Some Lojban suggestions:

• pemnot (gismu: pemci + notci; lit: poem + note)
• kafnot (gismu: ckafi + notci; lit: coffee + note)
• kafpinji (gismu: ckafi + pinji; lit: coffee + penis)

Does this mean Trump gets to pick his Florida judge that dismissed his criminal case now?

Aileen Cannon? I imagine she has a good chance at becoming a Supreme Court justice due to her loyalty in legally shielding Trump.

Although Bluesky is an improvement over X-Twitter in terms of your ability to move to a different server in the event the main Bluesky ATProto node also gets bought out by someone like Elon Musk, ATProto nodes are not really decentralized since they are prohibitively expensive for individuals to run due to early architectural choices. According to “How decentralized is Bluesky really?” (2024-11-22) by ActivityPub developer, Christine Lemmer-Webber, a Bluesky node requires 5 TB, which maps to somewhere between 6-60k USD/year in cloud storage costs. The problematic architectural is that ActivityPub uses “message passing” while ATProto uses “shared heap”, using Christine’s phrasing.

The best way to understand the reason for this difference in hosting requirements is to understand the underlying architecture of these systems. ActivityPub follows an message passing architecture …, the same as email, XMPP, and so on. A message is addressed, and then delivered to recipients. … This turns out to be pretty efficient; if only users on five servers need to know about a message, out of tens of thousands of servers, only those five servers will be contacted. … If Alyssa wants to write a piece of mail to Ben, she can send it directly to Ben, and it can arrive at Ben’s house. If Ben wants to reply, Ben can reply directly to Alyssa. Your intuitions about email apply exactly here, because that’s effectively what this design is.

Bluesky does not utilize message passing, and instead operates in what I call a shared heap architecture. In a shared heap architecture, instead of delivering mail to someone’s house …, letters which may be interesting all are dumped at a post office (called a “relay”) directly. From there it’s the responsibility of interested parties to show up and filter through the mail to see what’s interesting to them. This means there is no directed delivery; if you want to see replies which are relevant to your messages, you (or someone operating on behalf of you) had better sort through and know about every possible message to find out what messages could be a reply.

… The physical world equivalent for a fully decentralized fediverse then is that every user sends mail to every other user’s house, as needed, similar to how sending letters works in the physical world. This is decidedly not the case with a fully decentralized ATProto. The physical world equivalent would be that every user had their own house at which they stored a copy of every piece of mail delivered to every other user at their house.

If this sounds infeasible to do in our metaphorical domestic environment, that’s because it is. A world of full self-hosting is not possible with Bluesky. In fact, it is worse than the storage requirements, because the message delivery requirements become quadratic at the scale of full decentralization: to send a message to one user is to send a message to all. Rather than writing one letter, a copy of that letter must be made and delivered to every person on earth.

tl;dr A Bluesky node is better than X-Twitter but very costly to run compared to Fediverse.

Thanks for the info!

I’m looking forward to seeing the explanation connecting Diablo, Rimuru, and the mask.

Is Elmesia (?), the elf monarch, the head of state of the Sorcerous Kingdom? If so, shouldn’t it be Queendom? Also, besides the really short fights with Razen and some of the religious zealots, as well a Elmesia’s wariness, I still don’t have a good idea of Diablo’s capabilities nor the reason why he’s so interested in Rimuru. I recall Diablo was very interested in the mask Rimuru’s body’s previous owner used, but I fail to see what that has to do with Rimuru since he wasn’t around yet.

It is Kefkaʼs Tower, according to “Final Fantasy Ultimania Archive, Volume 1” (2018). Dark Horse Books. Page 259 of 335. ISBN: 978-1-50670-644-3. OCLC: 1043915833.

Granted, but it is endless because it supplies itself with water from your blood.

You know she’s a competent teacher because she never loses her head.

Utah: Monticello (Italian, but locally pronounced “monta sell-oh”)

You’re telling me there is no Walla Walla, England?

Madness.

Yo estaba pensando por qué no había “Share full article links” en los artículos. Pensaba que era un síntoma de que mi cuenta estaba registrada en los EE.UU.

Elves can live over a thousand years (one dark elf we know of is blessed by their evil deity and is over 5,000), but dwarves only about 2-400 years (I think?) and half lings about 100-150ish, humans standard 80.

After reading The Age of Em (2016) by Robin Hanson, I wish there were stories about races that went the other way, lifespan-wise: extremely small people who lived only 1 year, even smaller people who lived only 1 month, some very extremely small but very powerful ones that lived only a day, etc. The idea is that artificial people (emulated people, or Ems) could have subjectively similar characteristics and experiences to the larger physical entities (e.g. humans, but perhaps even dwarves, elves, and etc., since theyʼre just emulated minds), but their artificial emulated substrate allows their minds to develop and age orders of magnitude faster; they also could solve certain problems orders of magnitude faster but practical limitations on delays between thought and physical interactions (your mind would waste away if you had to wait a whole subjective hour between each physical step during a walk with a standard 1.5 meter body) require their bodies to be very small.

To ems that are smaller and faster, sunlight seems dimmer and shows more noticeable diffraction patterns. Magnets, waveguides, and electrostatic motors are less useful. Surface tension makes it harder to escape from water. Friction is more often an obstacle, lubrication is harder to achieve, and random thermal disruptions to the speed of objects become more noticeable. It becomes easier to dissipate excess body heat, but harder to insulate against nearby heat or cold (Haldane 1926; Drexler 1992).

A crude calculation using a simple conservative nano-computer design suggests that a matching faster-em brain might plausibly fit inside an android body 256 times smaller and faster than an ordinary human body (Hanson 1995).

Compared with ordinary humans, to a fast em with a small body the Earth seems much larger, and takes much longer to travel around. To a kilo-em, for example, the Earth’s surface area seems a million times larger, a subway ride that takes 15 minutes in real time takes 10 subjective days, an 8-hour plane ride takes a subjective year, and a 1-month flight to Mars takes a subjective century. Sending a radio signal to the planet Saturn and back takes a subjective 4 months. Even super-sonic missiles seem slow. However, over modest distances lasers and directed energy weapons continue to seem very fast to a kilo-em.

Call them speedlings, or some variant of sprite, but I think its an interesting world-building concept.

Or authors could preëmptively declare their works to be in the public domain upon their death.

I wish Creative Commons had a license like that. Something like CC PDD (Public-Domain-on-Death) which would activate upon the creator’s death, allowing them and publishers to freely monetize their work while they’re alive, but which would release the work into the public domain immediately after.

It might even incentivize music and book publishers to get their artists health insurance. 😃

PLATO: An automobile is craft with an internal combustion engine, crankshaft, and wheels.

DIOGENES wheels in a HONDA GX630 PRESSURE WASHER

DIOGENES: Behold! An automobile!

“Create a python script to count the number of r characters are present in the string strawberry.”

The number of 'r' characters in 'strawberry' is: 2

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De nada. Espero que puedan compartir algunos artículos del New York Times acá con los demás.

“That all life beyond this planet never existed, no matter how irrationally improbable that may be.”