foofiepie
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- Comment on The grand prize 2 weeks ago:
Twist it!
- Comment on I hate that that happens 2 weeks ago:
Well, I celebrate your lunacy and perseverance. Maybe go all out in a few comments. It’s like a puzzle.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 2 weeks ago:
Shavian, right?
- Comment on And you will never catch up as Bezos make 8,000,000 per hour 1 month ago:
$124,111,680,000 if you’re curious (24x365x2024x7000).
- Comment on Astronomers discover biggest ever seen black hole jets, which blast hot plasma well beyond their own host galaxy 1 month ago:
Ok. Permission to ask a mad question. Apologies in advance.
If black holes ‘suck’ everything in… could there be the equivalent of the ‘other side’ of one, that’s mysteriously ejecting a tonne of plasma?
Not saying that’s what this is, just prompted the thought.
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 1 month ago:
He would force everybody to be kind to animals and each other, eat raw vegetables, spend more time in the play park and participate in bushcraft activities. He would also ban chromebooks if his opinion of the school computers is anything to go by.
Yes I said raw vegetables. He’s a loveable anomaly.
Edit: almost forgot. We would have to spend slightly longer than is healthy, playing Minecraft.
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 1 month ago:
He would force everybody to be kind to animals and each other, eat raw vegetables, spend more time in the play park and participate in bushcraft activities. He would also ban chromebooks if his opinion of the school computers is anything to go by.
Yes I said raw vegetables. He’s an loveable anomaly.
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 1 month ago:
These marketing types shouldn’t be allowed to call anything ‘indestructible’ until they’ve given it to my kid to play with for a week.
- Comment on Oxygen 1 month ago:
complex carnal carnival of carnivory
Beautiful.
- Comment on How Russia is Influencing US Citizens on Social Media. Russian Intelligence Document "Guerrilla Media Campaign in the US" [Translated] Page 5 2 months ago:
That puzzled me too.
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 2 months ago:
Thoroughly enjoyed this post thanks. I have long wished for a FOSS OS that can truly become popular by considering these users and carving a mainstream path for them. Even - for people who don’t even know what terminal/shell is and don’t care.
- Comment on Intel's stock drops 30% overnight —company sheds $39 billion in market cap | As of now, Intel's market value is a fraction of Nvidia's worth and less than half of AMD's 3 months ago:
Tiktok afterwards please.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza 3 months ago:
Apologies for doubt. That’s absolutely bizarre.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza 3 months ago:
Doubt. Which sites?
- Comment on Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets 4 months ago:
This is equal parts informative and hilarious. Ticketmaster sucks.
- Comment on Make it stop. 4 months ago:
TIL. Huh. Thanks! Now it makes sense.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
I know right. I wonder if there are any other words that are unexpectedly acronyms.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
No worries. Thought it was a typo. Bizarre correction for it to make.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
I third Mint. Very easy setup (just check your system is compatible before you try).
Also it’s ‘laser’ (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation).
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 months ago:
Just my take but:
Like them or not (and IMV they are a serious threat), China’s system enforces a strategic view, long term, more like a 100yr plan.
We don’t. It’s by election cycle or quarterly earnings report.
These things all make more sense if you see them impassionately, and without an ethical filter, from a long term POV.
China will do what’s best for China in the long term. Irrespective of ‘politics’ that are like ripples upon a rising tide.
- Comment on Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks 4 months ago:
No problems yet in 5 years with my posh Toyota.
- Comment on OP: "This is my most advance moon photograph EVER it consist of 81000 images and over 708GB of data." (see comments.) 4 months ago:
Pasted from the Reddit thread:
The colors don’t match what a human eye would see, but without going into a philosophy tangent, color is extremely complex and a huge part of what a human sees is your brain doing representations and mapping that isn’t perfectly represented in the physical object being observed. In this photo the saturation has been increased (versus a human eye) because it helps show the geological differences on the lunar surface. The reddish areas are high in iron and feldspar, and the blue-tinted zones have higher titanium content. Instead of thinking of the color as “real” or “fake” it’s probably better to think of it as a tool, to simulate if you were a super human with the ability to adjust saturation and detect metal composition with your eye. Usually when a photo like this is shared by researchers and scientist all this nuance and exposition is included, but then journalist and social media get a hold of it and people start crying “fake” without an understanding of what the image is trying to accomplish. TL;DR - The image isn’t what a human eye would see but it isn’t just art to look cool, the color and modifications have physical meaning and serve a purpose.
- Comment on Lilium (LILM) receives firm order from UrbanLink to put 20 eVTOL jets into service in Florida 6 months ago:
Electric jets? Is that a thing? How do they work?
- Comment on hawt 6 months ago:
Sexy triplets too 😂. (Eg 17,23,29)
Ok you mathematicians are nuts.
- Comment on NEW JOB! 6 months ago:
- Comment on Figure 01, the robot closest to the humanoid machines of science fiction 6 months ago:
What could possibly go wrong?
- Comment on U.S. ‘prepper’ culture diversifies amid fear of disaster and political unrest 8 months ago:
My grandmother had her own vegetable garden, and kept a full pantry, rotating out canned, preserved and dried food properly, had candles, water collection, all sorts of stuff.
What they call prepping nowadays was once simply common sense.
I feel this will become more mainstream in decades to come.
The mallninja knives and other such fluff are bizarre though.
- Comment on Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules 10 months ago:
Nice. Signal jammer gets free drugs.
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 10 months ago:
Despite these concessions, dozens of Redditors promised to stop using the site altogether without access to their favorite browsing apps. But according to data from the website analytics firm SimilarWeb, traffic has largely remained consistent to the platform, aside from a pronounced dip during the blackout
Dozens of us!
- Comment on Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma 10 months ago:
Hmm. I was about to wade in on this one but fair enough.
Personally, I’m probably not enough of a power user to need the sort of functionality you do but I said ‘Fuck Adobe’ some years ago and never looked back.
I am, however, still on the hunt for a decent replacement for Aperture.
