they did it out of spite, to get you to stop ordering groceries from the internet, lol

this is why instances should be abstracted away as underlying infrastructure and the users don't have to think about "instances". accounts and communities are replicated across servers.

this is so fucking stupid though. almost everyone reads books and/or watches movies, and their speech is developed from that. the way we speak is modeled after characters and dialogue in books. the way we think is often from books. do we track down what percentage of each sentence comes from what book every time we think or talk?

again, this why i claim that lemmy is not the solution to the problem we are trying to solve.

it is true that companies are here to make money. my question is: are there any institutions whose purpose is to benefit humanity, without any hidden maladaptive intent? even the "communicating important scientific work to the public" enterprise is corrupted by perverse incentives. and if not, what is the process by such an institution can come about?

i'm still just pissed that they renamed it to "play store"

are we no longer allowed to borrow books from friends?

to expound:

the tankie instance or the nutballs on the fascist instance

here you reveal a conceptual misunderstanding, or rather, a part of the lemmy architecture which i disagree with. there shouldn't be a concept of a "interest X instance" etc. it should be similar to a distributed storage model. so the concept of a community is not per-instance, it's just an abstract thing that exists in conceptual space.

unihertz jelly 2. unihertz also some other small phones. also has a headphone jack, fm radio, wrist strap, customizable LED, programmable hardware button.

this is what i'm frustrated with. why do all these engineers let themselves be told what to do even if it makes a worse-functioning tool? that's not real engineering.

"because they'll get fired"

not if enough of them do the thing that should've been what got them interested in engineering in the first place.

maybe we shouldn't call them engineers, but something else relating to being the one who does the dirty work for institutions that aim to steal people's attention and decrease their quality of life.

and if they do get fired, then they should join together and make the reasonable company that makes good tools for human use.

such bullshit. how can engineers not let this happen?

what tasks have you tested this on? or what type of tasks do you intend it to be used for?

you already share water with them though. how is this any different? more seriously though, you already share internet infrastructure with them. the packets you just sent to make that comment could have been sandwiched between a "tankie" and a "fascist nutball". that's just the way it is man, there have always been crazy humans.

cool, i'll check out those papers. have you had much success in discovering new molecules this way? it seems like if it works then that means that the neural net that emerged has discovered some law of physics (or property of chemistry, w/e) that we do not know. in other words, within the sequence of calculations lies some physical law.

27yo tech enthusiast and worker and linux user here

interesting. how does that process work?

the "term" technology has been corrupted. what people call "tech" is not tech, it is gadgetry.

communities across instances could essentially link their feeds

yes, that's pretty much what i'm saying. in the background, that is what would be happening, but on the frontend, the user just sees "communityname" and a bunch of posts that are pulled from all instances that have a community matching that name.

a lot of work for fairly little benefit on the back-end

i think enough people want the feature that the benefit would be worth it

limiting it to communities with the exact same name

you actually wouldn't have to limit it to exact same name if you're making a front-end thing, if you allow for the user to configure their "merged communities"

oh wow this post blew up! cool stuff y'all. unfortunately what i'm doing for job is boring (software engineer), but i try to do cool stuff on the side. like a laravel code generation thing, which also helps with a community exchange website that uses esri arcgis to map the things. not done yet and my progress is very slow because i can't dedicate all my time to it. also helping some friends with a game in unity. also been trying to learn about lemmy, activitypub, decentralized apps, etc. and get involved in development.