too cool about shit, until this dumb fuck is about ten inches shorter. Not like Balaji will be making productive use of either end if nothing is done.

No, we were all talking about how they use screws of different pitches, as standard pitches vary with diameter, when they could and arguably should use screws of matched pitches. Some moron read my comment on that last bit as a complaint about variations within a batch of screws of a specific pitch, and other morons ran with it.

If you believe I missed the point that screws of the same pitch, regardless of diameter, would move nuts axially(not just "vertically", but in the orientation of the screw itself) the same distance with the same turn incriments, then you have no idea what I was saying or can't be bothered to actually read it.

Imagine me, machining screws on a lathe, as I do, without understanding that its the consistency of the feed screw(or die if using that method) on my lathe that makes it possible. Or that I could switch my SAE feed screw with a metric one to make producing metric screws easier. Or that I could add a 127/100tooth change gear into the mix instead.

Right, I'm the ignorant one here. Machine Fabrication ... its literally in my username, but no, misunderstanding/misreading my comments and throwing garbled versions of them at me because others have done so is more important than understanding the topic at hand.

PC for "real" gaming. Phone for casual stuff, although I'll stream better games when my connection is good enough.

Okay, so point and laugh with me. The general direction of "Canada" will do!

Found Justin Trudeau's Lemmy account y'all. Let's all point and laugh at the moron who thinks the Flipper Zero is genuinely useful for car theft!

Finally, they're catering to the right customer base; ME.

outdated bullshit bingo yeah

Need an "emulator"(sandbox really) for old IOS apps. All the best games I ever played on IOS, games I paid for, were retired from the app store and replaced with substandard, ad/subscription based knockoffs, years ago.

Now I think about it, I've got a lot of android apps I keep sideloading to new devices that won't work if I try to actually use them, but at least I have convenient ways to preserve those.

Its implied in the fact that anyone feels the need to write like in the OP. Are they the troll or the trolled? Friend, that conversation left the station several rants ago.

Wait. I mean yes. They are the troll or the trolled. Likely trolled themselves at some point in the same thread, because it all blends together when you're trying to reply to insincere and garbled bullshit.

That face when I sympathize with the writer and their target less ... than anyone else. Just ... there are better hobbies. Don't feed the trolls!!

The AI figured out a way around the garbage it was fed by idiots, and told on them for feeding it garbage. That's the opposite of dumb.

An entirely acceptable answer to both my original question and my suggestion, although I had already attempted to address that. Every instance generating their own, seemingly non-random, numbers for every post and comment was a big reason my mind skipped to "insanity" for my title - can we say "does not, SHOULD not, scale" any louder? Thanks again.

::: spoiler spoiler Looking at the comment links in the OP cross-referenced with entries on lemmyverse.net, discuss.tchncs.de and lemmy.dbzer0.com have similar user numbers, both an order of magnitude larger(as large? anyways...) than jlai.lu ... the reason jlai.lu's comment numbers has got so high, about one-half instead of one-tenth as the user numbers might suggest, probably boils down to those users being subscribed to a large number of communities, but still not so many as the users of the other two servers. Run that up against the fact that there are fewer communities than users, anywhere, et viola!

That concludes this episode of my conjectural bullshit. Thanks for watching. :::

You unaware there have been share buttons on posts/comments on most websites for years and years now? You already have to follow some sort of permalink button to get to a url that lets you share anything more specific than a top-level post, and that was the case in forums dating back to the ninetees.

You're invoking a use-case that never was so narrow, nor mainstream as you've claimed. If people were actually so used to copying and pasting urls from the address bar, google and others would not be holding onto market dominance after all the things they have done to make the address bar in their browsers a pain to use.

Last, its not combative to address your comment point-for-point. I have not demeaned you or your logic, just called out where it was partial and incomplete.

Am OP. Presented one solution and lauded another. Meanwhile, you've poo-poo-ed both of those and suggested only an app or extention will do, while highlighting that the existing apps both already have the problem solved and aren't necessarilly feature-complete versus the severs.

Your inability to pick a narrative or achnowlege the statements of others reeks of insincerity, and now you're claiming I am not contributing to this thread I've started. Get lost.

Why would they copy-past from the address bar when every post and comment already has a button that copies the url to their clipboard for them?

Also, nothing I've suggested breaks absolute links. Hell, I've even been pointing out that I would like existing links to keep working, both absolute and relative.

Why should I have to download an app to impliment an obvious feature that should just work in the web-UI? Lemmy is still in active developement, and there is no good reason to treat it like an immutable legacy code-base that should require external scripts and hacks in order to present and interact with properly.

My original version/thought?

If the comments/posts were just numbered relative to their communities instead of generated by each instance, there wouldn't have to be this disconnect at all.
/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18177167
Would be THE instance-agnostic link for that post, and
/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/9620373
THE instance-agnostic link for that comment.

We're already using the LINK button on whichever post/comment to copy this stuff to our clipboards, so its not like there should be some massive concern over making people type too much. Url-shortening is also an option, but half the shortenned url's I deal with any more are dead links - the page/original url isn't gone, but the shortened version has been expired.

We wouldn't even have to redo how the instances generate content numbers for posts/comments generated locally, but set them to pull such numbers in for each post/comment mirrored from another instance. Not even slightly hard to come up with, though I don't have my laptop with me so I'll refrain from speaking on the difficulty of implimentation versus all the "legacy-numbered" content already out there.

... seems like it would be easier to impliment without breaking most existing links versus UUIDs, BUT UUIDs are more of a standard, and either method would probably be best implimented with a server-side(or page-embedded and executed client-side) method for translating legacy links to the new version.

I don't use any client besides the web-ui. There is no reason for the webui to not impiment obvious features found in multiple client apps, but yes, you've hit the nail on the head as to a desirable version of this behavior.

If the comments/posts were just numbered relative to their communities instead of generated by each instance, there wouldn't have to be this disconnect at all.
/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18177167
Would be THE instance-agnostic link for that post, and /c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/9620373
THE instance-agnostic link for that comment.

Don't even have to redo how the instances generate content numbers for posts/comments generated locally, but set them to pull such numbers in for each post/comment mirrored from another instance. Not even slightly hard to come up with, though I don't have my laptop with me so I'll refrain from speaking one the difficulty of implimentatio versus all the "legacy-numbered" content already out there.

Yes, that is the expected behavior, and what I attempted the first time in the link comment. I was surprised it wasn't working, even after a page refresh.