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- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 days ago:
Dude Flatscreen HDTVs were expensive even in 2008, and cable actually got worse for higher price so most people were hooked into local broadcast.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 weeks ago:
It was the beat of times, it was the blurst of times
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 weeks ago:
That’s because they only considered one monkey.
You need a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters.
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 3 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Asian_News_International_vs._W…
wtf???
Why would they even bother to comply, India has no jurisdiction. Plenty of countries have banned wikipedia pages and the entire site before, why did wikimedia have to go out of their way to do it for them globally?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The American civil war was bloody, but its not like the south was eradicated…
Almost quite the contrary considering the confederate flag is still waved around despite literally losing.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 3 weeks ago:
Yeah and then google+microsoft rolled in and killed the decentralized nature of email with gmail and outlook.
Only sign left of the good ol days is merged accounts with @ old domain names and the few that self host.
- Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 3 weeks ago:
I’m assuming Ubisoft thought people would blindly cash in on a a legacy franchise. I’m sure the game was fine, but nothing mindblowing. Just didn’t make enough money for the cash money execs.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 3 weeks ago:
Me wondering why I haven’t been able to deploy cloud instances with the A100 for an actual useful purpose for the past month
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 3 weeks ago:
I swear this is almost trying to parody the title of the article about the 19 year old who was burned alive
- Comment on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users 3 weeks ago:
They aggressively buy spin off services to ensure a locked market as well.
Cricket wireless was a on AT&T network provider that outshined AT&T because it allowed any device + better prices.
So naturally they bought them out and shutdown the any allowed devices to force you into buying a carrier phone to ensure your device will be locked.
- Comment on Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42 3 weeks ago:
Yes I want this so bad lol
- Comment on oops, shouldn't have this bar association logo here either. munch munch 4 weeks ago:
Trying to imagine a dude rip a metal sign and eat the small text portion lol
- Comment on Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes I wish No Man’s Sky and Elite Dangerous would combine their talents into one game just to get Star Citizen to shut up permanently.
Each one could use features from the other. Add in a dynamic user controlled economy, and suddenly everything SC has been promising after wasting millions of dollars would be right there.
As much crap Frontier gets, they made a killer custom game engine which perfectly makes it hugely immersive from day one, which shouldn’t be surprising considering the original Elite was the first proper wireframe 3D graphics game.
Hello Games got a proper roasting for releasing a shell game, but they actually bounced back. Their planet generation and surface gameplay is unmatched, and their updates outshine Frontier’s.
ED started out as a crowdfund too, and No Man’s Sky as essentially a startup. Both of these game’s received their fair share of criticism, but ultimately they produced a solid 4/5 game. Meanwhile Scam Citizen has been bankrolling for 12 years now, yet they hardly seem to receive the same level of criticism as ED ans NMS got for comparatively much much smaller issues.
It is noted for being one of the highest-funded crowdfunding projects, having raised over US$700 million as of May 2024
wth
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 4 weeks ago:
Depends. I’ve reccomened this before too, but I keep both world and ml “World News” communities because even though they’re defederated, having both seems to encompass a better range of sources and topics.
- Comment on Ukraine ‘will seek nuclear weapons’ if it cannot join Nato 4 weeks ago:
Man if only they had those nukes like 30 years ago after the USSR collapsed.
It would have been a MAD trump card, or could at least be used as a deterent.
I wonder what the nuclear powers would have done to convince Ukraine to ever get rid of such nukes.
I bet the USA would have invited them to NATO. Russia would probably make an exclusive oil deal.
Imagine the possibilities.
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- Comment on Might as well go cyberpunk, I guess. 1 month ago:
This is actually kind of funny when you consider a lot of infrastructure refuses to use newer or better technology in the goal of maximizing profit, which the government also supports via lack of legislation.
Cyberpunk always shows some cool stuff around public transport, yet here we still are in 10 lane highway congested traffic with inefficient SUVs and Trucks since they even killed off sedans.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
They’re clearing out the scene before the switch 2 releases because they perceive the current emulators as a major threat somehow.
Which I assume means that the new switch is similar enough in architecture that it would be relatively trivial to ship a fully functional emulator on hardware release.
Pretty insane because at least in the USA, emulation is protected by law, except if someone can successfully argue that you are bypassing DRM which is illegal.
In a working system, this wouldn’t be an issue but I imagine neither Yuzu nor Ryjunix would want to deal with Nintendo’s insane law team that could wreck them financially in a matter of days before even entering a court room.
I hope someone either makes an anonymous dev team for a future project, or gets assistance from a consumer justice firm/group to properly argue in court to shut Nintendo down. They really should not be able to do this because it was already a thing 24 years ago:
Sony Computer Entertainment v. Connectix Corporation, 203 F.3d 596 (2000), commonly referred to as simply Sony v. Connectix, is a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which ruled that the copying of a copyrighted BIOS software during the development of an emulator software does not constitute copyright infringement, but is covered by fair use. The court also ruled that Sony’s PlayStation trademark had not been tarnished by Connectix Corp.'s sale of its emulator software, the Virtual Game Station.
- Comment on My strategy: whatever feels right, baby. 1 month ago:
[Insert MITRE ATT&CK framework here]
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 1 month ago:
Along with the recent Frog Wayland stuff, I’m happy to see Valve is gonna help linux desktop again lol.
From reddit:
Anybody remembers Linus saying “I hope Valve comes and fixes the packaging issue on Linux”? (yeah, on that ancient DebConf)
I hope Valve comes and fixes the very slowness of anything Wayland.
- Comment on Academic writing 1 month ago:
The loser research paper vs the chad blog tutorial
^ literally anything related to buffer overflow attacks lol
- Comment on Ladies and Gentlemen, the sate of AI. 2 months ago:
Yeah I should have mentioned the context is FBLA, and Google partially fixed the prompt.
Original from a few weeks ago:
BPA is another student org called Business Professionals of America
The AI ignores the subject context and just compares whatever is the most common acronym.
They lazy patched it by making the model do a subject check on the result, but not on the prompt so it still comes back with the chemical lol.
- Comment on Ladies and Gentlemen, the sate of AI. 2 months ago:
You can do this with practically any versus question and get hilarious results
- Comment on Wendy's 2 months ago:
I think you’re thinking of the Taliban
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
It’s because she wasn’t a major contestant in the 2016 primary because people voted for better candidates. On top of that, she seems to be a 1:1 copy paste of Biden, which isn’t good because people didn’t like Biden half assing his promises in office and giving republicans an easy time making a counter campaign.
On top of that she basically told the uncommitted group to get bent, so that gives Trump more voter leverage similar to how he beat Hillary.
Biden was met with the same voter response because he was voted in explicitly to remove Trump. Otherwise he’s known as being Obama’s VP, of which even Obama said that he should retire afterwards because he was a centrist.
It’s the same deal as 2016, where the DNC thinks campaigning on “lesser evil” is a viable strategy in order to retain their lobby money. If the RNC actually had more than two brain cells, they could easily win this election by not having their candidates not act like insane asylum criminals.
- Comment on Dutch government to ban ASML from servicing installed wafer tools in China 2 months ago:
It’s not 90s tech though, especially for China.
Their latest x86 CPU is comparable to Kaby Lake in cycle speed which is only 8 years old, except it comes with more cores and supports DDR5 so it might as well be a first gen ryzen 7.
They still haven’t revealed how they fabricated it or what process they used, probably because they want to keep the production chain and size a secret.
Enriching uranium and making nukes, in comparison, is banging rocks together.
No it isn’t, especially for weapons grade Uranium. Look at Iran, they’ve been perpetually “10% away from a bomb” for more than 20 years and still haven’t succeeded.
The ridiculously high precision required to make the centrifuges, and then the scale required to make hundreds of thousands of them per plant just to reach 20% enrichment is insane.
Reaching 90% is like taking all that and ramping it up several hundred times.
The only reason Pakistan succeeded was because they got (stole) the critical design parameters needed for the centrifuges to work, and a rather brilliant metallurgist who took several years to figure out how to manufacture the centrifuges consistently at scale. Plus an entire set of physicists just to figure out the centrifuge physics in a way that would allow them to maximize refinement with dozens of design variables. It still took them a decade, but they eventually got it.
It’s a pretty good comparison to lithography machines which requires similar dead precision with each decreasing size of transistor requiring an order of magnitude more precision in quality engineering.
Also I don’t think the US is involved in this, at least not directly:
I doubt it because they’ve been making it a pretty big deal for the past 4 years. Tons of Chinese tech OEMs are blacklisted, and the trade war keeps escalating with new bans/tariffs/exclusions every year. Plus they dumped billions of dollars into intel and TSMC in a desperate attempt to make a fab on the home front.
It doesn’t matter that it’s DUV, they just want to ensure they make it harder for China to catch up, so even last gen tech is on the line because they believe it can be studied and reverse engineered.
imo it’s a stupid shortsighted policy, but it’s nothing new for the US pulling these types of moves. I just wish for once they’d see that it’ll only delay the inevitable, and maybe they should put that effort into actually making quality products at home instead of throwing money at chip OEMs and expecting them to move out of Taiwan overnight.
- Comment on Dutch government to ban ASML from servicing installed wafer tools in China 2 months ago:
People here (including the US govt apparently) acting like it’s actually going to take China a decade to figure out how to run a wafer machine bruh.
Not only do they probably already have the procedures written down and kept safe, they’ve been already been experimenting with having to run the entire supply chain on their own for years now. Hell they’re even the ones basically carrying RISC-V development right now because they barely have OEM access to x86.
And that’s all without the assumption that China hasn’t stolen some key trade secrets that would give them a head start. I highly doubt this equipment will actually go offline besides some practice runs and research application which they have likely already done without telling anyone/
Pakistan’s entire nuclear arsenal only exists because one talented due working at URENCO (also coincidentally Dutch like ASML) took a few hundred documents and his years of work experience back to his home country. If broke ass Pakistan could figure out how to make fissile material and nukes in their backyard, China sure as hell gonna figure out how to fabricate chips without any external suppliers or contractors.
- Comment on Pirate Streaming Giants Fboxz, AniWave, Zoroxtv & Others Dead in Major Collapse 2 months ago:
I think I can actually list out more pirate stream sites that are still up and also older than some of these.
point being that I don’t think it’s gonna have that much on an effect, if any
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
Discard, De-license, Delete
- Comment on MBFC Credibility - High 2 months ago:
- Comment on How can I get a screw like this out? 2 months ago:
If its big enough, try the rubber band trick to get some grip.
If its a tiny electronic screw, you’ll have to very carefully coax it out with either some needle nose pliers by gripping the outside, or by using a slightly larger screwdriver head and ensuring it doesn’t spin (very tricky, easy to strip screw further, using rubber band here might also help).
If the case can handle it, you can use the larger head and give it some decent amount of pressure to make sure it doesn’t spin when you turn. Again be careful, because pushing too hard could break the case.
You might have to inch it fractions of a turn at a time to make sure it doesn’t break, so it’ll take a while before it becomes loose enough to spin out by hand.
