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- Comment on New server sanity check 2 days ago:
For Jellyfin? You really don’t need much. A raspberry pi can run jellyfin if you don’t have a transcoded format. My main server is only using a 6th gen i3, and Jellyfin runs perfectly.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 3 days ago:
You forgot to list every Nintendo song
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 3 days ago:
Night in the Woods Hollow Knight CrossCode Minecraft Chicory (Lena Raine is goated with the sauce) Kirby’s Dream Course Gen 3 and 4 Pokemon games Anything Toby Fox touches Later Alligator Pretty much any Nintendo game since the NES
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday! 3 days ago:
Another glorious day of not having to worry about my nice and stable Debian server. It runs on an old Dell thin client I got on ebay, which isn’t much, but it gets the job done.
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 3 days ago:
Guardian Signs and Shadows of Almia were fun! I wish the ranger games got more love
- Comment on wheel mugs 5 days ago:
I’m flat
- Comment on xkcd #3121: Kite Incident 1 week ago:
Could spider silk be the solution to this?
Super lightweight and very strong. Plus it’s springy, so that can even out any sharp tugs on the line.
- Comment on xkcd #3121: Kite Incident 1 week ago:
I assume you meant to say they’re not above the equator, which I didn’t actually know until now.
We can find the new length by simply multiplying the equator total by cos(latitude), since circumference is linear to radius.
For subtropical jet streams, latitude is around +/-30 degrees, so our adjusted price comes out to around $950k.
For polar jet streams, the latitude is around +/-60 degrees, bringing the price to $555k.
Extra note: The jet streams can reach speeds of >100mph, so I don’t think our poor little toothpick and plastic film kites will survive!
- Comment on xkcd #3121: Kite Incident 1 week ago:
This also assumes the time you spend making 100k kites is worth nothing to you
- Comment on xkcd #3121: Kite Incident 1 week ago:
Doing some quick math here:
Circumference of the Earth is about 24k mi = 44M yds.
The cheapest fishing line I could find online (from Amazon) (I didn’t search very hard though) was $10 for 440 yds of line. To circle the Earth, you’d need 44M / 440 = 10k spools = $100k for the fishing line.
Let’s assume every spool needs about 1 kite. That’s 10k kites. You can find kites online for like $5 each, but the cheapest way to get a kite is probably to bulk order wooden sticks and plastic film and make them yourself. Let’s do the math on that.
Assume each kite requires a generous 5 ft^2 of film, and 10 ft of sticks. I found some bulk plastic film rolls online (from McMaster Carr) for about $0.02 per ft^2, and some wooden marshmellow sticks (on Amazon) for about $0.10 per foot. That makes $0.025 + $0.1010 = $1.10 per kite. That totals $1.10 * 10k = $11k.
So using these estimates, this kite ring costs around $111k.
That’s way more affordable than I was expecting. No clue if it would actually work though.
- Comment on xkcd #3121: Kite Incident 1 week ago:
Looks like we found our first suspect lol
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 1 week ago:
Who do you even email for that? mastercard@gmail.com?
- Comment on Woman says faecal transplant saved her and could help many more like her 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, by all means report on this case to the psychologist community. I’m saying you shouldn’t just spread this everywhere and call it “news”; There’s too many stupid people willing to do shit like feed their kinds bleach because they think it cures autism or some shit.
- Comment on Woman says faecal transplant saved her and could help many more like her 1 week ago:
Yeah there’s too much pseudoscience around mental health to take one anecdotal case seriously. I’d even go as far to say that publishing this as “news” is pretty irresponsible.
Come back when you have a peer-reviewed study with dozens of test cases please
- Comment on Is there a alternative platform to roblox for players and gamedevs? 1 week ago:
You can do a lot in minecraft with mods and/or datapacks and plugins
- Comment on Is there a alternative platform to roblox for players and gamedevs? 1 week ago:
Also worth mentioning that S&box is developed by the same guy as GMod
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought 2 weeks ago:
oh boy can’t wait for printer manufactures to start encoding metadata in every print like 2d printers do
- Comment on Can't fool me 3 weeks ago:
Ender portal countertop
- Comment on custom shirt 4 weeks ago:
me too
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 5 weeks ago:
I agree with the other comments, but wanted to add how deepfakes work to show how simple they are, and how much less information they need than LLMs.
Step 1: Basically you take a bunch of photos and videos of a specific person, and blur their faces out.
Step 2: This is the hardest step, but still totally feasable for a decent home computer. You train a neural network to un-blur all the faces for that person. Now you have a neural net that’s really good at turning blurry faces into that particular person’s face.
Step 3: Blur the faces in photos/videos of other people and apply your special neural network. It will turn all the blurry faces into the only face it knows how, often with shockingly realistic results.
- Comment on A very curious situation indeed 5 weeks ago:
Some do
- Comment on Say a name 5 weeks ago:
Heisenberg
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 5 weeks ago:
Part of the problem might be that I literally have no idea what their current console is called? Whoever was in charge of naming the last threeish xbox consoles should be fired out of a cannon
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 1 month ago:
same thing, nerd
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 1 month ago:
Emdashes might also insteab be a sign that the commenter is a nerd
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 1 month ago:
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 1 month ago:
Good question! You are certainly not dense!
The position-momentum uncertainty relationship is just a specific case of a more general relationship. There are other uncertainty relationships, such as between time and energy or between two (separate/orthogonal) components of angular velocity. The relationships basically state that whenever you measure one of the two values, you are required to add uncertainty to the other.
Unfortunately, this is kinda where my knowledge on the subject starts to hit its limits. As for spin, it has a lot of effects on the energy of the system it’s involved with, so I believe the energy-time or angular momentum exclusion principles would apply there.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 1 month ago:
What I mean to say is that the detector is not what’s changing the particle; It’s the process of learning about an aspect of the quantum system that forces it into one state or another (at least from our own personal perspectives).
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 1 month ago:
Sorta! According to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, there’s an upper limit to how much we can “know” about the given state of a particle. This isn’t an issue with our measurements, but a fundamental property of the universe itself. By measuring one aspect of a quantum system (for example, the momentum of a particle), we become less certain about other aspects of the system, even if we had already measured them before (such as the position of the same particle).
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 1 month ago:
Not exactly. Quantum physics applies no matter how you measure it. The double-slit experiment is an example of this: Photons moving through two slits will form a wave interference pattern on a detector plate, even though the detector doesn’t affect the position of the photons beforehand.
It’s more like: when you become aware of the results of a quantum measurement, you yourself become a part of the quantum system, and being a part of the system requires measurements to have real values. Whether you should interpret this as a wave-function collapse or branching into multiple parallel universes is up for debate though.
