From your other replies it seems like you’re unsure you want kids in any case, but if you do there’s a simple thought experiment here: do you wish your father hadn’t had you? If not, it’s reasonable to think your children would be just as grateful to be alive as you are, sick dad or not.
Respectfully, this is why we can’t have an actual conversation about healthcare in this country. What’s objectively a societal good? Medicine? Sure, but I’m not proposing that we stop practicing medicine. Universal access to healthcare, free at the point of delivery? Also good, and a feature of most healthcare systems in the developed world. The specific funding model where the government runs the entire healthcare system through taxation?
I dunno, seems like it gives good, but not great, results, terrible staff morale, and a permanent state of crisis.
Fair, but I don’t think they will, and I don’t think people will stop voting for them forever, as much as I’m looking forward to the next general election. Even under Labour, though, the NHS gave great value for money, but middling outcomes.
The British NHS should be replaced with a system of national insurance. I’m a staunch labour voter, but the current system is subject to endless tinkering by the party of the day, and it’s broken.
In the UK, the NHS is one of the only institutions that attracts broad unreserved support, though, so this is about as popular as “all college athletes should be locked in churches and those churches should be burned to the ground” would be in the US.
The current steam deck isn’t going to be obsolete just because a newer model comes out. I’m happily playing through the new System Shock right now, and there’s a gazillion things in my steam library that I can install and run any time I like.
At some point there will be a faster, better deck, but this one is going to do me for a while. It is, in that sense, like a gaming PC. The lifetime of it isn’t determined by the manufacturer in the same way, because you can choose when it’s worth paying more for a better experience.
Like a gaming PC the first question you need to ask is “what’s my budget”, and the second “what would I like to be able to play”. When you have those answered, you can decide whether the current sale price offers value for money. There is always going to be more power available for a higher price.
By looking at the access logs. Googlebot sends a user agent string so you can identify it.
Well that’s what I mean by “islands of trust”. If an instance has a habit of banning people for dubious reasons, other instances would have to just ignore their bans, and that makes it dicey to federate with them at all. It’ll be interesting to see how it shakes out over the next few weeks.
Agreed on all points! It turns out Lemmy has a mechanism for federating block lists. What will be interesting is when instances disagree about bans. If you get banned from an instance because - hypothetically - you disagree with the actions of one government or another, it’s not obvious to me that other instances should repeat the ban.
Will we end up with islands of trust?
Agreed on all points! It turns out Lemmy has a mechanism for federating block lists. What will be interesting is when instances disagree about bans. If you get banned from an instance because - hypothetically - you disagree with the actions of one government or another, it’s not obvious to me that other instances should repeat the ban.
Will we end up with islands of trust?
I think they meant they’ve seen one Russian troll on Lemmy already, not that skidface is a Russian troll.
I … Have to assume so, anyway
I think they meant they’ve seen one Russian troll on Lemmy already, not that skidface is a Russian troll.
I … Have to assume so, anyway
What’s the current setup, if you don’t mind me asking?
Databases are also the hardest bit to horizontally scale. Web servers are easy cos they’re (usually) stateless . It’s state that’s hard to scale out.
Set it up and I’ll sub.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
There used to be an influx of young students to the internet every September because most people used it at university for the first time. That changed when home internet became more widespread leading to the eternal September.
In the older, better days, we used kill files, and our choice of platform was eventually overrun by spam.
It’d be slow, though, like a lot of the darknet protocols, and would mean that whether or not your post is visible depends on which users you’re connected to. I think the usability problems would likely rule it out.
P2P works great for filesharing because you’re reading small numbers of large things, so if each thing takes a minute or two to start, that’s fine. It would suck for reading the memes community on a social network cos you need to read many small things, and if they don’t load quickly the experience is ruined.
Ja, but you need an index for each thread, some kind of time partitioned thread index for each community, same for all.
Then you need to query all comments or posts by user, so that’s another index, then you need some way of querying for hot, or controversial or what have you.
It’s doable, but fiddly. Tempted to have a go though!
Seems like storage is the cost prohibitive part. Search is going to be difficult, too. I wonder whether the model there might be community supported shared services. A bunch of instances could jointly run an elasticsearch cluster or Algolia instance and charge for API access to cover costs.
Mostly, it’s the must-have Indie darlings, with a sprinkling of AAA fodder.
I’ve loved:
I’ve found that I enjoy playing offbeat adventure games on the deck more than I did sat at a PC. Detention, Norco, Loretta, To The Moon, that sort of thing is perfect for playing in bed, propped against the pillows.
I’m personally a huge fan of project zomboid, though I had to tweak the controls a little to make it work well.
I’m sure Stardew Valley is a perfect match for the deck, but I’ve played it too much already.