scratchee

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little Pea Shooters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess the original claim works if you imagine it along a specific axis only (1 dimensionally) in that perspective you either fall quickly then leave slowly or fall slowly and leave quickly, matching up to a change in velocity along that axis.

  But yeah, I wouldn’t have explained it that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little Pea Shooters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You mentioned “from the perspective of the planet” before, and I think perhaps that’s the key, from the planet’s perspective you fall and rise with equal velocities and equal accelerations, but crucially the planet is moving relative to other things and curves your orbit, so whilst you might might have the same falling and rising speeds relative to it, they’re not in the same direction, so you’re velocity has changed, and from an external perspective you’ve gained velocity from it.

  Imagine you start stationary relative to the sun, with Jupiter barrelling towards you (not on a collision course!). From Jupiter’s perspective you fall towards it, and so from the suns perspective you gain velocity opposite jupiters orbit, but you’re not directly head on so it twists your course (let’s say 90 degrees to keep things simple) then as you leave Jupiter it indeed decelerates you relative, but crucially you’re in a different direction now, (from jupiters perspective) you’re pointed right towards the sun, so as you pull away Jupiter is decelerating you in the sun direction (aka accelerates you away from the sun). So you were both accelerated in the anti-Jupiter-orbit direction and then again in the anti-sun direction. Added together those give you a vector which is non-zero, so you’ve gained speed from Jupiter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Industries are made of people. People require goods and services. Goods and services are purchased with currency. Currency can be extracted from companies more effectively with the use of collective bargaining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve just made an enemy for life!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Damned software devs, they ruined software!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s gruesome’: fears of grave-robbing amid rise in sale of human remains⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Stealing human remains is illegal, but selling (correctly sourced) human remains is legal.

  I think their point is that it’s very hard to prove bones are illegally sourced, meaning they can only prosecute if they’re able to prove the bones were sourced illegally.

  If instead it was always illegal to sell human remains (presumably with exceptions for medical/educational purposes), that might make policing them somewhat easier.

  An alternate strategy might be to require strict tracking for human remains - you can sell a skull but it must have a certificate listing the full chain back to its original owner (presumably deceased). Failure to retain that chain of custody gets you in legal hot water regardless of how you obtained it. Possibly with a little extra security to prevent duplicate use of legitimate certification. (eg each sale is logged with a trusted 3rd party so you can’t keep claiming that every skull you sell is the same guy until one of them gets inspected, forcing you to find a new legitimate doner to act as cover).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe no blind spot, which is the place where all the nerves bundle together and pass through the sensing layer, leaving a hole in our vision (the brain works hard to hide this hole from our perception, but it’s still there and can cause accidents) Also maybe better vision in general?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically it’s nothing to do with Palestine itself, you can protest that fine.

  The issue is the group Palestine action, which the gov declared a terror group because they wrecked some military planes, and we have a law forbidding the support for declared terror groups.

  An overreaching dumb law applied badly by m a way to overreach even further. I admit this is not much better than arresting Palestine protestors directly, it’s a pretty thin cover…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your thoughts on this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point, after some googling I see I was significantly overestimating ais impact despite your comment previous comment, my bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your thoughts on this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It currently is negligible. Depending on how long this hype train lasts it may stop being negligible. Coal is on the decline. Private jets and careless billionaires are growing problems, but not as fast as ai. All need handling one way or another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but to be fair Britain had no access to the nazi leaderships’ private writings at the time, and really couldn’t be sure if they felt that way, and we can’t be sure the nazis might have changed their minds in the face of a meeker and weaker British response.

  So overall, I think perhaps the British response was pretty close to forced out, despite the theoretical full knowledge scenario of coexistence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government suggests deleting files to save water⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If evaporative cooling is the only solution then the market will adjust to the new cost by moving power generation towards the coasts or just increase the price, if there are other solutions they’ll become the economically more viable. Either way more water is conserved and you can always balance the cost benefit by adjusting the fine/tax to find a good balance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Criminals are famously environmentally conscious, and never have any spare cash for a pricy car as a mode of transport. Of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And android users are not obligated to give a good review after not receiving support.

  I have no problem with his actions, (if he doesn’t have the resources/energy/time to support on all platforms, who can complain about that?), but I don’t think he’s very good at the whole communicating with other humans part of software that sadly in the OSS world tends to fall on the same devs that do the work, he could have avoided both this comment thread and the angry android user above with zero extra effort by simply phrasing things better.

  The particular poor phrasing he chose seems to imply to me that he’s lumping all users of each platform together in his head, and each negative interaction builds on the previous, which isn’t the healthiest attitude, and does indeed make him look like an arsehole to anyone who’s just turned up and hasn’t yet done anything wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who said he was wrong? He basically guaranteed that android users will respond that way by refusing to support them, thus ensuring he will always be right about them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But removing them from the specific games they object to would not lose any more revenue than removing the games entirely, and reduce the backlash significantly, as long as they could find 1 obscure payment provider to handle the obscure games and keep some form of access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Is Giving Exactly the Same Copy-Pasted Response Every Time Time ChatGPT Is Linked to a Mental Health Crisis⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Safeguards and regulations make business less efficient” has always been true. They

  In this case, if they can’t figure out how to control LLMs without crippling them, that’s pretty absolute proof that LLMs should not be used. What good is a tool you can’t control?

  “I cannot regulate this nuclear plant without the power dropping, so I’ll just run it unregulated”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Is Giving Exactly the Same Copy-Pasted Response Every Time Time ChatGPT Is Linked to a Mental Health Crisis⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither can humans, ergo nobody should ever be held liable for anything.

  Civilisation is a sham, QED.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And we’re equally disappointed in both of you for following our terrible example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-backed medical debt company claims payment plans can help US healthcare costs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve wondered before if someone could start an “uninsurance” company which makes the same deals with hospitals that insurance providers do, but charges its customers almost nothing and just lets the customer pay their deal price. I guess the hospitals would catch on and refuse to deal eventually…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it global⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Around, of course!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggests⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The obvious limitation being that you can take a real photo with attestation with a real camera of a real computer screen displaying any fake shit you can imagine, then you have an officially hashed photo of anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia may have to impose quota on number of UK users to comply with Online Safety Act⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a fan of the laws regardless, but if we pretend for a second they’re justified, it’s worth considering how they should work in a case like Wikipedia. Wikipedia has quite strong protections against problem content already, and that’s because it has a shared global view of content with effective moderation tools and a wide moderator base that respects the rules. That should reality should be taken into account in the governments new rules. On the other hand, anyone who understands how this all works was already against this stuff if law, so I guess they didn’t get any useful feedback internally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair, we certainly won’t see any perfect or even good solutions given human nature and the large population, but I do think we can achieve mediocre success if we really work hard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re worried about cultural factors, you might find removing any significant percentage of the total population will likely run into even more implacable “cultural factors” than meat reduction would.

  This is regardless of the method of population reduction, save perhaps “slow decline” which seems to be promising atm, but that obviously has the downside that it’ll take a few generations to really have an impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rightwing campaigners claim there is covert deal to return Parthenon marbles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for sure, I was being tongue in cheek. I do think they should make a system for returning things stolen that would be appreciated more where they came from (I’m fine with guarantees of quality preservation and public display, but I think that’s as far as can be justified). We really can’t justify keeping things that we couldn’t buy today because they mean more than money to the people we stole them from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rightwing campaigners claim there is covert deal to return Parthenon marbles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I’m sure there’s some British things in the British museum, I assume those could be kept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owen Jones: This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really think we need to distinguish between terrorism in the sense of “are they going to keep blowing people up?” and “terrorism” in the sense of “are my taxes going to go up because of this?” I feel like the word is being stretched for the second example…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam now generates three times more revenue for Capcom than PlayStation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are 2 schools of thought. Those that are against the entire concept of software that tries to control how you use it, drm/anticheat/etc in any form is malware to them. And those that accept it might be acceptable in principle (eg for anticheat especially), but believe denouvo and certain other drm programs go too far and cross a line (especially when they hook into the kernel or start tracking things outside the game that they have no business tracking).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like they need to speed up the test, if it takes 10 years then they won’t be babies anymore by the time they get results.