[–] 10 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first mathematician orders a beer

The second orders half a beer

"I don't serve half-beers" the bartender replies

"Excuse me?" Asks mathematician #2

"What kind of bar serves half-beers?" The bartender remarks. "That's ridiculous."

"Oh c'mon" says mathematician #1 "do you know how hard it is to collect an infinite number of us? Just play along"

"There are very strict laws on how I can serve drinks. I couldn't serve you half a beer even if I wanted to."

"But that's not a problem" mathematician #3 chimes in "at the end of the joke you serve us a whole number of beers. You see, when you take the sum of a continuously halving function-"

"I know how limits work" interjects the bartender

"Oh, alright then. I didn't want to assume a bartender would be familiar with such advanced mathematics"

"Are you kidding me?" The bartender replies, "you learn limits in like, 9th grade! What kind of mathematician thinks limits are advanced mathematics?"

"HE'S ON TO US" mathematician #1 screeches

Simultaneously, every mathematician opens their mouth and out pours a cloud of multicolored mosquitoes. Each mathematician is bellowing insects of a different shade.

The mosquitoes form into a singular, polychromatic swarm. "FOOLS" it booms in unison, "I WILL INFECT EVERY BEING ON THIS PATHETIC PLANET WITH MALARIA"

The bartender stands fearless against the technicolor hoard. "But wait" he inturrupts, thinking fast, "if you do that, politicians will use the catastrophe as an excuse to implement free healthcare. Think of how much that will hurt the taxpayers!"

The mosquitoes fall silent for a brief moment. "My God, you're right. We didn't think about the economy! Very well, we will not attack this dimension. FOR THE TAXPAYERS!" and with that, they vanish.

A nearby barfly stumbles over to the bartender. "How did you know that that would work?"

"It's simple really" the bartender says. "I saw that the vectors formed a gradient, and therefore must be conservative."

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

    I think bikeshedding is more commonly that people will argue about the materials of the bike shed over more important points of discussion. ex a bad thing because it detracts from more important decisions, not because it requires unnecessary change

    queens duck as mentioned below better fits the tip (which is valid)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I think having to get a cert is even worse.

    and some will get camped by bots, but that's fine since different projects have different tolerances for contribution quality. I'm thinking like the bluesky moderation system, where each repo can subscribe to a particular pool of vouches in addition to their own. you may have lists for no ai, lists for responsible ai/abides by repo rules, or good intentioned but pure ai and minimal human contribution.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    nothing major.

    we have pretty hard water here, it was killing one of the generic charcoal pitcher filters within a month. the filters in this one haven't had any problems by the time they are scheduled to be replaced.

    a couple possibly annoying things:

    • the reservoir is on the back, so it's not great against a wall under cabinets. they have a little cart you can buy explicitly to help with that, but it felt silly so I just put it somewhere else
    • you can't just top up the reservoir, you have to wait for it to finish, dump it out, then refill. annoying when there's just half a tank left. I end up just trying to use an entire pitcher by dumping it into kettle/espresso machine whenever I use any water so reservoir is either entirely full or empty. afaik true of any of them that aren't plumbed in.
    • don't love the fact that I'm locked in to the manufacturers' filters. there don't seem to be any third party ones available if they ever discontinue them
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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    yeah as far as I understand communism in China doesn't mean good social safety nets and such as much as it means central planning. in the US at least it seems like the exact opposite. or just a general boogeyman as seen above lol

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    systemd timers are definitely nicer than cron for this (and basically all cron jobs). there's both a restart on failure with backoff if you want it to handle the retry, or a way to schedule it based on the last exit time so the script can manage the backoff like you are doing now

    on the last part, page numbers are hard to trust. I assume you don't have a choice, but that's why I prefer next page tokens when designing an api instead of numbered pages. then you know the data you're getting is exactly after the previous data

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