I think /r/science is misunderstood. The moderators had quite a clear vision on the kind of discussion they wanted and the kind they did not. This caused some friction every time a post reached /r/all but I don’t see that as a bad thing.

If anything that’s an ideal situation. People encounter a new community they’re interested in, break some rules in ignorance, the mods interfere and the violations are rolled back, the new users then either follow the rules or leave.

Not sure how they’re doing with the API changes, pretty sure they had some automation going. Don’t think they’re compatible with reddit’s new view on making communities as interchangeable as possible to stop friction from interfering with ad revenue.

You might want to mark that NSFW. Don’t want to be caught reading some discussion with the word union in it.

The third is more gravity than physics, or perhaps you should consider it the absence of gravity.

What I’m trying to say is: stop following geodesics.

Not much you can do about institutions you have no control over, but surely you could go to a different bank?

Assuming there is a bank that doesn’t use this of course.

You want the EU to go hard because you’ve given up on the rest of the world?

I mean I get where you’re coming from but that’s not even remotely resembling a solution.

Please don’t add tracking in the name of security, thank you very much.

I mean, that’s how federation ought to work right?

Though it’s a bit of a shame that moving user accounts doesn’t really seem to be a thing yet.

People are weird. I mean they’re completely fine with random people at google knowing their exact location what they’re doing and what websites they look at, but as soon as you start following them around in public they get all upset!

Seriously though, I’m guessing that an app just doesn’t feel very ‘threatening’ somehow. It’s just an appliance, in some sense. You don’t care about the toilet seeing your private parts right?

Hey I can upvote now!

To settle this argument could you clarify if we’re supposed to be considering the straw as a solid 3D object with a thickness, or as a curved 2D surface? The answer kind of depends on which you pick.

As far as 2D topology is concerned the number of holes increase when you glue the edges of the rectangle together.

Though in that case you’re basically counting how many boundaries the surface has, which for a straw is 2 distinct circles.

Are we considering it 3D then? I thought we’d be thinking of it as a 2D surface (which, for the record, has got 2 holes).

That’s fair, but is that environment any different from just a virtual OS? I mean it doesn’t have its own filesystem and drivers etc, but that’s precisely because they’ve been made virtual.

In this context I’d say systemd is an application, not the OS, though the distinction gets iffy I know.

The images can get big, but they’re fairly clever about it so it is manageable. Performance wise they don’t take up more CPU and RAM than a regular application.

There’s an (unofficial) image running nodemon on dockerhub about 250MB in size. The official NodeJS image is about 300MB (presumably they’ve preinstalled a bunch of stuff). You could start with the official image and install nodemon on it, that would probably be most future proof (no way of knowing if the unofficial image keeps getting updates, if any).

To understand it you’ll need to know roughly what an OS is. Very roughly speaking an OS provides a program with a way to access files, connect to the internet and launch other programs.

What docker does is make something a bit like a ‘virtual’ OS with its own filesystem, network and task manager, and then start running programs in it (which then may launch other programs).

Since you’re not making a VM which must simulate all of the hardware, this is a lot cheaper. However since a docker container gets its own filesystem, network etc. it can do whatever it wants without any other programs getting in the way.

Among other things docker containers make installation a lot easier since a program will only ever see its own files (unless you explicitly add your own files to the docker container). To a large extent you also don’t need to worry about installing any prerequisites, since those can just be put into the container.

Making a docker container is a bit (a lot) like installing a fresh OS, just putting the stuff you need in it and then copying the whole OS whenever you want to run the thing again. Except it’s been optimized such that it takes about as much effort as launching a program, as opposed to a VM which needs dedicated resources and are generally slower than the machine that hosts them.

Yeah this is one of the reasons I don’t like companies that profit directly of of pirating. It never ends well and eventually someone is going to figure out they can just buy the company instead of competing on convenience.

For some more context, this is probably tied into at least two things. One is that the bubble was starting to be recognized for what it was. The other is that interest rates became positive again, so the bar for a good investment suddenly went from “I’ll be happy if I get my money back” to “I want to be paid back double within 20 years”.

I like the new layout better, just hope everything keeps workign

Or there is but it was ages ago, had no decent answers and all information in it has become outdated.

As I have no obligation to actually pay attention to any ads, so I see no reason why I would be obliged to download and display them.

Also, ‘point blank’? Shouldn’t that just be ‘period’?