Artyom

@Artyom@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guerrilla Women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Even after they decay a few times, they’re still nuclear women. They can also emit alpha women, which are fairly small but still nuclear women, betas, which are not fully women, and gammas, which are also not women, but eventually interact with other nuclear women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toll from Mozambique election protests up to at least 30⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good ol less than greater than operator to cover your bases; x >< 30

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue him⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to sell a new IP, “From the creators of Day Z” is not a good angle to start with

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia’s Central Bank Raises Key Rate to Historic 21%, Signals Aggressive Fight to Curb Inflation - The Moscow Times⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I found a neat database on military expenditure as a percent of GDP. Tldr: 9% is a LOT, but also Ukraine is at 36%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GRIZZLODILE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mythbusters tested whether it was better to zig zag or run straight away from a gator. Turns out, it doesn’t matter, gators won’t chase you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One of these days, an engineer, the best and the brightest of us, will invent a reason way for it to be technically impossible to fix in production. They will be a hero, and save hundreds of companies from bad decisions, and they will never become famous or wealthy for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My Amazon streaming app on my Xbox literally only works when using my PiHole. Their poorly tested ad software literally prevented me from watching Prime for a few weeks until I turned my PiHole back on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the stock market, the value is set by what investors think the value could be. Mostly, they’re probably assuming people would come back if he sold it. Literally everyone knows the name Twitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horse archers ruin every game they are in.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Um…archers on chariots were almost certainly extremely effective in any era they appeared. The main reason they stopped being popular in combat was because horses became big enough to ride after thousands of years of breeding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What letter has the best games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  H for Hollow Knight, I think that pretty much settles it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biodiversity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where Saddam Hussein? He has house and legs, both pictured in the only picture of Saddam Hussein.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ocean depth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This has been a very educational meme trend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget that thr data bandwidth is so low it can’t play higher quality mp3s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ignore the haters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This, but for truckers and bikers. It never seems to occur to the truckers that bikers probably also own a car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocked 🚫⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good thing physicists solved that problem already; if everything is made up and can only be observed through our preconceived notions and there’s no way to prove a world beyond them, then it doesn’t matter. The universe we can observe is reality and everything beyond that is beyond meaningful definition and is therefore useless, which is how we define “philosophy”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA says astronauts stuck in space will not return on Boeing capsule, will wait for SpaceX craft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We privatized space travel, so now corner-cutting megacorp get to make sloppy decisions that risk people’s lives. Now, we have hard proof that it doesn’t matter how bad you fuck up either, because the government will just pay double the price to fix it for you, and the megacorps escape unscathed. Meanwhile these astronauts are stuck in space and their lives are on the line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe sells these as 4 different designs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Possibly exactly. I’m suspicious these were all made with AI based on copyrighted logos, at which point almost everything it’ll spit out is a copyrighted logo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Harris had to pick a VP, all media kinda agreed it should be a white male, to balance the fact that she is black and a woman. So Waltz is the DEI hire.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every democratic ticket that’s won the presidency this century has been a mixed race ticket. If I had to guess, this election is gonna be a big win for democrats, and if they have any intelligence whatsoever, they’ll keep their presidential tickets mixed race for a while in the future. Some people will just always prefer to vote for their own race.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney has “earned” latest streaming price hike, CFO says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you put in marginal effort and count on past successes to continue to pay off with this 10 TB, cuz if so, you and Disney’s CFO seem to have matching definitions of “earned”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geography 101⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where science meme?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every Sonos app sucks. It’s just one of those facts of life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla’s profits sank sharply in the second quarter of 2024 | The company’s revenue increased by 2 percent compared to last year, but profits are down 45 percent year over year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A friend of mine recently told me that your seat position is stored server-side in case you own multiple Teslas, so if Tesla goes belly up, it’s possible you won’t be able to save your seat settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m actually greatful for foldable phones. When they started actually coming out, I was certain that smartphones were feature-complete and my phone would never become obsolete again. If that weren’t true, they would have put a new real feature in the phone instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google to purge low-quality apps from the Play Store with new policy starting next month⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Inb4 apps like NewPipe and Signal are arbitrarily categorized as “low quality” without any sort of opportunity to challenge the ruling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there a lukewarm but no lukecool?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He is now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there a lukewarm but no lukecool?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can eat 50 eggs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dog-like robot jams home networks and disables devices during police raids — DHS develops NEO robot for walking denial of service attacks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m glad you brought up the doorbell. Once the jammer dog is jamming, it’s impossible to ring most doorbells and choose the polite option. It’s 110% murderville from that point onwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s new weather prediction system combines AI with traditional physics.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weather forecasting does create ensemble models to help constrain their forecasts. They’ll adjust some of their inputs in each model, mainly as a way of embedding the uncertainty in the measured data, then run that model and see if it changed.

  This resembles AI on one level, but it’s at a dramatically different scale. An ensemble may contain a few hundred runs at most, but an AI needs tens of thousands of data points at minimum. In order to make predictions like what google is saying they can do, they’d need to train on billions or maybe trillions of data points.

  This is still fundamentally different than ensemble modeling though. Ensembles are physically informed and the perturbations are based on real assumptions. Each model in an ensemble is based on validated physics equations. An AI model would undermine that completely. You can’t possibly describe the underlying equations because there aren’t any, so you can’t analyze its accuracy or propose a more accurate model, you’re just stuck with a bunch of coefficients that you’ll never understand.

  I’ve worked in climate modeling, and this kind of AI work is nothing more than an electricity sink for at least a decade, maybe forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While we're all worried about the future of America, the misogynous racists out there must be dying of stress right now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that 74 million figure demonstrates that not only have they pondered the question, but they’ve reached a definitive conclusion on the thought and did some research to get an exact number for you. Any further questions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To what extent, if at all, would have CrowdStrike's faulty update have been made easier to deal with with an immutable distro?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t help (on its own), you’d still get auto-updated to the broken version.