kata1yst
@kata1yst@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Uninvited pool guest 7 hours ago:
No lies detected
- Comment on Uninvited pool guest 8 hours ago:
I mean, I’m a cis/straight male, but that’s a beautiful man.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US name this state? Are they stupid? 3 weeks ago:
The fact that Michigan gets Isle Royale too boils my blood as a Minnesotan.
- Comment on Can I put a cold oxygen plasma generator in my fridge? 3 weeks ago:
Especially because, if this is the device I think it is, it’s an ozone generator, which are even more oxidizing than the normal O^2.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
What’s on your mind?
- Comment on NEW RESTAURANT 5 weeks ago:
Imagine when a titanosaur died.
- Comment on Geneticists 2 months ago:
Are ya p-hacking, son?
- Comment on Anon ups his fibre intake 2 months ago:
Gondor calls for aid
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 2 months ago:
I mean, effectively superdeterminism’s natural conclusion is that time is an illusion.
But turning this back on itself, what’s the proposed mechanism for quantum wave collapse at superluminal speeds?
Our understanding is fundamentally flawed, but thankfully the math works!
- Comment on Anon's split personality 2 months ago:
Believe it or not, straight to therapy.
- Comment on Beyond All Reason, a free and open source RTS gets a big visual overhaul 3 months ago:
And Supreme Commander, yes. Kind of a mashup.
- Comment on Winning 3 months ago:
There’s definitely some physical manifestations of your strongest emotions. Strong feelings of fear or anger trigger musclular reactions in your belly, strong feelings of anxiety or tension in your neck, love and contentment in your chest, etc.
Perhaps they were trying to find those physical connections to gauge the emotion or intensity?
- Comment on Chocobo 4 months ago:
Well that’s true if you have a live animal producing your meat. Not sure that applies if the meat is lab grown though?
- Comment on Chocobo 4 months ago:
100% they absolutely were.
Give geneticists 20 years, we’ll have lab grown T-Rex in the grocery store
- Comment on AMD confirms security vulnerability in every Zen 1 to Zen 5 processor 4 months ago:
I apologize for being glib.
Agreed, shouldn’t affect performance. But also depends on how they see best to patch the vulnerability. The microcode patch mechanism is the currently understood vector, but might not be the only way to exploit the actual underlying vulnerability.
I remember the early days of Spectre when the mitigation was “disable branch prediction”, then later they patched a more targeted, performant solution in.
- Comment on AMD confirms security vulnerability in every Zen 1 to Zen 5 processor 4 months ago:
no performance change
You must be new here.
Joking. But seriously, on Linux you can bypass mitigations with basically no security impact if you’re not a cloud provider and get a significant performance boost.
- Comment on Rock Identification 5 months ago:
Better method:
Walk up to geologist, hand them a rock
“Look at this cool agate I found!”
Where “agate” is substituted for any obviously incorrect identification.
- Comment on Jonathan Majors has addressed the rumors he'll return as Kang in the MCU and revealed that Kevin Feige didn't respond to the letter he sent him shortly after his trial 5 months ago:
Idris Elba played Heimdall.
- Comment on Snap, Crackle, Transubstantiate 6 months ago:
Turns out that bastard was made of microplastics.
- Comment on Snap, Crackle, Transubstantiate 6 months ago:
Imagine chewing on a thin slice of Styrofoam.
- Comment on Antique razor ID help 6 months ago:
But it does have a valid Gillette stamp code on it. It may just be a Frankenstein.
- Comment on Antique razor ID help 6 months ago:
The head looks authentic to me. Very common to replace the handle of a 3 piece razor if the handle breaks or to make it look different. Lots of companies were making compatible parts.
But it might be another Gillette handle there just aren’t good pictures of on the Internet, they made a lot.
- Comment on Antique razor ID help 6 months ago:
Yep, the head is a Gillette Old Type from 1910.
badgerandblade.com/…/US_Gillette_Dating_Informati…
I’m having a lot of trouble identifying the handle though, those older Gillettes almost always had knurling on the bottom… www.mr-razor.com/Rasierer/Old Type/Old Type.htm
- Comment on Humans included* 7 months ago:
Unless we can find a way to regularly exceed the speed of light… Not directly.
But Von Neumann probes might be the most efficient method of mass murder ever conceived!
- Comment on 8 months ago:
I mean, it’s incredibly subjective.
Personally I’m more a fan of material, but it isn’t without it’s faults.
- Comment on Steamy 8 months ago:
Oh no argument here with that point at all, that’s a fine perspective and observation. Classification is necessary, but nuance and patience when dealing with the gray areas between are too.
My initial point was just poking fun at the mess poor astronomers have to deal with. It being one of the oldest natural sciences and all it has a bigger mess than most.
- Comment on Steamy 8 months ago:
I’m afraid you are arguing with the simplified non-scientific definitions. Did you think I was making the complexity up? The reality of our classification system is a mess, like most classification systems, since nature doesn’t care what labels we attach.
- The scientific definition of an asteroid is actually a combination of several factors, including where the asteroid resides (inside Jupiter’s orbit? A Trojan? A Greek?), it’s size, it’s composition (just basically not entirely icy), and it’s historical origin. This gets exceptionally complex when you take into account and icy body in the asteroid belt (we know of many), a comet that has burned off it’s ice, an ejected asteroid in strange orbits, an asteroid orbiting a planet (see Mars’ moons), a body that otherwise meets criteria as an asteroid that is larger than the other asteroids (Ceres etc)… Generally scientists today don’t use ‘asteroid’ in technical writing, they prefer ‘minor planet’.
- The scientific definition of meteor/meteoroid/meteorite means that any body can become a meteor if it’s in the right conditions, but it’ll still be a meteoroid/comet/asteroid/moon/dwarf planet too. It’s nearly useless as a set of definitions, especially when the meanings of the same words have changed consistently since the founding of modern astronomy.
- A comets definition, like that of an asteroid, is actually tied to its location (oort cloud? Kuiper belt? elliptical orbit? Stable orbit past Jupiter? Currently orbiting a planet? Currently close enough to the sun?), speed (influences if it can form a coma), temperature (influences if it can form a coma), composition (influences if it can form a coma), historical origin (oort cloud? Kuiper belt?). It’s another definition rarely used by scientists outside scientific communication because it lacks a firm foundation to stand on.
- Comment on Steamy 8 months ago:
Nature doesn’t care about our silly label system.
And it is a very silly label system, decided mostly by people who didn’t fully understand what they were observing. Ask an astronomer to explain the differences asteroid vs meteor vs comet vs dwarf planet and see what dirty looks you get in response.
Long story short, it’s going to involve Venn diagrams, classification on multiple traits that can change over time, classification on multiple traits we don’t fully understand, and a lot of historical figures making arbitrary choices in their writing.
- Comment on Here are the patents Nintendo and the Pokémon Company are suing Palworld about, according to Pocketpair 9 months ago:
If those are the only 3 items they’re suing over, in an American court of law it’d be a slam dunk for PocketPair. Theres so much prior art, open use, and poor definitions involved the patents would be quickly invalidated.
But I’m not aware of the nuance of Japanese court, only that they tend to protect IP even more strongly than US courts.
- Comment on Trump's eligibility 9 months ago:
It sounds straightforward until it’s used as a weapon by the sitting administration to prevent competition at the ballot box.