And so the US lost decade becomes the medieval dark ages

It’d be fascinating as an outsider if the choices made by the US didn’t basically impact everything, everywhere.

Well yes that’s obvious

It’s supposed to be publicly funded, not traded

Someone a long time ago must have misheard

Essentially for something to be decentralised and not ephemeral, everyone needs a copy of the data.

To go into a bit more detail—one of the biggest benefits of decentralised systems is generally redundancy has to be built in otherwise you have a Single Point Of Failure™️, and then you get data loss when it’s gone. Given any sensible decentralised system is designed to avoid this scenario, that data has to be somewhere, and generally the simplest and less expensive (in terms of processing) way to improve on data in one place, is to have it in every place. Any time the data isn’t in one place or every place, you then have an exercise in figuring out where it actually is. This “finding it” processing is going to take time and effort, and if you imagine a standard semi-popular lemmy post, that’s potentially data coming from all sorts of different places, which may or may not be there—this would inevitably make request times ridiculous and basically no one would use it.

At the end of the day, any kind of processing is energy, cost & time expensive, whereas storage makes that part of the process effectively instant and is much cheaper than increasing processing power in both cost and energy.

So basically in this use case and many like it: it makes sense if you’re trying to pick what to optimise, you optimise for lower processing and higher storage requirements rather than vice versa.

The history aspect is more straightforward to understand given the above, if you expect people to care what happened a year ago and want to support that, that data needs to live somewhere

They can happen at the same time, but no, they’re entirely independent

My friend, it’s not nonsense, it’s basically how decentralised communication has to work if you want any reasonable level of recency & history in the data.

Usenet was basically the original and I believe a modern news provider requires something like 50 petabytes of storage to run a 10 year data retention service

“Tim onion” got an irl lol out of me

Isn’t state controlled re-education another one of these big bad things that only evil commies do according to these knuckle-draggers?

Imagine the cinemas we’d have if this lot were running the show after a life of everything they do being projection

Right wingers always project

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Sadly I don’t think Teletext has been broadcast (in the UK at least) in over a decade

Was gonna say a cushion is probably not the solution to OPs problem, they’re either not using their chair correctly or the chair is bad

That’s really shitty given the expectation set when using a VPN

I was wondering the same, I’ve not had any issues personally

Sometimes I know what’s going on, and there’s some gold when that happens

Being comfortable with algebra is kinda essential, however you probably won’t make much use of calculus unless you go into certain parts of the industry such as game development.

Practice makes perfect though, you may suck at maths today, but there’s nothing stopping you from getting better at it if you work at it

It’ll be in a compilation pack, I’d bet

I always find it mad as hell that Americans have to pay tax in the US even if they are living and earning elsewhere

Especially given generally Americans are pretty allergic to reasonable taxation

For everyone not aware, given everything else that’s going on—yes, that’s world war

I doubt this comment is for anyone reading but:

If you support this, you are a bad person, a literal caricature villain.

Basically in my experience, when it comes to smart lights it’s generally just worth springing the extra for Philips Hue (and using the hub, not just in Bluetooth mode) unless you want to waste your time and money with other brands. Nothing else seems to be remotely as reliable and easy to work with—and I have zero patience for having to perform tech support on my house lighting.

I’m glad to hear you got your bulbs working though