The fediverse is more like a string of hit and miss mom and pop shops no one has heard of. Some are great, others are real dives.

Seems like there aren’t many centrist communities where you can have nuanced discussions.

Nearly all social media is full of eco echo chambers… I still post and follow stuff on several of the platforms. There is very little nuanced conversation… Seems like it is more and more just an up vote or downvote storm, or people claiming one thing or another without any supporting evidence.

Yep, it can also be the answer to getting insane performance gains for extremely specific functions / calculations.

The reality of life is the higher level languages let you get more done with fewer errors but with less potential performance… You can only optimize python so much. Some newer languages like Rust try to balance the two but often make things more complex.

Many programmers that work in Low level languages like Assembly or C regard high level languages as easy or slow and thus tended to dis them.

John Carmack (Doom, Quake engine, considered an amazing programmer) Best Programming Language has a wider appreciation of IDEs and Languages.

The barrier for entry for TEDx is very very low, worked with someone in management who had done one they where not with the company long.

X can’t reuse the inforwars account due to the trademark, but they are also not required to transfer ownership or continue providing access to that account.

Who owns your outlook.com account? Who owns your gmail.com account? I will give you a guess it is the company that owns the domain to the right of the @.

No I expect everyone not to be lazy fucks and do some basic research on one liner facts

The original question I see as a useful conversation where a simple search would probably not give as valuable resultes.

Where simple facts like “how long does a crt tube old a charge” is a Google thing.

why don’t you google that?

• Laser / LED printers can blind you and may have larger capacitors.
• Old CRT style TVs / Monitors can get you if not discharged correctly.

How specific? Most companies can tell if you are connecting to the mail server from an IP in a different city without needing any app to do that.