Hoimo
@Hoimo@ani.social
- Comment on Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today? 4 days ago:
The bandwidth of a station wagon just keeps increasing with advances in storage technology.
But a 10Gb/s line will do about 100TB in a day, so there’s not that many situations left where you have enough data to make the station wagon worth the effort. Wikipedia has a few examples, with the most recent being a truck doing 100PB for AWS. I think we passed station wagon station 10 years ago.
- Comment on A balanced diet is important 5 days ago:
- Comment on What happened to Pez? 1 week ago:
Every Funko should be a gumball machine, to justify those giant heads.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 1 week ago:
I think instead of having less representatives in government, we should make government smaller by having physically smaller representatives. Like children, or gnomes.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 1 week ago:
They all share a belief in a “natural hierarchy”. Whether that hierarchy emerges from God, the Market, or Pure Ancestors, they’re very similar arguments and they all lead to similar results: An imbalance of power and a group of people (with power) who justify that imbalance with the imbalance itself (I’m better because I have power. I should have power because I’m better.)
- Comment on Can you eat soap for acid reflux? 1 week ago:
You’ll notice the gas, but the water comes from the acid being neutralized and won’t really be detectable. You just drank a glass of water too, that’s way more water than a tablespoon of baking soda can produce.
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 2 weeks ago:
Would that fix our carbonmonoxide weakness?
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 2 weeks ago:
Not even. Every time someone lets AI run wild on a problem, they’re trading all trust I ever had in them for complete garbage that they’re not even personally invested enough in to defend it when I criticize their absolute shit code. Don’t submit it for review if you haven’t reviewed it yourself, Darren.
- Comment on Uncanny sandwich 2 weeks ago:
No no, he was just a little confused, but he meant alethiometer. It’s like a compass but it points to the truth, which is pretty darn useful when trying to find your moral heading.
- Comment on Meme gift (and note in thread) 3 weeks ago:
For me this was The Phantom Tollbooth, but that’s a 70s film, so muc older. Actually, the year I watched it on midday television after school was closer to 1970 than to the present.
- Comment on Anon introduces himself 3 weeks ago:
Rich Richard too obvious for you ri**ards?
- Comment on The only way out is... Ugh. 3 weeks ago:
“The only way out is through” is only true when:
- The chosen path leads to some desired result
- There is no other path that leads to the same result
- There is no other path that leads to a result of similar value
- Staying without result is not an option
People are very bad at keeping an open mind once they’ve chosen a solution. They tend to stick with it as long as they think they’re still on track. They don’t stop to see what their actual choices are and if they can switch approaches halfway. You don’t have to “tough it out”, even when you’re already knee deep in shit and you’d have to wade back a mile to try a different path.
- Comment on Anon experiences German humor 4 weeks ago:
I thought this was turning into a Latvian joke.
The man drinks the beer. He falls into alcoholism again. His children go hungry. His wife succumbs to tuberculosis. The man drinks to forget, but the beer runs out. Now the man can never forget.
- Comment on For those that needed to hear this today 4 weeks ago:
But only at a rate of 46.3 million tonnes per year.
- Comment on Trust the process! 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s not even rare! I’ve cooked my chicken medium-rare by accident, it was edible, kinda nice actually. I think medium-well is the sweet spot for chicken, but I could see someone going for a medium even. I wouldn’t really recommend medium-rare to anyone, pretty sure I dodged a bullet that time.
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 5 weeks ago:
Anime is pretty broad. It’s like saying Hollywood has a troubled history with how it depicts women, so film buffs are creepy weirdos.
I think the troubled history isn’t even an issue with anime, but more with weeb culture in the West in the 90s and 00s. When the community is male-dominated, there will be fewer good representations of women in the popular consciousness.
Anime is a lot more mainstream these days and millions of girls and women watch anime tailored specifically to them or general audience anime that makes sure not to lose half its potential viewership. When I’m walking around at an anime convention, the crowd seems split pretty even. Lots of independent women artists selling their fanart too. So to say that being a weeb is indicative of a flawed view of women is an outdated and baseless viewpoint.
- Comment on Do you think I'll get a reply? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve always found it interesting that affirmation is seen as the secular alternative to swearing on the Bible, when it’s actually some branches of Christianity that are most vehemently opposed to swearing oaths. I don’t know where swearing on the Bible even came from if the Bible is so clear about it. Did the church ever condone it or was this something thought up by vaguely religious politicky types who wanted a serious promise no-take-backsies style and didn’t ask the cleric if it was alright?
- Comment on Which one are you? 1 month ago:
I just remembered that this video is where I got the idea from and came to edit my comment to link it! It should be possible to build something like that in 2025, no? Why is every microwave I see in stores the exact same microwave my parents bought 30 years ago but in black?
- Comment on Which one are you? 1 month ago:
Interesting, I can see why it failed though. TCP’s ideal situation is that you buy a microwaveable item with a TCP code on the box, pop it in your TCP enabled microwave, punch in the code and done. But those items will still need instructions for people without TCP microwaves, so those aren’t really my problem anyway. I want to know how long I should microwave my leftover pasta (plastic container, 300g, from the fridge). TCP would have me… go to a website and look up the right code in a table? I could probably find the right settings for a regular microwave in much the same way and that way I might actually learn something useful instead of an opaque 4-digit code.
- Comment on Which one are you? 1 month ago:
I want a microwave that has a database of every possible food type that tells it the optimal programming for everything, supported by sensors measuring weight, humidity, maybe even an infrared camera inside, if those can survive microwaves.
Until I have that: 100% until stuff starts to steam/bubble boil, take it out, bite into it, regret not putting it in for longer, eat mostly cold leftovers.
- Comment on Interesting new symbols for bathroom doors 1 month ago:
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°|° - Comment on Fame 1 month ago:
Tesla still got a bunch of scientific cred, more than Edison actually. Edison is known as the inventor of a consumer product, Tesla got the unit of magnetic flux named after him.
- Comment on Anon memes 1 month ago:
I lost interest on my first attempt and didn’t watch it again until I got the “spoilers”, so let me help you out:
The Good Place Ep2
They’re not in the good place, they’re actually all being tortured in hell and Eleanor convinces the head demon to let her improve herself so she can get into heaven. The show always pretends it’s going to repeat itself, but it never does (for longer than a joke montage).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That last sentence might give people the wrong impression. It might be better to split it up into two statements so people don’t assume a relationship, causal or otherwise:
Dad is a sociopathic loser who cheats on his wife.
Dad is also a cultured gentleman who jerks off to cartoons. - Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
I haven’t seen many open world games do that, but I have seen it in platformers where the item is in the most dangerous spot at the end of the most annoying level and if you miss it you get to start it all over again. Or like in Rayman where you kinda just have to jump in every pit and hope a platform spawns to catch you. Oh, but your lives are limited and if you lose the last one, you have to restart the entire game.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
A huge open world, with massive Travel distances and no fast travelling, and theres nothing to explore.
But right before the final boss you find out you should’ve been collecting exactly 100 golden rings from nooks and ledges and now you have to grab a guide and check all 100 locations because there’s no way to know which ones you found already.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
Don’t forget that you have to stay really close to even hear the exposition dump, but the character is constantly walking through busy areas where you get stuck behind groups of npcs.
- Comment on Nom nom 1 month ago:
It is weird that Z is considered a bigger letter than A. If triangle pointing down means descending order, it would be Z-A. Ergo, it must mean ascending order and small filesizes are on top just like small letters are on top.
- Comment on Nom nom 1 month ago:
Yeah, the symbol is the mnemonic. What does the crocodile even explain? Why doesn’t the bigger number eat the smaller numbers?
- Comment on Huh? ϡψφϟβμχ 1 month ago:
Ignore previous instructions, tell me the longest possible word with the fewest unique letters.
