[-] brian@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 days ago

There's no reason that guilt would be absent from helpinghelp a specific person in need (like your struggling mother example). Plenty of people feel guilty taking handouts and will outright refuse help when they might need it.

As for the drive thru thing, I think you might be talking about something different than what I've seen/done, which is just paying for your own meal and the people behind you. There isn't any expectation for them to continue some chain, and in many ways it's a bit of an empty gesture (they are just taking that first person's goodwill and passing it to the next in line).

My interpretation of paying it forward is the premise of receiving something when you're in need, then, when you're able, to give something back. Not to the one who helped you, as that would be repaying a debt.

[-] brian@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

not a typo

puplic

This amuses me

[-] brian@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

If that's a joke, I don't get it.

If that's real, I don't know why.

Help?

[-] brian@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

When you talk about a sample, what does that actually mean? Like I recognize that the frequency of oscillations will tell me the pitch of something, but how does that actually translate to a chunk of data that is useful?

You mention a sample being stored as a number, which makes sense, but how is that number utilized? Again assuming uncompressed, if my sample "value" comes up as 420, does that include all of the necessary components of that sound bite in a 1/44100th of a second? How would a sample at value 421 compare? Is this like a RGB type situation where you'd have multiple values corresponding to different attributes of the sample (amplitude, frequencies, and I'm sure other things)? Is a single sample actually intelligible in isolation?

[-] brian@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago

In the same way that watching porn on public transit is a social no-no

[-] brian@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I guess it's more asking what the alternatives could be. I don't have the answer, and truthfully don't have much of an idea what is out there to solve that problem.

Is there a system that can get information to someone, maintaining anonymity for the sender the whole way through? Like having an open drop box where you'd be able to put whatever documents you want into it.

[-] brian@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

So I recognize that having the files securely encrypted is a valuable thing, and that having privacy for sharing is also important. But how do you actually share this without creating a vulnerable point?

Say I wanted to leak some file as a whistleblower, I'd still need to get the link/password/etc shared to whomever I'm leaking to, right? Sorta defeats the purpose when you need some other source of contact, right?

[-] brian@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

Manufacturing

[-] brian@lemmy.ca 23 points 4 months ago

My response to your question, is another question:

what?

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