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- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 9 hours ago:
Photos have been staged and lies have been printed as soon as those technologies were invented.
AI generated stuff will cause video evidence to be weaker in court. Other than that we will quickly adapt as a society to become as resistant to fake videos as we are to fake photos or text.
- Comment on sentence 2 days ago:
Competent people get paid more because they get shit done.
Competent criminals gets punished harder because they get more crime done.
- Comment on How come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription? 4 days ago:
The target audience for the gas-station reading glasses are people aged 45+ that need something good enough to read about 30 minutes per day.
If you are near sighed you’ll probably use them all day every day.
- Comment on Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone? 1 week ago:
I don’t know about UK specifically, but to pay off the national debt is a common argument for austerity.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 1 week ago:
Yeah you could. Noone else
couldwould bother to use your usb/hdd/ssd with your file system unless you gave them the drivers. - Comment on 1 week ago:
I use Sumatra at work. Might be windows only.
At home I use whatever distro default is. No clue I’ve not opened a pdf for months.
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 1 week ago:
If and only if suffering is good. I’d argue it’s not.
Occasionally experiencing suffering will lead to character growth, but mostly in dealing with future suffering of yourself or someone else. Not ever suffering and not needing the growth would be better.
But there is suffering in the world and occasional small doses is dealt out to everyone without anyone of us actively trying.
- Comment on Checkmate. 1 week ago:
I’ll sell you a signed copy of any book you like provided that it’s still in on print and you’re not really fussed about who signed it. (Buyer pays shipping, tariffs, taxes, usury and attention)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
They even had a book series with short stories and jokes that you could read a few pages of and just stop when you were done.
Attached to a piece of string that you could hang on the same hook you probably had a towel on.
- Comment on The Picture of the Century... Nature defeats Technology 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of Xkcd.com/1842
- Comment on Couldn't big-tech shut out non-monopoly laws by saying that it's meant to be like that on "their" product? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Then Japan declares the product illegal in Japan. Apple loses 123M potential customers and their competitors gets 123M customers without even trying.
It’s better business to just do as Japanese law says. Keep the customer base and instead make a bit less money per unit sold.
That is after they spent a few million dollars on legal fees just in case they can find a loophole.
- Comment on Who knew genocide wasn't a winning strategy 2 weeks ago:
Troll grade: C-.
- Comment on Who knew genocide wasn't a winning strategy 2 weeks ago:
Am I correct in thinking that you believe that people in the swing states who voted R would have voted D if they had done something about Gaza under Biden administration?
- Comment on Seen in a public bathroom. What am I missing? 2 weeks ago:
Help me stepbro, I am
stuckthe sink. - Comment on Soup of Theseus 2 weeks ago:
My soup I’ve got for lunch today is guesstimated at 40-60% water pre-rain. So it could very well be indistinguishable from rain water long before a one molecule scenario.
- Comment on Soup of Theseus 2 weeks ago:
If you assume it gets thoroghly mixed between spoonfuls:
(All maths done while in the bathroom, should be checked before used for soup science) At spoonful 14 you’ll have less than 50% soup in your rainwater.
At 45 you’ll be down to a 10% soup contamination of your delicious bowl of rainwater.
At just over 100 spoonfuls you’ll be down to less than 0.5%.
Just like when you’re shaving the pubes of a bear you’ll have to draw the line somewhere.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
When I was 20 they told me that I’d change my mind about kids when I’m older.
I’m still waiting to get older.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 3 weeks ago:
Hi. I thought I was alone!
- Comment on Is it possible to make wireless charging broadcast electricity throught an entire house similar to how wifi can broadcast to the entire house? 3 weeks ago:
The energy in a wave is inversely proportional to distance squared. In other words if you double the distance you get one quarter of the power.
For information transfer like wifi this does not matter as long as it’s enough to be detected.
For power transfer this becomes a huge problem quickly because it’s the energy itself that is being transferred.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 3 weeks ago:
Noone, I just think that anyone who thinks he would get away with bombing a city is either trolling or has a tinfoil hat so heavy they would not get phone reception under it.
I’ll assume it’s a troll and thought it useless to feed him attention.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 3 weeks ago:
You’re either trolling or you’re too far gone from reality to get back.
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 4 weeks ago:
Yes. “Slower reaction time” or something is the phrase I’d use. It gets worse if I’m tired.
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 4 weeks ago:
On a population level the more prodctive we are the higher living standard we can afford. Usually the choice is getting another gadget instead of fewer working hours in the US at least. Some European countries are reducing work weeks.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
In any entertainment business the top 1% takes home most of the money. The rest gets a few dollars here and there.
Most people are better off with a normal job and just do it for fun on evenings.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Don’t think anyone will check.
Worst case scenario he will have to pick you up at the police station and you’ll have a story to tell.
- Comment on Is it just my area or has this been an insanely humid summer? 4 weeks ago:
No, about normal summer assuming this is the last week of hot weather (forecast says so).
- Comment on Is it weird I don't typically answer how old I am anymore, because literally nobody besides my family believes me? 5 weeks ago:
Could try to make something funny of it instead.
“I lost count after 65”
- Comment on How do people calculate pi to the hundredth+ decimal place? 5 weeks ago:
Leibnitz formula for example:
1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 +1/9 - … = π/4
The more terms you bother with the more accurate you’ll get.
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 5 weeks ago:
It will probably reflect some of the radiation. Wifi reception will be poorer behind the aluminium and possibly better in front.
A cheapskates version of a directional antenna.
- Comment on Ancient food are absurdly complicated. 5 weeks ago:
They knew about boiling water for salt since the Bronze age at least.
Salt price was largely determined by transport cost and it was just not worth the effort to gather the firewood instead of trading for it in many places.