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- Comment on Habits of Insects 8 hours ago:
China has a problem. It isn’t good at finding the best people and putting them into science (or whatever else). Instead it gets the loyal people and gives them the best jobs, they then select people below them however they will
People then strive for recognition and advancement so scientific fraud is rife
- Comment on Habits of Insects 8 hours ago:
This idea has been around for a while. Make government more efficient by putting a private enterprise person in charge
It never worked because the private enterprise person got efficiency by having a cool project or forceful personality in the private enterprise which let them pay their employees poorly. Or maybe they paid their employees well and had excellent success. But then they have government employees who are hard to fire, have highly specialist knowledge, aren’t in it for profit and so the private enterprise maverick is usually [worse than] useless
I don’t expect it to work this time either, especially as Musk is more interested in Tesla, SpaceX, and his other companies
- Comment on ‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections 3 months ago:
Surely one could use the same exploit to restore the original boot code as the malware used to corrupt it
- Comment on .rar me 6 months ago:
The best thing to do with a tarball is to bzip it
- Comment on Capitalists hate competition, especially when it comes to wages 6 months ago:
My government agency when hiring all the roles in an IT team put those sort of stupid ranges in the headline, but if you drill down to a specific role you see the actual range
- Comment on Medieval Doomsday Weapon 6 months ago:
So about 1d8 con damage instantly then 1d2 con daily.
- Comment on Medieval Doomsday Weapon 6 months ago:
Melee area effect weapons. There’s a wand of fireball in Balders Gate 3 that is bent and has melee range. This is like that, but the fire is only analogous to fire and the effect lasts longer and does damage slower
- Comment on Don’t upvote this 6 months ago:
I suffered negative side effects as if it were a real meme, and a bad meme at the same time
I had to refrain from voting
- Comment on Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad 6 months ago:
Alt+F4
- Comment on Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad 6 months ago:
Lots of people will spend a few hours then several tens of minutes monthly or so finding out how and then disabling the ads after each update
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 6 months ago:
That’s not the case yet for fighters, just things like predator drones and global hawk
- Comment on Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits 6 months ago:
Australian rules are similar. I believe we are required to take a break of at least half an hour after every five hours of work. 1 hour is the standard lunch entitlement
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 6 months ago:
It has nothing to do with the post. I believe the post inspired dkarma to work out that brand new argument that there are no alien bodies (at area 51 probably) because the aliens would use drones
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 6 months ago:
I think you’d start in Capetown
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 6 months ago:
Yes they can. Before AI the US was expecting to move to remote piloted jets
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 6 months ago:
Dkarma’s comment requires context. They think aliens have visited Earth. They presume people who don’t agree with them expect that if aliens had visited Earth, some would have been shot down and alien bodies would have been recovered
- Comment on How to Escape From the Iron Age? 6 months ago:
Aluminium has traditionally been smelted with electricity. It’s easy to move to green tech
Steel is harder. There is serious work that had been going on for years trying to come up with new low emissions ways of making steel
- Comment on It is truly magic 6 months ago:
It’s a pretty easy switch, the differences are all mirrored
- Comment on It is truly magic 6 months ago:
We have a roundabout with a pond. The ducks like it, and they’re really disturbed
- Comment on It is truly magic 6 months ago:
My town built lots of roundabouts, and the population are used to them, but they have a problem with unbalanced traffic, and it’s been growing, so traffic has been getting more unbalanced - more people coming from directions the engineers who planned the road didn’t expect
The real problem, of course, is that though they are trying they are not able to replace the traffic with mass transit. The buses get stuck in the same traffic, light rail seems impossible, even with political will
- Comment on mmm space chocolate 6 months ago:
I feel they would blow un-popped maize everywhere
- Comment on Memes: still going strong after 102 years. 8 months ago:
Thanks for that. Charlie Chaplin films are excellent
- Comment on A Response to Nature's "Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses" 8 months ago:
Doctors are also terrible at keeping up to date. You can judge how out of date a doctor’s cholesterol knowledge is:
- Cares about total cholesterol — 40 years out of date
- Tells you HDL is good, LDL is bad — up to 20 years out of date
- Tells you cholesterol isn’t a problem unless free fatty acids are high — current
- Tells you LDL is protective, and higher is better (without high FFA) — current to this month
- Comment on France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe 9 months ago:
True versus verified, perhaps
- Comment on France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe 9 months ago:
That sounds more racist than true
- Comment on [Politics] Have phobia, will travel 9 months ago:
I feel the community is split between Voyager and DS9
- Comment on Sudo is coming to Windows 11 9 months ago:
Malware issue........Not yet Stability issue..........NOPE
Fixed that for you
- Comment on Sudo is coming to Windows 11 9 months ago:
Sounds exactly like the common graphical implementations of sudo
- Comment on Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public 9 months ago:
You need to register with a phone number, and they send a verification SMS to the number which you must complete to finish registration
I think that’s difficult for bulk bots
- Comment on Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public 9 months ago:
Someone is already sitting on the rocketlab name. I’m only on X for space launch tweets, and was hoping some of them were posting on both X and Bsky