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- Comment on Watching passport bros get bodied by SEA women is a complete mood. Get rekt manlet. 23 hours ago:
I’m going to regret this but what is a gunt?
- Comment on Where to start? 1 day ago:
TNG season 3. The first two sessions are pretty rough. Start with 3. If you ever do a rewatch then try starting with season 1. Then try DS9.
TOS is good if you can handle the very low budget look.
- Comment on China powers up the world's largest open-sea offshore solar farm 2 days ago:
The cool water can improve solar panel efficiency. Hotter panels produce less energy.
- Comment on burden of knowledge 4 days ago:
They keep growing until they die. If they live long enough they get so big they either can’t get enough food or oxygen and die.
They have urinary ducts in their eyes and when they meet other lobsters they piss on each others face. If they have fought in the last week or so the loser backs down. If not they fight.
The biggest male lobster knows where the others live and once a week visits the other lobsters. Pisses in their face and then beats them up.
When a female enters estrus she goes to the biggest lobster’s den. He then beats her to help her molt. When her shell is removed they mate.
She is allowed to stay for a few days during the vulnerable period when her shell regrows and hardens. Unless another female comes by. The he kicks her out and the new girl moves in after mating.
- Comment on “Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025 5 days ago:
Recasting one actor for a character that race isn’t an important characteristic isn’t white washing.
The problem with Into Darkness is how bad the writing and acting are. They took one of the most popular Star Trek movies and remade it badly.
- Comment on “Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025 5 days ago:
Presumably Alex Kurtzman.
- Comment on Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed 1 month ago:
For ntsc vhs players it wasnt a component in the vcr that was made for copy protection. They would add garbled color burst signals. This would desync the automatic color burst sync system on the vcr.
CRT TVs didn’t need this component but some fancy tvs would also have the same problem with macrovission.
The color burst system was actually a pretty cool invention from the time broadcast started to add color. They needed to be able stay compatible with existing black and white tv.
The solution was to not change the black and white image being sent but add the color offset information on a higher frequency and color TVs would combine the signals.
This was easy for CRT as the electron beam would sweep across the screen changing intensity as it hit each black and white pixel.
To display color each black and white pixel was a RGB triangle of pixels. So you would add small offset to the beam up or down to make it more or less green and left or right to adjust the red and blue.
Those adjustment knobs on old tvs were in part you manually targeting the beam adjustment to hit the pixels just right.
VCRs didn’t usually have these adjustments so they needed a auto system to keep the color synced in the recording.
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 1 month ago:
Low risk but inflation is above 3% so you are looking at less than 2% effective granted it’s a fairly safe investment.
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 1 month ago:
Money market or CD is going to have terrible return. You will be lucky to match inflation. Get a low overhead SP 500 index fund. By low overhead I’m taking .15% or less. You should be able to find .125% with a bit of poking around.
- Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles 1 month ago:
Ubisoft isn’t making money. That’s something wrong as far as the board is concerned.
- Comment on DarkPattern.games - a website that rates mobile games for their "dark patterns" 1 month ago:
Interestingly enough Luca Galante the creator spent 10 years coding digital slot machines. He used a lot of the techniques used by them to keep you playing. He just did it in a way to maximize fun instead of micro transactions.
- Comment on “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs 1 month ago:
The solution for this is usually counter training. Granted my experience is on the opposite end training ai vision systems to id real objects.
So you train up your detector ai on hand tagged images. When it gets good you use it to train a generator ai until the generator is good at fooling the detector.
Then you train the detector on new tagged real data and the new ai generated data. Once it’s good at detection again you train the generator ai on the new detector.
Repeate several times and you usually get a solid detector and a good generator as a side effect.
The thing is you need new real human tagged data for each new generation. None of the companies want to generate new human tagged data sets as it’s expensive.
- Comment on There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel. 2 months ago:
In Africa because of the large number of languages they put pictures of what’s in the package on the label. Gerber baby food had some issues when it first sold in Africa.
- Comment on There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel. 2 months ago:
And it worked before streaming came around. Now cable subscriptions are in free fall and they don’t know what to do.
- Comment on San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave 2 months ago:
Reading some interviews with her and she does seem to think money makes right.
- Comment on Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites 2 months ago:
It’s just for home lan use.
- Comment on Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites 2 months ago:
They license the anime so they do pay the studios that create anime. I know for a fact that anime studios factor in the ability to license shows in the decision on what to produce and budget.
- Comment on Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites 2 months ago:
For me it’s easier to rip it once and then have it available on my tv, phone, or computer. It can also remember what episode is next. Plus no annoying mandatory commercials every time you put the disk in the player.
- Comment on San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave 2 months ago:
Yeah I think he is expecting an Atlas Shrugged moment. where everything collapses as the intellectuals (him) walk away from the foolish socity.
- Comment on Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat 2 months ago:
Anything to not add a cooling system to the ev batteries.
- Comment on Cords 2 months ago:
I made one of those once by accident. I was talking a long extension cord that had been cut in two and converting it into two smaller cords. I messed up and attached the male to the wrong cable.
- Comment on Are there any video games in the Warhammer universe that are actually good? 2 months ago:
My favorite 40k game and my favorite faction.
- Comment on 3D printer maker Bambu Lab faces patent infringement lawsuits that could threaten hobbyist 3D printing in general 2 months ago:
I’m not a big fan of these patents having been awarded and patent law needs serious overhaul. That said I think there is a good chance the lawsuit is successful. Three are a lot of patents in 3D printing that the open source community is just waiting for them to expire.
- Comment on 3D printer maker Bambu Lab faces patent infringement lawsuits that could threaten hobbyist 3D printing in general 2 months ago:
You can lose trademarks if you knowingly don’t defend them but it’s pretty hard to lose a patent. Even it gets added to a standard you participate it just goes into FRAND.
- Comment on How exactly does one eat 1500 calories a day? 3 months ago:
True.
CICO it’s what is called a bounding condition. It’s true but the CO half is almost impossible to know or predict long term outside of being in a 24 - 7 lab.
Hormones, types of calories, activity, and biology all have a huge effect. And long term even small errors in these numbers can have big impacts on weight.
- Comment on Coming down your chimney 3 months ago:
God emperor of December.
- Comment on Can Solar Rooftops Power the World? - YouTube 3 months ago:
It is for me as well. OS language is English.
- Comment on Bet y'all are very familiar with this 3 months ago:
For hard soil you use a different tool. It’s similar to how you have saws for wood and saws for metal.
When you fill the tube with cement it gets the nickname “Redneck Lockpick”.
- Comment on Why is Intel failing to Nvidia and AMD? 3 months ago:
The Intel CEO had always come from engineering fab. This kept the high level decisions made by somebody who understood the product and how it was made.
Then CEO and the head of fab was caught sexually harassing employees. They were both shown the door. So no CEO and the guy who was next in line were gone. They needed the number 2 in fab to take over fab to keep production up.
So the board decided to make the CFO the new CEO. A guy who had a MBA was running a chip company that had only been run by engines.
Profits went up for a while but then Intel struggled to maintain innovation and properly upgraded fab and chip design. Add the increasing skill of rivals and a increase in importance in chips other then server and desktop. which were the only areas Intel was king. It’s a recipe for failure.
- Comment on World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage 4 months ago:
Actually no. Batteries and thier inverter adapt in the about one second to half a second range. The massive inertia of a turbine adapts in the millisecond range.
To maintain 60 hz you need to be in the very low milliseconds range. Remember at 60 hz you do a full sin wave cycle in 16ms.
Turbines act as a tremendous power smoother in the grid.