AFKBRBChocolate

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Favorite "all time" would have me looking through a lot of titles, but I've really been enjoying Adrian Tchaikovsky lately, and some of his is hard SF. Probably Children of Time would be the one I'd start with.

If you like hard SF, you've probably read Weir (The Martian, Project Hail Mary, others), but he's great.

I could go on a lot, but maybe I'll keep it there unless you want more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I always just get the new bar and the old sliver wet and press them together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Okay, makes sense

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Excellent, thank you. I just cleared my cache and it does seem to have helped a fair amount. Not nearly as fast as in a private window, but probably as fast as .ca is now. Much appreciated, I'm glad I asked.

I guess that would explain why people who access it with an app don't seem to have the same issue, correct?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Hmm, yeah, that one's maybe not as strong, though I kind of look at Network Effect and System Collapse as one story (confusing because there's a book in between them, but that one chronologically comes before Network Effect). I liked it, but agree it's not as strong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Oh, much, much faster! Interesting. Okay, why is that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Heh, my wife went through the drawer a few years ago and threw away all the containers that didn't have lids, and lids without containers. I was amazed at how many there were. Not sure how that happens. Must be with the missing socks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Funny, I just had to help someone pack a house into one of those POD things and they ended up saying, "You're better at this, you say what goes where."

I don't think I'm as good at it with really large volumes, but the storage container thing is pretty handy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I honestly don't know where either of them are hosted. I'm in the US, in Southern California.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

I'm in the US, in Southern California, so for sure could be contributing. Not sure where .ca is hosted.

As for an example, I just went to .world on my desktop browser (firefox) and loaded /all /new. It was 16 seconds between the click and all the visible graphics being loaded. The same thing on .ca was just under 5 seconds. On my tablet, the difference is greater.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

That would make sense, ty.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

My boring super power isn't something I can monetize, but it's useful regularly: being able to pick the best sized Tupperware container to put leftovers in.

 

I've mostly been a .world user, but have this alt account on .ca as a backup. I logged into it to make sure I didn't have anything in my inbox, and noticed that everything loads so much faster. In both cases I'm using the browser interface from my tablet, sorting by all. On .world, there's a pause before the text comes up, then the thumbnails and graphics slowly populate. On .ca, it all pretty much loads instantly.

Is it just the number of users being a lot bigger? More community activity? Hardware differences? Running different software versions? A combination of these? I'm curious.

 

If you were going to draw up a list of the people most responsible for the latest indictment of Donald Trump, the former president himself would be at the top, followed by the prosecutors who have brought the case. Republicans in Congress perversely deserve a great deal of credit, too, since they could have exiled Trump from political life and perhaps spared him more intense legal scrutiny if they had voted to convict him in the impeachment trial over his role in the siege of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Ultimately, however, you cannot tell the story of Trump’s historic indictment without Nancy Pelosi. It was the then-Speaker of the House who insisted that there be a congressional inquiry following January 6. And it was the work of the select committee she fashioned that finally appears to have spurred a reluctant Justice Department to action, setting in motion a more intense phase of criminal scrutiny focused on Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The resulting indictment closely tracks the select committee’s work and findings, presenting a factual narrative that traces — almost identically — the evidence presented by the committee of a sophisticated, multipronged effort by Trump to remain in power that culminated in the mayhem at the U.S. Capitol.

 

It seems like most times I go to my .world account, I get the bad gateway error. Is there a fix for this?

 

Over the past several years, increasingly destructive hurricanes, wildfires, blizzards, and other extreme weather events have made it clear that the effects of climate change aren’t some future hypothetical, but our current reality. Not to be outdone, the summer of 2023 has been coming in hot — literally — with July shattering the record for the planet’s hottest month, and coming to a close with “numerous fires” breaking out in the Arctic circle. And while the recent high temperatures and debilitating humidity may not be responsible for as much property damage as a hurricane, it’s been disastrous for our mental health.

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