MotoAsh
@MotoAsh@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar starved that day apparently. 1 week ago:
I mean, brain worms were never just a joke.
- Comment on How does harddrive failure work when there's multiple partitions? 1 week ago:
I forget the exact differences from NTFS, but it’s similarly “dumb”, as in it’s just a ledger of files and locations, and doesn’t do any checksum/validating. Only BTRFS and ZFS do on a file system level as far as I remember, but there are plenty of oddballs, especially counting networked storage stuff.
- Comment on BREAKING: Microsoft has closed Redfall's Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush's Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda. | IGN 1 week ago:
I mean, yeah, if you’re expecting intelligent long term decisions, those expectations are still too high.
Remember: This is the group of people STILL actively trying to cover up anthropogenic climate change. Something that not only threatens their long term profitability, but literally threatens the planet with extinction.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 week ago:
It is, in fact, not BS to be mad at a megacorp for cutting valuable and functioning assets, and the fact you do not understand that is hilariously pathetic.
If you’re aware of peopke and games that do fit, then whining about it and talking about how they get crapped on instead of how cool their sfuff is doesn’t help, either!
You seem to be more willing to paint things negatively than help improve, so why should we listen?
- Comment on BREAKING: Microsoft has closed Redfall's Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush's Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda. | IGN 1 week ago:
Stop having such high expectations. They’re capitalists, not video game makers. The money is the ONLY point.
- Comment on BREAKING: Microsoft has closed Redfall's Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush's Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda. | IGN 1 week ago:
The same thing wrong with all capitalists.
- Comment on How does harddrive failure work when there's multiple partitions? 1 week ago:
BTRFS is smart enough to check for file errors in some situations under normal operations (I forget which, it’s been a while). When it finds issues, it puts it in read only to try and prevent things from going off of potentially corrupt data.
NTFS, which is what Windows usually uses, is a very “dumb” file system. It is merely a record of what files exist where, so if data corrupts, it will only throw NTFS off if it’s in the file index it stores itself. If it’s in the middle of your file, NTFS doesn’t know and doesn’t care and will just give you the wonky data.
Windows seemingly continuing to work is just a consequence of the “dumb” file system. It will take some critical file getting corrupted before Windows or some program will just crash. At least BTRFS is trying to tell you things are looking amiss and you should definitely back up anything important.
- Comment on PlayStation Walks Back Helldivers 2 Changes, PSN Account Linking No Longer Required 1 week ago:
They like to think they don’t need to know, then they all seem to eat their foot on a regular basis… Maybe the problem itself is that people think “executive” is a separate job…
- Comment on sweet dreams 2 weeks ago:
Your loss! 🤷
- Comment on sweet dreams 2 weeks ago:
I’m not responding to the comic. I’m responding to someone who was talking about the Planck length. Please try to keep up.
- Comment on sweet dreams 2 weeks ago:
IIRC, isn’t it closer to a white hole, what with expansion? If you were far enough away, you cannot reach ‘there’ vs being guaranteed to reach ‘there’ like a black hole. Though really, it’s neither. Just curved spacetime.
The fact we think of white holes and black holes as separate entities just goes to show our great lack of understanding of spacetime.
- Comment on sweet dreams 2 weeks ago:
Plank length is not like universal pixels. It’s just where current models say there’s little reason to look at smaller things, since it’s kind of like worrying about which flecks of paint are coming off a car in a racing video game. It’s just … so irrelevant as to be ignorable.
It’s nigh impossible to have any energy that could interact with us or atoms on the Plank scale that wouldn’t just collapse in to a black hole. It’s not so much any observation of real-world pixelation, and more that even to atoms, it’s very tiny.
- Comment on You can't see him!!!! 2 weeks ago:
Not just distraction. Distraction with a very nefarious purpose.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 2 weeks ago:
Ahh yes, a classic “both sides” argument.
Please, explain how the left has gone crazy with their ideology, because leftists don’t have much political power to actually mess anything up with, unlike conservatives.
- Comment on We can dream right 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t what’s his butt say he’d never make a sequel? Or am I misconstruing memories on Terantino lying about how he was only going to ever make 7 movies (or what ever the number was exactly).
- Comment on Ugh 2 weeks ago:
Unless I’m misremembering something, haven’t they already pushed the changes?
… I could be misremembering ublock origin saying they already have two flavors worked out to support gimp chromium vs real browsers.
- Comment on Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari not so private in Europe 2 weeks ago:
No, the problem is with APPLE’S IMPLEMENTATION of HOW Apple allows third party stores through Safari. NOT with third party browsers themselves. Please learn to read.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
Maybe not geothermal per se, but something would be possible, with unlimited budget and resources.
Though the problem is just how MUCH energy volcanos have. Heat content is A LOT of energy. The vast (on a human scale) magma chambers contain an insane amount of energy. Rock has a heat capacity less than water by weight, but rocks weigh a lot more than water and can get a lot hotter.
So, it’d have to take away a TON of heat, likely more than humans use in a year for a single small eruption, but I’m too lazy to do the math right now…
Also, many eruptions are fueled by pressure from dissolved gasses in the magma. That pressure will stay present until the magma cools enough to resist it itself, which could require dropping an entire underground lake of lava by hundreds of degrees.
Then there are undoubtedly some eruptions that are driven by tectonics, meteor impacts, and other physical pressures that might not be manageable via heat control at all.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
Yes, exactly on the idea. “The weakest spot” is distinctly NOT the hunk of solid rock cooled at the top, more often than you clearly think.
It doesn’t have to have a huge effect to never the less completely change the nature of an eruption. Just look at Mt St Helens. The top didn’t even have to pop. The magma just lubricated the side of the mountain enough until the whole damn side slid away, allowing the eruption to occur.
They don’t often redirect every eruption, becuse many have NO other weak paths, so the magma pushes, and it either pops the rock plug or melts it. Not that many eruptions start fast enough to catastrophically pop the plug, and not all eruptions are remotely equal.
My point was NOT that the plugs make a HUGE difference, but that they make A difference.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely TONS of info, though I’m not a geologist, nor have I studied much, so I sadly do not know of any solid references I could simply point at. I’ve just picked up a few details over the years watching random geology videos on YouTube.
GeologyHub makes frequent short videos on current activity, and he always comments on the mechanisms at play, and even makes and explains his educated guesses on what will happen. A plug forming comes up quite often when eruptions slow, even in eruptions that are destined to continue erupting.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
Oh I get it! If you stack rock on the hot rock, you can stop the hot rock from moving the rock with more rock!
… Unironically, this DOES work … sorta’. Though it’d be dumb to do by man, because a ‘rock plug’ is exactly what forms at the top of many volcanos after the magma cools. It’s why many volcanos have flank eruptions where magma pushes through some side crack, or build and build until the rock plug pops catastrophically.
Of course some volcanos don’t have the right mix to form rock plugs, and any non-dormant volcano can pop them, but the point is it does have an effect that can delay and redirect eruptions.
If humanity doesn’t kill itself off soon (bad news on that front), I wouldn’t be surprised if one day we’re building megastructures around volcanos specifically to manage them instead of being subject to them.
- Comment on Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari is not so private in Europe 2 weeks ago:
Does it even use secure DNS by default? No? Then it cannot be much more secure than any other browser, and their integrated Apple IDs make their users more identifiable, so… A lie even before this app store mess.
- Comment on Vampire Survivors gets a AAAA update with functional doors, a train and rail kart racing 2 weeks ago:
AAA studios: “What do you mean our game sucks?? We used cinema quality assets and paid our artists 50k a year to make it all! It’s gorgeous! Don’t you guys have eyes?”
Meanwhile in indie land: …
- Comment on Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari not so private in Europe 2 weeks ago:
Well that’s just Apple “innovation”. You’re clearly not brilliant enough to understand the long term plan of
greedy moronsApple. - Comment on Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari not so private in Europe 2 weeks ago:
That’s not what’s said in the article. At all. What so ever.
The problem isn’t suddenly allowing third party browsers. It’s that Apple’s implementation to allow that in Safari sends out info about sites visited with those app stores. It allows snooping of what 3rd party things people use.
- Comment on Deliver Us Mars developers lay off all staff but plan to 'rebuild brick by brick' 2 weeks ago:
Yea, if they laid off the team that actually does the creating, it just means they’re aping off the success of said team if they bring it back with the same name.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 weeks ago:
Oh, if we’re talking about what it takes to replace politicians, technology has been capable of that for years.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 weeks ago:
No, you are giving too much credit to LLMs. Thinking LLMs are capable of sentience is as stupid as thinking individual neurons could learn physics.
- Comment on "Yes, it is a genocide," says an Israeli Holocaust scholar 2 weeks ago:
Anyone who says it’s not a genocide is either an evil moron or directly interested in seeing Palestine wiped out. Either way, despicable trash.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 weeks ago:
No, because LLMs are just a mathematical blender with ONE goal in mind: construct a good sentence. They have no thoughts, they have no corrective motion, they just spit out sentences.
You MIGHT get to passing a Turing test with enough feedback tied in, but then the “conciousness” is specifically coming from the systemic complexity at that point and still very much not the LLMs.