calcopiritus

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t think anyone denies that whatever happens after you no longer pass your genes around has no evolutionary effect.

Whether helping your offspring is evolutionarily helpful or not might be debatable (I don’t see how it would not be helpful though)

Even in beings that not form societies it has an impact. Example:

You reproduce, then instantly die. Now your offspring have more available resources around them, since you no longer consume them

Or, your reproduce and you become much stronger, but not aggressive towards non-predators. Now predators are less likely to be near you, and your offspring are probably near you. Therefore, they probably benefit from having less predators around.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You’re not stupid for it. Since it makes sense.

However, due to the way we “calculate” the sizes of infinite sets, you are wrong.

Even integers and all integers are the same infinity.

But reals are “bigger” than integers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're all going home early today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My microwave has a sticker so you don’t heat liquids without a teaspoon. I’ve heated milk in it every day for years, every time with a teaspoon in it. It also heats up faster with it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You can spend millions on building power lines over oceans and such. Or you could just spend that money on building your own power production. Might be more expensive (or not), but you get to control the production.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
When 2 people that know a language want to talk shit about someone else that doesn’t know the language, the first thing they’ll do is speak that language.

It’s not an unreasonable fear at all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Depending on context it might be stupid or make sense.

At my company, which has 100% Spanish employees, we can talk among ourselves in Spanish. However, in things “for the record” such as jira tickets, git commit messages, documentation pages, they have to be in English.

It makes no god damn sense. Nobody is going to read Jira ticket #6738 in 40 years when we are a multinational. It’s a ticket about fixing a typo in page 567 of the documentation. 100% of employees speak spanish, and some have dogshit English.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Because it can be done for multiple lines too. And you can do else-if too. Also, “if” and “else” is more recognizable than “?” and “:”
```
x = if y > 5 {
    println!("Y was over 5");
    z + 5
} else if y < 0 {
    handle_negative_y(y);
    z - y
} else {
    println!("<WARN> unexpected value for y"}
    0
}
```
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This is valid rust. I don’t know if there are more languages with this feature
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Swords had phrases written on them too. This has been happening since forever.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
“in 20 years” doesn’t get as much hype as “in 3 months”

Maybe if they said “in 3 months” instead we would’ve actually have had it in 20 years. Seeing how much ai attracts money with these obviously unbelievable promises.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
From the makers of “fusion energy in 20 years”, “full self driving next year” and “AI will take your job in 3 months” cones “all code will be AI in 6 months”.

Trust me, it’s for real this time. The new healthcare system is 2 weeks away.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
When brown, they are inmigrantes anda those are ghettos. When white, they are expats in expat communities.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Except for nuclear (fusion and fission) an geothermal, every form of energy comes from the sun eventually.

Fossil fuels used to be living forms, that got their energy from either other life forms or photosynthesis. Maybe geothermal for deep sea creatures.

And even fission and geothermal you could argue it’s solar. Not from our sun, but from other stars, that formed the atoms. Both the radioactive ones and the ones that are hot inside the planet.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that you can force Windows 10 to open your default browser instead of MS Edge with MSEdgeRedirect⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Or you can just uninstall edge.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You think drivers from your <country/state/city> are bad? That’s because you have never driven in my <country/state/city>
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Mobile firefox allows installing add-ons. Unlike mobile chrome.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨healthy nutrition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yes. Kilo means thousand. However in some contexts, a single calorie is the same as a kilocalorie. Don’t ask me why.

There are 2 calories, the small one and the big one. And the big one is exactly the same as a thousand of the small ones.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if Australia were Ukraine? Trump and Putin prove our strategy to trust the US is a roll of the dice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah who wouldn’t want to be killed indiscriminately and children abducted? They got the spotlight!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I haven’t done the experiment, I’m curious to know if you can take a random binary compiled for Linux 10 years ago run on the latest version of popular distros. See in which ones it runs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Non profits do have corporate leeches too. The executives at Mozilla have executive salaries. That is, hundreds of thousands, or millions.

They don’t work out of the goodness of their hearts. And Mozilla has to find a way to earn the income to pay their bloated salaries.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything is a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Simplicity is easy to pirate though.

If the product is a program that executes 100% of its functionality on your computer, it is impossible to make it pirate-proof. Even if all the functionality is client-side and the server is used only for authentication, it can be pirated.

The only way to make a program pirate-proof is if it runs on the server with a thin client.

That being said, some products execute on the client. Therefore if they want to prevent piracy, the only thing they can do is security through obscurity. That is, make it as complex as possible so the pirates take as much time as possible to reverse-engineer it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Traffic circles are not real roundabouts. They are just a road that have a circle shape. For example traffic circles often have traffic lights.

Roundabouts are traffic circles. But they have to be just a circle with “give way” at the entrance. No stop signs, no traffic lights.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It is affected by gravity. But does it have gravitational pull? The thing about black holes is that they have a lot gravitational pull.

I’m asking because I honestly don’t know.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Your Airbnb was someone’s home.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spain ruling party bars members from hiring sex workers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
To anyone unfamiliar with Spain politics, it might not be even noticed.

But it is incredible that the party with most scandals and corruption (PP) claims that they’ll party will do less corruption than them. Why don’t the media give attention to other parties that have less corruption than PSOE instead of the masters of corruption PP?

We no longer live in a 2-party country.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe someday 😌⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I can block .ml communities in my GUI. But I can’t block its users, unless I go 1 by 1. Blocking the communities is big, but not enough.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not talking about the technical possibility. Of course you can have multiple video stream, one per participant.

I’m saying that without multicast, it can be more resource intensive than having intermediate servers that can multicast on the application layer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Is a connection between 3+ people still p2p? Or is there another term for it?

I don’t know how this would work over the internet though.

On a LAN you could use multicast, but I don’t think ISPs support multicast, it seems like it would be an easy way to DoS. But I honestly don’t know.

So, if you can’t multicast, the way to have serverless multi-user video calls would be to have a separate video feed for each receiver, which I can see using more resources than through a server that would replicate the stream to all the receivers. Of course this is dependant on distance, even without multicast it consumes more resources if everyone is in the same LAN.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It was nice to learn of all this bullshit. Thank you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
So tell me. What are those hidden taxes?

What type of corporate parasitism are you referring to that hurts Americans more than Europeans?