HeckGazer
@HeckGazer@programming.dev
- Comment on A young child in Ontario has died of measles 1 month ago:
Can we please just start charging these bioterrorists with manslaughter
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Is there a joke I’m missing? What does a leatherback turtle mouth have to do with a penguin?
- Comment on Independent auditors confirm top VPN doesn't log your data 2 months ago:
PIA got bought out switched to express
Oh no
- Comment on Microsoft: Copilot ‘app’ on Windows Server mistakenly added by Edge 2 months ago:
Common MS QA L
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 3 months ago:
You did not answer their question. They asked for Watts, not Watt hours. Average car batteries have a CCA in the range of 500 to 1000 Amps at 12V, so you could reasonably have 12kW in there :D
- Comment on I've noticed that people make the 'surface of the sun' temperature comparison a lot 4 months ago:
Surely a laser would be way more practical
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Absolutely not, stay away from us with that thing
- Comment on You people will never be able to replace me! 5 months ago:
Honestly if they could standardise the format the way monitors are named is S tier. All the major important specs right in the name, super easy to compare or find what you’re looking for
- Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? 6 months ago:
The Problem you describe applies to reddit also, however the solution on lemmy is in your question.
If a community gets scuttled on reddit, where are you going to go? How do you make the transition smooth enough that you’ll retain most of the community. You’re pretty up shit creek in this scenario.
On lemmy if the main community is scuttled, there are already 5 new communities set up, with the same UX/app/login creds. The members can transition easily and carry on being wonderfully niche.
Yes technically the owners of the instance “have all the control”, but it’s in the same way that a friend lending you their car “has all the control”. If they’re a dick or need it back you can just ask someone else. As opposed to reddit which is more like welfare, if the government decides to kick you off, you’re shit out of luck
- Comment on Universal Paperclips 7 months ago:
Cookie clicker just looks like another Progress Quest ripoff
- Comment on We never see the moon's turtle though 🤔 7 months ago:
Nah it’s defo a 'shop, you can tell because the turtle isn’t standing on anything. Maybe it’s standing on something that isn’t a turtle and big globe is keeping this from us???
- Comment on Phenoxyethanol dissolves into water [oc] 7 months ago:
This looks like something that’d be really fun to write a simulation shader for
- Comment on Low cognition predicts unrealistic optimism. High cognition predicts realism and pessimism. 7 months ago:
Don’t be too hard on them, it’s difficult to read with low cognition
- Comment on Russia renamed its ambitious satellite program after Putin misspoke its name 8 months ago:
Wait till you hear about the RS-71 Blackbird :D
- Comment on Why are batteries in phones always measured in mAh instead of Wh like for example notebooks? 9 months ago:
Wh is a unit of energy, Ah is a unit of electric charge, basically how many physical electrons passed by.
The voltage of a battery goes down gradually as it is discharged, so getting an accurate value for total energy dissipated is very complicated, as this varies greatly with the discharge profile and other physical factors like the age/health of the battery.
The one thing that stays constant is the amount of electric charge a battery can provide. If it’s old, the voltage of that charge will be lower and go down quicker, but it will be the same total charge.
I agree from a consumer point of view, joules would be a friendlier unit, however it is also a lot easier to game. Electric charge is a much more definite unit in an electrical engineering sense.
If any of what I said is confusing please ask me to clarify, I’m assuming a basic level of electronic literacy but it’s hard to know what knowledge I’m taking for granted as an ex electrical engineer.
- Comment on Elusive Ernie: China's new chatbot has a censorship problem 9 months ago:
There’s a typo in the title, should read “China’s new chat bot has a censorship feature”
- Comment on Federation Updates 9 months ago:
Great news on all fronts, both of those instances were pretty much straight poison in different ways.
- Comment on A question about passwords | characters used in them 10 months ago:
Once it gets that long it’s something like if every atom in the universe was used as a bit of computing it would still take some absurd n in 10^n heat deaths. Wild how fast the entropy zooms off the edge of the map
- Comment on Using radiotherapy to cure cancer which was caused by exposure to radioactive materials sounds a lot like homeopathy (except in this case it actually works) 10 months ago:
“Man slashed with knife goes into surgery to be slashed further by smaller knives”