Different people in different places.

If you never leave your hometown, you’re keeping your brain in a baby crèche for the rest of your life.

It’s much easier to understand how the world works if you’ve seen it yourself

Americans talking about socialism is like teenagers talking about sex

Zero clue

This man binary searches

Is a bean to cup espresso machine Calculate Linux then?

And so the US lost decade becomes the medieval dark ages

It’d be fascinating as an outsider if the choices made by the US didn’t basically impact everything, everywhere.

Essentially for something to be decentralised and not ephemeral, everyone needs a copy of the data.

To go into a bit more detail—one of the biggest benefits of decentralised systems is generally redundancy has to be built in otherwise you have a Single Point Of Failure™️, and then you get data loss when it’s gone. Given any sensible decentralised system is designed to avoid this scenario, that data has to be somewhere, and generally the simplest and less expensive (in terms of processing) way to improve on data in one place, is to have it in every place. Any time the data isn’t in one place or every place, you then have an exercise in figuring out where it actually is. This “finding it” processing is going to take time and effort, and if you imagine a standard semi-popular lemmy post, that’s potentially data coming from all sorts of different places, which may or may not be there—this would inevitably make request times ridiculous and basically no one would use it.

At the end of the day, any kind of processing is energy, cost & time expensive, whereas storage makes that part of the process effectively instant and is much cheaper than increasing processing power in both cost and energy.

So basically in this use case and many like it: it makes sense if you’re trying to pick what to optimise, you optimise for lower processing and higher storage requirements rather than vice versa.

The history aspect is more straightforward to understand given the above, if you expect people to care what happened a year ago and want to support that, that data needs to live somewhere

They can happen at the same time, but no, they’re entirely independent

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/24/uk-meat-consumption-lowest-level-since-record-began-data-reveal

Sure things can always go quicker, but this one is at least already on the right trajectory, and luckily that’s the hardest one for a government to influence.

The government should definitely be heavily subsidizing heat pump replacements (then after a while ramping up gas duty as the stick) and bring back the solar panel subsidies though. And yes shove every penny necessary to get HS2 done to completion so we can get started on HS3 and completely disincentivise short haul flights. All the while building as many wind, tidal and solar farms as possible to power it all—bonus points if we can get a surplus Vs our immediate neighbours.

If we’re all dead the money doesn’t matter, so it should be spent on ensuring survival.

My friend, it’s not nonsense, it’s basically how decentralised communication has to work if you want any reasonable level of recency & history in the data.

Usenet was basically the original and I believe a modern news provider requires something like 50 petabytes of storage to run a 10 year data retention service

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Sadly I don’t think Teletext has been broadcast (in the UK at least) in over a decade

Please tell me they double barreled it

Was gonna say a cushion is probably not the solution to OPs problem, they’re either not using their chair correctly or the chair is bad

That’s really shitty given the expectation set when using a VPN

I was wondering the same, I’ve not had any issues personally

Sometimes I know what’s going on, and there’s some gold when that happens

Being comfortable with algebra is kinda essential, however you probably won’t make much use of calculus unless you go into certain parts of the industry such as game development.

Practice makes perfect though, you may suck at maths today, but there’s nothing stopping you from getting better at it if you work at it

I disagree, Europe needs to never cede Ukraine at any cost—anything else is rewarding the warmonger

This is related to my personal peeve with some Taxi drivers.

Why are you out there silently driving with the radio off? It’s awkward as hell when the loudest noise in the car is breathing

Once again, Orban says exactly what Putin wants him to say

At some point it becomes malicious to even print what he says