lordnikon
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- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 5 days ago:
Yeah the amount of heat a data center vs a satellite your going to super heat the space in that orbit over time. It they are geostationary then its even harder as the the data center doesn’t move away from the heat.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 6 days ago:
My question is always how the hell are you going to cool them. Do you know hard it is to move heat in a vacuum?
- Comment on Either the aliens have listed Earth as a no-contact planet or we are probably alone in the universe. 6 days ago:
It boils down to one thing let’s say they find us or we find them. They set out on a trip to us traveling at near C speed. By the time they reach us we may not be around anymore as thousands of years have passed. The universe is so vast not only do catch them in space but also in time. The lack of contact is just a series of near misses.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 week ago:
Its like going physical you get both with the right ripper
- Comment on Can we make federation less dependent on domain names? 5 weeks ago:
Irc solved this by having list servers domains that give a list of irc servers so instead of having random servers that go down you have a network of distributed servers that work together.
- Comment on I am surprised that no one has started selling shell headphones for sleeping. 1 month ago:
Yeah but how will I clean myself after I use the restroom.
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 2 months ago:
This is very true nothing beats just having a ton of metal to throw at it. Had a Megahalems for 15 years with only minor dust cleaning from time to time.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 2 months ago:
Google cooks the books on ad sales and after being found out it makes a lot more sense on the actions they are doing now with their other products that ads we’re propping up.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 2 months ago:
I hope never so we never have Y2K again
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 2 months ago:
As someone that works with data archival its really hard to keep videos around most media storage would be gone in a few decades.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 months ago:
Slay the spire ringed is the lowest its ever been
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Enterprises season three is like the next generation season 1 it’s okay to skip
- Comment on Is the RAM prices explosion another manufactured crisis to corps drain money from people before the AI bubble collapses? 2 months ago:
Yep this 100%. They are getting a windfall from the AI idiots that will pay a premium for it while they can without overextending themselves to do so but it means we lose. That how you know this is a bubble. The only good thing is they are smart enough to not overextend themselves so they won’t be impacted when the bubble does pop.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Wizardry IV
- Comment on Does anyone know of a plug-in or extension that will make your web browser convert all websites into what they would look like in 1999? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why does no one in the bible have a last name? 2 months ago:
last names were not a ancient thing that’s why a lot of names are based on a profession a lot of times it was based on the father’s name that’s why you have John’s son or transposed to Johnson
- Comment on Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z 2 months ago:
you can also mount it to a directory just like in POSIX systems
- Comment on Yakuza 0 is being delisted on all platforms on December 8 (being replaced by Y0:DC), Yakuza Kiwami 1 & 2 also being delisted from Microsoft PC Store 3 months ago:
See when they do stuff like this why can’t they just have a selector like they do with quake to select the old version
- Comment on Question: why mastodon hastag timeline shows posts from lemmy community of same name? 3 months ago:
Because they’re Federated and that’s how Lemmy is represented in Mastodon when you Federate between the two
- Comment on Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died 3 months ago:
Yeah i wonder if Tim Cain worked with her
- Comment on Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died 3 months ago:
Good sentiment but i think you mean BF not CoD as Activision owns CoD
- Comment on Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish 3 months ago:
No Irish wouldn’t that violate the 1953 CTA agreement?
- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 3 months ago:
The day they become sentient is the day they say no to doing our bidding without insentives. So we are just back to hiring out for work again.
- Comment on If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences 3 months ago:
Yep i would expect them to send the blankets down from orbit first.
- Comment on In franchises that establish a multiverse (ie the MCU or Star Trek) almost all fan fiction is technically canon compliant 3 months ago:
Fanfic writets now write for the shows thats why both universes feel so small you could put them in your pocket.
- Comment on Not sure where to ask this but why do some wall powered usb-c hubs refuse the charge anything until they are plugged into a computer? 3 months ago:
Becase some devices require a signal on their comm pins to negotiate the correct voltage to charge the device. Also some devices are dicks and needs a proprietary signal in order for it to charge. Looking at you sony.
- Comment on New era of better buses: Landmark Bus Bill becomes law 3 months ago:
Another nail in the coffin of Thatcher’s policies
- Comment on Plasma TV recommendations? Looking for a decent 50+ inch display for older consoles. 4 months ago:
PN58B650
- Comment on Plasma TV recommendations? Looking for a decent 50+ inch display for older consoles. 4 months ago:
I still have a samsung plasma and it can change resolution down to those lower consoles. Its not perfect but its the most versatile display I own.
- Comment on OpenAI launches an AI-powered browser: ChatGPT Atlas 4 months ago:
21st century bonzi buddy, no thanks