bufalo1973
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- Comment on What are super-computers used for ? 1 day ago:
Think of a gaming PC from the 90s. And now imagine asking the same then.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 week ago:
There’s no need for that speed. Ships won’t have to be build on the ground. The ideal is having an space dock at the geosync part and only move up and down the payload, not the ships.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 week ago:
The way a normal elevator works is one way to lessen the problem: the port on the top is used to launch cargo AND to receive it, so when you make the outgoing cargo rise you use the incoming cargo as the balance. 1 ton goes up, 1 ton goes down.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 week ago:
And not all would fall. Part of it would be launched outwards by inertia.
- Comment on How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style? 1 week ago:
The extreme case is a photon crossing the universe. For an outside observer, it will take the photon billions of years to cross the universe. For the photon there is no time at all.
- Comment on How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style? 1 week ago:
Maybe from the POV of the person falling.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the links🙂
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 2 weeks ago:
Without the SIM.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 weeks ago:
Neglected or were coerced to not cover? Every time Europe has wanted to be on par with the US, the US had undermined the idea. Being the guy with the bigger stick has always been the ideal for the US. And that includes a less powerful Europe.
- Comment on The Votely Political Quiz - Most Accurate 3D Political Compass 2 weeks ago:
1 branch = old system.
The 3 branches are there to counterbalance the powers… theoretically.
And China is something different.
- Comment on The Votely Political Quiz - Most Accurate 3D Political Compass 2 weeks ago:
Every democracy has 3 branches (AKA powers): judiciary, legislative and executive.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been thinking that for weeks now.
- Comment on If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again? 2 weeks ago:
Just a note: in Spain the first 10 years after Franco saw a lot of terrorism, from ETA, BVA, King Christ’s Warriors, GRAPO, Terra Lliure, EPG, AAA, GAL, … and the last ETA bombing was in this century.
- Comment on If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again? 2 weeks ago:
So the same but without the sharia, right?
- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 2 weeks ago:
“The Console That Wasn’t"
The 64GS enters the chat
A Commodore 64GS console based on the C64 with a white Cheetah Annihilator joystick - Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 2 weeks ago:
Don’t get me wrong. I’m talking about not treating then as special but just as anyone else and reply as you would with anyone else, not as if they are superior.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 3 weeks ago:
That’s a mistake. If you treat them as your equal then you can make then see they aren’t special or “middle class” and then you have another pair of hands to help the working class.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 3 weeks ago:
But it could be copied on a 720 KiB floppy with space left after writing.
- Comment on US says it will discuss Greenland ownership with Denmark next week 3 weeks ago:
- We want to buy Green…
- No
- If you don’t sell it we will use military force.
- And you can say goodbye to NATO and all your bases around the world.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 3 weeks ago:
I see it and rise it to Atari ST TOS (256 KiB), GEM included.
- Comment on Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon. 3 weeks ago:
It’s 600 km (in ideal conditions) <- this is the part they don’t say.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 4 weeks ago:
If the US falls, EU’s far right parties will have a big problem. No more money from the US.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 4 weeks ago:
There is no middle class. Either you have to work to pay your bills and you are a worker or people works for you to pay your bills and you are an owner.
- Comment on Thailand and Cambodia agree to 'immediate' ceasefire 4 weeks ago:
And now Trump will say it was a war he ended by himself.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree with that. But the problem is having one electron backend for each web app and not one backend for all web apps.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 4 weeks ago:
I remember in the 80s a PC programmer that did his programs in GWBASIC and when I asked him why was he using that instead of a better language that could make faster a smaller programs his answer was “if this doesn’t run fast enough in the client’s PC then the client will buy a better PC”. That’s the mindset, “it’s not my problem once I sell it”.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 4 weeks ago:
If those web apps were using the same shared electron backend then they could be “a godsend”. But each of those web apps uses it’s own electron backend.
- Comment on Word. 1 month ago:
LibreOffice has a native export to PDF. And, if you use (almost) any Linux, you have a PDF printer included.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 month ago:
In a societal collapse your best investment is between your ears. If you can build/grow/… things you don’t need to worry about losing value.
