knightly
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- Comment on ‘Maybe we should go after you’ Trump threatens ABC reporter asking about free speech 6 days ago:
Follow in Al-Zaidi’s footsteps.
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 1 week ago:
No, he’s just the one who gets credit for it.
- Comment on Did I used to be homophobic? Am I? 1 week ago:
Whether it’s a choice or something that was imposed upon them isn’t really relevant, deprogramming either case needs therapy with some extra steps.
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 1 week ago:
Luigi showed the world that if you write your manifesto on your ammo then the media will spread it everywhere.
- Comment on For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why? 1 week ago:
I realized I wanted to stop living in Texas the first time I traveled outside of the state in my early teens.
I tried once in my 20’s, but I was too homesick for my partners to leave them behind. It took another 15 years after that point before the universe conspired to let me move to Colorado and bring them with me.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 3 weeks ago:
Obviously, Linux.
- Comment on What is "human husbandry" called 3 weeks ago:
Parenting
- Comment on Valve continue building up their new game Deadlock with a big update with six new heroes 4 weeks ago:
Who is this game for? Mobas are so 2007…
- Comment on "Multiple" future Hardspace projects are coming, as Hardspace: Shipbreaker devs Blackbird Interactive take full ownership 5 weeks ago:
Both of these are very good ideas.
Getting multiplayer to work well sounds like a very real challenge, given that the physics are complicated enough to slow the game to a crawl when a core blows.
- Comment on beaver girls rise 1 month ago:
I know precisely one beaver furry and they are more girl-ish than girl. XD
- Comment on Is it okay to cover the outside of a microwave in aluminum to prevent or lessen microwave WiFi interference? 1 month ago:
Short answer is “Yes but your mileage may vary”.
Actually blocking microwaves effectively requires more than just a sheet of aluminum foil, but it’s a start: haitmfg.com/microwave-shielding-materials/
- Comment on She's a keeper 1 month ago:
Aka “jogging pants”, “lounge pants”, “tracksuit bottoms”, “trackies”, “tracky daks”, or “trackpants”.
They’re a kind of soft trousers or loose leggings worn typically for comfort or athletic purposes.
- Comment on If you had 1 dollar and 24 hours what would you do? 1 month ago:
Give away the dollar to the first homeless person I see and then spend 24 hours in search of a hangout with a good vibe.
- Comment on do they hate money now for some reason?? 1 month ago:
Reduced volume is acceptable if it means they’re spending even less on chargebacks and fraud investigations.
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 2 months ago:
Precisely. It’s those boundary areas where the jet and the medium interact where it gets complicated.
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 2 months ago:
Sort of. The speed of light in a vacuum is the speed of causality, nothing can go faster than the maximum speed at which one part of the universe can effect another.
It is possible for fluids to move faster than the speed of sound in the fluid around it, such as the exhaust products of a supersonic jet engine, but in these cases not all of the fluid is operating like a wave. The core of the jet experiences a laminar flow where all of the water is moving in the same direction and at roughly the same speed, like a laser instead of a flashlight. At the boundaries of this laminar flow exists a turbulent region where the fluid interacts with the surrounding medium and is slowed to subsonic speeds.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 2 months ago:
It’s not a scientific breakthrough. I’ve been using distributed hash tables since the early oughts, assigning monetary value to it wasn’t innovation.
Bitcoin was never going to be what it was claimed to be because it isn’t designed for anonymity. The blockchain doesn’t forget, every transaction goes into a permanent ledger and can’t be reversed or cancelled. That makes it a liability.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 2 months ago:
Irreversability is a liability for a currency.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 2 months ago:
As opposed to crypto, whose track record is barely over a decade old and filled to the brim with scams.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 2 months ago:
You’re describing the concept of currency in general, “it only has value because people act like it does” applies to crypto too.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 2 months ago:
Fiat doesn’t need banks and whales, it can operate just as well with centralized postal banking and wealth taxes. Their existence in our economy is a choice, not a necessity.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 2 months ago:
Both, but currencies are dependent on the trustworthiness of a government that can at least theoretically be held accountable by its citizenry, while crypto is dependent on the banks and whales that own almost all the crypto.
- Comment on Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps 2 months ago:
Me reading this with a hippie beard.
- Comment on Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum? 2 months ago:
What the two other replies have neglected to mention as the cool side-effect of light affecting the curvature of spacetime despite being massless is that it’s theoretically possible to make a black hole out of nothing but light. The concept is called a “Kugelblitz”, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m regularly mistaken for being more than a dozen years younger than I am. =D
- Comment on Musk’s Chatbot Started Spouting Nazi Propaganda. That’s Not the Scariest Part. 2 months ago:
LLMs are just massively-multidimensional maps of human language use. It is academically interesting to have developed both the map and a method for plotting a course through language-space using a prompt as an initial vector, but human intellience is not in language. Rather, language is part of human intelligence, and mapping it to ever more computationally-expensive distances is never going to chart a path to the digital mind that all the tech billionaires are all desperate to enslave.
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 2 months ago:
Bothto some degree, realistically. I used an old collander as a signal reflector for a wifi dongle on the end of a USB extension cable and was able to boost the signal up to about 4x, or maybe half the range of the purpose-built and highly directional Yagi antenna I eventually bought to replace it.
- Comment on What would remain for a future species if humans were to vanish tomorrow? 2 months ago:
It’s still a matter of timescale, as in “how far future are we talking?”. On a stellar scale, they’d need to get here in the next billion years or so before the expansion of the sun boils off everything above the lithosphere. On a geological scale, it’s only a couple hundred million years 'til everything that isn’t already buried or washed into the sea is getting squashed into a new pangea. On a climatological scale, corrosion and decay/overgrowth will render almost all artifacts unrecognizable within a couple of thousand years, though it’d be a few tens of thousands before our impact on the atmosphere is nulled. On a human timescale, the inverse-square law means that our radio signals are only detectable without astronomically-sized antennas within a shell of a few dozen light years or so.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
How humid is the area where they were stored? Is it subject to significant swings in temperature like direct sunlight?
- Comment on Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027 2 months ago:
Not a 60% success rate, but a 60% rate of throwing good money after bad.