Buddahriffic
@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
- Comment on Good for plants 6 days ago:
I’ve wondered if it was because the air vibrations that sound is help knock dust loose from the plant, which helps gasses get in and out as well as more light.
Heavy metal probably has the most vibration going on out of all genres.
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 1 week ago:
Hey you should have some pride in your dad, being able to keep going longer than a movie!
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 1 week ago:
Guessing you mean in a similar vein to the connection between various degrees and food service jobs?
Personally, I’ve been able to avoid IT jobs so far.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 1 week ago:
Computer science is not IT. IT is about knowing how to use, deploy, and administer existing software solutions, along with a bit of light development to get things to work together when they aren’t necessarily directly compatible.
CS is about creating software solutions and understanding how the pieces fit together (at a low level), as well as how to evaluate algorithms and approach problem solving.
It’s not even coding, though coding is obviously involved. For a coding class, they’ll teach you the language and give problems to help learn that language. For CS classes, they might not care what language you use, or they might tell you to use specific ones and expect you to learn it on your own time. The languages are just tools through which you learn the CS concepts.
An IT professional might know about kernel features and how they relate to overall performance. A coder might be aware that there is a kernel doing OS stuff under the hood. A computer scientist might know the specifics of various parts of what a kernel does and how one is implemented, perhaps they’ve even implemented one themselves for a class (I have, though I was personally interested in that kind of thing and it was for a class notorious for being difficult, so most grads didn’t).
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 1 week ago:
Blizzard used a cheat detection system in wow that allowed their server to send arbitrary code for clients to run. The code failing to return an expected result was a sign that there was tampering going on. Emulating windows api to run on Linux is a form of tampering, though obviously not necessarily a sign of cheating. Guessing they used some code that didn’t work on Linux and banned everyone who failed before realizing that some failed due to Linux, and then were able to separate the Linux users from detected cheaters by how it failed (either that or they had to undo all bans from that round).
Though it does make me wonder if it meant they can’t/don’t detect cheaters on Linux. Probably not, because my guess is they start out by looking for any cheats they can find, install them on test machines, then work at detecting the differences between those test machines and ones without the cheat. So they’d know about Linux-based cheats, too. They might even be able to use timing-based attacks to detect kernel level ones, too.
- Comment on When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working... 1 week ago:
Hammond also gets a very different ending in the book.
- Comment on When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working... 1 week ago:
Their system was set up such that when they rebooted the whole thing (which they needed to do to get out of the lockout Nerdy used, intending to steal the DNA samples, deliver them to his contact at the docks, then return without anyone realizing what had happened), it would first start up only using AUX power. Then they just needed to run a command to have the system switch to main power.
But they forgot because the whole island was a well-polished shit that they were barely holding together and hadn’t ever trained on what to do after a reset.
After this scene, the power goes out through the whole park and to restore it, someone needs to go to the power station and manually activate the mechanism that closes the breaker to bring main power back on.
In the movie, IIRC they just skipped straight to the “start the power up manually in the power station”, which Ellie does after Arnold fails to do so or return.
The book had a better system overall (where main power could have been turned on from the control room, or safely in the bunker if they had remembered it before the fences failed) and the issue was with a lack of experience with that system. The movie’s version was simpler but a stupid system for a park full of dangerous predators because it didn’t have a fail safe at all. Plus that stupid 3d interface that apparently Lex knew and was thus able to figure how to enable secondary systems when all of that would be custom software running on the OS.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 1 week ago:
Or they could do something like the One Punch Man game, where you can select Saitama and he will destroy anyone else without effort (unless it’s a mirror match, in which case it’s a normal fight). But, because it’s Saitama, he’s always running late.
So you pick teams of 3 and if Saitama is on yout team, you have to survive with just 2 until he gets there.
So a game where you play as someone else but superman can show up and stomp everything before going off to do something else could work. You’ve gotta survive until he gets there and maybe do things to get his attention or help resolve some other issue he’s dealing with.
- Comment on Now I finally get it 1 week ago:
Yes, the only conclusion you can logically draw is that it’s impossible to know if they do or don’t exist. Instead of seeing the world as a set of ideas that either resolve to true or false, I see it as a set of ideas that resolve to true, false, or unknown.
Which also “resolves” a bunch of language paradoxes that depend on the only options being “true” or “false”. Like “this statement is false”. It also works on the halting problem, though still doesn’t make it trivial to solve (it just defeats the paradox proof if you allow a third option for paradoxes instead of insisting it only returns true or false).
- Comment on Now I finally get it 1 week ago:
Personally, I did change my mind from atheism to agnosticism just because a lack of evidence isn’t a proof and you can’t prove a negative. Established religions reek of control and manipulation, but I had to also conclude that it was naive to have faith that there isn’t anything more to whatever this reality is beyond what we can tell with science.
At the very least, there’s future scientific discoveries we can only guess at, but there’s also unknowable things, at least given the limitations we currently have as beings of this reality.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 1 week ago:
Hell, forget the photon sphere, even. Know that jet of energy black holes are thought to sprew out at their poles due to the material falling in to them? Imagine what that material is doing inside the event horizon. Whatever it is, it’ll be pretty violent, enough to call the moon slamming into the earth “relatively peaceful”. It would probably be more pleasant hanging out in the core of the sun than even an AU away from a black hole’s event horizon (and I mean on the outside).
Also, the event horizon is where light cannot escape. The “spacecraft event horizon”, or the orbital plane surrounding a black hole where a spacecraft couldn’t escape it is going to be much farther out, unless we can figure out ftl travel.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 1 week ago:
Can’t they just offer access to your data back at a discounted rate compared to what they charge their data partners for it?
- Comment on Now I finally get it 1 week ago:
Problem is Genesis was written before the religion it was written for decided it was a monotheist religion that believed it was the only truth. So Yaweh created Adam and Eve, who had a couple of sons, one killed the other, but then that other went out and joined up with the other people made from other gods or titans or whatever, somehow convinced some of them to join his clan for a god that loved them, but then hated them because they sought knowledge (via eating fruit lol they really didn’t want their followers to be able to figure out shit to the point of even misdirecting them for how one obtains knowledge).
Where it falls apart even considering the original context is Noah’s flood, because that did apparently wipe everyone out except one mating pair per species, so how did Noah’s descendents repopulate the world without other populations to hook up with?
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 2 weeks ago:
Also, with those bottles, if you’re prepared for them to potentially explode, you can open them carefully and just close it again if pressure leaks out quickly once the seal opens. Then let out the extra pressure in short bursts and the bubbles won’t bring a bunch of liquid with them because they can’t build enough momentum to lift it.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure which of the subgroups of this is more frustrating: the ones who refuse to put the necesarry thought towards understanding it but would be able to do so if they did, or the ones who do try their best but still can’t figure out such simple instructions.
- Comment on If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras? 2 weeks ago:
That was an episode that ended right where it started getting good. Not that the episode was bad before that, but it left me wanting more of that, not a jump to a new premise in the next episode.
- Comment on If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras? 2 weeks ago:
Parabolic would only work if the camera is in the focal point, so you’d need a different part of the parabola or a different parabola depending on where you are standing relative to the camera. This is in addition to the aiming mechanism.
And even then, I’m not convinced it will damage all camera techs instead of just overexposing the image or frame for some. If they just clamp the affected pixels instead of trying to maintain the relative brightness, they might be able to still see your face clearly.
- Comment on The Ice alert app founder sparking fury in Trump officials: ‘Pam Bondi said I better watch out? Please.’ 2 weeks ago:
Sad part is when I first read that title, I thought it was part of the war on climate change data rather than tracking the new gestapo. Both are equally plausible.
- Comment on Help. 2 weeks ago:
At this point, I don’t think there’s enough competent therapists in the world to help everyone who could use some therapy. And that’s ignoring the bad therapists who can make things worse and the whole bit where therapists like to get paid but not everyone who needs them can pay them.
- Comment on Help. 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I hate the idea of not doing something because there’s idiots out there who will fuck themselves up on it. The current gen of AI might be a waste of resources and the whole concept of the goal of AI might be incompatible with society’s existence; those are good reasons to at least be cautious about AI.
I don’t think people wanting to have relationships with an AI is a good reason to stop it, especially considering that it might even be a good option for some people who would otherwise just have no one or maybe too many cats for them to care for. Consider the creepy stalker type that thinks liking someone or something gives them ownership over that person or thing. Better for them to be obsessed with an LLM they can’t hurt than a real person they might (or will make uncomfortable even of they end up being harmless overall).
- Comment on 💀 💀 💀 2 weeks ago:
Keep it to a light poach.
- Comment on Aspergers officinalis 2 weeks ago:
On another branch of that family tree, those leaves are kale.
- Comment on 💀 💀 💀 2 weeks ago:
How many bubbles before the pump fails and needs to be re-primed?
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 2 weeks ago:
Based on the other comments, the article itself is as garbage as the title.
- Comment on New idea 2 weeks ago:
The mains are shared with your neighbours, so a hot water main would also be shared with neighbours. So just like running the hot water in the bathroom sink before a shower means hot water gets to the shower quicker, with hot water mains, your neighbour having a hot shower before you means you’ll see hot water sooner.
Though my country does not have hot water mains. I wouldn’t be surprised if the heat losses are enough that even sharing a water heater between unattached neighbours is less efficient than both using their own heaters, let alone a whole city doing that. Though maybe tropical areas could do it.
- Comment on Any Xbox 360 can now be hacked in less than one minute 2 weeks ago:
I find your pride in your skepticism confusing. Why even bother commenting?
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 2 weeks ago:
He was awesome in Face Off. Never knew he could pull off such a great John Travolta. I almost thought they just switched the roles between the two actors. Though John Travolta’s Nick Cage was kinda weird.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 2 weeks ago:
Wow, I didn’t realize it was Hugh Jackman playing that role until today.
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 2 weeks ago:
Probably equivalent to about a $2k PC.
- Comment on New idea 2 weeks ago:
Any time you want hot water, you need to wait for all of the water between your house and the heating facility to drain before you get hot water. It can help to coordinate with your neighbours.