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Fair enough.

In the metric system this is isn’t really a problem because the math is much easier to start with.

1 hectare is 10,000 m², so a depth of 1m over 1 hectare is 10,000m³, or a depth of 1cm is 10,000m³ / 100 = 100m³.

I can kinda see how, if one were inventing a system of measurements, relatability might be important.

However, predictable units, magnitudes, and relations between scales like distance, volume, and weight is also important.

I guess the two attributes relatability and predictability could be seen to oppose each other?

I mean a “barrel of water” is easier to imagine than 100L of water, but only if barrels are an object you’re familiar with.

However, the predictability of the metric system allows you to imagine a container with a volume of 100L even if no such container really exists.

This honestly seems like the weirdest unit of measurement I’ve encountered.

I guess that if you don’t generally follow a pattern of x-unit = 1000 y-unit then at each magnitude you just need to make up some completely new thing.

“This acre-feet thing is too small to measure the volume of water required for our hyperchad-datacentre. We need a new unit, like 1 hyperchad-datacentre of water.”

God that sounds horrific. I had no idea.

In my city it would be outside the Library, which happens to be “the town square”, on the main street.

Yeah, it really depends on the nature of the societal collapse.

I can imagine situations in which being able to press a gold necklace into the right palm might get you out of a tricky situation.

On the other hand it’s hard to imagine a situation where a horde of gold bullion in your safe at home would be very helpful.

There’s no benefit to displaying the real thing if you can’t tell the difference.

In most cases you’re free to believe its the actual fossil.

All this stuff is still around, you just ignore it in favour of things like lemmy which are better at stimulating dopamine production.

I basically just avoid exposing ports from containers unless I really do want them exposed on the host?

Most services go through my reverse proxy, traefik.

Things like databases don’t publish ports on the host because they’re only accessed internally, using their container name.

It sounds like you don’t know much about how Australia’s legal system works, or parenting for that matter.

Laws are always broad and vague by intention. Courts interpret the law, and regulators investigate contraventions.

Empowering parents would be helping them understand methods for combating toxic social media use or supporting them in improving their internet and cyber safety literacy.

You seem to be wildly overestimating the level of interest most parents have in such things. Social media has become such a problem precisely because parents generally have given up on this particular battleground.

Sure, but 4 is easier to remember?

Can’t they use “war” as an excuse to suspend elections ?

Yeah I’ve been using wireguard for a long time myself personally, and more recently for a small team to access an intranet.

I’m a big fan. After a half hour or so trying to understand configs it’s pretty manageable.

For most of human history people who couldn’t do math, or read, or understand a map, have been communicating directions to each other.

4 directions is just enough to tell someone which way to face, without being too many to remember.

This. A cast iron pan just stores so much more heat than anything else. IDK the sciency chef-talk but if you like meat to look crusty and golden on the outside but tender on the inside then this is the way.

I basically just completely disregard any bullshit “seasoning” advice, and I’ve never had any rust or whatever. I don’t scrub it with steel wool or whatever but I don’t scrub anything with that. Sometimes I put a few cm of water in it and let that boil off any crusted on whatever.

Sorry, this is baseless supposition.

WDYM that’s not how the law works? All laws are a statement of societal expectations.

it doesn’t empower parents to do anything

Of course it does. Obviously, it’s much easier to tell your kids they’re not allowed to use facebook if most of their friends aren’t using facebook.

It only applies to sites hosted by companies or people with a presence in Australia

So you mean, the vast majority of platforms on which children congregate?

Not really.

This law draws a line in the sand indicating societal expectations.

It empowers parents to set and maintain appropriate boundaries without being influenced by what other parents allow their kids to do. Its a lot easier to maintain a “no social media” rule if other parents are doing the same.

Also I dont really have any faith at all in the young teenagers of today being able to circumvent anything. Sure. A few will… but certainly not most or even a significant portion.

If you cant install it from the app store then its out of reach.

That’s not what’s been proposed.

network effect. There’s fewer people here so there’s fewer people here.

That said, I like it just how it is and would caution anyone against wishing for more users.

Don’t focus on getting more users. Focus on making the content here the best it can be.

It’s inevitable that the quality of the experience here will change with more users. Whether it’s a net positive or negative remains to be seen.

To be sure, these are the “good old days” of lemmy.