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- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 days ago:
One step forward and two steps un-forward.
- Comment on What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones? 1 week ago:
I think it is fair to assume that if you get electronics branded by a candy manufacturer, you will not get any sort of quality electronics.
Obviously they shouldn’t be a fire hazard but still.
- Comment on Dry Shampoo is the teenage girl equivalent to teenage boys' Axe Body Spray 1 week ago:
It’s very useful for dog owners when you can’t give it a proper shower. Dry shampoo and then brush it out.
Pro tip; do it outside. It’s a mess to clean up indoors.
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 1 week ago:
I think it sounds like something different. Lucid dreaming is being in a state between awake and asleep to stay in first person control with the brain in unrestrained creative mode, while this is about training the brain to make up desired interpretations after waking up from full sleep mode.
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 1 week ago:
Oh this is interesting. I’ve recently come to terms with the amazing plasticity of the brain. So if the brain assembles a narrative only after the flood of random stimuli, it should be possible to train it to use certain baselines for what narratives to assemble.
Any neurologists and psychiatrists and other brain specialists in the house?
- Comment on Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration 3 weeks ago:
My understanding of space engineering is that getting rid of heat is a bigger problem. Makes me wonder how much of efficiency of Stirling engines are lost due to extra weight and complexity for heat exchangers and radiators.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 3 weeks ago:
If this post is intended as discussion material; No, not as long that I have my stationary computer that fills my gaming needs.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 weeks ago:
I think that’s the same game I queued up for like 90 mins at a computer fair to have a few minutes of very confused playtime and that was it.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 weeks ago:
I remember trying the first VR headset game 1990 that ran on a Commodore Amiga in like 7 fps and was terrible in every way.
- Comment on Camera Capabilities Unlocked From A Mouse 4 weeks ago:
Back in the day scanners were not the table model that is obsolete today but were drum scanners or hand scanners of which the latter was a hammerhead mouse with a horizontal optical sensor and regular computer mice used balls for tracking.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 5 weeks ago:
The rest of the world has done various responses to the American trade war. Most everybody else has found other partners to do business with and those that haven’t are soon about to. America is not hurting other countries economically as much as they are hurting themselves. The entire ICE thing is terrible and it is too bad the government agencies have given in and that the military seems to be rolling with it too. But it is still domestic affairs as long there isn’t any proof of concentration camps or massacres or the like. We have lots of empathy for the people in America suffering from all of this.
But then again…
You guys have free elections and this is your democratically elected leader doing what he promised to do. You guys had him elected after he staged a failed coup once already. What do you expect the rest of the world to do about it? To save you guys from yourselves?
- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 5 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on Is airtags really useful? 1 month ago:
I know several owners of cats that have tags. I know at least one with a proper GPS transmitter on the cat collar.
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 1 month ago:
And build a submarine of them.
- Comment on My new Visual Arts community! 1 month ago:
Suggestion: Describe and moderate it for fine arts or it will be flooded with furry drawings and fanart.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 1 month ago:
Nobody hates leftists like other leftists with a slightly different flavour of leftism. This is by tradition as long as the leftist discourse has been up. Plenty of people find it unthinkable with nuances or compromises even for communal goals that would benefit everybody.
Add to this that social media is inherently toxic and anonymity brings out the absolute worst in many people to spew hate for slight differences in opinion.
It’s too bad but I’d recommend you to not get caught up in it and don’t let it get to you. People are people and the chances that they will change in any foreseeable future are small. Keep doing what you think is positive and constructive and don’t let others make you disappointed.
- Comment on Flashbacks scenes in Movies/TV should be depicted as being more blurry than present scenes, since most people can't actually remember a past event that accurately. 1 month ago:
OoOoOoOooo
- Comment on Flashbacks scenes in Movies/TV should be depicted as being more blurry than present scenes, since most people can't actually remember a past event that accurately. 1 month ago:
Wavy screen is the classic method isn’t it
- Comment on The Rapture could have happened, but nobody would know because everyone got left behind 2 months ago:
All good people were raptured but their bodies are kept operating so us left will never know.
Tell this to your local asshole evangelists. Let them deduct themselves that they are abandoned by god because they are shite.
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 2 months ago:
And their CEO thinks music is a product that costs next to nothing to make so it’s okay to screw artists over for his billionaire pay check.
Fuck Spotify. Tell everybody you know to use alternatives. Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer…
- Comment on What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely. 2 months ago:
Isn’t black and white stripes they ally denominator already?
- Comment on What if this is a coma dream. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t call it dumb but maybe expecting too much from people now that convenience and hand holding is expected at all times.
*Canned laughter that fades into awkward reflective silence.*
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 months ago:
It was a sarcasm.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 months ago:
We the people that want a finished product with distribution and a good eco system from day zero. It must be next gen hardware and be priced more than competitively.
- Comment on YSK 4get is a privacy respecting proxy search engine that can be self hosted 3 months ago:
I get a new banner every time I reload so it might be unrelated to the project.
But it’s been a thing with a lot of open source software the last years to have weird anime and hentai bullshit in them and asking the developers to to think twice renders a wall of horny geeks calling names.
- Comment on A look at search engines with their own indexes 3 months ago:
SearXNG is a meta search entirely reliant on other services.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 3 months ago:
Grey rocking is the best strategy to get rid of all annoying people. Do not engage, do not give them any fuel, do not give them any satisfaction. Be as boring and unexciting as you can possibly be until they lose interest in you.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 3 months ago:
Heavy Metal Parking Lot:
- Comment on Cornell's world-first 'microwave brain' computes differently 3 months ago:
I found some more articles that have more substance. It seems to me that it is a programmable device that is an analogue recreation of digital neural network design with the benefits of real time processing of data streams without conversion or sampling and doing it at lower power consumption that current digital technology.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/…/250814081937.htm
scienceblog.com/scientists-build-first-microwave-…
Tech news seem latch on to the words parallel and wireless because the chip operates with microwaves in a mesh¹ processing configuration but confuse what it means in this context.
¹ or “mush”, as quoted by the researches themselves
