DomeGuy
@DomeGuy@lemmy.world
- Comment on How come it seems the transfer rate from an hard drive to usb is noticably slower? But a usb to usb is incredibly fast? 2 days ago:
There are four things that matter for transfer speed between storage devices.
- How fast the source reads
- How fast the target writes
- How fast the bits can be moved between them
- What post-write nonsense is done.
USB sticks tend to be flash memory with relatively equal read and write speeds, but the spinning disks in a hard disk drive are noticeably unequal. So, unless the USB is very slow, you’d expect a USB to HDD copy to be slower than either USB to USB or HDD to USB.
You can also be slowed down by antivirus scans, on-disk encryption, search indexing, or even the need to move bits from the USB bus to the HDD controller.
- Comment on Looking for some advice please single father 4 days ago:
Assuming you’re in New York, pick up a phone and call 211.
Any civilized area of the world will have similar avenue of at least temporary support available for the newly unemployed with children to feed.
Unfortunately, a lot of the world isnt civilized, including much of the United States.
- Comment on Why would a drug dealer kill their rich "client"? 5 days ago:
Because drug dealers are people who couldn’t get better jobs. Which suggests they aren’t quite as competent as the lawyers and plumbers and bodyguards who also on occasion kill their rich clients, leading to having a higher rate of the economically unsound activity.
Plus growing up rich is apparently a disability that can get you off a rape charge, so the rich kids are more likely to do the things that you’d kill them over, and drug dealers are more likely to be armed and willing to kill than pizza dealers.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 5 days ago:
For a real revolution we also need 218 house members and 67 senators (out of the current totals of 435 and 100).
Could possibly get by with 50 senators plus the VP if all could be counted on to pass the necessary court reform.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 5 days ago:
Regardless of your politics, you need to vote for the best result in the system we have.
In the “first past the post” single-ballot-plurality-wins contests that dominate in America, anything but a vote for the runner up is an endorsement of the eventual winner.
For most Americans, the only real choices in the general elections are “R”, “D”, and “either”.
- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
Trying to push the narrative to focus on 2010 games feels a bit like moving the goalposts,
Why? Isn’t the comparable expectation for consideration of what high-end phones ten years from now could do with a six-year old game to ask what today’s high-end phones can do with sixteen year old games?
Moore’s Law was always a marketing gimmick, but progression of information technology has been a rather steady cycle of “next year’s model will be even better” that it strikes me as a good starting point.
- Comment on Possibility of translating the messages of dogs, cats, and other pets 2 weeks ago:
I’m very confident that when my cats meow they are always saying a variant of “hooomaaaan!”
They’re like little eternally drunk roommates who walk around naked and are way too touchy for a household with children.
- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
Cyberpunk came out in 2020. Are there games from 2010 that you would be surprised to see running af full speed on a high-end smartphone?
- Comment on After 9/11 America was afraid of a Improvised Nuclear Something made out of used uranium. How would that work? Just get a piece of dynamite and some nuke dust and light the dynamite? 2 weeks ago:
It’d kinda work, but not so well with uranium itself.
(A bunch of other atomic age materials like plutonium are radioactivley deadlier.)
The real goal of terrorism is to make people afraid, so they either change behavior or exert political pressure on their government to change behaviour. It doesn’t often work, often backfires, and when it does on occssion work we tend to stop calling the guys who set the bombs as terrorists.
- Comment on Even if we found a feasible way through physics to travel through time, wouldn't it still be impossible due to the evolution of bacteria and our immune systems? 2 weeks ago:
You are largely resistant to the black plauge, though, if you’re of European descent. It killed a bunch of people when it initially evolved, but never really went away. The humans who survied had modest resistance and adopted social habits that were both passed on to their kids. (Nowadays it’s a simple course of antibiotics)
Your larger point stands, though, since part of the end of any pandemic is the overly effective pathogen succumbing to the evolutionary pressure to not kill the host, since the bacteria that infects living animals does terrible when those animals die.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire 2 weeks ago:
Unless the cost of buying an equivalent version of CoD is more than $82 you can just do that and still save money.
- Comment on How do I drink more water? 2 weeks ago:
Echoing this:
Being dehydrated has real and generally unpleasant symptoms which drinking water alleviates. Dehyrdation is not just when your urine has a color.
If you have to go #1 on a regular basis, you’re probably not dehydrated.
- Comment on What happened to the Dem Party in America? It's kind of like once Kamala lost, which they deserved, and lost congress. They ran like a dog with its tail between its legs instead of fighting? 3 weeks ago:
My guess is that you really just aren’t paying attention. Possibly because right-wing oligarchs keep buying traditional news rooms and turning them into weak propaganda factories.
Without control of even a single chamber of Congress the
DemocratsAmerican Left has managed to:- Expand their state court lead in Wisconsin
- Stop a bevy of abuse and chicainery by going to court.
- Pickup control of Virginia, and get right to making that state better
- Dominate in special elections to such an extent that a “blue wave” seems entirely achievable
- Pick an actual Socialist for NYC mayor instead of a cop or sex pest, who is doing a great job by any metric
- In Congress shut down the entire government and get the most out of any such shutdown in our nation’s history
- Shutdown DHS to the point that the right caved to their demand to segregate ICE and non-ICE parts of the agency
Democrats and the rest of the left are fighting. But because the basic rules of American federalism and rule of law are still mostly being followed, that fighting is done by traditional peaceful channels rather than through violence.
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- Comment on Talk like an 👽 4 weeks ago:
Space launches via catapult are entirely possible on earth. We don’t do it mostly because the engineering scale is dramatically larger, not because of how we math.
The laws of physics seem to be consistent throughout our universe, so any claim that an alien race could travel through space without math is what skeptics call “an extraordinary claim”.
I dont really see how a contrarian “what if they’re just too weird” stance is even helpful in a discussion about why math is the closest thing we have to a universal language. If an alien civilization is too weird to grok math, I dont see how we’d ever be able to communicate with them at all.
- Comment on Talk like an 👽 4 weeks ago:
If the aliens have godlike powers I think we can presume that they would either be smart enough to figure us out or else weird enough that talking to them isn’t worthwhile.
Literally every civilization we have ever encountered evidence of has math and language. If an alien has neither, and is not smart enough to figure us out, then they’re likely not the sort we could communicate with on even the scale of our communication with plants and insects.
- Comment on Talk like an 👽 4 weeks ago:
The sun is the big one. What we call “visible light” is just the band of the em spectrum right around Sol’s peak. A larger\hotter star would have that band shifted dramatically bluer, while a smaller/colder star would be redder.
- Comment on Talk like an 👽 4 weeks ago:
For instance, what if they don’t have the concept of symbolic representation of objects/concepts in visual/auditory ways?
Then how did they manage space travel?
Rocket science demands math. You can’t get to orbit if you can’t figure out both the rocket equation, orbital dynamics, and sufficient chemistry to power your launch engine. And you don’t even realize that orbit is a thing if you don’t have enough math to realize that the lights in the sky are things you might be able to stand on.
We have sapient non-human life right here on earth that doesn’t have the concept of writing. And since they don’t they didn’t build cities or civilization and we keep them in zoos and nature preserves.
- Comment on Talk like an 👽 4 weeks ago:
If a spacefaring race is so utterly alien they don’t even have a concept of counting how did they manage space travel?
And, like I said, math only works for the (presumably large) subset of aliens we could eventually talk to.
- Comment on Talk like an 👽 4 weeks ago:
Counting is kind of basic. From one-two-three you can get fairly quicky to yes-no, and then comparisons, and with yes/no/more/less/same you have enough to fuzzle out whatever squak gigors.
Aliens we could talk to at all wouldn’t be cthulu or q. They would live in the same basic reality we do, with entropy and gravity and the same elemetnts and stars. (They WOULD likely see different colors than we do, unless their sun was the same temperature as Sol and their planet the same size as earth)
- Comment on How would I even start an investigation into my states use of marijuana money? How to keep it covert with gathering alot of info? And find freinds in power to help me out. 4 weeks ago:
Money is fungible. $1 from pot tax, lottery tax, or DMV fee spends the same in the general ledger, and any pretense to the otherwise is just make believe.
(If your state implements a lottery “for education” and raises $10 million, the near immediate result is reducing general fund outlay to education by $10 million.)
- Comment on can i still consider myself to be a valid asexual? 5 weeks ago:
Sexualities are only useful as options on the dating app.
Whether you describe yourself as “asexual” or “demisexual” (or "straight’ or “gay”) only matters when you’re looking for a new partner and need to choose how much “what do you mean by that” you want to put up with.
- Comment on How come Dish Network or other satelite services. Do not allow you to create a playlist? Like if I record 5 different episodes of Sunday Morning why cant I just put it on play and it goes thru each? 5 weeks ago:
In FOSS you’re paying with your time and plausible feedback / contributions.
- Comment on All Social Medias Track Urls 5 weeks ago:
Social media sites live as advertising vehicles. Being able to show numbers related to users showing links helps them sell advertisements.
It’s reportedly why Bluesky redirects links in the app to a referrer – so websites can see how much traffic they get from there and have a reason to post on the network.
Whether or not this is a good thing, and how much tracking is acceptable, is an entirely separate discussion. (Which should really include words like “I regularly donate to my Lemmy instance” or their equivalent…)
- Comment on Has society or scientists ever solved definitively the Chicken and the Egg theory? Or is it just like a whose on first thing? 5 weeks ago:
It’s not so much a philosophical challenge as a grammatical question.
Was the egg that the very first chicken hatched from a chicken egg, even though it was laid by a non-chicken?
If I waved a scientifically-advanced biotech wand and impregnated a chicken with a small dinosaur, would the resultant egg be a chicken egg even though a dinosaur came out?
- Comment on How did carrier pigeons know who to deliver letters to? 5 weeks ago:
I think you underestimate how long a telegram can be.
Not everyone who sent telegrams was as poor as Victor Hugo inquiring about the English sales of Les Miserables by sending a single '?"
- Comment on Why is us rail travel so expensive? 5 weeks ago:
This is really dependent on how many people are taking the same trip you are.
There’s a rail line that goes very regularly between my state capital and my state’s eponymous megacity. (And more along the entire corridor on south to the national capital). If it’s just one or two adults doing that trip it’s cheaper to ride the rail, since the two round-trip tickets cover gas, fuel, tolls, parking, and depreciation. Not so if it’s enough people to fill the car.
- Comment on Are there any open source word processors that have AI integration? 5 weeks ago:
I misremembered. The last one I looked into isnt FOSS, but is thick with AI.
- Comment on Are there any open source word processors that have AI integration? 5 weeks ago:
LibreOffice is sick with LLM plugins, and at least one FOSS word processor that I looked into as a word alternative advertised a thick AI integration.
- Comment on Is it "weird" for kids to co-sleep with parents through their teenage years? 1 month ago:
You literally said you have a mental health issue (seperation anxiety) and asked if an unusual household habit might be a contributing cause.
Going to a therapist is definitely worth considering.