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[โ€“] varsock 4 points 1 year ago

Stuff you have to relearn every time you have to use it

๐Ÿ˜‚ If I could summarize my engineering career, that would be the one liner.

[โ€“] varsock 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah totally! I would encourage everyone to try it with their workflow and see where it can make a difference and where it falls short.

Reason I made an example out of regex is b/c of how much hate it gets :D I definitely see why regex is widely appreciated.

[โ€“] varsock 3 points 1 year ago

I tell him that I am currently in a simulation and thus it must be the last game I played.

If I get a fat check that means this is all a simulation ;)

[โ€“] varsock 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

this comment is no way related to your post.

I saw the one of the community rules is "more fuck u/spez comments" so I'm trying that out.

fuck u/spez

[โ€“] varsock 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I will admit reading the reasons against Linux made me a bit butthurt given how much it has accomplished and the ubiquity of it running on servers that host our services.

However, a (real time operating system) RTOS is distinct from a time-sharing operating system, such as Unix, which manages the sharing of system resources with a scheduler, data buffers, or fixed task prioritization in a multitasking or multiprogramming environment. And a time-sharing kernel is likely not suitable for the demands of real-time feedback that airplanes, especially fighter planes, are under. Admittingly I don't work on the kernels so I might be out of my league talking about it if there are ways to optimize them for RTOS applications. And I also don't work on airplane but hobby learning about them.

In an airplane, the pilots are voting members. If they they are nose diving and tell the airplane to pull up, the airplane will calculate how much of the full range of motion to allow the flaps to "bite" the air so that the plane doesn't desintigrate. This takes into account speed, altitude, air density, load on wings, load on frame, G forces pilots would experience, etc etc.

[โ€“] varsock 3 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] varsock 3 points 1 year ago

despite having 3 Lemmy apps in rotation, it's been an excellent experience!

I found out I enjoy small active instances and communities by interest where I can take part in conversation and even start recognizing other users. Discovered "large communities" feel more like towns and that's fine. At least here I have the option on where I can lurk and post.

[โ€“] varsock 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm having a hard time believing that is the case for "search." Cards and "google news" is another story.

As much as I dislike Google's practices, they are doing a service by indexing where websites are and allowing them to be found based on keywords.

I feel if I go to "google.com" and search for Google should show me links to so that I can visit the site directly. Any law that retards that is shooting Canadian news outlets in the foot.

Now if Google somehow finds what you're looking for and does not take me directly to the website and instead parses the site, presents the content, and shows its own ads, as opposed to ads hosted on , then yeah - google can go play in traffic.

[โ€“] varsock 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

am I understanding it correctly that if I'm in Canada and search for, say ArsTechnica, or other news source, Google will not show those results to me? Like they indexed the site and will omit it from a search?

Or are they pulling news in their "cards" or whatever they call them when they show previews and users never enter the site. Havent used Google Search in so long don't even know what shenanigans they are up to.

[โ€“] varsock 1 points 1 year ago

yes that makes sense. Thanks for being thorough. After reading all the comments I'm pretty sure "via programming.dev" should read in the context of the post as !community@instance is known via programming.dev instance. I guess it makes it explicit which "all" I am browsing if I pick up browsing where I left off and forget I am not in the "all local"

[โ€“] varsock 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

wow it finally clicked! like the whole concept of federated services! thank you and @[email protected]

[โ€“] varsock 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

gotcha. Forgive my ignorance but isn't an instance federated with every other instance (using activityPub)? Or is communication != federation.

I havent digested the docs but it appears the admins choose which instance they federate with? or how does this work.

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