I’m a developer but have utterly no experience with torrent architecture, or for that matter anything outside of standard web services and the kinds of things companies do. But I’ve been wondering if BitTorrent technology would be usable for federating content for things such as Lemmy. After reading that somebody was begging for money to offset the $5k/month they were spending to run an instance (I mean, that shows true dedicaton but holy crap dude), it seems like a distributed architecture would make a lot of sense than somebody having to foot the bill for a big-ass server. I just personally wouldn’t know where to begin on a project like that, but maybe if somebody with the right combo of skills and experience gave it some thought…

Nice to hear that about Poland. In the US people love to have DoorDash deliver them fast food at double the price so they can spend more time consuming entertainment.

I’ve been making bread regularly for years. A 1-lb loaf costs me about 90 cents USD for ingredients and 15 cents to run the oven. “Nice” Safeway bakery loaves that roughly correspond to what I make cost anywhere from $3-$6, and the whole process takes me 10-15 minutes of actual effort (including cleanup). I don’t count rising and baking times because I’m doing other stuff.

Having also consumed a lot of packaged food (I’m not a crusader against it) I would say cooking meals from store-bought ingredients costs around half as much. Home-growing vegetables adds a huge amount more work. I did a garden for 2 years, many years ago - it was more of a fun project. On the scale I did it I never felt the hours of labor paid off dollar-wise. And what with mulch and other things gardening is something you can pretty much spend as much money on as you want lol.

Fun fact: if you go to the deli counter and get them to slice meat for you it’s about half the price of the store-brand deli packs on the shelves, which are the exact same meats, sliced and packaged by the same people. The only difference is you stand there waiting for a minute while they do it instead just grabbing it off the shelf. The high price of even marginal convenience.

Also most people can’t throttle their work hours as needed like that. We cook during nonwork time - free as in both speech and beer.

I figure more like 15 cents to bake a loaf of bread (gas oven, 15 minutes preheat, 30 minutes bake). Maybe another 20 cents if I rise it in the oven. In cold weather running the oven is essentially free, since the heat stays in the house and the furnace runs correspondingly less. In warm weather I just leave the kitchen door open to let the excess heat out.

DIY bread is a real winner. Costs me about $1.05 to make a 1-lb loaf. That includes flour, yeast, salt, and gas to run the oven. An equivalent quality loaf of Safeway bakery bread costs anywhere from 3 to 6x that much. And it’s like 10-12 minutes of actual effort, including cleanup. I also make hoagy-style sandwich loaves, soft dinner rolls and other things. Same basic recipe, just a few minutes more effort to handle the dough differently. I’m totally addicted to fresh bread.

Pointing out inaccuracies and giving countrary opinions are fine, but calling OP disingenuous is calling them dishonest - and I don’t think you’re even using it correctly - the term usually implies that they’re playing dumb or innocent.

And this comment genuinely isn’t aimed at you, I’m just venting about people presuming to magically know somebody’s state of mind.

I find that stuck-on stuff comes off my stainless steel pans very easily: just get the pan very hot and add enough water to cover the black residue. Let it boil and bubble for like half a minute. The gunk will now come off easily if you dump out the water and scrub with the rough side of a wet scotch-brite sponge and a little Dawn dish soap.

Thank you, because it’s vitally important to devote half the content in these threads to arguing about the terminology in the headline.

I have a theory - if you were recently disassembled and reassembled, were there any parts left over?

Just like Fusion power! What if AI and fusion invent each other at the same time?

Maybe that’s what the aliens have been trying to tell us ALL ALONG!!!

I have no doubt software will achieve general intelligence, but I think the point where it does will be hard to define. Software can already outdo humans at lots of specific reasoning tasks where the problems are well defined. But how do you measure the generality of problems, so you can say last week our AI wasn’t general enough to call it AGI, but now it is?

I never tried to rotate individual pages or do special headers, but I don’t know - it had many features I didn’t use.

The first way sounds polite enough for me.

Makes perfect sense to me, but I’m both a structure and ingredients anarchist.

Can’t believe this isn’t already here…

I’m surprised how many people don’t know about a Linux utility called “fuck”. When you make a mistake on the command line and get an error, you just type “fuck” and it looks at what happened and suggests a fix. If this looks correct - and it almost always is - you just hit Enter and it types that in for you. Best thing ever!

ClickBook - dunno if it’s even available anymore, but like 20 years ago it was either a standalone or add-on that formatted Word docs for printing. I think it cost $35. You could lay out say a tri-fold brochure or a folded-in-half and stapled booklet and it would rotate, combine and print the pages in the correct order. My wife and I used it endlessly to produce publications for our kids’ school. If your printer could only print on one side, there was a quick setup procedure that would would figure out how you should rotate or flip the stack of pages to do the second side. I haven’t used Word in years so for all I know it might have these capabilities natively now, but in its time ClickBook was probably the most worth-it program I ever bought.

Now, when you say “asks”…

Thank you! I like making up usernames, and on reddit used to abandon them when I got tired of them. Past ones include HeebieMcJeeberson, MadJackMcMadd and AmiableBowelSyndrome. This was also a way to keep zeroing my karma so I didn’t feel so addicted to reddit. I really like not having a cumulative Lemmy score.