PhilipTheBucket

I don’t think I am going to take confident proclamations about how it works from someone who thinks “voltage” translates to “how much energy is left in the battery”.

https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-903-how-to-measure-state-of-charge

I don’t really know how this stuff works, that’s why it is my conspiracy theory instead of me just giving fun facts. But, I don’t think you know how this stuff works either.

It sounds like coulomb counting (current sensors, as you said) is often the method. Personally, I suspect there’s a decent amount of bullshit inserted into that to make it look “normal” when people are looking at how the number behaves, at the expense of accuracy. You might move your phone from cold to warm for example, and the usable energy in the battery might increase when that happens (or something) but it’s definitely not going to show your battery percent going up, even if it could detect it properly which I don’t think it can. Whether to say that means it’s “bullshit” is I guess a matter of opinion.

The battery level your phone shows is just made-up bullshit. It’s roughly accurate of course, but they can’t really check how much charge is in the battery with 1:100 accuracy, so it just counts down at a roughly constant rate making adjustments to the rate based on rough measurements of broadly whether the battery is “real full” or “mostly full” or “almost empty” or whatever.

Yeah. You’ve got people talking about quitting the DOJ because they’re used to the old world where people get in trouble for things. And then up on top there’s Donald Trump saying “RAPE IS THE BEST AND LET’S KILL ALL THE MEXICANS” and getting away with it.

I think it just doesn’t matter anymore. The video is fake and it’s going to be fine. I think the hope is that things will change and it’ll matter again in time for things to come back around and whiplash these specific people.

Sounds like you have your answer

It definitely is hilarious to see people legitimately considering backing Adams and Cuomo, both of who are well known to be profoundly corrupt and personally unpleasant people with no real plans to deal with issues that huge portions of the electorate are facing.

I think a lot of the people in a position to decide about this kind of thing are backing Adams (Cuomo is cooked at this point) because he is profoundly corrupt, and has no plans to deal with issues that huge portions of the electorate are facing.

The people who are reading for example the newspapers and podcasts constructed by that first grouping, and then deciding to vote for Adams for example instead of Mandami, are either confused or horrible, in a way that overall is sadly hilarious, yes.

Pretty unusual for five people to all vote within half a second of each other

This is actually a consequence of how votes federate out. They go out in batches, all at once, after a little bit of a delay.

I actually do also think that people are artificially trying to rig the votes about particular things (and frequently the admins catch some people doing it with careless obviousness), but this isn’t an indication, it’s more difficult to detect than that.

Most of the people who died in Germany’s camps weren’t killed “on purpose.” They simply couldn’t survive the conditions, and died of disease, malnutrition, cold, and so on. This is a feature. Explicit killing “on purpose” is just the backup option if things aren’t moving quickly enough.

Maybe you mean it’s use where people use it specifically as a package manager

Precisely. Containerization is great and Docker does it well. Sending someone a reproducible script that can set up your software package for them is great. Marrying the two concepts unnecessarily and using one specific tool which is designed primarily to do the first, to instead do the second, is the only real issue I’m taking with it.

Yeah, I honestly just strongly dislike the whole Docker ethos. It was designed for one thing (deployment at scale), at which it excelled, and then everyone uses it for a different thing (reproducible one-off deployment), at which it is fine, basically, but just kind of the minimum set of capabilities to get the job done.

Nix can do what Docker does, in a much superior fashion (lower disk space, much better transparency, rollback ability, lack of towering chains of follow-on effects as you are talking about, and applications outside of mucking around with containerized images), but for some reason everyone uses Docker, and Nix is as far as I can tell unused outside of NixOS.

Whatever. When they make me king, it'll be different, that's all I can say.

Hm... definitely don't automatically do anything with ponder.cat going forward, this instance is just on the verge of shutting down because the .cat registrar caught me not being Catalan. I'm a little surprised it hasn't already happened.

So what the !communities@ponder.cat bot does is, more or less, just grab https://data.lemmyverse.net/data/community.full.json, sort by (MAU / number of subscribers), and then make a post of the highest-rated community with at least 100 subscribers that hasn't already been posted.

I don't see !nolawns@slrpnk.net in that Lemmyverse list and I have no useful input for you as to why that might be... maybe something to do with Anubis? Is lemmyverse maybe trying to fetch the main page and crawl the .js instead of grabbing the list of communities from the API, something like that, so that it can't update slrpnk anymore now? I have no idea.

I don't think .ml should be ousted. I think they should stop being dickheads. It's a little tangential to this particular post (mostly only relevant in that it makes people suspicious of their motives when otherwise they would not be.)

Docker is a mediocre solution to a real problem. It doesn’t cost any money, it does the job, but also, it consumes lots more disk than it needs to and can’t do some things that a solution in this space really should be able to do.

If the world had decided that Nix was the way to containerize their web services and make them reproducible, the world would have been a better place, but that wasn’t what happened (yet at least).