Let’s dig in! While I don’t agree with implementing any of those systems, I still upvoted this post for the relevancy it has to Lemmy… Let’s get back to that in a sec.

I think all the voting systems above are basically the same. You have incentive (dopamine rewards for upvoted posts and is a helluva motivator; a sense of responsibility with limited votes), a penalty (down votes) for shit posts and possibly a reward for better posts or behavior (not losing $10; “reddit gold”; high karma) [I could go on for hours about this, but I’ll spare you.]

All those three systems above do is fiddle with the same knobs and are effective in their own ways.

In the case of Slashdot, I would speculate they used a “vote economy” system to encourage quality and a sense of responsibility. Reddit just wants more dopamine and Something Awful just found a way to punish trolls and make money at the same time.

Quick past recap: What Reddit voting was rumored to do (and never really did), was elevate good posts and bury bad ones. This works when you have a collection of like-minded folks that share a the same goal of ensuring good quality information. You liking or hating a post shouldn’t have any relationship to how you vote on the post.

Mainly because of Facebook, we have a broken association to “liking” and “upvoting”. It is what it is, but it kinda makes a point that people generally vote with emotions, not a sense of responsibility.

I believe we need to find the holy grail: identity effective incentives for “proper” voting based on content, eliminate dopamine-based systems (in regards to vote quantities or bullshit gold/silver rewards) while still providing a reward for participation. That’s still “dopamine”, but a reward system may need to be decoupled from the number of votes a post gets. Most of all, there needs to be an aspect of fun as well and additional incentives to return the next day.

(If you think the above paragraph sounds contradictory, it’s because it is. You can’t eliminate brain chemistry or emotions as a factor in this topic, even though I clearly wish I could.)

The elimination of exploitive financial incentives for creating bots and bulk accounts (with the intent of selling high karma accounts) was mostly eliminated on Lemmy, and it’s awesome.

Do I personally believe that a “perfect” voting system can be created online? Nope. However, I would kindly ask for you to brainstorm about what could eliminate voting systems completely.

Edit: I am not a psychologist or some shit like that and the premise of vote systems already has been studied all to hell. There are likely much better ways to describe the psychological impacts of vote rewards, but I believe I have the basics down.

Well, yeah. If I was a betting man, and I sometimes am, I would speculate that Democrats are going to hold the presidency next and it’ll be just in time for the stock market to crash.

All it will take is one investigation, one major implosion (hopefully NVIDIA, OpenAI, or both) or something else for the underpinning to come loose.

Since Republicans are unlikely to launch any kind of criminal probe (or other kind of interfering action), they can most likely keep the bubble propped up for quite a while.

TBH, what I am more scared of is if the bubble doesn’t pop soon. With OpenAI dumping money into consulting services and investors openly declaring that the end goal is to achieve vendor lock-in, it sets a ton of companies up for failure if they were dumb enough to make all of their core services dependent on OpenAI.

Either companies keep paying OpenAI to keep their core offerings alive or they can’t, and go bankrupt if they can’t convert their infrastructure and services.

The sooner that all of these shit OpenAI sub-service vendors die, the better. Venture capital will start drying up and OpenAI will lose their “path to profitability”. (It’s almost sounding like how meme coins support BTC… I digress.)

Hell, I haven’t even touched on inflated company valuations and how AI LLM market growth is being fabricated, in part, by shoving AI integrations into every product imaginable.

I’ll shut up now, but my point is that I am just applying the same shit I saw back in 2008 where the magic product was sub-prime mortgages coupled with hyper-risky market bets. Obviously, there are differences, but the core failure modes are the same.

The popularity of Roblox among parents is going to skyrocket along with the players average age.

The fan is good, but the orientation seems like it would struggle pushing air between the drives. Maybe a push-pull setup with a second fan?

… starts googling furiously for step stool porn

So I googled it and you still sound like a smug jackass.

High BMI may increase the risk of snoring, based on other sources. Unfortunately, you have somehow just dropped age, gender and other factors.

I did stumble on this as well: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202110/does-googling-perpetuate-the-dunning-kruger-effect

That is probably a last resort and we are far from that point. The way I see it, the root cause is fairly basic ignorance that has been allowed to fester for a bit too long. If they were all-out MAGA, I would say it is willful stupidity and would write them off fairly quick. Otherwise, I am not so quick to toss family out with the rest of the trash. Ignorance can be fixed but stupidity usually can’t.

The last sentence (after your quote ends) was meant to imply that that nobody, even me, is immune to this problem. Without a doubt, I am human and I have my own issues.

Also, anytime I have encountered any issue like this on my own, it has always taken time to resolve as it can be super complicated. Right now, even though I have been sober for a few years, I am still dealing with many false assumptions and beliefs that stemmed from my years of alcoholism so believe me when I say that the mind of an addict is filled with some twisted realities.

Unless you’ve become a being of total rational thought

Admittedly, rational thought is a relatively new concept to me.

And I would normally agree with that approach especially if I had nothing to do with them ever again.

In this situation and as it relates to family, letting this go unchecked is a missed opportunity for a person to learn how this behavior is super weird. To say I haven’t fallen victim to cognitive dissonance would be a lie. However, I learned how to avoid it and resolve conflicts in my own beliefs over time. (Given the nature of this problem, I don’t believe anyone could ever be truly immune to it either.)

Still though, 99.9% of the time your advice is spot-on.

(For others reading this, this is a perfect followup to my comment here explaining the “why”, while this is an excellent view into the “how” and picks up the bits I dropped about Ohms Law.)

Pin pitch is pin size and/or spacing. With physical plugs, you start to hit limitations with how small the wires can get while still being durable enough to withstand plugging/unplugging hundreds of times.

Drop losses. (I am keeping this at an ELI5 [more like ELI15, TBH] level and ignore some important stuff) Every electronic component generates heat from the power it uses. More power used usually means more heat. Heat requires physical space and lots of material to dissipate correctly. Depending on the materials used to “sink” (move; direct; channel) heat, you may need a significant amount of material to dissipate the heat correctly. So, you can use more efficient materials to reduce the amount of power that is converted to heat or improve how heat is transferred away from the component. (If you are starting to sense that there is a heat/power feedback loop here, it’s because there can be.) Since a bit of power is converted to heat, you can increase the power to your device to compensate but this, in turn, generates more heat that must be dissipated.

In short, if your device runs on 9v and draws a ton of power, you need to calculate how much of that power is going to be wasted as heat. You can Google Ohms Law if you would like, but you can usually measure a “voltage drop” across any component. A resistor, which resists electrical current, will “drop” voltage in a circuit because some of the current (measured in amperage) is converted to heat.

I kinda smashed a few things together related to efficiency and thermodynamics in a couple of paragraphs, but I think I coved the basics. (I cropped a ton of stuff about ohms law and why that is important, as well as how/where heat is important enough to worry about. Long story short: heat bad)

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You don’t go for your weekly dopamine sprays? It’s totally the new thing.

Oh rock on. I misread the URL, so thanks!

I love me some good old fashioned verification, so thanks for falling on that sword for us. (No way in hell am I clicking through to that shit hole though.)

Edit: I misread the URL and it’s an archive site, not TS.

Any experienced mixing engineer should be able to tell. Here is your flea whisperer.

If the shoe fits… turn everyone in a 500ft radius into Hulk.

Da fuq?

So one arm of Google is making the slop and the other is trying to avoid it? Neat.