ChairmanMeow
@ChairmanMeow@programming.dev
- Comment on America could have avoided all of this with a functional justice system 2 days ago:
In the Netherlands, to become a judge you must first study Dutch law at a university, then get at least 2 years of work experience in a law-related job. Then you take a second study of 15 months to at most 4 years to become a judge, which also has very strict selection criteria.
After that, you can become a judge. The judiciary branch selects its own members in that way.
If you want to become a higher level judge, you need 10 years of related experience and another study taking at most 2 years.
There’s no supreme court in the Netherlands. The legislative may make laws that supersede the constitution, but only if a very strong argumentation as to why is provided. The Raad van State (Council of State) can judge whether the cabinet has properly applied the law when writing new laws or taking executive decisions. The cabinet can suggest who should join the council, but the council determines if they are a good candidate (ranging from judges to scientists to former lawmakers). They then serve “for life” meaning until they turn 70, after which they retire. There can only be 11 members at a time.
- Comment on Disney going places... 1 week ago:
IIRC there were also some trademark issues?
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 week ago:
UE5 by default uses a lot of flashy tech that is supposed to improve performance, but a lot of it only does so in scenarios that are already extremely unoptimized. Using more traditional methods tends to achieve the same fidelity at a fraction of the performance cost. But there’s no time for optimization, and these fancy options “just work”, so there ya go.
The end result is a poorly running blurry mess of a game, but at least it’s on schedule I guess.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 1 week ago:
Nuclear power requires a lot of water for coolant. Usually they use river water and release the heated water back in the river, which quite heavily disrupts the ecosystem.
Additionally, during heatwaves (which we’re getting more and more of) the river water may get too warm to use, so the reactor has to shut down (happens in France almost every heatwave), which is bad as that happens when power usage tends to spike.
Nuclear is also extremely expensive, costs many years to build, not to mention we don’t have enough educated nuclear engineers nor build capacity to keep up with the demand for new power. It’s why investors generally don’t bother with nuclear much, outside of specific niche cases. Not to mention the carbon footprint of building a power plant.
It’s also likely going to get more expensive to run in the future. As renewables keep contributing more power to the grid (since they’re so cheap and getting cheaper still), power generation will also fluctuate more. Meaning, other power sources need to be very flexible in when they output power themselves. Nuclear is famously quite inflexible, it takes time to spin up and wind down. There are reactor designs that are better at it, but even for those shutting down the reactor for a couple hours tends to be economic suicide as well. This exact reason btw is why gas is still used a lot; it’s cleaner than coal at least, but also very easy to spin up or wind down without creating much extra cost. And it’s much cheaper than nuclear (leaving more money to invest in renewables).
Nuclear could be great, if it was A) cheaper, B) faster to build and C) more flexible. And no, so far SMRs have not proven to be any of those things yet.
- Comment on Helium-3 mining on Moon: A new frontier for science and geopolitics 1 week ago:
No, it was Iron Sky (2012), with the Swastika-shaped lunar base.
Let’s not give Elon any ideas.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
They accidentally added a zero, it’s supposed to be 1000m (doubke 500m).
- Comment on Uh oh lol 2 weeks ago:
Given the vastness of space, this is a lot less likely than you might think, and the process itself would likely take millenia anyway.
- Comment on Silent Courier: UK intelligence service MI6 launches dark web portal to recruit foreign spies 2 weeks ago:
Money.
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how many Labour PMs we’ll see before the next GE.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 2 weeks ago:
It’s poorly optimized UE5 slop. Looks like shit, plays like shit.
Hard pass.
- Comment on Nightmare blunt rotation... or killer rotation? 3 weeks ago:
It’s also a dlc song for Hearts of Iron 4, which in and of itself isn’t a game that promotes fascism but there is a weird far-right subculture that does use it to praise stuff like Nazi Germany.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 3 weeks ago:
It may surprise you to know that people produced music before IP laws existed.
- Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident 3 weeks ago:
The Jellyfin devs have quite clearly outlined some of the issues in the setup guides, and others are detailed in issues on Github. They do work on it, but most bad code was inherited and they have limited time on their hands to fix it, preferably in a way that doesn’t instantly mess up everyone’s setups.
- Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident 3 weeks ago:
Personally it’s quite nice. I just request what I want to watch and the system grabs it automatically. It can download from Usenet too.
- Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident 3 weeks ago:
Put your files in a randomly named root folder and it’s fixed. Even still, isn’t the worst they could do pirating your service?
- Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident 3 weeks ago:
It takes fairly little effort to set up Jellyfin. I think there’s scripts these days that set up the entire arr stack for you in a matter of minutes.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 4 weeks ago:
AIs specifically are designed to “please” with their responses, so it’s going to affirm you every step of the way and tell you your ideas are great (just like you of course).
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 4 weeks ago:
In the Netherlands there’s a simple pillar you scan your card on. Employees on the train occasionally just check if you checked in or not.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Count the fingers on the hand holding the bottle.
The blinds are slightly changed from the original, but that one does also have an admittedly poor view on the window behind it.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I mean her hands do look a little strange, especially the one holding the bottle. And there’s no window behind the blinds it seems. So it ain’t perfect yet.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
AI generated
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 month ago:
Personally I do have to agree though, the website itself looks kinda scuffed.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 1 month ago:
A professionally well-maintained wiki would work.
I can tell you that most corporations, if they even have a wiki, don’t have a well-maintained one (often despite their efforts).
- Comment on An Alternative to Lasik — Without the Lasers 1 month ago:
It sounds insanely cool! They already managed it on a live rabbit eyeball apparently, now for an actual live rabbit. But honestly, I’m not really sure what could go wrong if a live eyeball works. It’s a pretty mechanical change, not much else in the body (if anything) is affected.
I guess the big thing would be refining the method for accuracy and then scaling up so that many people can get the treatment at ab affordable price point. Though I suppose if the platinum lens is basically the “correct” eyeball shape, it just needs to be sized correctly w.r.t. the size of your eyeball. That sounds like you could make a whole bunch of templates for different eye sizes, and then reuse them for everyone with that size?
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 1 month ago:
It was working for everyone in navigation, where angles mattered. Which is why it became the most used map.
It was phased out in favour of maps showing area more correctly, because navigation w. maps became less important, not because “it didn’t work”.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 1 month ago:
Btw this feature is exactly why certain companies are also banning Revolut cards; turns out authorizes for payments on a card that is about to disappear is a great way to not have to pay for anything (the Dutch OVPay had fraud issues with these cards for example).
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 month ago:
There’s a handful of people out there cracking Denuvo games.
- Comment on Debatable 1 month ago:
No, his lip looks larger in the right but it’s actually his gums showing behind.
This image appears to he real.
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 1 month ago:
Hmm, seems I replied to the wrong root comment.
Regardless, the overall point still stands. These tools are great for assistance, but relying on them completely can cause problems. Even these tumor-spotting ML tools aren’t perfect, and they too miss things. Combined with a doctor’s skill this is fine, but if one begins replacing the other the net benefit will be lower.
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 1 month ago:
I was responding to a thread by RgoueBananas who is clearly talking about LLMs as he drew a parallel with IT.
