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  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How would a credibility system work…English
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    2 days ago

    You will likely find such a system is ineffective because popular is still only a very limited niche of the total audience. Most people do not vote or actively participate.

    Demographics are way more complicated than they first appear. When I was a buyer for a bike shop, the numbers were surprising. Around 65% of my business was all entry level stuff even though all three shops were high end road race and XC. It is easy to believe one understands the audience, but in my experience I only really trust solid numbers and data.

    That said, a reputation based system of social hierarchy exists already in academia.

    You would need to assess the compromises involved too. Who is not going to post what because of this form of bias. I’m one of those people that will post lots of oddball stuff the piques my curiosity. I would like some engagement, but I don’t care or focus on posting stuff that everyone will like. If some bias takes away all of my engagement for some popularity metric, I migrate somewhere else. I find most popular content humdrum and uninteresting.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Am I insane?English
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    3 days ago

    IMO, the real question is how to preserve it in deep time. Where is accessible enough but also protected? The best place would probably be a location that is heavily contaminated by toxic or nuclear waste. Those will likely remain time capsules in the near term, but remain as focal points in deep time. Find a spot that is likely to survive continental drift, the next super continent, and countless ice ages. I dare you. Do it! Make the ultimate geo cache.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoSolarpunk@slrpnk.net•Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them fasterEnglish
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    3 days ago
    Logistics is complexity in action.

    Supporting infrastructure is equally complex. It was the consolidation of so many industries into a global supply chain that only has a few players that makes the present cost effective. The forces at play are far greater than you realize in scope and scale. Your pitching a post civilization dystopia of death and misery. It’s bearings, chemistry, metallurgy, medicine, the list goes on and on.

    The future you want will exist a long time from now, but not in the way you imagine it. Biology is the ultimate technology. It is where we are headed a millennia from now. Once the age of scientific discovery is long past and science is nothing more than an engineering corpus, a complete mastery of biology will mean we can create ecosystems with all life and technology existing within elemental cycles balance. At that point, human life will likely simplify in many ways and evolve in others.

    Simplification is always regressive and backwards. When complexity seems insurmountable, the solution is to refine and reform. In science, eliminate all the ridiculous names associated. It’s not Maxwell’s equations; they are the magnetic equations. Reform stupid conventions like using the term light speed to mean the speed of causality. We need massive educational reform at all levels accounting for the wellbeing of career educators while also modernizing to account for video recording technology. We need to make housing a fundamental unalienable human right and the exploitation of survival needs like food and housing should have massive consequences.

    But no, pushing against complexity is nonsense. It shows you’re naive of the use cases. I recommend you start daily watching Anton Petrov on YT or Odyssey. He covers a white paper research summary daily. You’ll learn many applications of technology and this complexity. Watch Frazier Cain for more depth on present astronomy, and watch Isaac Arthur for a view of what a distant future might look like. Read Asimov’s books like The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun to see a glimpse of a realistic future.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoSolarpunk@slrpnk.net•Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them fasterEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The world without complexity was only able to feed around 2 billion humans. To suggest that the complexity supporting the modern world is unwanted or unneeded is to kill 6 billion people.

    Are you an advocate for authoritarianism and the death of 6 billion humans to achieve the simplicity of the past? The vast majority of goods and trade are for food and the raw materials of life produced in the largest and only areas of the planet capable of sustaining this population.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoSolarpunk@slrpnk.net•Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them fasterEnglish
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    4 days ago
    I understand the frustration. Sorry it got lost. No hurry, and reply any time or not at all. It's all good.

    I come from growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness. (Atheist now). I’m intimately familiar with the blindness of belief systems and how futile they are to fight against. The best way to counter them is by example and drawing people into asking their own questions. Often we need to tell them the questions to ask in such a way that they feel as though they constructed the questions you lead them to ask. Any other form of opposition becomes a fruitless partisan opposition as a foreigner. I’m physically disabled now and my survival pivots on my understanding of this dynamic. This is not hyperbolic.

    It is from this perspective that I say, you can’t fix stupid in anyone else. You can only fix yourself and show others what life is like when you do not conform. Like, I rode a bike everywhere until I lost 160 pounds. Several friends and family started riding bikes as a result. I can do anything on Linux and it has caused others to question and try it. I never watch ads for anything and have no subscriptions of any kind, and yet I watch interesting edutainment. Few people understand or are willing to setup a network like mine but still find it interesting that it is possible to live without corporate influences or intrusion, especially when I have no desire to make frivolous purchases like nearly anyone on corporate social media. I think for myself because I am disconnected and that seems to be rare in the present world. I tend to be both a realist and a hopeful futurist.

    The way I see it, you don’t make change through authoritarianism or pocket isolationism. You’ll never win the world through a partisan operation or mindset. At best you might win half, but even then, the game is already rigged by the last person that played this hand generations ago. You make real change by living it, talking about it, and making it cool. You’ve got to post and talk about upcycling, about the benefits of riding a bike, about reusing electronics and hacking around, you talk about how you make food without commercial recipes, your fermentation experiments without buying anything, your balcony or window seal gardening with seeds from you food refuse. If you post and talk about these things, you motivate yourself and others to change. When everyone whines at work about their commute, you tell them how great your 6 mile route down the beach was this morning and how there wasn’t a person anywhere around, or you tell them about the mediative value of the hour and forty five minutes it took you to ride 33 miles like you’ve done for the last two years. You might be surprised at how often you find your coworkers joining you on those rides to work as you pass by their merging path from home, I certainly was for those two years before I got a better job closer to my home.

    Fighting them only makes you the enemy or opposition, and oppose you they will. If you want to make change, you must show people what is possible, lead by example, travel the harder path but do it in style or just your style. This is my style. The only more direct and effective path is to get a law degree and get into political office… IMO

    Ultimately, we are likely on the brink of major change in the next few decades. I think the big one will actually be from M-type asteroid mining. A single object is likely to hold more mineral wealth than everything humanity has accessed since the Holocene began. Dwarfing the wealth of the world will have massive consequences. Earth’s resource scarcities are due to gravitational differentiation (all heavy elements sunk in the center of Earth when it was fully molten). Accessing the core of a differentiated body in near Earth orbit will drive humanity into space in an unprecedented shift of exponential growth and geopolitical upheaval. Wealth disparity will be massive, but the focused pressure and exploration will shift away from the general population. We will just be stuck with the aftermath of the climate change caused by space men. It is likely to be about how the 1920’s were still an era of bicycles steam trains and horse carriages while the 1930’s was the sudden era of the automobile for only slightly above average people. The 2030’s will be the beginning of the space economy and mining colony. It is a much less hyped aspect of the current push into space, but it is the primary unspoken objective if you read between the lines, especially at what Japan has been doing to explore space mining and prospecting… but that is just my big picture hunch about where things are going and why billionaires are kinda acting like doomsday prepers in private and in business… It’s probably a good time to build agrarian skills too tho

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoSolarpunk@slrpnk.net•Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them fasterEnglish
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    4 days ago

    To me, culture has more scope. If people refused to waste two hours a day commuting by the mental health disorder of the automobile, we would likely reshape zoning and housing to accommodate the population density required. This is longer term generational culture. It is hard for any of us to take the reigns of such a large scope. Ultimately the comprehensibility is irrelevant to the fact each of us only has one voting wallet. You either accept the way things are or you do not. Only you can change the culture you accept and live within. No one is born into an idealized circumstance that enables them. If you want the democratic freedoms of France you need to build and use a guillotine first. The people that do such a thing were not born into it. I’m not inciting violence. I am citing the magnitude of measurable change. No one is gong to make it easy for you. In this world people will exploit you in every way you are only barely willing to withstand. Ultimately it is impossible to set the bar of how much exploitation and abuse a population can or will withstand. That is not how society works. Governments do the minimum required to satisfy your collective community expectations enough to maintain power only. This minimum governance also involves letting business push people ad far as they can get away with before angering enough people of the wrong class to become a problem. Ultimately, you are the one that decides when to become a problem that gets attention in one way or another. You might try to become the person in power that does the minimum or you might take other avenues. However, your first and easiest vote is with your wallet. If you commit at this level, you will then feel far more motivated and vocal about the changes needed to create an acceptable culture you want to be a part of. You can’t expect anyone to create a better world for you if you’re not looking for one in the first place. The status que is the level of acceptable abuse with that bar set by others. You can’t accept that bar if you want more or anything better.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•what's your first otc medicament for a headache?English
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    4 days ago

    I’m in too much chronic spinal pain to register a headache. I don’t know why, but the question made me realize I haven’t had a headache in a decade since my broken neck and back. I get to a point where I can’t focus on anything. The anti inflammatory Tylenol Arthritis formula is the most effective by a considerable margin. I don’t have arthritis and am 40. I’ve been on most available pain meds over the last decade, and honestly this one beats most others for me. I used to have headaches, my issues are different but my family basically switched to the same thing too after trying it.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoSolarpunk@slrpnk.net•Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them fasterEnglish
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    4 days ago

    That article’s perspective sucks IMO. It is not the technology that is the problem in this case. The distance traveled to the meadow on foot versus the suburbs in the car had nothing to do with the technology or lack thereof. The person decided this was the normal they wanted and where they chose to live.

    The fact is that this is cultural. You’re willing to work a job that is an hour’s drive away because you choose to take the job.

    The one constant with technology is specialization. Things are going to increase in complexity unless civilization collapses. When noticeable shifts happen like with AI, many people groan at the additional burden of change. This has always and will always be the case, especially for people that are overworked and their livelihood put at risk from a technology they do not understand and struggle to learn. AI is especially troublesome because it is extremely complex and difficult to understand just under the surface of the near useless subscription services and basic publicly accessible tools.

    Ultimately, the issue is cultural. You must stop working for free and stop treating corporate social media like a form of self promotion. I expect my job description to contractually state what my responsibilities are. If I answer phone calls for anything off the clock, I have a two hour minimum pay for my time. This culture of responsibility without compensation is a massive problem, as is acceptance of “it’s just the way things are” mentality. Unplug from all corporate nonsense and think for yourself. Then push others to do the same. Only take a job that is close by, or move. Find a better job and don’t accept abuse. It is a cultural problem.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoProgramming@programming.dev•did user engagement drop significantly in programming forums?English
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    4 days ago

    Yeah, but it lacks the tree that tends to support more specialization. I still get on the EEVBlog forum from time to time but that kind of concentration of specialization is just not the default.

    To replicate that kind of ecosystem I think the platform would need a similar complex branching hierarchy and far more effective utility for searching. The element of time is too prioritized on a link aggregator like Lemmy. Community depth of specialization remains shallow because more intellectual engagement is slower and the mechanics of most recent comment engagement are not effective/implemented. Places like the EEVBlog often have the most engagement on very old threads that also concentrate a ton of history and useful information within the single thread. These threads are the primary anchor for the whole community. I think it would take some novel innovation to bridge a link aggregator’s ADHD with a forum’s depth and utility.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•How to find what's eating 100% of just one core?English
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    4 days ago

    I’ve had this happen with AI stuff that runs in a Python venv. It only happens with apps that use multi threading, and usually when something is interrupted in an unintended or unaccounted for way. I usually see it when I start screwing with code stuff, but also from changing the softmax settings during generation or crashing other stuff while hacking around. There may be a bug of some kind, but I think it likely has more to do with killing the root threading process and leaving an abandoned child that doesn’t get handled by the kernel process scheduler in the standard way. If this happens I restart too.