zxqwas

@zxqwas@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely lemmings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  SnakeToesRFun2eat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you argue that others should not own investment property for whatever reason but you are a valid exception it’s one thing.

  If you say that “look at how much money I’m making, tax me harder daddy” it’s another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m happy we still have two.

  Short answer: hard to start a new company that can compete. Over the decades all the other companies have done poorly and gone bankrupt or been bought out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure I can give up that right where I live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creative and Inspiring building design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, an eye was definitely the first thing that came to my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s even the appeal of Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux tends to get out of your way to let you get shit done. Windows tends to be a marketing platform for Microsoft products that lets you get shit done.

  I don’t see why my office computer needs some xbox app I can’t uninstall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Without doing much research on the topic I’d say time limit it to x years after publication.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually round to 5 minutes. If I for whatever reason need the exact minute it will take a couple of second to see, depending on the design of the clock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "AI" the end of truth?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah you could. Noone else could would bother to use your usb/hdd/ssd with your file system unless you gave them the drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Troll grade: C-.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who knew genocide wasn't a winning strategy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Help me stepbro, I amstuck the sink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soup of Theseus⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. “Slower reaction time” or something is the phrase I’d use. It gets worse if I’m tired.