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- Comment on Researchers find solar panels increase city temperatures and wind speeds 4 weeks ago:
Also, the paper casually mentions how rooftop solar reduces the cooling load of the building. What I didn’t see acknowledged was that that extra cooling load (presumably traditional A/C) on a building without rooftop solar moves the heat out of the building into… (drum roll), the surrounding environment. So… the heat still got to the surrounding environment, it just took a longer path to get there.
- Comment on Tenacious iPhone user finally unlocks phone locked for almost a decade 1 month ago:
I don’t understand.
“I have no idea who locked it in 2015,” she said.
So someone can just make your iphone inaccessible for a decade and you can’t override it or log in, even if you have the passcode?
On the Apple Support community, one user reported their iPhone had been locked for 50 years. Similarly, a post on 9to5Mac’s forum mentioned an iPhone disabled for “23614974 minutes”—about 45 years.
I’m sorry, what? I guess I’ll just add this to my list of reasons I’m glad I use Android. JFC.
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 4 months ago:
In this narrow case, it’s considered proper/correct to pronounce the “x” like an “sh”, which greatly improves the tongue rolling.
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 4 months ago:
Taxes
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 4 months ago:
… or xitter.
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 4 months ago:
I don’t think any of those people are being relocated to Texas.
- Comment on A Nearby Star Is Expected to Go Nova This Year. Here's How You Can See It. 8 months ago:
Visible with unaided eyes for several days (but still dimmer than about 120 stars in the sky), and with binoculars for about a week, according to NASA.
- Comment on A Nearby Star Is Expected to Go Nova This Year. Here's How You Can See It. 8 months ago:
Between March and September, but that’s a pretty wide range. I guess just keep an eye out for the, “IT’S HAPPENING” posts.
- Comment on A Nearby Star Is Expected to Go Nova This Year. Here's How You Can See It. 8 months ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_Coronae_Borealis
On 20 April 2016, the Sky and Telescope website reported a sustained brightening since February 2015 from magnitude 10.5 to about 9.2. A similar event was reported in 1938, followed by another outburst in 1946.[20] By June 2018, the star had dimmed slightly but still remained at an unusually high level of activity. In March or April 2023, it dimmed to magnitude 12.3.[21] A similar dimming occurred in the year before the 1945 outburst, indicating that it will likely erupt between March and September 2024.
And if I’m interpreting some of the other content correctly, it’ll come and go in one night? Maybe someone who knows more about these cars confirm or correct me.
Also …
Even when at peak magnitude of 2.5, this recurrent nova is dimmer than about 120 stars in the night sky.
So, maybe a bit anticlimactic. 😞
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 8 months ago:
*than *than
- Comment on black holes 8 months ago:
I came to ask something similar, but far less eloquent. So, if you don’t mind, I’m just going to piggyback on your comment.
- Comment on Why is defederation an option when Limit/Mute exist? 8 months ago:
I often say, “Free Speech doesn’t mean other people are required to provide you with a soap box and megaphone.”
- Comment on Why is defederation an option when Limit/Mute exist? 8 months ago:
Server admins are just people, generously running a server, for you. This costs them time and money to do. If they don’t want their server amplifying the content from some other server that they see as problematic, they absolutely should have that option.
- Comment on European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal 9 months ago:
“With this outstanding landmark judgment, the ‘client-side scanning’ surveillance on all smartphones proposed by the EU Commission in its chat control bill is clearly illegal,” said Breyer.
“It would destroy the protection of everyone instead of investigating suspects. EU governments will now have no choice but to remove the destruction of secure encryption from their position on this proposal – as well as the indiscriminate surveillance of private communications of the entire population!”
I hope he’s right, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
- Comment on Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see 9 months ago:
The partnership between Google and the Environmental Defense Fund
I interpret that to mean that Google is getting paid for this. They’re not doing it out of kindness.
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 9 months ago:
Pretty sure the person you’re responding to didn’t think a /s was necessary, seeing how obvious the sarcasm was.
- Comment on Police departments are using AI to review bodycam footage, and police unions are not happy about it 9 months ago:
Exactly, and this also contradicts the “few bad apples” defense. If there were only a few bad apples, then the police unions should be bending over backwards to eradicate them sooner than later to preserve and improve the long suffering reputation of police.
Instead, they’re doing the exact opposite, making it clear to anyone paying attention that it’s mostly, if not entirely, bad apples.
- Comment on Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN 9 months ago:
You need lots and lots of real video of a person to train an AI to make fake videos of that person. So, unless the CFO and the other allegedly faked employees are all youtubers, there’s very good reason to consider more plausible explanations.
To your point, you are correct. There are lots of stupid people. This includes people that will blindly believe that AI can just magically do anything and not even consider simpler explanations for things like this.
I think it was just last year there was a story about some school official claiming to have been duped into paying scammers millions from the schools funds, only to later have been caught making the whole thing up in an attempt to steal the money. (Maybe somebody remembers enough to find a link) So it’s not remotely far fetched to think that’s what could be happening here.
- Comment on Woman returns Costco couch after 2 years, tests limits of return policy: "I just didn't like it anymore" 9 months ago:
REI used to have this kind of policy, until people abused it to death
- Comment on Woman returns Costco couch after 2 years, tests limits of return policy: "I just didn't like it anymore" 9 months ago:
Well, I mean, 3.5 years is, technically, “after 2 years.”
- Comment on Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN 9 months ago:
I’m highly doubtful that scammers could get enough real video of multiple employees in the same company to train an AI to pull this off convincingly. Celebrities, yes. Regular people, no
However, Occam’s Razor tells me this employee knows exactly where that money went and plans to quietly slip away to a tropical island to retire, soon
- Comment on Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click 9 months ago:
Gosh, maybe the people designing the web UI for the cancellation process for their employer should make it clear exactly what the customer is cancelling so they’re not going to make that mistake.
- Comment on Senate votes against Sanders resolution to force human rights scrutiny over Israel aid 10 months ago:
“How can we keep pretending that war crimes aren’t being committed if we get a report telling us that war crimes are being committed? Geeze Bernie!”
- Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic 10 months ago:
And OP presumably read the article, knew there was no actual story, and posted it here anyway.
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- Comment on The salaries of Wikimedia executives are sparking an online debate about tech sector wages 11 months ago:
So?
- Comment on 24/7 solar towers could double energy output 11 months ago:
researchers designed a model that could generate 753 MWh of energy annually. That’s enough to power roughly 753 homes for about five weeks
Why can’t the writers of these articles make useful comparisons? Can they just not do basic math? Each tower can generate enough electricity for about 72 homes… period. Just say that. No apples and oranges required.
- Comment on Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library 1 year ago:
Pro tip: Tar knows what to do if you try to untar a tar.gz file. It Just Works™.
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
My pihole prevents me from knowing what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Publisher Wants $2,500 To Allow Academics To Post Their Own Manuscript To Their Own Repository 1 year ago:
It selects people who don’t want to change a failing system because they are great at gaming that system.
Reminds me of the current American political system and the politicians it selects for us.