kalkulat
@kalkulat@lemmy.world
- Comment on First video of an earthquake fault cracking has revealed another surprise 4 days ago:
Yeh! I watched this weeks ago and missed all but the motion on the right. Keep an eye on the right side of that building across the road - yowsah!
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 3 weeks ago:
Only the grains that are knocked out of the box don’t get played any more.
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 3 weeks ago:
They get to play in a sandbox designed for them. They’re taught how to play in the sandbox, and are given the toys to play (roads, electricity, raw materials for example). We get to be the sand.
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 3 weeks ago:
Citizens United Corporations have been ‘people’ since the 1886, as the USSC decided in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.
Yet somehow, unlike most people, they’ve escaped having to go to jail when they commit crimes.
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 3 weeks ago:
158 families isn’t much to feed 300 million starving people. We need rules on who gets to eat the 0.01%
- Comment on Bill Atkinson, architect of the Mac’s graphical soul, dies at 74 1 month ago:
Hypercard (Bill’s baby) was great; it’s HyperTalk was a very cool alternative for many “usual” programming tasks. After it died, I kept using it until the web took off … then, in a couple of hours, I used HyperTalk to make an app to convert my stack content into HTML pages. If it had only had networking built in, it’d probably have become the (much better) basis for the Web.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 month ago:
Partly, yep. Seems like every time I try to pin down an AI on a detail of a question worth asking - a math question, or a date in history, it’ll confidently reply with the first answer it finds … right or wrong.
- We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.www.technologyreview.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 160 comments
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 2 months ago:
As an amateur radio operator, The high bands get wiped first! 80, 160, not so much (no ionosphere? ground wave still works. Easy to throw up a long wire … afterward). Hams (esp. ARES) will become VERY IMPORTANT for a LONG time when it happens. Field Day is a good way to prep for aftermath. (Gear can go into metal containers to escape parts damage until afterward.) Portable generators (best without a lot of electronics on them) will be needed to re-charge the batteries!
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 2 months ago:
There are A LOT of BIG countries with big electric grids in the world today. Which countries GRIDS get hit the worst depends on which side of the Earth is facing the ‘hit’. Could the West (US, Brazil) or Europe or the East (China, India).
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 74 comments
- Comment on NASA rover discovers liquid water 'ripples' carved into Mars rock — and it could rewrite the Red Planet's history 5 months ago:
Water scouring the surface? Or was it thousands years of wind-blown sand?
There is no water on Mars (not to be confused with liquid CO2) until somebody goes there and drinks some. Anything else is hoping for water to justify the $100billion price tag. - Submitted 9 months ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 20 comments