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- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 2 days ago:
i can confirm 4K and up add nothing for me compared to 1080p and even 720p. As long as i can recognize the images, who cares. Higher resolution just means you see more sweat, pimples, and the like.
- Comment on Fictional 4 days ago:
by the way i’m not a science denialist, i just cannot follow that one particular argument.
- Comment on Fictional 4 days ago:
i don’t like trusting “experts” in fact. trusting “experts” is how we got into this mess. people let themselves be manipulated by the media. people need to think for themselves. yes, that includes not believing certain scientific results, but IMO it’s better to discard a scientific result that i cannot follow myself instead of becoming an authoritarian (i.e. one who believes in authors, i.e. other people’s writing) dependent.
- Comment on Fictional 4 days ago:
welllll i say that’s a reaaaly sketchy and irrational way to look at things.
like, even if you smallest ruler is 1 mm, that does not mean that smaller things don’t exist. they can still play a role, i.e. through chaotic behavior smaller perturbations could be up-amplified until they are measurable.
- Comment on Fictional 4 days ago:
If you take the smallest distance that exists and divide it by the shortest amount of time that can pass
btw that’s a nonsensical argument. there can be both space and time smaller than that.
- Comment on Fictional 5 days ago:
IMO it might be better to only look at natural units that don’t depend on the specific properties of matter (i.e. proton mass, electron charge, …)
arguably, there could be an alien civilization in our universe that is purely made of exotic matter somewhere really far away, we simply haven’t found it yet. It’s purely made of exons and kaions and yppsons and particles that don’t exist on earth, where an exon has a positive charge of 1.456… proton charges and an yppson has a negative charge of -4.132… proton charges and so on.
therefore i consider physical constants such as ħ and c and G more fundamental than e and such, because those numbers would be the same even for exotic matter, i claim.
then, is that reduced set of natural constants harmonizable?
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 5 days ago:
that’s why the true progress is made if we simplify our mental models so they’re easier to explain … because then the next generation can get running faster and therefore get farther.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 5 days ago:
yeah same. also i don’t drink alcohol anymore but it would be nice to have more places to hang out.
- Comment on I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee 5 days ago:
What most people don’t know is why Smurfs are blue. Well, the reason is because Smurfs only have sex once a year.
Face it: if you had sex only once a year, you’d be blue, too.
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 5 days ago:
With WASM you’re looking at bundling every single dependency, every single runtime, framework and whatnot, in the final binary.
you just don’t know what you’re talking about. wasm has a module-import structure with which you can link libraries statically, and some wasm runtimes also offer possibilities for dynamic library linking.
- Comment on snail lyfe 6 days ago:
tbf the sun is a planet if you define “planet” appropriately
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 6 days ago:
But isn’t WASM for web browsers
not really, no. WASM is a generic hardware-independent format for instructions. it’s like instructions for a virtual CPU, not a real one. it gets translated into the instructions for the real processor on the target device. in this way, it can run on any hardware.
comparing it to other setups such as java or javascript (which are also both hardware-independent), it runs much faster because it is much hardware-oriented, while java and javascript require abstract features such as a garbage collector, which makes real-time processes impossible.
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 6 days ago:
hell yeah risc-v is hella cool :)
- Comment on Banana 6 days ago:
- Comment on Bought to you by the central limit theorem society 1 week ago:
explosions are for barbars. civilized people do slow controlled combustion.
- Comment on Bought to you by the central limit theorem society 1 week ago:
“central limit theorem society” sounds like some futuristic af thing straight out of neon genesis evangelion, alongside the dead sea scrolls and the central dogma.
- Comment on Relatable. 1 week ago:
as a rule of thumb, more often than not an anime being “mainstream” and having a lot of people interested in it is a safe indicator that it’s boring and not watch-worthy
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 1 week ago:
could
could in the same sense that i could check all software i use for bugs and malicious code. realistically, i can’t, because it’s way too much work.
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 1 week ago:
Our hardware has its own problems.
We rely way too much on x86 and ia64 architecture, both of which have only two big manufacturers in the world. That’s not good because it’s almost monopolies.
It would be better to have simpler chipsets that can be produced by more manufacturers worldwide, and especially ones that can be produced by smaller regional manufacturers.
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
autism for the win yeah :)
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
ooh so that’s what that is
i heard an old man mysteriously whisper “enjoy your bananas while they still exist, young person” to me at the supermarket a while ago and i didn’t know what they were talking about but they sounded very serious so i didn’t doubt them.
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
you forgot
- delicious
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
and they can’t hide behind other reps from other states
yep, that’s what i meant. your representative might be easily replaced, but the other 49 representatives from the other 49 states don’t really care about you, and that’s the majority of congress.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
the people can hold their politicians more easily accountable if the politicians live closer to the people.
it’s some kind of “pitchforks and torches” thing: In historical times it was usual that people simply walked up to the castle of the feudal lord and demanded improvements if their life was too shitty or if they were treated too unfairly. That was possible because the feudal lord mostly lived within walking distance of where the peasants lived, like, maybe in the next village or sth, but not farther than that in most cases. As a consequence, feudal lords had a very significant interest in being on good terms with their neighbours and keeping the people happy enough so they won’t start a revolt over high taxes or sth.
Today, that’s not possible because all those politicians that decide the law (and therefore our fate) live far-away (thousands of miles!) in places that neither you or me can ever personally visit. Hence, there is no accountability. We need to shift power back to the local levels; only that way we can personally ensure our wellbeing.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
like, i get your point but i think you’re wrong.
people are greedy because it worked well for them in the past. i.e., people have built empires and expanded them throughout history and because sometimes that worked out well for those people, they think back fondly of it and that’s why you have people trying to become “great empires” today.
it’s not that complicated, people have a cultural memory that reaches far back for hundreds of years at least. it’s however also noteworthy that empires are the historical exception, not the rule, like, if you look at medieval europe (which spanned a long time), you had very few “big” empires and mostly small local feudal lords. Because in those times empires simply didn’t work out so well. So, people hold the balance between what works and what doesn’t, and then that gets done.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
“cool, let me know when mass production starts.”
(“to the best of my knowledge, that is now, immediately.”)
HiNa opened a 1 GWh sodium-ion battery factory in December 2022. Since then, both BYD and CATL have opened huge sodium-ion battery factories.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
insert fry “take my dollars” meme
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
10,000 lifetime cycles
so, 30 years if you charge/discharge it once daily?
- Comment on i enjoy using drugs and that will never change 1 week ago:
and discover that not only did you not need it, but you’re actually better off without.
IMO it’s a bit like going to parties/events. When you’re young you might feel as if you have to go, and if you’re older you stop doing that, and you’re fine and don’t feel as if you would need that at all.
But at the same time, if you had never gone to these parties, you would spend the rest of your life wondering what you missed …
So the reason why you don’t need it is because you got enough of it in the past; had you never had it in the first place, you would miss it.
- Comment on Historians never talk about the "good old days". 1 week ago:
yeah “golden age” is similar to “great empire” - “great” maybe for the emperor but for basically nobody else.
