[-] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 26 points 10 months ago

So..... Throw them in jail? Make them accountable? Revoke the companies ability to do business till the records are provided?

Then again, that's just fantasy because the laws don't matter if you're Rick/big enough anymore.

[-] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 13 points 11 months ago

Really, victim blaming?

Get out of here with that low quality crap.

[-] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago

That's kinda the root is the problem though isn't it?

It's incredible useful to have hoards of intellectually challenged voters hanging off your every lie.

[-] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Definitely distopian, corporate power and entrenchment grows every year.

[-] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Probably because of the "you can't be sexist against males" standpoint

[-] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

browsers themselves are easy to make

That's ... a patently false statement.

They are among the most complex, difficult, resource hungry pieces of software out there along with actual operating systems.

There's a lot of open source browsers out there. Are you using them? Probably not

This is also essentially misinformation. I'm sure none of us have heard of Firefox before, or Chromium. Sure Chrome (closed source) is what most people use, but Firefox isn't exactly some esoteric browser.

[-] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I probably come in at ~30-50 searches/day so I never really considered it. But unlimited sounds interesting ๐Ÿค”

[-] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How are they just plain mean? Trying to play the clickbait game?

Many of these are normal faces with context, a chunk are pretty accurate stereotype and not insulting, and the rest could be considered mean.

Also from Oregon, with a bun as well ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy is.... Not distributed computing.

If each instance is a separate application than must scale on it's own, then no distributed computing is occuring.

There is one database, and you can have the instance itself behind a load balancer.

Lemmy is not a distributed program, you can't scale it linearly by adding more nodes. It's severely limited by it's database access patterns, to a single DB, and is not capable of being distributed in it's current state. You can put more web servers behind a load balancer, but that's not really "distributed computing" that's just "distributing a workload", which has a lot of limitations that defeat it being truly distributed.

Actual distributed applications are incredibly difficult to create at scale, with many faux-distribited applications being made (Lemmy being n-tier im a per instance basis).

Think of Kafka. Kafka is an actual distributed application.

[-] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cloud computing is.... Not distributed computing.

We're talking about pushing compute workloads across a distributed set of devices where that workload is linearly scalable by the number of devices involved, compute, storage, failovers...etc scale elegantly. Cloud computing can give you the tools to make such a thing a reality within the scope of the cloud provider, but it most definitely is not distributed computing just by existing.

Also the fediverse is NOT distributed computing either, at least for Lemmy. There is no distributed compute available for Lemmy. You can't have a few hundred users toss up their own compute to handle loads for an instance. Each instance is limited to a single database, and can have webservers behind a load balancer to spread out the compute. And that's about the best you've got. Not distributed, you can't just spin up 100 nodes for a Lemmy instance to handle more load and everything "just works". It's a very "classic" architecture in a way.

A K8 cluster isn't distributed computing until you build a distributed application that can elegantly scale with more and more nodes. And is fault tolerant to nodes straight up dying.

Kafka for example, is an actual distributed application. One which you could run on a K8 cluster, it self-manages storage, duplication, load balancing, failovers, rebalancing...etc elegantly as you add more nodes. It doesn't rely on a central DB, it IS the DB, every node. Lemmy is not.

[-] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

Or Obsidian? Take actual control over them including rendering if you want to customize that.

Maybe it's a different use case ๐Ÿค”

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This is kind of cool, "polaritonic chemistry"

[-] douglasg14b@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

This is a pretty disappointing and anemic article.

I thought this was going to dive into some of the practical pragmatic and scientific ways to measure information.

This is quite literally "What is a bit and a byte" ๐Ÿซค

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The disorganized arrangement of the proteins in light-harvesting complexes is the key to their extreme efficiency.


I found this to be a fascinating read. Wish the paper was linked, but it looks like it's slated to be released in a journal later this week.

Though it looks like this research isn't exactly new as this 2013 article would suggest: https://news.mit.edu/2013/secret-of-efficient-photosynthesis-decoded-0514

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