xthexder
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- Comment on The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners 6 days ago:
35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize What? You can’t have 35 “First” annual events
- Comment on Beggars can't be choosers 1 week ago:
Usually the opposite is true when gutters are this clogged. They turn into a swamp.
- Comment on i 💚 animals. 3 weeks ago:
Loads of new technologies are discovered because of people mixing disciplines that hadn’t been put together before. A new perspective on a problem can make a massive difference!
- Comment on No justice, no peace. 3 weeks ago:
Doing some quick math and numbers pulled from wikipedia, Lead is about 14-15x as effective by volume compared to water at blocking gamma radiation.
I think far more significant in saving the other scientists was the inverse square law. The radiation energy falls off with the square of distance, so Slotin would have received a significantly higher dose just from being right next to it.
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 4 weeks ago:
Surely, you can’t be serious?
- Comment on Our GPU Black Market Documentary Has Been Taken Down by Bloomberg 4 weeks ago:
And bonus, Bloomberg’s lawyers could get punished or even disbarred for filing knowingly fraudulent claims
- Comment on Protons have mass 4 weeks ago:
Catholics attend Mass (church)
- Comment on Ideal car 4 weeks ago:
They both seem equally plausible. “NO PLATE” would be officers writing it in, and if they left it blank the computer would turn it into Null.
I bet “BLANK” could cause similar issues
- Comment on Ideal car 4 weeks ago:
Definitely, that thing’s supercharged, so more pressure = more heat = more knocking
- Comment on Ideal car 4 weeks ago:
They already consider similar looking letters as the same. If someone has the license plate “OOPS” , if you try and register “00P5” it will say it’s taken.
- Comment on Ideal car 4 weeks ago:
It might depend on the state, but I think anything other than registration stickers in the designated spot could count as a defaced license plate
- Comment on Ideal car 4 weeks ago:
I thought you were going to say Photovoltaic cells (solar panels)
- Comment on Ideal car 4 weeks ago:
Are there even any states that allow an = ? I bet they drew that on with sharpie
- Comment on Thinheritance 1 month ago:
Exactly, give me the one on the right, but built out of solid wood so it’s as strong as the one on the left
- Comment on 'Number One' - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal 1 month ago:
Damn, going from #1 to below average on the bell curve would be kinda disappointing, ngl
- Comment on Off topic 1 month ago:
Yeah, running it through a compressor should work. Maybe I should set something like that up… I’ve had issues hearing certain people talk on YouTube when my air conditioner turns on. It’s infuriating if I’m watching an interview or something with multiple people speaking and their mics are at completely different levels so I can only hear one person or get blasted every time they speak.
- Comment on Off topic 1 month ago:
For anything cinematic, the intent is usually to get more dynamic range. If you turn it up enough that the dialogue is audible, then the explosions will be as loud as an actual explosion. Fine in a movie theater, not so much in an apartment complex.
- Comment on 'A game, once sold, belongs to the customer': Prominent EU politician stands up for Stop Killing Games 2 months ago:
I don’t think this changes anything for movies unless there’s somewhere you can “buy” a copy of a movie but they don’t let you download an offline copy. If they “rent” you the movie or you “subscribe” to a streaming service, none of this applies.
- Comment on My spoon is too big. 2 months ago:
To be fair, the meme generator can’t do lowercase letters
- Comment on A simple solution, really 3 months ago:
The implication and “punchline” here is that millennials only have $300/year of free spending money. It’s self-deprecating/morbid humor.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 months ago:
You do not need to be passing people if they’re already going 100mph…
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 months ago:
I’m confused about this part:
back into right lane
This implies you started in the right (non-passing) lane and moved out of it to let them pass. Unless you’re from a country that drives on the left, in which case sorry for the confusion.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 months ago:
What highways are there with a 100mph+ speed limit? I’d love to visit.
I thought the highest in the US was 80mph, which means at least 30mph over. I thought you could start getting your vehicle impounded and get reckless driving charges at that point. It’s a little more than common speeding - Comment on Bruh, chill 3 months ago:
I’ve been following this advice myself, but maybe with a bit of an ulterior motive… Being the second fastest car on the road, maybe a mile or two back from the fastest car on the road means they get pulled over and I don’t.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 months ago:
It’s like none of these people have taken road trips before. Depending on traffic density, you can be passing cars continuously for hours on a 4-lane highway (2 each direction). If there’s room to move to the right without slowing down, then yes, move over and cruise on the right lane. You don’t need to weave in and out of the passing lane every single car you pass.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 3 months ago:
Did you get the lanes mixed up, or are you saying you’re moving into the faster lane to let them pass you on the right? Passing on the right may not be illegal in the US, but it’s definitely less safe and it’s illegal in parts of Europe. I would never move left to let someone pass, if they can’t figure out how to go around on their own, that’s their problem.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 months ago:
Anything that’s per-commit is part of the “build” in my opinion.
But if you’re running a language server and have stuff like format-on-save enabled, it’s going to use a lot more power as you’re coding.
But like you said, text editing is a small part of the workflow, and looking up docs and browsing code should barely require any CPU, a phone can do it with fractions of a Watt, and a PC should be underclocking when the CPU is underused.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 months ago:
It sounds like it does save you a lot of time then. I haven’t had the same experience, but I did all my learning to program before LLMs.
Personally I think the amount of power saved here is negligible, but it would actually be an interesting study to see just how much it is.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 months ago:
I didn’t even say which direction it was misleading, it’s just not really a valid comparison to compare a single invocation of an LLM with a continuous task.
You’re comparing Volume of Water with Flow Rate. Or if this was power, you’d be comparing Energy (Joules or kWh) with Power (Watts)
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 months ago:
Just writing code uses almost no energy. Your PC should be clocking down when you’re not doing anything. 1GHz is plenty for text editing.
Does ChatGPT reduce the number of times you hit build? Because that’s where all the electricity goes.