thevoidzero

@thevoidzero@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im an unworthy Fraud when it comes to Tech⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mot boring though. You just have to find things. I see so many interesting projects, and so many interesting ideas that I want to implement but run into time/skill issues. Summer is when I can just forget about other things and develop what I want, but I think after university I won’t have much time at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, how do you even fight with the OS except just making it bit hard for them lol. You have to tell the OS what pixels to put in the screen, there’s literally no way you can hide things from the OS if they want to know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you don't know me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow I have opposite problem. I don’t like reading papers that much. And while I do write I don’t like to spend too much time there either, so I just end up procrastinating by making new things with plots, analysis, codes, helper scripts and such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do dams pregame?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Flood control is very close to my area of research. My research involves effect of dams on river water and I don’t get to talk about it often, so it was fun. But I haven’t actually worked on a dam control or made policies, so my work is more theoretical what ifs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do dams pregame?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have mentioned they already do that to a degree they can with the uncertainty of forcast. It’s called Forcast Informed Reservoir Operation (FIRO).

  Important thing is that the forecast is uncertain farther you go in future, and smaller the area you’re looking at. So the policies will have to take that into account, you can’t simply empty your reservoir because if your forcast is wrong and you don’t get enough rain, then you don’t have the precious water anymore for dry season. But if you’re wrong on the other side you get flood issue.

  Satellite data and a lot of ground sensors are in place that help us better forcast the future storms along with improved computation and technology, but nothing is sure, and it might get worse with current situation. We already have problems because of previous funding cuts causing us to lose so many sensors.

  Also a fun fact, we’ve had dams for so long that we don’t know the natural flows for so many rivers so we can’t calibrate our models well. Basically we built dams long before we started measuring the rivers. I’ve been meaning to publish this, but it’s just stuck in a draft for almost a year now :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Game controller works fine in the computer. It’s the applications that need to support it. Problem is finding normal applications (not games) support it. I could map the controller to keyboard keys, but it’d be nice to have it work directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am just using Firefox to open web sites for most things. For games I open them directly. And I have kdeconnect to control it from my phone.

  Ideally I’d love a launcher that just stays on there forever, with some virtual desktop options where I can open different apps. If it can support game controller to choose apps along side kdeconnect it’d be the best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want it to be run as a desktop environment. Is that possible? I already have laptop connected to tv with hdmi. I just use it like a normal computer. But I don’t have any applications that can work well with that setup with TV like UI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signs that rhyme⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After coming here I can’t tell how to say g and z differently. Why are they doing this :(

  It had perfectly different sounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨blursed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Killing cancer cells: easy Not killing normal cells: hard

  Guess who found an easy way to get PhD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure but it’s lonely at the top. If you rise to the top by backstabbing people, you’ll end up exactly how some people right now are, and you keep trying to accumulate more and be great or whatever messing up everything else and being hated.

  While a simple life with your loved ones will give you satisfaction. And satisfaction is the key to happiness. Rather satisfaction is the ultimate happiness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cold water was probably less refreshing for early humans due to most cold water likely only being available during colder weather.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Icy water yes. But cold water was available, the whole reason people find cold water refreshing is because running water/spring water etc are cold and more likely to be safe to drink. While stagnant water were more likely to be warm and have more bacteria, making it lot less safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use messenger on Facebook web through. I do have the app as well, but the web works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐇 🐇 🐇⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest opinion programming is easy and fun when you learn it and it saves you time and allows you to test your ideas. Creating something gives you dopamine.

  Problem is before people even try any programming for themselves, they are introduced to it through school or work where they have to do it for homeworks or analysis while also learning new things. And they hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same way people in the past probably said there’s no way you can make anything work without a mechanical mechanism? Can you imagine what an electronic device/chip would look to someone from far past? People thought humans couldn’t fly.

  Those “fundamental science” is just us making sense of the universe in a way we can observe it and even then we don’t know everything. Can you imagine how different the universe looks if you just shift the electro magnetic waves you can see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Warm as in heated water, yes. Room temperature or lukewarm water from the pipes, NO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait people don’t like drinking water? Drinking water (not warm) when you’re thirsty is a really good feeling. I only struggled with forgetting to drink water when I’m not thirsty, but once I am I drink.

  Seeing the sugar addiction and soda problem maybe it was because I didn’t drink those regularly growing up. They were just treats. Also as a child we had fun eating certain fruits that were sour/bitter and then drink water after that, it makes the water taste sweet.

  Maybe you can try eating/licking lemon/lime a bit and drink water later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nine out of ten dentists approve!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $4/month for this article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nine out of ten dentists approve!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I think about so many home/traditional cure. Maybe it works for those people due to placebo effect, and I’ve lost that magic because I’m too critical of everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Git works through ssh. So you need the same system as sshing into your machine. You just make a user group git and then let git and ssh handle things. And if you don’t need people to push to your repo, then it’s a lot easier as it’s now similar to hosting a website/file server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's kinda crazy that we willingly give money to companies in advance (say for gift vouchers and pre-orders)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup gift cards are like money but with limited use. And sometimes expiration dates.

  I think there’s significant portions if it that don’t get used at all, which is free money (profit) to the company. Or maybe they don’t count it as profit because people may use it, idk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem with MS word is you can’t really put vector images in it externally without it being weird. I think that’s why people are used to drawing it in the software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The leading theory over this seems to be they’re trying to invalidate a bunch of international/national agreements about the gulf of Mexico because now “that doesn’t exist”, or is not about this gulf that has a different name so definitely not the one from agreement. And of course there’s also things about doing everything at once and getting people distracted by these while sneaking in harmful policies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see the dev don’t want recommendation algorithm. All good to avoid the recommendation bubble, but a category/tags might be nice instead of random everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not an author, I’m a scientist. So I don’t know what the through process of authors are. But I it probably would take long time to actually find alternative ways to do the things same as us but underwater. The civilization won’t be like us, they would not have same technology, they wouldn’t have same values. Authors are probably trying to capture general population’s interests by making things they understand.

  And do you think “hey I haven’t heard anyone say something to me about earth rotating sun” would have been a good counter argument in the past.

  Water is incredible, we don’t know all the ways we can use it. Sometimes it takes hours to simulate what water does in seconds. Unlike other materials like metals, which are lot easier to predict. And if we’re talking about aliens, don’t even have to think water, it could be something else as flexible as water, while having properties that makes it easier to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does your glasses need electricity to function? Before electronics came and we started making everything need electricity do you think we were not advanced civilization because we only used mechanical power? If you had come that far and suppose had limitations like “can’t use electricity coz I said so”, the development would have stopped? They would have found other ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, that’s because you are human, and you think your way is the only way.

  To make hydraulics you need metal

  How does your arm work? How does octopus move? You think you can’t make an structure like human arm, or octopus tentacles without metal, and then have a tube going through it in a way the water in it can move them. Look up soft robots. There isn’t just one way to tap into mechanical energy and move things. We did what we found first, improved on it. But thinking that’s the only way just shows narrow mindedness.

  You need to heat metal

  You don’t. You know aluminum used to be so expensive because you couldn’t really extract it from the ores like iron. Wasn’t found in pure form like gold. Then someone found you can use electrolysis to get aluminum from its ore. Then it became so cheap.

  You don’t just heat metal and put it in mold for every type of metal work. In micro scale there are 3d printing methods similar to electroplating, it’s very precise.

  And even if there is a need of heat, how can you say ocean doesn’t have it. A species could find out a way to tap into volcanic vents. Similarly how we use groundwater and rivers. They could use volcanos and geothermal energy. We do many many manufacturing processes under water in a tank containing water. They could make air tank and do things there too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tech needs electricity and fire is not universal. That is what we use.

  Our brain is lot more complicated and efficient than the computers we make and it uses ions, in liquid media. So something that lives in water could definitely be able to make something that would be able to use similar things to do processing. Water is also really good with doing things, it’s flexible but doesn’t compress/expand like air does. Think about hydraulic systems. You can make them smaller and smaller as your tech progresses. Mechanical things using metals and such would work in water as well. Think about gold and such that can be used for electricity as well, we don’t use it because it’s valuable, but an alien world could have abundance of gold for them to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Click here?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, for printing configure footnote for links.

  For example in latex, if I’m printing something I redefine \href as \fn so the text is the same but the link is on footnote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And is harmful for people like me, who like to copy paste the pdf into a markdown file write answers there and send a rendered pdf to professors. While I keep the markdowns as my notes for everything. I’d read the text I copied.