Voting for a party you dislike or not voting out of spite is not a good form of protest IMO. At the very least vote 3rd party. With the current election system in the US, that’s still a stupid choice from my perspective but at least it makes your disagreement somewhat visible.

In the statistics, not voting at all feeds in the same bucket as lazyness or carelessness.

Was wenn der stellvertretende Chef ein Baguette backt und dem Chef für $ 125.000 verkauft? Wenn sie das weitergeben an die Erpresser ist die Förderung erfüllt. Hätten die Erpresser halt genauere Angaben machen müssen, welche Art von Stangenbrot, von welchem Hersteller und welche Menge sie erwarten.

Back-up/failover instances for communities and users.

Every user and every admin of a community should be able to assign a failover instance in case the main instance goes down temporarily or permanently. All relevant data (posts, upvotes, settings, password hashes, mod log) would be permanently syched so you could just switch over in case of a downtime and most importantly, no content would be lost.

If you implement a feature to set the failover instance as your new main instance, that would also implicitly allow you to migrate users and communities elsewhere.

That works with Boost for Lemmy, so apparantly the data is already there in the backend (and at least one frontend).

Ich finde es echt krass, wie viele junge Leute man da gefunden hat, die sich freiwillig mit Merzplakaten auf die Bühne stellen, als wäre es ein Rockkonzert. Wenn man sich öffentlich für die AfD ausspricht als junger Mensch kann man damit wenigstens schocken, was für ein krasser Nazi man ist. Hier ist es von den politischen Inhalten so ähnlich, nur in der langweiligen alter Mann Version.

I think you got to start somewhere and then scale it up over time. If we wait until we have piles of batteries at hand, people will criticise that no one addressed the issue early enough. Furthermore, I see a potential feedback loop. If we start deconstructing and recycling the batteries now, we learn early what the biggest issues are and can potentially tweak the next generation of cells to make them easier recycable.

Why do you think his whole neighborhood is on ketamines?

Zwieblisation

I guess if we as humanity focused on producing only high quality and essential, basic products (food, housing, clothing) + the tools and processes that we need in the supply chain, we could massively reduce labor and reduce our ecological footprint at the same time. But our current economical system is depending on everyone doing something, everlasting growth and consumption.

I agree. Many companies have shady practices but very few of them have CEOs that show their shitty character as open as Elon Musk. One important reason of buying an electric car instead of a ICE car is causing less harm / negative impact to the world. And people who make their buying decision based on that in many cases don’t appreciate people constantly lying and promoting fachism. I personally won’t buy a Tesla as long as he is involved.

Das Gerät mit der Buchse ist der dümmste Mensch der Welt? Dann will ich zum Ausgleich einen Preis als intelligentester Toaster!

Somehow, I feel a sudden and uncontrollable urge to toss my credit card into that pool.

I go for option 1.

In all programming languages that I know, integers have a maximum number. E.g., in C that’d be 2,147,483,647. After that, you would run into an overflow, resulting in either…

• a crash (train stops, no more deaths),
• death count suddenly turns negative (all people previously killed are suddenly alive again and even new people are generated out of nowhere) - until we reach the next overflow when people disappear and start dying again
• or - if it’s an unsigned integer - death count resets everytime we reach the maximum limit

So compared to option 2, we have a chance of stopping the death count. And even if the train keeps running, we have essentially option 2 but the same people only die very rarely. If we assume a cycle of 1 death per second and an integer boundary of 2,147,483,647, that’s just one death every 68 years per person involved. Seems more fair to me compared to 100 people constantly dying over and over again.

Idee finde ich grundsätzlich gut. Aber wie lange halten denn da die Akkus? Kann ja durchaus sein, dass die letzten Täter erstmal paar Monate vergehen lassen, bevor sie (oder jemand anders) nochmal zuschlagen. Und wenn man die bis dahin regelmäßig aufladen müsste, wäre der Mechanismus wahrscheinlich relativ leicht zu erkennen und nicht sonderlich praktikabel. Und selbst wenn das mit dem Airtag klappt, hilft es bei der Ergreifung der Täter wenig, wenn die Steine im nächsten Ententeich landen. Denke mal nicht, dass sie die mit nach Hause nehmen.

Ist nur die Frage, ob das auch mehrfach funktioniert. Also ob, wenn die Steine nochmal oder sogar noch mehrfach entwendet werden, ob es dann immer wieder für Medienecho und Spendenbereitschaft sorgt. Erfahrungsgemäß ebbt das öffentliche Interesse bei solchen Sachen sehr schnell ab. Und Vandalismus ist hier im Gegensatz zur Reparatur mit quasi null Aufwand und Kosten verbunden. Und das Risiko erwischt zu werden ist wohl auch eher gering.

Maybe more working hours for office workers. Everyone can do another 8 hours of lucid night shift.

I don’t get it. It’s just an image that says “right here”. Can someone please explain me the joke? Or did I miss anything important?

If we say that the SSN database internally only stores numbers today, but could also store hexadecimal values without significant redesigns, I would assume that SSNs are stored as text already. So no matter if you put numbers, hex or text, 9 places will always use 9 bytes (assuming it’s ASCII only and doesn’t support UTF-8 etc.).

Furthermore, the post implied that the current technical limit is 999,999,999. That very much sounds like a character data type to me. Otherwise, the limit is usually something like 2^x.

If SSNs are stored as numbers today, then hex and text would lead to quite some change. If you go for a re-design, you can as well just increase the length of the field.

Why stop at hex? You could use the entire alphabet. Even if you take only uppercase letters and numbers, we are at 36^9 possible numbers. If we include lowercase and special characters from ASCII, we can go much further.

I tend to enjoy such math issues but I guess I have to wait for ELI5 YouTube video to explain me the issue and potential impact of the solution.