tatterdemalion @ tatterdemalion @programming.dev

Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, stoic, democratic socialis

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Fair, but it's also limited to the very top of the bell curve at any point in time.

The fastest marathon time for men is 2 hours 1 minute and for women it is 2 hours 14 minutes.

It's an unacceptable leap in logic to infer (from that statement) anything about populations of men and women. You've picked only a single sample from each population and chosen that highly biased representative.

In Settings > Blocks > Blocked Instances

I think it's just the communities that don't appear.

Actually I can read this. Apparently blocking instances doesn't block their comments in communities that aren't hosted on the blocked instance.

Sorry if this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but how do we know that BlueSky isn't padding their stats with internal bots? I could see this being a viable strategy to attract users and overcome the social network bootstrapping problem.

That's a good point. Honestly I didn't notice all of those posts were from a single community, though in hindsight that makes a lot of sense.

Not because I've had any kind of bad experience with users on this instance, but I don't care for the posts on lemmy.blahaj.zone. I honestly just got tired of seeing the "Rule" posts; it's like 90% of their posts!

Stop using Brave, people.

Rate-limiting could also be applied at the federation level, but I'm less sure of what the implementation would look like. Requiring filters on a per-account basis might be resource intensive.

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Why resort to an expensive decentralized mechanism when we already have a client-server model? We can just implement rate-limiting on the server.

No I'm pretty sure that the DNR prohibits hunting to specific areas on public land.

That just sounds illegal.

Square matrices are linear endomorphisms. They are isomorphic to (1,1) tensors but not any other rank of tensors.

Are sockets not files?

Objects may have a single trailing comma.

I just came.

Large ISPs still don't support it. It's a fucking travesty.

I think there's a pretty big overlap of gamers and programmers who use Windows or WSL because they don't want to have to dual boot.

It's definitely faster. I have seen measurements from many people showing that Windows is slower compiling Bevy on the same hardware.

Yea I agree. Good UX is a lot of work, and I think FOSS projects rarely prioritize it. Even good documentation is hard to come by. When you write software for your own use case, it's easy to cut UX corners, because you don't need your hand held.

And good UX for a programmer might be completely different from good UX for someone that only knows how to use GUIs. E.g. NixOS has amazing UX for programmers, but the code-illiterate would be completely lost.

I believe that the solution is "progressive disclosure", and it requires a lot of effort. You basically need every interface to have both the "handholding GUI" and the underlying "poweruser config," and there needs to be a seamless transition between the two.

I actually think we could have an amazing Linux distro for both "normies" and powerusers if this type of UX were the primary focus of developers.