Skyrmir
@Skyrmir@lemmy.world
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 2 days ago:
There is never a path for the speaker of the house to become vice president. Either the President and Vice President are dead and he’s president, or he’s still just the speaker.
As others have pointed out, before or after the electoral count is completed, makes a minor difference. It would be interesting to watch it play out.
- Comment on What has Critical Theory actually achieved? 2 days ago:
It has informed legislators that laws they otherwise might support, have racially biased flaws. That’s pretty much the sum total of it’s influence on anything.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard releases today, and players are celebrating the famous ‘Bioware Turn’ 2 weeks ago:
I’m waiting a month to see how public reception goes. Give the public a chance to marinate their response before I try it out.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
I dunno if you’ve tried, but I’m here to tell ya, cobble stone streets will absolutely stop speeding really quick.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Now Reportedly Identifies As A Libertarian 1 month ago:
So now he’s an embarrassed republican.
- Comment on Opinion: Increasing the minimum wage comes at too high a price for workers | CNN 3 months ago:
Except the people that elect it’s leaders, which would be the employees.
- Comment on Opinion: Increasing the minimum wage comes at too high a price for workers | CNN 3 months ago:
A union is only beholden to the employees rather than management.
- Comment on Opinion: Increasing the minimum wage comes at too high a price for workers | CNN 3 months ago:
Minimum wage is a crappy way to improve wages. The better option are well regulated trade and labor unions, and mandatory labor representation. But since this is America, we’ve got a minimum wage, and that’s about the best we’re going to get.
- Comment on Julian Assange is free! 4 months ago:
Just in time, Trump needs a new water boy
- Comment on How long would it take to create a Pyramid today? 4 months ago:
It would be impossible to build today by any means. Not because of any technological problem. Physically it could be done rather quickly, as others have posited. The problem is that you could never combine the political and economic will to complete it.
It’s the same reason it would be easier to colonize Mars than to fix climate change. There’s a half dozen robots on Mars that will do whatever you tell them. On Earth, there’s 7 billion assholes who think they have a better idea of what to do.
- Comment on Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads 6 months ago:
I’m betting garbage trucks actually end up being first. A half dozen trucks per human monitor sitting back at the station, with two guys in a pickup to run out to any problems.
- Comment on Men over 30, what contributes to weight gain besides slower metabolism when you get older? Is it really hard to stay in shape? 8 months ago:
The hidden issue is general aches and pain. That noise an old guy makes when he stands up, means he doesn’t get up, and doesn’t move around as much. But it’s real easy to sit down with a pint and a burger.
- Comment on Did some work recently 8 months ago:
Now I’m feeling called out. I keep having these stacks of if statements that could just be a big ass list of and and and, but then it runs into the debate of how much crap should be in one line of code? Especially knowing, at some point, it’s going to be my dumb ass stepping through trying to figure out why this one edge case is the reason we’re not hitting the inner code.
- Comment on Justice Department Conducts Court-Authorized Disruption of Botnet Controlled by the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) 8 months ago:
They broke into shit that had already been broken in to, and removed an intrusion. That’s literally their job.
- Comment on 10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science 10 months ago:
We might see improvement on some deposition materials after the recent discovery on dolomite crystal formation.
- Comment on 10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science 10 months ago:
So how much closer does this put us to a space elevator? Assuming mass production and fiber creation was even possible.
- Comment on WATCH: The Biden Impeachment Hearings - Day 1 11 months ago:
…yahoo.com/…/jared-kushners-post-white-house-2119…
Just asking questions. If we’re going to get worked up by a shitty kid skimming $40k off to his dad, then maybe we want to know what $2.5 billion would buy.
- Comment on White Supremacist Killer Testifies He Was Radicalized by Conspiratorial Content Like Infowars 11 months ago:
I’m really interested why Lemmy says there are -6 new messages? That many deleted comments or what?
As for the story, it turns out water is wet. Not really a surprise.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 1 year ago:
Financial stress. Go take a closer look at the crime stats that right wing racists like to hammer the black community with. Then adjust them for poverty rates in the community. All of a sudden the racial divide in violent crime goes away. If anything, poor white men are the most violent, but not by enough to really be significant. The driving factor, by around 10 or 15 to 1, is poverty.
We’re seeing declining standards of living across the country, while technology is hides the true depths of it. The whole, you can’t be poor if you have a wide screen TV and a refrigerator, is almost true. It’s just enough to make it look like having no bargaining power, being locked into your zip code, buried in debt, and renting everything you own, somehow represents wealth.
- Comment on That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. 1 year ago:
Because the stored patterns have the where, not the how fast. What would come out is a brain dead corpse.
- Comment on That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. 1 year ago:
The buffer contains the stream(s) before being sent to an emitter. It’s not a hard drive, it’s a container.
- Comment on That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. 1 year ago:
They don’t create matter, they create an energy matter stream that moves the person molecule by molecule. How it happens is scifi magic, but it’s not the same as creating new atoms, which would require every replicator to have the energy to obliterate a planet.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake 1 year ago:
They really needed to listen to their enterprise customers. Windows Phone could have easily taken over as the ‘corporate phone’, if it had any integration at all. With the side benefit that their corporate customers also employ the developers that could build out the apps they needed to create the marketplace.
Instead they tried to take on Apple and Google, in an end user space that had already been thoroughly saturated, with a product that was barely on par.
- Comment on Toyota nears mass production of solid-state batteries 1 year ago:
Liquid in the scientific sense, it’s more of a paste. Lithium hexafluorophosphate(aka LiFPO) mixed with Dimethyl carbonate or Diethyl carbonate which are just there to float the Lithium between the plates without letting it burst into flame from any humidity that might happen to reach in.
- Comment on There once was a programmer 1 year ago:
Have you read Microsoft manuals?
- Comment on There once was a programmer 1 year ago:
It’s not the language. ChatGPT is about as useful as a decent code manual. It won’t actually solve any problems for you, but it can show you the general format for doing so.
- Comment on Report: HSBC to ban text messages on company phones | Fortune 1 year ago:
I did, you did not read what I wrote.
- Comment on Report: HSBC to ban text messages on company phones | Fortune 1 year ago:
You failed at reading comprehension.
- Comment on Report: HSBC to ban text messages on company phones | Fortune 1 year ago:
They could claim it’s for easier reporting by dropping WhatsApp, getting rid of texts is blatantly about preventing paper trails.
- Comment on Report: HSBC to ban text messages on company phones | Fortune 1 year ago:
Text messages have to be turned over for those pesky subpoena’s. Can’t be leaving evidence laying around.