knightly
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- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 4 days ago:
Obviously, Linux.
- Comment on What is "human husbandry" called 6 days ago:
Parenting
- Comment on Valve continue building up their new game Deadlock with a big update with six new heroes 2 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 2 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 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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?? 5 weeks 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Irreversability is a liability for a currency.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Me reading this with a hippie beard.
- Comment on Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum? 1 month 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 Is it weird I don't typically answer how old I am anymore, because literally nobody besides my family believes me? 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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.
- Comment on Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest. 2 months ago:
Why?
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Likewise! I know the idea isn’t practical, I just love all the weirdness that comes with taking something that’s only technically feasible and pushing that thought to extremes. XD
- Comment on 2 months ago:
You can shave off most of that 100 million years using variation breeding. No need to wait around for random chance to happen when a little radiation can trigger as many mutations as we want.
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Yes you can, it just takes a lot more effort to get the right random mutation.