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- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 7 months ago:
Celebrities don’t really win anything by suing. First, they look like a cry baby. Second, the bar for slander/libel against a public figure is enormous.
- Comment on The reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition. 7 months ago:
A great movie.
- Comment on Pros and cons of getting a job at a very small software company? (14 employees) 7 months ago:
Small companies are great. Opportunities for growth. Always the chance to switch to a bigger company later.
In my experience the micromanaging is LESS at a smaller company. No middle managers who have to justify their existence.
- Comment on Will they still be good? 7 months ago:
I’d toss them
- Comment on why did the eclipse not darken proportionally? 7 months ago:
To echo Beryl, light is a wave.
- Comment on At least they're not yeeting a baby at it 7 months ago:
First contact? Annular? Lunar?
I believe in partial and total. All the other eclipses are mental illnesses.
- Comment on 1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true? 7 months ago:
Can you know something if it’s false? Is that the question?
- Comment on There is someone who's the first and oldest member of gen Z, and they have absolutely no clue that's the case. 7 months ago:
For cusp people, it has more to do with what generation YOUR parents identify with the strictly your own birth date.
- Comment on If Hitler was captured, what would have been his punishment in the Nuremberg Trials? 7 months ago:
They would have uploaded his brain into a supercomputer and then forced him to experience death six million times over.
Just kidding, he would have been executed like many many other war criminals throughout history.
- Comment on Man pleads guilty to stealing former coworker’s identity for 30 years 7 months ago:
I’m curious if they look alike
- Comment on Looking forward to Disco season 5 7 months ago:
Is that Shin Hati?
- Comment on ⌛⌛ 7 months ago:
You are talking Celsius while the meme is likely referring to F
- Comment on ⌛⌛ 7 months ago:
Good example. Obsidian is apparently 70% silica. Iron is apparently what makes it black in color. If it’s thin enough, it is translucent.
If you cool pure silica slowly enough, with impurities to cause seeding, you will get tons of crystals, not a single glass, that won’t be transparent.
- Comment on ⌛⌛ 7 months ago:
It’s the cooling of silica (really, any material) that makes it a glass, and even then, transparency in the visual wavelength is not automatically certain.
- Comment on Android 15 gets satellite messaging, starts foldable cover app support 7 months ago:
They have internet. So you can already email people on the ISS, if you have their email address.
- Comment on Who created MELFS and who hurt them? 7 months ago:
Fair points. Conformable coats are common in space applications.
- Comment on Who created MELFS and who hurt them? 7 months ago:
I have never seen them in my short time working on space electronics.
- Comment on Farewell... for now? - dmv.social is closing as of April 14th. 8 months ago:
Will my account and all it’s comments/posts disappear? Or will users and the instance just stop working?
- Comment on A good policy to have 8 months ago:
I for one welcome our new alien butt lords
- Comment on xkcd #2908: Moon Armor Index 8 months ago:
*imply
Sure. By even the density/mechanical properites of armor will affect its usefulness. Beyond simple thickness.
- Comment on xkcd #2908: Moon Armor Index 8 months ago:
I mean this does have a practical application, I think. The relative masses of moons to planets does imply the moons ability to sweep junk out of the way before it hits the planet.
- Comment on Misinformation? 8 months ago:
Not sure the angle here.
Yes potentially there was “mutual rape” or whatever you want to call it.
The point of the poster is that a) rape charges against men are often prosecuted, b) going to parties to find “easy women” who are to drink to legally consent, even if you are also at the same level of drunkeness, isn’t a great idea.
If the poster is sexist, it’s mostly just trying to market to its audience and the legal realities.
This is a poster trying to get 18 year olds to moderate and consider their behavior, not be a treatise on law or gender studies.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 8 months ago:
OK but this is why people give a shit when a CEO is cagey about how their magic box works
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 8 months ago:
Yep here you go. It’s currently a very famous lawsuit.
- Comment on Do straight lines and flat planes exist in nature? 8 months ago:
You really have to declare to what degree you are asking. You could take a very carefully grown crystal and define a plane based on its lattice structure. But the atoms are not all perfectly placed on the lattice once you zoom in far enough. There’s even gaps between the atoms! A “plane” of carbon looks more like a net to an observer on the scale of those atoms.
Is an electron a perfect sphere? Scientists probably thought so in 1900 but now ask a physicist and they will say “No, probably not”.
And yes, as others have stated, our space time is not perfectly Euclidean so that’s another level of uncertainty. How do you measure the small imperfections in a Euclidean model when actual space time isn’t Euclidean?
As a professor used to tell my class, there are no 0s.
- Comment on Do straight lines and flat planes exist in nature? 8 months ago:
Perhaps
- Comment on Do straight lines and flat planes exist in nature? 8 months ago:
A string with weight will be a pulled under gravity. Yes even a taut spider web.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 8 months ago:
That’s one example, plus I’m talking generally why this is an important question for a CEO to answer and why people think generally LLMs may infringe on copyright, be bad for creative people
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 8 months ago:
The issue is that the LLMs do often just verbatim spit out things they plagiarized form other sources. The deeper issue is that even if/when they stop that from happening, the technology is clearly going to make most people agree our current copyright laws are insufficient for the times.
- Comment on In the show *South Park*, Stan/Kyle roughly represent the ideals the writers see themselves as striving for, while Cartman is who they subconsciously want to be 8 months ago:
It’s called id