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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Congratulations, homosexual!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In my head it was definitely Cave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hit it and quit it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Full term” pregnancy is ~40w from last menstrual period, or ~38w from conception. There are ~4.345 weeks/month, putting full term at ~8.75 to ~9.2 months. Note the 9.2 months includes ~2 weeks before fertilization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today is June 1st, the start of Pride Month. This scene from "Blood Oath" weighs heavily on my mind.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because not all humans strive for honor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hit it and quit it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People praise the female reproductive system as miraculous because it can make a baby in only 9 months. Like that’s neat and all, but my reproductive system can make a baby in approximately 13 seconds, so I don’t see what all the fuss is about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, you’re right — I was just responding to parent’s comment about fiber being best because nothing is faster than light :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s…not really a cogent argument.

  Satellites connect to ground using radio/microwave (or even laser), all of which are electromagnetic radiation and travel at the speed of light (in vacuum).

  Light in a fiber travels much more slowly than in vacuum — light in fiber travels at around 67% the speed of light in vacuum (depends on the fiber). In contrast, signals through cat7 twisted pair (Ethernet) can be north of 75%, and coaxial cable can be north of 80% (even higher for air dielectric). Note that these are all carrying electromagnetic waves, they’re just a) not in free space and b) generally not optical frequency, so we don’t call them light, but they are still governed by the same equations and limitations.

  If you want to get signals from point A to point B fastest (lowest latency), you don’t use fiber, you probably use microwaves: arstechnica.com/…/private-microwave-networks-fina…

  Finally, the reason fiber is so good is complicated, but has to do with the fact that “physics bandwidth” tends to care about relative bandwidth (“frequency divided by delta frequency”), whereas “information bandwidth” cares about absolute bandwidth (“delta frequency”), all else being equal (looking at you, SNR). Fiber uses optical frequencies, which can be hundreds of THz — so a tiny relative bandwidth is a huge absolute bandwidth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  80% of the USA lives within urban areas (source). Urban “fiberization” is absolutely within reach.

  Agree that running fiber out to very remote areas is tricky, but even then it’s probably not prohibitive for all but the most remote locations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So the irony is

  I see what you did there…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically the truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Left pedal looks more like a dead pedal to me.

  And as others have said, change in direction is still acceleration. That’s part of Newton’s (apocryphal?) apple story — he witnessed an apple falling, and wondered why the moon doesn’t also fall. His amazing insight is that it does fall (accelerate), it’s just that it falls in such a way that it orbits, rather than hits, the Earth (for timescales relevant to a human).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misunderstood the assignment…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Can you hold it” was meant as “abstain from pooping for just a little longer,” but was instead interpreted as, “poop, and then hold the poop in your hands.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you mean more scrupulous, not less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you lose power, you can use one of these cables to power your house (or at least, the part of your house on that phase).

  This is not how you should do this, but it can work. It is not a good idea (possibly illegal?).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully you can publish in an open-access journal — if not it would be great if you could share an arXiv preprint :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*play imagine being sung by random white celeb*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You said that no one…

  I don’t think that was the parent commenter though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You experience the passage of time as ever increasing in speed, and before long the universe has died, leaving you — immortal and sentient — alone in the cold, dead cosmos, for eternity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

  — Richard P. Feynman

  I think the same is true for a lot of folks and self hosting. Sure, having data in our own hands is great, and yes avoiding vendor lock-in is nice. But at the end of the day, it’s nice to have computers seem “fun” again.

  At least, that’s my perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting on old MSI laptop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever you decide for your laptop, I’m a proponent of a barebones off-site setup if you’re trying for 3-2-1 backup or similar.

  I use a raspberry pi 3 with a single HD (ZFS) retaining some number of daily/weekly/monthly snapshots. Daily rsync, everything over WireGuard+VPS (TailScale would work too).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Jesus?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like the opposite reasoning may have some truth:

  “Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: ‘Look, until America goes into political decline, there won’t be an American pope.’ And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don’t want America running the world religiously. So, I think there’s some truth to that, that we’re such a superpower and so dominant, they don’t wanna give us, also, control over the church.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not difficult to understand⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah just give them the .tex source and let them deal with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just wish we’d have neither inflation nor deflation.

  Some tech has followed this pattern. For example: entry level Mac laptop in ~2000 was the iBook, priced at $1599 ($3k+ in today’s dollars). The current entry level Mac laptop (M4 Air) starts at $999 — cheaper in absolute dollars, and way cheaper in relative dollars.

  (Macs are just an example since Apple doesn’t have a very extensive product list, so there’s only one “entry level” laptop to choose from. And yes it’s fair to ask if the relative specs have just gotten worse, but I think this is also the opposite — the iBook was iirc criticized as being underpowered, whereas the M4 Air is afaik well regarded.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hear me when I tell y'all⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am the Walrus?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, TIL — thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Books has become e-books.

  To some extent — but have you been to a hip bookstore recently? They exist, and are very much alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cashless requires power all the way from PoS to wherever the servers live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes for a mean cappuccino, and is environmentally much, much lower impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost Over $60 Billion Since 2020 - Slashdot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Compensation for engineers in the Bay area will average much higher than $200k, and that’s not counting benefits (medical, etc.). So cost to the company will be way higher than 200k/employee.

  For a project that has hardware, there will be large expenses associated with that — custom silicon has huge setup costs, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I could be wrong but I think these are prepaid, not paid on receipt…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They specified 1 significant figure — at that level it’s the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the same argument used for blaming the cost of college on government loans for education, for $$$ housing prices in cities that offer low income subsidies, for food prices due to food stamps…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because you’re thinking of trucks used first and foremost for heavy duty “truck stuff.” That is not the only market for trucks, at least in the US: thedrive.com/…/you-dont-need-a-full-size-pickup-t…

  According to Edwards’ data, 75 percent of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less (meaning, never). Nearly 70 percent of truck owners go off-road one time a year or less. And a full 35 percent of truck owners use their truck for hauling—putting something in the bed, its ostensible raison d’être—once a year or less.