ik5pvx
@ik5pvx@lemmy.world
- Comment on Snow Kitty 1 week ago:
Just beside the perfectly focused rock wall on the left, yes, it’s that blurred thing
- Comment on It's interesting to see what qualifies as a swear in different languages. 2 weeks ago:
You know a language when you can understand if the waiter at the restaurant is insulting you
You really know a language when you can get back at him
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 2 weeks ago:
I can think of at least 3 more, and that’s without including my country’s politics
- Comment on The German company that built the forklift used in the Louvre robbery uses a photo of the heist to advertise itself: “When things need to be done quickly. 2 weeks ago:
But it’s humour about work.
- Comment on New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule under new t 1 month ago:
The first thing I thought about was “there’s suddenly going to be lot of 2N2222 available”
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
Who downvoted you? Saruman himself?
- Comment on The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later 3 months ago:
404 brain not found. Sorry:)
- Comment on The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later 3 months ago:
Linux kernel has had support for 64 bit time for years. On Debian, packages for the upcoming release were updated to 64 bit time earlier this year. I’m fairly sure the other distributions have done or are doing the same. So basically you now have 2 years to upgrade your OS and to pester the vendors of commercial software to do the same.
Like someone else said, it will be 2 very busy years, but we can survive this.
- Comment on well? 3 months ago:
Whenever you get this kind of thoughts, take a moment to also think about the maths behind your CT and MRI scans, which originated from early radio astronomy. Alas, I don’t have a source for this other than it was said by an astronomy professor during a lesson for an exam I never even attempted.
- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 3 months ago:
In the eyes of the board of directors, sure . Plantings a billion worth of trees would probably have been too green
- Comment on Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews 3 months ago:
It’s SEO all over again, but worse.
- Comment on ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims 4 months ago:
Hi there, fellow QC reader
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 5 months ago:
Food is not the only thing that gets packaged. The worst example that comes to my mind is the way they package microSD cards.
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 5 months ago:
Due diligence what…?
- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 6 months ago:
TBF, I have those AND a programmable thermostat.
- Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days 6 months ago:
If you set it up with a password it makes it harder for people who shouldn’t have access to it to read your stuff
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
It’s distracting.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Is it possible that you have not been driving for the last 35 years seeing a solid block of flashing light, so your brain is not yet hardwired to recognise that and only that?
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I find them distracting. There are useful innovations, and there are pointless gimmicks.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Good.
Next please go after the animated indicator lights that take way too much time to realise the car in front of you is turning and not playing snake. Fuck you, Audi, and all the others tha copied this absolute bullshit of an idea.
- Comment on Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for 11 months ago:
They do, and they are super cute. This thing, instead…
- Comment on Garter snakes 11 months ago:
So why did I kept getting killed by them in Nethack?
- Comment on Wind from Uranus made it harder to probe 11 months ago:
Let’s call it Bigus Dickus
- Comment on fuckery 11 months ago:
…static fuck?