namark @namark@qoto.org
Joined Jan 2020
@iron_bug but but green lentil... is best lentil... I assert!
@vital876@mastodon.social Yes, the discovery of the overall network is based on user interaction, such as follows, boosts, replies. This allows smaller instances to exist in a large network without being overwhelmed, they only need to handle as much as their user's can interact with.
That site I linked uses mastodon specific optional API endpoint, that is outside of the protocol. The android clients support other implementation as well, pleroma and misskey at least. It's a hot mess overall.
@iron_bug green lentils ftw!
@ZySoua @amiloradovsky@functional.cafe Nothing is funny. You'll laugh at anything if you feel like it. Different time different place same thing can bore, intimidate or offend you. The job of the comedian is to set the mood, get you going, hence they must be intimately familiar with their audience. These people are pop culture idols first and comedians (or anything else) second, so naturally there are going to be people who love them, people who hate them and anything in between, and they just have to deal with it. Them trying to philosophize about it is perhaps the ultimate joke.
pull_upper is classy, nothing to be ashamed of, while clampull properly telegraphs "steer clear of this madness"
what do you call abomination? clampull_upper? or maybe just pull_upper...
it starts as your usual range clamping:
upper = clamp(B.upper, A);
lower = clamp(B.lower, A);
return {lower,upper};
or you might call it an intersection, but then you have the offset calculated from upper clamping and applied to lower before clamping it, so we're pulling the range B into the A when it's to the right of it. Could do the same with lower and pull it in if it's to the left.
so what is this:
got ranges A and B
upper = clamp(B.upper, A);
offset = upper - B.upper;
lower = clamp(B.lower + offset, A);
return {lower, upper};
@freemo qoto can only show you what it knows about through usual federation mechanisms, which are not perfect by the design of AP protocol. You can request the local timeline directly from the instance using this web interface:
https://mastovue.glitch.me/#/democracy.town/local/
if said instance supports it, otherwise there is no "reliable" way. There is also subway tooter and fedilab on android that have this integrated in their interfaces.
For comparison here is what qoto knows:
https://qoto.org/web/timelines/public/domain/democracy.town
I give it a B-
@vital876@mastodon.social
@soundwave I'm not accepting your bizarre implications and no amount of wordplay can change that, I'm simply pointing out that you have not a slightest clue what natural selection or eugenics or healthcare mean.
There is no healthcare in nature, its absence is natural, its goal is to ensure the survival of the individuals regardless of their natural ability. Eugenics is the exact opposite in concept, the aim is to prevent all potential health issues at conception and ultimately deprecate healthcare. Henceforth, the population that can't afford healthcare is not subject to eugenics, as it is subject to natural selection, and population that can afford it is still not subject to eugenic, as healthcare is opposite of eugenics.
It should also be apparent to anyone that actually studies biology, that eugenics (along with whatever twisted notions of "finest stock" or "elite gene pool" you might have) is an entirely degenerate idea and will never work and there are no upshots to it.
@lucifargundam the graphics are more realisitic as well
@freemo ok hilbert, just don't do it like you do combinatorics
@bonifartius s/cave/traffic jam
@bonifartius cars are just stupid in general, trolleybuses and trains is where it's at. But nooo, I can't ride along with bunch of randos I must independ from everything and go live in cave... with muh car...
@Shamar I'm sure in your magical city of oz there will be no problems what so ever, but unfortunately reality is not perfect, and the problem with heartbleed is not that it happened, but that no one was accountable. And please tell how the hell did they fix it if according to you nobody can to this day understand how it works? It's not a cause of insurmountable complexity it's just a mistake, an omission, basic sloppiness. I was supposed to put a wall here, but I forgot, oopsies! Except in construction if you forget to put a wall where you were supposed to, you're likely getting kicked out of the industry for life if not sued for damages, while in our industry the "oopsies" is actually enough. Did your copy of openssl come with a warranty, or did it come with huge all caps disclaimer stating that it is not fit for any purpose what so ever? Now with an answer to that question in mind was, think again why "There are thousands of severe security vulnerabilities in software discovered every years", while not any less complex engineering projects in other industries remain stable for decades at least. Is it because it's not understood by a single mind, or is it because nobody is even trying to make it secure or good or anything at all. For the established markets if it can be used to exploit people, then it's good enough, nothing else matters.
@Shamar
> I do not know why you are so aggressive
I'm trying to scare your tears back into the eye sockets.
My main point about analogies was that tools are not the same as language that laws are written in, what are you even arguing? I was against your implication that all tools should be made for casual gamers instead of experts.
The language of the law is not a tool it's a sandard, read the last paragraph on my previous reply on standards. That's why law is not written in some weird dialect that some insular minority uses, and yet it's still an example of language that most people cannot properly interpret or use. Yes, I'm unable to read or interpret most laws let alone defend myself in court, I'd instead trust a lawyer a personal human level, and do whatever they tell me no matter how counterintuitive. What implying about trusting a judge? If you are being tried who cares if you trust the judge or not? Nobody goes to prison for 10 years like "oh yes, I totally deserved it, loved that judge", at that point they probably hate pretty much everyone who was present in the court.
"we create automated system that impose our will to unsuspecting people"
What does this have to do with the tools for experts? This is a result of pathological business practice, not complexity. Today no consumer grade software is made to be fit for any purpose, none of it comes with warranty, or as a part of a service directly provided to general public, nobody is accountable for it. It's exploitation because it's what it's meant to be, no by some indirect correlation.
The complexity is understood by experts collectively, and if they honestly serve the general public it's not a problem what so ever. I'm sorry to disappoint you, I understand you ultimate dream is to leave the society and go live in the city of oz that you'd build yourself in a week or so, but you also likely have not a single clue about how to build a rudimentary stone house. When it comes to thickness of the walls, you'll be at the mercy of evil construction workers, where the toilets and sinks go will be dictated by ruthless plumbers and heartless electricians will be demanding copper wire despite your endless please, all led by the global elite of architects to usurp your god given rights and freedoms.
Most people don't know how their fridges, washing machines, cars, let alone water piping or electrical wiring on the city scale work, and yet it's all fine, because there are local independent experts who serve them fairly, forming and enforcing quality standards, through the unwritten law of "don't buy that crap, I'm not fixing it for you".
@Shamar Asking different experts to read your letters and see if they all say the same? And to read the letter written by an independent competitor?
Yes exactly, cause that's how the rest of the world works in case you didn't notice. You don't hire all experts all the time, all you need is to find one that is honest, and unless you are one of the earliest adopters of the technology that work has already been done for you. Just ask your neighbours, that is if you ever even talked to them, or I guess read some online reviews, cause that's a thing now.
Your analogy with language while tear-jerking is not correct. Formal written language is a standard not a technology or a tool, and as such it's agreed upon by independent parties and proliferated to the point of being required. Despite that even today there are still some avenues of formal language, where you would need the help of an expert of both to read and write it, either to be extra creative while remaining correct, or to be as mathematically or legally (or otherwise) clear as possible.
Independent experts honestly serving the public means independent schools open to public, that are interested in finding more and better experts to expand the industry which does not rely on exploitation. Independent schools means that formal language standards must form for them to effectively cooperate.
@Shamar of course it's all about capitalism, don't even try to read what I actually wrote.
As long as the expert is independent and provides a service fair and square I would very much appreciate it, just as I appreciate a services of construction workers, mechanics, electricians, plumbers, janitors, lawyers, translators, writers, doctors, hairdressers, interior decorators and anyone else who can do anything I can't do, because I'm not the father and the son and the holy spirit and the creator of the world, even if it were a virtual world in a bubble.
The only thing that makes our cruft not like the others, is that it is currently dominated with snake oil salesmen, and apparently people see no way out of it except going back to stone age. Serving our neighbours directly? What? Dealing with filthy humans? That is beneath us, waste of out immense galaxy brain power.
Why don't you get off your high horse and realize that if there was any real competition in the industry most of us oh so powerful scribans(what even?) would have been yer average plumbers, and that would have been good. Your hubris stems from the success of what you detest.
@Shamar since when are experts an elite? Are you going to teach your daughter plumbing as well? And construction work? Oh the horrible dystopic future where I can't build a skyscraper in on my own in a weekend! Those tools you allude to are used because they are fit for purpose. The problem isn't that the tools are for experts, it's that the experts do not serve the general public, because of the established industry of exploitation.
