T156
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- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 10 hours ago:
Coal smoke is more radioactive than the outside of a fission reactor anyhow.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 3 days ago:
But also: what if Thanos himself got snapped out, along with the power glove (because for some reason it turned their clothes into dust, too)? The heroes would have been fucked, right? It’s been a minute since I saw the movies but IIRC, they used the time stone to go back in time. But what if the stone was gone because it was part of Thanos’ attire? He himself used the stones to destroy the stones, so there is probably a timeline where he got snapped away with everyone else, destroying the stones in the process.
It might not be possible, since the stones were also performing the action, and Thanos didn’t want to destroy the stones while snapping everyone in half. Otherwise, they might just self-destruct by going for the nearest target first (Thanos), and stop there, not fulfilling the desired action. You’d have to destroy/scatter them separately.
I don’t think that they used the time stone to go back in time, since it was destroyed when they got there. They had to get it from the past, since a decent part of the movie surrounded that.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 3 days ago:
½?
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 3 days ago:
It does make more sense if you consider that it is part of a line of Hedgehog genes, all of which make Fruit fly embryos look like hedgehogs (spiky) if they’re inactivated.
They didn’t just go “Let’s name a gene with bad outcomes if mutant in humans after a video game character! Yipee! Hooray!”, at least not for that.
Though they did name SHH’s inhibitor Robotnikin.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 3 days ago:
A SHH mutation is generally not considered compatible with life. So it’s less the kids who’d find out, and more the parents.
- Comment on in fashion everything old is new again 1 week ago:
Yes. He’s like plastic-man, in that he’s stark naked, and only looks like he’s wearing clothes.
- Comment on Tiny pp 1 week ago:
Is there a right millennium? The end of the first millennium had people believing that the tick-over would cause the apocalypse, with all computers everywhere immediately detonating, and the whole economy rendered valueless dust.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 1 week ago:
Now, is any of this true?
Not really, since keys work by shorting the circuit. That’s why pressing multiple keys at once on your keyboard doesn’t cause it to blow up. It would just assume the button with the shortest circuit was pressed, and ignore the rest.
It might cause weird things to happen with a mechanical or electromechanical calculator, since there were physical mechanisms engaged and disnegaged for each function, and might break/jam those, but not an electronic, and especially not a transistorised one.
It’s more likely that hitting them all confused the CPU, or dropped the voltage down enough that it reset, just in case something strange happened, or to try and fix any bug that might have caused it to register all the buttons being pressed.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 1 week ago:
In defence of QWERTY, it did a decent job for what it was designed for (reducing the risk of mechanical typewriters jamming by not having two hammers next to each other be pressed at the same time), but really oughtn’t have lasted past the point where the risk of jamming was not longer there.
- Comment on little speedy boi 1 week ago:
As is Robotnikinin
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think ever. Twitter has too big of a brand name and recognition, where X does not, and they’ll keep coasting on it (their emails to you still say “formerly known as Twitter”). News sites and places will keep calling it Twitter because X is too confusing of a name, and certain parts of their reader-base will simply have no idea who it is that they’re on about, and some social media will call it Twitter because X is a silly name, and they do not respect Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter in much the same way that he does not respect his daughter’s name or identity.
- Comment on Microsoft is struggling to get Windows Recall out the door — delays releasing first public preview. 2 weeks ago:
But an operating system isn’t meant to be “interesting”. It’s an operating system. It should only be meant to operate the system. The interesting should be up to whatever programs it is that a user puts on top of it, something that makes it work better (like optimisations), or at most, make it look nicer. Recall is not that. Your car should be functional as a car. It doesn’t need to be capable of baking souffles, or be a fully-functional mobile office suite. An OS should follow the same principles.
- Comment on Penguins 🐧 2 weeks ago:
It’s particularly sad, since the last of them were killed off by vandalism. Someone went to kill the last pair and smash their eggs for fun.
- Comment on Penguins 🐧 2 weeks ago:
In fairness, that was mostly accidental, unlike with the Great Auk. They were driven to extinction by inadvertently-introduced predators, as opposed to being actively hunted.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
Here’s an article about them turning it off because of being unable to verify the bill: edition.cnn.com/2021/05/12/politics/…/index.html
And here’s two attributing the issue, at least in part, to panic buying: aljazeera.com/…/petrol-shortages-sweep-us-as-colo…
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
The risk of the payment system getting shut down and people being unable to make payments for a while is real. And it is one good reason to be less reliant on digital payments.
Or entities. The US had a brief oil crisis recently because one of the major pipeline companies had their billing system hacked. Since the company couldn’t verify whether someone had paid, they just didn’t supply any oil.
Couple that with some misleading news stories and social media panic, and it blew up into a proper shortage from people hoarding all the petrol, and leaving none left.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 weeks ago:
People are acting like drivers don’t hit deers at full speed while they’re in control of the car.
I should be very surprised if people don’t generally try to brake or avoid hitting an animal (with some exceptions), if only so that they don’t break the car. Whether they succeed at that is another question entirely.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t look like it, or at least, they’ve not included one before (you just got a power cord), so it’s doubtful they would start including one now. Either that, or they’re about to release a power-button/TouchID dongle specifically to use as a separate power switch.
- Comment on Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime. 2 weeks ago:
Holden being acquired by General Motors was okay for a while. Then it died, because they couldn’t be stuffed with the Australian market, or the local car industry at the time (and in doing so, likely kicked off its demise).
- Comment on Be a rebel, pick up trash. 2 weeks ago:
Only while they’re adolescent.
- Comment on If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards? 2 weeks ago:
Neat.
Wonder why the terminology changed.
- Comment on How are scammers getting my email address? 2 weeks ago:
Information might also be leaked through data breaches. An email is not a particularly hard thing to find, or even guess.
A spammer could easily just have a computer iterate through all possible combinations of emails and usernames, and shotgun it.
Especially for a name like OP’s. If their email is a similar name, it wouldn’t be difficult for generate one that is also two words.
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- Comment on Womp womp 3 weeks ago:
That’s why they’re evil/mad scientists, and not regular scientists.
- Comment on Has Dr. Strange ever given a diagnosis mid fight? 3 weeks ago:
He’s probably tried to excise someone from the mortal coil/plane once or twice, does that count?
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, I doubt it. Chrome made it as big as it did because it had one of the biggest tech and advertising companies in the world behind it. Other than Microsoft with building in Internet Explorer into Windows, thereor Apple doing that with Safari, isn’t anything else that could compete as easily, and we all how that went for Microsoft.
And it would only be harder today, since they’d not only have go contend with Chrome, but also that a lot of websites are being built around Chrome/browsers using the Chromium engine. People would go to a website that either refuses to work, or doesn’t work properly for their browser and hop over to Chrome instead.
Netflix requires specific DRM addons that are really only available for the major browser engines, as an example. If someone is rolling their own, like KDE does, then that’s going to refuse to work outright.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 3 weeks ago:
It makes them sound like a car or something.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 3 weeks ago:
If they didn’t already exist, it’s doubtful they would have been legal to make.
- Comment on Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break 3 weeks ago:
Plus it works a treat if your normal shoe horn is far too heavy.
- Comment on Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro 3 weeks ago:
How so?
They’re using it in a way that it was designed for (creating little virtual mirrors of real displays/data to reference) when performing surgery.
It might not have been what Apple intended it for, but it’s hardly the end of the world like “surgeon peforms surgery according to LLM” would be.
It might benefit the surgeons and patients, if it helps reduce fatigue or miscommunication.