True, but also, C and C++ is steadily being replaced and really only keeps being used because of existing tooling, processes, and skillsets, not because it’s actually better than Rust or similar. And yeah, agree with JS+Python. My statement definitely was hyperbole :D

Yep this is extremely weird. Public voting is reaaaally bad at this. I’m sorry, but Minecraft has sold over 300 million times. That’s literally 3.75% of the whole world’s population. It’s what a whole generation of kids grew up with, what shaped their minds massively.

Shenmue has sold 1.2 million, I had never even heard of it (which admittedly is not a measure of influence, but it does mean something), and while it apparently was one of the first games with such an extensive open world, open worlds in general were already very desired, Shenmue didn’t influence anything really, it just tried to do it on a more massive scale, and even failed spectacularly economically.

Probably not a person on the world (that does computer games at all) exists who hasn’t heard of Minecraft.

It’s quite obvious that Minecraft should be ranked higher than Shenmue, but this questionnaire quite obviously only reached a very old demographic.

Well, pre-2000 is quite a strong limitation here. In the last 25 years in programming, basically everything changed. It’s hard to find anything older than 25 years that’s even still relevant.

But I would say Lisp, or what it brings, mainly the ability to do meta-programming, using code to change/generate code. It basically solves what AI is being used now to solve, namely generating boilerplate code. In many languages, there is just so much shit you have to write to get to the actual creating a solution, problem solving part, which you can very cleanly circumvent with meta-programming, greatly reducing the mental load necessary to understand programs if used correctly. But, like many things, it’s hard to use, easily misused, and thus requires you to be very smart about it. Many programming features and conventions and so on attempt to basically safeguard you from incompetent programmers, or rather allowing you to work with incompetent programmers without them being a detriment more than a benefit. Needing to decipher arcane macros is quite challenging indeed.

There are a couple of Lisps newer than 2000, like Clojure, which I would have mentioned without your limit, and which I’m now circumventing by talking about what the limit prevents me to do.

Sounds like a good policy. In fact I think you should also fuck your sons mom, just to be sure.

Only one way to find out! YOLO!

I’d probably do nothing, since the safest thing I could very likely do would always be to stay inside and sleep all day. Going out to subject myself to cars is probably always more risky.

Change to delivery of food instead of getting it myself. Exercise more often at my home gym. Not meet anyone so as to reduce disease vectors. Just in general really do much less.

That’s a good question, but I’d rather like to know if you have ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, you’ll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- you’ll do, you could- you, you want, you want them to do you so much you could do anything?

Wasn’t objectively very funny, but we were fucking in like a standing position next to the bed and she started leaning forward, I started leaning forward, and we just tumbled onto the bed in a mess of appendages. Had to stop for a while because we were laughing so hard 🤣

If there’s too little content, that likely means that you spend more than a couple of hours on reddit. Yep, there’s not enough content to fill your day here. But also, maybe there shouldn’t be. If you go on here like max 1hr each day, you won’t notice a difference. Anything more, yeah, you’re “missing” content. But why spend more than 1hr daily here?..

Much better to be kinda effective and it works for you than try to be perfect and fail :)

No one said it should be normal or is reasonable. They’re just saying it’s possible, which it is.

I like to use “Top of X” a lot 🤔

we should ignore the “advice” from reddit that tells us that people are too stupid to sign up for anything

Definitely agree. The problem is just when someone in the past said “you should join <forum x>!”, you were always able to just immediately go to forum x’s signup page and sign up. But if someone hears of Lemmy, and goes to join-lemmy.org, there is no way to go to a signup page directly. They have to first learn about the multiple servers, and choose one. I think a “fast join” button like you say should be fine, and immediately next to it something to catch all the advanced actually curious users with something like a “advanced sign-up”

In lemmy-ui we have a post-deduplicator for feeds

That’s weird, because that’s exactly from where I’m coming from, I’m always using the lemm.ee website directly on all my devices, and I constantly see duplicate posts.

Copying historical content and rewriting history isn’t possible in a federated system

I have less knowledge of this topic so I’ll defer to you, but I have the feeling this may not be true. You might of course not be able to ensure consistency between all instances, ensure that it’s been changed everywhere, but I really can’t see why this is any different than “editing” a comment’s content or a post title, which is already possible. Why wouldn’t it be possible to “edit” the comment/post author in exactly the same way?

Thanks for your response and all you’re doing!

That’s why no one suggested “simply consolidating”. I didn’t suggest any solution at all. I’m just posing a question of if this actually pretty big problem is attempted to be handled.

gives a prepopulated list

The official one also does that. I’m talking about choosing a username, password, and email maybe, and then clicking register, and being done. No thinking involved.

Crossposts only show up once on the default UI

False, you get links to the other posts, of which you posted a screenshot, but each post is handled as being completely separate. If you are in the subscribed, local or all feeds, you would see all of these posts separately. Have you really never noticed scrolling by “the same” post multiple times? You have to go to each post manually to get all the comments to the “same” thing.

but Mastodon doesn’t allow it either […] due to technical limitations

Yes, I know that. But I’m also a programmer and I know that “technical limitations” is mostly a term for “that’s how we started it and it would be too costly to solve now, so we’ll just dismiss it” and not for actual limitations (i.e. not technically possible). It’d maybe require breaking changes of some kind or some kind of annoying backwards compatibility workaround, but that is why I’m asking. I’m not completely familiar with activity pub, but there’s likely some key used to verify posts/messages are made by a certain user, and there’s currently no way to transfer or change that key to a new account. But it seems very technically possible to me, and also possible without massive security issues. So that was my question, is there any plans to do this or no?

Are there any plans to deal with the most common annoyances regarding Lemmy? In my opinion these are all based on federation:

1. Some completely automated way for users to join Lemmy. Yeah, it’s not hard to select a server and it’s a “good thing to do”, but it’s still better to give people the option to go for convenience instead of the “proper” path. Maybe some kind of system where instances sign up for this general, convenience way of signing up, and the registered users just get automatically distributed evenly across those instances.
2. Duplicate post aggregation. The nature of federation will always make it make sense to have duplicate communities, but this will also make posts with the same links, same images, same videos, etc show up in people’s “all” feeds multiple times. It is technically possible to algorithmically detect these duplicates and offer users a UI option (not actual backend merge) to merge them all visually into one post.
3. A way to backup your whole user data and completely restore it on any instance you want. If an instance goes under, it should be possible to keep all subscriptions, all your posts, all your comments, and migrate them to a new instance.

It is made up ;) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesäßfurche

China lulz

You can just not choose representatives based on districts.

Home. Travelling is expensive, destroying the climate, and simply not necessary to relax and have a good time.