timroerstroem

@timroerstroem@feddit.dk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s why it’s okay to block ads in even simpler terms: It’s my fucking computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More or less. In my layman’s understanding: Black holes ‘evaporate’ slowly through Hawking radiation, losing mass as a function of their surface area (simplistically, particle/anti-particle pairs ‘pop out of nothing’ near the event horizon, one gets swallowed up the other escapes, this means a net loss of energy, which has to ‘paid’ by the black hole losing mass, think E=mc^2^).

  Since a black hole behaves (geometrically) like any other sphere, the proportion of its area to its volume will grow as the black hole loses mass (i.e. it will have more and more relative area the smaller it gets), this process speeds up over time thus ending in what I guess you could call an explosion (more a whimper than a bang, to borrow a phrase).

  Part 2 of your question: We don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps because it came from a Microsoft report. Maybe they only know of this being fixed in Windows? I would assume it’d affect all OSs but then again, I certainly do not know enough about these things to understand what’s going wrong here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bite coaster, pour tequila in sink, add lime to taste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re gonna need a bigger boat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Non-mobile link

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im not familar on how to make meth. But is my mom in trouble with amonia windex bleach 2 empty 2 liters, batteries under the sink?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ammonia and bleach (sodium hypochlorite) make chloramines, not mustard gas. Still very not healthy, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explains⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Brussels effect in action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Pop_OS! kind of bad?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, if being able to tweak everything makes you happy (and I get that), Gnome is probably a horrible choice of DE in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a European Union equivalent of BLS.gov?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could try Eurostat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antivirus en Linux – ¿Lo necesitas?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s in Spanish while being labelled as English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ is for those that already have a music subscription⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s called grayjay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Astronomers would notice immediately, as the stars would be in very wrong positions. The IAU is the primary reason why IT people have to hack around leap seconds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Published in World Economic Forum · 5 min read · Nov 12, 2016

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What even is fire?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What the vast majority of people would probably think of when they hear the word ‘fire’ is actually flames; flames are quite simply particles emitting light.

  For an everyday example, take a campfire: The wood logs you see burning are at such a high temperature that they give off methanol (and other flammable chemicals), which is most of what’s burning. Apart from the methanol being driven off of the wood, there will be other chemical compounds and/or larger clumps of more-or-less-burned wood that will be carried off. These larger clumps in particular, while very small, are nonetheless large and hot enough to start emitting light in the visual spectrum. This is essentially what a flame is: Particles emitting light.

  Fire in and of itself is quite simply rapid oxidation in the presence of oxygen.

  The above is, arguably, a gross oversimplification.

  TLDR: Flames are particles, fire is combustion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people say the AI bubble will burst, what exactly does that mean?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory reference to tulip mania: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania