[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I see marketing via AI tools and bots unethical. Many things can be done via conventional marketing.

  1. Contact content creators (especially oriented towards Linux and Free software, like TheLinuxExperiment or DistroTube, or some gaming channels, as well) to create communities of their channels on Lemmy.
  2. Somehow reduce content about world news and politics. Many people go to the Internet to step aside from the real world events.

Also, majority of Reddit users are teenagers. The older generation of Reddit has fled away. We must think twice what target audience we want to bring in. I don't want Lemmy to become a place where alt-wing anti-establishment political leaders bait naïve teenagers and take them into the rabbit hole (aka scenario described in The Social Dilemma).

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

My dark side: I feel disengaged in my duties, I tend to flee away from teamwork and skip deadlines, especially when the workflow is stressful. Of course, mates hate me for that :(

Others' inconsistencies I see: tendency to make careless decisions without thinking twice, or miscommunication (incorrect wording) of intended actions, especially in programming and/or designing things. Also, not admitting an expectation to get some sort of reward/compensation when giving things for free.

Example:

  • A: You gave me this, thank you! What can I do/buy to you in return?
  • B: No need, thank you.
  • (one year later)
  • B: I gave you that, so I want you to do something in return.
  • A: You told me I'm not obliged to repay you!
  • B: You should've understood it by yourself!
  • A: ...(Reimu mode activated)

Jokes aside, I am generous but this unspoken liability pisses me off.

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

haha I was thinking about the same :D

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I'm also half-math and half-IT person. I'd recommend you to start Competitive Programming, try to participate in the contests, solve Codeforces (https://codeforces.com/?locale=en) or Kattis (https://open.kattis.com) tasks, grasp Asymptotic notation, etc.

Math (and academical) formalism is a thing, Wikipedia also shows it. You just need to get used to it.

What you will probably learn in the University:

  • Calculus (matrices, limits, derivatives, integrations)
  • Discrete Math (sets, graphs, etc.)
  • Algorithmic complexity and asymptotic notation
  • Probabilities
  • If you're lucky, you'll get Algebraic Structures (a.k.a Group Theory) that teaches the essential foundations of Math.

I've always been more interested in discrete part of math where real numbers do not exist (only rational numbers do).

Alternatively, if you're as mad as me, you can try doing side projects, like creating your own Computer Algebra System or Ray tracing algorithm from scratch. It is a good brain exercise.

Go to your Campus library, look for some books. My University library was a goldmine for me. Take notes. If you have a genius idea, don't hesitate to talk with your lecturers or the Dean, they can offer you scientific work.

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

It's more efficient for memory until you start working with different data. Threads also rely on the same syscall on Linux, clone(2), but they don't share the entire context by default, so they're more lightweight. It is recommended to use pthreads(3) API instead of fork(2).

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

The true solution is... build from source.

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I share my name with Arnold Schwarzenegger, I mostly take it with humor.

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do write Rust projects

EDIT: Well, it depends. If you statically compile everything with C build systems, in that sense, the speed should not differ from generic cargo workload. Although, in most cases, projects written in C are dynamically linked due to several reasons, one of which is code speed. In practice, even huge projects written in C (30k to 10k LOC) build quicker than C++ or Rust.

I'm not pooping on generics, either. Generics is a saviour for correctness and performance. Yet, I want to point out the type creep is still a thing, even though there's little we can do about it.

Anyways, this thread should be better interpreted with humor, instead of technical accuracy.

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

It was one of the reasons, as it required huge spending on extinguishing the reactor, draft up to a million personnel, dosimetry equipment, helicopters, thousands of trucks, then cleaning the zone around the reactor, building the sarcophagus on rush, evacuating people from the exclusion zone, digging up upper layer of dirt in a radius of several kilometers, patient treatment, and keeping everything in secret.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration that the costs of the liquidation compare to costs of a small war. Besides, the Soviets were involved in a harsh Afghanistan war.

[-] raubarno@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

At least, there's Codeberg, run by a German nonprofit, who's challenging the monopoly. It is aimed exclusively for FOSS projects, private repositories are forbidden. They are running Forgejo as their bloat-free software forge server.

Now, I think every Web2 website must be operated by a nonprofit.

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