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- Comment on YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process 2 days ago:
This is fixed now.
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 2 days ago:
I’d say that the one that’s written is the ‘true’ timeline in the story the same way that the reality we experience is the only one that matters.
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 2 days ago:
What would happen is entirely your responsibility as the author of the scenario.
Some options may be more “realistic” than others, but since the existence of a working time machine is already beyond what seems to be feasible physics (requiring ridiculous amounts and density of negative energy for example, where not even any has been shown to be possible to make) the scenario becomes soft sci-fi, or in other words magic, and that means it’s up to the writer to make up the rules.
Here is a post I found with many of the options you can choose from.
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 2 days ago:
Even knowing that everything happens every way in some other branch of the wave function (other universes) doesn’t really affect our own little section of it. There’s no communications or travel, so other universes if they exist have the same meaning to us as if they don’t. Except in time travel stories like this.
Besides, the same “irrelevance” of decisions and events comes free with even one single universe given that it’s deterministic - as physics seems to be. (Yeah there’s quantum randomness, but random doesn’t help either)
That said I still believe in free will and the importance of decisions. I just think it has to be defined so weakly that it still works in a deterministic universe. (So I have free will, but so do dice and pocket calculators.)
- Comment on UCLA team finds high levels of dangerous air particles(PM2.5) in air near electric vehicle fast charging stations. 1 week ago:
Were those other urban areas specifically parking lots/garages? (The places that charging stations tend to be)
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 1 week ago:
Messaging used to be free on OKC too. Paid stuff was only better search placement, maybe seeing your matches immediately, etc. No idea about now, I was also found by my wife there over a decade ago.
- Comment on So long as it's not poisonous, there really is an audience for any taste. 1 week ago:
Ethanol is poisonous and carcinogenic and extremely popular. Burned nicotine also of course.
- Comment on xkcd #3110: Global Ranking 1 week ago:
You know I thought of how to word that better, but wasn’t sure I could convey what I meant clearly enough. I should have just used something like ‘time lived’.
- Comment on xkcd #3110: Global Ranking 1 week ago:
At one point I was ranked dead last in the entire world for number of seconds lived.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like Faraday understood the… potential.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 4 weeks ago:
This is true. I had to force myself to develop a tolerance to plain water, but of course I’m really glad I did.
I still can’t stand unsweetened flavored water (including tea*), or especially unsweetened and carbonated. Those are all very bitter to me, and therefore undrinkable - particularly given plain water exists.
*But I do like some tea in my sugar.
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 4 weeks ago:
That does work (actually ‘non emergency city state’). But as another comment mentions, the public knowing it exists is more important than the number itself.
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 4 weeks ago:
I think the non-emergency number should be heavily advertised. I have no idea what the local one for me is (if it even exists)
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 4 weeks ago:
And an LLM determining that accurately would be a dice roll.
- Comment on The Wikimedia Foundation Pauses an Experiment That Showed Wikipedia Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash. 4 weeks ago:
Summaries that look good are something LLMs can do, but not summaries that actually have a higher ratio of important/unimportant than the source, nor ones that keep things accurate. That last one is super mandatory on something like an encyclopedia.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
We certainly still have the first three and Captain Brainworm is working hard to bring back all sorts of terrible diseases.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock. 5 weeks ago:
My favorite rock also has a name: Mount Saint Helens
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 5 weeks ago:
Sounds great for non-food packages, such as small electronics, toys, etc. Anything that currently comes in a blister pack.
- Comment on True Wireless Power is FINALLY here (building a TRULY wire-free desk setup) 5 weeks ago:
It’s not - this dude doesn’t zap himself even once.
It’s a good video though, showing how he integrated everything.
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 1 month ago:
It’s worse than that, it’s physics, Jim!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Assuming no FTL and centered at Earth (or the sun) that puts the max distance roughly a little past the low estimate for where the Oort cloud begins.
(Wolfram Alpha says 14 light days is 2424 AU and the cloud has inner edge estimates from 2000 to 5000 AU
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 month ago:
I’ll have to try that vsync thing when I get a new PC (laptop)
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 month ago:
Super Hexagon
It’s about as simple as a ‘modern’ game can be (I read there was even a port of it to Commodore 64.) but it’s a finely tuned machine. When you lose - and you will, a lot - it feels like mostly your own fault and not the game’s.
The difficulty levels very accurately start at Hard for the easiest one. There are 6 total levels, the next 5 difficulties are Harder, Hardest, Hardester, Hardestest, and Hardestestest.
With much time and luck I can beat the first level (unlocking the 4th). On a lost save I had unlocked the 5th level by completing the 2nd, and have only ever seen the 6th in videos from other people. I would have to beat the 3rd to see it myself, and that’s not happening.
The criteria to beat a level is “last for 60 seconds”.
- Comment on The chocolate cake featured in the 1996 film *Matilda* is the canonical chocolate cake for all 90's kids. 1 month ago:
Surge!
- Comment on Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass produce wood that’s stronger than steel 1 month ago:
Always has been.
- Comment on Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says 2 months 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] 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 months ago:
Wouldn’t any other provider just give up the senders’ details immediately?