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- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 2 days ago:
I prefer seeing these as predictive markets than (only) degenerate gambling. They’ve been shown to be pretty accurate in predicting a lot of things. Can be useful crowdsourcing gut checks.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 days ago:
Zero shot that a constitutional convention in the near future would be for the better.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing? 2 days ago:
Well, this is why people don’t use BT more for their FLOSS downloads.
I’ll do some more digging just because I’m curious, but without resources to show how people can leverage this for Web downloads most are not going to make the effort for little to no benefit.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing? 3 days ago:
I think you still need a tracker to discover peers. So unless it’s only a Web download (which would make this whole effort stupid), peers still need to be able to find each other.
Though my understanding of BT’s P2P protocol is pretty weak so I might be running on false assumptions.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing? 3 days ago:
Never heard of it. How can someone quickly integrate this into their CD process? Looks like I can build a magnet link that points to a Web seed, but I guess I’d need to submit to some public trackers?
I didn’t find a whole lot of resources on this.
- Comment on YSK that electric blankets are cheap and incredibly cozy 3 days ago:
Careful. You don’t want to end up with toasted skin syndrome.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 3 days ago:
Guys have to lift the seat, I have to put it down, so what?
Seriously, if you’re arguing about the default state of the toilet seat, then you’re just looking to argue.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing? 3 days ago:
Also, it adds a whole 'nother layer of complexity. Now instead of just a Web server, you need a torrent client and all the CI/CD built up around it.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 5 days ago:
No, your logic that it’s okay to use if you’re not an expert with the topic. You notice the errors on subjects you’re knowledgeable about. That does not mean those errors don’t happen on things you aren’t knowledgeable about. It just means you don’t know enough to recognize them.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 6 days ago:
Problem is, LLMs are amazing the vast majority of the time. Especially if you’re asking about something you’re not educated or experienced with.
Don’t you see the problem with that logic?
- Comment on LG Energy Solution says 3.9 trillion won battery deal with US firm canceled 1 week ago:
Freudenberg Battery Power System […] decided to pull out from the battery industry.
hmmm
- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 1 week ago:
Damn, I gotta watch that movie again.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 1 week ago:
Isn’t Microsoft just the publisher? Also, there’s so many problems with MSFS.
- Comment on Is it really worth starting a lemmy community? 2 weeks ago:
Ain’t nothin that serious around here, friend.
- Comment on Trump orders blockade of 'sanctioned' Venezuela oil tankers 2 weeks ago:
dons TFH
A spokesperson for US company Chevron, which still operates in Venezuela under a special sanctions waiver, said Tuesday that its operations “continue without disruption and in full compliance with laws and regulations applicable to its business.”
I gotta wonder what role Chevron is playing in all this.
- Comment on It's really ugly but it's a sign of a healthy environment for soil microbes. 3 weeks ago:
Learning from a shitpost feels weird.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 4 weeks ago:
[…] leave em to hang and they’re good as new the next day.
No, sir!
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 4 weeks ago:
The genitals are one of the cleanest things on your body, by far…
I don’t know if I’d go that far. It’s not very open to the air (bacterial and fungal dream) and the anus is like right there. After a long sweaty day, shit migrates.
But I don’t get the fear when using a towel immediately after a shower.
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- Comment on US | Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think I like this man.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 5 weeks ago:
It’s just that all your shit and users are there, like issue tracking in this case.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 5 weeks ago:
The original block post is rather frank and to the point. Wish the engineering leadership I worked with communicated this well.
- Comment on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why 5 weeks ago:
I think when the economics of destroying a thing is better than reusing a thing, we should maybe have some sort of incentives toward reuse.
I get that the logistics of setting up what’s basically a secondary supply chain is difficult, but I’ve got to believe it would be for the better.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 5 weeks ago:
I’m curious if it would even be thermodynamically possible. If we could magically run a pipe that far, would the heat from the water radiate into space before it reached earth to do anything useful?
Someone get XKCD to do a video short on this.
- Comment on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why 5 weeks ago:
That’s really disheartening. Not because of my want for cheap RAM, but for the sheer waste of it all.
- Comment on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why 5 weeks ago:
For example, OpenAI’s new “Stargate” project reportedly signed deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for up to 900,000 wafers of DRAM per month to feed its AI clusters, which is an amount close to 40% of total global DRAM output if it’s ever met. That’s an absurd amount of DRAM.
Will these even be useful on the second hand market, or are these chips gonna be on specialized PCBs for these machines?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Is this really the kind of shit you think about in the shower?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Lots of neat uncomfortable questions arise though. At what point is it conscious? If it never experienced autonomy, life, locomotion, or social human interaction, is it torture or just its natural state of being?
- Comment on Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration 1 month ago:
Not thermoelectrics, but sterling engines. But fair point about the heat.
- Comment on Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration 1 month ago:
In the UK, large stocks of civil nuclear waste contain significant quantities of americium-241. That makes the fuel not only long-lasting but also readily accessible. Instead of building new reactors to produce plutonium, agencies can extract Americium from existing waste, a form of recycling at a planetary scale.
Using it seems way more preferable to just letting it sit in casks.
Traditional RTGs utilize thermoelectrics, which are reliable but inefficient, often achieving only five percent efficiency. Stirling engines can convert heat to electricity with an efficiency of 25 percent or more. […] Stirling engines introduce moving parts, which also raises reliability concerns in space. However, Americium’s steady heat output enables RTG designs with multiple Stirling converters operating in tandem. If one fails, the others compensate, preserving power output.
That seems a little ridiculous though. All that friction requires a lube that’ll last “generations.” In space, without gravity, and at incredibly low temperatures.