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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I’m not judging you, but to offer another perspective to anyone reading this thread: I am a parent of two young children, and have never not returned a shopping cart. I take the kids with me when I return it.

    As a parent, I realizes that it’s harder to do things with kids than without, but I go out of my way to not pass that burden onto others.

    There are many ways our situations could be different that would make it harder for you to do this than me - your reasons are completely your business.


  • The most intuitive analogy to federation to me is email. You may have an account with one provider (gmail.com in the example of email, or lemmy.world in the example of Lemmy) but you can send emails to other providers (email example) or post messages to other instances (Lemmy).

    Just like with email providers, a Lemmy instance may decide not to allow communication with another instance - this is “defederation.” Instances that allow communication are “federated.”

    Just like email, you don’t normally need to worry much about whether you are on the same instance as a particular community or user - it just works.

    This is a simplification, but for me is a good working model.


  • No, you need to include the height of the cylinder (a). Imagine a deep dish pizza (big a) versus a thin crust (small a) - the sides of the deep dish pizza have more area. Your formula returns the circumference of the pizza.

    If you’re interested in dimensional analysis (and why wouldn’t you be?) the formula you proposed doesn’t have enough length units. It would return a value of length (like inches, or cm) not area (like square inches or square cm).