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- Comment on Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway 1 day ago:
Yes, but if the plane isn’t going to move then there’s no point it burning fuel.
- Comment on Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway 1 day ago:
You’re right about one thing: 1/0 = inf is sloppy and lazy. The better way to write it is: the limit as x approaches zero of 1/x is infinity.
- Comment on Unsolved mysteries 1 day ago:
I think it’d be the “like this” option.
- Comment on Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway 1 day ago:
Burning fuel to no effect is better than burning fuel to get somewhere? A quick search suggests a 747 burns 5 gallons per mile. An idling engine achieving nothing is burning infinity gallons per mile. Which if you check the number line you’ll find is slightly higher.
- Comment on The Patriarchy 6 days ago:
Some trans men have boobs; calling them women is the worst crime imaginable: misgendering.
- Comment on The Patriarchy 1 week ago:
How do they know they’re women?
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 1 week ago:
Also by claiming “developing nation”, which is up to the nation to decide for themselves instead of having someone else decide for them, the planet’s second largest economy gets to claim WTO rules that the recipient (country) pays delivery. That’s why you can buy something from China for $1.50 and yet it costs $150 to send it back if it doesn’t work.
- Comment on „If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids” 1 week ago:
That’s a great plan! Do be sure to let us all know how it goes.
- Comment on HELLDIVERS 2 sees over 130K bad reviews on Steam as Sony double down 2 weeks ago:
True but the sentiment is real. It’s only a matter of time before Discord enshittifies and people need to stop being dependent on it.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 2 weeks ago:
A programmer’s pet peeve is someone who says “why can’t you just…”.
But the fundamental problem with your plan, assuming it’s possible at all - it’s been said that if the brain were simple enough for us to understand then we’d be too simple to understand it - is that you’re going to want to make your AI at least as smart as someone who’s 30-40 years old, which by definition would take 30-40 years.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
I’d be happy to upgrade my laptop to Win11 but Win11 doesn’t like it. I’m not buying a new laptop just because of Win11’s dick moves. Win10 works perfectly well on it.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
Just leave a virgin-shaped hole in the middle of the concrete block. It won’t change the efficacy of the concrete due to the magma wavelength being so much greater than the hole diameter (the mesh screen on a microwave principal).
- Comment on FBI: Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year. 2 weeks ago:
You should get him a call blocker. If TrueCall exist in your part of the world I can highly recommend them. They have a few profiles available from mostly open to absolutely locked down with a whitelist.
- Comment on Physics 2 weeks ago:
It has a single hole through its body from its mouth to its arsehole. IANAB but I think all other holes have at least a membrane between one end and the other. So it’s topologically equivalent to a teacup and a torus.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The problem though is when they flip the “enshittify” switch and everyone, even you, then knows they’re the wolf in sheep’s clothing they always were, it’ll be too late, and those of us that don’t want to pay the Zuck tax or have ads shoved in our faces left right and centre is to start over.
But we’re done retreating. They took Fark, they took Digg, they’ve just taken Reddit, and now they want Lemmy. Enough is enough. The line is drawn here and they are NOT crossing it.
If Meta’s other sites were shining examples of the best then you might have a point. The only viable way to prevent Meta killing Lemmy is to nip them in the bud. And yes it seems mean because this is the stage when they’re pretending to be everyone’s best friend and giving us loads of stuff for free. But we know the playbook, we know they’re at step 1, and we know perfectly well that Zuck isn’t sniffing around here out of any kind of altruism but because he’s after more $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
- Comment on Physics 3 weeks ago:
No they’d only model a bull as a torus.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 3 weeks ago:
I already have (Yamaha MT10), but presumably that has the same problem that cars do (burning fossil fuels); also it’s no good in shit weather (yeah I know that means I need better clothing).
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but the challenge was “Don’t use cars”, not “Don’t use cars where there is viable mass transit in place”.
- Comment on Trust issues 3 weeks ago:
NOAT
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 3 weeks ago:
OK.
Question: how do you propose I get to work? It’s 15 miles, there are no trains, the buses are far too convoluted and take about 2 hours each way (no I’m not kidding), and “move house” is obviously going to take too long (“hey boss, some rando on the internet said “stop using cars” so do you mind if I take indefinite leave to sell my house and buy a closer one?”).
- Comment on Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. 4 weeks ago:
I’m Guy your friend, not!
- Comment on People who lurk on Lemmy Shitpost 4 weeks ago:
Here’s a cool song about solid potato salad youtu.be/PTfA9oXbRNk?t=84
- Comment on clearly aliens 5 weeks ago:
The Shard in London was built using a top-down approach www.architecturelab.net/…/the-shard/
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
We like mixing them up too. Tyres are measured using three numbers, two of which are in mm, the other (wheel diameter) is in inches.
- Comment on wat 5 weeks ago:
It’s Feynmann’s multiplication technique. What you do is make a slightly more complicated multiplication, then divide everything by infinity so it all goes to zero, then pull out of a hat a magician pulling himself out of a hat.
- Comment on You gotta do what ya gotta do 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but that just makes you sound like a dick who has no idea what kind of mammoth struggle it is to get off drugs that are designed to be as addictive as possible.
Recommendation for future: either say nothing, or join in with those who congratulate them for their achievement.
- Comment on Quite a talent 1 month ago:
I’ve been known to knock out a several second solo on the rectaphone. Doesn’t tend to be at will though (well I don’t want him to slap me).
- Comment on The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody. 2 months ago:
The software’s not the problem though. Infrastructure isn’t free. You can self-host Lemmy off your own broadband for a while, but as your site grows this’ll become infeasible. So then you have to host on someone else’s hardware: AWS or whatever, and paying a few 10s or maybe a few 100s of currency per month is fine, but then suddenly you go viral and get clobbered with a bill for 50K.
Plus of course there’s the time you need to spend working on the service. It isn’t paying, by definition, so not only are you not getting an income from it you’re also not able to work at something else which could give you an income. This is fine for rich playboys but not for the rest of us wage slaves.
And so you need an income to sustain the service, and thus the descent into enshittification begins. This will only be solved when we get free infrastructure, but how?
- Comment on Fuck it 2 months ago:
That shouldn’t make you lose your job though, unless you work in a really shitty place. Own it, recover from backup, bring the account back up to date, then everyone has a bit of a laugh at your expense until next time it happens. Small inconvenience for the customer, who quite rightly complains about it, but they’ll get over it. Absolutely not a big deal.
If you haven’t got backups then it’s not you that should get fired but the backup guy, unless of course you ARE the backup guy.