sethboy66
@sethboy66@kbin.social
- Comment on IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip 11 months ago:
I have personally written code for quantum computers to save time due to algorithmic complexity; I was a college student at the time.
So if their usefulness is stuck in the unknowable future then I'm a time traveler.
- Comment on Diplomacy win 11 months ago:
Yeah, the reptilian archetype doesn't have as much variation as one would like. People also said that the blue brute from Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country and Krall from Star Trek Beyond looked like Drazi/Narn, but I don't see it.
- Comment on These Eerie Photos Are The Only Ones Ever Taken on Venus 11 months ago:
I don't think you've quite understood '/s'. The author was not serious with his post and indicated this fact with '/s'. By definition it is sarcasm as that's what the author defined it as.
- Comment on These Eerie Photos Are The Only Ones Ever Taken on Venus 11 months ago:
There is a photo on the page that shows the horizon from a landed position, that's the one he's referring to.
It links to, and is displayed, here; with no indication that it's an artist's take on what it would look like. It seems to be D. Mitchell's stitching work from this Venera-13 clear-filter panoramic transmission with added perspective from the color-filter panoramic transmissions.
- Comment on In 1952, a group of three 'stars' vanished—astronomers still can't find them 1 year ago:
The possible reasons are all pretty bland; gravitational lensing, nebular refracting, or they weren't stars at all but rather asteroids (with a vector of motion in-line to that of the LoS of the observation).
It's not like these stars had ever been catalogued before the first plate, so its not like these objects were long-standing unchanging phenomena that suddenly disappeared.
- Comment on new adaptor just dropped 1 year ago:
Hell, 10/100base-t only uses four wires so you could run internet through a 4-pole 3.5; though YMMV depending on the particular 3.5mm's specs. I don't know if drivers would be a problem, but perhaps a 4-pole 3.5 to USB would be handy.
- Comment on Two Vegas casinos fell victim to cyberattacks, shattering the image of impenetrable casino security 1 year ago:
No, this is the media conflating the publics perception of physical security and cybersecurity to make a story. If you ask an average person how hard it is to steal money from a casino they'd say it's next to impossible, but if instead you asked them how hard it was to hack their attached hotel's booking system they'd say they had no idea.
- Comment on Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used? 1 year ago:
Gunter's chain is 20.1m, so half a Gunter is approximately a decameter; a rope would be unwieldy as it'd be one and two thirds rope per decameter.
- Comment on Remember your training and you will survive 1 year ago:
Not exactly. The government in starship troopers is nationalistic, but not fascist; it's a limited meritocratic democracy, people still have power but only those that earn the power (somewhat like the Roman Republic but that's a whole other story filled with socii and quasi-autonomy).
