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- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
The relationship between a grad student and their professor is generally characterized by a profound power imbalance.
- Comment on What are your favorite spooky (but not scary) retro games? 3 months ago:
Alien 3 on snes
- Comment on If a tunnel boring machine were installed facing downward in a cemetery, you wouldn't need to expand the cemetery 3 months ago:
Like this one in Brazil?
- Comment on Why don't low birth-rate countries make immigration to their country easier? 4 months ago:
Call it cultural inertia if you prefer.
- Comment on German star at Cannes condemns ‘madness’ of protective culture for UK child actors 5 months ago:
That’s an interesting perspective
- Comment on near zero 5 months ago:
What do you mean by independent? There is no more general and independent notion of ordering than a less-than operator. The article above oulines a mathematical proof that no such definition exists in a consistent way for the complex numbers.
- Comment on near zero 5 months ago:
I’m not saying the numbers stop. But there are numbers where concepts like “closer to zero” or “number before [another number]” don’t apply.
For example There is no sensible way to define a less-than for the complex numbers and thus they can’t be ordered.
- Comment on near zero 5 months ago:
Whoa slow down there buddy. Proposing numbers before numbers like they are a given.
- Comment on How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time 5 months ago:
Ah, i think i misunderstood your comment.
In terms of archiving I agree, in terms of restoring a running copy from an archive, maybe not.
- Comment on How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time 5 months ago:
C code that reproduces a running binary on an up to date compiler is worse than a machine code binary for a legacy machine of which complete Emulation is not guaranteed?
- Comment on Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for “inappropriate” content 5 months ago:
That might be her working copy. Google docs is fine for text editing. Of course she could work offline or use other platforms, but that’s kinda besides the point of the article.
- Comment on we love those power laws 6 months ago:
Is there a statistic for estimated energy consumption per capital against time available?
- Comment on Nevada put big battery energy storage where a coal plant used to be 6 months ago:
There’s several gravity based things. Some lift a piston of rock, some drop weights down old mine shafts…
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 6 months ago:
Ironically students of foreign language often cling to these grammatical structures and are less confused by the same word in different contexts.
- Comment on turtles 6 months ago:
The German word translates to Shield Toad
- Comment on Subset Games created two amazing games: FTL & Into The Breach 6 months ago:
It plays a lot like a puzzler on the surface.
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 6 months ago:
But with all the disadvantages of having to handle gas!
- Comment on From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services 7 months ago:
Also amount of storage. When Gmail first launched it offered a gig of storage or so, while other email providers did 10 megabytes or so.
- Comment on Microsoft is seeking a software architect to port Microsoft 365 to Rust 9 months ago:
I’m guessing wasm
- Comment on What's your favorite note-taking application? 10 months ago:
There’s dozens of us
- Comment on poggers 11 months ago:
But commutation is not an axiom, is it?
- Comment on Banana Pi BPI-M7 - More Reasons to Avoid the Raspberry Pi 11 months ago:
I had the same impression until I dusted off my banana pi one last month and there was an up-to-date armbian image for it. Totally pleasant surprise.
- Comment on Jragon 11 months ago:
Not really. There’s accents and things that mess that up.
- Comment on Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence 11 months ago:
Some ai models perform at 4 bit resolution. Maybe there’s a chance?
- Comment on Cloud storage without a confirmation email 1 year ago:
Maybe store the things inside a proton mailbox? Then you can also send mail…
- Comment on Boris Johnson asked experts if you could kill Covid by blowing hairdryer up nose 1 year ago:
I guess, but it’s not a virus, not bacteria.
- Comment on What makes a bicycle so expensive? 1 year ago:
Covid spiked bike prices a lot.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
Yeah, sure. Doesn’t change the other point
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
Video Just has fundamentally different hosting cost for processing and bandwidth. Amongst the big streaming providers only Netflix makes a profit. Twitch is not profitable, either.
- Comment on Making Hard Things Easy 1 year ago:
Well, there are general takeaways, the particular topics are really just examples.