bryndos
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- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 18 hours ago:
Does "activist group" not have soulseek?
smhHonestly thou i don't really know what a spotify is, sounds like a dogging app.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 day ago:
Agreed, spent too much time recently trying to get a "modern" database to accept one of out transactional systems' dummy EOT value (3456-02-01).
Took far, far too long for me to realise that it only wanted to store date/time in nanoseconds !? Fuck me, you'd have to be dumb fuck computer to want to measure every date in nanoseconds - even oracle wasn't that dumb, oh hang on we're "upgrading" to MS.
There must be a joke in here to do with dates that only last a nanosecond, I think it's to do with pandas' breeding rates.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 day ago:
In UK I've mostly have heard 'naughties' for the decade sine about 1999.
But I rarely heard "naughty X" as a year name unless someone was being even more deliberately daft. I'd say "oh" would be most common here after "two thousand and X" too in my experience.I always thought that "'aught" was an American contraction of 'naught'.
"aught" in old timey-English can mean "other" or "else" or even "anything". In my local dialect we still say "owt" meaning "anything" as an opposite of "nowt" nothing".
- Comment on [Meta] Can unsubstantiated rumours? 1 day ago:
But isn't half the point of cutting edge tech news to echo hype louder and louder until investors pile in?
- Comment on A penis has the "second-most" microexpressions, compared to a face 1 day ago:
Maybe that's why I've never got the hang on sign language; I've not been using the 11th finger.
- Comment on The last person on earth might think they're not alone because they might text with chatbots and think they're real people 2 days ago:
Can Keanu Reeves pass the reverse turing test?
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 3 days ago:
Because it's not actually "half life three".
It's (half life)^3.
One of the hardware constraints is that has to be played on something cubic. - Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 3 days ago:
It'll depend on the futures contracts. They'll have price clauses and, get-out clauses , resale clauses and stuff, so it'll come down to lawyering.
It's unlikely that journos know the contract details. Buy clearly any OEM without a futures contract already in place does not have access to low prices.
And any OEM with cheap stock and contractual freedom to resell would seriously consider parting out and selling off stock at the windfall price.
- Comment on Pulling network cable, joist along top of wall 6 days ago:
If you don't have wallpaper- I'd cut some more holes with a hole saw or even just a knife to see whats going on in there from different angles, easy enough to patch them back up.
- Comment on Is there a word or (concise) phrase to describe the paradox of sharing something (like a website) that you don't like, but because you're sharing it you're tacitly helping it? 1 week ago:
- Comment on New Tomb Raider Games Recast Lara Croft With A Gaming Veteran 1 week ago:
This made me rewatch con man s01e08.
"Your voice has this unique quality that we think is going to be more effective with the Marion storyline." - Comment on what happens when you cut something? 1 week ago:
If you shear (scissors) then there should be less loss, maybe some distortion though.
If you saw, you lose the sawdust.
if you slice (knife), it might be either way or a bit of both.Most likely you lose something, whether it's a loss that matters, that depends.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 1 week ago:
Cheap , fairly-easy, portable, storable source of energy, and the current supply chains are very high capacity.
Lots of well understood methods and machines to use it. An oil tanker on sea or land moves a hell of a lot of energy to wherever people want it.Population keeps growing. No way are all of those people going to leave that stuff in the ground, if "we" don't take the cheap stuff, "they" will. So it becomes like a race to find and extract it all.
Even if you don't want it personally, someone in your economy or military will be better off for it. Some people will go looking for it - and someone'll get rich if they find it.
- Comment on Notepad++ updater installed malware 1 week ago:
yeah there was 'notepadqq', but its not the same as ++.
- Comment on my Lemmy feed 1 week ago:
I read the shitposts - pretty much my whole feed except from sciencememes, and never see too much politics, the odd one here or there but nothing annoying.
Maybe I have enough user level blocks in place already.I do see far too much of this of this corn crap recently, so I'm just building up a whole new section of my blocklist.
If there isn't any diversity in shit posts soon, i guess i just ditch this community as it'll be more efficient.I guess i should expect a dirty protest from shitpost - but I'd rather the literal shit posts than one more day of this cornucrapia.
Does ratemypoo.com still exist - maybe I'll just browse that.
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 1 week ago:
I think with a play time of 3,000 years they were assuming it'd not be possible to reach a decent fraction of the speed of light with a life sustaining vessel.
Interesting to know that that is possible, I thought inertia increases with speed so the closer you get to c the more energy input you'd need to sustain acceleration. Maybe that doesn't kick in until well over half c though.
What type of fuel and how much is required for say a apollo command module type passenger cabin?
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Introverts Rock 2 weeks ago:
18+ you drink too much
- Comment on You didn't grow up yet, till you choose your power grain, what is yours? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and it's so awful that I'm going to let someone else do the punchline.
- Comment on You wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood. 2 weeks ago:
I wish I had never been born.
- Comment on You didn't grow up yet, till you choose your power grain, what is yours? 2 weeks ago:
5.Sand
What's the difference between a lentil and a chickpea?
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 weeks ago:
Competition, especially free market competition is one of the enemies of capitalism.
Fortunately for capitalists in a liberalised (unregulated) market it's not too hard to build up market power somewhere in the supply chain, and squeeze out, or effectively force the competition into franchise.
Almost unavoidable economies of scale in industries like banking are huge problem, that concentrates critical market power and drives out competition under the guise of plausible investor friendly sounding shit like "risk premia", "international competitiveness", "labour cost efficiency". Directed credit, sectoral and regional should be part of being a bank, the banks have been given responsibility for running the economy, but not made accountable for it. That's why they can get away with investing in real estate bubbles instead of productive industry.
FDR was one of the last USA leaders who seemed to understand the role of banks - sadly that was a long time ago and those ideas seem to be long forgotten.
- Comment on People are completely used to autotune in music now, and the same will happen with ai usage 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, TIL I am not people.
- Comment on What if I told you that refusing to trade your life time for money is a good and respectable choice 3 weeks ago:
Yep sounds like a great "get overpaid then take early retirement" story.
Lots of bankers and other overpaid people can do this type of thing too.
This lifestyle doesn't seem sustainable if scaled to any meaningful share of the current population.
- Comment on Ya yeet! 3 weeks ago:
Assume an asbestos sabot so it doesn't get incinerated.
It's maybe more the acceleration/shock?
Probably a few tens of G before instant death. - Comment on Is this an archive? 3 weeks ago:
Which one is the flame demon in Doom 2?
- Comment on Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of 3 weeks ago:
Nation Building
AuthorityAustralia - Comment on Why? 3 weeks ago:
Before lemmy became a has-been.
- Comment on Is there an optimal home/apartment size that most people would be happy with? 3 weeks ago:
This seems decent reasoning, and it'd fit with a lot of the Victorian up to interwar, and frankly reconsruction era up until maybe the 60s 70s. Utilitarian housing built where i live for the working class. Of course people want more, but i think people can make do reasonably with this. Of course the victorians did slot in a couple of streets of mansions here or there for the upper middle sleazebags.
- Comment on Technical debt is probably one of the best dramatic tropes 3 weeks ago:
i think i can blame fucking shitty it jargon, and the pricks that use it to "disrupt" perfectly functional services, feather their nests, then fuck off 18 months later to spew a new batch of jargon at a new set of victims.
d i dont think you can stop me.And i will. anGive me some functional understanding and insight and i'll listen. give me dumb fuck jargon; fuck right off.