DomeGuy
@DomeGuy@lemmy.world
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
Scaling small things up is always a logistics and repeatability issue. Always.
We had.technology to put a capsule of three men on the moon for a week before most humans alive today were born, and yet we haven’t gone back because while both “number of humans” and “length of stay” are fairly simple ideas to scale up, we never had the logistics to create and fuel the one.saturn V launch every other day that a permanent moon base would need.
Heck, the Internet is full of ground breaking improvements that were “buried” by the challenge of scaling up out of a lab.
- Comment on IBM releases a new mainframe built for the age of AI 3 weeks ago:
IBM has never stopped selling mainframes. One of the big reasons why finance transactions are still COBOL is IBM consultants insisting that a centralized mainframe is better than a private cloud.
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 3 weeks ago:
Assume that, for the first time in his life, Donald meant what he said. Pretend that he won’t change his mind or panic, and assume that the same GOP which keeps missing Speaker of the House election layups won’t break and let the Democrats take the tariff power away
The midterm congressional elections are always a swing to the other party. The Democrats are more likely to take at least one chamber of Congress than Trump is to say something dumb. But let’s assume that for some reason they only take one, and you get gridlock enough to preserve the tarrifs until the next POTUS takes office in January 2029.
A factory would need to break even by that time to be worth a quick investment. And not just break even, but leave you with more wealth than if you just bought a bunch of crypto and stayed home until this all passes. And if you signed an deal today, your break even points might be as soon as only 45 months away.
You can’t even get a car loan with a team that short.
- Comment on Free software or open source? A small inspection. 1 month ago:
Things like the MS-PL strike me as Open Source but not Free Software, but I can’t think of a contrary example which is Free Software but not Open Source.
- Comment on Can Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods? 1 month ago:
This really depends on what you mean by “pray.”
Sincerely worship and praise a pagan godhead as if they were responsible for the deeds Scripture attributes to God? No. It’s as bad as lying in court, stealing, or killing someone.
Falsely go through the motions of pagan prayer, such as in a game, as an actor, or under threat of death? Usually. Some are sticklers, but most are OK with leaving cookies for Santa.
Sincerely giving praise or worship to a being other than God, for things asserted as being done in God’s service or things not done by Her? It depends. Some may be hard no, some may be open yes.
There are something like 3 billion nominal followers of the God of Abraham alive today. With such a large population, it’d be hard to find a statement that they all agree on, including “water is wet”.
- Comment on Can Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods? 1 month ago:
There’s plenty of references in the OT to Jews doing the same thing.
And European Christianity chased out worship of anyone save the God of Abraham rather violently after a generation or two.
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” 2 months ago:
Spoiler alert : it was just a survey of the reported confidence of folk who admitted to using AI.
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” 2 months ago:
So, AI users exhibit a reduction in literally the one skill that the AI expects them to actually have?
I should probably go read that link and see if it’s actual degradation or just selection.
- Comment on An argument starter: which of these is the "second set of 4 digits in base 10"? (Body) 2 months ago:
4567
While 0 has no value and is often placed after 9 on keyboards, you asked about digits in a base and not numbers. This becomes clear if you describe the various bases.
- Binary is 0-1
- Octal is 0-7
- Decimal is 0-9
- Hexadecimal is 0-F
If you sort zero at the end, you’d need to spell out the digits or label them all as 1-0, which isn’t very descriptive.
Mind you, “zero-first ordering of digits” is not a fundamental rule, since the glyphs only have a need to be sorted when they stand for a numerical value . And if you used a phrase like “first X digits” without noting a range the omission would be a composition error.
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 3 months ago:
Who the fuck demands people present pronouns? You either do it, or you accept either sometimes being misgendered or getting an indeterminate “they”.
Or are you just trying to start the new year bitching about people insisting on common courtesy after helpfully specifying their own preferred pronouns?
- Comment on The popularity of Minecraft has probably led some children to believe you can swim up waterfalls 6 months ago:
Has it also led chidren to believe that if you cut down a tree with an axe it will just hang in the sky instead of falling down?
- Comment on Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit? 6 months ago:
So, you’re asking if there is a shoplifter whose small-dollar.spree was stopped by target, who was then arrested by the police, who then refused an initial plea offer from the DA, who was then charged by a grand jury, refused a pre-trial plea offer, went to trial, refused the pre-verdict plea offer, and was then found guilty?
Well, what about someone who hit 60k over 120 visits?