homura1650
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- Comment on Science is Magic 3 months ago:
Quantum mechanics is magic. Magic specifies the outcome, but not how a system evolves to reach that outcome. Quantum mechanics has precise equations describing how a system will evolve over time, but is famously bad at describing the outcome.
By the same token, we can see that thermodynamics and conservation laws, while widely accepted, are magic. I have heard legen of a deeper magic known as “Lagragians”, although knowledge of that lost art remains confines to the warlocks’ ivory tower.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Fetlife is not a dating app. They have actively not implemented features such as filter by age/gender in order to avoid becoming a dating app. If you are looking to get involved in your local kink community, Fetlife is the answer [0]. For anything else, it is garbage. If you try using it to get laid, you will just be pissing a bunch of people off.
[0] At least for my local kink community. Other areas might vary.
- Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough 4 months ago:
In addition to the raw compute power, the HP laptop comrmes with a:
- monitor
- keyboard/trackpad
- charger
- windows 11
- active cooling system
- enclosure
I’ve been looking for a lapdock [0], and the absolute low-end of the market goes for over $200, which is already more expensive than the hp laptop despite spending no money on any actual compute components. And, at that pricepoint, the lapdock will also be of significantly lower quality than the cheap hp laptop.
Granted, this is because lapdocks are a fairly niche product that are almost always either a luxury purchase (individual users) or a rounding error (datacenter users)
[0] Keyboard/monitor combo in a laptop form factor, but without a built in computer. It is intended to be used as an interface to an external computer (typically a smartphone or rackmounted server).
- Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough 4 months ago:
Miniaturization is amazing. The limiting factor to how powerful we can make phones is not space to put in computational units (processors,ram,etc). It is the ability to deal with the heat they generate (and the related issue of rationing a limited amount of battery power)
- Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough 4 months ago:
At a $188 price point. An addition 4GB of memory would probably add ~$10 to the cost, which is over a 5% increase. However, that is not the only component they cheaped out on. The linked unit also only has 64GB of storage, which they should probably increase to have a usable system …
And soon you find that you just reinvented a mid-market device instead of the low-market device you were trying to sell.
4GB of ram is still plenty to have a functioning computer. It will not be as capable of a more powerful computer, but that comes with the territory of buying the low cost version of a product.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 4 months ago:
If that were the case then they would have written that into their constitution 70 years ago. And they wouldn’t have assasinated their own prime minister 30 years ago.
Heck, the current minisyet of national security Ben-Gvir was rejecting from mandatory constriction by the IDF, and convicted in an Israeli court of supporting (Jewish) terrorism after being indigted by an Israeli prosecutor.
These are not things that happen in a country that is unified in its goals.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 4 months ago:
The Israeli government has no idea what it is doing. Literally. The current government was a barely held together coalition prior to October 7. In the direct aftermath, they formed a unity government and war cabinet that collapsed last week.
Their prime minister has been indicated on corruption and bribertmy charges, which are currently on hold for obvious reasons. By most indications his primary motivation in this matter is to stay in power himself, with Israel’s national interests being secondary.
Individual members of IDF leadership have called Israel’s stated objectives “unachievable”.
Israel simultaneously wants to live in peace as a liberal Jewish state without commiting any form of ethnic clensing; and achieve its manifest destiny of establishing a Jewish theocracy across Judea and Samaria.
These are deep questions that get to the core of what Israel is and stands for. Questions that are to be answered by the Israeli constitution in the 50s. That never happened because Israel was never able to agree on a constitution [0].
Right now, Israel is just reacting, without any long term strategic vision. Various factions are trying to use that chaos to advance their own long term vision.
[0] Which led to the big judicial reform constitutional crisis that was a giant political crisis before October.
- Comment on Tough Trolly Choices 4 months ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice
The axiom of choice asserts that it is possible to pick an arbitrary element from every set. Most of mathametics accepts this. However constructivist math does not.
- Comment on Chart to determine risk of bear attack 8 months ago:
You joke, but after cosmonaut Alexi Leonov complained about the possibility of a bear attack, the TP-82 ahotgun was standard issue on Russian spacecraft for decades.
- Comment on xkcd #2892: Banana Prices 9 months ago:
That’s not a linear extrapolation…
- Comment on Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism 10 months ago:
Does you website you linked have any relationship with the research being discussed in the article?
- Comment on xkcd #2876: Range Safety 10 months ago:
I have a coworker who used to work on safty critical systems. On every system, she would write a report on what they would have to do to kill someone with it.
Remember folks, the range danger officer is a very important position. If he ever tells you to do what you are about to do then be sure to: pause; think about what you are about to do; do not do it.
- Comment on Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. 10 months ago:
Translating into Linux terms, Steam has dropped support for:
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolian