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But does the energy to expand the balloon not just come from the pressure? Pressure has units of energy per volume btw.

REST server and ORM python code

Fair enough, that can be achieved with pure python.

There is only one meaning of the word python: the snake and the programming language!

There are only two meanings of the word python: the snake, the programming language and the British satire group!

There are only three meanings of the word python: the snake, the programming language, the British satire group and the peni..

We'll come in again!

You tried your best, but the actual link form is !optimistsunite@reddthat.com

A new database specifically designed for financial transactions.

I'm not an expert on finance software, so I can't critically assert how good they really are. But they claim much much higher throughput than traditional databases, higher fault tolerance, self healing networks if several replicas are running, etc.
From a purely technical standpoint it's interesting for being written in zig. Because the database scope is so narrow they know exactly how much memory they will need on startup and just allocate all required memory on startup and never allocate more, nor free the aquired memory.

They never would have been able to get the same performance from any solution that incorporates a general purpose database.

Their requirements/explicitly-not-required-ments include that it's fine to drop 1s of data. That would be an insane proposition for any other database. Also their read/write rates and latency requirements are unusual to say the least.

It's the same thing as tiger beetle. Ridiculously narrow domains allow for ridiculous performance improvements compared to of-the-shelf solutions.

Yes, sync shows username@instance for me. Good catch!

Can not confirm:

My phone does not want to upload an image at the moment (imgur and sync/reddit failed), but it looks fine.

        Profile pic, Arabic letter, @instance, 40 points, dot, time/edited


  

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As @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone already pointed out (thanks girl!), I never said they would get downvoted. It's just that if US news are upvoted and international news are not, then sorting by upvotes (which any reasonable algorithm will do), will inevitably lead to a reduced visibility of said international news.

Thanks to federation the frontpage itself is mostly non specific memes and tech/Linux content. But if you want a concrete example: here is a screenshot of !news@lemmy.world. the name of the community would suggest well, world news. The reality is ... Quite different:

The nine posts in the screenshot are about:

• Elon musk (50/50)
• Jk Rowling & a new Scottish law (international)
• US traffic blockades (US)
• Donald Trump (US)
• Israel war (international)
• US jails (US)
• US housing (US)
• Donald Trump (US)
• Donald Trump (US)

If you want the space to have more equal representation, why not produce high-quality content that appeals to your fellows rather than moaning about people who by your own admission mean no harm?

As i have just explained in my first paragraph this will not be enough. (And that's aside from the extra effort required to keep up said high quality work. Even if it would lead to equal representation, it's an uphill battle.)

Are you sure you're not trying to find ways to justify anti-US bias?

Yes, I am sure. I am merely stating a fact. This dynamic develops in any online space with a clear majority group. For example, take the /r/de subreddit. It is the default subreddit for German speaking users on reddit. Austrian and Swiss users are explicitly invited. And yet, by sheer number of citizens the news about German politics dominate the submissions. I do no more resent Germans for up voting content that interest them on /r/de (for example myself) than I resent Americans upvoting content that interests them.

Similarly you can take any other instance that is specific to a group, be it defined via country (e.g. lemmy.ca) or shared interest/experience (e.g. lemmy.blahaj.zone) and you will find that minorities that are not part of that definition will inevitably be suppressed. But these country or interest specific instances do not claim to cover the world. In fact, OP was probably writing this post not due to the presence of US citizens on Lemmy, but due to the overwhelming presence of US citizens on an instance that claims to represent the world. Renaming !news@lemmy.world to !usnews@lemmy.world would go a long way.

Exactly!

For what it's worth, the same issue exists in German speaking communities as well. /r/de is the subreddit for all German speakers. But while the Austrians and Swiss are explicitly invited too, by sheer number of citizens the news about German politics make up the vast majority of submissions in the subreddit.

The same probably applies to my account's instance (feddit.de), though I am not sure if the swiss and austrians have dedicated instances as well. Thanks to federation the effect is lessened, because every country (or otherwise defined group) can have their own frontpage. (E.g. lemmy.ca or lemmy.blahaj.zone)

No, not at all. But by sheer number of submissions and comments the collective hive mind will tend towards topics that are relevant for the biggest population.

It's nothing malicious. People are simply less likely to upvote and engage with content that does not interest them or is not relevant for them. All natural of course. But the side effect is that minority topics are suppressed.

But the post was created on April the first - so is it meant to be taken seriously or not? Because that inverts the opinion and therefore my vote.

Because it means that contributions are always leaning towards American viewpoints. From politics being mainly concerned with US politics to comments being written from an English speaking, US perspective.

Would you join an instance with a dominating presence of Russian or Chinese or Brazilian or South African or Iranian users? I hope you can see why it matters now.

No, it's fine. It's a PNG and readable. Could be higher resolution though, people are used to sharper text nowadays.

You literally just posted proof that the image is stored as a PNG.
Take a look at the url again. The part after the ? is optional and can be removed.

Thanks, It actually does, because the conversation factor is easy.

2e27 Å2 = 2e7 m2 = 20 km2

So an area 5km by 4km. You can now easily compare it to the size of your neighborhood, town or city.

They really could allow more short options in the help text though. I know that --six-word-option-that-is-really-long does what I want. I need to know if it's -p, -o, -f or whatever!

The example is wrong, because they used 1.0.

But in general x-x does not have to equal 0, that is true. I'm pretty sure Nan and infinity would yield not 0.0, but Nan instead.

And if you reach x with two different calculations, e.g. x1 = a - b - c and x2 = a - c - b it is certainly not guaranteed that x1 - x2 == 0.0

Are you sure? I've never seen that inequality before.

Edit: and at least python agrees with me

        print(0.1 + 0.2)  # 0.300...0004
    print(1.0-1.0)  # 0.0
  

Yes, python is between java (long compiles, faster execution) and perl (no compiles, slower execution). No, it won't change that, because it's pretty successful the way it is now.

And yes, cffi is pretty dang sweet. Tons of scientific research runs on Numpy and pandas.