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- Comment on Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely' 1 week ago:
“Safety” because they are incapable of uploading a clean game to steam?
1000005417 Also, this used to be on their website before they realised just how much data they could hoover from PC sales.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Billiam Bakesale
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 weeks ago:
An ape could though.
- Comment on Biden stumbles through event, refers to former Rep. Giffords in past tense: 'nothing wrong with me' 3 weeks ago:
It’s a good thing Biden ain’t running then! You should see the other guy though . . . embarrassing and weird.
- Comment on Donald Trump 'Could Make History' and Break 20-Year Record—Election Analyst 3 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of “could,” “can,” “might,” and “potential” in that article, but what does it say about our electoral system when a party that does not hold the most popular views continues to amass power via technicalities?
Also there’s not even been 50 presidents yet, every election has a historic first.
- Comment on 'The worst thing I've ever heard': Holocaust survivor blasts Harris for comparing Trump to Hitler 3 weeks ago:
- Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
- Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
- Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
- Supremacy of the Military
- Rampant Sexism
- Controlled Mass Media
- Obsession with National Security
- Religion and Government are Intertwined
- Corporate Power is Protected
- Labor Power is Suppressed
- Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
- Obsession with Crime and Punishment
- Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
- Fraudulent Elections
I can think of 2 former heads of state that that describes.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 3 weeks ago:
Eh, congrats! New Job?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 3 weeks ago:
When was the last time you got a 63% raise?
- Comment on What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have? 3 weeks ago:
At some point the electrical signal has to be clear at a hardware level. Companies can make it harder, but if they’re streaming any info to a device in your possession someone will be able to extract that clean electrical signal and reproduce an acceptable feed.
- Comment on What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have? 3 weeks ago:
What I mean by “on your computer” is not that it originates on your computer, but that some form of it exists there–namely this is going to be images, text, links, etc that the ad company hosts and a website will normally download temporarily along with the rest of the site’s content. Once your computer has that site’s information you can do anything you want with it. Importantly what exists on your computer is a local copy of what the ad servers host. If you decide to color ads blue on your computer that only affects your copy. The original ad, and everyone else’s copies remain intact.
- Comment on What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have? 3 weeks ago:
To put it another way:
- If you want to see something it has to be clear (unencrypted)
- If you want to see something on your computer it has to be on your computer
- You can control your own computer
Therefore, any media that is viewed on your computer is clear, on your computer, in a realm that you control.
This is also why ad blockers work. You can send me ads, or requests to fetch ads and my computer just ignores them.
Companies will never be able to stop this, cause at some point you can always just intercept the data feed at a hardware level and reconstruct the stream.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 3 weeks ago:
Realism wasn’t necessarily the end goal of a lot of painting. When you look at old Christian art one thing to notice is that different people can have vastly different sizes. The virgin mother may be most prominent, some patron saint smaller, and the artist themselves or the commissioner may be included as smaller figures. This play of scale was a device to show what was important and being sure to capture and portray that hierarchy was a more important goal than realism.
- Comment on Do rotating plates in microwaves help when heating food? 1 month ago:
Tray-less microwaves have a spinning metal “stirring fan” below a plastic floor you set your food upon to mix the bounce path the microwaves take. Since they expose fewer moving parts to the end user they are easier to clean and more resilient making them a good option for commercial / high volume settings.
- Comment on Do rotating plates in microwaves help when heating food? 1 month ago:
A microwave works by bouncing microwaves around the interior. Since the shape of the container doesn’t change neither will the path that the bounced waves take. This can lead to hotspots in what you’re reheating.
To mitigate this you have a few options:
- move the food around in the container so that different parts pass through different hotspots over time (this is what a tray does)
- interrupt the microwave path via a “stirrer fan” that sits below the microwave floor (this is what tray-less units use)
Both approaches redistribute the hotspots to maximize even heating. The efficacy of either approach will come down to the specific design of either unit, but a tray-less unit can be easier to clean, and with fewer moving parts exposed to end users can be a good option for commercial/high user count settings. Each design accomplishes the same task.
- Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? 1 month ago:
It gives a false sense of security to beginner programmers and doesn’t offer a more tailored solution that a more practiced programmer might create. This can lead to a reduction in code quality and can introduce bugs and security holes over time. If you don’t know the syntax of a language how do you know it didn’t offer you something dangerous? I have copilot at work and the only thing I actually accept its suggestions for now are writing log statements and populating argument lists. While those both still require review they are generally faster than me typing them out. Most of the rest of what it gives me is undesired: it’s either too verbose, too hard to read, or just does something else entirely.
- Comment on USA | Law enforcement leans on 3D-printer industry to help thwart machine gun conversion devices 2 months ago:
If your goal is to dump as many mags as possible into a crowd then your aim and recoil don’t matter that much.
- Comment on I wonder if Quantum computer could be used to solve hard math problems like Integrals. 2 months ago:
Very simply:
A function defines a curve. A derivative reveals the slope of that curve at a very specific point. An integral reveals the area “under” the curve (the space bounded by the curve and the horizontal axis).
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
It was a lot easier to pretend to be a good person when every moral failure you make wasn’t broadcast around the world the moment it was discovered. Case and point, look into Bill Gates more. He wasn’t always a respectful guy, got caught up in the whole “filthy communists” schtick when the government was investigating his company, advocates for more restrictive control of aid distribution favoring manufacturers more than those he’s trying to help, conflicts of interest in his charity, opposing twitters ban of Trump after the insurrection, etc.
- Comment on Out of curiosity if a woman is in control of her own body. If the SCOTUS did not reverse Roe than why can't a woman in control become a prostitue? 2 months ago:
Any consenting adult should be able to. Sex work is work and it’s far past time we stop stigmatizing and criminalizing that.
- Comment on When Half of Americans Had No Rights 2 months ago:
Religious tests for voting were out within the first 14 years of the Union. Given that a number of founders weren’t Christian themselves it seems fair to say they did not have a vested interest in only allowing Christians to vote.
- Comment on When Half of Americans Had No Rights 2 months ago:
One’s religion had no impact on one’s ability to vote. While the other aspects were prominent requirements in the early days of the Union they were restrictions imposed by States themselves and not established in the US’ founding documents.
- Comment on What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end? 2 months ago:
- Snake Pass
- Röki
- VVVVVV
- The Turing Test
- Smushi Come Home
- Alba
- A Short Hike
- Firewatch
- Sanctum 2
- Comment on Aftermath: Valve’s Baffling Deadlock Decisions Don’t Need Defending 2 months ago:
So is this game basically Battleborn with toned down graphics?
- Comment on Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO 3 months ago:
I’m sure the Squarespace CMO works long hours for free.
- Comment on What is a stupid question? 3 months ago:
What about “Lemons?”
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 3 months ago:
Because schools cannot forcibly out students to their parents SpaceX is now incapable of working there? Seems like there’s something else going on.
- Comment on Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales 4 months ago:
That’s a contributing factor to battery life remaining stagnant. Manufacturers use those advances while continuing to slim phones rather than making an actually flat brick that uses those advances to drastically increase battery life. Regardless of the energy needs of the phone manufacturers can use the difference in height between the back of a phone and the camera bump to include more battery capacity and it will increase both the daily and usable life of the phone.
- Comment on Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales 4 months ago:
So let’s keep making phones thinner and thinner while simultaneously growing the camera bump instead of making a flat profile with, say, 2 days of life!
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Just like professors who refuse to believe you have other classes this article believes graduates have no other expenses to put their minimum wage salary to but their student loans. Also it neglects interest.
Also the whole “Shutup, Millennials. You aren’t the only ones saddled with student debt. Your parents also crippled themselves to put you through college.” schtick is woefully ignorant. It seems to be dancing directly on top of the point, but completely missing it.
- Comment on Tony was fired for remotely working two jobs 8 months ago:
CEOs often “work” multiple jobs.
People trying to get their startups off the ground often with multiple jobs.
Minimum wage workers often work multiple jobs.
What is it a problem when developers work multiple jobs?
