magiccupcake
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- Submitted 1 month ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 2 comments
- Comment on Why is space 2 dimensional? 1 month ago:
The original question was why solar systems and galaxies are in planes, and your explanation is wrong.
What do you even mean by similar orbits? Most orbits are circular for a totally different reason, and that is tidal interactions.
- Comment on Why is space 2 dimensional? 1 month ago:
I hate to be that guy, but this is wrong.
The solar system is mostly in one plane because it formed from a cloud of gas. The cloud of a gas has some total non zero rotation and interactions flatten the cloud into a disk, where all of the planets formed.
This same principle applies to galaxies.
- Comment on Is overwatch 2 really that bad? 2 months ago:
I honestly though I would get used to it, like the forced 2-2-2 comps which I initially disliked, but I never did. It just made the game feel like too much more like a pure fps. And it not feeling like that was what made it unique.
In my experience all the que times were fine as 2-2-2 even when queued as duo dps
- Comment on Is overwatch 2 really that bad? 2 months ago:
Ehh I disagree, I played consistently ow1 for years and ow2 just wasn’t as good.
I mainly missed tank synergies. Without it the game just wasn’t the same. The other tank changes were just insane too. And I preferred the full 6v6 experience.
Then they had to go an monetize the shit out of it, when I already paid for the game! The last straw was either paying for new characters or grinding like hell.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 2 months ago:
I’ve only tangentially heard about this, but another issue is that doctors in the US don’t have to, and aren’t encouraged to keep up with recent research.
Combine that with a medical education system that hasn’t changed drastically in 70 years to keep up with that new research and most US doctors are just out of date.
- Comment on Swiss Researchers May Have Solved Hydrogen Storage 2 months ago:
It seems like it’s best use case would be in conjunction with nearby buildings. Where the waste heat can be used for heating.
- Comment on Intel’s Troubles Complicate U.S. Chip Independence 2 months ago:
They’ve had fab problems for years, in that it cost them a ton on money and much longer than desired to shrink nodes, so they’ve fallen from a leader in fab production to being behind.
Not to mention there’s not much money to be made from fabs, unless your tsmc.
AMD, Qualcomm, Nvidia, Google, Apple, are all huge tech companies that design their own cutting edge chips, and only Samsung is another company that both designs and produces chips.
- Comment on With the amount of microplastics we're carrying around in pretty much every tissue in our bodies, is our weight measurably different as a result? 2 months ago:
The actual paper www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11100893/
It’s still a preprint, and I didn’t see the exact figure but definitely concerning.
- Comment on Science is Magic 3 months ago:
Even if it’s not bullshit, from what little I understand it’s essentially unprovable. Which makes it useless in science.
- Comment on Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks 3 months ago:
People didn’t buy the last mini, so why would Apple so it again?
- Comment on "We're not blessed with big marketing budgets," Xbox's EMEA marketing lead laments Microsoft's lack of investment 4 months ago:
Enough money to buy Activision-Blizzard and Bethesda, but not enough to actually pay for developers or marketing.
- Comment on Survey shows most people wouldn't pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware | 84% of people said no 4 months ago:
Most people have pretty decent ai hardware already in the form of a gpu.
Sure dedicated hardware might be more efficient for mobile devices, but that’s already done better in the cloud.
- Comment on Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50% 4 months ago:
Closest in the united States is a chevy bolt, but that’s still pretty far.
I’d love a fairly dumb ev. Give me just enough computer for battery/charging management and let me do the rest.
- Comment on YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users 7 months ago:
Are they still using Mp3 for audio or have they switched to something more modern for that too?
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 7 months ago:
I have plenty of understanding of what virtual memory memory is. For one, virtual memory is orders of magnitude slower than physical RAM.
My point still stands, 8gb is fine if all you do is light web browsing and writing documents which is basically nothing, but at that point you don’t need a 2024 Macbook anything, you could use a older M1 Macbook and be perfectly happy.
All web browsers will use up as much ram as possible, that doesn’t mean they need it.
Even you don’t have a device with 8gb of memory, just because it’s usable doesn’t mean that’s it’s optimal, or that it’s not a ripoff to charge $200 for another 8gb.
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 7 months ago:
Oh no I read the article, I just don’t consider that testing.
It’s not really apt to compare using ram on a browser on one computer and extract that to another, there’s a lot of complicated ram and cache management that happens in the background.
Testing would involve getting a 8gb ram Mac computer and testing it using common task to see if you can measure poorer performance, be it lag, stutters or frame drops.
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 7 months ago:
This stuff is almost ewaste.
This is just not enough memory to make a computer last, especially since you can’t upgrade.
Websites and apps that a lot of people use just aren’t really expecting to only have 8gb ram available. Any kind of multitasking could easily run out of ram
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 7 months ago:
This is a truly terrible article.
Like why not test these things? This just sounds like ai generated garbage.
That being said, 8gb is an abysmally low amount of ram in 2024. I had a mid range surface in 2014 that had that much ram. And the upcharge for more is quite ridiculous too.
I know it’s pc ram but I bought 64gb of ddr4 3600mhz for like $130. How on earth is apple charging $200 for 8!!!
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- Comment on How can a person be very sad, irritated or angry and still not show it on their face ? 8 months ago:
I disagree that it’s a luxury. Many people, especially autistic people, simply cannot learn this skill and they can suffer for it greatly.
- Comment on Facebook ate and then ignored the news industry 8 months ago:
True journalism seems to be on its way out. Why pay journalists to research and investigate when you can pump out tons of ai generated garbage for nearly free.
- Comment on Electric cars will be cheaper to make than gas vehicles but with much higher repair and insurance costs 8 months ago:
I put down a deposit recently, like last month, but I have a similar outlook. I wanna see how they do after a few years to see how they hold up first. But if they look good and start selling like hotcakes I might be glad I put a deposit down early. Otherwise I’ll cancel and get a Chevy bolt begrudgingly.
I wanna be optimistic because I do want Aptera to at least push the whole industry towards more repairable efficient and cheep evs.
- Comment on Electric cars will be cheaper to make than gas vehicles but with much higher repair and insurance costs 8 months ago:
I think I heard mentioned that they expect the wrap to last 5-10 years, which isn’t great, but not terrible.
I don’t think they have a choice with right to repair, as changing their stance would be detrimental to their following.
- Comment on Electric cars will be cheaper to make than gas vehicles but with much higher repair and insurance costs 8 months ago:
It looks very modular, with company claiming a right to repair philosophy.
The painting seems to be aiming for a lower emissions vehicle, cheaper costs. Given that the body is not metal replacing panels should be easier if they get damaged.
Not to mention battery size doesn’t need to be as large, so replacing it should be viable.
I’m hopeful but still got see how everything shakes out.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 8 months ago:
Actually maintained rail shouldn’t have this problem, but the private companies like Norfolk Southern spend the minimum amount to keep them operational.
With a budget just a fraction of highway upkeep and expansion they should be able to be kept in good repair.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 8 months ago:
So much of that freight should be moved by rail.
Tax based on weight to 4th power would work if we nationalized railways like roads.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I’m pretty sure it’s google trying to get you to use chrome, as chrome behaves how you can think it should.
- Comment on David Zaslav Says Content Companies Are Talking About Building New Bundles 1 year ago:
On the otherhand things like plex let my friends outsource their piracy to me.
