ElderWendigo
@ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
Just in time for Google to kill RCS and move on to something else.
- Comment on xkcd #2950: Situation 4 months ago:
Armchair pseudo-scientific thinking like this was why Mythbusters became so popular. They even devoted at least one episode to this very myth. Spoiler, hydrogen wasn’t what made that particular lead ballon unsafe.
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 4 months ago:
I bet you go to Taco Bell for Cinco de mayo too.
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 4 months ago:
Found the bigot.
- Comment on The return of pneumatic tubes 4 months ago:
You could proyget pretty good bandwidth with a tube full of portable digital storage. Latency will suck though.
- Comment on Elsevier 4 months ago:
Most papers are made in TEX or LaTEX. These formats separate display from data in such a way that they can be quickly formatted to a variety of page size, margins, text size, et al with minimal effort. It’s basically an open standard typesetting format. You can create and edit TEX in any text editor and run it through a program to prepare it for print or viewing. Nothing else can handle math formulas, tables, charts, etc with the same elegance. If you’ve ever struggled to write a math paper in Microsoft word, seriously question why your professor hasn’t already forced you to learn about LaTEX.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 5 months ago:
Like why would someone pay for a drink at Quark’s when every residence on DS9 has a replicator?
Because the scarce resource at Quark’s isn’t the food or drinks, it’s the atmosphere and the experience, i.e things the replicator cannot provide. Quark controls the holodecks too, but even if he didn’t the scarce resource would be authentic (not replicated) food and experiences. It’s been shown pretty regularly on the shows that some people prefer non-replicated food, non-synthohol drinks, and real people. It doesn’t really matter in that context if those are technically indistinguishable from the real thing (but even in canon there is a measureable difference between them and some things the replicators can’t do).
I don’t really believe there could ever be a post-scarcity world in which we don’t create new scarcities to demand.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 6 months ago:
Like every system? What’s the actual distinction you’re trying to point out?
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 6 months ago:
I think the more nuanced take is that we should be making “piracy” legal by expanding and protecting fair use and rights to make personal copies. There are lots of things that are called piracy now that really shouldn’t be. Making “piracy” legal still leaves plenty of room for artists to get paid.
- Comment on How to detect problems on computer? 6 months ago:
I’m just curious how much RAM you think that is.
- Comment on dependent containers don't work anymore because of network_mode 6 months ago:
Docker compose is just a setting file for a container. It’s the same advantage you get using an ssh config file instead of typing out and specifying a user, IP, port, and private key to use each time. What’s the advantage to putting all my containers into one compose file? It’s not like I’m running docker commands from the terminal manually to start and stop them unless something goes wrong, I let systemd handle that. And I’d much rather the systemd be able to individually start, stop, and monitor individual containers rather than have to bring them all down if one fails.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 6 months ago:
because most Linux systems don’t even use DHCP
This is the dumbest thing I’ve heard all day.
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 6 months ago:
That’s the joke?
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 6 months ago:
I’m not sad that Google turned out to be evil because I care about Google. I don’t care about Google. I’m disappointed in no longer being able to search for and find the things online on any search engine.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 6 months ago:
You just described the categories pages many search engines had before Google. Or proto Web 2.0 bookmark sharing sites like del.icio.us. Sites like Metafilter also existed as a kind of Internet index before everyone was adding reddit.com to their Googling. It’s a laudable idea, but these systems all seem to fall prey to market manipulation in much the same way that SEO helped kill Google.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 6 months ago:
Yes, I understood. I still disagree for the reasons in all of my previous comments.
- Comment on If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts? 6 months ago:
The problem is that while on its face the question seems reasonable it quickly becomes more and more absurd the longer you consider it.
ANY online account could be considered social media these days by the prevailing overly broad definitions used. Email? Amazon? ISP subscriber? Newspaper subscription? Cloud storage? Image hosting? Online diary? Tech support forum? Teams account through work? Almost universally they all either include social media components or could be defined as such by the overly broad definitions common today. The question has about as much meaning as asking if the juror has ever used the Internet at all.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 6 months ago:
I use tasker to put my phone in lockdown mode whenever it senses a sharp tap (acceleration change) or Bluetooth disconnects. I figure that if I get pulled from my car or slammed to the ground, I’m going to want to require a PIN, password, or pattern to unlock. A quick tap on my pocket or just setting it down too aggressively does the same.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 6 months ago:
They store the number of seconds since the epoch of 1970, but you’re always going to have leap days and even leap seconds. Even if you changed the definition of a second to match the current length of a year, it would be off again relatively soon and you’d need leap seconds again. It’s NEVER going to be as simple as you seem to think it should be. Chaos and complexity is inherent in the whole system.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 6 months ago:
No, still easier. They are still part of the year, so you can just count them, put them in their own special no name month if you like, and the logic is still easier than the mess we currently have.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 7 months ago:
In this scheme, new years day and leap days are not any day of the week or part of any month. They exist outside of the regular calendar as obvious and explicit resets to the remainder problem.
- Comment on xkcd #2920: Survey Marker 7 months ago:
Datums isn’t the problem as it’s correctly pluralized in the context of the jargon because they are two different types of datums. The problem is that expanding the acronym breaks the sentence, “But the North American Datum of 1983 and the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 datums are getting replaced soon.” It’s redundant, like saying ATM machine.
- Comment on 7 months ago:
I enthusiastically disagree. Lower Decks needs to boldly go and jump the shark more than traveling back in time to save a whale or talking to an old microwave that became a god.
- Comment on 25 Years Ago, PlayStation Was Blessed With An Amazing Advergame 8 months ago:
We’re you living in Japan in the 90s?
- Comment on Made a polargraph with leftover parts from a Prusa i3 MK3.9 upgrade 8 months ago:
That’s still 2 dimensions.
- Comment on Love to do this 8 months ago:
This coasting trick works until there’s enough of those assholes in a hurry that they all rush ahead to stop in every lane. Now all the sane drivers have to stop too. If I’m feeling plucky, I might honk and flash my brights at those “gotta pass everybody to stop first at the light” types like they’re the slowpoke in the way, which they kind of are at that point. Usually I just keep quiet and imagine that they’re in such a hurry because they are either about to or have just shit their pants.
- Comment on Everyone agrees 8 months ago:
Sure. Everybody is allowed to like what they like. And I have zero issues with seeing these cars at a car show. But the moment these fuckwits try driving these cars on a public road they deserve ALL the hate they get. They are prone to mechanical failure and are often unable to navigate common road conditions safely. One day I was on a road trip and there must have been a car show somewhere along the highway because every few minutes along the highway I’d see a group of cars with this mod along the side of the road with one of their number in obvious distress, with a wheel falling off or some other thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I think I get what you’re saying, but was really confused because those two uses of rise are the same word and same definition applied to different contexts.
I think the concepts you’re looking to describe are homonyms, homophones, and homographs.
- Comment on Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating 8 months ago:
I’ve seen that last mile, you’re lucky if the cable is buried more than one shovel length down. It’s the tech equivalent of the porn trope of using spit for lube.
- Comment on Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating 8 months ago:
How the fuck can they not compete with 5G?
According to the article, for the last few decades the cable and telecommunications companies have avoided upgrading infrastructure to increase profit margins, while wireless companies have been building and upgrading towers like mad. Wireless companies have also successfully lobbied to gobble up a bunch of frequency allocation to increase their bandwidth.