AnyOldName3

@AnyOldName3@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microcontroller recommendations for a weather station⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you’re making thousands of something, an ESP32 is cheap enough that it shouldn’t matter whether or not it’s overkill. Getting something simpler will only save you a few pennies unless you’re overspending as ESP32 breakout boards are available for less than £2.

  The power draw will be a problem, though, unless you disable WiFi. They’re not really button-cell-friendly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Much more straightforward in British English where d and t are more distinct

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad to see someone’s made this because it’s been bouncing around in my head for ages but I’ve never got around to putting it together and letting it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll heat up the firebox, which is exactly what the firebox wants to happen. It’s not like we’re using precisely-timed explosives to briefly make the mass much more than critical and counter its desire to blow itself apart for long enough that it blows other things apart, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The press widely covered AV as if it was incredibly expensive and didn’t solve any problems, so presented it as if we’d be throwing away beds at children’s hospitals, support for pensioners and equipment for soldiers just to introduce pointless bureaucracy. If the choice was the one most voters thought they were making, then voting against it would have been the sensible option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can boost it by hollowing out the middle and filling it with tritium, but plutonium is dense, so 80 tons will probably fit in the firebox just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing something wrong; can't print this PETG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve printed kilos and kilos of Geeetech PLA, and that’s some of the cheapest on AliExpress (although I used to get it directly from their website before I realised doing that was normally more expensive). It arrives wet, but other than that, there’s (nearly) nothing to complain about (although years ago, I had a roll with two lumps of grit in it that caused clogs). I’ve had mixed success with their other materials - their ABS+ started burning in the nozzle while still being cold enough that layer adhesion was bad and their high-speed PLA has ridiculous oozing that causes ridiculous stringing, but their PETG and TPU seem fine. I’m pretty confident that their basic materials are absolutely worth £7/kg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Standardization rule⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a lot of the world they’re regulated as novelty items, so free from the regulation that stops harmful chemicals being in things like kitchen utensils and childrens’ toys, despite many of the same potential risks being present. You don’t need to use a corner-cutting regulation-ignoring retailer like Wish to get your fix of toxic plasticisers etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnLy tWo eLemEnTs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You get both sizes of gametes with all kinds of bodies. It’s only the testes/ovaries that are reliably correlated with gamete size, and anything further away from their production than that has about the same chance of not being the style you’d expect as an atom has of not being hydrogen or helium, just like the original meme alludes to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As it says in the article, it’ll be smaller and quieter, so less offensive for most people’s living rooms than a full-size desktop. It’s not meant to replace your existing PC if you have one, unless it was getting old and you were about to replace it anyway. If you don’t have a PC, or don’t have one in the living room, then it might be a better option than anyone else’s prebuilt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had to look this up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It tends to attract negative attention if you admit there’s a civil war going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s nitpicking and also not quite right. Stock of a corportation is shares, whether or not they’re publicly traded. It becomes plural when it’s shares of multiple corporation.

  However, LLCs aren’t corporations at all (the C is Company), and in the US, stock is specifically of corporations. I’m in the UK, where the equivalent to an LLC’s shares are still considered stock, and I’ve been googling whether private corporations have stock in the US, which they do, so the confusion’s been that the public/private distinction isn’t the important one and I’ve been arguing the definition of a word that’s defined differently in the relevant country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As I said, he also owns a billion dollars worth of superyatchts for personal use in addition to the one(s) nominally for marine research.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The billion dollars in superyatchts is just the personally-owned luxury kind that billionaries like to hoard, not marine research boats that he has funded. Him giving away some of his money doesn’t mean that he’s not also frivilously spent more money than most people could hope to see in a lifetime.

  Fundamentally, I don’t think we’re going to agree here, as I fundamentally believe that there’s an amount of money beyond which there are no ethical grounds for keeping it, and it’s much lower than $11 billion. Newell has kept money above that threshold instead of giving everything he made beyond that threshold away (even illiquid stuff like part of his stake in Valve could, in principle, be given to a charity so the profit from Steam went straight into the charity), and I and plenty of other people would see that as greedy. Others might say that the fact that he’s given anything away that he wasn’t legally required to means that he’s not greedy. These are subjective ethical opinions, so even though they can’t be reconciled, it’s not a big deal. Different people think different things are wrong.

  The reason I’ve been replying at all is that some of the things you’ve stated to be facts are untrue, not that I’m trying to convince you that all billionaires are unethical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which makes his platform more popular. And in turn brings him even more cash to buy more yachts.

  Realising that ratfucking your customers and suppliers at every opportunity makes them less willing to do business with you in the future, and therefore you’ll potentially make more money by not doing that, so then not doing that, is exactly what a greedy person would do if they weren’t also a moron. Gabe Newell is certainly not a moron. Lots of other billionaires are, or have other empathy-limiting conditions that mean they don’t realise people won’t want to do repeat business with them if they got screwed over the last time.

  There’s obviously a majority of billionaires that are much less ethical than Newell, but one superyatcht ought to be enough for anyone, and anyone buying a second one instead of putting the money directly to good causes is not benevolent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t have publicly-traded shares because it’s a private company, but it’s still correct to say someone has stock in a private company that they own part or all of. Like with physical objects, they don’t stop existing just because they’re not for sale to the public. It’s an easy mistake to make, though, as the vast majority of the time people talk about stocks and shares it’s in the context of buying and selling publicly-traded stock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A man who owns a billion dollars worth of megayatchts is not doing everything he can to ethically spend/donate his wealth. Yes, lots of his wealth is tied up in Valve stock and he can’t sell that without losing voting rights and making Valve stop being what it is, but he’s rolling in other assets and cash, too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learner driver fails theory test for 128th time despite spending nearly £3k on fees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but if he hadn’t been bullied by people who’d passed when he told them he’d failed and interrogated about what on Earth he could have done to fail, it would probably have taken him more tries than it did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learner driver fails theory test for 128th time despite spending nearly £3k on fees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of them don’t exactly replicate the hazard perception part. My brother misunderstood and thought you were supposed to spam click as fast as possible for the whole duration of each hazard, which worked just fine on his practice website, but got him instafailed for too many clicks on the real thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Investors have been happy to incentivise companies to hire idiot CEOs and managers who say the right buzzwords but reduce output by making bad decisions and only hiring people who don’t think they’re bad decisions, so an automated buzzword-dispensing idiot isn’t necessarily going to seem to investors like a downgrade compared to what they think most workers are. They’re just as likely to think AI lets them invest in companies where even the lowest tier employees are potential CEO material, and continue not noticing that the per-employee efficiency keeps going down. Data showing that layoffs nearly never pay for themselves doesn’t stop stock prices soaring whenever one happens, so I wouldn’t expect data showing AI makes companies less profitable to stop stock prices going up when a company announces a new dumb way they’ll use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was quite a lag between the variable-rate mortgage rates going up and everything noticeably exploding, so lots of people who were aware there was a real risk of things going tits up decided that it hadn’t and therefore wasn’t going to and had stopped looking for signs by the time they started to appear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia co-founder joins editing conflict over the Gaza genocide page⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The discussion on the talk page was basically nuh uh, loads of reputable sources like the Israeli and German governments say there’s no evidence of genocide, and even if they’re biased, anti-genocide NGOs are more biased because they have to accuse nations of genocide to justify their existence, with people responding to point out that’s not how Wikipedia’s rules work, and if it were, they’d have to rename the pages on various other genocides because there are very few that no nations deny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Global Warming [Photographic Evidence]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably more risqué than that - with the rise of cam sites and then OnlyFans, plenty of people aren’t wearing any underwear at their day job at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you trust Adam Smith, an efficient market would quickly make new goods and services available for the lowest possible price. People are supposed to be incentivised to sell things, and competition is supposed to stop an excessive amount of money being diverted to profits instead of reinvestment and price cuts. There are supposed to be systems in place that ensure that there are always opportunities for competition, but the wealthiest have the most power to erode those mechanisms and the most interest in eroding them, and neoliberals think an Ayne Rand novel is the definitive text on how capitalism works rather than Adam Smith’s work, so even if you land in the capitalism makes everyone better off mode, it doesn’t last for long before it falls back into fuedalism with extra steps mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games often have crouch and crawl for stealth but not the much more commonly used tiptoeing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most FPS games have holding shift bound to sprinting, which makes movement much louder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think anyone who ever texted like that is still under 25 anymore. It rapidly dropped off around 2010 as smartphones with full keyboards became widespread, and not using full words was a signal that you hadn’t got one yet. That was fifteen years ago, so to still be under 25, you’d have had to be texting people while aged under ten, and people didn’t give preteens phones back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨snail lyfe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s 2025. Even snails are renting their homes these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The scary dystopian part is the ability to work out that the account belonged to someone who hadn’t used it for a decade rather than just that they could see what had been posted. The Internet Archive doesn’t let you ask it what someone’s Digg username was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data Centers Turn to Aviation Engines for Power Solutions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lower emissions, and natural gas is cheaper than diesel. Also, the lead time is much shorter, as there aren’t many manufacturers of large diesel generators that could keep up with AI datacentre demand, whereas there are lots of airliner turbofans being retired that could be refurbished to become these generators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  America’s first amendment doesn’t grant a total right to free speech. Conspiracy to commit murder is just speech, but is very much illegal, and so is copyright infringement.