JeremyHuntQW12
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- Comment on What are some of the impacts of a power outage that isn't that obvious / isn't talked about a lot? And What happens to restaurant bills? Do Buses still work? (since card payments wouldn't work) 1 day ago:
Cell towers only have about half an hour of battery back up. Its the switched network (landline phones) that will last for a few days.
- Comment on What are some of the impacts of a power outage that isn't that obvious / isn't talked about a lot? And What happens to restaurant bills? Do Buses still work? (since card payments wouldn't work) 1 day ago:
Switched telephone networks run on lead-acid batteries, they will last for a few days without power.
Hospitals, airports and tower blocks have back up generators, although in the case of hosiptals, people on respirators can sometimes die as the generator takes a while to build up voltage.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 5 days ago:
A GWM Ora is about the equivalent of US$20K in Australia (no subsidies). So its doable.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 5 days ago:
You can buy a mid-range loudspeaker for like $5 at an electronics store.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 5 days ago:
It will need to have a screen to comply with safety standards. A back up camera is mandatory.
The Citroen Ami is a “cycle car” under French law and doesn’t have to meet the same standards.
- Comment on Coffee is not brewed homogeneous 5 days ago:
OP is either referring to a drip filter, which makes brown coloured water, or one those cartridge things, which forces boiling water through ground coffee beans. In either case, swirling the jug is pointless.
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 6 days ago:
Head to Google, type in any made-up phrase, add the word “meaning,” and search. Behold! Google’s AI Overviews will not only confirm that your gibberish is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived.
Your search - “yellow is a true badger” meaning - did not match any documents.
Suggestions:
Make sure that all words are spelled correctly. Try different keywords. Try more general keywords. Try fewer keywords.
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 6 days ago:
Its a language model not a dictionary. By puuting the term “definition” before the sentence you imply that the following sentence has a definintion, hence it vectors down to the most likely meaning.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
Apparently its based on the field rotations in the motor or something, remember this is a fixed gear vehicle. I don’t think ICE cars use a gear either anymore, its based on the crankshaft sensor for the EFI, multipled by a gear ratio figure in the ECU. Even pushbikes don’t have gear sensors for speedo reading, they count magnetic fluctuations in the rim.
- Comment on Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. 1 week ago:
people buy them for the motion sensors and the games. the tech is irrelevant. The NES was ancient tech when it came out. Most of the games on PS are too hard and/or inappropriate for children.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 2 weeks ago:
In fact I believe the odometer reading is calculated from the electricty consumption, not from a meter in the gearbox. So if the range reading is inaccurate (and they are) it would throw out the mileage as well.
Should be super easy to prove too… Take an assortment of Teslas to a 1 mile stretch of road, drive it up and down 20 times, measure the mileage before and after.
Not necessarily, the incorrect readings may only occur at certain speeds or conditions.
- Comment on There's probably some kind of deal between cellphone and pants makers to keep pockets small 2 weeks ago:
but wouldn’t it squah your testicles and it keeps working its way around to your bum
- Comment on Cucumbers taste like the white part of watermelons 2 weeks ago:
What ? I’ve study botany and the term fruit is used extensively.
A fruit is the heterozygotic offspring of the parent plant. A seed is the male zygote, with the female zygote being pollen. So “seed” oils are made from fruit, just like olive oil.
A tuber (potato) or rhyzome (ginger) is a homozygotic offspring. A vegetable is a part of the plant that is not the offspring, like the leaves, stem or root.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 2 weeks ago:
all apps built for one distro can be run on another.
Pfft no. They won’t even work on earlier versions of the same distro. Or later. Or any distro where you’ve installed a library or driver thats older or newer than the one needed for the app your installing.
So in essence there is no difference besides the installation process, gui, and package manager.
There are three different package systems (Red Hat, Debian and Arch) and they are all completely incompatible with each other, and earlier versions of themselves. You can use containers like Snap or Flatpack or half a dozen other standards, which again are all incompatible with each other, and all of them except Snap aren’t fully containerised either - they are dependent on specific libraries and drivers in the distro.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 2 weeks ago:
In the near future, probably within 12 months, all the standard features of Windows will be gone. The won’t be ay Explorer, there won’t be any Start menu, there won’t be any opening screen.
There will just be a prompt and you say “computer, open yesterdays word file”, like in Star Trek. There won’t be any “apps” to install - you’ll just say “phone, open the order menu for Boise City Chick-Fil-A” and it will navigate automatically to the page.
Sure, if you’re a total weirdo you will be able to install a bash shell and navigate manually, but hardly anyone will do that.
BTW, AI is being introduced into Linux as well.
- Comment on Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites? 3 weeks ago:
You can run Deepseek on a Raspberry Pi.
- Comment on Most under-utilized consoles? 3 weeks ago:
Atari Jaguar just had Amiga/ST ports, hardly any used the GPU.
Also, most PS5 games are just reconfigured PS4 games.
- Comment on Why Companies Don’t Fix Bugs 3 weeks ago:
1-money 2-incompetence 3-the senior prgrammer left somewhere and is uncontactable, or was sacked by a powertripping manager with the IQ of a cinder block and no one can work out what the hell they wrote.
- Comment on How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multi-trillion-dollar market swings. 3 weeks ago:
Actually, the tweet was accurate.
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 2 months ago:
Theres heaps of stuff that is under-developed or mssing, but they prefer to rewrite working code in Rust, because ideology.
We are witnessing the death of Linux here, no less, replacing a working kernal with an still undefined language that everyone will have forgotten in 5 years.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Debs should work just fine on a Debian based os like pop.
hahahahahahaha
Downloading the .deb from the website is very hard? Not being sarcastic, hoping to understand
It has to be specific to your distro, and your version of the distro, and compatible with any modules you’ve added. Ain’t gunna happen.
- Comment on What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday 2 months ago:
The IBM 503, the last valve computer, that Cobol and Fortran, the first languages were developed had 20 bit words.
So an 80 column card could fit 4 words across. Thats why terminals had 80 coulmns of text - so they were the same size as punch cards.
Fortran only used 72 columns, so the last 8 were unused.
- Comment on Why is it called Lemmy 🤔? 2 months ago:
In a 2020 post, Lemmy’s co-creator Dessalines wrote about the origin of the name Lemmy. "It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 months ago:
Everything is a turbo now which is “more efficient” but there is no way they will last as long as the naturally aspirated V6 or V8s that would go for 400-500k miles.
You do know that turbocharged engines don’t rev as much don’t you ? They last longer.
A 1.8L NA Atsra put out 92 kW at 6000 rpm. The 1.6L turbo version put out 134kW at 2800 rpm.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t say it was a failure.
It sold quite well considering its price.
The original specifications and price were never going to be met,
- Comment on Current day America has proven beyond a doubt, humanity is the only animal that wouldn't jump out of a slowly boiling pot of water. 2 months ago:
They jumped into the pot.
- Comment on So… Australia Just Banned Kids From the Internet 4 months ago:
They haven’t been banned yet.
The law doesn’t come into effect until the end of next year after the govt determines how the ban will be enforced.
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 5 months ago:
I’m guessing that, like GDPR in the EU, it will apply to any and all social media website on the internet, but for practical reasons, can’t really be enforced outside of the legislating authorities’ jurisdiction.
The legislation specifically gives the Act extra-territorial powers to enforce the ban against foreign websites.
Reddit is specifically targetted ; it will definitely include Lemmy.
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 5 months ago:
Now, if a parent helps their child do it anyway, the parent and child can’t get in trouble, but the platform can, because platforms cannot knowingly allow children to use the app, even with explicit parental consent and supervisio
Not correct. The act itself is not illegal, but circumventing the telecommunication controls is a criminal offence under the Telecommunications Act, with penalties up to 20 years imprisonment.
- Comment on The World’s First Laptop? Data General One DG-1 (1984) 5 months ago:
The screen was only in that position or closed. There was no friction joint. You could only view the screen if you were sitting on the floor !