ooterness
@ooterness@lemmy.world
I’m an electrical engineer living in Los Angeles, CA.
- Comment on pirate shit 1 week ago:
FTFY
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 2 weeks ago:
You’ve got the important foundational elements. The other big event is the Horus Heresy, where about half of the Emperor’s sons fell to Chaos and started a huge civil war that left the Emperor in his current half-dead state, but the imperial bureaucracy keeps on chugging.
The other thing to keep in mind is that the world of Warhammer 40k has been evolving over decades of novels, tabletop games, and video games made by multiple authors. As a result, the canon is vast and occasionally self-contradictory.
If you want to know more, I highly recommend the Ciaphas Cain books (novels with a comedy streak) and a silly fan series called If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech device.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI-driven RAM crisis 3 weeks ago:
Were you taking to John Carmack or John Connor?
- Comment on oh fuck 😨 4 weeks ago:
The CA law is a prompt for self-reported age or birthdate. (1900 Jan 1, obviously.) This is not at all equivalent to “age verification” using ID or face scans.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 5 weeks ago:
What? This is a press release from the California Attorney General literally taking about what they are doing in court right now.
How do you go from that to “thEy’Re DoiNg NothIng”?
- Comment on Nomenclature 1 month ago:
- Comment on Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article 1 month ago:
Ah, that’s new from this morning. Seems I was a few hours out of date.
- Comment on Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t go that far. The article was posted Friday afternoon, and blew up over the weekend. Once the problem was known, the article was taken down quickly. We’ll see what happens when the editorial staff is back in the office in Monday.
- Comment on This "March for Billionaires" event in SF happening today 1 month ago:
Does anyone know where to sign up for all these paid protesting gigs? Because I can’t imagine a sane person going to this one voluntarily.
- Comment on Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled 2 months ago:
This is just for city of Los Angeles, which is a small portion of Los Angeles county, let alone the entire state of California.
- Comment on Currency 2 months ago:
The word “fluctuating” implies the price of gold has been going up and down. That is not what has happened since the Commander-In-Thief took office.
Market price of one ounce of gold over the last five years: Image
- Comment on Relevant game of Risk 2 months ago:
Except Greenland is a part of Denmark, so it should also have pink figures?
- Comment on Finally a website where you can test if your private key is leaked inspired by haveibeenpwned 3 months ago:
Ah, the classic “all eggs in one basket” strategy.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 3 months ago:
Relevant song: Just Glue Some Gears On It and Call It Strampunk
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 3 months ago:
ISO8601 / RFC3339 gang represent. You’ll have to take four digit years from my cold, dead hands.
- Comment on AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source 3 months ago:
A lot of open-source software uses copyleft licenses like GPL. If a company uses that code to build its own products, then some or all of their new code may also become open source. This is an important part of how open-source projects stay open. Organizations like FSF have taken big companies to court over this and won.
AI companies trained their slop-generators on that open-source code. In many cases, it will reproduce it line-for-line. But courts currently hold that the generated code is no longer subject to the original copyright restrictions. It’s nearly impossible to publish open-source software without being scraped for AI training.
- Comment on Cursed worm by Stitchywithliviee 3 months ago:
Pretty sure I fought one of those in Silksong.
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 3 months ago:
Maybe it’s like Toy Story. Batman figure just found out he’s a toy, drank a bunch of Jäger, and then reverted to the dormant state because someone was looking.
- Comment on what would happen? 3 months ago:
How is this a science meme?
- Comment on Piano man 4 months ago:
Harmonica intensifies
- Comment on The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable - EFF 4 months ago:
There’s still a few days left to file comments objecting to the change. Link in the article.
- Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike 4 months ago:
Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got… an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
- Comment on Why does this diagram on how CMOS switching show the ground voltage rising? 4 months ago:
The voltage in the chart represents the “ground” available inside the chip, measured against some better and more stable ground available elsewhere.
- Comment on The German company that built the forklift used in the Louvre robbery uses a photo of the heist to advertise itself: “When things need to be done quickly. 5 months ago:
- Comment on We'll never have anything like the DVD screensaver ever again 5 months ago:
- Comment on A roundabout 5 months ago:
- Comment on oui oui 5 months ago:
It’s a bread knife.
- Comment on geography is neat 5 months ago:
How is this a science meme?
- Comment on What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly? 6 months ago:
Imagine a large rock, suspended by helicopters a few miles up in the air.
Now drop the rock. How fast is it going when it hits the ground?
The same thing is true for a rock falling from space, but more so. Regardless of initial conditions: if it ever contacts the ground, it will be moving at least 11 kilometers per second.
