lolcatnip
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- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 2 days ago:
Any more so than, say, fingerprints or DNA?
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 2 days ago:
99.9% of those people have no power to change anything of consequence, and most of the ones who have the power think their money will protect them.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 2 days ago:
Are they all literal sociopaths?
Yes.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 2 days ago:
You pay for them through taxes.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 2 days ago:
Yeah but was it any good for killing head crabs?
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 2 days ago:
Looks a lot like a BMW prototype I saw almost 20 years ago. I kept hoping they’d bring it to market, but I guess it’s safe to give up on it by now!
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 4 days ago:
In my experience with telemetry, it’s100% about understanding how the product is performing and being used, and 0% about monitoring individual users. Telemetry data has little to no value for anyone not directly supporting the product.
- Comment on we love those power laws 5 days ago:
Nuclear artillery shells are an actual thing, though.
- Comment on Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol 5 days ago:
I believe at least one state—Wyoming, maybe—has a guarantee in its constitution that citizens will have a clean and healthy environment, or something along those lines. It effectively creates a duty to protect the environment.
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 6 days ago:
How else are you supposed to pay for it?
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 6 days ago:
I’ve been using Kagi for a few months and I’m liking it so far.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 1 week ago:
I bought a plug-in hybrid last week. I’d have gotten a pure EV, but I take road trips sometimes, and I don’t want to rely on the patchy changing network in the US.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 1 week ago:
It’s my favorite scripting language, but far from my favorite language overall.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 1 week ago:
Python is great for what it is, but the best language developed in your lifetime? Its type system is janky and bolted on. A good type system is one of the main things I look for to call a programming language great.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 week ago:
Using biometric data to unlock your phone does not make you more vulnerable to petty criminals.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 week ago:
If you’re that afraid if the people who build phones, why are you ok with using any device that can access the internet?
- Comment on Anthropology 2 weeks ago:
Seems like any aliens advanced enough to study us would very easily figure out that hand gestures are a form of communication.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 3 weeks ago:
Ok fair enough. It’s just surprising to see someone say that. The standard-issue dev machine where I work is a laptop with 32 GB.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 3 weeks ago:
Dude, that’s how much RAM I used to have on a super high-end dev box at work with 56 cores. It was very helpful for compiling Chrome. WTF are you doing with a personal machine that needs that much RAM?
- Comment on space 3 weeks ago:
If they were really the same thing, traveling into the past would be trivial. Greg Egan’s Orthogonal series explores the consequences of space and time actually being the same thing. You can also the the difference in formulas related to proper time, where terms for space and time have opposite signs.
- Comment on Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?” 4 weeks ago:
If you’re judging comments based mainly on how long they are, you should be grading high school essays about Jane Eyre, not trying to participate in an adult conversation.
- Comment on once in a lifetime 4 weeks ago:
Hollywood must really suck at business if they can’t keep their essential workers from going in strike every decade or two and taking down a bunch of good shows when they do.
- Comment on Logical. Flawlessly logical. 4 weeks ago:
I think what’s more important then canon is something like an analog of continuity from calculus. A function can be continuous everywhere, which is analogous to having perfect adherence to a canon. It can also have major discontinuities (like 1/x at x=0), which I think of as like a reboot. There are even single-point “removable” discontinuities (like x²/x at x=0), which can be fixed by adding a single point to a function, are more analogous a tiny detail being wrong that doesn’t affect anything else and can probably be fixed with a simple retcon if anyone even cares.
You can do all kinds of calculations that depend on continuity of a function as long as they’re restricted to parts of the function with only removable discontinuities. Similarly, you can tell perfectly good stories in a broken canon as long as the story doesn’t focus on things in the canon that are broken. Each individual story needs to maintain its own continuity (or else we say it has plot holes), but discontinuities between stories don’t matter as long as stories feel like Star Trek to the audience.
Of course, feeling like Star Trek is very subjective, and feeling like a bunch of connected stories share the same continuity can be very satisfying, but overall, I agree with Nimoy that fans should just relax and not let discontinuities ruin their enjoyment of a good story.
- Comment on listen kid 4 weeks ago:
Part of what makes an eclipse cool is that the sun is still overhead and too bright to look at, but everything else is almost as dark as at night.
- Comment on ))<>(( 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you’re getting at with your source. I’m taking about physical, non-graphic scientific calculators from the 1990s.
- Comment on ))<>(( 4 weeks ago:
RTS = rock taper scissors FPS = frock paper scissors
- Comment on ))<>(( 5 weeks ago:
Ah, I wasn’t thinking of calculators that let you type in a full expression. When I was in school, only fancy graphing calculators had that feature. A typical scientific calculator didn’t have juxtaposition, so you’d have to enter 6÷2(1+2) as 6÷2×(1+2), and you’d get 9 as the answer because ÷ and × have equal precedence and just go left to right.
- Comment on ))<>(( 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen a calculator that had brackets but didn’t implement the conventional order of operations.
- Comment on life pro tip!! 5 weeks ago:
The numbers don’t add up. If you can get 21 billion food calories from total annihilation (which I checked is right), you’d get nowhere near 18 billion food calories from a fusion reaction. Maybe if works if you assume “calories” for the fission reaction means metric calories, since food calories are metric kilocalories.
I hate the way the word “calorie” ended up with two wildly different definitions.
- Comment on the internet 5 weeks ago:
Such a good game.