SimplePhysics
@SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market 1 year ago:
What does RISC-V do that ARM does not with staying revenant post silicon? (Also, chill bro, Organic and Light computing are still in their infancy and we won’t be there for a while)
- Comment on If the first solar entrepreneur hadn't been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century? 1 year ago:
I fully agree. In cities and places with a grid, fossil fuels will absolutely dominate, while rural grids/independent homeowners could use solar. However, I do think the cost of acquiring such panels could be prohibitively expensive for some rural homeowners.
- Comment on A confused enemy is a vulnerable enemy 1 year ago:
Its a broader problem. Memmy shows this error even with normal text. For me personally, it is very common and occurs far more frequently than it actually working.
- Comment on A confused enemy is a vulnerable enemy 1 year ago:
Image I guess the glory of Japanese BBC facts are forever locked away from me.
- Comment on If the first solar entrepreneur hadn't been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century? 1 year ago:
I did not read any of your linked articles, but the answer is yes, fossil fuels most certainly would have dominated the 20th century because they are:
- Cheap
- Stable, you don’t have to depend on sunlight
- Nobody really cared about climate change back then, they were estimating a few centuries and humans… aren’t that forward thinking.
- Comment on Twitter / X is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it. 1 year ago:
Yeah, it is, tech wise.
But here’s the thing: Mastodon is not a viable alternative for most people right now because it’s missing the “normies”. Most people don’t even know what FOSS stands for and probably think it’s an STD, nuclear missile, or some form of coronavirus. Most of them are perfectly happy being on Twitter/Reddit/TikTok/FaceBook/Instagram. Without the masses, Mastodon cannot be a Twitter (or X, whatever you call it) replacement.
- Comment on Google Indexing Bard Conversations In Search Results 1 year ago:
Knew there would be more! Thanks for telling me!
- Comment on Google Indexing Bard Conversations In Search Results 1 year ago:
If DDG doesn’t work, try !g to automatically send you to Google with the same query. Its handy for situations where DDG can’t find something.
There’s also !yt by the way.
- Comment on One million years from now... 1 year ago:
That’s right, if we kick the bucket, a new intelligent civilization would not have the resources to advance at our pace. They may figure out the atom, but they won’t have the resources to utilize their knowledge. Then there is the ever looming threat of a disaster, and these preindustrial civilizations will be wiped out.
Also: what are the chances a species similar to us in intelligence will emerge again on this rock? I’m going to bet it’s pretty darn tiny.
- Comment on Texas power prices soar 20,000% as brutal heat wave sets off emergency 1 year ago:
Texas is connected to the Eastern (Florida to Canada) grid, the Western (Cali to Canada) grid, and a Mexican grid not part of the US/CA system via tie-ins. It is the only state in the continental US with it’s own grid, which was not a smart decision (cough cough feb 2021). The most outrageous part was that they could have bought power from Mexico, east, or west and import it via those tie-ins during Feb 2021 but chose not to. Power was out for millions for over a week. Fuck Texas. Fuck CenterPoint Energy.
Additional Information: Besides Texas, Quebec and Alaska have their own grids as well. Alaska is the only grid without any tie-ins.
- Comment on iOS 17 to Launch on September 18, Featuring StandBy Mode, NameDrop, Interactive Widgets 1 year ago:
Yeah, unfortunately iPhones don’t have a option to ask each time a USB cable is plugged in, which is a feature I love in macOS. You can turn on a feature disabling USB Data after an hour of not unlocking on iOS though, which I do.
- Comment on iOS 17 to Launch on September 18, Featuring StandBy Mode, NameDrop, Interactive Widgets 1 year ago:
Huh, you have a valid point. I haven’t tried it yet, but it probably doesn’t access/unencrypt too much more than the regular lock screen, given thats its just a glorified alarm clock with notifications. Ironically, some of the most private stuff (photos, notes) don’t have CompleteProtection, so that’s a current gaping vulnerability. And yes, if the FBI really wants your data, there are RAM reading tools for iPhone.
Here is a stackexchange thread about AFU/DFU/CP if you didn’t know.
- Comment on Intel announces Thunderbolt 5 with double the bandwidth (40 Gbps to 80 Gbps) 1 year ago:
My guess is the cost of Thunderbolt compatible hardware, which explains why only premium devices (ie Macs) have TB ports. TB cables are also much more expensive than the average USB-C.
- Comment on Intel announces Thunderbolt 5 with double the bandwidth (40 Gbps to 80 Gbps) 1 year ago:
Intel and Apple co-developed ThunderBolt, and the tech is free to use for all manufacturers, so why wouldn’t they? One more selling point on the spec sheet is always good.
- Comment on Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history 1 year ago:
Fair, you can always degoogle it though.
- Comment on Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history 1 year ago:
- Comment on Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history 1 year ago:
*Most Apple hardware macOS is a desktop OS. It has a terminal, it lets you download that weird .app file from a random website, and it allows browsers to use their own engines. So, not too different from Windows or Linux.
You are correct for iOS and iPadOS though. They must use the WebKit rendering engine. All browsers on those are just Safari reskins.
- Comment on Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history 1 year ago:
Damn, how old is that MacBook? I think you should ask for a hardware upgrade, because both Chromium based browsers and Firefox don’t use too much resources and run smoothly on the newer models. I can’t say that Chrome isn’t buggy, as I barely use it, but I have never encountered a Firefox bug on any of my devices.
- Comment on iPhone SE 4 Rumored to Feature Action Button, USB-C, Face ID, and More 1 year ago:
I personally like the system, and it works 99% of the time. But I can see where you are coming from.
- Comment on iPhone SE 4 Rumored to Feature Action Button, USB-C, Face ID, and More 1 year ago:
Apple’s face recognition system relies on
- infrared light being blasted on your face
- infrared camera creates a map of your face based on the 30k dots blasted onto your face and stores it
- when you try to log in again your iPhone compares your face by repeating step 1 and 2 (but not storing the map this time) and comparing it to the map created in step 2.
- if the black box “machine learning” program thinks your face is similar to the map, it lets you in.
The IR blaster and camera makes Apple’s system more accurate and secure (requires 3D face) than just taking a photo of your face (2D), but it does take up more room on the notch.
- Comment on Many Americans think NASA returning to the moon is a waste of time and it should prioritize asteroid hunting instead, a poll shows 1 year ago:
The moon is a fourth the size of Earth. Even if we had the infrastructure and technology (spoiler, we don’t), we can’t even make a dent in the moon, at least in the next hundred years or so. Heck, nuking the moon with every nuke humanity has won’t even make a noticeable dent in the moon!
- Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down 1 year ago:
Yep, without the source instance, you can’t communicate with other instances.
