WolfLink
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- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 6 months ago:
Yeah throwing a piece of sodium metal into water will cause a violent reaction. Even touching it with your finger is bad because of the moisture on your skin.
But sodium chloride (table salt) dissolves in water easily and safely, resulting in an aqueous solution including sodium ions.
- Comment on blast me off, fam 6 months ago:
I think if I ate 175 pounds of cured meat, the sodium isn’t what would kill me.
- Comment on sweet dreams 6 months ago:
Voroni pattern. It shows up in nature all the time.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 months ago:
Lmfao I actually wrote that by hand but it does kinda look AI generated
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 months ago:
Short answer: Neural Networks and other “machine learning” technologies are inspired by the brain but are focused on taking advantage of what computers are good at. Simulating actual neurons is possible but not something computers are good at so it will be slow and resource intensive.
Long Answer:
- Simulating neurons is fairly complex. Not impossible; we can simulate microscopic worms, but simulating a human brain of 100 billion neurons would be a bit much even for modern supercomputers
- Even if we had such a simulation, it would run much slower than realtime. Note that such a simulation would involve data sent between networked computers in a supercomputing cluster, while in the brain signals only have to travel short distances. Also what happens in the brain as a simple chemical release would be many calculations in a simulation.
- “Training” a human brain takes years of constant input to go from a baby that isn’t capable of much to a child capable of speech and basic reasoning. Training an AI simulation of a human brain is at least going to take that long (plus longer given that the simulation will be slower)
- That human brain starts with some basic programming that we don’t fully understand
- Theres a lot more about the human brain we don’t fully understand
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 6 months ago:
A no longer supported but DRM-free offline game can likely still be played. You can find an old computer, or use emulation or virtual machines to run it.
But if the game uses DRM or online services it can become impossible to play once the company stops actively supporting it.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 6 months ago:
I just looked it up and the $40 T-Mobile prepaid plan has a 10GB data limit. Tbh that’s probably plenty for most people, but it’s not unlimited. Their $50/mo option is unlimited, with caveats (such as throttling once you’ve used too much data).
They are going to monitor your traffic and throttle based on estimated video streaming speed on any of their plans.
Still pretty good compared to ATT and Verizon. Unfortunately I’m stuck with the provider I’m using since they seem to be the only one with good cover wage in my area.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 6 months ago:
What provider are you using? Both AT&T and Verizon are on the order of $80/mo for an individual, down to like $30/person/mo for a family of 5.
- Comment on Do you encrypt your data drives? 7 months ago:
The way you recover data from a totally dead drive is use a program that scans every byte and looks for structures in the data that look like files e.g. a jpeg will have a header followed by some blocks of content. In an encrypted drive everything looks like random data.
Even if you have the key, you can’t begin searching through the data until it’s decrypted, and the kind of error that makes it so your drive won’t mount normally is likely to get in the way of decrypting normally as well.
- Comment on D&D makers also want a Baldur’s Gate 4, but say they won't rush to a sequel (it shouldn't take 25 years, mind) 7 months ago:
I’m more interested in what Larian makes next tbh.
- Comment on The first Apple-approved emulators for the iPhone have arrived 7 months ago:
Probably. Go to developer.apple.com. You want to download Xcode and install the iOS SDK through XCode. You may need to make (free tier) Apple Developer Account before it lets you download.
Note that you can’t install apps from the iOS App Store on the iOS simulator; only a handful of system apps and anything you build for the simulator yourself.
- Comment on The first Apple-approved emulators for the iPhone have arrived 7 months ago:
Apple provides an iPhone emulator as part of their official SDK. Free to download, but only runs on Mac.
- Comment on Roku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident | TechCrunch 7 months ago:
You literally can’t buy a non-smart TV anymore
- Comment on Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap | Proton 7 months ago:
Traditional 2FA (assuming you mean apps with codes) can be done from the same device (if you have the app with the codes installed on that device).
It doesn’t defeat the purpose of 2FA. The 2 factors are 1. The password and 2. You are in possession of a device with the 2FA codes. The website doesn’t know about the device until you enter the code.
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 7 months ago:
That’s not how battery life on these sort of devices is usually reported.
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
Something about climate change maybe?
- Comment on The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. 8 months ago:
Misleading graph trying to make a 150% increase look like a 1000% increase.
- Comment on Apple will allow users to download apps directly from a developer’s website, in latest EU App Store rule change 8 months ago:
It’s a less stringent review process than the App Store, but apps distributed outside of it will have to be “notarized”: macrumors.com/…/alternative-app-store-notarizatio….
- Comment on Apple will allow users to download apps directly from a developer’s website, in latest EU App Store rule change 8 months ago:
It’s not a win. Apple is still requiring apps to undergo app review and even more exorbitant fees than distributing through the App Store. Apple is doing their best to comply to the letter but not the spirit of the EU ruling.
- Comment on File over App Philosophy 8 months ago:
Software isn’t reliable because older software typically doesn’t run on newer machines. This is mostly due to changes in libraries that software relies on, but sometimes can also be do changes in the actual architecture of the CPU.
- Comment on Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard' 8 months ago:
It’s playable if that’s what you mean. It’s still “early access” though.