HK65
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- Comment on 4 hours ago:
Car heating can be adjusted to decimals usually. So can the heating in my home. The oven can’t, because the chicken doesn’t care if it’s 180 or 181 degrees.
- Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder 6 days ago:
Okay, but Google uses it in a way where directly going to the server they host F-Droid.apk, downloading and installing it counts as sideloading.
If anything, using Google Play is sideloading by that definition, since I can’t just download a release from the originators’ server, they need to first transfer it into a secondary location, Google’s servers, and I can only install it from there.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 1 week ago:
The people who would be okay with this already don’t own computers, they go with a phone.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
They are complaining about having to pay taxes and having that tax money spent in social services.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 2 weeks ago:
IMO it’s great but it is a departure from earlier titles in more than just going to 3D, and the sides are a 90s caricature of the US/China/Middle-Eastern people, so it’s something that you definitely couldn’t make today.
Like the “terrorist” side gets suicide bombers and a unit called “angry mob” to which Chinese flamethrowers or American snipers are a good counter, while China gets two soldiers for the price of one and propaganda loudspeakers everywhere that makes units fight harder.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 2 weeks ago:
This day is to be remembered.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 2 weeks ago:
Is it only me that had the C&C Generals Nuke Cannon tagline going off in their heads saying BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN in a deliberate voice and a heavy Chinese accent?
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 2 weeks ago:
Solar is technically fusion though
- Comment on Without getting into current politics can someone describe to me what an authoritarian regime looks like? 2 weeks ago:
Which one do you miss?
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 2 weeks ago:
I can already imagine articles of Americans dying of thirst because all their water has been taken to cool datacenters that use terribly inefficient algorithms to solve Candy Crush levels for me.
- Comment on Law enforcement can now use Flock’s software to directly request doorbell videos from Ring users 2 weeks ago:
And a lot of ESL speakers will write in a mishmash, since they read off of the Internet with mixed sources.
- Comment on Law enforcement can now use Flock’s software to directly request doorbell videos from Ring users 2 weeks ago:
How do you know they honour your decision to deny them the footage, instead of taking it without your knowledge or consent?
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 2 weeks ago:
Except your GPU fans will start screaming when you press skip.
- Comment on 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far 2 weeks ago:
They hope
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, you’re right, I looked it up.
Apparently that’s the “Chinese characteristics” in “socialism with Chinese characteristics”.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Some idiot with too much money is already on it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Games
Athletes are adults … and they have a right to do with their body what they wish - my body, my choice; your body, your choice, … And no government, no paternalistic sports federation, should be making those decisions for athletes
Except for living as their gender dictates apparently, as:
According to D’Souza, athletes should also be categorised based on their chromosomal sex.
That said, if I understand this correctly, they are basically making, letting and forcing (select the one you like) trans men to compete in women’s sports.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 3 weeks ago:
Buy a Framework, I have 4 slots that can be everything from USB-A to C to RJ45 to card readers when I need it, and I can charge the thing from any port.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 3 weeks ago:
It’s setting expectations. Just because I can wear a clip on my nose, I won’t stop telling the local idiot to stop farting loudly in the elevator.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 3 weeks ago:
I think you’re misunderstanding. I think what the person above is saying is that if Youtube can go back to skippable ads and not pull out of Vietnam or go bankrupt (lol), then places like the EU or even individual EU countries have more than enough leverage to demand this.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 3 weeks ago:
No, but some public transit services, random service providers, random SMEs whose services I use communicate solely through Whatsapp.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 3 weeks ago:
I’d love that, but I need Whatsapp to participate in society. Several companies, mostly SMEs in fact but also big ones won’t talk to me if not through Whatsapp.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 3 weeks ago:
I guess the alternative is locking their people out of Youtube by effectively banning it. Even this is a gutsy move TBH.
It’s the same deal when “how is it that you’re paying taxes if you’re a libertarian”?
- Comment on If it fits... 3 weeks ago:
At least in my area where the rules are the sane, motorbikes just exist outside the law. You park them wherever, but nobody gets in trouble when someone on a motorbike dies.
- Comment on genius 3 weeks ago:
Not likely, this would get ripped apart on engine start.
For a crash, you need to at least get to the part where you attempt a takeoff.
- Comment on The Wagon 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see this as that.
My reading is that “I want to touch my GFs butt but I won’t since she’ll get mad, but I really want to”.
Nothing wrong with really wanting to. Maybe don’t call your SO a bitch though.
- Comment on Is Maduro our generations Norega? 3 weeks ago:
But Diaper Donnie does what bad people command.
It’s not like Trump has a plan. The people behind him do.
To quote Elon Musk, “we coup whoever we want”.
- Comment on wisdom 3 weeks ago:
It’s not even ECC, OpenAI bought up unfinished stuff just so that others can’t have it.
It will just not get made.
- Comment on Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth 4 weeks ago:
The question did too, it isn’t immediately apparent why you’d write to disk to calculate pi if you haven’t worked in a place that churned a lot of numbers before.
- Comment on Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth 4 weeks ago:
I imagine it’s about checkpointing the calculation as it’s very long.
Point is, if the system crashes, you want to be able to resume the calculation without losing too much progress, so you want to periodically write progress to disk.
That takes some CPU cycles away from the calculation, and if your disk driver is inefficient, it will take away more.
- Comment on Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth 4 weeks ago:
I guess the Windows disk drivers are shit compared to Linux ones.