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- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 11 hours ago:
Yeah, the environmental issues that are orders of magnitude less problematic than literally pumping the toxic chemicals into the atmosphere like with fossil fuels, vs comparatively miniscule amount of solid waste to store inert.
- Comment on FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly code 1 week ago:
It’s handwritten assembly as opposed to bytecode generated by a compiler, from handwritten higher level language.
- Comment on I can imagine the "will you be using the mobile app?" question to get cheaper food is going to devolve into the Mark of the Beast and someday no one will be able to buy anything without using the apps 2 weeks ago:
Can someone explain the “Mark of the Beast” thing?
It seems commonly mentioned by US posters, but I’m not from the US and have no context. I know it’s a Bible thing, but I’m always seeing it on posts that have nothing to do with religion and I’m lost on what it could mean here.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, when I created my Lemmy account I had to choose an instance before knowing anything about Lemmy yet. And .ml seemed like the default one to choose, given join-lemmy.org told me it is ran by the devs.
Oh well.
- Comment on Microsoft will end Windows 10 support in exactly one year 4 weeks ago:
Yes, only a sucker would have believed that, because it was manufactured clickbait, not something Microsoft ever said.
- Comment on Star Citizen Developer Cloud Imperium Games Imposes 7-Day Work Week Ahead of Citizencon 1 month ago:
Since the 2014 release date.
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 1 month ago:
I looked at the latest and most “recent” heroes games… they’re all rated/reviewed SO harshly.
Many of the negative reviews are (and rightly so) because of Ubisoft forcing you to use their crappy launcher, adding DRM, and otherwise making the customer experience horrible, and not because there is anything wrong with the genre.
- Comment on Mozilla grants Ente $100k 1 month ago:
Since it’s end to end encrypted, Ente just sees some raw bytes, it has no way to tell if what you uploaded is an image or not. So in practice it supports whatever the client can display, so your browser for the web version.
- Comment on Something... 1 month ago:
What’s a realistic reply to “oh my God, I’m so sorry!” if you are pretending you got that out of the blue without any context?
I’d assume someone close to me died and I don’t know about it.
- Comment on unwatchable!! 2 months ago:
It’s a common mistake, so isn’t a character in a movie making it realistic? Wouldn’t it be out of character for many characters to have perfect English?
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
You live in a fantasy world if you think it’s possible to catch 100% of mistakes internally. Even safety critical equipment with many layers of checks fails and kills people every now and then (medical equipment, bridges).
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
Fair enough. Still commendable for taking the heat himself without ever mentioning which employee made the mistake with misallocating the review item to the charity auction.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
Doubled down? After being called out they slowed the upload cadence, are taking more time to make sure mistakes don’t get through, and changed their production process. They also formed a volunteer team of “beta tester” viewers who see each video pre-release to catch any mistakes they didn’t internally. I think they handled it well. Of course it would be better if they didn’t have a problem in the first place, but I’d never call it “doubling down”.
- Comment on San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave 2 months ago:
Unfortunately he said he doesn’t want to ever go to space himself.
- Comment on Tesla is now capable of producing 700,000 Powerwalls per year 2 months ago:
To be fair they didn’t say Tesla had any interest in “saving the world”. Just that it sells a product that can help you do it.
- Comment on Getting Your iPhone Repaired Could Ban You From Snapchat 2 months ago:
They are fully erasing it. But it’s still the same iPhone. With a device ID that is banned.
- Comment on Getting Your iPhone Repaired Could Ban You From Snapchat 2 months ago:
So getting my iPhone repaired can ban me from a promo that I haven’t used yet? How does that make sense.
- Comment on "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!" 2 months ago:
Same.
So during the test the teacher listed element names out loud with no pauses, and you were supposed to write down the symbol while she was speaking, and then another list in reverse. After the last element we had to immediately put the pens down. Whole test took ~45 seconds for 30 elements.
This was so that it was impossible to read from the big table on the wall, you had no time to look away from the paper. You’d miss the next 3 elements by the time you looked away to find the one.
- Comment on NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation 2 months ago:
I agree, I’m just saying this story in particular is untrue. That, obviously, doesn’t excuse all the other things they actually did.
- Comment on NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation 2 months ago:
The news story you are linking was incorrect.
- Comment on The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter 2 months ago:
Nobody is saying it’s enforceable. It’s just a shitty thing to do when someone shows you something in confidence, asks not to share it, and you publish an entire news article about it. It’s just a dick move. Obviously nothing illegal about it.
- Comment on This shitpost is preventing shutdown 3 months ago:
Keep in mind explorer.exe is not just the file manager, but also the entire desktop itself.
- Comment on ATM Software Flaws Left Piles of Cash for Anyone Who Knew to Look 3 months ago:
Because if a poor person living in the projects dies of starvation? Oh, that’s fine. That’s a feature, not a bug.
What’s “the projects” in this context? I’m not a native English speaker and have seen this used in similar contexts but I don’t know what it means.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
That’s fair
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
Nope, though the clickbait title would make you believe so. Nothing is discontinued.
- Comment on New youtube layout? 3 months ago:
I don’t see the black square bottom right? There is one bottom left.
- Comment on Look you've just to got read the prologue that was a limited edition IHOP giveaway in 2015 and the story is awesome 3 months ago:
Yeah. Both can be watched separately, but if you want to watch both, it’s nice to do it in chronological order where episodes of the two series are mixed together, as you get some references to the events in the other series.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza 4 months ago:
Why does it matter? If they ban your Microsoft account because you had an upside down Xbox sticker on your fridge, is it relevant if Microsoft has a monopoly on sticker manufacturing?
Skype doesn’t matter because they don’t ban you from Skype, they ban you from everything, including things they do have a dominant market position on. And also from Skype, which doesn’t matter as much.
- Comment on Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers 4 months ago:
Even then, the other nodes would only need the hash of the password, not the password itself.
- Comment on After 41 years Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad 4 months ago:
It’s an optional feature, so no harm having it.