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Cake day: June 5th, 2023
  • Otter@lemmy.catoFediverse@lemmy.zip•[PieFed] Did PieFed ‘steal code’ from Pylova? Let’s look at what happenedEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    It does sound like a genuine mistake as opposed to something sneaky.

    I’m far from an expert on open source best practices, and I also wouldn’t have known the difference between taking code with a .patch file vs taking code with copy and paste. I probably would have attributed it in some other way, but I’m a bit anxious that way and tend to go even further and overdo things. It takes me forever to publish posts and website updates out for our instance.

    Why do developers of open source software have to make shit so difficult?

    I think that’s the nature of forks of projects. When someone makes a fork, there is usually some kind of tension between the two developers and so something that feels small to outsiders might feel more significant to those involved.

  • Otter@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Power
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    3 days ago

    The Flintstones ones are very memorable, I wonder if the marketing was helped by the fact that the vitamins look like rocks 😄

    That way when they are exposed to the air and begin to discolor (which is harmless from what I understand), it doesn’t become unpalatable to children

  • Otter@lemmy.caOPtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Quebec apple grower using anti-hail cannon to protect crops from icy weatherEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Thanks, I didn’t know about them before today and this is probably why

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_cannon

    There is no evidence in favor of the effectiveness of these devices. A 2006 review by Jon Wieringa and Iwan Holleman in the journal Meteorologische Zeitschrift summarized a variety of negative and inconclusive scientific measurements, concluding “the use of cannons or explosive rockets is a waste of money and effort”.[7]

    There is also reason to doubt the efficacy of hail cannons from a theoretical perspective.[8] For example, thunder is a much more powerful sonic wave, and is usually found in the same storms that generate hail, yet it does not seem to disturb the growth of hailstones. Similarly, hail cannons are placed at ground level, while hail formation occurs at altitudes above 10,000 meters; a device with an effective range of 500 meters, above, would be unlikely to have an impact at an elevation 20 times higher.[9][10][11] Charles Knight, a cloud physicist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said in a July 10, 2008, newspaper article that “I don’t find anyone in the scientific community who would validate hail cannons, but there are believers in all sorts of things. It would be very hard to prove they don’t work, weather being as unpredictable as it is.”

  • Otter@lemmy.caMtoCanada@lemmy.ca•Canada is burning. Why won’t CBC tell us why?
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    8 days ago

    Personally, when I’m reading an article, I skim past the parts that explain climate change, unless it has some new bit of information (ex. updates to historical trends). It’s not because I doubt climate change, but because I’m pretty familiar with the core points already.

    I think it is helpful to talk about it in longer articles where you have room to dive into the topic, and put the current topic into a relevant wider context. However, I don’t think we should require it for the sake of mentioning it. It’s not effective at changing minds when its done like that.

    I agree that the last article should have included the wider context. I would also be concerned if there is a growing pattern of not mentioning it when it needs to be. On this last point, while it’s more difficult, I would prefer if they analyzed sentiment and phrasing rather than counting mentions.

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