He could certainly degrowth the planet. But, than, we’re well on the way to doing that ourselves.

Remember those found-footage style videos that were going around a decade or so ago, where there was this mysterious figure in black who just appeared and was offing criminals in fairly graphic ways? There was speculation that it was a viral ad for some anti-hero superhero movie, but it never materialized.

That’s the way. Be mysterious. Be featureless. Don’t talk. Give them no way to track you after it wears off: appear, do, disappear. Repeat for 48 hours, then disappear.

I still think it wouldn’t last long. The temptations of power and wealth will override any fear; after year, it’ll be back to business as usual. 5 years later, it’d be mostly forgotten.

Now, if you could parse out 48 hours in 2 hour chunks over 12 years, with a couple of “examples” every year at random times, that might have a lasting effect. Do it 4 years in a row, give it a break for 2 or 3 years and let people think it night be over and strike again… that would probably have a more lasting effect. But I still think, at some point after your powers run out a decade or two at most and the shenanigans would start again. Humans believe what they want to believe, and what they’re best at deluding themselves and is “that can’t happen to me.”

Java is still interpreted. It compiles to bytecode for a virtual machine, which then executes a for a simulated CPU. The bytecode interpreter has gotten very good, and optimizes the bytecode as it runs; nearly every Java benchmark excluded warm-up because it takes time for the huge VM to load up and for the optimization code to analyze and settle.

Java is not the gold standard for statically typed compiled languages. It’s gotten good, but it barely competes with far younger, far less mature statically typed compiled languages.

You’re comparing a language that has existed since before C and has had decades of tuning and optimization, to a language created when Lisp was already venerable and which only started to get the same level of performance tuning decades after that. Neither of which can come close to Rust or D, which are practically infants. Zig is an infant; it’s still trying to be a complete language with a complete standard library, and it’s still faster than SBCL. Give it a decade and some focus on performance tuning, and it’ll leap ahead. SBCL is probably about a fast as it will ever get.

It’s surprisingly far away! Shockingly far. It baffles me every time I stop to think about it; it’s so incomprehensibly far, I am incapable of visualizing how far it is, no matter how many times I play with the scrollable solar system web page.

The end, though, is the same. lemmy.ml well still want their version, so they can have their own content rules. What you’re suggesting is functionally centralization, which is already an issue for Lemmy based on its design; consolidation would aggravate it.

Eventually, lemmy.ml !linux users would want to have their own community to enforce rules programming.dev won’t. Diaspora is inevitable. Consolidation fixes the wrong problem - a better solution would facilitate less centralization.

So:

• Lemmy provides the information
• It’s the client responsibility to do the interleaving

Yeah?

An indisputable fact is that static typing and compilation virtually eliminate an entire class of runtime bugs that plague dynamically typed languages, and it’s not an insignificant class.

If you add a type checker to a dynamically typed language, you’ve re-invented a strongly typed, compiled language without adding any of the low hanging fruit gains of compiling.

Studies are important and informative; however, it’s really hard to fight against the Monte Carlo evidence of 60-ish years of organic evolution: there’s a reason why statically typed languages are considered more reliable and fast - it’s because they are. There isn’t some conspiracy to suppress Lisp.

Naw, giant lava trenches sound like a good idea.

No. The inner edge of the Oort Cloud is 10 light days away. The outer edge of 100 ld away.

The math looks like:

• 1 AU is the distance from the Sun to Earth.
• The Earth is 8 light minutes from Sol
• The inner edge of the Oort Cloud is (minimum) 2,000 AU ≈ 16,000 light-minutes, or 11 day light days.
• The outer edge is about 100,000 AU away; that’s about a year and a half to get from the inner edge to the outer edge, traveling at the speed of light.

The Oort Cloud is not only mind bogglingly far away, it’s about 50x deeper than it is away from the sun.

Those are minimum estimates; some estimates have the inner cloud edge 28 AU away.

The original Superman wasn’t a god, but it got hyperbolic over the years with one-upmanship until he was indistinguishable from a god. Canonically, beings regularly travel between star systems, so FTL is not uncommon in the DC universe. Heck, in Invincible (not DC), even relatively low-power beings travel FTL all over, all the time. Spacetime doesn’t work the same in comics. So, Superman can travel FTL, and the Oort Cloud would be reachable. But he’d have to travel at least 20x the speed of light to get to the Cloud and back in a day, and thousands of times faster if he wants to explore it at all, or see the outer edge.

That’s a pretty good starting list. I don’t know that I’d waste time trying to show them anything; just go straight to disposal.

I, too, was thinking “murder.” It solves only a sort term problem though. Within a few years, you’d just have a new batch.

The system is broken. Capitalism as we practice it is broken; our political systems are broken (some more than others). That won’t be fixed by DXing a bunch of oligarchs.

Agree. Set my wife up on EndeavorOS on her laptop, and every time I go in to do something I’m impressed.

I’m a tiling, terminal, minimal mouse guy, so it isn’t for me, but what I’ve seen of KDE it’s leaps and bounds better than Gnome. Some of the minimal DEs are good if you want lightweight; Cinnamon (or whatever Gnome-on-GTK3 is called) is good, and better than current Gnome, but not in the same league as KDE.

NK is really taking “cannon fodder” to the extreme. Too many mouths to feed, I guess.

Hmm. Would that be good, though? Different rules, different moderators. Wouldn’t an aggregation system based on subscription be better? Consolidating would result in a consolidation of power into the hands off a few.

Consolidation would also encounter trouble when server admins disagree with moderators about community rules. When conflicts happen - which they inevitably would - we’d have a situation where the community would split as some moderators recreate a new community on a different server. It was hard enough when lemm.ee shut down, and that have communities no option but to switch; if the reason for a move is policy and not server shutdown, the chaos would be far worse.

The more I think about it, the worse consolidation sounds.

I figured it might be a client thing. Someone else did mention Piefed does this.

This might be the impetuous to fire up a self-hosted instance.

Neat! So, I have to switch to a Piefed account or run my own Piefed server? Does this mean that Piefed performs this aggregation in your feed when you’re browsing your subscriptions?

Yup.

My home security system is a doorbell camera and motion sensors everywhere. I can tell if there’s movement in a room; that’s all. No interior cameras - I don’t trust any of them to not get hacked, regardless of my firewall.

You know, if all meetings were only held by people on the toilet, we could avoid all of those unfortunate embarrassing incidents when that one person forgets to mute.

I don’t think so; I don’t believe the people behind Subgenius have any motivation except honest graft - I mean, they tell you they’re selling merch; they don’t pretend you’re buying an afterlife.

I just think people tend to start with jokes and role play a little too hard, until they forget it’s a joke.

¯\(ツ)/¯

Did they not participate in any form of Subgenius activity, consume any form of Subgenius art? Did they not listen to the Hour of Slack?

Religiously. He spray painted a big Dobbsheads on his skateboard; I think he even got a tattoo?

I may have been mocking Dobbs. Just a little. We’d been best friends since middle school; I knew how to get on his nerves.

And he had a lot of anti-establishment anger. My rebellion was Discordianism; he hooked onto TCotS. However, I was raised Christian by a fervent father - 4x church every week - and I was inoculated against taking religion seriously. He was raised by hippies, so Subgenius was his first church, and I think he just fell into the cult mindset.

It’s fine; there are worse religions to get culty about; he just lost his perspective about TCotS, I think.

It’s a little more than a linked list; it also has a cryptographically verifiable hash of the block contents, based on the hash of the previous block. That’s what makes it a verifiable ledger.

One of the main reasons to use linked lists is O(1) insertions and deletions; the point of a blockchain is to foil such insertions and deletions.