ozymandias117
@ozymandias117@lemmy.world
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 3 weeks ago:
For what it’s worth, it seems like it’s this “journalist” trying to make a sensational headline
The researchers themselves very clearly just tried to see if it could happen in our reality
“We decided to look at the probability of a given string of letters being typed by a finite number of monkeys within a finite time period consistent with estimates for the lifespan of our universe,”
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 3 weeks ago:
I’ve used Matrix since the app was called Riot.im and there was no encryption
I didn’t realize once encryption was added, that there were still metadata leaks as compared to Signal
Could you give me some information on what metadata is unencrypted, or point me towards documentation about that?
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. The crowd rooting for Qualcomm has never worked with them
ARM has it’s problems, but they aren’t in the wrong here
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 4 weeks ago:
Is that how you think about your bills?
“Your rent can be paid on the 10th, and you can pay late up to the 31st”
- Comment on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users 4 weeks ago:
Every carrier lets you use an unlocked phone on their network
T-Mobile no longer lets you buy unlocked phones from them
- Comment on Three Mile Island owner seeks $1.6 billion federal loan to restart nuclear plant for Microsoft AI facility 1 month ago:
Microsoft has agreed to purchase all of the power from the reactor over the next 20 year
techcrunch.com/…/microsoft-taps-three-mile-island…
The original reporting sounded decent - Microsoft was spinning up a decommissioned reactor, everyone wins
This new reporting of they can’t afford it makes it seem like a bad idea in its entirety
- Comment on [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax? 1 month ago:
I agree it’s dumb, but I’m also trying to understand how politicians think changing the tax rate for healthier or less healthy foods can possibly affect behavior in the USA when it’s set up this way in stores
There’s some evidence it somehow works publichealth.berkeley.edu/…/do-soda-taxes-work
But I’ve never known what I’ll be taxed on a specific item
- Comment on [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax? 1 month ago:
My belief that it’s intended to incentivize behavior is from talks about things like the “soda tax,” where some goods are taxed at a different rate to try to reduce consumption
I don’t understand how they can be effective when you don’t see the price on the sticker, though
- Submitted 1 month ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 1 month ago:
I mean, it’s internally consistent with the inbetween too, for the first three:
They went Xbox, did a 360 to face the same direction, and re-released the Xbox 1
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
I was all in on GOG 10-12 years ago when they said they were working on Linux support “soon”
After so many years of promises and no action, while Valve pays developers to improve Linux gaming, I’d rather buy from Steam
Prices tend to be similar between the platforms here, though
- Comment on Typing these four characters could crash your iPhone | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
It’s not just betas - it’s in the main release, too
- Comment on CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage 2 months ago:
We’re still using them on machines where performance doesn’t matter
On build machines, they’re on a special VLAN and don’t have endpoint protection, but they only download from a protected mirror
- Comment on CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage 2 months ago:
Their ftrace hooks cause all disk usage to be serialized, making your multi-core processor single-core when doing anything I/O bound
We saw between 500% - 800% increases in build times with their software installed
- Comment on CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage 2 months ago:
Oh god. Sentinel one is horrible. If they’re taking issue with your testing, you’ve really screwed the pooch
- Comment on Regarding this picture, where do you think quantum computers lie and why? 2 months ago:
Somewhere around 0,0 or 1,1
There are amazing possibilities in the theoretical space, but there hasn’t been enough of a breakthrough on how to practically make stable qubits on a scale to create widespread hype
- Comment on AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose' 3 months ago:
If an attacker gets access to your system, they will be able to ensure you can’t get rid of the vulnerability
It will persist across operating system installs
However, this requires them to get access first
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Dark mode’s bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility 3 months ago:
Isn’t #2 the only option?
Websites specifying color for foreground (or background) and assuming browsers will use whatever color they’re expecting for the other has always existed, and still exists
If you’re getting fancy and specifying colors, you can’t cheap out and not specify all colors
If the browser ignores all your colors at that point, then it’s displaying as the user intended If you only specified some of the colors, it’s a bug of the website
- Comment on Survey shows most people wouldn't pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware | 84% of people said no 3 months ago:
The even crazier part to me is some chip makers we were working with pulled out of guaranteed projects with reasonably decent revenue to chase AI instead
We had to redesign our boards and they paid us the penalties in our contract for not delivering so they could put more of their fab time towards AI
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Separated over the PCIe bus with an IOMMU between it and system memory, as well as hardware switches to disable it if I’m not reachable
I haven’t found a way to remove it entirely. It’s the only option I’ve found so far, but if you know of a better designed option, I’m certainly interested
- Comment on Why is the US not considered a third world country? 4 months ago:
North/south imply certain regions can’t improve and is far worse than developed/developing
If layperson words didn’t have an issue with 1st/3rd world, you wouldn’t see so many comments about it
- Comment on Why is the US not considered a third world country? 4 months ago:
Yup, it does change. It was attempted to mean “poor” and it’s been reappropriated since
If you’re trying to use modern language, it’s “developed” and “developing”
- Comment on Planning to propose in a few months, what should I look for in a good value engagement ring? 4 months ago:
We went with moissanite, and everyone thinks its an insanely expensive diamond
Moissanite is sparklier than diamond, so for what people look at in rings, it ends up looking better than diamond
- Comment on Nike’s self-lacing Adapt BB sneakers are losing their remote control mobile app 4 months ago:
You have to enable developer mode and install with ````–bypass-low-target-sdk-block``` now.
Dunno if they’ll remove that eventually
- Comment on Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs 5 months ago:
Huh?
32-bit ARM and x86 were both from 1985…
It did take ARM a lot longer to make 64-bit work
- Comment on Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" 5 months ago:
I can’t speak for Apple, but every company I’ve worked for has split their region reporting as soon as one of the traditionally smaller regions gets big enough
It creates hype and a boost to their stock price
- Comment on Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" 5 months ago:
Most companies group MENA separately. They must sell so few devices there that they don’t want to show the numbers separately
- Comment on Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams 6 months ago:
It’s ubiquitous because it was added for free to Office 365, so companies would use it instead of its competitors
Microsoft changed that for new customers a couple weeks ago and it’s now a separate subscription
The standard make it free until it’s ubiquitous then start charging for it
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
The push towards large vehicles was due to the fact that they used a truck chassis, and were exempt from safety and emissions requirements of a “car”