Why not just use reddit’s place to bring attention to Lemmy?

!place_join_lemmy@lemmy.world

I’m baffled by the pushback from some users, I guess people still have PTSD from reddit. From a Lemmy-centric mindset, participating in this is an easy layup to grow the userbase. But we don’t have much time and we don’t have many users so it’ll probably have to be modest.

I can confirm that there are still federation issues. Even purging comments does not always federate to other instances. But this comment explains the situation quite well.

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Memes matter. You wouldn’t think so, but they actually do.

Lemmy.world is the biggest and most active instance by far. But calling it a default is not accurate.

If a default emerges, that’s a problem for the platform. Federation works best when there are many valid, major instances with slightly different flavors.

But I will admit that lemmy.world is carrying the activity of the platform, without their userbase we would be in trouble.

If tenacious D is perfection then I’ve been aspiring to all the wrong things. Dang

Lemmy.ml is like Delaware. The First State.

Awesome, I’m in. Looking forward to more discussion in the future.

A bit like how artists can go vector to pixels easily and make changes to the pixels but getting it back into a vector is a nightmare.

This is another great analogy.

Fascinating, compelling ideas that are new to me. I could have trawled reddit for 10,000 years and never found content like this. Thanks for taking the time to explain, you’re a very good communicator.

Fantastic explanation. I can totally see the connection you were drawing now.

Convincing me that free will exists might be a bridge too far, but you’ve definitely opened a new avenue of inquiry in my mind.

When utilizing this procedural generation technique in our games, it allows us to use much less memory and processing power because the world can be continuously recreated with relatively little computational complexity. Is that roughly correct?

If so, aside from being a possible argument regarding the existence of free will, this comparison could also be used to support the idea that we live in a simulated reality, a la the Matrix. Gnarly

Is there anyway you could clarify this for someone who is not knowledgeable about coding? My understanding is that procedurally generated worlds have a seed, which is a specific string of characters that will generate the same world each time when fed into the procedural algorithm.

continuous seed functions deterministically placing world geometry convert to discrete voxels when interacted with in order to track state changes.

This is the part I don’t understand.

Lmao well said

You turn the fan off during the day and on at night, I assume

Yeah, a whole-house fan. You turn it on in the evening and it expels hot attic air from the top while sucking in cool fresh air through open windows. It actually works really well and is much more energy efficient than AC. When it gets super hot you still need AC though.

It does have a certain charm. I never really played that much tbh, my favorite part was reading the sagas of fortresses on the forums. Those were always so unpredictable and hilarious.

Yeah especially Dwarf Fortress. The gameplay:graphics ratio is over 9000

I agree with everything you’ve said, but you have to admit that wireless headphones are convenient if you’re on the phone with someone and cooking dinner, or doing laundry, for example.

A helicopter. RIP Kobe 🙏

Great series. My personal favorite from Simmons is the Ilium/Olympos duology, although Olympos was a bit of a letdown at the end. Simmons is brilliant but he does have a way of setting a lot of things up and occasionally failing to deliver a satisfying climax. Hyperion and Endymion, read as two complete works, do a better job of concluding things.

I distinctly remember reading Ilium when I was like 12 and just being absolutely dumbfounded by the erotic scenes with Helen of Troy. I had never encountered adult content like that in a book and it just blew my horny teenage mind.

Simmons’ fusion of historical literature with robust far future science fiction is chef’s kiss.

Has anybody read The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook yet? I just finished it, great concept I just wish it was longer.

Great series. My personal favorite from Simmons is the Ilium/Olympos duology, although Olympos was a bit of a letdown at the end. Simmons is brilliant but he does have a way of setting a lot of things up and occasionally failing to deliver a satisfying climax. Hyperion and Endymion, read as two complete works, do a better job of concluding things.

I distinctly remember reading Ilium when I was like 12 and just being absolutely dumbfounded by the erotic scenes with Helen of Troy. I had never encountered adult content like that in a book and it just blew my horny teenage mind.

Simmons’ fusion of historical literature with robust far future science fiction is chef’s kiss.