Devial
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- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 2 days ago:
And those radiator panels are heavy and big, therefore enormously expensive to launch, and vulnerable to micro meteorites and other orbital debris.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 2 days ago:
What, thought your comment was so amazing you had to repost it after the first for removed for you being a dick ?
Go touch grass, dude.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 2 days ago:
Have you seen the size of the radiators on the ISS ? And that’s just what needed for cooling of body heat for 9 people and basic computer and support equipment.
A data center that is actively pumping out massive amounts of heat would need humongous radiator panels.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 4 days ago:
No, people who don’t believe in ghosts realise that there is ZERO credible, reproducible evidence for the existence of ghosts whatsoever, and therefore no basis to believe in them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah OP is basically insinuating he said the N word because he’s a racist, instead of doing like 5 seconds of googling how tics work
- Comment on Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression(FIRE) sues Bondi, Noem for censoring Facebook group and app reporting ICE activity 2 weeks ago:
Sure ironic that conservatives are now openly doing the very things they kept whining and complaining about Biden doing
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
And you don’t see Amazon using that feature to spy on everything anyone on earth has ever printed, do you ?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t block open source firmware. It just requires a detection algorithm for the factory default firmware on new printers sold. Did any of you geniuses actually read the article ?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The technical feasibility has fuck all to do with the fact that this bill doesn’t want your 3D printer to spy on you. There is zero requirement whatsoever in the bill for reporting or storage of data on what you’ve printed. The headline is just a straight up lie.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
You do know that any regular printer you have/use, for at least a decade, has an identical feature against printing/copying currency ?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It’s not really spying, it’s not it like it reports to the government what you print.
This is literally an identical feature to what is already in every single ink printer on the market, that blocks printing or copying of currency.
- Comment on Can someone please ELI5 the legal issue with genericized trademarks? 1 month ago:
TIL thar Heroin is a generisized trademark
- Comment on xkcd #3194: 16 Part Epoxy 1 month ago:
Upon which it instantly hardens, preventing you from shifting the parts back into alignment
- Comment on YSK: Ranked: Minimum Wages in 50 U.S. States & 35 Countries 1 month ago:
Adjusting the US minimum wages according to cost of living in the relevant state, and then comparing them to unadjusted minimum wages from other countries makes for a tad disengenous of a comparison…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
According to their profile they’re a traveling nurse, which makes the lack of knowledge on a fairly common and extremely life saving medication very worrying indeed.
- Comment on How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant 2 months ago:
Your internet traffic is already encrypted in transit, that what the “s” in https means.
A VPN does exactly two things: Hides your traffic from your ISP (but shows it to the VPN provider instead) and masks your IP and physical location.
Everything else is advertising and marketing gimmicks
- Comment on Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown 2 months ago:
Those aren’t visa workers genius, those are outsourced foreign workers
- Comment on Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses 2 months ago:
They teach literal children to not judge a book by it’s cover, but I guess you must’ve been out sick that day in kindergarden…
- Comment on Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown 2 months ago:
Visa workers aren’t replacing American workers, they supplements them.
Countless studies have shown that immigrant labour is a boon to the economy, and immigrants statistically create demand for more jobs than they take.
Foreign workers are also a massive boon to tax income. Some other country spend 18 years paying for their income less childhood and education, and then they leave that country, and start paying taxes in America.
- Comment on How do we know that the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle is preserved across radius sizes? 2 months ago:
Because circle all have the same proportions. You can take any circle, and just evenly make it bigger or smaller to make it perfectly overlap with any other circle.
The ratios of shapes only ever change if their proportions change. That’s why every single square also always has the same ratio between it’s side and diagonal (√2).
And the ratio of a rectangles side to it’s diagonal will always be the same, regardless of size, as long as the aspect ratio is the same.
- Comment on Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown 2 months ago:
Ah yes. “Come work for us, also you never get to on holiday or visit your family ever again” is sure to be a big draw for foreign workers.
Trump sure knows what’s good for the economy…
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 months ago:
I’m not a fan of gen AI either, but this feels like taking it a bit far. Getting pissed over them using gen AI for placeholder art, that was then replaced by human art in the release feels utterly ridiculous.
- Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison. 2 months ago:
Click bait is anything that is designed to bait people into clicking a link. Virtually every headline and content title on the internet is click bait to some level.
Malicious click bait is when headlines either outright lie, or imply things that aren’t accurate to the content.
The phrasing of this title implies that the creation of a privacy tool is what the creator got arrested for, which is in fact inaccurate to the content, as the reason wasn’t creating the tool, the reason was using the tool for money laundering.
So imo it’s 100% fair to call this title malicious clickbait
- Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison. 2 months ago:
The title is click bait because it falsely implies that the privacy part of the tool is why the creator is being penalised, rather than the money laundering part.
It’s a bit like writing a headline about a drunk driver killing a family of four and making the headline “He bought a red car. Now he’s going to jail”
- Comment on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft 2 months ago:
It happened once, to one aircraft, and it’s solvable with a software update.
You’re more likely to be struck by lightning the next time you leave your house than to run into this problem on a flight, and that was before the software update.
- Comment on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft 2 months ago:
A bit IS represented by one or zero. A bit can take the state of charged or not charged. That’s what a bit physically is. In low level code, those states are represented by binary numbers.
Or do you think there’s a actual physical numbers 0 and 1 floating around in your RAM ?
- Comment on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft 2 months ago:
Read that sentence again. They didn’t say bits represent 0s and 1s, they said bits are represented BY 0s and 1s, which is entirely correct.
Physicsly speaking, in a modern silicon based PC, bits are the presence or absence of electrons in an electron well. That presence or absence is often represented by binary numbers, because it makes the math easy, though it can also be represented in other ways, such as “HI” and “LO”.
The statement from the article is entirely correct.
- Comment on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft 2 months ago:
This isn’t a scientific journal or news paper. It’s a main stream article by the BBC, intended to be consumed, and understood, by people who have zero knowledge of how computers, bits or binary numbers work, so I really don’t see the issue here.
- Comment on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft 2 months ago:
It’s not going to be become a major problem. We have radiation hardened computing hardware, and ways to deal with single event effects, we’ve in fact got a lot of practice doing these things, because guess what: Satellites also need working computing hardware, and they’re exposed to orders of magnitude more radiation than aircraft.
Manufacturers will just have to start taking it into consideration more in the future, and ensure that the flight computers have redundant ECC memory.
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 2 months ago:
To address your two points, where did people get the idea that the word porn implies artistic merit or consent?
I didn’t say merit (or consent, though I assume that one’s a typo), I said artistic intent. Which every creative work by definition has.
There is nothing ethically wrong with porn in a vacuum, so categorising CSAM as a category of something that isn’t inherently ethically wrong in my opinion makes it a bad term. CSAM should clearly and strictly be delineated from consensual porn.
CP can stand for a lot of things but it’s common parlance now. CSAM just causes confusion.
Ah yes. The Acronym with MORE common definitions somehow causes less confusion. That makes perfect sense. Of course. That explains why so many people in this thread were confused by it. Oh no wait. They weren’t.
Also really? Now you’re stooping to the old “why so mad bro?”. You’re the one having a meltdown, I’m wasting time at work by sharing an opinion.
You’re the one who got upset enough about me using a common abbreviation, that no one in the thread was remotely confused by, to kick off this entire shit. You decided you needed to pedantically comment on this. I’m simply defending myself from your pedantic grammar nazi shit.