#eli5 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eli5, aggregated by home.social.
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someone needs to explain to me how the fediverse works generally and how i keep seeing people in the wafrn feed with all these other fuckass urls, meow dot social, dot gay, dot… like wh- idrek what to ask i just dont know "where" any of these places are
or like, link me a plain language explainer
#hi #… #fediverse #new-to-fediverse #eli5 -
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I'm gonna need an #ELI5 on this one. XD
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Wozu braucht Europa eigentlich "W" als "Alternative zu X"?
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#eli5 the #forkiverse stuff ... Please someone? I'm massively out of the loop on this one. 😂 😂
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Okay, can someone #ELI5 what the #Forkiverse is? :blobcatcomfnight:
At the risk of sounding stupid, is it a fork of #Mastodon, or a (just) a regular Mastodon server called the Forkiverse?
Either way, sounds fascinating!
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"The REAL reason everything sucks now"
Who's really the problem?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYEAK-Uh-fo
https://piped.video/watch?v=MYEAK-Uh-fo
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=MYEAK-Uh-fo
#uspol #politics #affordability #inflation #trumpflation #stagflation #MorePerfectUnion #ExplainLikeImFive #ELI5
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Explain Linux kernel like I'm 5
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Letztens war es bitterkalt (–7 °C) bei uns, und ein Steinbecken im Garten ist dabei zugefroren.
Soweit, so unspektakulär. Allerdings ist dabei eine kleine Eisskulptur entstanden, die wir so noch nie gesehen haben.
Die Steinschale steht unter freiem Himmel. Da kann also nichts von darüber heruntergetropft sein, oder so.
Wie ist das entstanden? Hat da jemand eine Idee?
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I just had a #dream where I #eli5 different #elecrical #ligh to ... I don't know exactly who. Not just good old glowers, though. LEDs, fluorescent lights, incandescent lights (including halogen lamps), the works. I learned all this about 15 years ago.... and it has absolutely no bearing on my day-to-day. #brain s are weird!
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I passed my @[email protected] grad stats class but clearly it’s not enough to grasp #Heisman odds.
#ELI5: Put $2½-3k on USC’s QB to win $100, but put $100 on @[email protected]’s @[email protected] & win $2-2½k? That’s an absurd spread, right? (Or just more anti-@[email protected] bias?)
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In this long-toot: a recipe to detect and deal with "anagram-bullshiters" even if you don't know anything about the problem domain within which they're trying to sell you something.
I noticed that #haskell people and #science people are giving abstractions specific names that are nouns. Sometimes semantic: "functor, bifunctor, lens, prism", sometimes borrowed: "monoid, magma", sometimes of loose semantic power: "monad, joker and clown".
Or was it clown and joker?..
#java people and #engineering people love abbreviations. Just today whilst studying #syseng, I got tripped up by "StRS vs BRS vs SRS". Not because I can't tell stakeholder requirements from system requirements or business requirements, but because I simply got lost in the abbreviations.
But I observed an interesting thing: when you ask a haskeller to explain a monad, a lens or a bifunctor, it's very easy to call #bullshit: they won't be able to give you a concrete answer (no matter how long or #eli5-esque), while engineering bullshiters have that fallback of just spelling out an anagram they learned and explaining it word by word. This is a red flag, but maybe a person is simply bad at explaining or defining stuff?
What I suggest to be able to determine if you're facing an anagram-bullshiter or not is to ask these questions:
1. How would one use XYZ?
2. In which situations is XYZ applicable / usable / optimal?
3. What are the alternatives to XYZ and in which situations are they applicable / usable / optimal?Even if you know nothing about problem domain, you should now have a reasonable amount of information to determine if the person is pretending to be more knowledgable than they are.
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CW: accessibility meta, ownership, site redesign
The design of the DarkPi site is, admittedly, a contrivance of our own, and our sysadmin aesthetic is showing a bit.
What we don't know, however, is whether this site is accessible for assistive aids, like screen readers or other browser accessibility aids.
Going to be doing some research on this, because if I'm asking questions of your disability, knowing the topic before engaging is how we try to demonstrate respect.
However, if anyone who uses an accessibility mode for interacting with sites has immediate thoughts on that matter (regarding tools to test with, paradigms to consider, or a critique of the current presentation of the information, etc), we're listening and would be delighted to integrate your feedback.
