manicdave

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[–] manicdave 15 points 6 days ago (7 children)

This is actually pretty interesting. I wish I could pin someone else's comment. Thanks.

[–] manicdave 2 points 6 days ago

That would still be two layers. Although folding all the corners would allow four fold to equal two.

[–] manicdave 32 points 6 days ago (4 children)

.ml vs .world fights are always hilarious. And for that reason, they should stay federated.

[–] manicdave 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

But that would be two folds, and arguably two layers if the area of the middle section is bigger than the outer sections added together.

[–] manicdave 1 points 1 week ago

In most official settings height and weight are measured in metric.

Imperial sort of sticks around culturally because people's measurements are meaningless unless they're relative and you pick that frame of reference up from your family. Nobody can imagine what a 100kg man looks like, but they can imagine a 16 stone man.

[–] manicdave 5 points 1 week ago

Wouldn't the neighbours house already being on fire be considered a pre existing condition?

[–] manicdave 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What's even more annoying is when their refinements end up putting an objectively wrong answer as the authoritative record.

I found a question where someone new to electronics was how to get more current from a USB power supply.

The "correct" answer that was posted before the question was closed was that a source can't limit current and the questioner should learn more about electricity.

The actual correct answer - and probably what the questioner was looking for - is to short the data lines together because a compliant USB charger will only supply 500mA by default, not it's stated max current.

[–] manicdave 2 points 1 week ago

Check the whole path of the filament, or maybe rotate the part before printing. Sometimes a combination of factors can cause just enough friction to under-extrude in just parts of a print. I sometimes get it when the filament roll rubs on the holder. This looks like it could be that it's doing a fast bit while twisting the Bowden tube.

[–] manicdave 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Presumably they'll roll back their censorship of Palestinian journalists now they love free speech so much.

[–] manicdave 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I had a GV1600 which is pretty close cousin of this. The front is big but there's not much space for passengers or luggage but I could use it as a tiny pickup truck. I miss that car.

Had to get rid because it kept making me to do stupid things. I ripped the exhaust off three times because it kept telling me to go down green lanes at a million miles per hour.

[–] manicdave 10 points 1 week ago

They quite famously did, and got caught doing it when they started accidentally posting error messages.

[–] manicdave 8 points 1 week ago

We're raising an army

 

This is a question that comes to mind every time I spend a few days focusing on the fediverse. Normally I'm on the microblogging side, but now I have a Lemmy account it might start a proper discussion.

So, to the point, pretty much every fedi platform has similar problems with small servers taking a beating whenever a post goes viral. This ends up costing the server owner a bunch of money trying to keep their server alive while thousands of instances attempt to pull large static files from the original host's post. This recently instigated this call to action on this forum.

I've never seen the question of torrents answered and it feels like a lot of effort and a bit self entitled to get the ear of fedi software devs to implement torrents as a solution, so I'm putting this here.

If media files were made into torrents when a post was being created, an extra object could be added to post objects like

'torrentcdn': {
  'https://imagePathAsKey.jpg': {
    'infohash': 'ba618eab...',
    'torrentLocation': 'https://directlinkto.torrent',
    'webseed': 'https://imagePathAsKey.jpg',
    ...
  }
}

This would not break compatibility as it would just be ignored by anything not looking for a 'torrentcdn' object, yet up to date instances could use this instead of directly pulling the static files.

This would benefit instances as when a post goes viral, the load would be distributed amongst all instances attempting to download the file.

This could also benefit clients and instances as larger files like short videos could be distributed using webtorrent, massively reducing the load on server when many people are watching the same video.

Thoughts?

 

Test, I guess

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