bluemellophone

@bluemellophone@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang, I used to have so many Juno disks. What a flashback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For those who haven’t read it:

  Jazz hands, bitches!

  That’s all you get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody in this thread needs to read Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Butts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly how would carbon dioxide get exchanged if the lungs are damaged?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slapping Chicken⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll 100% be chickcoal since the hand will be pushing Mach 5. Pretty sure the plasma will give it a nice sear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student dorm does not allow wifi routers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using your own WiFi router also bypasses the wireless security settings to access the school network.

  Some resources are only available while on the network (printers, access to library, academic papers, other student hardware). Now imagine a random person in a coffee shop next door had u limited access to these resources via an unmanaged access point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle office instead of relocating⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not how you write off a corporate jet from your taxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I refuse to put anything on my phone, she’s naked as the day I got her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A live stream with tens of thousands of simultaneous viewers is, almost by definition, a scheduled DDOS. Even Apple struggled for years to get it right for their WWDC Keynote events back when they were live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8 Minutes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes 8 minutes for the light to travel from the sun to Earth. Because light in a vacuum travels faster than anything, including information, we would not and could not know it had disappeared for 8 minutes. This means Earth would continue to follow its orbit around a non-existent sun for 8 minutes because the Sun’s gravity would still be acting on the Earth.

  If it was nighttime, you wouldn’t notice the sudden lack of sunlight (other than if it was a full moon) but you’d almost certainly notice the change in gravity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Intel failing to Nvidia and AMD?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, the speculative execution failure feels like the start of the bad times for modern Intel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California says AT&T can't shut down copper DSL network⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This.

  You’d be surprised how much of a place’s physical infrastructure depends on a physical line. Automated fire alerts for high rises, security alarms, remote access for gates and doors, backup phone connections. A lot of this still uses old physical lines because it is easy to fix and highly reliable.

  Now consider the infrastructure needed for specialized services like EMS, police, secure and classified buildings, federal agencies, embassies, smart traffic signals. Shutting down a network like that has massive implications for anything in society that relies on it, which is well beyond your cell phone plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academia to Industry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a lot of fucking work. If you enjoy hard work, learning about the latest advancements in your field, and can handle disappointment / criticism well, then it’s something to look into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can't see him!!!!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If this is real, anybody got an arxiv link?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $350k includes the salary but also all of the health insurance benefits, taxes, stock options, office space and perks, compute hardware, software services… the works. An employer will have an averaged overhead factor for their skilled workforce, which can be anywhere between 1.5 and 2.5 typically. A worker with an annual pre-tax salary of $140k could cost Google $350k in overall expenses per year. Labor is expensive.

  Also, these people weren’t just making simple Python scripts. Most of them were contributing core functionality into Python itself and managing the internal Python version and the ecosystem of Google software stacks that depend on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GM Reverses All-In EV Strategy to Bring Back Plug-In Hybrids⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Chevy Volt PHEV was an absolutely fantastic car, I’m was very sad the day I sold it and even more sad when GM said they were discontinuing the line. Whoever brings a PHEV truck to the market with 100 miles of all-EV range, I’ll buy it day one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every goddamn time⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ZZ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure the 5th Amendment doesn’t protect against obstruction of justice if you knowingly wipe your phone while under custody

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried many over the years, and I keep going back to YNAB. Been happy using it for the better part of 4-5 years now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X adds video calling — and lets strangers ring you: Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, Jeff said he got it covered… yeah, Jeff’s got this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix jacks up the price of its premium plan to $23 a month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yarr!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noise-canceling robots to 'mute' loud conversations in cafe | What if we told you that we can actually silence a noisy table right next to us in a café?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We can start with cancelling my neighbor’s dog at 6AM and work our way up to jet tarmac zen garden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Global solar installations projected to jump 56% this year!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So, China

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video, The Verge] Hear how the best ANC headphones handle real world and lab tests⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too, and the quick connect and passoff with my various Apple devices makes the Max a clear standout. I can live with them being a close second to the Sony headphones, especially when the Max excels at the spoken word tests.

  I just wish they didn’t look so goofy on the head.