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exasperation

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  • What do you think is the biggest issue with Lemmy?

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  • The developers of the Lemmy software are the admins of the lemmy.ml instance and are problematic. The complaint is that the software itself can't be separated from the priorities of the .ml instance.

    Piefed doesn't have the same issue, even if the flagship instance federates with .ml

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  • FitnessGram Pacer Tests, obviously

  • What do you think is the biggest issue with Lemmy?

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  • I think the parent comment is talking about piefed the software, compared to Lemmy the software, not the specific piefed.social instance they're posting from.

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  • slightly niche

    Sports is like the most mainstream of interests, and lemmy still doesn't have a critical mass of sports discussion in general, much less specific sports/leagues, specific teams, specific games/matches, or specific players.

    So I keep my reddit sports account.

    I also keep an account for my local city subreddit, and one for my career field, because Lemmy doesn't have those either.

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  • Cats keep rodents under control so that our stored grain isn't destroyed or contaminated.

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  • This study analyzes historical results of three different man versus horse races (in Wales, in Virginia, and in California). The data shows that human performance decreases with temperature, but less so than horses, so that 30°C is approximately where the best humans can start outperforming the best horses that year.

    I would think that even with 15 minutes of intermittent pauses/checks, that time is still productive for cooling the animal and would add less than 15 minutes to the theoretical total if they were allowed to run the whole time.

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  • In order to make a firearm from scratch you must first create the universe.

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  • All of us who learned Spanish in the U.S. also know "¿Dónde está la biblioteca?"

    Just a bunch of canned phrases like that kicking around in our brains.

  • It isn't fair

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  • Oh my God we're having a fire...sale

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  • I didn't even know he was sick!

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  • It's a few things that stem from bipedalism:

    • We can run and breathe entirely separately. Most quadrupeds lack the ability to run and take breaths independently of the pace of each step. Watching cheetahs sprint, for example, show that they have no choice but to exhale every time their legs come together and inhale every time their legs push apart.
    • Running on our hind legs only frees up our hands to be able to use tools and weapons, maybe even water containers for drinking on the go.
    • We can see further by standing up, and can make tactical decisions based on terrain, while still running pretty much full speed.

    Combined with our unusual ability to cool ourselves by sweating, this gives us an advantage over pretty much any animal in the heat. Wolves and horses can still outrun humans in the cold, but lack the cooling mechanisms to maintain pace in the same heat that we can.

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    How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?

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  • I still use reddit.

    Lemmy is still missing a few things:

    • Sports discussion. There's nothing quite like the absurdity of some of the sports communities that really brightens my day, from really deep analytical insights to the dumbest meme jokes in existence.
    • City-specific local discussion. I still spend time on my city's subreddit, which helps keep me tuned in on local happenings.
    • Non-tech related career discussion. My field (law) has several subreddits useful for talking shop, growing careers, making fun of shitty lawyers, etc. That doesn't really exist here.
    • Hobby discussion. I'm trying my best to participate in fitness and weight lifting related subreddits but there just isn't a critical mass of commenters to get a discussion really going. Plenty of my other hobbies and interests are missing here, too.

    I've deleted the reddit alts I used to use for technology related topics, parenting/relationship topics, political discussion, and stupid general purpose humor or memes, as Lemmy has enough of that I don't need Reddit for those topics. But for the ones I've listed above, I'm still using desktop "old" Reddit.

    I'm also still on Instagram, but only follow people I know personally. It's the easiest way to keep up with my acquaintances' lives: who's marrying who, who's having kids, where people have moved, etc.

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  • It's because we're also very used to seeing photographs of a subject in shade while the background is in full sunlight. If you take a picture of a white and gold dress in the shadow of a patio, with the background all fully lit by bright sunlight, the actual pixels representing white objects in the shade would be that bluish gray tint.

    The problem here is that the dress isn't in the shade but those of us who see white and gold simply assume that it is in shade, while black/blue viewers (correctly) assume that it is under the same lighting conditions of the overexposed background.

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  • That's...why it went viral. So many people couldn't see it the other way, and both sides found it hard to believe that the other side was actually being sincere.

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  • Since we have no context, the dress is white and gold objectively.

    The actual physical object photographed is black and blue.

    White and gold appear when the brain makes the assumption that the dress falls within a shadow (effectively applying a filter that shifts the white balance towards bluer colors and brightness down significantly compared to direct sunlight). Only in real life, the photographed dress did not fall within a shadow, and instead was affected by a yellowish lens flare, so the subconscious color correction that leads a viewer to assume white and gold was erroneously applied.

    I see white and gold. But to claim that it's "objectively" white and gold ignores how the human brain perceives color and ignores that the actual photograph was a blue and black dress.

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  • It sounds like you're agreeing with me that color perception relies on context, not just the color code of the pixel on the screen.

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  • I think everyone knew about how human perception subconsciously color corrects a particular image, but this was shocking in that there was genuine disagreement between people who simply couldn't see it the other way.

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  • When you look at the checker shadow illusion, do you see the pixels as identical in color? If not, then obviously there's more to human perception than just the color of the pixel code.