SpaceCowboy
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on FlatEarthers will work around it 3 days ago:
Spotlight above the north pole that spins around and lights up different parts of the world at different times, obviously. Why doesn’t the Sun appear from a northern angle when it’s pointed at you in the daytime? Shut up round earth shill, nananana I can’t hear you!
- Comment on FlatEarthers will work around it 3 days ago:
I can find some flights from Australia to Columbia with a stopover in Hawaii, but it looks like a non-optimal route. But yeah there’s not much there between Australia and South America other than New Zealand… and Antarctica if you’re a round Earth shill ;)
Weird how there’s a direct flight between Melbourne and Santiago, Chile… two places that are in in the southern parts of their respective continents.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 1 week ago:
It’s very easy mix in radioactive materials with conventional explosives to make a dirty bomb… provided you have access to radioactive materials. You put nuclear reactors in cargo ships, anyone that can board and commandeer a cargo ship now has access to radioactive materials and therefore the capability building a dirty bomb.
There’s an R^2 drop off as you travel away from the sun. Sure if you’re going to Saturn, solar isn’t going to work well. We already use nuclear batteries for those missions, but it’s some butt clenching with that because if the rocket goes boom instead of getting to space (which happens sometimes) it would spread some radioactive material around.
But it’s going to be a long time before we’re building space stations beyond Mars (it’ll be a long time before we go beyond the Moon the way things are going) so it’s going to be solar power for most space things other than the odd probe we send to the outer planets.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 1 week ago:
AI is another dot com style bubble. How about we all just be quiet about that so billionaires blow a lot of hype driven investment dollars on green energy?
Once the bubble bursts there will be a surplus of cheap green energy we can use for powering homes and EVs and such. Obviously there’s better ways to do this than scamming billionaires into a hype train, but global warming is a problem now and we can’t wait for our society to change to be able to address the problem in a rational way.
So… sure… AI is the future! We need to build a lot of wind and solar power so we can have AI! We don’t need this for woke global warming reasons, no no no. We need this for $$$$$$AAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ reasons! Increase shareholder value by making wind turbine and solar panels, you must do this because it’s illegal not to maximize shareholder value!!! Build wind and solar so you can someday fire all of your employees! For the shareholders!
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 1 week ago:
Shipping frigates? Sure, lets give the Houthis and Somali pirates the capability of building dirty bombs.
And if solar power is cheaper on Earth, think of how much more cheaper it is in space where there isn’t an atmosphere getting in the way.
Sometimes a tech is really cool, but there just isn’t any viable use case for it.
- Comment on Doug Bowser Retiring From Nintendo, Successor Announced 1 week ago:
If they want a CEO with some balls, they’d choose Lemmy.
- Comment on Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision" 1 week ago:
I gotta make connections work with pretty much any retailer you can name. And yeah when the biggies say jump you gotta say how high.
That being said, Costco isn’t so bad. But then I don’t deal with the contract stuff. Amazon does indeed suck. Costco is a bit old school but I’d rather that than dealing with Amazon’s shitty AWS APIs.
- Comment on Jeebuz Rode A Velocirapture 1 week ago:
Dinosaurs and Unix systems coexisted, I saw it in a documentary.
- Comment on Jeebuz Rode A Velocirapture 1 week ago:
I went to Australia and went with a tour group and the bus stopped. All of the cars were stopped on the road for some reason. The tour guide said “nobody get out of the vehicle!” Then I saw a velociraptor with a couple of baby velociraptors just walking down the side of the road.
I think they call them cassowaries, but if you see how they move, those things are goddamn velociraptors.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 week ago:
Yes the Hindenburg disaster had more to do with the flammable paint used than the hydrogen inside it. But the safety procedures when working with on the ground may be more expensive than just using helium.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 week ago:
Vietnam had a regular army, it wasn’t entirely a guerrilla force.
Did they not teach that North Vietnam (and therefore the NVA) existed?
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
And Australia’s got you covered for the occasional barbecue.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The most annoying thing is they put buttons on the remote for services I don’t subscribe to. Accidentally press one of those buttons when trying to change the volume? Well I guess we’re spending the next 30 seconds opening a streaming service I don’t use and then existing out of it (which they make unnecessarily difficult to do) and then finding my way back to what I was watching.
- Comment on to hell I say 3 weeks ago:
What region northern lights may I see it?
No.
- Comment on "Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day 3 weeks ago:
Nah, these expressions will just fall out of use. You think this is the first time people came up with funny fad expressions?
Sorry, but you ain’t all dat and a bag of potato chips. Fo shizzle.
- Comment on Holocaust Museum LA deletes post saying 'never again' applies to all people 3 weeks ago:
It demonstrates more about y’all that attacking a literal holocaust museum doesn’t even give you any pause. It’s very obvious to any bystanders that you aren’t a pro-Palestinian movement (how does any of this help Palestinians?) you’re in an antisemitic hate group.
Do you remember time before the pandemic when you weren’t terminally online, how you would feel about a group harassing a holocaust museum? Would you think of those people were cool and hip, or would you think of them as hateful losers? How do you think anyone not in your internet bubble thinks of you when you engage in a harassment campaign against a holocaust museum?
There’s a reason why your group is treated like a carcinogen by every mainstream political movement. It’s not because the Jews are controlling everything. It’s because you’ve become so siloed off from the rest of the world you’re incapable of considering how your actions look to anyone not in your silo.
You’re doing a harassment campaign on holocaust museum for fuck’s sake. Just look at what you’ve become.
- Comment on Holocaust Museum LA deletes post saying 'never again' applies to all people 3 weeks ago:
This thread is about being angry at Jews in Los Angeles because of actions by Jews on the other side of the world. Go outside and touch grass if you think it’s trolling to say this is just straight up racism to blame an entire ethnicity for the actions of the few.
Antisemitism is racism towards Jews with a shitload of rationalizations layered on top of it. So go on and rationalize how being angry at Jews in LA for things happening on the other side of the world isn’t Antisemitism. Go on… explain how this isn’t antisemitism.
- Comment on Holocaust Museum LA deletes post saying 'never again' applies to all people 3 weeks ago:
It’s the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum, not a Tel Aviv Museum. This is attacking American Jews, it’s not attacking Israel. It’s attacking Jews in the US because people are angry about things Jews on the other side of the world are doing. Blaming an entire ethnicity for the actions of other people of that ethnicity is plain racism.
STOP SUPPORTING ANTISEMITISM.
- Comment on Holocaust Museum LA deletes post saying 'never again' applies to all people 4 weeks ago:
The word genocide has been weaponized to the point where Jews can’t discuss the holocaust without being attacked for it.
But sure, you’re not antisemitic at all!
- Comment on Misogyny or something... Idk 4 weeks ago:
It’s quantum incest… you just made it be incest by observing it.
- Comment on WATER! 5 weeks ago:
Yeah kinda. I ask it to do something simple like create a a typescript interface for some JSON and it just gives me what I want… most of the time.
Other times it will explain to me what JSON is, what Typescript is, what interfaces are and how they’re used, blah blah, and somewhere in there there’s the code I actually wanted. Once it helpfully commented the code… in Korean. Even when it works and comments things in English the comments can be kinda useless since it doesn’t actually know what I’m doing.
It’s trying to give you what you want but can sometimes get confused about what you’re asking for and give a bunch of stuff you didn’t actually want. So yeah, the comic is accurate… on occasion. But many times LLMs will give good results, and it’s getting better, so it’ll mostly work ok for simple requests. But yeah, sometimes it’ll give you a lot more stuff than what you wanted.
- Comment on WATER! 5 weeks ago:
Some days it will be but other days it won’t be. Most of the time it can save me typing because it’ll do what I want. Sometimes (for similar tasks in the same context) it’s just be completely off. Once it helpfully commented my code… in Korean.
LLMs are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 1 month ago:
Since the Nazis were fighting the Soviets in cold conditions, they did a lot of research on hypothermia. Their methodology involved putting Jews out in the cold and measuring how long it took for them to get hypothermia.
There was a lot of debate over whether the results of their research should be used or just be destroyed because using it might encourage future scientists to use immoral methods in their research. They ultimately decided to use that research.
But when they looked at the data, there was no real science happening. They were just freezing people to death out of cruelty with no benefit to science.
A lot of “Nazi science” is very overrated. Turns out cruel and hateful people don’t make for good scientists. Science is done by people and people and if those people ignore morality, they become very warped. “Science at all costs, ignore morality” doesn’t actually result in useful research. It may feel like ignoring ethics in favour of scientific progress is a strong pro-science stance, but it’s just another fascist power fantasy.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 1 month ago:
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
The Treaty of Versailles was really unfair to the German people but that didn’t justify anything the Nazis did. The terrible things the Nazis did also didn’t justify the terrible things the Soviets did.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 1 month ago:
Every day thousands upon thousands of people were being killed. Why? Because they were wearing the uniform of an enemy country. Killing people for wearing the wrong clothes (or maybe just standing too close to someone wearing the wrong clothes) is what a war is.
It strikes me as odd to be super upset over internment when more Japanese people were killed when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked. Internment was obviously bad, but compared to other shit happening at the time? I guess the people killed in the war couldn’t tell their story afterwards, so we don’t care about that? Or maybe it’s because we’ve been indoctrinated to believe that killing someone for wearing the wrong clothes is good and honourable?
There was a Japanese insurgency in Hawaii, so some of the people held in internment camps were actually insurgents. Obviously most of them weren’t. But what’s the difference between that scenario and hitting a military target and a lot of civilians getting killed because they happened to live a little too close to a military target? Because that kind of shit was happening all the time in WWII.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 1 month ago:
It would probably be fine if there was someone competent in Whitehouse to manage the fallout.
But since there isn’t, you are very likely correct.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 1 month ago:
Yeah I’m getting real dot com bubble vibes from all of this.
- Comment on The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says 1 month ago:
Only because after 15 years the AIs will have finished exterminating the human race.
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 1 month ago:
I like it for desktop, but for me XFCE is all I need. I figure I want to mostly focus on the application I’m using not the Window Manager. I click the icon, application opens and I do stuff, and occassionally run apt update && apt upgrade and kinda forget the OS is even there.
With games I tend to have more issues with older games becoming broken after awhile than with new games not working because the OS is old. Only problems I’ve had with new games is because I had a computer that was >10 years old and eventually the hardware couldn’t run new games anymore. But then I mostly play strategy games and base builder games, so maybe that’s why I don’t have a lot of issues there.
Debian is the best OS for people that don’t want to think about the OS.
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 1 month ago:
It’s sometimes unstable. But sometimes it’s mostly stable.
testing, stable, oldstable, etc are pointers to named branches (named after Toy Story characters BTW). Unstable is also a pointer but it always points to sid (the neighbour kid that breaks the toys).
Testing isn’t a rolling release. Yesterday testing pointed to trixie. Today stable points to trixie (because testing was completed and trixie has been “released”) and testing now points to forky which is a new branch that is basically a copy of unstable. They’ll do testing on forky and fix things and eventually stable will be pointed at forky (which will be Debian 14) and they’ll make a new testing branch called something else.
It’s an odd thing to call things “released” on a project that’s done openly. Debian 13 was just released today, but you can install what will be Debian 14 right now long before it’s released by installing forky. You can also contribute to their testing by submitting bug reports. But if you do install forky (testing) today, don’t be too disappointed if there’s a bunch of things broken because it’s the same as unstable right now. It will get more reliable as things are fixed and eventually be considered as stable. When Debian 14 is “released” you won’t need to upgrade anything if you’re on forky because you’ll have already been on it for a year or more.
But yeah, unstable is unstable, it’s just somewhere people can chuck packages on and experiment. Things will break there. Testing is testing, it’s there if you want to help out with testing. And stable is stable, you get that if you want something reliable and you don’t want to mess around with software occasionally breaking and having to track down what broke and submit bug reports.