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- Comment on YSK that risks to exposure of nuclear radition are often over exaggerated by considering a Linear No Threshold (LNT), which does not match with many studies. 4 hours ago:
You’re considering solar/wind/hydro in isolation, pointing out the problems with each one individually. That’s not how it works.
The way anyone who knows what they’re talking about is a hybrid system where you use the pros of one to cover for the cons of another. This works. It has been studied. The solutions have been sitting right there for a while now, and we just don’t need nuclear. We need to build out the renewable tech we have. New grid improvements are also an overlooked part of this.
This has nothing to do with the safety of nuclear at all, so spare me those arguments. Those are arguments built against Greenpeace in the 80’s and 90s, and haven’t changed since. The economics of nuclear suck ass, and that’s pretty much just how it is. The US NRC has been granting new licenses, but nobody is funding them because they know how nuclear projects work out in the end. That is, double the budget, double the time.
If we were to rollback the clock to the early 80s, or even the early 2000s, I’d be all in on nuclear because we didn’t have a lot of other options on the table. Just have to push through the poor economics. The situation has changed, and we don’t need to force it anymore. Vogtle was probably the final word in the United States building out new fission reactors.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 1 day ago:
If the company was smart, they’d get it setup as a medical device, have insurance pay for it, and charge 10x more.
Also, please stop using thorn. It doesn’t do shit to confuse LLMs.
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 days ago:
“Needs” is a tricky word, here.
People want to play games. If they don’t need a desktop otherwise, it’s fine to choose a console for games. The number of people who need a desktop is a lot less than it was 20 years ago.
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 days ago:
For a lot less than a desktop that does decent at gaming, yes.
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 days ago:
This argument made more sense 20 years ago. Now there’s a lot more people who just don’t need a desktop.
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 days ago:
We’re at that point now. Hard to believe, but the PS5 has been out for five years now.
The reason it’s not happening this time is because Moore’s Law is dead. The original formulation was that cost of integrated components would be cut in half every x months. The value of x changed around over the years, but settled on 24. That cost factor is gone and probably won’t come back without a major breakthrough.
There are improvements in the size of integrated components (which often gets mistakenly labeled as Moore’s Law), but they aren’t getting cheaper anymore.
- Comment on Everyone has a phase 3 days ago:
That’s one of those movies that should be complete trash, but it’s actually pretty good.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 3 days ago:
The hardship Boomers had was mostly far away and hypothetical. They grew up with the constant threat of nuclear war.
The old Star Trek episode “Gary Seven” has an interesting take on this. Boomers expected that civilization would end before they got to adulthood. Then it didn’t, and they had no idea what to do with themselves.
Then they come to a time when they’re resented by both their parents and their children. The Greatest Generation was horny after the war and literally fucked the Boomers into existence, but realized too late that they didn’t actually like having children. Boomers treated their children the way their parents treated them. Gen X sorta puts up with it, but Millennials aren’t having it.
Other than that, capitalism knew by the 1950s that if they push the working class too hard, they’ll revolt. Better to back off the money printer a little to make sure we can keep running it for as long as possible. And so the working class could have a reasonably comfy life doing the same trades for their whole working life (provided they were white). Over time, capitalism found that it can keep a working class revolt from happening by dividing the working class against each other; racism and religion works pretty well. Then it was time to overclock the money printer.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 3 days ago:
The counterpoint is that if you’re sitting that close to a big TV, it’s going to fill your field of view to an uncomfortable degree.
4k and higher is for small screens close up (desktop monitor), or very large screens in dedicated home theater spaces. The kind that would only fit in a McMansion, anyway.
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 3 days ago:
Send unsolicited cat pictures. Trust me, works way better.
- Comment on No fucking way! I got invited to the Illuminati 3 days ago:
That sorta happened. Discordianism takes some notes from the idea of the Illuminati. You can draw a straight line from there to 4chan, and from 4chan to /r/The_Donald, Qanon, and MAGA as a whole.
- Comment on Fictional 4 days ago:
It’s neat to think about what units an alien civilization would come up with independently. Like the Plank Distance is fundamental to physics, so they’d probably have something for that.
Degrees Celsius is based on freezing and boiling point of water, so if they came up with a base 10 numbering system and water is key to their biology, then they’d probably come up with that.
A calorie is the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1L of water by 1C. A liter is a volume of a cube 0.1m on each side. The meter was originally ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and north pole (and subsequent redefinitions are based on that original measurement). They wouldn’t come up with the meter, and they wouldn’t come up with liters or calories, either.
- Comment on Fictional 4 days ago:
Speed of Causality is the absolute maximum speed. Speed of Light in a (perfect) vacuum happens to be equal to the Speed of Causality.
- Comment on All cults go through phases of culling the non-believers. Anytime you justify a cult leaders anti-social behavior solely for the benefits you get by keeping the cult going you've begun this process. 5 days ago:
That’s not super common. Heaven’s Gate type cults get a lot of headlines when they do, but they tend to be the exception.
Most cults either disperse almost immediately when their central leader dies or goes to jail (Onedia cult), or they fail to keep up with the long term turnover and fade away (Shakers).
- Comment on Yum 5 days ago:
What does not kill you makes you stronger. Chew that hair.
- Comment on All cults go through phases of culling the non-believers. Anytime you justify a cult leaders anti-social behavior solely for the benefits you get by keeping the cult going you've begun this process. 5 days ago:
Failures in prophecy often serve this purpose. Many do fall away, but those who remain will be even more devoted to the cult.
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 5 days ago:
He’s always been more than a little petite bourgeoisie. Among all his spats with the city of New York, I’m sure you can find something where he was at fault, but we generally only get his side of things. Still, I think he’s been mostly a good advocate. FUTO is not the right place to do that.
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 week ago:
You could have posted this exact message to other replies in this thread, but you choose this one. That’s rather telling.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 1 week ago:
The pits just represent numbers. A 1-bit memory cell typically stores high or low voltage. The numbers 0 and 1 only exist as a platonic ideal, and there are many ways to represent them in the real world.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc - This one floundered and died before coming to market
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_optical_data_storage - A bunch of different solutions, and it looks like they were all being developed independently circa 2008, and then went nowhere
My guess is that there’s not much use case beyond archival backups. That’s not going to get the economies of scale that CDs/DVDs/Blu-rays have. It’d be priced for the corporate market, but they already have perfectly good archival backup solutions. You’d also have to prove that it can be durable for at least a few decades, but even for commercial duplication, previous optical formats are just OK at best on longevity.
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 week ago:
That’s the whole problem. You’re considering what most people do, but not a minority who already have extra burdens in their life.
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 week ago:
I remember when disability rights groups pointed out that these laws were placing extra burden on disabled people that weren’t being put on everyone else.
These laws accomplish nothing except make liberals feel good that they actually passed some kind of environmental rules. Meanwhile, conservatives are making sure they can legally torture gay kids, let billionaires get away with pedophilia, and burn lots and lots of coal. But we passed straw bans in a couple of cities. Yay us.
- Comment on This man is suffering 1 week ago:
I don’t think their buffalo sauce is better than any other generic buffalo sauce. Frank’s is my go-to standard. You can get a bottle of Frank’s anywhere for like three bucks. If you’re not doing better than Frank’s, what are you even doing?
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
They’re radioactive.
- Comment on How ZSNES Changed SNES Emulation Forever | Interview with the Creator | Zophar 1 week ago:
Back in the day, I tended to find games that worked well in one but not the other. For example, in the apocalyptic future sections of Chrono Trigger, one of them would have a horrible screeching sound for the wind on the overworld. The other had good sound, but would only render the clouds without the other layers. Horrible screeching sound wins on being technically playable. (I don’t remember which one was which.)
It took a while for either one to have good coverage without too many caveats. These days, a lot of the accuracy misses in emulators are things like “beams in Donkey Kong get drawn in a different order over the course of a couple frames when the level loads up”. That was an actual issue that showed Billy Mitchell’s world record score was a cheat using a specific version of MAME, and even that is from many years ago.
- Comment on Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash 1 week ago:
They’ll all pretend they were never MAGA, why are you still going on about Trump, we’re trying to look forward, etc.
This is exactly how the GOP disowned the Bush II Administration with the Tea Party.
- Comment on Fight me 1 week ago:
Most of the time, we consider heat output to be inefficient. It only works here because heat happens to be its purpose.
You could say it’s 0% efficient.
- Comment on Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins 1 week ago:
The only thing that saves the Xbox brand at this point might be firing the entire executive staff.
- Comment on How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) 1 week ago:
That’s a more modern version. Q and Z were originally left off, which lets the numbers 2 through 9 have only three letters each. You wouldn’t find mnemonic numbers listed with those letters. Which was fine, because they aren’t common letters in English, anyway.
They got added when cell phone text messaging got big on flip phones. Then you had to have them.
- Comment on a sight to behold 1 week ago:
Right, so, not enough.