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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAIL SATAN⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  needs more jpeg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this is 4chan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the same person, but in my case I’m 182cm and my waist is 76cm. If I were 40cm shorter I’d actually (barely) be in the green area!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  25% of millions of people is still many people, they didn’t say “a majority of people”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨House Centipedes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve spent the last year or so trying to get myself to not jump out of my pants every time I see one of these things. Then roughly a month ago, I get up at 2am to take a piss, and as I’m opening the door this little fucker falls down no more than 10cm away from my face, lands right on my foot and would have probably run up my pyjamas if I hadn’t managed to reflexively kick and launch it flying across the room. I think it must have been either sitting on top of the door or been trying to climb through the doorframe just as I opened it. Pretty sure I woke up everyone in the house, and probably the neighbors too.

  Anyway, my phobia of these little shits is now 100 times worse than it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar panels between railway tracks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s like 1/10th of the cost of a single passenger car. I’m sure they can easily afford to take that hit if it doesn’t end up panning out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar panels between railway tracks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is Switzerland, outside of a small number of corridors the majority of tracks see virtually nothing but passenger trains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is the point, this is exactly what Broadcom does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t leave the building you will not be having any more meals ever again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Please insert your webcam.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably mean EC code? That said, you can use checksums to “correct” errors if you have redundant copies of the data (by reading from the other copy if one copy has a bad checksum)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not their fault, they’ve all got the mispeling vyrus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on your ISP and network setup, you could very well have both v4 and v6 addresses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nike’s self-lacing Adapt BB sneakers are losing their remote control mobile app⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those people could just as easily buy slip-ons, which serve the same purpose while not requiring an app (or any other form of electronics, for that matter).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mildred⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, that makes a lot more sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mildred⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What would be an example of #8? Are there names which gradually morph from one name into another over time? In what way could a name change such that the change doesn’t occur at a specific point in time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can assure you that before I set up Cloudflare, I was getting hit by SYN floods filling up the entire bandwidth of my home DSL2 connection multiple times a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal'⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I know it can be mismatched sizes, the laptop i’m typing this on has 4gb soldered + a 16gb DIMM. My question was more trying to understand why manufacturers seem to prefer using one of each rather than just making both replaceable, since the hybrid approach makes it only partly upgradeable while taking up as much physical space as if both slots used removable DIMMs. Since it seems like this combines all of the disadvantages of fully replaceable and fully soldered RAM with only half of an advantage, why are there so many laptops which do it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal'⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never understood why so many manufacturers do that (laptops with 1 slot soldered and 1 slot replaceable) it seems like the worst of both worlds:

  • since one slot is soldered only half the RAM can be upgraded
  • since one slot is replaceable the laptop can’t be made thinner since they still have to include the latching mechanism for the one replaceable DIMM
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we’re still a very long way away from the point where the hardware for a life-size realistic sex robot is cheap enough for anyone other than a few rich dudes to afford, let alone one which can offer a better experience than a prostitute

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God help us.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  F.L.U.D.D.

  that’s an obscure reference, i never see anyone talking about that game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain yourselves, comp sci.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if one thread modifies it while another one is iterating over it, if two threads try to modify the list at once there isn’t any kind of synchronization and it really could break your list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain yourselves, comp sci.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ArrayList isn’t thread-safe, though…