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- Comment on sampling bias 4 weeks ago:
that’s not how it works. That’s not how anything works!
Percentile of a variable != level of that percentile.
- Comment on In 4 years, US power grid increased battery storage to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors | The Optimist Daily 1 month ago:
Welcome to the rabbit hole of energy storage.
Turns out nobody cares about the capacity but about the discharge rate. Which is why you’ll often hear about how many Gigawatts a certain energy storage project has, and nothing about GWh.
If you think about it for a bit, it does make sense. A lot of solutions would take days to fully discharge, so you might think “oh we have an entire city’s energy consumption for a week in some storage”, but in reality you could maybe power one neighborhood with that cuz of the discharge rate.
So, capacity refers to the “output capacity”.
- Comment on Clever, clever 1 month ago:
if this is how you interview, your company sux.
Your fellow tech bro with a big fat tech job.
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 months ago:
Disagree. I coded up a matrix inverter that provided a step-by-step solution, so I don’t have to invert them myself by hand. It was considerably more effort than the mind-boggling task of doing the assignment itself. Additionally, at least half of the satisfaction came from the simple fact of sticking it to the damn system.
My brain ain’t doing any of your dumb assignments, but neither am I getting a less than an A. Ha.
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 2 months ago:
I was sure this was 196. But Apparently not
- Comment on Eat lead 2 months ago:
And yet simulation theory has a very reasonable merit.
And if it were to turn out true, you’d also have to admit that OOPs argument was hogwash. Actually, it is either way.
If you can’t logic better than religious people, then you’re the problem.
- Comment on Economics Nobel 2024 W 2 months ago:
Please elaborate how you believe a non-democratic take over of the ruling power (to establish socialism, or whatever) will lead to a better outcome for everyone or “majority”.
After that we can discuss what implicit societal welfare function you were improsing, and why you insist individuals are unable to exercise their free will to collectively optimize the same welfare function given that it’s supposedly in their best interest. We’re assuming a functioning democracy here.
- Comment on hard to argue with 2 months ago:
No, it makes it zero disgusting. It’s a person making a passionate calling. She simply calls for others to follow their steps, she’s a woman and a mother, and believes everything she says, and is probably happy and fulfilled and is wishing that to others.
You seem to be triggered af by literally everything and can’t see when someone’s heart is in the right place regardless of whether you agree with them or not.
Maybe that snowflake term your older generation used was correct. Cuz, frankly, you guys act like a bunch of rebellious teenagers. Kinda cringe.
Oh, I’m an atheist, feminist, child-free, I don’t have a tweeter, and where I live abortions are legal. And you’re cringe even to me.
- Comment on hard to argue with 2 months ago:
And if you do want children and are fulfilled living a life dedicated to making and raising them, you’re also still valid.
In fact, that would be an accomplishment, while simply existing isn’t. But this planet got an overpopulation problem, so if all you wanna do is continue simply and unimportantly existing while also not procreating, I’d say, go ahead.
- Comment on Pick some unrelated lectures, they said. 2 months ago:
Because engineering is precise, measurable, and easily reproducible. You should be testing your things in a way that all you need is a simple two-sample Z-test.
Experiments on the humans, on the hand, unfortunately, have been outlawed. So all you get is a bunch of shitty noisy data, and yet you’re supposed to somehow make sense of it. Most people with a degree in stats would tell you not to even try, and yet those fucks at phycology departments always do while having had about one undergrad-level class as part of their masters.
TL;DR good psychology programs nowdays train decent statisticians as they should.
- Comment on Pick some unrelated lectures, they said. 2 months ago:
Damn, looks like an elaborate course in probabilistic graphical models, sign me up!
- Comment on Airline airs ‘sexually explicit’ film on every screen – with no way to turn it off 2 months ago:
Can anyone explain where in the 2h of “two people talking in a cab” did they find nudity?
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 2 months ago:
for now
- Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 2 months ago:
The holy spirit help you with your servers that run on windows.
I’d also suppose this update won’t affect you, cuz you’re hopefully not running latest win11 on a server.
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 2 months ago:
I either GoG or pirate these days. You want my money? Then respectfully sell me the product.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 2 months ago:
That’s disgusting! Where do those criminals gather, so I could go an express my utter disappointment to them directly?
- Comment on We lost Keanu 3 months ago:
dude
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 3 months ago:
It’s their private website, they do on it whatever they want. Right, lemmy?
You can run your own federated streaming service that will have no ads and will be free of charge, yeah?
- Comment on Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube 3 months ago:
The other day someone on lemmy kept trying to tell me that if google wanted to shut down ad blocking they would. But they don’t, so it’s ok.
Lol, spawn me that person plz.
- Comment on Oh Elon 3 months ago:
Well, I for once, never understood why is lemmy so willing to literally die in the trenches for that illegal immigrant lady who’s trying to fraud her way to friggin US presidency. I mean, all she’ll do is bring more fuckin illegals and give em fake papers.
When through our damn broken democracy she inevitably gets elected, I’ll put it as my Twitter status “not my president”.
Because I will never concede to an illegal running/ruining our country.
- Comment on Mornings 3 months ago:
Jeez, you fools. How about rolling into the lab at 11, drinking coffee till 11:30, have at most half an hour to reminiscue about yesterday’s failures, while looking at results well-knowing they’re unsalvageable, and then going for lunch with the crew?
If you start your day at 8:30, you misunderstood that it’s not your paycheck that makes a PhD great.
- Comment on Excel 3 months ago:
Chart Title
- Comment on Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU 3 months ago:
13bn dollars in missed taxes while already abusing a tax heaven.
When our stupid politicians will grow some balls (metaphorically, and independent of their gender-balanced commission/parliament), and we’ll actually introduce a proper minimum corporate tax for the entire EU market, it will be 50bn. At least.
Combine this from all the big tech companies that are dodging our taxes, and we could quadruple our defense budget, double our education and healthcare spendings, and still supply every citizen with a bottle of champagne to celebrate.
- Comment on Stay motivated 3 months ago:
CIA bots will downvote this, because it’s true: Harris is not a legal US national, her birth certificate was forged. Be careful who you vote for!
- Comment on Burning Up 3 months ago:
As a European I can perfectly feel the 0 degree. I step outside and 5 seconds later I can tell you if it’s below zero or not.
For me “it’s now really hot” in summer is exactly when it’s over 30C. It being 86F doesn’t make any more sense. Approximately above 35C I will avoid going outside. Which would be 95F, not 100. From here, the temps in summer in the south of Europe are often around 100F at peak. Above or below doesn’t matter.
All that Fahrenheit scale is good for is if you live in a continental climate, more to the south, e.g. some useless place like Oklahoma, where 0F is approximately year low, and 100F is approximately year high.
For all other places, where the temperature delta over the course of the year is not as extreme, this Fahrenheit scale is as unintuitive as celcius, e.g. you just get used to it.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 3 months ago:
Insert thank you gif
- Comment on Based on a true story 3 months ago:
I understand. Safety and stability of embedded software is clearly overrated.
Why learn about stack overflow. Tomorrow some kid will press the “open” button on your device, will get rejected 64 times, and on the 65th the locking mechanism will crash. Makes sense to me.
- Comment on Based on a true story 3 months ago:
Looks like your CS degree is actually teaching you CS stuff.
If all you wanted to do is center divs for 50$/h or so, a 2 months bootcamp would’ve been more than sufficient.
- Comment on 'Cities: Skylines II' Found a Solution for High Rents: Get Rid of Landlords 3 months ago:
There’s a difference between “we removed landlords and prices went down” and “we allowed anyone to pay as much as they can, especially if they’re poor, and somehow now the average rent is lower”.
Clickbait title, but lemmy swallows as usual, cuz it fits the narrative.
- Comment on UK's first 'teacherless' AI classroom set to open in London 3 months ago:
You think that exists in the UK? I doubt. You definitely don’t get anything of that sort in the EU. A law is a law.