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2019-12-13 at 12:37 AM UTC in Greta Thuneberg Named 2019 Times managizines person of the year
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2019-12-11 at 4:56 PM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕
Originally posted by Sudo Christmas is the fucking worst. I want to break up with my girlfriend but that's kinda cold before Christmas especially since we're suppposed to spend it together. Now I gotta buy presents for someone I'm probably going to break up with very soon after and pretend I enjoy their presence
bigthinkin rn
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maybe if you buy a certain kinda present, she'll break up with you instead. -
2019-12-11 at 2:48 PM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕this is all a psyop
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2019-12-11 at 9:45 AM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕i need to prove that my landlord and neighbors aren't spying on me. can hear people creeping around inside at night and there's silhouettes outside of window.
after typing it out it reads like paranoid retard bullshit so it's probably not real -
2019-12-11 at 8:53 AM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕hope to revision high iq talk
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2019-12-11 at 8:17 AM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕
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2019-12-11 at 8:03 AM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕
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2019-12-11 at 7:11 AM UTC in Story from when i worked at a gas stationwow you had to write all those words just to say that lol
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2019-12-11 at 7:06 AM UTC in Story from when i worked at a gas stationdon't know what many words right now, many words tldr plx
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2019-12-11 at 6:03 AM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕
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2019-12-11 at 5:34 AM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕based
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2019-12-11 at 1:10 AM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕just wanna go to space and do drugs rn
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2019-12-10 at 9:31 AM UTC in Rett problemi had a mouse problem coz of some proper skeezers living above my last apartment.
they were running up my walls all night
so I ended up taking a hole saw to where I heard them, followed by setting up a little mouse trap wide maze out of cardboard -
2019-12-10 at 9:05 AM UTC in notification when quotedactually there's like 50 lannys, l idk how* the 'parsing' (I think) would know which lanny to notify without the randomly generated words.
(I know nothing about what I'm talking about btw)
and @lanny add me on DC nigger -
2019-12-10 at 8:56 AM UTC in notification when quoted
Originally posted by Lanny This has been suggested before. In terms of the concept I don't mind it as an option. The two issues as I see it are:
- It has to be opt-out to be useful. But that also makes it abusable-by-default. The two ways to do opt-out are mention target full opt-out which means people are going to be crying to me when someone tags them in every shitpost because they have a binary on/off toggle or user-to-user mentioner opt out kind of like "blocking" (e.g. I don't want speckles to be able to flood my notifications with mentions so I go add him to my block list) which in terms of implementation is significantly more work for the server, more effort to code, more effort to maintain and a less intuitive user experience no matter which way you look at it which is an issue because we live in a world where people still PM me because they don't know how to resize images for avatars.
- The implementation is inherently expensive and a pain in the neck. Right now when someone makes a post we basically just throw it in the database. That's nice. That's fast. That's one query. We don't even need a transaction for it. If we potentially need to send out notifications on every new post then it means to need to parse posts when we get them, we need to do a query for every user mentioned to determine if they exist or not, we need to do at least one more query per notification to be sent out. Then reasonably we need to open a transaction to do all this because there are race conditions like "mention target spawns/disappears/blocks/unblocks while this is happening". Then if we go the "@-mention" route we either need to do this process again during post rendering or create shitty heavy new JS to support mention-by-pk in a way that's half way usable. This is all a big performance hit and requires parse-time restrictions to keep it from being a DoS vector.
The whole thing is complicated and expensive and probably costs a lot more than it's worth. If someone really wants to do it I'd consider quote only notifications with mention-target binary opt-out to be the best option since there's no read penalty and the UI isn't a total nightmare. But as it stands it's not something I'm super excited about.
would an 'opt in' checkbox, visible* quote notification check (as opposed to a blind mailbox)*, blocking functionality, and a ping restriction solve all of these issues?
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2019-12-10 at 8:49 AM UTC in Who here thinks that I'm annoying and wishes I would leave this website, forever?i hate when people call me a nigger faggot before even saying hi
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2019-12-10 at 7:43 AM UTC in What are some good BBS Forums you go on?
Originally posted by bigthink forum.encyclopediadramatica.se/
f196bbs.com/fluxbb/viewforum.php?id=1
www.campidiot.com/ci/viewforum.php?id=1v
scratch f196 off the list :( -
2019-12-10 at 4:45 AM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕
Originally posted by Sudo I've got less than 2 days to write and 8-10 page essay that cites augustine de hippo, Nietzsche, Freud and 4 other secondary sources. Also have a ton of other shit to do during this time. I wish the chinks on fiver had a better command of the English Language and I wish my ADHD wasn't so bad
.... the answer lies in our history -
2019-12-10 at 4:13 AM UTC in 3d printing general thread
Originally posted by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country You can't just print an object. For instance, with aluminium, ideally it should be CNC'd out of a solid block, then properly annealed.
3D printed guns just fall apart after just a few shots due to the weak atomic structure.
3D printing aims to replace a thousand years of metallurgy and experience with buzzwords. Not a good idea.
printing a gun reciever on a consumer level 3d printer is like asking india to colonize mars.
there has* been* substantial improvements in the past 5 years, such as near perfectly spherical titanium aluminide additives (!?!) [https://equispheres.com/], as well as carbon fiber impregnated thermoplatics [https://markforged.com/]
just like most problems, keep throwing money at it until its gone.
here's a cool (and econ. justified) application example for an industry that can afford it:
'weak atomic (micro)structure' in early development was a huge hurdle. mainly due to crack propogation when subject to eccentric combined loading. this was due to what you said.
however the 'mid' ranged machines now advertise an isotropy (homogeneous strength about all directions) of +95% in the worst case scenario -
2019-12-09 at 6:15 AM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕landlord inderjeet just sang the happy birthday song three times in a row
debating beating the shit out of him in front of his family
