Agreed. My copy lost this documentation link in the original which gives more detail about the horizontal scaling: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/horizontal_scaling.html.
It seems really straightforward (which is a good thing), each backend Lemmy_server handles incoming requests and also pulls from a shared queue of other federation work.
Time zones are an endless source of frustration, this one doesn’t sound too bad though:
Going forward, all timestamps in the API are switching from timestamps without time zone (
2023-09-27T12:29:59.113132) toISO8601timestamps (e.g.2023-10-29T15:10:51.557399+01:00orZsuffix). In order to be compatible with both 0.18 and 0.19, parse the timestamp asISO8601and add aZsuffix if it fails (for older versions).
@Spicy3d@lemmy.world check out this diffuser!
Cool project and post! There’s also !flashlight@lemmy.world if you’d like to cross post.
gets hot enough to burn you if you leave it on for too long
That Fenix looks like a reliable light and is designed with temperature regulation but the limit might be pretty high and of course it is being used in an enclosure.
This kind of debunking is much appreciated! And doesn’t detract from my enjoyment of the book (and it’s sequels).
You must have a high bar for science fiction as a scientist, do you have any recommendations tangential to this book? Thanks.
the author is more interested in how humanity as a whole would react to his fictional scenario than he is with writing characters with depth
This was my impression as well and I think it works only because the fictional scenarios are extremely creative along with sometimes gratuitous science-fiction details from the author’s imagination. And even though most characters seemed unrealistic as people I still liked them as characters and found them memorable.
I also read (listened to) Voyagers by Ben Bova recently and while the fictional scenario was interesting, the character development leaned heavily on the relationship between the hero scientist and the promiscuous young scientist, a writing style which I found more boring.
A posthumous sequel to 1984? Sounds a bit dystopian to me!
Then again I enjoyed Grendel, a retelling of Beowulf from a different point-of-view, so perhaps Julia could be enjoyed in the same way.