Confused about VLANs. If my eth0's MTU is 1500, and eth0.200 VLAN's MTU is 1500, how can I icmp ping over vlan 200 with 1472 bytes of payload? That sums up to the VLAN MTU nicely, but that'd be over the parent interface limit, no? What's happening in here?
One more from the heap of raw ideas and unfinished projects: This one from almost precisely 2 years ago, going under the working title "Computational Lace", but really a kind of fractal process based on an initial 2D SDF, creating a surprising amount of complexity from even the simplest seed shapes...
This is again one of these projects requiring a full size view to appreciate the fine structures emerging...
@1password sent a newsletter about "You can disable passkeys in your organisation" - can someone explain like I'm 5 to me, why I (don't) want this? #ELI5#passkey
Tbh I don't really understand what the implications of #hashicorp 's licence changes actually are. What does it mean dor tools like terragrunt and atlantis, which make use of #terraform? Could someone #eli5? 😅
Can someone explain #Lemmy to me? I get that it's a sort-of #Reddit clone for the #Fediverse but that's about all I know. How is it better or different? #eli5
Anti-#Rust people will literally just say objectively counterfactual bullshit to justify not liking it. Just saw someone insist that rust has as many if not more memory safety violations and other similar problems then C++, and that Ada and restricted formally verifiable subsets of C do the exact same thing Rust does better, neither of which are remotely true.
Even in principle it doesn't make sense to say that rust is worse on memory safety violations and data races and such then C++ because it's entire basic language structure and type system including the borrow check are are designed to make those things Impossible by default and give you a very strong and type verifiable toolkit to avoid them even if you go outside strict references, but the real kicker is that we have empirical evidence from Google's use of rust in Android that the number of memory safety vulnerabilities and high priority security bugs and so on goes down drastically when using Rust. Of course when this was pointed out to the person they just said "I don't trust Android" lol.
Likewise Ada and formally verifiable subsets of C absolutely don't do what Rust does as well as Rust does it because Rust was designed to be a successor to those systems. The formerly verifiable subsets of see that they were referring to tend to use garbage collection and be just incredibly restrictive and difficult to use as well.
Additionally someone was talking about how basically any non-trivial C++ code base has massive problems with bugs and architecture and type safetyz and how Rust has a design that strongly helps you avoid a lot of errors and architectural problems, and also gives you an incredibly powerful toolset as well (so it doesn't just limit you, it gives you more power to do things as well, just in a structured way). And the anti-rust person's response was "that's just programmer error, it's not C++'s fault." Literally someone was talking about how one language has much better tools and defaults and affordances and language structures and limitations that enable you to much more easily write better code and their response was just "skill issue, be a better programmer." But the thing is that it is C++'s fault that it doesn't give such affordances and good structure and verification and type safety and limits and all of the other stuff. What they said is like saying that cars shouldn't need airbags because you should just drive better and so if someone died from getting in a car crash in a car with no airbags it was just driver error.
Anyone having these arguments hasn't even watched a "Rust in 100 seconds" or #ELI5 post of #Rust. All these are advertised and well-known functionalities they are flat out denying with worse arguments than flat-earthers.
Can anyone #ELI5 why #Google Play Services updates aren't included in the #Android system updates? Along that same line, why am I never notified that there are system, Play Services, or even app updates, and only by manually checking can I see/install them? Apple used to have a similar issue, but they seem to have gotten their shit together now, at least on my work phone and my friends' devices. #Pixel#GooglePixel#cybersecurity
So I know the world owes me nothing! I am more than happy to pay for #MedicalAid here in #SouthAfrica. I just wish that they would actually care. Medical Aid companies dont give a flying f&%* about you. So much so that a whole 'nother industry has popped up 'gap cover'. Why can't someone just cover me 100%?
My destructive side welcomes the #NHI coz it will screw these companies over.
My anarchist side thinks why not start a medical #stokvel
Ergh, ok rant over!
Speaking of #stokvel's can some #ELI5 how they work. I think I understand the simple ones like a 'cooking pot buying stokvel'... but I have heard of more complex ones.
Can they invest in the market. Who pays the tax? Seems like it gets confusing.
#eli5
Looked at what kind of servers and services fediverse have https://fedidb.org/software . I get some are analogues akin twitter/reddit/youtube/twitch/instagram. Some are variations of Mastodon, some are for blogging or making your own site. But things like Hubzilla or Takahe are interesting but I can't get hang on it. So how would you describe if I wanted interconnect services for a game to form community what it would look like?
Here's today's #RandomLinguisticFact.
"I am a student". A normal English phrase, right? However it might sount strange or redundant in other languages. I have already told you that many languages lack articles, but many languages also lack copula verbs, i.e., the verb "to be" in such phrases. So in Polish, for example, you say nearly the same ("I am student", since no articles exist), but in Russian you'd say "I student", that's it.
Other languages (called pro-drop languages) have the verb "to be" in this place, but they tend to omit the pronoun. So, in Spanish you would usually say "Am a student". And the daily question "How are you?" becomes quite bizarre from an English perspective: "How are?".
I need an #ELI5 in this case. For the context - I'm Polish.
For the example you provided, we'd say "jestem studentem", which I thought would be closer to "am student". This is because "I am student" I would translate as "ja jestem studentem", which is technically correct but sounds horribly unnatural.
So I'm lost here - not the first time while trying to understand linguistics. Can you explain that to me? TIA!
🌈Is the fediverse confusing you? ELI5: fediverse for dummies🌈
Try thinking of it like the edit: EU. Each instance (lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, kbin, beehaw, etc) is its own separate 'state' with its own rules and regulations. When federated, these 'states' talk and share content with each other. When defederated, they do not continue to talk between each other. You cannot log into another state/instance using your state/instance's credentials, but you can see and interact with content from another state/instance.
The beauty of federation is that each instance can choose which they do and do not wish to share content/associate with.
Also, translation for ex-redditors:
subreddit = lemmy community = kbin magazine
kbin/lemmy = reddit clone
mastodon = twitter clone
You can currently connect through any of the above using whichever instance layout you prefer (reddit-like or twitter-like), though given that it's all very in beta (early on) things will be buggy. ETA: there are, of course, more, but these are the ones I'm most familiar with currently
Does anyone know of a good explanation of quantum mechanics or theory put in a way a layman can understand?
Every one I've ever seen is like "it's fucking weird don't worry about it". Followed by "we're building a computer based on it". Well silicon bits is fucking weird too but it was explained to me and I understood it. Why can't I find a good explanation of quantum and quantum computing?
@EarlGrey07 I'm no expert, but I think that the microblog is for quick, mostly text-only conversations. A bit like this one. You can think of it as being like a Twitter or Mastodon feed embedded within kbin.
The articles in the Threads thing are more Reddit-like.
The other thing is that a Magazine can be set up to auto-populate its Microblog feed based on specific hashtags. For example if it has been set up that way (and I don't know if it has, I'm not a moderator of this magazine) then /m/ELI5 could have hashtags set for #ELI5 or #ExplainLikeImFive and then any post, anywhere on the Fediverse, which uses any of those hashtags will magically appear in the microblog here.
One of the most frustrating things for people getting into AI is the amount of math notation involved. To make things easier, I’ve started a series where I explain math notation and show how it translates into Python!
#ELI5, with "5" meaning, "I grew up on BASIC and Pascal, did a ton of ksh/bash, am ok-ish at Perl, and at least know how to say hello in Python, but never got very far into serious programming." 😁
Grab a teaspoon of neutron star core. Teleport it into Earth's atmosphere. What would happen?
I believe the density chances quickly to match Earth's pressure....
@Lells@kbin.social Explains the fediverse like you were 5
https://kbin.social/m/ELI5/t/28660/What-is-fediverse-and-why-is-it-so-talked-about#entry-comment-121801
ELI5 - What is happening with reddit?
Why did so many subreddits go private?
Confederal Protocols: What people actually want is user sovereignty: (nexus.blacksky.network)
Federated infrastructure but user sovereignty: a “third way” between federated and P2P networks....