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- Comment on 8 months ago:
This is correct, but it’s also, it’s only 100% of the heat at that point in the circuit.
Technically, using natural gas to make electricity, then sending that electricity to an electric heater would be less efficient than burning that natural gas for heat at the source.
So it depends on where you start counting from.
- Comment on This Is Why Tesla’s Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting 8 months ago:
How do you know a commenter is over 40? This one right here.
- Comment on Hare's first versioned release, 0.24.0 8 months ago:
Fits on a 3.5" floppy… interesting.
- Comment on How can a ugly and short guy compensate for his looks? 8 months ago:
To what end?
Many people view “looks” with a strong filter of personality. So being active, funny, nice, kind, etc. would actually, really, make you look more attractive to people.
Dress well, stay clean, get fit, improve yourself as much as possible. But do these things to make yourself a better person, not with an ulterior motive.
- Comment on 9 months ago:
Bone conducting headphones already exist
- Comment on I'm working on a mechanical seven segment display 9 months ago:
Wow, never occurred to me before, but this is such an elegant, and simple solution.
- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 9 months ago:
Which is KIND OF ok unless someone looks at a password breech list and figures out your super simple pattern. And I’m sure the rise of AI being used in password breech attacks will just make it more automated.
Real, true, random passwords/tokens is really the only way to actually be safe. Which means you have to use a password generator, AND something to save the password.
- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 9 months ago:
Then one password breech and your password everywhere is exposed to the world. That’s bad advice.
- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 9 months ago:
There’s no way for the average person to keep up with remembering unique, strong passwords for all the sites that require them.
You either have to write it down, save it in a password manager, reuse passwords, or have simplified passwords or patterns.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Alicia Masters, The Thing’s girlfriend, is also blind, so they’d make a good thruple.
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 9 months ago:
Networked cameras used for security should have local storage to buffer when the network isn’t available, regardless of if you’re using wired or wireless.
- Comment on The story of how the SSH port became 22. 9 months ago:
It’s an interesting story anyway, kind of fun how the early days of the internet people just decided to build stuff and that random little tool from decades ago continue to be the backbone of much of the world. Imagine if all that stuff was proprietary…
- Comment on Me after I got fired 9 months ago:
But rand() is a number between 0-1, so it will never be >10
Basically this is just #define True = False
- Comment on "Cheaters never prosper" is a lie that a cheater probably came up with 9 months ago:
The intent of the proverb isn’t that bad people don’t get good things, it’s that a person who is cheating doesn’t get value out of the activity.
If you go through life cutting corners, you don’t actually get to learn and build a strong foundation.
You can still be rewarded with jobs, money, and sycophants, but that’s not what really matters.
- Comment on When people talk about returning the cart after shopping, does that include putting it in a corral, or do you have to take it all the way to the front of the store to be a good person? 9 months ago:
It’s a very visible thing when people do it. It’s not common where I’m from, but if 1,000 other people go to a store, then just one person leaving a cart in an awkward place pisses off 999 others.
It doesn’t take much to make it seem like a lot of people are being inconsiderate, when it’s much more likely that a small minority of people have a very wide reaching emotional impact.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Yeah, Stargate did it better, because kidnapped humans inhabiting the galaxy makes more sense. Solves the “everyone looks human” problem without the “we have proof of evolution here” problem.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 9 months ago:
If you exit out and then start the show again, it skips the pre-roll. It’s annoying, but slightly faster than waiting and watching the 30 second pre-roll.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 9 months ago:
They advertise as extra $ for ad free, but then they put ads in it. That’s dishonest.
What I have to do whenever I watch a show is start the show, get the pre-roll, exit out, then start the show again. It’s annoying and a stupid hoop to jump through just to not have to watch the same pre-roll over and over.
- Comment on Samsung is no longer the world’s biggest smartphone maker 10 months ago:
TL;DR - A combination of more competition from China in Android smartphones, and an increase in Apple sales, caused Apple to overtake Samsung.
- Comment on Hertz Is Selling 20,000 Used EVs Due To High Repair Costs 10 months ago:
I initially read the headline as referring to maintenance costs, but it’s actually because people who rent EVs were using them under the rent to gig economy business they had. As in, people would rent cars to go do Uber Eats deliveries and such, as the EVs weren’t being rented as often as expected from regular rental business. The people who rented these EVs were more likely to damage the vehicle than people who rented gas cars, and the repairs for that damage were more costly to fix.
There wasn’t a great explanation as to why the EV rentals were more likely to get into accidents, but it’s possible that the EVs were more confusing to operate, or more likely to be driven more aggressively due to the acceleration and performance. It’s also possible that the EV models they had were more prone to other issues, like blind spots, worse breaking, or insufficient self-driving, but they didn’t seem to distinguish between different makes and models as being more prone to damage.
- Comment on NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian 10 months ago:
Or fucking use telegram or Whatsapp. Anything except the official equipment.
- Comment on Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris 10 months ago:
This is the best comment in the thread. No muss, no fuss, just a link it the sauce and a timecode link to the actual event.
Thank you for your service.
- Comment on If someone pleads not guilty in court and is then found guilty of the crime anyway, does perjury get added to the list of crimes as well? 10 months ago:
No, that would be an awful thing to do. You have to allow people to zealously defend themselves from any accusation. Also, in the US, the fifth amendment protects the citizens from being forced to testify against themselves. So punishing someone for pleading not guilty would directly violate the 5th amendment.
- Comment on CNC Kitchen Made 3D Printing Filament from Plastic Cutlery 10 months ago:
Pretty neat idea, hopefully the equipment needed keeps getting smaller and cheaper.
Right now it doesn’t make a lot of sense except for larger, or shared maker type spaces.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
What in the world is this supposed to mean?
- Comment on Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers 11 months ago:
Imagine if your connection history got leaked by this.
- Submitted 11 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Dropbox removed ability to opt your files out of AI training 11 months ago:
Why does dropbox have the ability to see your files at all? That seems like a pretty bad security flaw in the first place.
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 11 months ago:
Biggest problem is that they cheap out on the tech parts. Nobody complains that an iPad has a touch screen, cause it works. But an appliance tends to have a crappy UI, running on a crappy touch screen, powered by a crappy CPU.
If they just used quality parts, it’d probably be fine, and the only issue would be expensive replacement for an entire assembly, instead of small, cheap parts that can be fixed.
- Submitted 11 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 1 comment