Hirom
@Hirom@beehaw.org
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 2 weeks ago:
The same way living thing evolve. Through millon or billion of years of mutations and natural selection.
- Comment on cookie combs 2 weeks ago:
I suspect having round shape pushing against each other isn’t enought to get a hex shape.
In the picture, cookies are tiled such that they are surrounded by 6 other cookies. So it probably has to do with the tiling.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 2 weeks ago:
Hopefully they focus their resources whatever game studios remain.
Just make easy to access movies and films from other sources on XBox, we don’t need a Microsoft monopoly on streaming.
- Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable 3 weeks ago:
Could you share a link to the infographic? I’d be curious to see the details.
Renewables line solar have a great potential at reducing CO2, but only if solar replace fossil fuels.
As an example, nig tech is wasting so much energy of AI they’re increasing both renewable and fossil fuel consomption to cover rapid rise in energy use. The end result is more pollution.
- Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable 3 weeks ago:
The amount of energy wasted on stupid shit is unbelievable as well.
We need to laud efforts put into renewables, as much as we need to decry wasteful energy usage.
- Comment on Inside China’s plan for ‘621mph floating train’ that goes faster than a plane 3 weeks ago:
Maglevs are overhyped. Adam Something call those GadgetBahn.
- Comment on oops 3 weeks ago:
Please, do name and shame.
- Comment on lik lik lik 1 month ago:
Murder mittens
- Comment on Finland warms up the world’s largest sand battery, and the economics look appealing 1 month ago:
Okay, I guess the heat pumps aren’t suitable due to the economics or maybe cannot reach high enough temperatures.
- Comment on CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 1 month ago:
It was patched in early 2023.
Let’s rephrase the headline: CISA remind organisations to apply a security update for a bug already fixed more than 2 years ago
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 1 month ago:
Referencing this parody as if it’s a serious study should be ground the rejection or rétraction.
I wonder if journals and reviewers have tools to help detect fake and/or retracted study in references. Some already screen for the phrase “vegetative electron microscopy”.
- Comment on Finland warms up the world’s largest sand battery, and the economics look appealing 1 month ago:
Pornainen’s battery is charged using electricity from the grid
How so, do they use heater resistors or a heat pump?
Electricity may be cheap sometimes but still, heater resistors aren’t the most efficient.
- Comment on Strange Radio Pulses Detected Coming from Ice in Antarctica 1 month ago:
Could it be another microwave hoven?
- Comment on Going viral, I guess 1 month ago:
- Comment on British photojournalist hit during Los Angeles protests to undergo emergency surgery 1 month ago:
So much for freedom of speech.
- Comment on India, a major user of coal power, is making large gains in clean energy adoption. Here is how 2 months ago:
How is coal consomption changing in absolue term? What matter most is the absolute amount of fossiel fuel being burned, and the amount of green houses gases released.
Developing renewable is great. But the article focus on share and relative figures. So it’s not clear if renewable are increasing faster than coal. Or if coal use is actually decreasing.
- Comment on Pulling energy out of a hat. 2 months ago:
I guess the amont of enthalpy or energy required to summon a rabbit
- Comment on Pulling energy out of a hat. 2 months ago:
There should be more textbook exercices like this. Know I want to know the answer.
- Comment on 'Two or three times the cost': Roadblock to synthetic fuel at the bowser 2 months ago:
There’s an app for that. engine-tone.github.io
- Comment on 'Two or three times the cost': Roadblock to synthetic fuel at the bowser 2 months ago:
Yet there’s still a league that burns fuel.
Formula E hasn’t replaced Formula 1 sadly.
- Comment on 'Two or three times the cost': Roadblock to synthetic fuel at the bowser 2 months ago:
Anything but electrifying
- Comment on Meta is making users who opted out of AI training opt out again, watchdog says 2 months ago:
This dark pattern seems similar to what spammy company do. After registering you’re automatically registering to 10 differents newsletters/spamlist. Clicking unsubsribe at the bottom of a newsletter removes you from 1 out of 10 lists. People either need to repeat the operation, or better, delete their account.
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 2 months ago:
Got no serious answer, so here are some results based on reverse image search:
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Rhinoceros. Credit: Chicago Zoological Society. Possible source: Black Rhinoceros Undergoes Portable CT Scan At Brookfield Zoo
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Bear. Credit: Kimberly Fornek / Pioneer Press. Possible source: Brookfield Zoo CT scan
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Humsters. Credit: unknown.
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Alligator. Credit: UF College of Veterinary Medicine. Possible source: Massive sick alligator given CT scan at University of FloridaFeel free to add more in your replies if you have time to search.
Dear, @fossilesque@mander.xyz please credit the authors and/or sources of the picture you’re posting. Those most likely aren’t public domain, meaning credit is required (and possibly more). Also citing the source provide interesting background on the pictures.
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- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 2 months ago:
Interesting.
Did you take these pictures, or could mention their source? I want to make sure the author(same) get credit.
- Comment on Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos. 4 months ago:
Cybernews has contacted M.A.D Mobile Apps Developers Limited for official comment, but a response has yet to be received.
I hope Cybernews reported the apps to the relevant app store, including a detailed report.
Developpers may ignore random researchers’ email, but probably wouldn’t ignore an app store that has the ability remove or until apps from its store.
- Comment on Microsoft removes Windows 11 24H2 official support on 8th 9th 10th Gen Intel CPUs 5 months ago:
Meanwhile Linux still support Sega Dreamcast’s SuperH SH4, as well as
m68kprocessors from 1979. - Comment on Microsoft is killing its “free” VPN with Microsoft 365 subscriptions, just days after increasing prices 5 months ago:
Most VPNs are overrated.
- Comment on 'Ending that completely': Facebook gets rid of fact-checkers in wake of Trump's election 6 months ago:
From another source:
[Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World’s First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking](Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World’s First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking)
At least it’s a good opportunity for parodic news medias to have some fun at Zuck’s expense.
- Comment on Data centers powering artificial intelligence could use more electricity than entire cities 8 months ago:
I’m not from the US, but know about the kind of cups you’re talking about. They’re common everywhere at fast food, and other restaurants selling food to go.
They’re indeed designed for using a straw. When having lunch outside I typical bring a water bottle. Then buy food without drink, or refill if there’s a dispenser. It’s helps avoid unhealthy sodas, and avoid the cup and straw altogether.
- Comment on Data centers powering artificial intelligence could use more electricity than entire cities 8 months ago:
Why use straws at all?
Straws ate useful for babies, the elderly or disabled who are unable to drink from a glass without making a mess.
Hopefully you’re able to drink from a glass, and don’t need a straw.