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- Comment on same shit every day, on god 4 hours ago:
Nah. You’ll probably want several shells operating above any sane temperature for steam. You don’t want to lose that extremely high temperature by just heating water to 600 °C or so.
- Comment on Just browsing Lemmy and then this sequence... 1 day ago:
He is in a chair, looking distrustfully to somebody that is by his side.
Newspapers are good in picking pictures like this of people they don’t like. But in his case, it’s either that nobody likes him, or all of his pictures are like this. (Non-exclusive “or”).
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 2 days ago:
Burning everything will surely help Climate Change!
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 2 days ago:
Most NVidia cards work well. Nobody will recommend them because NVidia is known to pull the rug out of your perfectly working card all the time, and being completely aggressive against people trying to make the cards work without by their own.
- Comment on Assumptions 3 days ago:
Yes, they bite.
The local news had to run a campaign for people not to try to pet the capibaras.
- Comment on Assumptions 3 days ago:
There’s a band of capibaras living in my city… they already killed 2 people.
- Comment on I dunno 3 days ago:
Social conventions are real, well defined things. Some mathematicians like to pretend they aren’t, while using a truckload of them; that’s a hypocritical opinion.
That’s not to say you can’t change them. But all of basic arithmetic is a social convention, you can redefine the numbers and operations any time you want too.
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 4 days ago:
No hate for Cortana?
- Comment on I dunno 4 days ago:
I’m pretty sure that’s a module operator…
- Comment on I dunno 4 days ago:
Some people insist there’s no “correct” order for the basic arithmetic operations. And worse, some people insist the correct order is parenthesis first, then left to right.
Both of those sets of people are wrong.
- Comment on I dunno 4 days ago:
Why do people put bot pairs of multiplication and division, and addition and subtraction on the acronym?
Do you really follow that order with the associative operations?
- Comment on xkcd #3173: Satellite Imagery 4 days ago:
officially informed when Brazil achieved enrichment capabilities in the 80s
That one was about the official nuclear program, that wasn’t intended to create nuclear weapons. The Brazilian nuclear weapons program was a secret out of the clearance level of the official nuclear program so there was never any interaction between them.
And yes, it was in the later 80s, when Brazil was trying to repair the damaged relations with Argentina.
- Comment on xkcd #3173: Satellite Imagery 4 days ago:
I have no deep sources in English, but Wikipedia has some references:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Brazil_and_weapons_of_mass_des…
en.wikipedia.org/…/Argentina_and_weapons_of_mass_…
Argentina’s last dictatorship was extremely afraid of Brazil attacking them.
- Comment on xkcd #3173: Satellite Imagery 4 days ago:
During the last dictatorships in South America, Brazil and Argentina were in a bit of an arms race.
One day, the Brazilian government created a nuclear program that over the course of several years managed to enrich some nanograms of uranium. The Argentinian gov started their own program as a response.
When both countries published their data, the Argentinians had plenty of spying documents saying that the Brazilian program had incredibly security, they could only discover a small lab and some people digging missile silos.
(And yeah, the Argentinians managed to enrich milligrams of uranium, beating Brazil by 2 orders of magnitude.)
- Comment on Another angle of this modern art installation 6 days ago:
Each one of them screwed up independently. It takes a concerted effort to reach this situation.
- Comment on Heavy is the head that wears the frown 6 days ago:
Like Aliens on that movie!
- Comment on Only a few years left 1 week ago:
There are blood exams that replace both. There have been for years.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
As kolanaki already said, but as a general rule: if it’s simple, probably everybody already knows it.
But if you are sure you discovered something nobody else knows, you can always bet against some companies and tell it to everybody. If you didn’t need internal access to discover it, it’s legal almost everywhere.
If the Global Economy can be destroyed by something a random person can discover in a garage, it’s up to the Global Economy to deal with it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The ones that start to crack after a decade are worse…
- Comment on Gun safety 1 week ago:
It’s a perfectly safe grenade.
Barrels help turn it into a gun.
- Comment on Racism restaurant 1 week ago:
George Lucas: Writes a complex dystopia where programmed people invent a slur to refer to the robots that very often think more freely than them.
George Lucas’ audience: Takes it unironically as a “good guy vs. bad guy” story and decide to completely identify with the people using the slur.
- Comment on Racism restaurant 1 week ago:
“Emulsifier” can be a lot of things, but the rest of them are perfectly valid ingredients.
It’s just milky jello instead of cheese.
- Comment on I knew it! 1 week ago:
They are close to it, and the visor is very curved.
- Comment on Fuckin' PSYOP 1 week ago:
On the sequence from your quote:
This system was established by the 7th century in India, but was not yet in its modern form because the use of the digit zero had not yet been widely accepted. Instead of a zero sometimes the digits were marked with dots to indicate their significance, or a space was used as a placeholder. The first widely acknowledged use of zero was in 876.
Things were not very consistent at that time. AFAIK the most common was to leave empty spaces, but several people tried to cope with it by different methods. Also AFAIK, that dot was a mere typographic icon, to make the empty space clear, but it wasn’t well accepted that you should actually put something there.
- Comment on Fuckin' PSYOP 1 week ago:
Yes, technically putting a “0” instead of letting the place empty is included in “changing the appearance a little bit”, but your comment pre-edit undersells the innovation.
- Comment on Correct 1 week ago:
But is the email well? That’s the important part.
- Comment on Fuckin' PSYOP 1 week ago:
Kinda. The Arabians changed them a little bit. It’s more correct to say the system was developed by both people exchanging ideas, but the vast majority of it in India.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Part of enabling people to live poverty and stop being reliant on the government is to provide the basic needs for the people that fall behind, so they can focus on improving their lives instead of doing everything to avoid tiny risk.
Anyway, a government can starve anybody at any time and don’t need any “previous dependency” as a excuse or mechanism.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 1 week ago:
Yes. I’m not sure she even sold anything (honestly, I didn’t look at it close enough to discover at the time). But I’m pretty sure she is in jail for fucking he investors.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 1 week ago:
She took millions of investment to make a company that sells “do it at home” blood tests. She never could actually do the tests work, but was trying to sell them anyway, and taking more money by telling investors they worked.