Warl0k3
@Warl0k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 days ago:
jjgodis the only one I remember,jjcoinandjjflymight have been ones too? Man I played the -heck- out of that game as a kid… - Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 days ago:
Given that the radiation of nuclear waste has frequency way higher than UV, why can’t it be used to feed a photoelectric generator?
You’re probably using one of these right now (albeit indirectly)! They’re called Photovoltaic nuclear batteries and they’re critical to modern encryption. They ensure that encryption keys, which are stored in highly volatile memory where if power is ever lost the keys are immediately erased, never lose power unless the memory modules are physically disconnected.
The reason they’re not used more extensively is that they just don’t produce very much power - the high-energy electromagnetic radiations are very difficult to harness constructively (things like gamma and X-rays) and as a result we have to do some weird physics stuff to convert them. PVN batteries convert particle radiation, beta radiation from tritium decay specifically, into usable photons via a thin coating of phosphorus on the glass, instead of them being captured directly.
(this is a wild oversimplification just to be clear)
- Comment on Potentially life-changing if you're eligible 6 days ago:
“IVE GOUT IT” also fits
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 6 days ago:
I split the tabs into multiple windows by category, personally (tho firefox’s tab grouping is pretty great too). And it’s more about it being present - bookmarks are fine, but if I am not actively reminded of something I likely will just forget about it entirely.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
Ah yes - subjecting ideological refugeess to arbitrary purity tests, a liberal classic.
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 1 week ago:
I don’t have the details of your sisters insurance plan (I dont think, at lwast) so I can’t say what specifically happened. I can say that that is remarkably rapid, far faster than is required under the Newborns act, so I suspect there were either some complciating factors or an abnormal degree of urgency on the part of the hospital billing department that I cannot address. Unfortunately anecdotes that rely on PHI are difficult to diagnose wile maintaining privacy of the person in question.
- Comment on Insulin 1 week ago:
Perhaps strain would be a better word than drain - it would still be a short-mid term financial burden to take even a tiny fraction of the sane population from the US, it’s a big country.
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 1 week ago:
Yeah it gets a little bit… psychotically dystopian at that point. Most likely the child will be enrolled in medicaid (or CHIP or similar state programs, assuming we still have any of those I haven’t checked today…), and they will receive necessary care until they’re discharged. But hey, it’s the US, that’s not guaranteed.
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 1 week ago:
At least in the US, the mother’s health insurance policy (assuming she has one) will automatically extend to cover children born while the mother is under coverage.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 week ago:
“Black box” usually refers to both the Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder - some (all?) FDRs are also configured to record pilot mics as well.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 week ago:
A sarcastic thought experiment, then?
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 1 week ago:
(The image of the modern $20 is counterfeit. Real US currency does not have “MONEY” written on it in cartoon fonts, either, though that was photoshopped (also why it lacks the eurion constellation))
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 week ago:
That person has gone on to repeatedly double down on the position elsewhere in the comments, I’m afraid to say the hivemind was right on this one and they sure appear to be a whackdoodle that actually believes what they said there.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 week ago:
Did you mean Poe’s Law here? That would imply you only made the claim about divine selection bias sarcastically, and we all just thought you were being serious.
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 1 week ago:
This was more a comment on how the american aesthetic is so prolific that you still think of US currency being green despite it being long past the point where that was true, rather than a comment on what the colors actually are.
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 1 week ago:
Modern bills are really more of a white-blue with bruise yellow tones (except for the $1s)
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 1 week ago:
Incredible, thank you for that.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 1 week ago:
Alchemy was just a way to disguise a piss-drinking fetish that got way way out of hand.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, I’m not sure what your point is - yes it was a broadly impractical thing to do, that’s not in dispute.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m not entirely sure on the difference here, valve is selling them directly and by all the reporting we’ve seen, there aren’t going to be hardware restrictions on any of the models.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That’s a tradition with gaming systems, see the Navy’s playstation supercomputer.
- Comment on Racism restaurant 1 week ago:
Both examples are of disparaging comments directed at, you know, people. Veiled comments, sure, but pretty clearly directed at them nontheless.
Hot take, but: AI aren’t people. As a result, comments directed at them aren’t directed at people. Dogwhistles work because they’re comments directed at a group of people, couched in language so as to imply they are directed at something else. Do you see the difference, they’re still directed at people? And clankers are, you know, not people?
Nobody’s defending dogwhistling, but you’re trying to imply that all negative comments that use “clanker” are dogwhistling, and you know darn well that that’s disingenuous.
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s lots of hypothetical routes. I was really more considering how much of an impact it would have to give a few tens of millions to a few TSMC design engineers to include something on the compute dies. The specific issue with ASICs is that manipulations could be present below firmware, baked in at the physical silicon level, and with modern lithographic densities there’s essentially no mechanism for anyone to check to make sure that hasn’t happened.
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2 weeks ago:
Youtube.
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2 weeks ago:
That must be rough.
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2 weeks ago:
I feel like you really want that to be true. Is the validation you get from buying bitcoin not so much, that you must seek it out elsewhere?
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2 weeks ago:
No? Seriously, I don’t care what you do, you aren’t the topic being discussed here. This isn’t about you, except in that your behavior was called out in an incidentally deeply amusing way.
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2 weeks ago:
One further piece of evidence to support the theory that we are not the same person.
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2 weeks ago:
Why would you think I care? The audience I’m writing for isn’t you, one of the above referenced “cultists” they were talking about screaming in the comments, it’s for anyone who isn’t already firmly entrenched within this strange little cult. Your poor financial decisions are your own burdens to bare, don’t try to offload the burden for your choices onto me…
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2 weeks ago:
I do applaud you choosing not to make any more comically unfounded claims. The form leaves a little to be desired, but overall I’m glad to see improvement…