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- Comment on physics ≠ magic 21 hours ago:
Is this curiousmarc?
I’m addicted to his videos! - Comment on physics ≠ magic 21 hours ago:
Love an electroboom!
- Comment on physics ≠ magic 23 hours ago:
Struggling for content, huh? Only reason to include 2 full bridge rectifiers.
I mean, they are cool. And important. Surely there are other scary things to include, tho - Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 4 days ago:
The old * uncooked weight
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 1 week ago:
Yeh, freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences.
A permit from the city (and good planning) helps mitigate those consequences (safety for protesters and public) so there should be no reason to prosecute you for organising a protest. If something does go wrong, you have protection because you have done everything correctly.
You can absolutely shout “fire” in a theatre.
But if its without cause and it creates a panic/injuries/whatever, then you are responsible for what happens.
You won’t be prosecuted for shouting “fire”, that’s free speech. You will be prosecuted for causing a panic, that’s the consequences of your free speech. - Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 1 week ago:
That’s it? If you had a million dollars, you’d rematch with two chicks at the same time?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I guess the options are:
Put them out and fix them.
Leave them alone.
Kill them more quickly.Nobody is going to stand and watch (or even speed up) something like that without suffering massive trauma themselves.
Right or wrong, they were doing what they thought best and what I imagine most think is best.
Anything else is academical - Comment on Anon encounters a Switch owner 3 weeks ago:
Right, disabled weapon durability. At which point there is no point to explore the map. That was the gist, right? So, I skipped a stage by describing the start and the end of the chain of events.
Weapon durability itself isn’t fun, but forces you to explore.
If you can’t be bothered reading dialog, so you skip it all, then say a game has no story, doesn’t make sense and never explains anything.
You are no longer having to read all the dialog, but you miss all the detail.
Short term gains long term pains. - Comment on Anon encounters a Switch owner 3 weeks ago:
Huh, lots of opinions on BOTW and “if I disable a mechanic on PC, the game is not fun”.
I’ve enjoyed both botw and totk, but not to completion.I do feel like they are both tech demo iterations.
Botw introducing actual physics and creativity as puzzle solving possibilities. Totk introducing “everything is physics” and relying on creativity for puzzle solving.
Botw story was mid. Totk story was better.
Botw dungeons were terrible. Totk dungeons were better, and some had a bit more girth/depth to them.I feel like now that they’ve cracked the “everything is physics”, and iterated dungeon designs… The next one will hopefully feel a lot more Zelda.
At least, I hope so.But, same genre…
What do you class totks genre as? - Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 actors reveal the darker side of success fuelled by AI voice cloning 4 weeks ago:
I use jerboa and it is working (I used the toolbar to generate it, but had to fix it because my mobile keyboard is a massive PITA for any corrections and I haven’t had time to find something new).
Anyway, looks like sync and boost are not lemmy-markdown-compatible - Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 actors reveal the darker side of success fuelled by AI voice cloning 4 weeks ago:
:::spoiler nasty things people do with AI [trigger warning]
“I went on to this stream because somebody gave me a heads up and I went on and heard my own voice reading rape porn. That’s the level of stuff we’ve had to deal with since this game came out and it’s been horrible, honestly.”
Amelia Tyler :::
I cannot imagine going into a stream of someone playing a game you have poured your heart and soul into for years, and hear you own voice reading stuff like that
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 4 weeks ago:
That is fantastic
- Comment on Movies that “go from 0-100” in the last 15 or so minutes? 4 weeks ago:
Currently my favourite movie
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." 5 weeks ago:
Good work doing what you can!
Dodging shitty companies is difficult. - Comment on Hallucinated AI Dependencies as Vectors for Attack 5 weeks ago:
I had a google summary telling me how to use a lodash (js object/array/things helper library) method that sounded like it probably would exist.
It was named how lodash would likely name it, and was summarised to do what i needed.
Except, lodash doesnt have that method. Had to use a couple methods.But that was eye opening for me.
Similar to lawyers citing cases that dont exist.
Saw a meme-ish post recently from an IBM presentation 30-40 years ago along the lines of “computers cannot be held accountable. So dont have them make decisions”. - Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 1 month ago:
I guess “no” implies “this is your only chance to permanently decide”.
“Remind me later” is obviously going to be an annoying reminder.
“Maybe later” or “Not now” indicates it can be changed later, but might also come with annoying reminders. - Comment on How does data sent over the internet know where to go? 1 month ago:
They dont have a rough idea, they have a very accurate picture of where they should send a packet based on the IP address.
Routers at the internet-backbone scale actually announce the IP addresses they are responsible for, as well as other routes (with an additional path cost added) that they can reach.
So, they match a destination IP to the most accurate IP block in their routing table (so a destination of 8.8.8.8 with 2 entries of 8.8.8.0/24 and 8.8.0.0/16, it will match the 8.8.8.0/24 route) and forward the packet to the router that announced it.Routing at the internet scale is much smarter than routing at the home (even business) level
- Comment on How does data sent over the internet know where to go? 1 month ago:
At the back-bone scale of the internet, routers actually announce the addresses they are responsible for.
Paths are judged by how specific these announcements are. A router announcing a single IP is the preffered destination, compared to a router that announces a block that contains it. So routers will forward it to whichever router more accurately describes the destination IP.
This makes up part of the calculated Path Cost of various routes to reach a destination.
If router A tries to contact router D and knows that router B and C can both forward that packet, router A will send it to the router that announced the lowest path cost to D.Its a lot more complicated than that, but that is how datacenters can disappear from the internet (by wrongly announcing they no longer have a path to the IPs inside the datacenter), or how a small ISP can accidentally route the entire internet through their network (by accidentally announcing extremely low path costs). Both of these have happened.
blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimiz…So, the internet is both fragile and resilient.
It can route around damage, but cannot deal with mistakes/maliciousness above a certain “ring” of control. - Comment on Anyone else addicted to Balatro right now? 1 month ago:
Addicting, fun, loads of builds/options.
I do wish the early game was a bit more reliable. You can get stuck always playing catchup if you dont get a scoring joker in tge first couple shops - Comment on Physics 1 month ago:
Man, 2 full bridge rectifiers in the same meme?
This is either electroboom, or struggling for things to fill a meme - Comment on Someone gets killed by a car, so they restrict e-bikes. 1 month ago:
Eh, often updated privacy laws (a good thing) can lead to an aweful lot of work (and confusion) for developers.
A local news company probably doesnt want to deal with privacy laws that do not effect their target audience (despite those privacy laws being a good thing).
The other option is to be a part of a global news conglomerate that ensures everything is in compliance, but that often leads to some sort of adjenda of what can & cant be published.
Or you pay a platform to host your articles. Which is awesome for anyone that doesnt have devs on staff (or retainer). But you are beholden to that platforms desires - Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 1 month ago:
For mass distribution of wifi APs? Some SDN solution would have a higher upfront cost but a lower running cost. Im sure all the big providers have their own system, consumer ones include ubiquiti and omada.
Cheaper than that would be mikrotik. Not really deployable at the scale of 1000s that would be required to fit every room with a wifi AP, but CAPsMAN can scale to hundreds, so still has centralised management to reduce running costs.
If it has to be cheaper still, then any cheapo SBC with wifi. While raspberry pis might fit the bill, they would be too overpowered with too many unused features to really squeeze the cost effectiveness.
Hey, its google. They could probably fork an AP into one of their home automation thingies. Then probably a whole stack of ansible scripts to try and manage 1000s of deployed linux installs - Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 1 month ago:
Any computer with a network port and a wifi adapter can be turned into a wifi access point.
But there are cheaper and better alternatives than a raspberry pi - Comment on Lemmy.world blocks VPNs 1 month ago:
Its not illegal to use a VPN nor is it illegal to use a VPN to access lemmy.world, nor will anyone hold lemmy.world accountable for people accessing it via a VPN.
Lemmy.world has chosen to block access via VPNs.
That is their choice.Lets swap the metaphor around a bit.
Its not illegal to enter a library via a window.
I could build a staircase to the window of my hypothetical library, and use that as the main entrance.
I wouldnt get arrested. The people using it wouldnt get arrested. Everything would be fine, might even be a great selling point to get more business.The reason people arent allowed to enter libraries via a window is because there is a perfectly good front door, and its likely people that continue to try and access a library via a window are probably up to no good.
Maybe they are there to burn books, deface books, or just steal the computers that have been running for the last 20 years without any maintenance. Or maybe they might plant extremely inappropriate content amongst other books, or even illegal content amongst other books. Or maybe they have an aversion to main entrances, cant get to a library during normal business hours and desperately need something new to read, or are worried the person at the front desk will recognise them.
Who knows. Could be innocent, could be excentric, could be nefarious.
Its easier to prevent people entering via the windows, have monitoring to ensure people dont enter via the windows, and have a general social norm of “someone trying to get through a window is bad, and should be reported to authorities to make sure they arent up to no good” and just have everyone use the front door.Anyone that actually includes non-vpn access to something like lemmy.world in their threat model are hopefully smart enough to get a VPS with a clean IP address.
Because a VPN doesnt add any extra headers or data to the traffic. VPN traffic is often blocked by looking up the origin IP (ie the VPN exit node’s public IP address) against a database of known malicious IP addresses. Thats it. Get a clean IP address, and move on with your life - Comment on Lemmy.world blocks VPNs 1 month ago:
No, its more like “i own a library. I dont want people shouting in my library. Anyone shouting in my library will be kicked out”
Someone that shouts in a library is more than welcome to start their own library where shouting is allowed, even welcomed, encouraged or mandatory
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 3 months ago:
Works for me
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 3 months ago:
Shortly? It’s happening already. I notice it when using Google and Duckduckgo. There are always a few hits that are AI written blog spam word soup
- Comment on What caused the change in electronic terminology? 3 months ago:
It’s most likely as our understanding of the systems and the underlying physics have changed, so have the terminologies.
There was also the push for international standardisation of units. This probably helped push terms inline with the original discoverers terms, or were “rebranded” to honour the original/significant discoverers (or for politics or whatever).Some terms will still be used due to legacy, because it’s not worth trying to change it, or because the application is more inline with the original discovery.
The more modern terms probably refer to an improved design or different application of the same principle.
Eg a rheostat only has 2 terminals and works as a plain variable resistor, often built to handle higher power scenarios. A potentiometer uses 3 terminals and is often built for lower power scenarios.While capacitor and condenser are the same thing, capacitor is likely more popular as it relates to it’s SI unit. And it’s SI unit describes what it does, It has capacity to store charge.
Things like valves Vs tubes. Tube describes what it is: a high vacuum tube. A valve describes what it does: varies the electricity flowing through it.
However, not all valves are vacuum tubes, some can be gas filled. And not all vacuum tubes are valves, for example television tubes.A lot of this comes from multiple people developing similar things based on similar premises and applications, however all being slightly different. At the end of the day, the underlying physics is immutable, just the implementation and application changes.
And there was little-to-no communication between them, so people close to each discoverers would have used their implementation.
Sorta like Apple OSX Vs Windows. They are both desktop environment computers. But they do it in different ways to achieve the same result.
And then, all of these really useful technologies became standardised (or a clear “winner” emerged), and the terminology also became standardised.
All of which results in terms dropping out of favour