[-] imperator3733@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Adding more light rail wherever it makes sense is definitely a good plan (and should happen), but improving bus networks gives a lot more bang for the buck than focusing only on light rail. Features like off-board fare collection (paying at the bus stop, not on the vehicle), bus signal priority (extending greens and shortening reds as buses approach traffic lights), and dedicated bus lanes all improve the overall speed of buses and therefore the overall rider experience. Expanding the prevalence of these features should be a priority everywhere, particularly on higher-ridership routes.

[-] imperator3733@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

What is Tiblur? There's no explanation given in the post and the link is to a sign-in/amount creation page, also with no explanation.

[-] imperator3733@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Or the comment sections could just be merged together in the client view. Each thread of comments would belong to one (and only one) instance, so it shouldn't be difficult to merge those lists together when presenting the aggregate view to the user.

[-] imperator3733@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm hoping that, someday, we have support for what I described in another post:

It would be very beneficial to have clients that support aggregating equivalent communities from multiple instances. When viewing a post from the aggregated community there could be a section at the top saying "Viewing comments from:" and then a dropdown to choose between "all instances", "lemmy.world", "lemmy.ml", etc. When viewing all comments, they would be in one combined feed, without the user needing to care about which underlying post holds the specific thread they're looking at.

Similarly, when users post something to an aggregate community, they could select whether it's posted to all the included communities, only one, or some specific subset.

[-] imperator3733@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Videos are not documentation.

They can be used to demonstrate examples of how to do a particular task, but as other commenters have mentioned, documentation involves listing classes, functions, parameters, etc and clearly explaining what they all do, in a searchable manner. Text is searchable, video is not.

[-] imperator3733@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Even human life will still likely survive, just not necessarily in the large-scale, global civilization that we have today. Even if that all collapses, scattered pockets of human civilization will remain across much of the world.

[-] imperator3733@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Enhanced Safe Browsing was released in 2007 as an upgrade to Google's standard Safe Browsing feature that warns users when they visit known phishing and malware sites.

That's gotta be a typo. Gmail itself came out in 2004, and I doubt that "Safe Browsing" and then "Enhanced Safe Browsing" both came out in the first three years.

I'm guessing it's supposed to be 2017?

Regardless of when it came out, the nagging prompts sure are annoying.

[-] imperator3733@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

They're way too expensive and they're still early-generation devices. Plus, why would I trust Google to continue with the product line seeing as how they keep killing viable products and services?

If they get to the Pixel Fold 4 or 5 and the price is down to the $500-600 range, then it'd be a very serious contender for me. (Assuming the insane fragility is resolved)

[-] imperator3733@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The only use that I've thought of over the years is event logging where you need a very high confidence that no one has tampered with the logs.

[-] imperator3733@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For consumer software, yes, most is still being built with a baseline target instruction set from the early/mid-2000s. In 2019 there were reports of Apex Legends requiring SSE4.1, an instruction set from circa 2007. It will be be probably close to a couple decades before consumer software would start commonly requiring these instructions.

However, for more specialized environments, such as scientific and high-performance computing applications, it's much more common that you will be using custom software designed for a specific task, and that it's normal to recompile the software when you get a new set of hardware. In those applications, these instructions can make a huge impact, as you know exactly which capabilities are supported by the hardware and can use everything available.

I believe there are also some (possibly limited) situations where a program can check what instructions a processor supports and use either the newer (higher-performance) version or the slower, more widely-supported version depending on that check. There may be limits on how often that can be done however.

[-] imperator3733@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

"Boycott, divestment and sanction" - it's expanded in one of the paragraphs, but it's somewhat hidden and didn't follow the convention of putting the acronym in parentheses after the expansion.

[-] imperator3733@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

If you want to share a video, unless it is your own, original content, you should be linking to the original source, not uploading the video itself to Lemmy. Uploading content that for which you do not have rights to a platform is freebooting, and is theft. Linking to the original source lets you share the content with others while still providing the views and revenue to the actual creator, ensuring that they will be able to continue making the content that you have evidently found value in.

tl;dr - link to the original source, don't upload someone else's video to the platform.

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