BilboBargains
@BilboBargains@lemmy.world
- Comment on Whooping cough will kill more babies unless UK vaccination rates rise, says expert 3 days ago:
I heard that the Burger King almost died from whopper cough.
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 1 week ago:
I would imagine it’s very difficult to make a universal architecture but if I have learnt anything about computers it’s that the manufacturers of software and hardware deliberately created opaque and monolithic systems, e.g. phones. They cynically insert barriers to their reuse and redeployment. There’s no profit motive for corporations to make infintitely scalable computers. Short sighted greed is a much more plausible explanation.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 1 week ago:
Prevent harmful eruptions with one simple trick. Frees up more time for your other hobbies, like making pipe bombs.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 1 week ago:
The symbols are the most intimidating part of mathematics for me. They are beautiful and mysterious.
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 1 week ago:
The EU is one of the few institutions that are fighting the American corporations on our most basic freedoms. It’s the only one with real teeth.
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 1 week ago:
It’s kind of lame that they need to junk the entire apparatus after only a decade. I get that processor technology moves on apace but we already know it does that so why doesn’t a universal architecture exist where nodes can be added at will?
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 2 weeks ago:
The EU has found the cure for cancer
- Comment on Lawyer 2 weeks ago:
Is this creepypedia?
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
Fire up the ROFL-copter, we got a live one.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 4 weeks ago:
As engineers, we should never insert proprietary interfaces into our designs. We shouldn’t obfuscate the design.
The motivation for these toxic practices comes from the business side because it’s profitable. These people won’t share the profits with you because they are psychopaths. Ultimately we are making more waste when electronics cannot be upgraded, maintained and repaired. It’s bad for people and it’s bad for the environment.
- Comment on What are your complaints about Lemmy? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t have any suggestions, just want to say thanks for making this stuff. It’s very cool.
- Comment on the internet 5 weeks ago:
💯% the title ought to be immaterial or at most a loose guide to credibility. We examine the measurements and observations and propose a hypothesis that doesn’t need to violate the laws of physics to explain what we saw. Anybody can do that but scientists and engineers are the obvious choice. Everyone else go look up the Dunning-Kruger effect.
- Comment on Nokia tells Reddit it might be infringing on Nokia's patents. 1 month ago:
Classic?
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 1 month ago:
This post made me beat my head with a 2 by 4
- Comment on Tint 1 month ago:
I had a wooden car. It had wooden wheels, wooden chassis and wooden engine. The only problem, it wooden go.
- Comment on F.A.A. Audit of Boeing’s 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues 1 month ago:
An assessment is not a measurement and safety is not an SI unit, deal with it bro.
- Comment on F.A.A. Audit of Boeing’s 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues 1 month ago:
I take a lot of risks but never with yo mama. I always take my time with her.
- Comment on F.A.A. Audit of Boeing’s 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues 1 month ago:
Safety cannot be measured because it’s a feeling. One person feels safe climbing a mountain without a rope and the next person is petrified. Safety is just word to describe a concept. It’s different to the wavelength of light or force or charge. These things are based on fundamental properties of the universe that can be measured and are repeatable.
A reasonable approximation might be to consider the likelihood of an adverse event given a use case over time. We could say that an accident every million hours is our definition of safe but that is completely arbitrary in the way that the physical laws and constants are not.
- Comment on F.A.A. Audit of Boeing’s 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues 1 month ago:
What are the units?
- Comment on F.A.A. Audit of Boeing’s 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues 1 month ago:
I would imagine you can find safety flaws in anything because safety isn’t a thing we can measure.
- Comment on Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter 2 months ago:
Hi I’m SSG Douchenozzle, ever had a nightmare that you can’t wake up from? With PTSD we can make that your reality.
- Comment on Taylor Swift getting to the trade center. 2 months ago:
Her carbon footprint melted my heart fo’ sho’
- Comment on Taylor Swift getting to the trade center. 2 months ago:
Coming in hot
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 2 months ago:
Rammstein - Du Hast
- Comment on Mongolian. Like the barbecue. 2 months ago:
Poor *anglophones
- Comment on Do you think that there will be another event like 9/11 in the next decade in the United States of America? 2 months ago:
‘It did seem odd that he didn’t want to learn how to land the plane’
- Comment on Do you think that there will be another event like 9/11 in the next decade in the United States of America? 2 months ago:
Don’t try to confuse me with your science.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The vast majority of people are techno illiterate, even within firms that make technology. A handful of people (relatively speaking) are making most of the stuff. Everyone else is just feeding that process. The legal system is set up to motivate the concealment of information about products. You cannot find the documentation to repair embedded systems, even if you have the desire to fix them and the ‘right to repair’.
In our village we have a wildly popular ‘repair cafe’ where people bring their faulty electrical items to be repaired by volunteers. People don’t want to toss their duff appliances in landfill but we need the tools and education.
- Comment on Lemmy has taught me that Firefox is the way 2 months ago:
It comes from chy-nah
- Comment on Unnamed island 2 months ago:
Gigantor island