Why do people keep saying the NIF experiment was a net gain? People focus on the laser input at the end of the line, which was 20MJ and produced 25MJ. But the input power to charge the capacitors was 422MJ.

The whole experiment produced 5% of what was put in.

Back where?

None of the above.

I’m the humble contrarian.

You might have a good point, but you’re being self-righteous and smug. I’m ordering a turkey sandwich because your lack of humility irritates me and I want to piss you off.

What type of engineer?

If you’re a software engineer, then you can probably start to look around for remote work. You will also have the luxury of looking at tech companies that also have nice offices and campuses that aren’t soul sucking cubicles.

Exploding heads is a good example of a far right instance. A lot of folks have defederated from them. The biggest instance, Lemmy.world, just cut ties and they’re furious.

Hiding subscriber counts is intentional at join-Lemmy.org. They were being displayed about 2 weeks ago, but new users saw them, viewed actively as a form of social proof, and only signed up with large instances.

Problem is, those large instances are starting to break now. They can’t scale fast enough to meet demand.

Moreover, if you signup for a small instance, you can still subscribe to communities from another instance. Communities are shared between instances.

IMHO, we should be displaying stats like response time and integration with the federation network. That’s what is actually important for most folks. If you only focus on local activity, you’re going to have a bad time.

Weird, I saw this on Lemmy.world. Did something change?

This NSFW protest was the perfect funeral for a website that became famous with the jizz box, poop knife, etc.

I was pretty sad to see a platform I loved die, but sadness was replaced with laughter over the past few days. Seeing middle aged dads posts their hairy buttholes out of anger. 🤌😘

More details

https://lemmy.world/post/93315

I generally reserve my downvotes for three things. People being jerks, people dishing out incorrect information, and reposts.

But I’m also a beehaw main, and downvoting is disabled for the entire instance. I only downvote on my lesser used accounts for other instances.

Some instances have downvoting disabled. Beehaw.org for example.

They’re trying to encourage positive communication, so they have it turned off. Upvotes only.

True, but it will make home for people who are subbed.

If anything it fucks up their SEO.

I don’t buy the libertarian thing. I used to listen to his political podcast on the regular, it was pretty clear that he was no fan of right wing politicians.

What’s really terrifying is that his followers can’t possibly fathom that a guy with a 50 year history of doing shady stuff, is in fact, still continuing to do shady stuff.

There’s an elliptical in the ballroom and a pilates reformer in the lobby.

thanks!

edit: ugh, but strikethrough is no space. what the heck.

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The people that preorder clearly aren’t listening

I assumed the idea was to fill reddit with trash content. A lot of subs didn’t go dark, so flooding the homepage with trash content will pollute the existing experience.