If you’re talking about the chicken and egg problem in the abstract, i.e. how do you determine “what caused what” in a system that feeds back into itself… the answer is that in feedback systems, determining blame or ascribing one or the other as the cause is simply meaningless, and you need to examine how the system behaves as a whole, and how the different parts contribute to the output of the system in various configurations.

LA is also just a car culture city. When you’re poor in LA, you drive a shitty car, when you get rich in LA, you drive a fancy car.

When you’re poor in New York, you get driven around by public transit. When you’re rich in New York, you get driven around by a car service.

It’s obviously not so black and white, but the percentage of rich people driving sports cars in LA vs rich people getting driven in luxury cars in NY, is probably similar to the percentage of poor people driving in LA vs poor people taking transit in New York.

Fuck the US. Let it wallow and die. Talking more closely is just more likely to get its shit on you as it goes.

Nope. You can literally just send them the exact fields needed for processing a transaction.

The dev of Lemmy is an asshole, full stop. He’s also incredibly pro Russian and pro Chinese, but first and foremost, he’s an intolerable asshole.

You’ll get banned from his Lemmy instance if you dare to suggest that Russia or China issue propaganda.

And he is a large part of the reason why all the “tankie”, i.e. pro-communist Lemmy instances, have cultures of such obnoxious anti-intellectualism.

That doesn’t actually sound like they intend on producing usable helium though. That sounds like they intend on doing a really difficult and expensive fusion reaction to produce helium 3, which they will then use in a cheaper and easier to do fusion reaction, and the end result of all of that should be electricity and no net new helium since it’s expensive and rare AF and they need it all to make the whole process remotely plausibly profitable.

Can I remind everyone that it is impossible to produce helium in a practical way?

It is literally only produced through a fusion reaction, and that happens in stars and in incredibly tiny quantities in fusion reactors.

Whenever it’s released, it basically just floats away into space and is lost forever.

And what hardware do they run Linux on? And what phone do they use? And what TV device?

And if they’re not a mac fan boy, then they’re insistence of looking at Apple as the only possible sign of industry trends is mind boggingly narrow.

Do I really miss it? It never once came up in any practical situation.

You would buy a mobo and a CPU and put them together and not think about the specific buses or controllers you have available, unless you had a very specific reason to.

Unless we’re talking about a mobile power constrained device, I certainly would rather have expandable RAM and graphics cards then everything slammed in a single unchanging chip.

And again, the fact that the author states that Nvidia can’t release an integrated SoC because they didn’t buy ARM, when they actively sell an integrated SoC licensed from ARM, makes the entire rest of their “opinion”, untrustworthy.

This is a bad article. It’s just an Apple fanboy watching their company continue its trend of shitting on customers and assuming that everyone inevitably will, apparently never once reflecting on whether their insistence of sticking with Apple is the real problem.

Their argument boils down to CPUs increasingly integrating basic versions of other components over time meaning that desktops will disappear… Ignoring that the desktop market has stayed surprisingly flat that entire time and has certainly not disappeared.

If your argument is that integrated CPUs will outclass discrete components connected with high speed buses then you need to make it from an engineering standpoint, not a headline one.

I also don’t understand his reasoning that because NVidia don’t buy ARM they don’t get to make an integrated CPU… Nvidia made and sold an integrated ARM CPU before ever being rumoured to buy them, and they still make and sell it to this day … because ARM’s entire business model is based on companies like Nvidia licensing their designs.

Their assessment of the charter of rights and freedoms is nonsense.

We have one of the stronger constitutions in the world, one that actually provides positive rights for it’s citizens, not just negative ones

I.e. American rights are all framed as the government not doing something to you, Canadian rights also include ones that force the government to do things for you, like provide health care and clean drinking water. It doesn’t mean the government always does, but our courts are far better at holding our governments to account for functioning the way that normal people expect them to.

The notwithstanding clause is problematic, but it is not the death knell that post is making it out to be.

Microsoft’s been pretty open about using Linux for at least the past decade or so.

They kept building it into Windows which eventually resulted in WSL, largely because they use Linux servers but Windows workstations.

It was about 5 years ago that they publicly released Common Base Linux Mariner (now called Azure Linux).

If it tastes better than actual chicken, then you’ve just created a new meat-like product with a chicken-ish taste.

It’s like a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest where Charlie Chaplin himself ranks sixth. You can say someone looks almost like Charlie Chaplin, but claiming they look more like him than he does himself doesn’t make any sense.

No, that is not a similar situation, since Charlie Chaplin is, by definition, a single entity with a single definition.

Chicken meat on the other hand, is a range of flavours and textures. Chicken nuggets feel nothing like roast chicken, which feels nothing like pulled chicken. White meat tastes different then dark meat, the and connective tissues add other flavours as well. Different species of chickens tastes different as do chickens on different diets, and the taste of chicken has changed over time. Hell, American chicken tastes notably worse than chicken in most other countries.

You are not dealing with a single defined thing, especially when dealing with the broad category of everything allowed to be called chicken at the grocery store, like chicken nuggets and burgers. It is entirely possible for a synthetic fake chicken product, to slot into this spectrum of options.

Honestly, for nuggets and chicken burgers I could see this but there’s no way this is remotely true for roast chicken / chicken breasg unless all those brands have dramatically changed their products recently.

The texture between difference between actual real chicken and chicken paste that they add to nuggets burgers etc is wildly different and I’ve never seen any fake chicken product be able to replicate that texture.

This is childish.

It’s literally a product designed to imitate and fill the role of meat.

It would be like saying that synthetic motor oil has nothing to do with motor oil.

Having strong opinions doesn’t always make you look smart.

Given Ubiquiti’s Russian connections, and TP Link’s Chinese connections, this honestly isn’t surprising.

Neither are they on the instances that defederate from them.

It’s also not like it’s an ideological thing. The instances that get defederate from are just filled with obnoxious tankies.

This is literally how he always acts. There’s a reason that many instances do not federate with lemmy.ml, his instance.

He’s incredibly pro communist, pro Russia, pro China, and will ban you for even mentioning that something could be foreign propaganda.

At the end of the day, hopefully your instance builds their server code from source and inspects it to make sure there’s nothing nefarious. It would be nice to use a decentralized Reddit like platform not coded by him, but no one else has the time, resources, ability, and/or dedication, to step up.

I would still rather use Lemmy over Reddit, though I did switch to donating to piefed, the Canadian instance runners, over donating to him.