Natanox
@Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Easy choice 5 days ago:
Petrichor-lite is still preferable.
- Comment on Space is beautiful 6 days ago:
No, the light would be reflected as soon as the mirror is set up. If the mirror is set up 10 lightyears away it would take 10 years for you to see it and whatever it reflects. There already is light on the way to the position of the mirror before you set it up.
- Comment on Easy choice 6 days ago:
D. Nothing is better than petrichor.
- Comment on Space is beautiful 6 days ago:
But only after 10 years. You couldn’t see anything that wasn’t visible from the viewpoint of the mirror beforehand, as from earth’s point of view the mirror isn’t there yet. And if you’re there anyway… you can just look at Earth with the craft that’s on the position of the mirror already.
- Comment on do it cowards 1 week ago:
Perhaps it can give you a warning about that in the app. “Warning: Dingdong too long, offspring fountains in danger”
- Comment on do it cowards 1 week ago:
Of course! That health data won’t sell itself.
(The device costs 600$, and to actually get access to your data you then have to pay at least 7$ per month in subscription)
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What the fuck?
- Comment on Oh god oh fuck 3 weeks ago:
If it’s cornered it will bite. First it will flee (can’t), then it will show the rings you can see in the picture to warn predators. If it does that and you still touch it, or worse, pick it up, it will bite.
- Comment on don't look up :) 3 weeks ago:
The big fucking constellation of mirrors from Reflect Orbital sweeped over our equipment and destroyed everything. Also his eyes are now toasted.
- Comment on predatory giraffes 3 weeks ago:
I can only imagine what those huge beaks were for. Like diving from the sky at some prey, simply punching it straight through it like a huge spear.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 3 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, that system is currently being completely fucked by AI as well.
- Comment on Down in fucking front 3 weeks ago:
The audacity and inconsiderateness of this one is just baffling. Wtf is wrong with her.
- Comment on Asking for a chocaholic friend 4 weeks ago:
I had a good day, we all had good days, until you mentioned that unbearable hypocrite.
- Comment on enjoy life 4 weeks ago:
That makes 109,99€ per months for access to culture. We may or may not restrict dopamine flow further in the future to offer you new, exciting additional subscriptions. Please do not resist, you’ll love it.
- Comment on Oh nooo! 1 month ago:
As a non-native english speaker I’ve no clue what you’re trying to say brcause both sound the same, so here’s a picture of cheese.
- Comment on Oh nooo! 1 month ago:
I wonder how that dino actually looked like.
Probably like a huge chicken.
- Comment on Accessibility is important 1 month ago:
I heavily disagree. As a visual learner I need pictures. Everything is visual to me, even math, language, programming… if you give me a wall of text using abstract terms I won’t understand shit. I require graphs, visual representations, mindmaps, something.
It might not be the optimal medium for everyone (there is no universally accessible medium for anything!), but to argue that pictures make things less accessible is just plain wrong.
- Comment on Endless struggle 1 month ago:
…I mean, I really hated my time in the hospital but that was the single thing that was genuinely nice when waking up in the middle of the night. Not having to go anywhere.
- Comment on Anyone else notice this?? 2 months ago:
Not saying it’s for free once set up, that would be silly. I just like fair comparisons. 🙂 I don’t concur though that it’s more expensive though.
Heavily depends where you live of course, but in Western Europe and many other “western” nations wood / lumber has become awfully expensive with no indication of it changing, so newer homes are most likely more financially efficient to use a heatpump (especially if you’re able to also afford a few solar panels). We don’t have to fear week-long outages either (even the extremely unlikely case of a national outage like in Spain is fully resolved within 3 days), so even if you don’t have some solar panels and a small battery to power the pump the likelihood of you ever needing a fire to warm up in a new building (which are well insulated) is absurdly tiny. And those pumps really don’t need a lot of power.
Given costs for lumber and regular professional cleaning and maintenance (again, depending on where you live) I’d assume a fireplace with chimney to be at least equally expensive if not more, at least in countries with no easy access to lumber and proper regulations in place (so most of the “developed” countries, assumably). If you have proper quality studies to prove me otherwise please go ahead, it’s all just opinion so far. The only ones I know are comparisons between either heatpumps and classical heating solutions, or comparisons of CO² emitions.
- Comment on Anyone else notice this?? 2 months ago:
Makes sense if you happen to find a building with pre-existing fireplace of course (even though upkeep is still pricey depending on its construction). Face-to-face less though, adding a proper chimney during construction is also pricey and the additional income / cost-savings of PV over its lifetime will very quickly make it way superior in a direct comparison.
- Comment on Anyone else notice this?? 2 months ago:
Comparing the initial costs of one with the upkeep costs of the other surely is a way to make a bad argument sound more sensible.
- Comment on Anyone else notice this?? 2 months ago:
How about not living somewhere where this is even a possibility in the first place. 🥲 2 Weeks, wtf…
I’d also argue for solar panels / a small consumer wind turbine and a battery backup (which can power the heatpump) instead of architecture from the last millenia.
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 2 months ago:
I’ve always assumed [GTK] was specific to linux and used to make apps that look a certain way (like they were made for gnome) vs allowing you to make UIs the way you want to.
That definition more or less applies to Libadwaita, which is basically a fork of GTK4 but specifically for Gnome with lack of proper theming. However both of those Frameworks can be used on any desktop platform. It’s just not very common to be used outside of Linux.
There’s also Libadapta, a fork of Libadwaita that reintroduces theming capabilities. Both it and GTK4 can be themed with CSS, so you can very much make it look however you want. One example of something that’s GTK but absolutely doesn’t look like it would be KlipperScreen.
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 2 months ago:
That explains so, so much. Not just why everything wants to connect somewhere, but also disasters like programs with >1000 npm package dependencies. Why learning the right way if you’ve always been told to go the easy way.
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 2 months ago:
trying to do desktop apps with decent looking UIs that work across Linux/Windows/Mac is a nightmare
I’d argue that both Qt as well as GTK is right there for the taking… but those are not “industry-standard”.
- Comment on Cry cry 2 months ago:
Mmh, perhaps I lucked out or missed something. Everything looked good when I tested it.
- Comment on Cry cry 2 months ago:
Doesn’t ChatGPT also use google?
I tested this whole concept with Mistral AI. It searches the web, aggregates its findings and provides an answer highlighting potential perspectives / different answers with each one providing a link to the source URL. As much as I hate AI, it does work great that way (since the LLM doesn’t have to pull stuff out of its butt).
- Comment on Cry cry 2 months ago:
There is at least some merit to the technology for this use-case too though (doesn’t even remotely justify the energy costs though, of course). It’s one of the few things LLMs are genuinely good at since it merely requires text ingestion and to regurgitate what was ingested on some way. As long as it’s paired with proper sources (no clue how ChatGPT does it) for all claimed findings it really can be better. Obviously it’s also “better” since it circumvents all the utterly ridiculous trash we usually have to deal with (pop-ups, ads, dark patterns, registration walls, bad search algorithms etc.) which shouldn’t be used as argument.
Paired with the “Thinking” or “Reflection” feature that simulates some basic thinking process (it even enables these things to count the corrrect amount of ‘b’ in ‘blueberry’, wow!) the results are genuinely good (Disclaimer, I only ever tested that with the free tier of Mistral AI - if you really want to use this stuff at least go to them, they’re bound to EU law). I really get why it becomes so popular, and I’d lie if I said I’d never use it myself. Would still prefer if we weren’t going down this cyberpunk timeline though…
- Comment on It would get old fast 2 months ago:
Also big box stores are usually not too far away by design I’d wager. I’ve heard zoning laws caused most of the US to be a complete desert for shopping unless you have a car since everything is so centralized. Depending on the state a “secluded heaven” might very well be dozens of kilometers away from the market, right?
I can’t even imagine this… no matter where I lived so far in Germany, let it be countryside, city or at the city border, there always were small shops, kiosks and/or bakeries nearby (<1km). I can’t fathom having to drive even if I’m just craving some candy while living in what’s supposed to be a proper neighborhood.
