frezik
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- Comment on But yes. 1 day ago:
A lot of that heat comes from decay of radioactive isotopes deep in the Earth. Still spicy rocks.
- Comment on USA President term limits 2 days ago:
Not always voluntary. Some tried for a third term and failed. Theo Roosevelt tried for a third term in 1912. Though his first term was taking over after McKinley was assassinated, but it was only some months in, and that would be covered as a first full term under the later amendment.
- Comment on But yes. 2 days ago:
Given that the first commercial nuclear power plants in the US were coming online in the late 1950s, that’s entirely possible. Steam trains were well on their way out by then, but there were still a few hauling freight around.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 days ago:
It is, but those late model CRTs often had a lot of digital circuitry that displayed a solid color on channels with nothing on them. Unless there was a much older CRT around, they never would have seen it.
- Comment on To deter predators... 3 days ago:
Still are, but like all aphrodisiacs, it’s really hard to test. A lot of sexual arousal happens in your brain, and the placebo effect is very strong.
- Comment on To deter predators... 3 days ago:
Had an armchair hypothesis last night. Yeast makes alcohol, and we basically domesticated it on accident. Beer/wine making goes back thousands of years, and we’re in a symbiotic relationship with it.
That part is pretty well established science, but the the hypothesis goes that alcohol reduces human inhibitions, which makes us fuck more, which means more humans who want to continue making beer and wine with the secret helper, yeast.
But maybe that’s not right and verging on evo psych territory of a hypothesis that has no strong evidence beyond fitting some known facts.
- Comment on AI Elections 1 week ago:
Every day, we get closer to Handmaid’s Tale.
- Comment on Mushrooms 1 week ago:
40k Orcs work like that. It leaves open the question if Orc burgers are vegan or not.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 weeks ago:
The cameras alone should be able to see IR. There’s filters over most digital cameras to prevent that, but no reason to do it here.
Tesla is just advertising technology that isn’t ready, and people are dying as a result.
- Comment on Every place gotta have the cuck booth 2 weeks ago:
Shape of the table is wrong for that. Usually these things happen as an architectural oddity. There isn’t room there for a full bench, so they made it work.
- Comment on Half as Hot 2 weeks ago:
Then what’s the point of even calling it arbitrary? If it covers everything, then there’s no reason for the word.
- Comment on Gandalf failed to consider incest, half my ancestors are related baby 2 weeks ago:
I must live my life according to the opinions of 4000+ dead people. Or assuming they had.
- Comment on Sadam Hussein is everywhere 2 weeks ago:
For every fuck that’s censored, I shall say fuck twice.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
You’re aware Linux basically runs the Internet, right?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
Did I fall into a 1999 Slashdot comment section somehow?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
[citation needed]
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- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
Is there a way to distinguish between arbitrary and non-arbitrary? Or is literally everything ever arbitrary?
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
Just to nitpick, there are negative kelvins. I don’t really understand it, myself, but I know it exists due to the specifics of how temperature is defined. Negative kelvins are actually extremely hot.
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
It would certainly be a good CPU cooler. Marketing just ran away with claims they can’t back up.
Here’s an actual example of this sort of thing (starting around 3:22): www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8kprUGy57E&t=233s
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
If you convert those temperatures to Kelvin, they become 308K and 343K. Since Kelvin is absolute and we’re measuring the same material, this tells you how much more thermal energy is there and their actual proportion to each other.
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
In short, you don’t want to use a temperature scale with an arbitrary starting point for doing calculations like this. The freezing point of water is no more or less arbitrary than the freezing point of oxygen or sodium or anything else. It’s just one that’s somewhat useful for everyday use. When handling calculations for multiplying temperature, you want an absolute scale like Kelvin.
Or Rankine if you’re that kind of pervert.
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
This knowledge comes in handy with marketing BS around CPU coolers. If an aftermarket cooler gets a CPU to 35C when the stock cooler is at 70C, marketing will sometimes claim it cut temperatures in half.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Ussher calculated 4004BC as the start of the universe, which would be about 6000 years ago.
That’s my point. Most YEC point to 6000 years. Even within their own framework, I don’t see how you get to 4000 years. My best guess is they saw 4004BC and forgot that 1 BC was about 2000 years ago.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
I’m not even sure how you get to 4000 years old from biblical literalisim.
- Comment on Automatic emergency braking is getting better at preventing crashes 3 weeks ago:
I put a bike on a trunk rack on the back of our Toyota. It thought a bike was behind the car and kept slamming on the brakes while trying to back out of the driveway.
Then there’s the lane assist that jerks the wheel while going through construction zones, because the lines on the road don’t match up with where you need to be.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 weeks ago:
Trade Secrets don’t need to be enforced much by law. You can create an ad hoc trade secret regime by simply keeping your secret between a few key employees. As it happens, there are some laws that go beyond that to help companies keep the secret, but that only extends something that could happen naturally.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 weeks ago:
It actually did, but not in a way people expected at the time that movie was made.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 weeks ago:
We shall break into the desktop and laptop market! Let’s start by severing ties with one of the most successful companies to do that so far.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 weeks ago:
The x86 license itself doesn’t matter much anymore. Those patents expired a long time ago. Early x86_64 is held by AMD, but those patents are also expiring soon.
There’s more advancements past that which are held by both Intel and AMD. You still can’t make a modern x86 CPU on your own. Soon, you’ll be able to make a CPU with an instruction set compatible with the first Athlon 64-bit processors, but that’s as far as it goes.