Blue_Morpho
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- Comment on Longtime GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after 'brief and sudden illness' 9 hours ago:
I’ve never heard of an immediate physical condition referred to as “illness”. No one says a broken arm is an “illness.”
- Comment on Longtime GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after 'brief and sudden illness' 10 hours ago:
He was touring a Ukrainian weapon factory, healthy as an ox the day before it was blown up by Russians.
What “illness” kills in 8 hours when you have the best medical care in the world second only to Trump’s? If it was a heart attack, they would have said “heart attack”.
- Comment on Xbox needs to make a choice, says former PlayStation leader Shawn Layden: be a publisher or a platform, but you can't be both 1 day ago:
Nintendo is laughing at Layden.
- Comment on They have already decided to promote an existing employee. But play the "search" game and screw you 1 day ago:
Oh sure, but you don’t know until you let them try.
- Comment on They have already decided to promote an existing employee. But play the "search" game and screw you 2 days ago:
What’s worse is the reverse and it happens more often: Posting a job and then hiring from outside rather than promoting from within.
Because no manager wants to lose their low paid competent worker. So instead they hire the outside person for the senior position.
- Comment on What on Earth can we still not measure speed by or at least have a transfer rate? 1 week ago:
If you put in enough energy anything can in theory go the speed of light.
You can approach the speed of light but you cannot reach it. Your equations are missing the relativistic corrections.
- Comment on Flat Screen TV's are a waste of money 2 weeks ago:
That’s how it was done 30 years ago. My friend built his basement around the TV so it would be in the wall and he had a room behind it for all the cables and equipment.
My house has it too. It’s not a full room but a cut out with a door. Because originally if there was a big TV there would be no way to get behind it.
- Comment on The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. 3 weeks ago:
Cryptography is a weird include. Everything else is general knowledge but cryptography is a branch off of math.
- Comment on [politics] ya but, at least Juneteenth still lives! herp-a-derp! 3 weeks ago:
The only reason to bring them up is because you agree with them.
Hitler shouldn’t be taught because you don’t agree with him? How is anyone supposed to learn from history if you hide everyone that did anything bad. That’s how we got Trump. It was a failure of education.
- Comment on [politics] ya but, at least Juneteenth still lives! herp-a-derp! 3 weeks ago:
It’s important to remind everyone that he was a piece of shit. Republicans are whitewashing his history.
- Comment on Enzymes be like 3 weeks ago:
Yes. That’s what they do.
- Comment on Enzymes be like 3 weeks ago:
It still baffles me how the activation energy can defined as absolutely X because of atomic energy levels defined by quantum mechanics. But then you have an enzyme show up and it’s, weeelllll it can be much lower.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 weeks ago:
. it’s a big deal to people who don’t know how to do a lot of stuff.
It’s also a big deal to the extremely competent developers. The other person I saw use AI which makes me want to try it is Limor Fried. I watched one of her videos where she input a 50 page microcontroller pdf and got useable io mapping header files for her c code. Matching pins to ports in a doc that’s spreads the info out across many pages is a huge grind.
It’s not like I’m illiterate, but I’m open to using a plastic ball point pen instead of catching and killing a goose to make own quill.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 weeks ago:
A dude DYI’ing his bike isn’t something to even take into account…
I’m old enough to remember Hypercard. It was a revolution for regular people to create the one off app they needed to fix their own problems.
Hypercard was a nightmare for professional development. But it didn’t matter. It was a tool for regular people.
- Comment on Fafo 3 weeks ago:
That old lady was standing near the edge of the cliff. The fence was already broken. I pushed her off the edge. You can’t say it’s entirely my fault.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 weeks ago:
Sure there are useful applications, but I don’t actually need it for anything I do.
I’ve seen applications that are very useful. YouTuber Berm Peak used ai to bypass the controller of the world’s worst ebike so it wouldn’t become e-waste and fix it’s worst flaws. Yes new firmware could have been written from scratch. But he fixes bikes. He’s not a software developer.
It’s like you don’t need a ball point pen to write, you could use a quill and save the plastic waste. But quills are so slow you don’t even consider it.
- Comment on Why The Economist hates wealth taxes. 3 weeks ago:
It’s not a shift if you have a Republican Congress and President who will not only give it all to their billionaire friends but run up a debt to give more than they took in taxes.
- Comment on Why The Economist hates wealth taxes. 3 weeks ago:
I’m pointing out that this is putting the cart before the horse. We need actual leftist politicians or it won’t do anything.
- Comment on Why The Economist hates wealth taxes. 3 weeks ago:
The problem is the wealthy have all this excess money and they are driving up the price of everything,
Transferring $50B from Musk to Kuschner (Ivanka) doesn’t change this. Any excess tax money will go directly to Trump’s friends and family. He is already increasing the debt to it’s highest levels in history to do this. More money won’t change it.
- Comment on Why The Economist hates wealth taxes. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s my point. It’s not the income that’s as much of a problem as the leadership.
You need leaders willing to spend money on workers instead of owners.
- Comment on Why The Economist hates wealth taxes. 4 weeks ago:
I think if a wealth tax was implemented, it wouldn’t change anything. Trump would spend the extra money on new wars and bigger monuments to himself.
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 5 weeks ago:
But recall that the force of gravity is the momentum change “due to” the curvature of spacetime
But didn’t you just say that the electric field curves it too?
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 5 weeks ago:
Though the force itself is irrelevant
But force is a measure of the rate at which energy is transferred over a distance.
So if one force is greater than another and the distance is the same, then the energy is greater in the case of the greater force.
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 5 weeks ago:
What I never understood is why the electric field doesn’t distort spacetime more than gravity. The force between 2 electrons is like 4*10^42 times stronger than gravity. So a tiny electric field should cause the same spacetime bending as a massive object.
- Comment on What would happen if the US got rid of the majority of their bases and brought all the stationed soldiers home? What would be the impact on society, the economy, and other things? 5 weeks ago:
And it’s thousands of Americans bringing their money into the region, not just locals circulating existing money between businesses.
- Comment on If internet means wires, then how come my mobile phone gets connected to the internet ? I'm roaming everywhere with it inside my pocket. 5 weeks ago:
The wires are for faster data transfer. Your phone connects wirelessly to the tower and the tower has ( but not necessarily ) higher speed wires to connect back to a hub that connects to other wires. Some towers connect wirelessly back to a hub.
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 5 weeks ago:
Booster bag.
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 5 weeks ago:
the original conversion was from whales but the popularised version is with bacon rended
Reply to wrong post? Pint is 1/8th of gallon and gallon came from old Norman French with latin roots.
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 5 weeks ago:
square inch of pounds
Pound force or Pound mass?
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 5 weeks ago:
Are you a lunatic?
Yes I am American.