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- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 4 days ago:
That’s a lot of wheels. I’d hate to have to inflate all those tires.
- Comment on Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy 5 weeks ago:
This is Enron-scale manipulation. Someone’s ripping off the public and making a mint with the help of the regulators.
- Comment on Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy 5 weeks ago:
I guess they’ll have to shut down their bootstrap-pulling engines for awhile.
- Comment on Solving CAPTCHA for 'Bicycle' -- Include Rider? 1 month ago:
CAPTCHAs are solved by consensus. Whatever the CAPTCHA thinks a bicycle is depends on what people before it selected. Sometimes it doesn’t know and just uses your answer to set up future CAPTCHAs. So you should be thinking: what would other people (or bots) select for the CAPTCHA.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 month ago:
“Humanity can not progress without heaps” - Hubert Farnsworth
- Comment on Language 1 month ago:
I think free will is an illusion that a brain creates to aid in human perception. This illusion is an evolutionary adaptation so that a human acts to preserve its body and its genes by perceiving its person as distinct from other persons and the environment.
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 1 month ago:
You would think that with all those kids watching, Xi would lean into the whole Winnie the Pooh resemblance.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 1 month ago:
They still have huge ports and oil refineries going for them. Until the Permian Basin is drained.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 1 month ago:
Like many southern states, there is much natural beauty in Texas. It doesn’t seem like many of the locals realize what they are blessed with.
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 2 months ago:
This seems so incredibly ill-advised. If students become martyred by trigger-happy snipers, these protests will boil over into open violence. Imagine thousands of videos flooding social media in an instant showing student corpses. I fear that gasoline has been poured and matches are being lit everywhere.
- Comment on Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
How is it a breach if data was shared intentionally? This is a violation of confidentiality.
- Comment on I knew it 2 months ago:
Are the Dutch the same as the lizard people? Because if not, I don’t get what this is saying.
- Comment on I'm not bored or anything, it just feels like forever. 60 more years left of my shift on earth... 2 months ago:
I am 50 years old. I thought by becoming a research engineer I could improve the world like others before me who created things like radio, indoor plumbing, and textile factories. I published over a hundred research papers, but I learned that no one reads research papers anymore, and publication has become a complete waste of time. I learned that politics and money trump engineering considerations 100% of the time, and that the sole purpose of technology now seems to draw money from investors’ wallets. I wanted to be a great teacher, but engineers are not paid to do that because it doesn’t make money, so now I just make open source projects that I hope can be used to be examples to learn from. But I don’t think I’ll be remembered, as it seems technology nowadays is largely used as a means of swindling people out of their money so they can buy stuff they don’t need and makes them miserable.
- Comment on I'm not bored or anything, it just feels like forever. 60 more years left of my shift on earth... 2 months ago:
It could be worse. Think of spending your years on a futile effort, one which you sacrificed your youth and health to try to achieve, and having to look back on that.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
- Comment on To put life into perspective 2 months ago:
Don’t worry, none of this will matter after the heat death of the universe.
- Comment on The United States of America, but for Trans People 2 months ago:
Certain cities like Chapel Hill or Durham on the piedmont are quite tolerant. But go into the coastal area and foothills and you might need to be careful.
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- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 3 months ago:
What operating system defines you as a person?
- Comment on Microsoft says it hasn't been able to shake Russian state hackers 3 months ago:
Securing a general purpose operating system seems like the Dutch boy with his finger in the dike. It doesn’t matter if its Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X. Lots of little leaks, not enough fingers to plug them.
- Comment on Please Stop 3 months ago:
A blockchain can provide an irrevocable record, and it can provide a mechanism for uncooperating parties to agree that the record should be created. This is usually used for financial transactions involving coins of dubious value, but it can also be used for recording transactions of real world assets as long as those transactions can be faithfully linked to the event on the blockchain. Therefore the blockchain doesn’t really prove that a transaction is fraudulent or not, all it proves is that a sufficient number of parties believe it is not.
- Comment on FreeCAD Make-A-Box Generator 4 months ago:
I have a few parametric projects I posed on my github:
github.com/profdc9/FreeCADParametricModels
One of them is called “Memorybox” and is a gift box I made that has parametrically definable dimensions, and the text embossed on it can be changed as well.
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- Comment on Altered Carbon 4 months ago:
Debt bondage is slavery, but it’s still a thing unfortunately.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_bondage
It’s the opposite of Jubilee, in that debts are literally forever, rather than released every seven years.
- Comment on But isn't it dead too? 4 months ago:
This is survivor bias in action.
- Comment on Kool-Aid 4 months ago:
These are the important questions.
- Comment on FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law 4 months ago:
I, Telemarker.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow wants to wipe away enshittification of tech 4 months ago:
What’s he saying? And it’s not like he can see what his words are doing down below.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow wants to wipe away enshittification of tech 4 months ago:
Given that Microsoft software runs the government, I don’t see this happening very soon. They might as well be another branch of the US government.
- Comment on Fake news, fake penis... 4 months ago:
Think of the children!