IrateAnteater

@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does the word data mean per se ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The GB version is more specific than the general term “data”. In this case, it specifically refers to 2 billion bytes (each byte being 8 bits, a “bit” being a 1 or a 0). But in the general sense, “data” can be a synonym for “information” which has many definitions, some of which are pure physics concepts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I think music sounds better on my old MP3 player?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It does technically hurt the quality, but 320 kbps mp3s are largely indistinguishable from lossless to most people.

  On a side note, why mp3 instead of a lossless format?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a no⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s the big asterisk on the “zipper merging is more efficient” premise. It assumes that things are already bottlenecked. If you have the space to merge early without slowing down, you do that. People trying to force their way in at the last minute (when they didn’t have to) is one of the things that triggers the bottleneck in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they structure their supplier contracts anything like the auto industry does, that would only be because they are on the back end of the product’s production lifecycle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Less of an issue with Valve. They don’t have as much of a need for a hardware loss leader since they earn from Steam regardless of which hardware it’s running on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨borger⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, seems to be missing the rest of the toppings. No way there’s any lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, bacon, or any combination of the above, on there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a busy morning planned⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I’ve had days where that is the literal plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doomer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty much implied by WW3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doomer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The water supply issue is super location specific, which is why it will likely be one of the triggers of WWIII. Certain parts of Canada, for example, are basically a fractal of freshwater lakes and not among the areas likely to suffer desertification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haxxed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do get a good laugh when every once in a while a flat earther comes up with a newer and more convoluted way of proving that the earth is in fact round. Then there’s the bonus round where they do the Olympic level mental gymnastics to explain why their own results don’t prove anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Close enough⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Racists” would be just a circle of the whole map.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And toxic in large amounts!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say it’s more of a tea than a soup. Unless you leave the grinds in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theories on Theories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Physics: oh, and if you look close enough, it’s actually all probability too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's already running⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Me: “Do the thing.”

  OS: “no.”

  Me: “Fuck you. Sudo do the thing.”

  OS: “yes sir. Right away sir.”

  That is the way it should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I can see a way to actually accomplish that without still ending up with negative outcomes.

  Take for example a surgeon, one who is a specialist who’s time is 100% occupied saving people. Does he get taken away from that to do his time as a garbage collector? Do you tell the patient “sorry, you are going to die. You could have been saved, but we needed your surgeon to go pick up garbage.”, or do you have an exemption list?

  And if there’s an exemption list, you will never convince me that people wouldn’t start abusing who is and isn’t on that list. You arrive right back to having a class society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like that entire passage completely ignores the fact that last time the bulk of humanity lived a communal lifestyle, the number of humans on the planet was a few orders of magnitude smaller. It’s a fairly easy setup to maintain when settlements are small and the bulk of people’s time is spent as hunter-gatherers or subsistence farmers. As soon as you put a very large number of people into a city, the communal arrangement falls apart. And many people like living in cities. That genie is out of the bottle, and people are not going to be willing to go back to being a subsistence farmer in a commune.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s been one of the goals of just about every socio-economic system, but since are not yet at the point where we can completely automate away all undesirable jobs, it all circles back to being shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon cares about the environment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’ve ever come across a situation where the environmentalist and the phone seller were the same person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switching from openSUSE Tumbleweed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So from two seconds of Googling, it looks to be a proton issue, which zypper dup would do nothing to change. Proton versions are controlled from within steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switching from openSUSE Tumbleweed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the game have kenal level anticheat? Because if it does, it doesn’t matter what distro you choose, it’s the anti-cheat blocking the game from starting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon dips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never really understood the fascination with ranch that some people have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some countries allow it. The major difference is that other people cannot choose for you. Your family can’t “put you down” but you can choose to have a doctor assist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wise Choice 👍⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The best thing that ever happened to me cell phone-wise was Shaw being forced to sell Freedom. I’ve been with Freedom since they were Wind, and the only good thing that the Shaw ownership ever did was leave existing contract prices alone. I would have been extremely unhappy if Rogers had gotten their hands in Freedom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wise Choice 👍⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I make made my telecom choices specifically avoiding the big three and their subsidiaries. Has served me well so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everywhere he goes, people want to connect with him⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most consumer units will at least make a half-assed attempt to pick the least occupied frequency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any day now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Each end of the spectrum a has its own issues.

  A centrally managed economy can be great for making unpopular but necessary changes, but are prone to massive failures when the law of unintended consequences inevitably shows up to bite you in the ass.

  Free market economies are great for letting complexities sort themselves out, but are terrible for quickly making necessary changes, and you end up with “death by 1000 cuts” instead of one but failure.

  In the end, I think it’s best to use the right tool for the right situation. As the goods/services are less critical, or the barriers to doing it yourself are low, a free market approach tends to work better. As the goods/services become more critical, and the do it yourself barriers are high, the free market approach becomes increasingly shitty for everyone but the owners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wise Choice 👍⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what it is I’m purchasing and the cost of the subscription vs the cost of a one time purchase. Also, depends on if it’s a true one time purchase or something along the lines of those “lifetime subscription” one time charges that never seem to actually last z lifetime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the more you know⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m trying to imagine the flavour of Oreos with salsa vs Oreos with nacho cheese, and I think that the cheese option would taste better. Not good, but better than salsa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yippie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably. Everything is is the result of physics. And I do mean absolutely everything. I’d also argue that any math that isn’t already applicable to physics simply points to something in physics we don’t know about yet. It wouldn’t be the first time we came up with some math before we knew what the application was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yippie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything else is physics, so yes exclusively.