IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on evangelism 2 weeks ago:
I think this pretty much applies to all fields. Everything looks complicated and hard to outside people, but once you get into the field, you realize that most people are just average.
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout TV Series Renewed For Season 2 4 weeks ago:
That’s what I do with all TV/Movie adaptations. Is so much easier to just sit back and enjoy when you aren’t constantly comparing it to something it’s not.
- Comment on Look for the warning signs 4 weeks ago:
One example does not prove a trend.
Plus, I’m just talking about perception, not the reality of the actual political leanings of every single Carhartt customer.
- Comment on Look for the warning signs 4 weeks ago:
Wait, Carhartt is a stereotype of the left wing now? I’ve always associated it with very blue collar, outdoors type work. The kinds of jobs that you wouldn’t typically associate with left wing extremism.
- Comment on Microsoft is trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade with full-screen prompts 5 weeks ago:
Microsoft has deemed my processor too old, so luck me doesn’t have to worry about these things.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
I think one thing you and many other people misunderstand is that the image generation aspect of AI is a sideshow, both in use and in intent.
The ability to generate images from text based prompts is basically a side effect of the ability that they are actually spending billions on, which is object detection.
- Comment on Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets 5 weeks ago:
Manufacturers of what? Selling and replacing car parts is a much different proposition than trying to replace semiconductors inside an earbud.
- Comment on wat 5 weeks ago:
“Given enough time, hydrogen will begin to wonder where it came from.”
- Comment on I still don't get why people spend money... there's tons of it for free 1 month ago:
I think you’re really overthinking it. I’d say the vast majority of people paying simply came across something they wanted to see, and paying for it is faster and easier (and safer) than trying to search it out for free.
- Comment on The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions 2 months ago:
Toyota is doing the subscription thing too? I didn’t hear about that one. I only heard about BMW, Mercedes, and now Audi.
If Toyota/Lexus is out, then I guess my plans of buying an AWD coupe as my next car are truly dead.
- Comment on Nissan To Deactivate Key Features From Early EVs 2 months ago:
The 2G network will continue for a long time to come
It’s already gone in North America. China is aiming for 2025 (or already gone, depending on which Google result I click), and and it was gone in Japan a long time ago. Nissan sells more cars in each of those three markets alone than all of Europe. And 2G is already gone in many European countries. It makes no sense for them to keep it just for the UK market.
- Comment on Nissan To Deactivate Key Features From Early EVs 2 months ago:
It’s because of the 2G networks being shut down. And this isn’t specific to Leafs, it’s all cars that used 2G for their data connection. This already has taken place in other countries, and I imagine Nissan no longer wants to support two versions of the app.
- Comment on State your music taste chat 2 months ago:
I’d say that Passenger alone has enough horny to outweigh any of the sad.
- Comment on Next DIY NAS 3 months ago:
It’s a function of ZFS itself. Data that is to be written to the drives is first written to RAM, then transferred to the drives. One of the benefits of this is that if you are moving a file that is smaller than the available RAM, your transfer won’t appear to be limited to the write speed of the drives.
- Comment on Next DIY NAS 3 months ago:
ZFS. It can use up as much RAM as you care to give it for caching. So if you are slinging a lot of data back and forth, more RAM is better. Especially if you are using HDDs instead of SSDs.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 3 months ago:
And if you have a poor internet connection, the app is near unusable
This is an issue I’ve been noticing across more and more apps and operating systems. It seems like there’s no developers out there even willing to consider how their software operates under non-ideal conditions.
- Comment on You can have anything you wan... 4 months ago:
Why limit yourself like that? Just say “All languages”. Depending on how liberally you interpret the word “language”, you know know just about everything.
- Comment on Maestro, a Linux compatible kernel written in Rust. 4 months ago:
Is there something inherently safer with how rust does things, or is it just a case of it being new, so the vulnerabilities haven’t been found yet?
- Comment on Maestro, a Linux compatible kernel written in Rust. 4 months ago:
Ok, I’m out of the loop and I’ve seen this often enough that I have to ask; why do people always bring up “written in rust”? No one points out that a given project is written in C++/C#/python/ruby etc, yet we keep seeing it for rust.
- Comment on keep going lads! 5 months ago:
Sweaty power walking.
- Comment on Air: Where did that bring you? Back to me. 5 months ago:
Too bad nothing nowadays is meant to run more than 5 years.
Where do people keep getting this from? Cars today tend to last far longer anywhere where winter is a thing.
As for air cooled vs water cooled engines, the power output (and vehicle mass) has to be part of that conversation. Yes air cooling works on on a 25 HP motor, but it doesn’t work so well on modern engines making an order of magnitude more power.
- Comment on Iron Man-inspired material made from DNA and glass is 5x stronger than steel — and 4x lighter 6 months ago:
It could also be that the material is just not all that special. “Stronger than steel” is a very easy goal to achieve. Lighter is easy too. Now pair those two with higher fracture toughness, and you have something worth talking about.