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- Comment on Interview — Nana Visitor and Open A Channel: The Women Of Star Trek (Part 2) 1 week ago:
Interesting take. I really enjoy when artists can reflect on their work decades later.
- Comment on The Most INSANE Gridfinity You Can Print | Zack Freedman 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Most INSANE Gridfinity You Can Print | Zack Freedman 2 weeks ago:
The D&D dungeon gridfinity sets are really cool.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
You misread, I specifically said that Earth doesn’t have enough mass for that.
- Comment on Set comfort level to maximum with the Mechanism Gaming Pillow for handhelds 2 weeks ago:
Ok, that’s hilarious and very unique, but it’s definitely solving a problem that I personally don’t have.
If I’m going to be doing longer gaming sessions, I’ll hook it up to my TV and use an xbox controller.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
First - The major problem with trash isn’t the getting rid of it part, it’s the gathering it up part. If we could do that, it wouldn’t be a problem.
Second - Launching things on a rocket is kinda dangerous still, there’s a risk the rocket will blow up on launch, scattering the material across a large area. This is a big reason why things like nuclear waste is a problem to transport in general, much less flying it somewhere.
Third - Launching something into the SUN is really hard, it would be easier to send something out of the solar system than back into the sun.
van.physics.illinois.edu/ask/listing/43694Fourth - Someday we’ll figure out a use for everything, wall-e style. If we dump everything into a centralized landfill, we’ll eventually be able to collect/sort/recycle it into something useful. Throwing it into the sun (or off-planet) would make that stuff unavailable forever.
Finally - Throwing stuff into the sun would actually get rid of it forever, yes. It would be completely decomposed into the atoms it was made from. If we threw ENOUGH heavy metals into the sun, we could actually poison the sun making it not able to fuse hydrogen anymore, but even if we threw the entire earth into the sun, it wouldn’t be enough.
- Comment on Concerns about medical note-taking tool raised after researcher discovers it invents things no one said — Nabla is powered by OpenAI's Whisper 2 weeks ago:
This shows that AI isn’t an infallible machine that gets everything right — instead, we can think of it as a person who can think quickly, but its output needs to be double-checked every time. AI is certainly a useful tool in many situations, but we can’t let it do the thinking for us, at least for now.
No, it’s not “like a person who can think.” Unless you mean it’s like an ADHD person who got distracted halfway through the transcript and started working on a different project in the same file.
- Comment on I can imagine the "will you be using the mobile app?" question to get cheaper food is going to devolve into the Mark of the Beast and someday no one will be able to buy anything without using the apps 2 weeks ago:
The current generation is now showerthoughting the same thing people used to say about credit cards.
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
That’s one of the ways proposed for terraforming Venus. Put in a sun shield to freeze the planet, let the CO2 snow down, then process the CO2 into something that can sequester it away so it doesn’t just go back into the atmosphere after removing the sun shield.
Of course none of that is technically possible right now, but it’s a lot easier on a planet that has no (known) life to destroy while working through the process.
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, and there’s also the bonus of much less likely to get a counterfeit item.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 3 weeks ago:
New math came out of it, they figured out more and more efficient ways to figure out the solution to “is this prime?”
Those same math techniques can be used for other problems, and possibly learn something that solves a problem you actually care about.
Research is important because you never know what weird problem someone is working on might solve. Maybe it will provide a new math solution that creates better CGI, maybe it’ll finally create a technique to solve fusion.
Maybe it’ll just be something that we know now that we didn’t know before. There are FAR FAR FAR more wasteful things in the world than some nerds trying to solve big prime numbers.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 3 weeks ago:
Why is anything worth the effort?
Cause research into primes makes computer security stronger. Cause research in general can make new discoveries that can lead to unexpected improvements in life.
Cause we need to know the answer to everything.
Cause it’s better than mining crypto or doing AI training models over and over.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 3 weeks ago:
Formatting is off.
2^136,279,841 - 1
2 to the power of something, then subtract one to make it an odd number.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 3 weeks ago:
Nope, it’s real time travel with no FTL. The reason it’s “finished” is that it takes hundreds of real life years to get anywhere, so they have plenty of time to populate the world’s before the first players arrive.
- Comment on Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products 3 weeks ago:
Payment up front, in non negotiable bearer bonds.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 4 weeks ago:
Depends on which season. Are you extrapolating current JD? Or can we pick season 1 JD, where he has a lot of knowledge, but very little experience, and wasn’t a very good doctor yet?
- Comment on I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet? 4 weeks ago:
Depends on the writer, but they handwave a lot of those problems by the fact that replicators need a lot of energy to work (voyager explicitly said they didn’t have the spare power and used hydroponics and trade to supplement), and a lot of critical components couldn’t be replicated (dilithium, and antimatter containment parts. Also the isolinear computer chips were non-replicatible). I think you’d also struggle with any weapons systems, which might include shields.
Essentially you could build the hull and most of the mechanical parts, but not the critical systems.
- Comment on Temperatures 4 weeks ago:
Only if it’s windy and cloudy. A calm sunny day at 21f is fine for walking around in shirtsleeves.
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Double Your Android Phone's Battery Life By Changing These Settings 5 weeks ago:
You won’t believe what happened next!!!
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition’ Screening, Show Memorabilia Auction Set To Cap Off Infinity Festival 5 weeks ago:
I know it’s not a popular take, but I really liked The Motion Picture. It was way more Star Trek than most of the other action based movies.
1 and 2 are probably the best Star Trek movies out there. 4 is pretty good too, but I’m not a big fan of time travel in Star Trek (some exceptions, but for the most part time travel stories are pretty weak)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ve been running a pair of cyberpower systems for over a decade. I had to replace the battery in each of them once, but they’ve been working great.
I assume newer ones use some sort of Li-Ion battery tech, but mine are just plain old Lead Acid.
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 1 month ago:
Depends entirely on what the job is.
Is the 42 year old a welder? Then 48 different jobs might mean they’re in super high demand and contract out to high paying, low time frame jobs.
Is the 42 year old a cop or a priest? Probably skips town a lot for… reasons…
Most any other job might just mean they’ve had an interesting life and like to try new things. Their broad experience might mean they’re great for what they’re currently doing.
- Comment on Solid-state batteries could power the next generation of wearable tech 1 month ago:
- Comment on What is the best closing scene in the entire Star Trek Franchise, and why is it Kirk, Spock, and Bones singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"? 1 month ago:
Those are all good counterpoints.
- Comment on What is the best closing scene in the entire Star Trek Franchise, and why is it Kirk, Spock, and Bones singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"? 1 month ago:
It does show how dystopian Star Trek kinda is tho. Nobody consumes any media composed after around 1900.
Apparently copyright destroyed art and it’s no longer able to be created, except what was already in the public domain starting around 1960’s.
- Comment on Climate change 1 month ago:
No joke, that was the first hint.
- Comment on AskReddit 1 month ago:
Cadaver (or HRD) dog handler here. It’ll only confuse the cops, not the dog handler.
- Comment on Launches 2 months ago:
Yes, because of the way orbits work, you just need to add velocity horizontal to the orbit, which is just as easy going into the sun as out of it.
So a solar sail is just as good both in and out of the sun.
