remotelove
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- Comment on TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale 4 days ago:
Punctuation can change context and/or grammar, but I’ll meet you on the middle on that one. I’ll also just keep telling myself that it was an intentional mistake by the editors to trigger real grammar nazis.
- Comment on TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale 4 days ago:
which is it’s
And bad grammar too. Tsk, tsk.
- Comment on Navy loses two aircraft from USS Nimitz aircraft carrier within 30 minutes 1 week ago:
MH-60s have 3 engines. 2 for the main rotor and 1 to provide air to star them them and provide initial electrical power. All three run on JP-5, which is jet fuel. (I was stationed in a helicopter squadron for a few years.)
JP-5 is a kerosene based fuel.
- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 1 week ago:
I’ll never drink again, but there are some days still that I wish my mind could be as numb as it was while I was a raging alcoholic. That thought is usually replaced with remembering how shitty I always felt and how I didn’t give a fuck about anything. Life was a blur.
A mostly clear mind and recovering body is a very good thing. Daily stress is easily managed with regular exercise and chronic anxiety and depression is only a tiny fraction of what it once was. It’s a good life now.
I believe the lifestyle changes not only lengthened my life, but it also stretched out my perceived time as well.
- Comment on Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi? 2 weeks ago:
Observe while participating is what I meant. The intent is to give a person a heads up that cliques still exist on Lemmy and it may take a bit to understand them. In my case, I found the first instance I wouldn’t participate on when I was classified as a fascist baby killer for some reason. (Some instances hadn’t been mostly defederated back then.)
- Comment on Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi? 2 weeks ago:
I would tweak that a hair and tell people just to make an account somewhere and observe for a bit. Lemmy can have some very distinct groups that reside on very specific instances. Or not. It’s a “pick your adventure” kind of scenario, IMHO.
It took about six months or so for me to settle into .ca after bouncing around a bit. It’s not really a pain to switch instances, but I personally like my chat history in one spot.
Depending on your client and your settings, your feed could have a bias that leans in the direction of the posts on your home instance, so that is something of note. Not saying that is bad or good, it’s just is what it is.
- Comment on thats all 2 weeks ago:
Are you forgetting about jorts?
- Comment on Carrot 2 weeks ago:
For some, it’s exactly that.
- Comment on Angry fattie German politician sends Gestapo to arrest person who called her fattie 3 weeks ago:
I don’t give a shit about this post or any argument happening, but I am curious about why you think defamation of public figures specifically, has to have consequences?
I am not a fan of defamation against anyone, but I give the least amount of fucks for any politician. (Maybe one or maybe half of a fuck is given in their case.)
- Comment on Nowhere more appropriate to ask this as I'm apparently banned in c/guns, c/liberalgunowners and c/asklemmy. WTF is wrong with this revolver?! 3 weeks ago:
I agree with the comments on this forum (www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/mushrooming…) that the cylinder could have a machining defect. (Basically a headspace issue, also but kinda not. The cartridges are sitting too deep in the cylinder itself.)
If there is room for the brass to get pushed back far enough for it to mushroom out, something is seriously wrong.
My first thought was excessive chamber pressure, but the bulging would be much worse around the rim itself if that were the case.
The bullet and the brass get pushed in opposite directions and if the brass can move, it will move before it deforms. If it deforms, it’ll deform at the weakest spot first.
- Comment on Scientists Realize That Magic Mushrooms Are Even Weirder Than We Thought 4 weeks ago:
Just a quick note that many psychedelics were legalized in Colorado a couple years back. Anyone can grow and consume them, but we can’t legally sell them which is fine by me.
Usually, it’s spores that are 100% legal since mycelium can contain trace psilocybin, so legality is questionable.
- Comment on No words 1 month ago:
The personality of the actor always outweighs the role they play in movies for me. I love the original Mission Impossible as a kid, but that was destroyed when the story was appropriated by scientology.
No matter how “good” a character is in the movies, it’s ruined by knowing the person playing that character is a complete douche.
The problem for me is not what it seems though. I love good movies and part of that experience is complete and total immersion in the quality of the filming, acting, visual effects, sound and storyline. It’s almost a hypnotic state and it doesn’t take much for me to get distracted and a complete jackass of an actor is a distraction.
- Comment on Poor pugs 1 month ago:
You mean WALL-E wasn’t real?
- Comment on How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine? 1 month ago:
I doubt he got bored. That mechanical hand probably felt like someone else’s until the nerves fully adjusted.
- Comment on If a country needs to employ state-sponsored patriotism, it's usually because there's nothing to be proud of about the country. 1 month ago:
(The correctly used double negative was confusing for me at first, btw.)
You make a very interesting point I haven’t ever thought about before.
While I have always considered myself a patriot to a mild degree, I never associated it with tribalism directly. Even with the many faults of all countries, it’s OK to be proud of where you are from. (It does make perfect sense that tribalism is the end goal of state sponsored patriotism though.)
In my mind, the fine line after patriotism was usually nationalism where tribalism runs deep and hate-based rhetoric becomes extremely effective. The definition of a patriot is somewhat twisted at that point. (ie: unless you believe [insert something random], you aren’t actually a patriot and therefore an enemy of the state.)
I am not agreeing or disagreeing with you, btw. Your perspective is something interesting to think about, s’all.
(For the people reading this that may not realize that I am using the word “nationalism” in a negative context, I am. If that chaps your hide still, replace it with ‘christian nationalism’ or ‘white nationalism’ and fuck off. Everyone else, sorry for the disclaimer.)
- Comment on Dance 2 months ago:
It’s a camera and stickers like this one of many odd DEFCON traditions. (Security professionals in large numbers is an interesting sight to behold.)
- Comment on Dance 2 months ago:
(One of my favs from DEFCON a few years back.)
- Comment on Warning: C-word 2 months ago:
Shit captions are what ticking tocks is all about, right?
- Comment on GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone 2 months ago:
- Comment on Entrapment 3 months ago:
I seem to have missed the question.
- 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:
Oh, was I using the correct lingo for hundred year old methane powered shit gushers? I had no idea. Lol!
- Comment on Shamone 3 months ago:
The weird part is that it still looks like The Rock.
- 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:
use spent oil reservoirs
Ok, that lead to some giggles thinking about some company drilling in the future thinking they were about to hit a strangely untapped oil field.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought 3 months ago:
You could probably map resonance artifacts, but you have to isolate layers that were printed at the same speed and direction. However, the second you tighten a belt or screw, that pattern will change and I am not sure how consistent resonance patterns would be on a bed slinger. (The quantity and density of printed plastic may change the resonant characteristics of the entire printer. This may be less of an issue on a core xy.)
Thinking waaay outside the box… In some cases, I have seen extruder gear marks on the filament create artifacts on a print. Every gear pattern should be unique, but measurable differences would probably be micron or sub-micron.
Maybe you could map the surface of textured beds as I seriously doubt that those patterns would be consistent and more prone to randomness from the factory.
There are a ton of conditions that could generate unique artifacts on a print, now that I think of it. Hell, even a printers PID tuning can leave visible errors.
- Comment on Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist 3 months ago:
Well, yeah. If I was a betting man, and I sometimes am, I would speculate that Democrats are going to hold the presidency next and it’ll be just in time for the stock market to crash.
All it will take is oneinvestigation, one major implosion (hopefully NVIDIA, OpenAI, or both) or something else for the underpinning to come loose.
Since Republicans are unlikely to launch any kind of criminal probe (or other kind of interfering action), they can most likely keep the bubble propped up for quite a while.
TBH, what I am more scared of is if the bubble doesn’t pop soon. With OpenAI dumping money into consulting services and investors openly declaring that the end goal is to achieve vendor lock-in, it sets a ton of companies up for failure if they were dumb enough to make all of their core services dependent on OpenAI.
Either companies keep paying OpenAI to keep their core offerings alive or they can’t, and go bankrupt if they can’t convert their infrastructure and services.
The sooner that all of these shit OpenAI sub-service vendors die, the better. Venture capital will start drying up and OpenAI will lose their “path to profitability”. (It’s almost sounding like how meme coins support BTC… I digress.)
Hell, I haven’t even touched on inflated company valuations and how AI LLM market growth is being fabricated, in part, by shoving AI integrations into every product imaginable.
I’ll shut up now, but my point is that I am just applying the same shit I saw back in 2008 where the magic product was sub-prime mortgages coupled with hyper-risky market bets. Obviously, there are differences, but the core failure modes at the same.
- Comment on Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats 3 months ago:
The popularity of Roblox among parents is going to skyrocket along with the players average age.
- Comment on Rough draft NAS is complete! 3 months ago:
The fan is good, but the orientation seems like it would struggle pushing air between the drives. Maybe a push-pull setup with a second fan?
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 months ago:
(For others reading this, this is a perfect followup to my comment here explaining the “why”, while this is an excellent view into the “how” and picks up the bits I dropped about Ohms Law.)
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 months ago:
Pin pitch is pin size and/or spacing. With physical plugs, you start to hit limitations with how small the wires can get while still being durable enough to withstand plugging/unplugging hundreds of times.
Drop losses. (I am keeping this at an ELI5 [more like ELI15, TBH] level and ignoring some important stuff) Every electronic component generates heat from the power it uses. More power used usually means more heat. Heat requires physical space and lots material to dissipate correctly. Depending on the materials used to “sink” (move; direct; channel) heat, you may need a significant amount of material to dissipate the heat correctly. So, you can use more efficient materials to reduce the amount of power that is converted to heat or improve how heat is transferred away from the component. (If you are starting to sense that there is a heat/power feedback loop here, it’s because there can be.) Since a bit of power is converted to heat, you can increase the power to your device to compensate but this, in turn, generates more heat that must be dissipated.
In short, if your device runs on 9v and draws a ton of power, you need to calculate how much of that power is going to be wasted as heat. You can Google Ohms Law if you would like, but you can usually measure a “voltage drop” across any component. A resistor, which resists electrical current, will “drop” voltage in a circuit because some of the current (measured in amperage) is converted to heat.
I kinda smashed a few things related to efficiency and thermodynamics in a couple of paragraphs, but I think I coved the basics.
- Comment on Missed it by that much! 3 months ago:
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