Zink
@Zink@programming.dev
- Comment on We dumb 4 days ago:
And for that matter, you don’t even have to pursue knowledge that will help you make money!
Taking a deep dive in some hobbies using free knowledge could very well enhance your life better than getting the masters degree and the promotion.
- Comment on Anon plays spin the bottle 2 weeks ago:
Moderation and intent are big parts of the difference too.
I don’t use 4chan but I gather that it’s a wild little corner of the internet where you can put whatever crazy shit you wish on a website that others will read, knowing what they signed up for. Basically anything goes so you get all types. You might even call it free speech absolutism.
But Twitter is actively moderated and algorithm tuned to favor a certain flavor of bias and, especially given the players involved, propaganda.
One is neutrality even in the face of humanity’s worst, and the other is actively siding with and promoting humanity’s worst.
- Comment on Anon plays spin the bottle 2 weeks ago:
I think there’s a pretty big difference between an anonymous website that lets the hateful and the edgy post whatever awful words they want, and the top down corruption of a giant established algorithm driven site used for communication around the world.
- Comment on Good to see AAFES looking out for my health 2 weeks ago:
Don’t underestimate the value of the “I’m going to wander outside for a couple minutes” break on your well being!
I’m sitting here realizing that my big hobby project of the past few years — a koi pond in my back yard — is essentially a reason to just go outside and chill.
- Comment on Brazilian's impression on the united states(i have never been there and this is based on nothing) 3 weeks ago:
Plus the “lake lovers” should probably be extended over to at least include the city that shares a name with one of those lakes. (Erie, PA)
- Comment on Just one toke! 3 weeks ago:
Well yeah. If you’re ready to kill some fool then marijuana-ing once might not be enough.
Marijuana: maybe twice or thrice!
- Comment on Give us your best infodump. 3 weeks ago:
Gotta love when the conspiracy is so stupid that it’s the people who dedicated their lives to building and spreading human knowledge are the ones keeping the knowledge away from Joe public.
You know how Trump has been called the poor person’s idea of a rich person? I’m trying to think of the caricature they use for “scientist” in their minds. Maybe a woke Joe Rogan?
- Comment on 8 yr old me after my parents did my woodworking assignment 3 weeks ago:
My plan to “do better” in my life involves being very different from him and not striving to be the more rich and powerful shithead that takes his place.
- Comment on 8 yr old me after my parents did my woodworking assignment 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately he has similar real-world experience to trump’s: Be a total shitbag and get handsomely rewarded by it in the ways he cares about. I mean why care about being a horrible husband and father when there’s money and fame to be had?
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 3 weeks ago:
Hello friend! Have you heard the Minty News?
- Comment on Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account 3 weeks ago:
Not just tech illiterate but also advertising illiterate. The regular folks I know seem happy to wade through endless platform ads and influencer sales pitches. Enshittification can really be a slowly boiling frog type scenario.
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
Sounds to me like municipalities are able and willing to use it because it’s cheap.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 4 weeks ago:
Honestly I think unfinished drywall has more personality. It’s utilitarian and rough around the edges, without the shiny surface veneer.
That new Jaguar logo is like somebody took a beautiful old house full of exposed brick and wood work and put a coating of white paint over everything.
- Comment on If Open Source is so great... 4 weeks ago:
That seems like the system working as intended. Once enough work has gone into open source projects, even the profit-driven entities see they will make more money by improving those open source projects instead of following their default plan of reinventing the wheel and keeping it proprietary and locked down.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 4 weeks ago:
I prefer adderall over caffeine, and I use mint btw.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 5 weeks ago:
I think the “more to it” might be significantly crazier than the timing thing.
Or ears have unique complex shapes that attenuate certain frequencies and bounce sound around in complex ways depending on the direction they ate coming from. And our brains instantly process all that stuff too. It’s why our sense of hearing isn’t just on a flat plane around our head.
- Comment on But yes. 5 weeks ago:
Haha exactly.
I remember thinking about science hierarchy or levels of abstraction way back in high school, but I’m glad that (like so many things) xkcd perfectly documented it.
- Comment on But yes. 5 weeks ago:
We have rocks that do math, transmit electricity, and fly us through the sky.
When you get reductive about the natural sciences it all just boils down to applied physics which is applied mathematics.
But engineering and technology? Applied geology.
(/s because I’m not going to acknowledge that geology is applied chemistry and so on)
- Comment on But yes. 5 weeks ago:
The best solar panels are getting at or above the efficiency of converting nuclear heat to electricity (about 1/3) so they probably shouldn’t get that poor efficiency label.
- Comment on But yes. 5 weeks ago:
All power is nuclear power when you keep digging, whether rocks come into play or not!
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 5 weeks ago:
Basically, 20 seconds of thought could tell anybody that this is a terrible idea.
IF the thinker is looking for a good overall policy and not just trying to stick more money in their pockets in the short term.
You expect them to cry about the working class affording food when they only have a house for three out of the four seasons of the year?
- Comment on whatcha gonna watch? 5 weeks ago:
Oh man, a friend and I were the AV crew for a while in high school in the late 90s. Basically we’d deliver these TV & VCR wheeled stands to the teachers needing them in the morning. If there wasn’t any need, we got to hang out in the equipment room instead of home room.
We got to use the elevators and even wield “the key ring” from time to time.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 month ago:
A wise man once said, If you choose not to decide, You still have made a choice
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 month ago:
also privileged people who think that a Trump presidency won’t affect them
I’m a privileged person who probably won’t be directly affected by another Trump presidency. Probably. Hopefully.
But anybody who genuinely holds that opinion, and doesn’t care what happens to everybody else, may as well just be a full-on trumper.
- Comment on US Democracy 1 month ago:
Trump still got 72 million votes and counting this time. That’s with another four years of Trump scandals, revelations, criminal charges, insurrections, mental declines, and on-video insane statements.
The people who stayed home, or the politicians who failed to motivate them, sure they carry some blame. They could have helped. But they are not the base. The ones who followed Trump from being the outsider who is fun because he’s an asshole/racist like them, to the corrupt traitorous dictator-to-be who they’d like to watch hurt people. Blame them much more.
The steady level of Trump support unfortunately supports the fear that our culture is just garbage. We’re surrounded by it. There are plenty of proud assholes, sure. But so many people will legitimately be pleasant to everybody they meet and seem to function in society, but either believe horrible things or have a thick shell of indoctrination and ignorance around their brain.
- Comment on Whelp 1 month ago:
Oh trust me, the watching with a mixture of fascination and horror is coming from inside the states too.
I wish you good luck as well. I hear the US is known to fuck around with other countries occasionally. (And that’s not supposed to sound threatening - it’s just a recognition that we fuck with other countries even during “good” administrations, never mind when we have a dictator-loving wannabe in the office)
- Comment on Eat lead 1 month ago:
And use his omnipotent power to hide from you while watching your life play out in exactly the way his omniscience let him know it would before he even created the earth or you.
- Comment on Drink it, I dare ya 1 month ago:
Bro I tried some and I was looking absolutely radiant afterwards.
- Comment on puts hair on ya chest 2 months ago:
Oh yeah, I think ITER is supposed to have a Q of like 10, so maybe they can produce a net gain system-wide.
- Comment on puts hair on ya chest 2 months ago:
I like to follow fusion news whenever I see it, and I think the situation might be even worse than you’re describing, lol.
The news about ignition and/or more energy out than in, that refers to the energy actually delivered to the sample versus the full energy released from the sample. So it doesn’t include all the energy needed to charge and fire the lasers that was lost along the way. And like you said, it’s the thermal power they’re measuring, and you lose a huge amount of that power when converting to electricity.
I think we’re still firmly in the “fusion is 20/30 years away” cycle.