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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨obesity even kills stars, but the bigger they are, they shine brighter too⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of what is left after Jupiter is in Saturn and after that Neptune and Uranus take up a lot of the mass. The amount of mass in the small terrestrial planets, all of the moons, all of the asteroids etc. is less than 0.002% of the mass of the Solar system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is such a thing even possible? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhm the Moonmen built the pyramids, why would we need to teach them? Man it’s sure going to be embarrassing if we get up there and proclaim: “Hello Moonmen! We are here to teach you about pyramids” and they are like “Dude, we know all about the pyramids, what else you got?”. Can you imagine how red the astronauts faces would be?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨obesity even kills stars, but the bigger they are, they shine brighter too⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And 0.1% is Jupiter, the other 0.4% is everything else…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it like living in 2?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone send this to Randall Monroe, how fucked would we be if we actually created this piece of land?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah wall plug efficiency is much harder since you need to do the power conversion as well, in a small and cheap way for mass production. I’d assume they have a specialized power supply for the big LED in the sky?

  There are super efficient LEDs used in flashlights, the lumen per watt figures these days are absolutely crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This can very a lot depending on the LED. The average LED is indeed somewhere around the 50% and 60% mark. But there are LEDs out there that can get up to 90+%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They played us for absolute fools⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oooh that’s what you meant. I was referring to the time horses became obsolete almost over night and their population got reduced to only 10% of what it was before within a very short time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They played us for absolute fools⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just don’t mention the part where 90% of them got killed off because they weren’t useful anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Management loves that they are using AI, they will probably get promoted if anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spong Berb Adventures #6⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jupiter from the Webb Space Telescope⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still stunning to me how small the great red spot has become. If it gets any smaller it’s hardly a feature worth talking about. I remember back in the 80’s looking through my telescope at Jupiter and clearly seeing the spot. I know it’s entirely possible, but to see a large thing like that visibly change over my lifetime still somehow feels wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He must be a great guy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you tho?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mama!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact, we do not just orbit the galaxy in a circle, we also have a motion perpendicular to that circle. We oscillate up and down through the plane of the Milky Way. The Milky Way is super thin, like super ultra thin. If the Milky Way were a pancake, it would only be the thickness of a sheet of paper, a sad pancake indeed. However in terms of human scales it is still huge, so we have a large way to travel. Our galactic orbit is tilted as compared to the galactic plane, so throughout the cosmic year we move up and down as compared to the center. A motion of 100-200 light year, so pretty big. That orbit also has procession, so we move through different parts.

  The galaxy itself is also moving, although at that scale it’s easier to thing of the galaxy to be stationary and other galaxies moving towards or away from us. In general we are all moving towards a galaxy cluster known as “The Great Attractor” as it is the most massive (except for your mom).

  It’s also often forgotten that our sun isn’t the only star moving in the galaxy. All of the stars orbit the galaxy in a lot of different orbits. And some don’t orbit at all, instead moving with escape velocity to get flung outside of our galaxy. Some have their own orbit in companion dwarf galaxies that in turn orbit our own galaxy. It’s easy to think of a galaxy as a fixed thing, with all the stars in the same place moving together like on a disk. But this isn’t the case at all, stars aren’t bound together and can follow their own path. Over time their relative positions change and the constellations we know won’t exist anymore.

  The structures we see in galaxies like spiral arms for example are only structures in the same way a wave in the ocean is a structure. It is clearly a thing that exists, with properties we can at least somewhat constrain (like size for example). But the water inside that wave is just water like everywhere else. At one point it’s part of the wave and then at some point it no longer is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No no you don’t understand, the free market will have a bunch of companies just dying to jump into this huge opportunity the market created!

  Any minute now…

  Aaaaaaaanyyyyy minute…

  Guys? Any minute right? Right?

  💀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is called AI washing. Basically firing people, outsourcing all the jobs, stripping a company till there is nothing left. The goal is to maximize profits till the company is basically dead and then sell the husk. Because it’s done under the AI label, customers and other interested parties see it as being innovative and not just money grabbing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is about datacenters and HPC, hence the reference to Meta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A complete tier list for our solar system⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ew humans

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this the most bizarre tech? These things seem lame as hell to me. Except for the knife, that’s cool. I’ve seen those ultrasonic cutters used in hobby and industry and those work well. Using them in the kitchen I don’t know about, especially given the price, but still a cool thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait till you find out what Japan is actually called.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember this is the same company that had a huge lead and monopoly in the mobile OS market and they fucked that up royally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, this is also very noticeable in media. They can have some kind of aliens in a future sci-fi universe that somehow have a legal process and trial that exactly mirrors the American way of doing things. For Americans that’s just normal, not realising this is absolutely not the norm in the rest of the world. Same thing with malls, hospitals, roads and many more things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek TNG Intro but with Enterprise Lyrics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I hate it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember I had a Voodoo card at the time of GTA2. Playing the Glide version of that game (if you could get it working) was like being transported into the future. The resolution was higher, the framerate was higher and more smooth, the lighting effects were insane. Especially on a large CRT with vibrant colors that game looked absolutely amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a real danger of quantum computing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Skill issue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI content on Wikipedia - found via a simple ISBN checksum calculator (39C3)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He also points out that in the real world there are many ISBNs that are “wrong”, but are actually correct in the real world. This is because publishers don’t always understand about the checksum and just increment the ISBN when publishing a new book. In many library systems there is this checkbox next to the ISBN entry field where you can say something like “I understand this ISBN is wrong, but it is correct in the real world”.

  So just flagging wrong ISBNs would lead to a lot of false positives and would need specific structures to deal with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you change your towels?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, but I ensure it’s fully dry before putting it in the hamper. So usually a couple of hours later, or just before I next need a towel I replace it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confirmed functional EverDrive SD cards⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have some context? Is it about some SD cards not working or something? Because I use a SNES Everdrive and had random no name cards in them I fished from the bottom of my junk drawer. Have never had any issues at all, seems like it it’s a functional care, the Everdrive likes it just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans aswell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A billion dollars and a Ferrari doesn't matter if all you have are bumpy torn up roads with potholes to drive on⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is Showerthoughts, not iam14andthisisdeep

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do people actually leave spoons or knifes in the honey? I just open the jar, scoop out what I need with my knife and spread it on my bread. And a lot of honey also comes in squeeze bottles, that way you can just squeeze it directly on the bread or waffle or whatever. But even with those I still use a knife to spread it around.

  And most utensils are made from highly corrosion resistant materials right? As they get wet and exposed to all sorts of stuff all the time. And what about that Nilered video about the taste/smell of metal?