“just”

No, I don’t think that’s sustainable, nor is it sustainable to act as if it were true. Given the lack of resources we have compared to Google or Meta et al., the only way to make it work is to stick with something for the long run, and bake in protections in both the technology and the organisational structure. Being opensource and federated goes a long way there, there’s no real reason why something not for profit would have to enshittify. But people won’t put in the effort to keep building it if they think that’s inevitable.

That’s not flying, it’s falling (and based on the shape of many flightless birds, rather likely without style)

every bird is a UFO if…

Not all birds fly

It’s a good joke but American oligarchs are much richer than Russian ones

Yes, Russia became capitalist so

Mostly water, in that case

Right, but it doesn’t capture the whole story, namely that it’s arranged in a very particular way

absurd take, literally everyone cares about standards of living, it is almost tautological

Best to read the comment you’re replying to before going on a tirade - this guy drunkenly interrupted OPs conversation to lecture them, it’s a proportionate response, even if maybe not optimal

“Commend” is not as difficult for me so I just remember it as re-commend

There’s nothing “special” in the way you imagine about quantum phenomena. They are complicated to describe mathematically because we are limited to a fundamentally imperfect set of symbols, but they are not complicated to obtain the requirements for.

All chemical and light-interaction processes use quantum phenomena if you dig enough into how they work, and it’s especially clear on a smaller scale. If you just make something thin enough, it will start displaying quantum effects, but there is nothing that complicated about “thin”.

They’re not manipulating wavelengths with great complexity, they’re just growing a really thin layer on their shell.

Mastodon doesn’t have low character limits, it’s not terrible for having a conversation

I guess they have to be the same, so they all have to be the maximum width of anything you might want to put in there.

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That’s not true, otherwise distillation would be impossible. You lose some water along with the alcohol but not the same percentage of both.

It’s not rational, it’s virtue signalling for the owning class. It’s saying “we are pious believers in the neoliberal order and we are happy to treat our employees like shit”.

Camelcase in python, ew, a fundamentalist would do that

The mac comes with 256 GB though, and 256 > 1

Support for M1 and M2 is pretty good now but M3 is not quite there yet and it’ll probably be years before everything works nicely on M4, sadly