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solrize, in What's something you'd change in men's fashion, given the chance?

Propeller beanies as formal and business attire.

Starb3an, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

Not my circus, not my monkeys. Let go or get dragged.

I heard them from my mom who went to Al Anon (I was in alcoholics anonymous). The first one is don’t make other people’s problems your problems. The second relates to letting people make their own mistakes. They’re the greatest teacher

Addfwyn, in Does anyone actually enjoy working out?

I feel like if you feel like you need to cultivate a mindset for a particular activity, you are probably better off finding another activity. Unless you have extremely specific goals that really demand a particular exercise, it is better to simply be moderately active doing something you enjoy doing.

I’ve tried running/jogging, I am actually not bad at it. I freaking hate actually doing it though, I would rather be doing almost anything else. Which makes it a terrible exercise for me to do, because I will find any excuse to not do it. Same for lifting weights. I enjoy swimming but dislike public pools, in my current country nobody has private pools, even the rich.

For me I have always enjoyed martial arts, particularly sparring. I can’t necessarily find people to do that with regularly where I live now, but I can still practice forms and the like by myself. I get a not insignificant workout from regular Beat Saber sessions too, honestly.

plutolink,
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I think the mindset aspect that’s true to a degree, where there’s something you just enjoy more easily. There can be something though to not being acclimated to a particular feeling since it isn’t necessarily comfortable initially, but it eventually morphs into something positive and that feeling changes. It doesn’t always happen though, I’d bet, so after some time of no change one would have to find something more naturally fitting for them.

VioletteRei,
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Beat Saber is really good to do some sport. Play it 1 hour every day and you will see improvement in your cardio

AletheCrow, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough, The world is nothing but a crucible. -Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle.

JayEchoRay, (edited ) in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?
@JayEchoRay@lemmy.world avatar

Not sure where it is from, misquoting and probably butchering the quote:

“If you think a headache is bad, break your arm then the headache doesn’t feel so bad anymore”

Basically if something is bad, but something worse comes along, then the bad thing doesn’t seem so bad anymore

Update:

Because this has got me thinking, going to update when I quote source ( also don’t want to double post)

Heard in Mass Effect 2, Thane quoting:

“When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.” Thomas Hobbes

caveman,
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In a similar vein, this is my fave (which I consistently get wrong but the gist is enough) “I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” Mark Twain

nekat_emanresu, in What is a beautiful concept or idea that continues to blow your mind?

The beautiful idea that blows my mind, is how much better the comment section for a question like this post presents is on Lemmy, than Reddit!

fubo, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over, in states unborn and accents yet unknown?

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, scene 1.

But … I first encountered this line in the shooter game Silpheed on the Apple IIgs, long before I’d read any Shakespeare.

distantorigin, in How much "data" do you personally have?

50 TB on a network attached storage appliance across 8 drives, probably 200-400 GB across two laptop internal drives, and 500 GB or so of games on a Framework expansion card.

I may have a problem. Something something r/datahoarder something something.

FiftyShadesOfMyCow,

A problem, maybe, but a great and awesome problem! One that will last a lifetime.

scrubbles,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

I crossed the 110TB line not too long ago. Don’t worry, if all of your primary data is still in one enclosure you’re still fine.

If you find yourself building out racks then it’s time for an intervention. That’s what my friends did with me and they failed

cablepick,
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I’ve found the solution to this problem is to not have friends.

scrubbles,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

Aren’t several selfhosted chatbots friends?

dragnucs, in Which learning path makes the most amount of sense?

You will not find much to do with Ruby. Node is more popular and more in demand. A lot companies and OSS project have o Node. Ruby is very niche.

ablackcatstail,
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I thought Ruby was still pretty relevant given that Mastodon is essentially coded in Ruby but I am coming to the same conclusion you are based on another person’s comment.

taladar,

Ruby is used in some large, older existing projects (e.g. GitLab, Redmine, Puppet) but my impression is that a lot of them do not have very much active development of the Ruby parts going on any more.

ablackcatstail,
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I am seriously curious here: Why has popularity of Ruby declined?

crusa187,

Probably a few reasons for this. I’m not a ruby dev so take this with a grain of salt.

Ruby doesn’t have a lot to offer beyond languages like Python or Go without its companion web development framework Rails. Ruby on Rails was good for its time (~2012 -> 2015 era was peak), but there are more mature, stable, and widely adopted frameworks available in other languages. RoR touted speed to develop as a feature, but you can do things plenty fast with the aforementioned languages too. On the flip side, rails apps are notoriously slow to boot. I think this became a problem with cloud native infrastructure. For example, Kubernetes likes to spin up services very quickly, and can be painful to work with if that’s not an option (experienced this with Java apps too for that matter). As self hosting on bare metal went by the wayside, so too did interest in developing new apps on rails, imho.

ablackcatstail,
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Interesting! Thank you for the perspective. I am seeing a trend of smaller businesses that are bringing services back on premises and self-hosting but I have no interest in working for a small business. I’ve been there, done that, and it was hell.

bric,

Yeah, which makes Ruby one of those languages like COBOL, you can make a lot of money if you’re in that world, but I wouldn’t ever recommend that someone should try and join that world, it’s going to be too hard to get in to and it might not stick around for long. I know some people that make a lot of money working in Ruby, but that doesn’t mean that anyone can, unlike javascript which will be valuable anywhere

z500, (edited ) in What is a beautiful concept or idea that continues to blow your mind?
@z500@startrek.website avatar

On the subject of Conway’s Game of Life, one of the YouTube videos that I always have to go back to now and then is a narrated video of the game being built from the ground up in APL. It’s so wild to see the guy start with a simple expression and the algorithm taking shape as he adds to it step by step. By the end it looks like some magical incantation lol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4

nekat_emanresu,

O_O…

Dudes a genius magician that practices dark arts that make magnets look easy to understand.

joneskind,
@joneskind@lemmy.world avatar

Emergence.

Conway’s Game Of Life blew my mind when I first saw it live. The fact that it is Turing Complete is crazy too.

MigratingtoLemmy, in Is there any plugin or way to block forced registration

If they keep serving a pop-up for you to register, find the JS function that does that and remove it. Or use NoScript and disable it.

But if they absolutely require logins then I’m afraid the only thing you can do is use temp emails

EggsCurrently,

That’s what I do, use uBlock Origin to filter the pop-up. Then most site disable scrolling and that can usually be countered by finding the “overflow: hidden;” and turning it into “overflow: visible;” (you can also use uBlock Origin to inject “overflow: visible !important;” into the page for it to stay persistent.

MigratingtoLemmy,

Thanks for the tip, I should try this!

Sev, in What replacement for each major social media do you use
@Sev@feddit.uk avatar

Trying to replace reddit on PC but this place still isn’t great for gaming and wrestling and niche games i’m currently into. I do enjoy it on my phone though, also tagged back in Somethingawful on my phone also for some nice reading of some classic threads and PYF stuff.

Other than that, no need to replace anything otherwise :)

Mugmoor,
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I have been on SA a bunch lately too. 13 years later and I still don’t understand FYAD.

Sev,
@Sev@feddit.uk avatar

Same, but get a good thread or two under your belt and you’re hooked. I’m currently reading about some fellow Englishman building a new house and it’s very good with the humor and photos: ‘Towards an L shape architecture: a ham flavoured soakaway system’

Give it a read, funny shit so far.

burningquestion, in What's the point of buying new phones every years?

The only real argument I’d make is that most manufacturers only push out security updates for a given model for a couple of years, but different companies have different support timelines.

eddietrax, in given how little one vote matter, it seems to me that stripping felons of their right to vote is both petty and counterproductive if the point was to reform them into civic minded individuals ?
@eddietrax@dmv.social avatar

given how little one vote matters

Man what a shit way to think.

Jourei,

Unfortunately it is the honest way. One individual vote has no effect in a pool of millions.

eddietrax, (edited )
@eddietrax@dmv.social avatar

That’s not the point. If everyone believes their one vote doesn’t matter then yes, continue on with this futile thinking as it will surely not make a difference.

interdimensionalmeme,

Ideally, it is one divided by population. In practice, because of the electoral college, and because money is speech are corporation are people, it is still way way less than 0.000’000’003

Uno, in Does anyone actually enjoy working out?

Cardio is awesome, the runners high is real, but you have to be well conditioned so it’s tough for beginners.

Sometimes, I also like to do workouts because it makes me feel productive while not being as mentally taxing as my ‘job’ of being a full time college student :/

whoisearth,
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Cardio is awesome, the runners high is real, but you have to be well conditioned so it’s tough for beginners.

Hell nah. I spent 40 years telling people running is what you do to get away from the police. I started jogging during the pandemic 2 years ago. You sure as shit don’t need to be well conditioned just be aware of your body and its limits which I will admit many people are not.

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