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frezik @midwest.social
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Websites: Then vs Now
  • Partially. Not really. Page Rank instantly obsoleted every other search algorithm in existence. Nobody was able to get high quality results right at the top so consistently. The ad-free part was a bonus, at least for a while.

  • Tankies love Russian imperialism
  • Really? You accept that they happened, they are bad, and we should work towards a better society where that doesn't happen regardless of what coat of paint the government puts over their actions?

  • Helpful map of the USA
  • Oh, yes, it is.

    We went there during Thanksgiving, and my wife looked around for a place that was open on Thanksgiving and had a good special dinner offering. The city subreddit said this one diner was amazing, and it happened to be a few blocks from our hotel.

    It was bland and came out lukewarm. It was, at best, OK. We went back there for breakfast, because sometimes those kind of diners are only good for breakfast, but that was also, at best, OK. I have no idea why the city subreddit was raving about it.

  • Ramaswamy wants to defund unauthorized government programs - like veteran healthcare
  • "Lost in Vietnam"? Oh, no, they were saying much worse than that. It used to be that if you suggested the US lost Vietnam that you were "insulting the bravery of the troops" or some shit like that. It was only after the War on Terror became unpopular that you could say the US lost Vietnam (because, you know, it did) without some jackass wingnut bringing out the faux patriotism.

  • USA President term limits
  • Not always voluntary. Some tried for a third term and failed. Theo Roosevelt tried for a third term in 1912. Though his first term was taking over after McKinley was assassinated, but it was only some months in, and that would be covered as a first full term under the later amendment.

  • Trump picks vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. for Health and Human Services secretary
  • This is one reason why the "leave the country" people are so off. There's a notable rise in far right wing nuts all over the world. Even if Poilievre loses, you'll still have a very large contingent of people who thought he had good ideas.

    No, running away isn't going to solve it. I do understand that some people are in danger, and leaving might be their best option. For the rest of us, no.

  • Tommy Tuberville threatens to end career of any GOP senator who blocks Matt Gaetz
  • Tuberville himself wouldn't, but a lot of Republicans thought that was dumb as shit and was directly hurting military readiness. He does not have a good reputation in his own party thanks to that stunt. Tuberville's voters will still come out for him, but it takes more than that to get things done in Congress.

    It's quite possible that more than a few Republicans will ignore Tuberville. The senate breakdown will be 47/53, so it doesn't take many to stop it.

  • But yes.
  • Given that the first commercial nuclear power plants in the US were coming online in the late 1950s, that's entirely possible. Steam trains were well on their way out by then, but there were still a few hauling freight around.

    Fun adjacent fact: even when the British Empire had moved off of wind sails and into coal, those coal ships didn't have the range to possibly cover the entire Empire. Coal stations were setup around the world, and the coal had to be transported by sail. The previous technology helps get the next generation technology going.

  • Exclusive: Ben & Jerry's says parent Unilever silenced it over Gaza stance
  • But why call that out at all? Why not call out an actual fallacy built inside a reducto ad absurdum argument (assuming there is one)? The poster way up the stack did not clarify at all. They posted "reducto ad absurdum" as if that was the end of it.

  • Exclusive: Ben & Jerry's says parent Unilever silenced it over Gaza stance
  • I said early on:

    There might be some other logical fallacy at play. Slippery slope is a common one in cases where people cite reducto ad absurdum. But why not cite the actual fallacy rather than the one that isn’t a fallacy at all?

    Yes, you can use reducto ad absurdum arguments in a fallacious way. That's true of literally any kind of argument, so it's pointless to say that. Point out the actual fallacy or don't.

  • I think this is the right time to bring this rule back

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    After six years of hardware ray tracing, the best examples of it are modified old games, like Quake and Minecraft.

    There might be a good reason for this. Raster effects were already really good in newer games, and ray tracing could only improve on that high bar. It's filling in details that are barely noticeable, but creap ever so slightly closer to photorealism.

    Old games start from a low bar, so ray tracing has dramatic improvement.

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    Cobol Has Been "Dead" For So Long, My Grandpa Wrote About It

    wumpus-cave.net Wumpus Cave

    Delving the depths of computing, hoping not to get eaten by wumpus

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    A Solarpunk Internet: How Much Bandwidth?

    www.wumpus-cave.net Wumpus Cave

    Musing about programming

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    Link broken in app

    Not 100% sure if this is a Summit issue or something in Lemmy more generally. Here's the post in question:

    https://midwest.social/post/10123989

    The link to the blog works on my instance for the desktop. Several other users were reporting the link being broken, and it does break for me on Summit, as well.

    When I hit the link on Summit, the requests on the server are GET /api/v3/post?id=2024 and GET /api/v3/comment/list?max_depth=6&post_id=2024&sort=Top&type_=All. It looks like it parsed out the "2024" from the original link and tried to use that in a Lemmy API call.

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    Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml frezik @midwest.social

    Post link sometimes goes to the wrong place

    Here's the post in question: https://midwest.social/post/10123989

    Which linked to my blog here: https://wumpus-cave.net/post/2024/03/2024-03-20-moores-law-is-dead/index.html

    On my instance (midwest.social), this works fine. However, some other users were reporting a broken link, and I also see a broken link when using my mobile app (Summit). When it breaks, I see these calls in the server logs:

    • GET /api/v3/post?id=2024
    • GET /api/v3/comment/list?max_depth=6&post_id=2024&sort=Top&type_=All

    Which appear to be Lemmy API calls with some of the actual link data built in.

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    Moore's Law is dead, but not for the reasons everyone says

    wumpus-cave.net Wumpus Cave

    Musing about programming

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    Nothing strange about a tornado in February in Wisconsin rule

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