SorteKanin

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 9 hours ago

15 was minimum for me too (I'm in Denmark) a few days ago, but now it's 0. They're probably rolling out gradually, just check again in a few days and make sure the app is updated.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 9 hours ago

I had 15 mins at the lowest setting a few days ago too. Now it's 0. I think it's rolling out gradually, just check it again in a week or so.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 2 days ago

I didn't see one either - I'm in Denmark, maybe it's rolling out in different regions?

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 3 days ago

Keep in mind this book is really long - I believe it's something to do with authors being paid by the page in the US? But anyways, it's very detailed but that may not be a bad thing. I don't have any other suggestions.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 9 points 5 days ago

Good on you for stepping up! Hope it encourages others to volunteer for the communities they care about :)

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Like Spain? Sorry I'm out of the loop, what is Spain like in this context?

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's actually easy if you think about it.

Rich people love comparing their wealth to others, so they can feel better about themselves. So we know quite precisely how much each billionaire is worth, cause they really like measuring those dicks.

Anyways, we can use this against them. You just tax the wealth. Not the income. Not the surplus or the profit. You tax the wealth.

For instance, during the Danish election, there were some parties who proposed the idea of a wealth tax such that all wealth above, say 30 million DKK would be taxed by 0.5% to 1% (depends what party you ask) every year. Someone worth 100 million Danish kroner would therefore need to pay 70*0.01 million or 700.000 kroner in taxes every year.

You could do more than 1% and 30 million for billionaires if you ask me.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

game systems don’t need memory safety

I see what you're saying but I don't know if I agree on this point. Games are buggy messes before undergoing a long and arduous quality assurance process. While Rust's iteration speed is maybe not great, I don't think it's really significantly worse than C++ iteration time, especially not with efforts like subsecond, that bevy uses for instance. And Rust is much more ergonomic and convenient to write than C++. It is in some ways a higher level language than C++ while managing to still allow for very fine optimisations, which are sometimes required in games. I think this would translate to productivity improvements too, although I don't really have any data to back that up obviously.

I personally think the momentum is mostly what C++ has that Rust is lacking - i.e. a large body of game developers who are already well-versed in C++ and a large and established body of game engines and frameworks for every kind of game. Games are often pressed for financing, so venturing into the territory of new engines and new languages is not something most game devs can afford or want to spend their money on.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Do you mean Rust is unsuited for games, or that Rust simply don't (yet) have the established engines/frameworks/libraries for it? I think Rust could be really great for video game development, but it's true that the ecosystem is not quite there yet - though it's getting better.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Anarchy is a political structure where there’s basically no one in charge, right?

That's a very literal interpretation of the word. As I understand it, anarchy is more like a class of ideas, rather than any concrete idea. Two people who both call themselves anarchists can have very, very different ideas about how society should run.

So the answer is: it depends what kind of anarchy you're talking about. Your question is asking how a broad category would work but it's so broad that I don't think you can give a concrete answer. You'll need to be more specific.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 3 weeks ago

I generally agree, but I kind of wonder whether something like an advanced LLM has a place as a component of an artificial "brain". We have a language-focused area in our brain, but we have lots of other components of the brain that does all kinds of other things too. Perhaps we're "just" missing those other things.

 

I am not the author but I've been looking for a tool like this for a long time! This looks really nice! :D

 

There was recently some discussion on Feddit.dk surrounding the usage of upvotes and downvotes.

Currently in ActivityPub (the underlying protocol powering the fediverse), Lemmy sends "Like" and "Dislike" activities for upvotes and downvotes. Other threadiverse platforms (PieFed, Mbin and maybe even other non-threadiverse platforms?) do the same.

However, the "Like" and "Dislike" activities are meant for... well, "liking" and "disliking" things. They are not necessarily associated with the action of "vote this thing up so more people see it" or "vote this thing down so less people see it".

For instance, on Friendica, you can dislike a post and this sends a Dislike activity. From Friendica's point of view, such a Dislike indicates just that - the user dislikes the content. It doesn't necessarily mean "this should be shown to less users", but Lemmy will interpret the Dislike activity like that.

This leads to strange scenarios with posts that a user finds relevant and interesting (something that the user may reasonably want to upvote) but also something that the user dislikes (i.e. downvote).

As an example, imagine a post with a title like "AI is awful" (I'm sure many here has seen posts like that). A Friendica user could reasonably agree with the post and thus "Dislike" it. As in, they also find AI awful and they dislike AI, so they dislike the post, to show their disapproval of AI. The Friendica user's intent is not to hide the post from other users or make the post be shown to fewer users! They just intend to show their dislike for the topic at hand.

However Lemmy will interpret that Dislike as a downvote, and the post will thus be shown to fewer users and get ranked down in the sorting.

So is Lemmy and co. abusing the Like/Dislike activities? Should the threadiverse instead use a dedicated activity for the acts of "I think this should be shown to more users" and "I think this should be shown to fewer users"? That way, it would not be confused with the Likes and Dislikes from other platforms.

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