I really enjoyed Lain as a work of speculative fiction, especially watching it in 2019 and being able to compare and contrast the portrayal of computer’s effects on society with what “actually” happened as we moved more and more of our lives onto the internet.

The “actual” story/plot (message?) only really came together after watching a long YouTube video (actually, I read the transcript / script as a blog post so it wasn’t as long for me to get through it). If I had had the patience I think I would have preferred rewatching until I “got” it, but there’s so much else out there to experience. Maybe some day I’ll sit down and do a “proper” rewatch.

A good part of the initial enjoyment for me was the vibes and letting the different scenes slowly add up onto each other in the back of my mind.

As others have said in this thread already, it’s not necessarily the most coherent nor meaningful story as it is conveyed. Being depressed can unironically help it make sense (though I would never ever recommend getting depressed just to better understand Lain or any story really, your mental wellbeing is more important!).

The shots of telephone lines with audio of power line hums and the weird purple/red splotches are probably some of my favorite bits, and they’re what I immediately think of whenever Lain gets brought up.

It’s a bit clearer in french; “weed” is “mauvaise herbe” which literally translates to “bad herb/grass”.

Some decent comments on hackernews, though the post itself is [flagged].

And now they’re trying to automate community, the last thing we have. Don’t let them!

If you have a fediverse account, you can comment on this article from your own instance. Search https://hackers.pub/ap/articles/0197de66-6d9c-7728-abed-b8a4996f3022 on your instance and reply to it.

Very cool to see, now if only those comments could show up here in Lemmy…

Dog_with_thousand_yard_stare.jpg except instead of Vietnam flashbacks it’s

I wonder if they just want some more data they can then sell off to others.

I feel you w.r.t. debugging :-)

Thankfully there’s always the “brute-force” approach to the rescue; scale up and/or ship in whatever you need from a planet where it’s cheap(er).

If I’m not mistaken, inserters will always take from either the first or last occupied slot in a container that matches their filters. I’m not in front of my PC so I can’t check, but I’m fairly certain it’s not random at all. From your description of your setup (miners -> recyclers -> train) I suspect the “randomness” you’re seeing is due to how the train wagon gets filled up by the recycler output - which is itself definitely random.

As another comment says, you’ll need to use filters to have the inserters do a “balanced pull”. If you want maximum throughput then you’ll need to wire up some combinators to dynamically adjust the filters over time. If you don’t care about achieving max throughput and just want to be sure you don’t clog up the unloading, you only need to spread out the ten-ish scrap recycling outputs across the filters for the 6/12 inserters that interact with a given train wagon.

Mass Effect : Legendary Edition est à 6 euros. J’ai l’impression qu’il s’agit des 3 premiers jeux ainsi que la totalité des dlc sortis pour eux.

Aw, geee, thanks! It’s been a while since I figured in a meme

Well, now that I made this post lemmy is finding cross-posts of it… at least none of them seem to be in this community.

On a au moins la base du monde diplomatique qui leur sert à faire leur fameuse carte des médias & leurs propriétaires !

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New Pride Flag for the irradiated wastelands just stopped!

And surprise, surprise, almost half of his “I use Linux now guys” video is showing off the window manager hyprland, which got a lot of bad press over the past 2 years:

https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html

10 ans trop tard, mais mieux vaut tard que jamais?

So this but in earnest?

From 1 internet stranger to another, thank you. It really means a lot to me that people are doing what they can at their own level like you. I know how demotivating and isolating it can feel to be the only one doing the necessary work.

You buying at a grocery store is out of convenience, the alternative is learning how to hunt like a survival hunter.

At some point that was an alternative, but today the natural ecosystems have been so encroached upon by human civilization that we can’t just decide to become survival hunters - we’d simply starve. Grocery stores are all you have if you’re living in a high-rise apartment in most cities, for example. Most suburbs can’t support enough wildlife to then be hunted for survival by the humans living there.

Vegetable gardens might be a better analogy than survival hunting. There are even some initiatives being taken to break the cycle of dependency that grocery stores encourage, which I suspect is what @subignition@fedia.io is getting at: collective effort is needed beyond just letting the techies do their thing in their own corner, otherwise we all suffer. Everyone needs to move beyond their comfort zone at some point, for some amount of time - be it the techies teaching others, or the others learning a bit more about how their tools work.

the average user wants the convenience of easy to use software, because they don’t want to learn the alternative […] If everyone was like you, then easy to use software wouldn’t be selling so much.

I can’t tell if you are simply stating how the world currently is or claiming that it is destined to always be that way, but in either case I don’t see how “people prefer convenience” is a good argument against trying to help them get over that preference. I don’t think convenience is nor should be the end-all-be-all of existence, in fact it can be actively detrimental to life when prioritized.

Unless I’m mistaken, the average user wanted asbestos in their walls, lead in their paint, and asked their doctor for menthol cigarettes instead of regular ones when said doctor was prescribing them for stress. The average user in the USA couldn’t tell that their milk was full of pus and mixed with chalk to the point it was killing their babies, all for the convenience of still owners and milk producers. Their society had built up so much around the convenience of drinking milk in places that couldn’t produce it locally, that it took an Act of Congress as well as the development of technology to safely transport milk long distances before the convenience stopped killing people.

Don’t get me wrong, convenience is great when it doesn’t come at the expense of our well-being - in those cases it tends to dramatically improve our well-being. I tend to agree with @subignition@fedia.io that currently the software market is overly delivering convenience to the point that it is negatively affecting our collective well-being - with regards to software, at the very least.

Also, wasn’t Trump the reason the largest non-nuclear bomb in the USA arsenal was first used in combat? The bomb that had never been deployed in the almost 15 years since it’s creation specifically because the US military thought it would create too many civilian casualties?

The same Trump that allegedly wanted to nuke hurricanes to disrupt them before they hit the US’s coast?

The dude just wants to play with the shiny toys and see things go “boom”. He has literally stated to his own biographer that

When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different."

(source: The Week)

I suppose it suits him just fine that Israel is now flirting with open warfare with their neighbors.