davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass produce wood that’s stronger than steel 1 day ago:
Always has been.
- Comment on Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says 5 days ago:
Seems perfectly reasonable to me - this isn’t about the model itself (which the article says is even available though Azure) but the app that sends and receives its data from the Chinese servers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Huh.
Today I learned (from the comments) that there are places where stores haven’t been doing this for decades.
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 1 week ago:
Where I live it does that so often that many people from the area are known to just go outside and walk in it with no extra protection or shielding. Crazy in my opinion.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 2 weeks ago:
I rather thought that was one of the main selling points of the Proton services.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t any other provider just give up the senders’ details immediately?
- Comment on Are there rollerblading performances like ice skating performances? 2 weeks ago:
Slalom gets pretty close in some ways. It’s amazing to watch what someone highly skilled can do, even when just practicing.
- Comment on Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which? 3 weeks ago:
Everyone is mentioning email. I also use the World Wide Web.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 3 weeks ago:
Lens flairs, but in IR they look different.
- Comment on Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances 3 weeks ago:
There’s not much Krebs in it
- Comment on The fastest bicycle in history is the stationary bike on the ISS. 3 weeks ago:
In a way, so is everything else.
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 4 weeks ago:
No I didn’t, but you made me curious so I just looked it up.
It’s not a sound I remember hearing anywhere, but I certainly could have and not known what it was at the time so ignored it.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 4 weeks ago:
As far as I know it’s not commonly used anywhere, and is mostly used for effect.
I think it used to be more common in my parents’ generation.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 4 weeks ago:
English.
The word that’s throwing you off is probably wont
wont
(archaic or humorous) One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice. - Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 5 weeks ago:
Australia.
- Comment on Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code. 5 weeks ago:
What is this “blue” you mention? That’s not green Or amber!
Seriously though, errors in native code back then would either freeze the system or just spontaneously reboot, either way no time to display a reason. (Although the BASIC interpreter would at least try to say what happened with errors in BASIC code.)
- Comment on Modern magic unlocks Merlin's medieval secrets 1 month ago:
Wooo!
- Comment on Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot 1 month ago:
True. Maybe ‘9 of 10 participants’.
- Comment on Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot 1 month ago:
The women are unlikely to think so.
It’s like the reverse of the well known statistic that nine out of ten people approve of gang rape.
- Comment on You Need to Use Signal's Nickname Feature 1 month ago:
" He… He’s a special ops trainer.
What was his name?Yeah. Jack Trainer.
So he’s a trainer named Jack Trainer?That’s how I have everybody in my phone. See, “Janice Mom.”
“Larry Doorknob.” “Stacy Butt Stuff.” "
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I do think it’s interesting that the original case was a person being refused service by companies instead of the other way around.
- Comment on Do I need to choose a language when posting on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
This is one of the things that could have been a nice feature, but the devs never fixed it.
It should let you set a default, and options in the list should include ‘detect from browser settings’, and ‘most recently selected’. (Default should be that one probably, but on the very first post it should detect it automatically.)
If they had done that, and encouraged the same in apps and other clients, then filtering by language would actually work and not exclude the vast majority of posts.
- Comment on When picking location for reincarnation USA is a really popular choice but don't pick it, it's a total bait and switch. 1 month ago:
Empirically it would seem that India is the most popular choice, followed very closely by China.
Amusingly, I think those are two of the places with a high percentage of belief in reincarnation.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 1 month ago:
There are hundreds (at least!) versions of the bible, and that’s just in English. Would have to make sure it’s exactly the same one.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 1 month ago:
It looks like a code even when not trying to.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 1 month ago:
The concept for this is called Steganography and that article has several examples, but most would be difficult without tools/references.
The easiest would be stuff like using certain letters of words or word lengths as mentioned in some other comments here.
- Comment on The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket 2 months ago:
I’ve never liked this explanation because if that was all there was to it, it would still only localize to a slanted line in front of us.
Say for example the right ear is higher (I tried finding which one normally is, but couldn’t find a good answer) in this case it would not be feasible without other clues to tell the difference between a sound being higher up and slightly to the left, or lower and slightly to the right. It’s not a significantly different situation from the ears being the same height.
In reality there are other clues, largely based on the shape of our ears slightly changing the sound in learned ways based on the angle it comes from.
- Comment on How do you feel about someone taking the coins people tossed into a fountain or other public waterworks display for "wishes?" 2 months ago:
Toss a coin to your stripper, Oh valley of chintzy
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 2 months ago:
That’s obviously not how the billionaires who create it would train it.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 2 months ago:
I don’t get it.
Are you perhaps calling all of humanity a dragon?