Ahh, yeah, I think I didn’t quite follow OP’s request. The part they don’t remember is the time between where they traveled to in the past and their “present”, and the story is about them intuiting what happened in there.

From the title it sounded like the protagonist was suffering amnesia-like symptoms about how the world used to be along with everyone else.

I promise you in a year you’ll be asking the same question about the same group of people.

So the premise is: they travel back in time, change their future, travel back to the present, forget everything they did while time traveling, and now have to just experience their new future without knowing anything changed? Do I have a that right?

I mean, how do you know this isn’t the backstory for every character in every story ever? How do you know you didn’t JUST do this yourself?

Wonder if steam workshop scans for this kind of thing, or if it would have otherwise been found quicker.

What client are you using? Those all sound like complaints about the client, not mastodon.

I don’t see any of The Avalanches on there. All their stuff is good, but if you haven’t listened to them, probably start with the original Since I Left You album.

For reference, I discovered J Dilla - Donuts when trying to find more stuff like The Avalanches.

Yeah, that QI clip came to mind when you mentioned it, but to your point the shape that we consider “fish-like” shows up a lot in water. Even whales and dolphins figured out a similar shape, despite them not being fish (though they might still be etymologically related if you go back far enough?)

Ok, I can buy that the shape of a crab is probably optimized for a certain lifestyle.

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I’m not an expert, but my understanding is that the science indicates all mammals have a common ancestor. Not certain about fish, but I think that’s a similar case?

To me, the surprising part about carcinisation is that, the form of a crab seems oddly specific, but non-obvious. I mean, I look at the form of a fish and think, “yeah, it makes sense why that shape would be favored in water,” but I look at a crab and think “guess that’s just what worked out for your ancestors. Tough luck, buddy.” But apparently it’s not just bad luck, it’s a common strategy.

Oh yes, I was joking, that is definitely a talent outside of my wheelhouse.

That sounds less like a skill and more like a very unfortunate freak accident.

Or just the form of a crab in general! Carcinisation is so weird, but apparently evolution sometimes goes “Let’s just do crab again, that shit was 👌”.

Which is a good reminder to everyone to support your local Lemmy instances.

“Look man, I appreciate the concern, but really, I’m fine. I just prefer not to socialize.” Then divert your attention to something else.

Or you could pull an SGDQ and go with the ol’ “I would really prefer it if you would be quiet.”

Yeah, I actually kinda like the idea of a whole internet where avoiding virality is somehow built into the system. But I think such a system would naturally evolve into a p2p solution. You couldn’t stop people from taking and rehosting content on their own servers.

And my point was directly in response to your point.

It doesn’t matter if virality is the goal, unless you’re suggesting it be actively prevented, virality is just a natural phenomenon of the internet. The term viral generally implies uncontrolled exponential spread. To this day, stuff goes viral without people intending it to.

And if you architect the system to scale a p2p network proportional to virality (ex. as people share it, they also self-host) you run into a ton of security and abuse challenges. We’re also stretching the definition of “self-hosting” at this point.

I always assumed it was his nickname from when he worked at the creamery.

Honestly, it’s just a matter of knowing this list:

• CPU
• RAM
• motherboard
• GPU
• hard drive
• case
• power supply

And roughly how they should fit together.

But every time I build a PC I have to figure out what the latest versions of these parts are, make sure they’re compatible, and when I get the parts they might have some unique form factor I have to figure out on the fly. Just going to PC Part Picker and picking out each part is 90% of the way there. After that it’s just a matter of getting them, sticking them together, crossing your fingers that it powers on, and installing an OS. If/when it doesn’t power on, THAT’S when you start learning…

But I would say building a PC is not a fraction as difficult as say, knowing how to work on a car.

Welcome to the party.