IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 days ago:
Slightly better for the teeth maybe? And maybe a slight benefit if heartburn is an issue.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 days ago:
Yeah, but with lemon flavour. I think the idea is if you started with plain water, then added lemon, you’d now have lemon flavoured acidic water. If you start with alkaline water, you’d end up with lemon flavoured neutral water.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 1 week ago:
What about tomato soup?
- Comment on #environmentalist 2 weeks ago:
Yes, because nobody ever took their drink to go after finishing their meal.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 weeks ago:
It could still be very much middle class. Parents make it out of nostalgia from when they were kids, instead of making it out of necessity.
- Comment on #environmentalist 2 weeks ago:
The odd time I end up eating fast food and getting a paper straw, it’s the fact that it goes mushy before I finish my drink. I think that’s the texture issue people are talking about.
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 2 weeks ago:
The problem I had is that taking one assortment of numbers that had no meaning, doing a bunch of operations on them (never actually finishing the operations though, because the last steps were “obvious”) leading to a different arrangement of numbers that also meant nothing, was not a good method of teaching. The pass/fail rate of that course relative to all the others reflected that. Every other teacher/professor I had before or since would include context when introducing an entirely new concept.
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 2 weeks ago:
I had a linear algebra professor who did that all the time. Never did figure out what an eigenvector is not why I would want 14 ways of finding one. Brilliant man, terrible teacher.
- Comment on one bright second 3 weeks ago:
The chances of me living long enough to actually be effected by it are so slim that I’m completely unconcerned about it.
- Comment on one bright second 3 weeks ago:
The last stars will burn out in 120 trillion years
We think. We still haven’t solved things like the dark matter/energy problem. The answer to that alone could drastically change what we estimate will happen in the distant future.
- Comment on Some are too young to understand 4 weeks ago:
True, but most consumers aren’t doing bulk storage. Most people just have cell phone and laptop
- Comment on Some are too young to understand 4 weeks ago:
Gotta keep them on their toes.
- Comment on Some are too young to understand 4 weeks ago:
Hard drives are going to be one of those in between things that Gen x/millennials will understand, but were already obsolete by the time Gen z rolled around.
- Comment on Which one and why? 4 weeks ago:
What’s stopping you from using it for soup?
- Comment on Harsh 4 weeks ago:
Why limit yourself to Apollo velocities? We’re trying to shoot the moon, not land in it.
- Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before" 5 weeks ago:
One of the biggest parts of the problem is that corporate management types can’t quantify experience and skill. This leads to them thinking of projects purely in terms of man-hours, and they cannot comprehend that not all man-hours are equal. It’s an issue that plagues a lot of industries.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 5 weeks ago:
I used to use Spotify, but then I learned that YouTube premium cost the same amount, and came with access to YouTube music, so I switched. Got tired of playing YouTube ad blocking whack-a-mole.
If Google starts enshittifying Premium too much, I’ll go back to sailing the high seas for stuff I’m not going to/can’t get on vinyl.
- Comment on True staple of the format 5 weeks ago:
Except, when you Google something, the best answers are (or at least used to be) most often Reddit comments provided by people who aren’t douchebags.
- Comment on Uh oh lol 1 month ago:
If something is red shifting, it’s accelerating away from you. If something is blue shifting, it’s accelerating towards you. An entire galaxy accelerating towards you is somewhat concerning.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 1 month ago:
Does anyone make a 65"+ monitor though?
- Comment on Right in the feels 2 months ago:
I think “Last Kiss” by Pearl Jam is next on this hyper-depressing playlist.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 months ago:
Either way, they don’t have the reserves to supply their own demand.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 months ago:
Yeah, it’s crazy what you can do when you don’t have to pay people, and you can instantly stomp out all dissent.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 months ago:
China decided to end their dependence on fossil fuels, and I decided to retire by age 45. Me and China are about equally close to achieving our goals.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 2 months ago:
An entire state government could fit it your cellphone. That’s never been one of the use cases for data center level compute.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 2 months ago:
For some it will be. For the pure AI software companies, yes. For the hardware vendors and data centers, less so. Even if it’s not for generative AI, there will always be need for hyper scale compute.
- Comment on UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems' 2 months ago:
It sort of does. Each drive uses energy, simply by being on (spinning rust moreso than flash). As storage demands increase, data centers will just keep adding disk shelfs and more drives, which use more energy. So at home, data storage is effectively “free” since you need at least one drive running anyway. In data centers, there is a calculable energy cost per GB.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 2 months ago:
The guards are facing south.
- Comment on openSUSE Leap 16.0 will need Steam gamers to install some extras due to no 32-bit 2 months ago:
Is this a Leap only problem, or is 32 but going to be dropped from Tumbleweed as well?
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 4 months ago:
Here’s some more food for thought: what happens if the piss off the Eve players? Those clowns have basically been training themselves on how to come out on top in a no-hold-barred capitalist system.