snowsuit2654

@snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cords⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I didn’t realize the difference between AC and DC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cords⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah I see. You can tell I don’t know much about this lol. I figured it was like DC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cords⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know much about circuits but could you switch the polarity to make this work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And wouldn't you know it, he's unavailable this weekend for my uncle's funeral.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Years ago the punk band Treephort turned this billboard into a song: treephort.bandcamp.com/track/gorilla

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The good news is, a lot of old secrets won’t really matter anymore by the time we have quantum computers that can break the encryption. There will obviously be a big impact on information that was encrypted just before we get a working quantum computer that can crack modern crypto.

  In cryptography discussions, I feel like we’re usually implying (or even saying out loud) that the encryption is secure for a sufficient amount of time and computer power. Perhaps people outside of cryptography don’t know it, but I think there is a reasonable expectation that encrypted communications could be decrypted at some point in the future. We just hope it’s sufficiently far enough away (or difficult enough) to not be a problem.

  Honestly as soon as we get some good post-quantum crypto, we’ll probably want to switch over to it asap, even if good quantum computers are still far out, just to help alleviate some of this problem. Of course, I imagine we’re still going to be finding new things once the technology is real and being used. Let’s hope the post-quantum cryptography algorithms we come up with actually are strong against a sufficiently large quantum computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's just what happens. It's life.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He actually is pretty heavyset in his role in The Exorcism, which just came out. I don’t know if it was intentional but it certainly fits with his character in the film.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone posted about Americans being able to drive for like 13 hours in Texas and still be in Texas. The punchline was that Europeans can’t comprehend it. Then a bunch of euro memes came out showing similar distances in Europe.

  Perhaps related, there was a news post today about an effort to develop a standardized system for time on the moon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We say CHA in my D&D group when talking about the stat, but I’m gonna start saying rizz at the table and see how people react.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨))<>((⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I totally agree. You can minimize and optimize as part of your build procedure/compilation but the source code should be as readable as possible for humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Free two day delivery and access to prime video

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yum!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of ways to track besides cookies. There are many ways you can fingerprint a user. It’s actually pretty hard to not have a unique fingerprint on the Internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The library where my wife works is having a Black Friday sale.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I get the kanopy streaming service through my local library. It’s awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't catch me coppers!!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Endoscopy is through the mouth. That would be a colonoscopy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its most common use case is interrupting games⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, many people use computers but are not the ones who installed the operating system (e.g. work, school, library, etc.). I think it’s likely more accessible to be able to enable the feature at any time, if needed. In my experience pressing shift five times generally only happens to me when playing games. I don’t know how often it pops with normal web browsing, email, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says empathy isn't a soft skill — it's actually 'the hardest skill we learn'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know much about him tbh, but whenever you’re talking about Steve Ballmer you have to mention this: youtu.be/XxbJw8PrIkc?si=wo_5LMsM4k-lKhBq

  Also the Ballmer Peak is funny: xkcd.com/323/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FTC wants to ban hidden 'junk fees' that jack up the price of your purchases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you could do more localized caching. Localities with different sales tax are finite and few. Cache pages based on those localities and then serve pages based on the IP of the client. It’s not ideal or as optimal, but it’s not that unreasonable in my mind. If it became the norm we’d build the infrastructure to sustain it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halloween Decoration: Lvl 💯 🎃⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t even really a Halloween decoration

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CERN swaps databases to tackle its petabyte-a-day habit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang, that’s a lot of data.