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artificialfish @programming.dev
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What is the difference between an API, a Library, a Package, and a Framework?
  • RE: The biggest problem about this is the API definition. Libraries have APIs. But in a completely different way, webservers have APIs. If I say “we are going to a conference on API’s” what do you hear? That we are going to talk about REST, GraphQL, or gRPC, or web server APIs of some type. This is common phraseology. However, one time I was invited to such a conference, and it ended up being about C# design philosophy.

    In that way API is an adjective (REST API, C# API, …) AND a noun (webserver API). That’s a problem.

    And as an adverb, there is some justification to replace it with Library and others (REST Endpoint, C# Library)

    Because otherwise all public functions are API’s, which doesn’t seem necessary to me. Saying a Library has an API is somewhat redundant.

  • I’m probably no longer center-left. If you could decide from my thinking, what political affiliation should I research to see if it fits me?
  • Everything…

    Why can’t you hang out with people who have different sexual orientations than you?

    Why can’t you understand your shared self interest against homophobia/biphobia with other LGBT individuals?

    I’d say it’s very self oriented, but it’s really not, you can’t even recognize your own group self interest.

  • Proton will no longer post on Mastodon
  • Well since in proton the email alias feature is integrated into the password manager (which is really useful) I don't see them as that unlinked. It would be like having a password manager without the ability to make random passwords, basically pointless. One compromised service and my email will be spammed across the internet until the end of time.

  • How to get people to use Mastodon?
  • That’s merely an anchoring effect. Mastadon was the first of those technologies, and activitypub itself was heavily inspired by replicating Twitter so it was also the most straightforward implementation. Lastly, a lot of the far more favorited social media platforms rely on either strong content creators or social network effects to succeed, whereas Twitter creates enough bubbles and is less focused on people you actually know IRL that it doesn’t suffer as much from this problem.

    You don’t understand correlation and causation apparently, just pointing at stats and grunting without reasoning about them. The effective number of people using fediverse platforms being almost inverse of the number of people using non fediverse platform corollaries shows if anything that fediverse itself is facing an adoption problem, not that Twitter is the best platform for it to emulate.

  • How to get people to use Mastodon?
  • I mean publicly available stats of 11million users somehow proves your point? Facebook has 3 billion users. X has 600 million but over half are bots. 1 in 5 of those accounts are American. So that’s about 1/5th of the people in America have a twitter account. How much they post would be much more complicated stat.

    Here it is being ranked 12th most popular social media.

    https://backlinko.com/twitter-users#most-popular-networking-service

    So yeah, I’m glad we are now focusing on emulating actually popular social media like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. We can have an X clone but why did we start with one?

  • How to get people to use Mastodon?
  • Can I just say that personally I don’t know anyone who wants to publicly microblog. Like that’s just such a niche type of social media. People want to participate in anonymous threads like Reddit, or post to friends like Instagram or facebook, but only celebrities and public figures want to microblog.

  • why do some straight people deny their loved ones’ homosexuality? (keyword: SOME)
  • I mean to me, if I’m trying to get with you, or while I’m with you, all I care about is if you like me or not.

    I think a lot of guys think that it would honestly be perfectly ok for you to go on having gay sex in your straight relationship. They aren’t threatened by another woman because that woman isn’t fulfilling the role they fulfill: sex with a penis. They also probably think you’d be missing out not to have both in your life if you are bi.

    Or they are just erasing. But sometimes the same behavior can come from completely different ideas.

  • Has anyone applied tree of thought prompting to r1 yet?

    Generate 5 thoughts, prune 3, branch, repeat. I think that’s what o1 pro and o3 do

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    Why blocked instances are still visible

    So I want to block hexbear.net. I see it's in the instance blocked list. However I still see their communities on community search. HOWEVER, I also can't block them from my profile, it doesn't give me the option. Known bug? User Error?

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    Find a Community @lemmy.ml artificialfish @programming.dev

    Any communities for PCB design and tools like KiCad?

    With so many engineers on here I'm surprised it doesn't come up in search.

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