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- Comment on AMD CPU Transient Scheduler Attacks security flaw revealed 1 week ago:
No information on the 9000 series, why? Kinda sus.
- Comment on y tho 1 week ago:
Imagine how many emergency room visits could be avoided every year if they just taught this in sex ed class.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Kinder, the Brookings fellow, said she worries that companies soon will simply eliminate the entire bottom rung of the career ladder.
What the fuck do they think is gonna happen when the current seniors start to retire? Are they just betting that AI is gonna be good enough to replace all of them then?
Cue all these companies in 5-20 years’ time having to completely rewrite their software stacks because they have no fucking clue how any of it works anymore.
- Comment on You can do it. It's an easy one 3 weeks ago:
i 8 sum apple pi - Comment on A few horny memes are acceptable surely 4 weeks ago:
There’s a starving furry artist out there who would jump at the chance to take your commission.
- Comment on In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource 4 weeks ago:
I downloaded the demo last night. It’s pretty fun but definitely rough around the edges. I hope the developer is amenable to feedback.
- Comment on In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource 4 weeks ago:
I’ve found that demos can be a double-edged sword.
I picked up the demo for A Bumpy Ride after watching a YouTuber play it. I really enjoyed it, but it only lets you play for one in-game day so there’s only so many times you can do that without progressing before it gets old. I still find myself jonesing to play it but I can’t really do anything but wait for the full game to come out.
- Comment on In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource 4 weeks ago:
Instantly wishlisted. My inner child is screaming with delight. I’ve wanted a game like this for literal decades.
I’d try to build machines and industrial flows in falling sand games but never be able to manage anything much more complex than distilling saltwater because of the limitations of the game.
- Comment on [Opinion] Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 4 weeks ago:
It’s still using the Blink engine, so it only provides an illusion of competition just like all other Chromium-based browsers.
If the web becomes nothing but Chromium, then Google can dictate web standards as they see fit.
And don’t count on Apple to save you, either. WebKit’s monopoly over browsing on iOS is slowly being eroded by anti-trust rulings. The first browser most people will install when they have a choice is Google Chrome.
Ditching Firefox entirely because of a few missteps by Mozilla is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
- Comment on Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough 5 weeks ago:
And ofc the original paper is paywalled.
- Comment on China claims to have developed the world's first AI-designed processor — LLM turned performance requests into CPU architecture 5 weeks ago:
It’s probably just regurgitating stuff from a paper from 2017 that no one paid attention to.
Which has value in itself, I guess. It’s just intellectually dishonest to say the AI came up with the solution.
- Comment on Worm time 1 month ago:
- Comment on Worm time 1 month ago:
The problem is that my brain would immediately jump to picking apart the premise of the question. How did it happen? Is it permanent? Is your consciousness trapped in there or is it gone forever? The kind of thing that’s obviously just going to piss off the person asking.
I feel like what the question is really asking in a very roundabout way is whether you love that person unconditionally. That even if something happens such that they can no longer be the person you fell in love with, that you’ll still love them just the same. But that’s the problem: as a cynic, I believe all love is conditional; if it doesn’t seem like it, that just means you haven’t found out what the conditions are yet.
Obviously that’s not the right answer. So to me, it just seems like the question is a trap. Either you accept the preposterous hypothetical and give some sappy answer to make the other person happy and avoid a fight, or you get outed for the cold, unfeeling asshole that you actually are inside. But maybe that’s the point.
- Comment on Worm time 1 month ago:
In the unlikely event that I end up in another relationship, what the hell is the right answer to the worm question? I’m pretty damn sure I’d get it wrong.
- Comment on Microsoft finally solve the Linux dual-boot issue after 9 months 1 month ago:
I just figured that they’d decided dual-booting was for losers back when Windows 10 started overwriting GRUB with its own bootloader after every update. I have no doubt at least one middle manager over there whines constantly about how much developer time is wasted because they don’t have total control over the hardware. Probably the same guy who keeps trying to make the Surface Tablet a thing.
- Comment on xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa 2 months ago:
This likely means Melon Husk himself went in and started fucking with Grok’s prompt to push his agenda, and in the process completely broke it.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 months ago:
If you find yourself unplugging things a lot to turn them off, you may be interested to hear the switch was invented not long after the light bulb for exactly this reason.
- As if that’s the only reason you’d ever unplug something.
- Vampire loads. Turns out, most things don’t completely turn off anymore. Yes, it adds up.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 months ago:
So do we. But we don’t need as many of them, usually just for areas with a lot of electronics like entertainment centers or computer desks.
US electric code requires an outlet like every 6-8 feet (~2m) along a wall so you shouldn’t need to string extension cords everywhere. For the most part, it works pretty well. I have 5 outlets alone in my 12x12ft (~3.6x3.6m) bedroom.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 months ago:
It does not. Some devices may have that on their plugs, but it’s certainly not standard.
One night when I was 14, I tried to plug in my phone charger beside my bed in the dark and was accidentally touching one of the pins when it made contact.
Fortunately, I wasn’t completing the circuit and I was electrically isolated laying on my bed, so I didn’t actually get shocked. But I did feel a buzz in my finger like you get from those prank toys that shock the victim. That’s a sensation I will never forget.
Not defending our plugs at all.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 months ago:
Regardless of where you are, can we all agree that no one’s really perfected the electrical outlet yet?
NA plugs make contact without being fully seated, and can leave their live and neutral pins exposed. Worn outlets just let plugs fall out of them (I have 3 or so outlets in my apartment that are borderline unusable because of this).
British plugs are bulky and turn into caltrops when dropped on the floor.
European plugs have the same problem. And you only get like, one outlet per receptacle? Guess you’re shit out of luck if you wanna plug anything else in the same spot.
Most of the rest of the world just copied Europe or the UK.
I like Denmark’s plug though. Cute lil smiley face.
- Comment on do crimes 2 months ago:
I was looking for a paper from fucking 2010 that was cited in a Wikipedia article and it was still behind a goddamn paywall.
Sci-Hub is the GOAT.
- Comment on Would you love me if I was a worm? 2 months ago:
The original announcement is from 2020, but this article is from a few weeks ago and makes it sound like breaking news. Kinda disappointing.
- Comment on Would you love me if I was a worm? 2 months ago:
I’d love to see the source on this. I didn’t see anything from a quick search.
- Comment on Phasing thru walls 3 months ago:
It was obviously designed to distract from any rumors of a Stargate program underneath NORAD in the Cheyenne Mountain complex.
- Comment on A dating app just for us 3 months ago:
Why wait for an app? Just start posting personals ads in the comments under memes you like.
- Comment on Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping 3 months ago:
I really wonder how much of these wild swings is just from sampling bias, because I’d expect the actual trends to be a lot smoother.
- Comment on TRUE AND REAL 4 months ago:
Does the genus name literally translate to “shapeless dick”?
God, I love scientists.
- Comment on Have you seen that vigilante man? Have you seen that vigilante man? 4 months ago:
Just listened to that one. Also great.
- Comment on Have you seen that vigilante man? Have you seen that vigilante man? 4 months ago:
If anyone is a punk rock fan, Dropkick Murphys put out an album based on unused Woody Guthrie lyrics.
It’s called This Machine Still Kills Fascists.
- Comment on GO FORTH AND SEIZE YOUR DESTINY 4 months ago:
There’s also natron and potash which have been known since antiquity, but I can’t find any reference to them being used as leavening agents before the early Industrial era.
Sodium carbonate (washing soda) is used in baking to encourage browning, but it doesn’t produce carbon dioxide when heated.
You need sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) which is only a small constituent in trona, and without knowing how to concentrate it, or that you can, it’s unlikely it would have been used as a leavening agent before the advent of modern chemistry. You’d have to add so much that it would ruin the batter or just turn it bitter.
Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) turns into sodium carbonate when heated in an oven, which is used by amateur chemists sometimes to make the carbonate if they don’t have it on hand.
Baking powder is a combination of baking soda and a food-safe dry acid, which react when water is added. This wouldn’t have been invented before the chemistry of acids and bases was discovered.