Hamartiogonic
@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on xkcd #3150: Ping 1 week ago:
You wo_ld nly ge a f_w pa_ts h_re _nd the_e.
- Comment on xkcd #3150: Ping 1 week ago:
Would love to see them try this with the Message In a Bottle protocol. Would probably take a few centuries, but still…
“Hi, I’d like to hear a TCP joke.”
“Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?”
“Yes, I’d like to hear a TCP joke.”
“OK, I’ll tell you a TCP joke.”
“Ok, I will hear a TCP joke.”
“Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?”
“Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke.”
“Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke. It will last 10 seconds, it has two characters, it does not have a setting, it ends with a punchline.”
“Ok, I am ready to get your TCP joke that will last 10 seconds, has two characters, does not have an explicit setting, and ends with a punchline.”
“I’m sorry, your connection has timed out. Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?”
- Comment on The 0% discount 1 week ago:
If you’re really good at customer service, you’ll say the price just went up 10% this morning, but since you’ll get a discount of the same amount. Basically just the normal price, but it feels nicer.
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 week ago:
Here’s another exploit. You and your academic buddies could each have their own Journal and use them for publishing without any suspicious traces leading back to you. Let’s say Sally starts SPLAT, the Studies in Pointless but Laughable Academic Topics. Nelly starts NOPE, the Journal of Nonsensical Observations an Preposterous Experiments. Meanwhile Pete starts POOP, the Proceedings of Outlandish and Outrageous Postulations.
Nelly can be an editor of SPLAT, while Pete can publish all his papers there. Likewise, Pete would be an editor of NOPE and Sally can publish her papers there. Finally, Sally would be an editor of POOP and Nelly would publish her papers that way. It’s a happy love triangle where everyone wins.
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 week ago:
That’s how you play the game!
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 week ago:
Can confirm. For example, Egypt made university education free (or very cheap) for all Egyptians. Nowadays, they are pumping out countless medical doctors who get employed all across the Middle East. Probably not the highest quality medical care, but it’s still better than nothing.
Now that I think of it, many countries offer free or very affordable university education for their citizens. What’s wrong with America? Even poor African countries make education accessible.
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 week ago:
That’s like using a mining bot in Minecraft. You just go AFK, and when you come back you have a hundred diamonds.
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 week ago:
But wouldn’t that mean you end up with as much debt as a small country?
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 week ago:
Paul Erdős found an exploit in the end game. All you have to do, is collaborate with everyone you come across. It doesn’t even matter how small your role is in each paper as long as your name appears somewhere in it.
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 week ago:
How do you choose when every major’s terrible? That’s the thing — you don’t. Gotta catch them all, amarite?
- Comment on Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side 2 weeks ago:
On top of that, vertical panels stay cooler, which enhances efficiency. Such a counterintuitive thing.
- Comment on World’s first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life 2 weeks ago:
What could go right.
- Comment on Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently? 4 weeks ago:
I really like the idea of having my own server, where I could have a bunch of cool stuff like email, VPN, Nextcloud, and so much more. The primary reason why I don’t have a server like that, is because I can’t trust myself to follow the best practices. For a while now, I’ve been thinking that I should hire a proper professional to take care of all that.
- Comment on Researchers revive the pinhole camera for next-gen infrared imaging 4 weeks ago:
Yeah well, passive components are nice, but occasionally you just need to spend some energy to keep the components doing its thing.
- Comment on Researchers revive the pinhole camera for next-gen infrared imaging 4 weeks ago:
Is that a problem though? As long as the new camera is better than the old one, it should be fine.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 5 weeks ago:
That 8” mark though 😂
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I get my American slang through Hollywood and Internet, so the curriculum may not be entirely comprehensive at times.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Oh. That’s a new one for me.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Had to look at my keyboard to translate that.
- Comment on How fast could a human accellerate (while staying alive)? 1 month ago:
If you’re only live threateningly injured doing analysis, but die 5 minutes later, it counts as a win.
- Comment on Texas under the global spotlight — 280,000 tonnes of 'white gold' under this desert 1 month ago:
Also, it speaks of it as renewable energy, even though it’s clearly not. Producing hydrogen this way consumes elemental iron, which will eventually run out. When there’s nothing but rust left, the reaction will stop and your lovely “renewable” hydrogen mine will will stop producing hydrogen. If we call that renewable, then uranium is renewable too.
Well, at least it produces energy without any direct CO2 emissions, so that’s a clear benefit.
- Comment on xkcd #3128: Thread Meeting 1 month ago:
Do people actually use the same name on every platform? I know I did, until I realized I specifically wanted to avoid people from connecting the dots.
- Comment on xkcd #3124: Grounded 2 months ago:
Yes, the wings are a huge problem. Not that many roads can handle something as wide as a plane.
- Comment on xkcd #3124: Grounded 2 months ago:
You know, those jet engines are LOUD. Sure, they can technically move the plane on regular roads too, but the noise is just astounding.
In a big airport you might not have noticed, because you were either in the terminal or in side a plane when that happened. However, if you’ve visited a smaller airport, you may have stood just outside the fence when someone reved up their jet engines. Imagine that, but even louder, and moving on normal roads. Should be fun for everyone.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah, the y-axis is unlabeled, but at least the title still tells you what it is: traffic. Doesn’t even have any numbers, so there’s no need to ask about the unit either.
This is more like the graphs made at the marketing department where km becomes KM, because it looks cooler. Same goes of MG, because why not. Is that milligrams or megagrams? Don’t worry about it. I mean, it’s just numbers, so who cares anyway. It’s not like anyone tries to calculate something with them. It’s well known in the marketing department that no human on earth is able do things like that.
- Comment on xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems 2 months ago:
If you see sparks and smoke coming from the computer, you can be pretty sure you’re doing something wrong.
- Comment on xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems 2 months ago:
In Nordic folklore, there’s a concept for a household spirit (nisse/tomte) that may do mischievous tricks if you don’t treat it appropriately. If mathematics can’t solve this puzzle, it has to be a computer tomte that isn’t happy with your taste in RGB or how infrequently you run software updates.
- Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable 2 months ago:
First commercial heat batteries have already been built. Hopefully, the technology will become more widespread, as heat is such a nice form of energy. My guess is, it’s mostly a political and financial problem at this point.
Storing energy in other forms is a lot trickier, but at least there’s no shortage of potential technologies to try. It’s just that most of them tend to be in lab or pilot scale at the moment. That Chinese RFB facility was a notable exception though.
- Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable 2 months ago:
China is already on it.
- Comment on xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems 2 months ago:
That’s a mathematics problem. Current theory of probability doesn’t account for cases where the probabilities are actively fighting against you. Once you’ve formulated the axioms of antagonistic conditional probability, you should be able to understand how USB-A ports work.