Here is a graph plotting the number of accounts on an instance (y axis, log scale; pawoo blows the scale and, smashing all the other instances near the bottom so you can't read the labels) against the number of posts per user (x axis, also log scale in one graph, linear scale in the other). So you can see (roughly) which instances have a really high ratio of posts to users.
Obviously these metrics aren't particularly meaningful, some of them are fun, but this one's a kinda interesting metric; once an instance is old enough, you can kinda gauge whether people stick around and stay active. At #22 with 596.98 posts per person, FSE's right next to our friends at SPC (#24, 548.75 posts per person), both of which are to the right of the bulk of the other instances on the list. The top of the list is dominated by bot servers (mstdn.foxfam.club, botsin.space, etc.) but mainly Japanese instances. (If you're following any Japanese people or you watch TWKN, you'll probably already know why: they make a lot of pretty short posts.) Pawoo's surprisingly far down the list, at 83 posts per user.
Of course, mstdn.beer makes a very good showing, #4 with 5,881 posts for each of the 523 people on there. ぺ〜〜い! :drinkin:
Top of the list is flower.afn.social, way past everyone else with 707 users but 7.3 million posts, 10k posts per user. It appears to be dedicated to Flower Knight Girl (and the rules prohibit speaking negatively about the game), a mobile RPG. (I didn't look into it, but there was mention of daily login rewards so it's probably one of *those*.)
Anyway, here are some graphs.
Oh, also there are instances that put <iframe>s in their descriptions for some reason. (It turns out to be people embedding youtube videos.) posts_per_capita_loglog.png posts_per_capita.png
@kuon I think I saw the first movie thing? Maybe the 2nd. I’ve seen more than I let on, it’s just under very particular circumstances. Much like how I didn’t watch TV outside of dating, I had zero exposure until I’m dating a girl who’s idea of fun after dark is snuggling up and watching “millennial comedy #4” all the way through.
I was stuck for repairs for a few weeks once, and the company refused to fly me home, that was when I finally broke down and gave new animu a try. Burned through most of the interesting crunchyroll stuff in a gallop. Remember about…..3 shows maybe?
My knowledge is spotty for most cultural things, is what I’m saying.
@Humpleupagus Just happy to finally see panel #4 here. Way, way too many posts about peak male life being “lift, read, success” without including the MOST IMPORTANT ROLE WE WILL EVER HAVE: Father
@McNabb Yep. Back in the late 80s-90s, independent publishers were relegated to a strange little subculture called zinedom. Fanzines (or just zines) were small self-published magazines that generally featured specialized content that mainstream magazines wouldn't publish. Jim aptly called it the 90s analog to Tumblr. Suffice to say, the zine world was decidedly liberal and left-leaning (although you had some outliers), and much of that particular scene didn't take kindly to Jim and Debbie Goad.
To see how far the two could fool the zine scene, they published a single issue hoax zine called Chocolate Impulse. The premise of the zine involved two interracial lesbians in Kentucky who have to deal with intolerant rednecks and heterosexuals in their escapades involving marijuana. In this zine was also a scathing critique of Answer Me! purposely designed to elicit praise from the same people who hated Jim and Debbie Goad. As they predicted, the zine became somewhat popular and got praise from other zines with some notoriety. It was in Answer Me #4 that Jim and Debbie revealed the hoax and laughed at the idiots who fell for their prank.
didymus (didymus@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 22:28:29 JST
didymusthe evidentiary basis of the subsequent nuremberg trials is quite amusing. prosecutor says USA captured 250 tons of german documents during and after ww2. this could be between 300 and 400 million documents (think about that), which were shipped back to the usa and analyzed by german-speaking jews. those which seemed worth of use in the war crimes trials were shipped back to germany where the prosecution sorted them and created "document books" for use in the trial. defense attorneys had access to "85 to 90%" of the documents selected in this way by the prosecution.
here is the chain of custody 1. german document, written in german, captured, sent to washington 2. a copy of #1 is typed out on a typewriter 3. an english copy is translated from #2 4. a german translation is made of #3 (sometimes) 5. a photostat (an early xerox) is made of #3 and #4 as necessary
so in court the documents presented by the prosecution are typically #5, which bear no actual signatures, no place of origin, no history, they are "a copy of a copy of a copy" and sometimes a re-re-translation. sometimes a part of the document-book will be scattered pages (page 3, page 15, pages 21-24, page 55) from other documents of which the remaining content is unknown.
hans laternser for the defense beat up the prosecution on this so bad that they cried and begged the tribunal to let it slide, since this is what was done in the main NMT trial anyway.
Survival Tip #4 Cont "If you want to avoid dying painfully alone in the cold darkness of space gasping desperately as freezing oblivian silences your pathetic hopes and dreams; relax!"
Survival Tip #4 "Conserve your oxygen. Even in environments with an air recycling system, oxygen can be limited. So keep your breathing at a slow steady pace. Remain calm. Failing to remain calm could result in your grizzly grousome death. So whatever you do do not panic. Panicing will only serve to accelerate your oxygen consumption and make your already likely demise a certainty.
> Butbutbut space! And galaxies and shit! Ancient aliens!
Europa's 1200-baud line is gonna take an entire second just for the address header on these packets.
> I don't know if he was involved in ObjC, but I think it would be more to his liking, and Apple (much as I love to hate them) made a top-notch choice in adopting it instead of C++.
Yeah, seconded. I wonder why Objective-C isn't widely used outside Apple. Message-passing, very little BS. (Funny story, someone got ahold of the old cfront source and ported it, you can now run 1980s-style C++ on Plan 9. I don't know if anyone's gotten it to work on Linux.)
> I'd be shocked and saddened to hear he blessed moving gcc to c++, or allowing 'optimizations' like transforming printf() to puts().
It's parts of gcc, not the whole thing, but once you've invited the vampire into your house, none of your daughters are safe. As far as the questionable optimizations, I don't know who's responsible, but it's the kind of bug that makes me write off an entire organization. I don't think they measure, they just overdesign; maybe whoever did the work on -Os was smarter, it frequently outperforms -O3 since it can keep the whole damn program in icache if you're not linking against anything embarrassing. Even on ARM (where gcc's output is actually atrocious; I don't think anyone's working on it, all the world's an x86-64), without the massive caches, it tends to produce better code (and more readable code, to boot).
> On the BBN C machine, it was interesting: start load/store, do other things for 3 cycles, data now available.
Did you have to schedule or do the nop-padding yourself, or did you just get a delay if you did a load, add, then store immediately? Like if you had an inner loop that did, like
Would you have to add a couple of nops after the load, or would the machine handle the delay if you didn't?
The VLIW stuff is interestion, Itanium had some facilities like that, but that chip existed entirely to scare shareholders at Sun and DEC, and now high-end workstations are all x86. The way they implemented it was to do explicit slots, it was something like 128-bit instructions and you could do a load or a store in one of them and pack what you wanted into the other ones, . (I may be hallucinating this, but I think there was a MIPS design that worked with slots. The GreenArrays chips do.) Compiler writers seem to have trouble with this kind of thing but I'd rather have a bad compiler on a chip that doesn't reorder instructions.
> The superfast whizzo chips with their pipelines and hyperthreading and such probably still spend lots of their time idling waiting for all... those... nanoseconds to pass before memory access complete.
You might be surprised: it's something like 90%. 90% of the time spent in a normal server load with a normal server CPU is waiting on the memory bus. So then the chips are designed to make up a fantasy world "Let's say that branch gets taken" and then speculatively execute it" and then if the branch doesn't get taken, toss it out and recompute it. So the register file gets fatter, power usage goes up because computers now make up work for themselves if they are bored waiting, all this extra space on the die dedicated to something that turns out to be fraught with Spectres and Meltdowns and whatnot.
> I used to overclock a bit, and found that boosting one's cpu frequency a lot mattered much less than boosting the bus speed a little, except for CPU benchmarks.
Not surprising, I think; I usually can't tell the difference if I underclock the CPU. These little ARM systems, I usually run them with the CPU at the minimum clock, it's like 200MHz, 400MHz, and until I try to use a browser, I can't tell. It gets hot in the summer, I do the same thing to my desktop system's CPU sometimes, same results.