Munkisquisher
@Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 8 hours ago:
Pre travel sims, we had multi dollar per megabyte roaming fees. Smart phones were only any good when you could find a McDonald’s to steal some wifi from.
- Comment on xkcd #3182: Telescope Types 4 days ago:
It will only affect it materially if they cross where the light is converged / infocus. So if you put a big piece of paper where the wires are, the image will be blurred. So if you look at the wires from the focal point, they are also blurred enough to be able to see what’s behind them
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 1 week ago:
Cloud compute was attractive to 3d rendering for a while, as you could put your non urgent renders on the cloud at the lowest priority and take advantage of off peak pricing. Now model training demand has wiped out off peak pricing and forced the cloud rendering cost way higher than rendering locally.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 weeks ago:
When the cost to generate new code has become so cheap,and the cost of devs maintaining code they didn’t write gets higher. There’s a huge shift happening to just throw out the code and regenerate it instead. Next year will be the find out phase, where the massive decline in code quality catches up with big projects.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 2 weeks ago:
I asked it for some OfficeScript to copy the current tab in excel rename it with this week’s date and set a few cells to the current date too. It gave me a 3 page script for the TV show The Office.
- Comment on New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it 3 weeks ago:
The cost will come down further with scale. The great thing about that is that dead lithium batteries will have value, so people will be much less inclined to throw them in the trash or dump them elsewhere
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
May the bridges you burn light your way through the world.
- Comment on What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones? 3 weeks ago:
Why are they so light? Do they way less than high rated 18650 cells would be for the rated capacity? If so they are probably inflating the rating. As is shockingly common for no name powerbanks. There are very minimal usb boards you can load 18650s into, or attach quad copter cells to, 3d print your own minimal case that suits your needs with the highest capacity and quality cells you can afford.
- Comment on What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones? 3 weeks ago:
I prefer the time weed made it into them theguardian.com/…/haribo-recalls-sweets-in-the-ne…
- Comment on Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app 3 weeks ago:
Awesome to hear that! I’ve only half been paying attention to the Connect channel
- Comment on Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app 3 weeks ago:
Connect is good for me, don’t know what the situation with the dev is though, seems like development might have stopped
- Comment on Do you guys know how awesome a printer is that is just working? 5 weeks ago:
Just as satisfying when you print something with several parts and the tolerance is right first time. You hear all about people printing several prototype parts to dial in the design. Nothing to make you feel like a design king by first print mic drop.
- Comment on Scientists Growing Colour Without Chemicals 1 month ago:
Geez, you’ve eaten so many chemicals, that’s all you are made up of now
- Comment on Want some advice on which filaments to use 1 month ago:
Your best hope for storage is it not getting much wetter, ziploc bags with silica are fine, a tub is easier to paw through and grab what you need quickly.
A drier will actually refresh a roll and get it printing close to new again. Look for excess stringing for the early signs, and the filament bubbling and/or popping as it comes out of the nozzle for extreme signs of wetness.
I’m in a fairly dry environment, I’ll happily leave a roll on the printer for a week without adverse effects. But always store an opened roll off the printer in the tub. 3d printer filament storage
- Comment on Want some advice on which filaments to use 1 month ago:
Store filament in a big plastic tub with a kg of colour change silica. But yes a filament dryer is a good investment too. Just a single roll one will do.
- Comment on Bending Spoons to acquire AOL 1 month ago:
What should we call our service so people are clear it’s free of American influence… Hmmm ‘America On Line’
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
When a daddy senior dev op and a mummy senior dev op love each other very much…
- Comment on Can mental health medication change nature of dreams? 2 months ago:
I pretty much stopped remembering my dreams after some serious surgery when I was younger. I put it down to the 12+ hours of anesthetic. I occasionally remember that I had dreamt when I wake up in a weird mood. But no idea what the dream was about.
- Comment on Does free healthcare access increase or decrease the need for medical personnel overall? 2 months ago:
Keeping people in unproductive jobs isn’t an excuse to keep a drain on the the system and bloating costs of health care.
What do they do in other countries that don’t have those roles? They find jobs elsewhere or train in something else. Of course you wouldn’t be able to reform healthcare overnight, it would take a decade or a generation.
- Comment on Did they stop throwing dildos at the WNBA? 2 months ago:
Not the Western New Brunswick Archery championships?
- Comment on Does free healthcare access increase or decrease the need for medical personnel overall? 2 months ago:
Think about all the people involved in health care that aren’t involved in actually providing healthcare. Billing, debt collection, assessing insurance claims, denying claims, legal fighting over denied claims, advertising etc.
All that money is better spent providing healthcare.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 2 months ago:
Wood chippers exist and are pretty much this
- Comment on Would I sound taller if I gave my height as 6'-4"? 2 months ago:
You need a speaker held high above your head to sound taller
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 months ago:
There are also stable companies with a solid revenue stream that don’t have much growth potential, so pay out the profits as dividends. These are more in demand for retirement funds or individuals who get to point in life they need to start living from their investments. Yield is always a calculation of dividend + growth.
Tech companies that don’t pay a dividend and reinvest everything into growth is a relatively new concept
- Comment on When a person gains weight and keeps the weight on for a long time, is that old fat in your body, or does the fat get replaced over time? 2 months ago:
It gets stored elsewhere if you continue to consume more than you use, like the fat cells deeper in your abdomen where it’s much more dangerous to the health of your organs
- Comment on "Valve must stop making excuses": Steam under fire for "significant price disparity for PC games," causing regional pricing that's "often 20% to 30% higher than the dollar equivalent" 2 months ago:
But it’s the opposite in NZ and Aus, we pay more when converted back to USD while the spending power is much less.
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 2 months ago:
Yeah we would, stay away
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 2 months ago:
They are 3 raccoons in a trench coat.
What even is this question?!
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 months ago:
I have all my music on a nas with plex so I can stream it from there. Home assistant and Music assistant allow me to play it to any room in the house. Mobile data is expensive in NZ though so I have a terabyte of sd storage in my phone and in the car head unit with music from band camp, ripped cds, ripped vinyl, dj sets from YouTube and mix cloud.
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 2 months ago:
It started with the Rode Go mics which for $200 you get 2 mics and a receiver with some crazy good noise rejection and gain control. 40 hr battery life and easy to work with. There’s now several copies from dji and the like that are even cheaper.
YouTubers didn’t mind the blocky look as it let them get great quantity sound in not ideal locations, without messing with traditional lapel mics(boxy clips, cables and tape). The closer you can get to the mic the more background noise you can deal with.
It then became a trend. Just as Rode have come out with a new version that’s 1/3rd the size
