I do sometimes wonder if people see the 0, and that biases their opinion or something. More often I get confused replies wondering why my comment seems broken though 😂

I’m a retired programmer, so starting at 0 makes sense to me. I always thought it was weird that you “like” your own comments by default. I don’t like them, I’m neutral towards them.

I used to do it on Reddit as well, but they disabled that feature. Unironically one of the reasons I left that place lol

Thanks :)

I remove my own upvote from my comments because I like when it starts at 0

We need a real “deep dish pepperoni special” refactor into Rust

I’ve had the opposite experience.

Most common failure point seems to be people not actually reading my comment properly, and attacking me based on what they “think” I wrote; usually some polarised version that twists my meaning completely. Like in this example, imagine someone replying “so you’re saying all Lemmy users are illiterate assholes?!?!” Then everyone agrees with them for some reason, it’s pointless trying to clarify at that point.

I’ve stopped contributing as much because I can’t be bothered dealing with the nuclear fallout anymore.

You can survive 20G horizontally (chest to back). But whether that’s safe at a population level as a regular mode of transportation is a different question… Direction of force really matters here.

Generally up to 4G is considered reasonably safe for most people, though it will still put strain on your organs. I still wouldn’t put grandpa through it everyday.

Lemmy comments

I find LLMs produce the best output when I give them a stupid backstory to set the mood:

The inspiration for this code module is “I’m hungry but too tired to get off the couch”. You just got home from work and are exhausted and sit down, but can’t get up now. You should have eaten dinner first. You put on the TV and watch something. All channels have been replaced with the cooking channel. Someone is making pizza next door. You sit back and doze off, dreaming of mozzarella mattresses and pepperoni pillows. Eventually you wake up from your nap, just perky enough to put on a microwave pizza. It’s almost as good as you imagined, but you burn yourself again because you’re impatient. Your boss asks you to make [insert code change here]. You procrastinate a bit, but eventually do it just before going to bed.

I have fatigue condition as well, so honestly I just gave up on “cooking”. Try to aim for “arrangements” instead. Much easier and takes less focus/time/energy.

• Toast with toppings
• Greek yoghurt fruit bowl
• Smoothie
• Canned bean burritos with cheese
• Other healthy snacks
• Etc

Obviously it depends highly on your dietary needs. I’m vegetarian with very complex health so I built my diet around that, but you might have more flexibility. Try not to buy “ready to eat” stuff every day though because they’re usually pretty bad health wise. Also the freezer is your friend; it will forgive you when you forget leftovers for 3 months.

We used to shave him (not too short) because he enjoyed it. I think my cat specifically was just a goober. He would eat any houseplant within reach; or at least maul them. Used to find pieces of succulent clinging to life under the refrigerator and other odd places

My cat also ate too much grass and throws up. I used to have this “cat grass” patch growing in the windowsill for him to graze on. But he ate it so fast that it didn’t have time to regrow, and it got “redistributed” around the house. Silly creature. We don’t have cat grass anymore.

Sorry, it’s my thing. I remove the upvote because I like it starting at 0

Compared to same time last year; yes.

It’s kind of cool to see the Reddit refugee influxes on the graph like that though. Not everyone will stay, but many did.

https://fedigraph.fyi/graph/

Looks like about 10% growth compared to last year (15,563,000 -> 17,416,000), so not a huge increase, but still something. Though it is extremely hard to count fedi users. This site has a good explanation of the caveats.

https://fediview.com/articles/fediverse-in-numbers-mastodon-stats-2026/

Counterpoint: provide evidence that anyone outside of Reddit is interested in Reddit and Twitter. If they were interested they would be using it

Man how did I miss this one? Looks awesome. It’s cheap on Steam as well

Same boat. I was increasingly exhausted from pushing myself and masking who I was for decades. I decided one day to just be myself, I couldn’t take it anymore.

Lost almost everything: Job, life-long partner, house, etc. Those things simply weren’t compatible with the new me. They tried to cram me back into the box of conformity, but I don’t fit anymore. I think at some level I knew that, which is why it took me so long; I was clinging desperately to the life I had. Had to throw it all away and jump into the abyss.

Hard to call it a good decision, but I’m still here, and I’ll do it better this time.

Edit: realised I forgot to answer your main question. After a long time of having nothing, I started discovering things about myself. Oh, I like this. I hate that. X feels more like me than Y. Illegal thought crimes for my entire life, that I’m allowed to think about now. After a while you figure out who you really are, not who you had to be.

We call it digital detox

There are some valid use cases. If I’m having a discussion with someone, and they’re downvoting all my comments, it’s pretty obvious that they’re not really replying in good faith. At that point, they’re usually here to “win” or troll rather than have a meaningful interaction. It gives insight into their intent and attitude.

But just as often, it turns out to be a random bystander doing it, so it’s important to check rather than assume.

I couldn’t tell how serious you were being, sorry. Some people get weird about this specific topic and gatekeep the labels lol

All these job titles don’t really have a formal definition. Software engineer = programmer = software developer. Computer scientist sure does sound fancy though. There’s no committee that will say “actually you’re doing too much math to be a developer sorry.” We all do the code-y thing. Businesses seem to pick one at random based on seniority. I just call myself whatever my most recent job title was.

Your industry will affect your specialisation and skills much more than anything else.

- Software Engineer (Maths)