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- Comment on Atari acquires Transport Tycoon from Chris Sawyer 2 weeks ago:
Interesting to see such old games getting any attention in terms of licensing
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 weeks ago:
Even with your simplistic fossil fuel car in your example the alternator within can also be used as a motor.
Not by “simply reversing the flow” it can’t. You’d need to remove and replace many components, just like the example of changing an Rx to Tx system
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 weeks ago:
An LED (or photodiode used as one) is a fairly simplistic device compared to an assembled receiver / transmitter. Just like you can burn gasoline in a car but you can’t push a car to turn the engine to make gasoline - it’s a complex system that really only works one way.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 weeks ago:
if you invert the flow of electrons, a receiver becomes a transmitter
Ehh not really. That’s kind of like saying if you invert the flow of photons, your eyes work as flashlights.
“It could be possible with some changes” the changes would amount to removing the receiver and replacing it with a transmitter. In this specific case I’m not sure if a transmitter already exists at this antenna and it’s definitely possible one does, but that’s not a guarantee at all
- Comment on Rewinding an electromagnetic clutch. 1 month ago:
Magnetic field strength is proportional to current * number of turns.
Using a resistor should work but so should using 20gauge copper if the number of turns is the same.
- Comment on Sleep soundly 4 months ago:
First thought, someone’s gonna nut into that
- Comment on The retirement savings crisis: Why more Americans can’t afford to stop working 4 months ago:
“Why can’t more Americans afford to stop working?” Hmmm I wonder if it has to do with all of their wealth being extracted by capitalist hoarders
- Comment on Twitter is officially X.com now 5 months ago:
I’m just going to call it “Twitter” on the rare occasion I call it anything at all
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 6 months ago:
It certainly is. ISO 27001 is a framework, not very prescriptive at all. Basically an auditor will ask “how do you ensure data isn’t leaving your facility in the form of discarded hardware?” If you say “here’s a link to our media destruction policy. It says all drives are wiped according to NIST 800-88 cryptographic erasure. If that is not possible or not applicable, the drive is destroyed. Here’s our log of decomissioned equipment” chances are very good they’ll say “OK great let’s move on to the next one” with only minor followup questions.
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 6 months ago:
Just more nonsense showing how broken modern copyright is. It’s too hard to write weasely legalese to just say you have the right to reproduce content submitted to your website, you have to own it entirely. And if you own it, why not sell it?
- Comment on Peer pressure 6 months ago:
The choices aren’t just lawn vs mud
- Comment on Can I lick it? 6 months ago:
There’s a lot marked green I don’t think I’d consider safe…
- Comment on "Does having choice make us happy? 6 studies that suggest it doesn’t always" | TED Blog 6 months ago:
Or happiness isn’t the be-all end-all metric to measure life by?
I don’t always want the things that will make me happiest. I still want and/or need them in order to live a fulfilled life
- Comment on Fukuyama residents warned not to touch cat after chemical tank fall 8 months ago:
I just want to know how a vat of hexavalent chromium was so poorly controlled that a cat was able to get into it
- Comment on Nikon is acquiring US camera manufacturer RED 8 months ago:
I’m kind of surprised RED is still small enough and Nikon is still big enough for this to happen.
- Comment on I was wondering why my laptop heats up too much lately 10 months ago:
Definitely a bug or a site is very much doing something
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
In a way I agree, there has to be a major deterrent for this level of negligence. That said, “ruin their life” isn’t IMHO the right way to go. I’d be happier if they kept living a productive life, but they’d better be supporting the people who depend on me.
You want them to learn their lesson but how do you do that without ruining lives? How do you do it before they kill two people? I think that level of change has to be governmental and even cultural. Reducing dependence on cars, increasing how seriously driving is taken, etc
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
Suing Tesla seems a little dumb to me. Sue the DMV that’s giving people like this licenses
- Comment on Cox Media Group claims to be listening to private conversations to sell advertisements 11 months ago:
This is far more likely that Cox (the phone service provider) is listening in on phone calls than it is they’re listening to conversations via inactive smartphones. Still, in most jurisdictions that’s probably wiretapping unless it’s well announced that the calls being recorded/analyzed. Makes me wonder if this is part of their business phone offerings where “this call may be monitored for quality” is common
- Comment on trash 11 months ago:
This is the recycle bin, not trash.
Apple apparently has the rights to call something “trash” and didn’t like that windows was doing the same.
- Comment on local brewery gave away bottle caps! 11 months ago:
I’m curious why they were giving them away, nice score!
- Comment on xkcd #2862: Typical Seating Chart 11 months ago:
They’re weight-limited rather than space-limited
- Comment on Safe to say peanuts into a US school too? 11 months ago:
Most schools, you can have all the peanuts you like. Chances are pretty good that the lunches available in the cafeteria will be peanut -free, though
- Comment on lemmy 0.19.x incoming 11 months ago:
Any changes you’re excited for?
- Comment on Intel announces Thunderbolt 5 with double the bandwidth (40 Gbps to 80 Gbps) 1 year ago:
Driving two 4k monitors at 10b120hz is pretty overkill to use thunderbolt for, is kind of my point. Is anyone actually being limited by that?
Even with cameras, the storage generally isn’t that fast. CFexpress cards cant generally break 2GB/s, and even 8+k cameras generally record to that or maybe USB-C (and if you’re recording to a USBC device you’re probably just gonna use USBC instead of thunderbolt).
NVMe that can do sustained write speeds like that will be full in a few minutes, unless you’re offloading to a massive high speed array over 10+gbit networking it just kind of seems like why bother?
Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea of going to faster interfaces for the sake of speed, but I have experienced almost zero real use of thunderbolt in real life, and I usually keep a pretty good eye out. My real question was mostly focused on whether there are people actually using thunderbolt and if they’re actually limited by 40gbps and I’m kinda just bitching at this point
- Comment on Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes 1 year ago:
Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys!
- Comment on Why are batteries in phones always measured in mAh instead of Wh like for example notebooks? 1 year ago:
It is neither amperes per hour nor watts per hour. Those imply division (1 watt, over two hours, would be 1/2 a watt per hour. Useless as a unit for most of us). Ah and Wh are amps or watts multiplied by hours, pronounced as amp-hours or watt-hours (1 watt, for 2 hours, would be 2 watt-hours)
- Comment on Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts 1 year ago:
Anything besides parts and manuals.
Requirements for devices to be feasibly repairable in the first place. A phone that’s effectively a brick of glue is still unrepairable regardless of whether you can buy overpriced parts for it.
If the enforcement mechanism for “fair” pricing is for the general public to file a lawsuit, I can guarantee that pricing isn’t going to be very reasonable.
Apple devices are notoriously hard to repair not just because they don’t provide a $50,000 diagnostic kit and overpriced parts, they’re hard to repair because they’re designed to be disposable. This bill does absolutely nothing to change that, which is probably why Apple supported it. Good PR with completely avoidable consequences for them
- Comment on Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes 1 year ago:
I’m not one of the maniacs making threats of any kind, but honestly it really seems like death threats are the only thing that gets any attention anymore, so I can understand why it’s done…
Is “eat the rich” not a death threat in its own right?
- Comment on Intel announces Thunderbolt 5 with double the bandwidth (40 Gbps to 80 Gbps) 1 year ago:
Does anything even use thunderbolt 4’s bandwidth? About the only thing I’ve seen is external GPUs and even that is a ludicrously niche use case.
I’d be much more excited about a post about something using TB4 to its fullest. All I can think reading this title is “who cares?” Is someone going to make a reasonably priced and even remotely convenient 40gbps ethernet card for TB5? No. Do my NVME drives go past 40gbps? Generally not, but I could’ve seen use for fast drives plugged into tb4/5 at least. Is anyone using TB4/5 for datacenter interconnects where this speed would actually be useful? I doubt it.
Does anyone reading this post use tb4 on a daily basis?