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- Comment on YSK: You can make supercapacitors out of cement, water and carbon black 2 days ago:
They found a way to create a high surface area capacitor made largely from abundant resources. Even a proof of concept is a discovery. We may not see it in practice in our lifetimes because science and industry take time, but that doesn’t diminish the value at all.
Why is this a false equivalence? I’m not saying this is the next Faraday. I’m comparing contemporaries. You can’t know what technologies will make what kind of difference in the future, but there’s no harm in being excited about our interested in them and their possibilities. I think my comparisons are fair, especially if you consider the technology of each contemporary era. What about Turing? He created a mechanical computational machine and extrapolated the future possibility of machines that could mimic human communication. That is absolutely an edge case assumption given the technology of the time and yet here we are with LLMs running rampant.
- Comment on YSK: You can make supercapacitors out of cement, water and carbon black 3 days ago:
A couple of guys doing cool stuff in a lab is how progress is made. If we stopped people like Tesla, Newton, and Faraday because “candles are readily available and whale oil is a natural resource” we wouldn’t have any of the tech we take for granted today.
This discovery is super cool, like imagine its applications in walkable cities where the entire pedestrian pathway is also storing energy from wind and solar
- Comment on Official Voice of Frieren Reassures Fans She Isn't Leaving Award-Winning Anime Series / Frieren mini anime 1 week ago:
Lycoris Recoil is doing something similar. Seems like a smart way to keep people engaged and show the studio that the numbers are strong enough to keep the show alive, but I am a little concerned that the studios might start pivoting to shorter form productions to cut costs
- Comment on Posting a new delicious meal daily for a week [Day 1] 2 weeks ago:
Looks like the swedish meatballs I had in Stockholm. They told me it was a national specialty, but I think they just wanted to sell them and I, an ignorant American, bought it
- Comment on Who is up for a coleslaw popsicle? 2 weeks ago:
Unironically, for sure
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 2 weeks ago:
I never spent enough time on YouTube for it to develop its algorithm for me. I watch like 2 videos a week maybe, usually searching for something specific, and most of the recs for me have always been obscure clickbait I’m not interested in seeing
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 2 weeks ago:
I see no problem with this, what with all the recommended slop
- Comment on Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting 3 weeks ago:
I have never been able to figure out how to block fingerprinting without entirely disabling my browser and it looks like the race to the bottom is accelerating
- Comment on Felling whimsical, might kms later 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on slrpnk.net is back 4 weeks ago:
Hell yeah, I knew my feed was missing something
- Comment on It burns! 4 weeks ago:
False Knees? One of my favorites
- Comment on This guy saved more than 150 lives in the "Miracle of the Mojave" 4 weeks ago:
Gotcha, makes sense
- Comment on This guy saved more than 150 lives in the "Miracle of the Mojave" 4 weeks ago:
I misinterpreted “not a professional pilot,” thanks. Also, I still don’t understand and will probably never watch the show, sooo I guess that’s that
- Comment on This guy saved more than 150 lives in the "Miracle of the Mojave" 4 weeks ago:
He flew a plane? Without a pilots licence? And that saved lives?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
My old job force migrated everyone to Okta the week it got breached
- Comment on Google Is Burying the Web Alive 1 month ago:
Still sounds like an advertising racket, except instead of paying Google to show ads, companies will pay Google to include an ad script in its AI responses. The extreme case scenario is that websites no longer exist and all Internet searches are queries to a highly regulated AI agent with zero transparency. I doubt it will get exactly that far, but the closer we get the more harm we do to accessibility of the sum total of human knowledge
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
And cayenne
- Comment on I always get into to the wrong mlm 😫 1 month ago:
Fry making Walter Koenig say it as Chekov
- Comment on Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis 2 months ago:
Virgeon
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 2 months ago:
I had a TA for my quantum class tell us, “Look, I know you’re all working together or sharing homework. But I’ll see who knows the material when I grade your exams.”
- Comment on Microsoft will preload Word so you can start writing faster 2 months ago:
Bloatware problems require bloatware solutions, I guess?
- Comment on 11 Years Later, Sci-Fi Toonami Classic "Tenchi Muyo!" Has Its Sights Set on a Revival 2 months ago:
Yeeaahhh I tried to watch it again a couple years ago and had a hard time with the first few episodes
- Comment on 11 Years Later, Sci-Fi Toonami Classic "Tenchi Muyo!" Has Its Sights Set on a Revival 2 months ago:
Oh wow. I saw this show when I was like 8 or something and it stuck with me, even though I can’t remember why
- Comment on Choose one 2 months ago:
If I were to guess it serves two purposes:
- To dampen the reaction when absolutely wailing on some piece of shit steel that warped
- Accidentally getting welded to things
- Comment on I'm telling ya Jimbo.... 2 months ago:
Fear
- Comment on I'm telling ya Jimbo.... 2 months ago:
AI could never replace this art
- Comment on 🐇🛬🐰 2 months ago:
I’ll call Alice, she’ll know
- Comment on Lycoris Recoil -Friends are thieves of time.- • Lycoris Recoil: Friends are thieves of time. - Episode 2 discussion 2 months ago:
I’ll still watch these, and probably adore them. Hopefully the next full arc comes out relatively soon
- Comment on Lycoris Recoil -Friends are thieves of time.- • Lycoris Recoil: Friends are thieves of time. - Episode 2 discussion 2 months ago:
Aww, I got so excited for a new season
- Comment on Super accurate 2 months ago:
