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Dark Arc

Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modder, hunter (of the Hunt Showdown variety), biker, adoptive Akronite, and general doer of assorted things.

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Dead by Daylight and that genre in general.

“Let’s all play a horror game where someone running is like a person casually browsing the mall.”

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Java and Python projects can be based almost entirely on the standard library because there’s so much in there (or packages with minimal/no third party dependencies).

C++ it’s not uncommon for the entire code base or the majority of the code base to be internal (and maybe make use of the standard library or a library under the boost umbrella).

The “every language” is largely a “languages that became popular in the NodeJS era” issue.

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They acquired standard notes… There will probably be notes through that at some point through proton accounts (similar to how it works with simple login).

Maybe they’d go as far as to make standard notes just be proton notes and rebuild the UI to match Proton’s look and feel but I kinda doubt that.

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If you want more than two options vote for Democrats in primaries that support ranked choice voting initiatives. As it stands, you realistically have a binary choice and until you have ranked choice voting that will continue to be true.

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Because if enough people do that, it actually can result in that state not “doing what it always does.”

Assuming voting for X is going to result in Y getting elected over Z “anyways” is not a good strategy for getting what you want.

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The fediverse as designed is actually pretty inefficient. If it ever were to go to Reddit scale it would melt down.

That’s because there’s effectively no batching for federation currently … every single vote from an instance is forwarded back to the instance hosting the community and must be processed individually. So if you get 500k votes on something even if it’s from 200 servers, the servers hosting the community have to be able to withstand the flood of votes and store the associated data… And that’s just votes.

Worse yet, those votes then get replayed to every single one of those 200 servers one by one. So every server needs 500k vote entries and all the associated traffic … even if half of the servers are just 1 guy looking at cat videos once a month.

Federating actually is way more expensive than just adding another user as designed.

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I’m really glad AT&T and Verizon decided to step in and start competing. At least in my area it’s changed everything, Spectrum (formerly the only cable provider) is now offering much more competitive pricing and better service (though AT&T has earned some loyalty because the fiber and symmetric speeds have been really great.

Following the Biden admin pricing transparency regulations I was able to get a better price as well.

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Gotta say, Americans do seem significantly dumber than the average world citizen.

Presumably what an American once said about Germans. It can happen anywhere with the right stream of propaganda.

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That’s really interesting! I’d heard the white flight explanation for downtowns falling apart, but this adds a new layer to it

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Old School RuneScape potentially fits this description

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