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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAA - Analytical Anti-Aliasing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Exceptionally well written and interesting blog post. Kudos to FrostKiwi!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it though? The Monkey Theorem should make it understandable how long infinity really is. That the lifetime of the universe is not long enough is nothing unexpected IMHO, infinity is much (infinitely) longer. And that’s what the theorem is about, isn’t it?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pazuzu@midwest.social explained above:

  The original post only gave half the explanation. It’s not that lead exists in general, it’s that lead exists within zircon crystals.

  Under normal circumstances that would be impossible, zircon crystals strongly reject lead atoms as they form. There’s no way to stuff lead into the crystal lattice in the quantity we find them there. But uranium and zircon go together just fine, we just have to wait for it to decay into lead. The trouble is it takes ~4.5 billion years for just half of those uranium atoms to turn into lead. So any zircon crystal we find with half as much lead as uranium must be roughly that old

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#litchensubscribe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Look: it’s a hat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aaaaah⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess i need to donate my dead body to science after im dead. I never had a cramp in the 38 years of my life. shrugs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think very few people mind changing it

  I doubt that. Do you know how many system configurations depend on these keywords? Do you have any idea how many hours of work and system outages this would cause?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if the total fertility rate drops and stays below global replacement rate, will humans disappear?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are contradicting yourself. By moving into a wealthy country you neither gain education nor wealth. Its about culture and environment.

  My guess is: in wealthy countries people are living more isolated. Without help from friends and family you have to invest a huge amount oft time into rising a child, which many can’t afford.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least in germany, nobody cares. We are using WhatsApp over here most of the time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism is a tool. Without it, we wouldn’t have cars, smartphones and so much more.

  The problem is that we started to let the tool decide what is important. And since for them profit is more important then people, we are fucked.

  Is a hammer generally bad because it can crush your fingers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are a company with zero morals and the goal to maximize profits. That’s what capitalism is for and were it’s good at.

  The government needs to create rules and laws to make sure that this profit maximizing doesn’t happen on the back of ordinary people, but since corporate america is allowed to control the government through money, this doesn’t happen.

  Capitalism is a tool, can we please start to use it like that again?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My opinion on Bone conduction earphones⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For real? Never heard of that. Super interesting if they did shit like that back then