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- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 2 hours ago:
Yeah, I’ve been meaning to read a City on Mars, it’s near the top of my list. I have read some excerpts from it though, and from what I’ve seen, it is trying to tackle these questions from a realistic perspective, but it does also seem overly pessimistic at times.
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 2 hours ago:
Maggy for short, I’m sure of it.
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 2 hours ago:
Space mining can absolutely cause asteroids strikes. It only hasn’t done it yet because we haven’t done any asteroid mining yet. A big part of asteroid mining operations will likely be asteroid herding, bringing all the asteroids you want to the same place where they can be processed. But moving asteroids around is a potentially dangerous activity.
That said, space is really really really big… It’s really hard for two things to hit each other on accident. If you’re collecting asteroids at a high earth orbit, the chance of them accidentally hitting earth instead is extremely low. You have to miss your target by over 100,000 miles. Which would be… a monumental failure.
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 3 hours ago:
I think it would be a good idea to start colonizing space before “we have our shit figured out on earth”, since you know, that will never actually happen. We will have wars on earth for all eternity, we should colonize and explore space anyway.
Honestly, I strongly believe that striving to make space habitats work is one of the things that will finally teach us what we need to know to live sustainably on earth. The thing is, an affordable space colony is one that recycles almost everything, one that works mostly as a closed loop, a sustainable bubble. So in other words, if you know how to survive in a space colony, you know how to live without destroying the earth. And extreme sustainability is really the natural goal with any large space colony. Unfortunately nobody is really trying to do that here on earth, the funding, the engineering, it just isn’t happening. But if we start seriously attempting habitats in space, then people will be attempting that somewhere… And once we figure out how to do it, it can be reapplied to life on earth.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Oh good, that’s better.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
That is hilarious.
I spent a while trying to figure out how a cat could possibly long press a power button, even pressing it at all should be a challenge…
Then I remembered that most people use laptops.
I would be impressed if a cat could home the power button in for several seconds in my tower, you have to depress the button about a 1/4 inch.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Lol, Tim Apple. Who was it that said that? Was it Biden?
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 weeks ago:
When I check out a device in the store I definitely turn it over and look at every part of it. Things like a charging port on the bottom would probably stick out…
Or like in this case, with the power button on the bottom, I’d definitely notice that as annoying.
What software do they let you load?
Basically anything you want, they don’t tend to watch you at the apple store, unless you seem like you actually want to buy something. They want you to mess around with the machines, so I’ve never seen them password protected in any way, you have admin access.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 weeks ago:
Users aren’t trying before they buy so the display is the most important aspect
Trying before you buy is literally the entire point of the apple store
- Comment on Your politics can affect whether you click on sponsored search results, new research shows. 3 weeks ago:
What’s amazing about this headline is that it’s clearly inaccurate as they’re confusing causation and correlation, but then at the same time, the correlation itself is completely obvious and hardly worth researching. Of course groups of different demographics behave differently, that’s what the word “demographic” is all about.
- Comment on The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair: The farm equipment giant has fought against letting farmers repair their own equipment for years 4 weeks ago:
Not all, but a lot of this equipment is also made by caterpillar, right?
- Comment on DOOM can now run on a quantum computer with Quandoom port — seminal FPS blood and gore mixed with spooky action 1 month ago:
So, as far as I can tell, the primary difference with this version of the game is that it uses question registers?
What does that mean, functionally?
Like how does that affect the software? How would the software run on an actual quantum computer?
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
Back before smart phones I always preferred flip phones over “candy bars”, the flip phone helps to protect the delicate screen and buttons while the phone is in your pocket/purse. You don’t really need a case for a flip phone.
Modern smart phones tend to be more delicate than they should be across the board, but in theory, a flip phone puts the more delicate parts in a safer place.
- Comment on TikTok Videos Spread Misinformation to New Migrant Community in New York City. 1 month ago:
I have anecdotal evidence that people get misinformation from tiktok.
My son in law (who unfortunately lives with us, but that’s another rant) was telling me about a third assassination plot against Donald Trump. I was able to inform him that these rumors weren’t accurate, and he quickly confirmed that.
But I only knew to question his assertion because i’d already seen news here on Lemmy that there were debunked rumors of another assassination plot. that is to say, Lemmy never pushed the plot news, but rather only reported about the already debunked rumors continuing to circulate.
- Comment on If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween 1 month ago:
I’m not sure I even believe that. I mean look how much generative AI is dominating the conversation, despite being garbage. I think aliens would have a similar ability to dominate conversation, even for the general public.
- Comment on If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween 1 month ago:
If nothing else developed from the talks, then yes.
But if it started a new conversation with academics, if it opened trade opportunities, if it brought meaningful new technology, it would dominate world discussion for decades.
But if it was a single message sent at the speed of light and we had to wait 50 years for our reply to get back to them, and then 50 more years to hear any more communication…
Yeah, nobody’s going to remember that happened.
- Comment on TV has failed us by not making a show about catching foriegn state actors and other online trolls in the act. 1 month ago:
More spiderman it is!
Alright people, we’re making 5 new Spider-Man films, let’s get to work!
- Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. 1 month ago:
Fun fact, a group of pedants is called a flem. To use it in a sentence: “the party was ruined by a flem of pedants”.
- Comment on TikTok owner ByteDance taps TSMC to make its own AI GPUs to stop relying on Nvidia — the company has reportedly spent over $2 billion on Nvidia AI GPUs 1 month ago:
Just use llama?
- Comment on ISPs tell Supreme Court they don’t want to disconnect users accused of piracy 1 month ago:
The headline should read:
**Despite best efforts and all odds, ISPs find themselves on the right side of history. **
- Comment on The US led on nuclear fusion for decades. Now China is in position to win the race 1 month ago:
Those now saying 5 to 10 years are VC backed startups.
It’s scientists and engineers saying it, it may also be VCs, but 5-10 is the official line from engineers.
The bottom line is this, maybe one of these startups or smaller reactor designs will work, you never know. But at the end of the day, ITER is scheduled to be completed in 2034, and at that scale, it will be net energy positive, there’s no doubt.
- Comment on When someone says "Sorry, not sorry" they are still sorry for something. 1 month ago:
As a parent I say this about my kids all the time.
“And then he threw a tantrum because it was time to go, you know the exact thing I warned him about 5 minutes prior, and 15 minutes before that. Sorry, not sorry.”
- Comment on The US led on nuclear fusion for decades. Now China is in position to win the race 1 month ago:
Honestly, I think we’re getting really very close! We’ve been in this cycle of eternally “30 years away”. These days we’re in a cycle of “5-10 years away”. That sounds like a joke, but we really are closing in.
Now that said, while we can eventually get fusion to work, it will absolutely not solve all of our energy problems. Once it’s actually possible, it will still be the most expensive source of energy available. Which means once we can do it, we won’t actually want to do it.
- Comment on Who still uses pagers? 1 month ago:
Hospitals are practically faraday cages, it can be hard to get a signal in large hospitals.
But a text message that amounts to just a few bits can usually sneak through without much delay.
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 1 month ago:
Israel might be the baddies…
- Comment on 'Cities: Skylines II' Found a Solution for High Rents: Get Rid of Landlords 2 months ago:
Wtf… There’s no narrative or throughline, it’s just like… if you distilled “unsettling” and put it on paper.
- Comment on xkcd #2978: Stranded 2 months ago:
Water from non-Earth sources might contain dissolved minerals at poisonous levels for agriculture, much less human consumption.
Oh yeah, it’s practically guaranteed to contain nasty stuff! We’re gonna drink it anyway though.
Most of that water on earth that we’d consider “not useful” would fall into the “100% useful” category if found in space. As long as the contaminants have a different boiling temperature from water, you can always boil the water into steam in order to separate it. Or you could also use electrolysis to separate out the hydrogen and oxygen and then recombine then in clean tanks.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 2 months ago:
Why isn’t it targeted at the entire fanbase?
Is that a serious question? Because the answer is obvious…
Ok, let me start out by saying I have an 8 year old, and he fucking loves Minecraft. And hey, I played the game a bunch back when it was in beta and I was like 25. But I did not love the game the way that he loves the game… He’s obsessive about Minecraft, some days it’s all he talks about. How many adults do you know like that?
And here’s the real question, when’s the last time you bought Minecraft merch for yourself? Because my kid has a Minecraft lunchbox, a Minecraft hoody, a Minecraft Lego set, some Minecraft figurines, and of course the Minecraft sheets and PJs.
- Comment on xkcd #2981: Slingshots 2 months ago:
Nice reference!
- Comment on Huge SpaceX rocket explosion shredded the upper atmosphere 2 months ago:
Yeah, the hivemind can get pretty tiresome.