MeanEYE
@MeanEYE@lemmy.world
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 2 days ago:
I can believe people took up on this offer. As the saying goes drowning man will reach for straws. Issue is they probably oversold reliability and safety.
- Comment on Seems legit 2 days ago:
Probably is more reliable and runs better.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 5 days ago:
Translated: Dear suckers who keep giving us money for half-finished products. We are sincerely sorry, sorry for getting caught. We thought we could squeeze through with this one, but apparently our PC fans are not as gullible as our console fans.
- Comment on We can dream right 1 week ago:
Let’s not dream about that. Lately, all the remakes and reenvisions have been nothing but a quick cash grab and extreme disappointment to all those who loved original works.
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 3 weeks ago:
Fairly confident that it will be orders of magnitude better than anything before. And that’s something we can do today.
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 3 weeks ago:
Waiting any minute for Musk to come out and say how Tesla is the most advanced robot manufacturing company still, because he can’t stand not being in the spotlight.
- Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel 3 weeks ago:
Good luck with that sentiment. People tried to boycott products made or designed in Israel and then realized it’s near impossible.
- Comment on GitHub-like WebUI for Subversion 3 weeks ago:
While true, Git also supports symlinks, so nothing is stopping you from having
modules/
directory or something similar and then in link part of it elsewhere in your project. - Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 3 weeks ago:
Bunch of Hamas apologists/supporters.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 4 weeks ago:
They will basically buy one clone off of AliExpress, stamp a new name and be done with it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It actually is, if done right. But doing it right means you have to do things properly and care about doing them properly. In general data collection about various things can be useful, from optimizing energy consumption of your home to making your own life a tiny bit easier.
The problem is, manufacturers saw the potential and rushed in to be the first on the market and forgot that online things need maintenance and patching. Goes to show how selfless the admin job is. As long as things keep working properly no one even knows they exist.
I have wifi cameras which were never allowed online from first second they were connected to my network. But on the other hand I have few air filters that I do allow to send data so I can contribute to global statistics on air quality and similar.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Meanwhile Norman Borlaug, most people never heard of. He is credited for saving over one billion people’s lives. Wasn’t rich and certainly didn’t drive fancy cars. He was just a clever agronomist who worked his ass off for this world. I mean if system works that way where you provide value and get moneys. Right?
- Comment on acceptable screws 5 weeks ago:
Can’t say I’ve ever had fun with slotted screw.
- Comment on acceptable screws 5 weeks ago:
They can take more torque, don’t cam out when screwing and most importantly can’t be damaged easily by constantly using the screw, unlike Philips which fucks off after second attempt.
- Comment on acceptable screws 5 weeks ago:
Wow, person making this chart actually has no clue. First two are absolute worst nightmare. Torx, Pozidrive, JIS, Alan all great with minimum damage.
- Comment on A Nearby Star Is Expected to Go Nova This Year. Here's How You Can See It. 1 month ago:
So, there’s nothing in universe that is longer than “soon”. This prediction of going nova this year, only means it already happened but you can’t see it yet. And since it’s going super nova, that means entire even will be boring anyway. You’ll see a white dot that will increase in intensity during this year and then fade away equally slowly.
For people wondering about dates, there are none. Just like Beetlejuice is expected to explode soon™, that actually means 3000-10000+ years of waiting. So don’t get your hopes up. Out lives are but a blink in universe. All you can do is be diligent and watch it constantly. Doesn’t mean you’ll see much either since at peak magnitude of 2.5 it will be dim enough that you’ll need telescope to see it.
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 1 month ago:
Technically it does. Just not through PC.
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 1 month ago:
That is a side effect of being most dominant OS. Hardware manufacturers naturally support it otherwise there’s no point in manufacturing hardware.
- Comment on Why does the film press talk so much about box office income? 1 month ago:
Dick-measuring contest. They use those numbers as a metric of success but it’s not. For example “Shawshank Redemption” bombed box office, so did “The Thing” and number of other cult movies. They bombed box office but later became cult movies that are still earning money.
- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 1 month ago:
Stainless steel screw through the part where plastic and metal pipe meet. Or epoxy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
But at that point economy gets lesser stimulation from disposable income, which UBI in part addresses.
- Comment on Do straight lines and flat planes exist in nature? 1 month ago:
Short answer, depends on perspective. For example surface of perfectly still lake could be considered flat, but on macro level it follows curvature of the earth. But we still use water to level our buildings, because radius of a planet is so big. On microscopic level it’s anything but flat.
Someone else mentioned spider silk danging. It’s also another great example, but the same perspective clause applies. But usually crystals and some geological features tend to have flat features.
- Comment on Do bike tires increase pressure in summerm 1 month ago:
In short, keep the pressure constant, because 8bar will be 8bar in winter and in summer. It’s kind of a 1kg of steel vs 1kg of feather type of deal. It’s still 1kg.
But if you want the details, yes pressure will increase with temperature, they are directly related. Charles’s law state “The absolute pressure exerted by a given mass of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to the volume it occupies if the temperature and amount of gas remain unchanged within a closed system.” Since in bike tires volume is constant, it’s given that pressure is the one to change.
And yes, tires do explode. I had mine explode when bike was left on the sun but it had underlying issue. Under normal circumstances they are usually engineered to withstand normally expected temperatures. Also tires get hotter when they are ridden and they also experience sudden raise in pressure when running over pot holes and similar.
- Comment on Do bike tires increase pressure in summerm 1 month ago:
But at the same time, tire itself expands reducing the pressure.
- Comment on Peak technology 1 month ago:
Because they are no bullshit brand. You get what you pay for. Open the box, put it somewhere, connect to WIFI and forget about it. The moment you need it, it will happily spring to life without complaints and then go back to sleep.
It’s hardly believable how problem-free these printers are. They have a bunch of models, but you always get what you pay for. Laser is this much, a bit more expensive is LAN model, a bit more LAN+WIFI, then higher up scanner added, etc. They also work without drivers on Linux. Company also allows recycled and third party toners. In my case they are even faster to receive data and print than any other printer I’ve had. They even don’t send statistics back home, even though they are network connected.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Wait until you find out how USA and SSSR got their space programs so fast up and running.
- Comment on Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they've misbehaved 1 month ago:
Pretty much that. You are promised number of stock options at fixed price far before company goes public. If there’s ever an IPO, you can purchase your stock at that price and decide to do whatever you want to do with it. You can sell it and get money, or you can keep it and get income.
It’s what Musk did with PayPal. He never worked at PayPay, he never was part of PayPal, but the company that later came up with PayPal once merged with company Musk was part of and he got options. He was fired really fast from that company, but they can’t take his options, which is how he got rich after PayPal sold to eBay for billions.
- Comment on Firefox saw an increase in users (~50% in Germany and ~30% in France) following Apple’s default browser changes in the EU, as did Brave. 1 month ago:
Am more surprised you expected this to be a thing. When it comes to Apple users choice is always what Apple chooses. Otherwise they might hurt themselves.
- Comment on Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act. 1 month ago:
Neither are these laws voted by EU, rather EC and are applied to all the EEA and even countries currently in the process of accession as they are required by the agreement to keep aligning their laws with EU ones until they reach membership.
- Comment on Have you started planing this years garden plants yet? You might need these 2 months ago:
If you take the plastic out, it’s not much of a problem.