Aceticon

@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know. Somehow, I've always known.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Luke was a late bloomer whilst Anakin was a child genious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name this Paper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess that’s one way to measure the calories of a cracker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current events dictate that I post this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember boys and girls, if the bomb falls from the sky either from a plane or ridding the nosecone of a missile or is shot from the barrel of a tank it’s not Terrorism, it’s only Terrorism if it’s otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fr🤮nch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, to be fair, not having a proper appreciation for terroir is just barbaric.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨he forgor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Access to entry level positions is pretty fucked up in this because whilst experts will recognized expertise, for anything but smaller companies candidates get filtered out by HR and those people have no fucking clue what expertise outside their domain looks like, so they use proxies for it such as “stamp of approval from higher education institution” so in big companies the candidates without such stamps of approval (or a pre-existing insider contact) never actually get to be evaluated by the domain experts who can recognize that expertise.

  That said, if a candidate don’t have at least some domain expertise (so, neither formal study nor having done anything in that area in their free time), sorry but somebody who has actually had the discipline to attend a learning institution and enough capability and domain knowledge to actually passed their exams and graduated is way more likely to be at least decent at it (no guarantee, but the odds are much better) than a random person who never did either. It’s only fair that if you haven’t invested in learning it in some way or other (not necessarily college) you’re not going be seen at the same level as somebody who has actually invested in learning that domain.

  It’s only naturally that some kind of expertise validation system for candidates emerges for any kind of domain were some level of expertise is required and as things stand now in most such domains at the entry level that’s colleges (which, IMHO, are better than cronyism-heavy “know somebody who knows somebody” systems), though in many domains something lighter and cheaper (some kind of cheaper test-only option) would probably be better (or, alternativelly, do as it’s done in civilized countries and have higher education be Public, so cheaper or even free).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨he forgor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also having attended college and actually successfully passed its knowledge tests and graduated proves that you have both the discipline and mental capability for certain jobs.

  I’m in software development and have been part of the process of hiring people and from the point of view of an employer, for a candidate to an entry level position that college diploma is an indicator that the person in question has the knowledge and capabilities to do that kind of job.

  Mind you, in my area fortunatelly there are other ways to indicate that - for example, having participated in Open Source projects or, even better, having your own Open Source project with actual users that you’ve had to support (which in my view can put somebody above somebody else who merelly has a college diploma) - though that’s generally only for smaller companies since large ones will have HR filter candidates before the ever reach the actual domain experts and HR can’t judge skill like that and instead will go for “big formal stamp of approval” shit.

  That said, the college diploma stops being important after junior level, unless it’s one from a handful of very prestigious institutions and even then it won’t work on domain experts, only non-expert manager types.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here.

  The whole things has a massive “grift” vibe, especially given that they’re double dipping since supporters of their “Game preservation efforts” still have to pay for those games.

  Happy to keep on buying games from them in preference to from Steam, some even from the “Good old game” bucket, just not willing to assume a monthly monetary commitment to some black-box “trust us” which feels a lot like the “Charity as a business” shit from the most sleazy “charities” out there (you know the kind: the ones with CEOs paid massive salaries and were only a small fraction of contributions actually ends up in the charitable objective).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumerism ahhhhh moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also later in time one is making a choice for a kind of product one doesn’t usually buy, one might have forgotten their dislike for a brand due to their excessive use of advertising and yet their subconscious is still giving them a feeling of familiarity when they see that brand’s name on a product which makes it more likely that they’ll chose it over other options that don’t feel as familiar.

  Most advertising nowadays is meant to affect subconscious impulses which will do their thing with no cognitive effort, whilst the position the OP holds (and which I myself try to) is conscious and requires cognitive effort to maintain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gottem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People can be idiots for forming a firm belief that something can be bad for them when all evidence and expert opinion contradicts it, even whilst due to the nocebo effect that firm belief leads to them trully feeling bad.

  There isn’t idiocy in feeling actual effects due to nothing else than a placebo or nocebo effect from than a strongly held belief, whilst there can be idiocy in the way one gains a belief so strong was that it actually triggers one of those effects.

  So the example given by the previous poster does seem to fit a situation of people who are indeed idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spending⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One word: Cash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We live in the future!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Surelly it’s at minimum a post about shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESL homework⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think in all countries with universal Education, at highschool level and even earlier there are classes for native speaking kids covering readind and writting in and later knowledge of things like formal grammatical structure and such for the local language, so it makes sense to distinguish classes aimed at foreigners to learn the local language from the ground up from classes aimed at local kids who already know how instinctivelly how to speak it.

  So “<Local-Language> as a Second Language” is a valid name, if a bit presumptuous sounding (it makes it sound as if that’s the second most important language one speaks). In other countries I’ve more often seen “<Local-Language> for Non-Native Speakers” or similar, never calling it a second language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, a USB standard that can provide the data AND power requirements of a city.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “The massive ceramic connector and 10 inch thick cable immediatelly make obvious that the USB-D connector has been designed from the ground up to be able to power the latest generation of Graphics Card”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Start-up idea⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Worry not, some of what’s perfectly fine nowadays will eventually be forbidden because how harmful it is for people, from micro-plastics that are being found even in men’s gonads to the excessive amounts of nitrous oxides emitted by diesel engine that kill over ten thousand people per year in Europe alone.

  We probably still breathe and eat a lot of highly carcinogenic shit, just different shit from back in the days when asbestos was considered a great fire-proof substance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IMHO, the almost idolatry of the Constitution in the US meant that a what’s essentially a Prototype of Modern Democracy kept getting used without a systemic update for too long and was essentially relying on everybody being a gentleman to work.

  Personally the whole part were the Political Pillar being in charge of nominating the top of the Judicial Pillar - the Supreme Court Judges - even though in Democracy those Pillars are supposed to be independent, always felt like a major weakness in the face of Authoritarian encroaching, as did the First Past The Post voting system.

  That’s the point I’m trying to make: the flaws in the American system are systemic, making it more easy from autoritarians (not just Trump’s Fascists but also the Oligarchy that stands behind both the Republicans and the Democrats) to control it.

  The main difference with the Fascists is how brazen then are in doing so, which the other bunch would be far more discrete (hence which the Prison population in the US was already so large under the “other” political party of the US Duopoly system).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  suppress wages in prison workshops, and exempt them from minimum wage

  And how is that in any way form or shape a good thing?

  That shit is just Indentured Servitude with extra steps.

  It seems to me (not at American) that the intention to exploit people who have no other choice was there from the start. Create a structure were you can get cheap/free labor of people who have been deemed by others to be LABEL (in this case, a felon) and deprived of their freedom and you always end up with more and more people being given LABEL and deprived of their freedom so that the can be used as cheap/free labor.

  The United States has long been the nation in the World with the highest percentage of people in prison.

  The well was poisoned from the very start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This crap predates MAGA by a long long time - after all, as somebody else pointed out, the 13th Ammendment of the US constitution explicitly allows slavery for those convicted of crimes.

  Obviously MAGA is going to abuse the shit out of this, but this kind of infrastructure for Fascism has long been in place and was already used even before MAGA was a twinkling in the eyes of whatever Koch Brother’s Funded Think Tank employee who came up with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All it takes is a water pipe painted black zigzagging inside a box which is black inside and has the sun facing side replaced by glass.

  You can get hot water from something like that even in Winter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mate, I have a Masters in Electronics Engineering and a partial degree in Physics.

  You’re either confusing some other application with what I was talking about - the emitters used in LED light bulbs - or you mentally over-generalized something you heard to a domain where it doesn’t apply or used it out of context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, even cheap microcontrollers nowadays with support for clock functionality have an ultra low power mode were the only thing running is the clock crystal and the clock functionality which uses so little power that it can run for years from such a button battery.

  The thing could do the same as my stupidly cheap alarm clock that has some batteries as power backup and just keep on counting time without displaying whilst mains power is down so that when mains power comes back up it still has the right time.

  The extra $1 for the hardware needed for it is hardly going to matter next to the overal cost of anything but a stupidly cheap microwave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a stupidly cheap microwave which I bought a few years ago (because I moved homes and the last one, a rental, included a microwave) and it has no clock.

  In fact, it doesn’t even have the simplest of displays - it has one analog rotary control for power and another for microwaving time, the latter rotating back by itself at a fixed speed.

  Sometimes simpler is better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The definition of “crime” is pretty much controlled by a small number of people: It ain’t a crime if there’s no law against it.

  Always remember that the mass murder of Jews and Roma in NAZI Germany wasn’t a crime because it was all legal. Similarly, Slavery wasn’t a crime in most of the World, and even today in many countries, such as the US some forms of it (for example using prisioners as forced labour) aren’t a crime.

  We’ve been indoctrinated into in everyday speech conflate Legality with Morality (as its very useful for those who control lawmaking for the riff-raff to unthinkingly shun those deemed law-breakers and side with law-enforcers), so IMHO it’s a good idea to, once in a while, remind oneself that Laws are made by Humans, not Gods, and the reasons for Humans to make Laws as they are, are messy and the results themselves are often bad and easy to selectivelly interpret and abuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A common trope of this kind of “Press” in the UK was (no idea if still is, as I left Britain some years ago) the “many generations of the same family living on benefits (i.e social security)”, which was part to greater far-right picture they very purposefully painted of poor people as leeches.

  Somebody actual went and researched it and found out that in the whole of Britain - home to over 40 million people - there was a grand total of 3 families with 3 generations living on benefits, 4 if you count the massive stippend the Royal family gets from the British state as “benefits”, though they’re filthy rich and don’t actually need it.

  A common schitck of the far-right propaganda to selects a handful of people who are assholes and happen to be part of a social group said far-right wishes to slander and point them out as if they’re representative of whole group. They do this for everybody, not just immigrants and it’s not just them doing it: for example, notice how news coverage of demonstrations from some News organisations tends to focus of the handful of people destroying things rather than on the majority who are behaving peacefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A phospor absorbs the incoming light and then uses it as power for its own emission process, in a processes called “fluorescence” rather than “filtering”. It’s a very efficient process because almost all of the light coming absorbed by the fluorescent material ends up used to emit light.

  A filter just cuts out (literally “filters out”) things other than what it’s supposed to let through. Filters just block stuff and thus cannot have on their output anything that’s not present on their input. Further, filtering can be very inefficient because everything that the filter doesn’t let through just ends up as waste heat.

  Filtering doesn’t make any sence for light emitted by a diode junction because that specific light emission process emits light of a single wavelength - it’s a totally different process from incandescence, which only emits photons whose energy exactly matches a specific quantum gap in that junction, hence all have the exact same wavelength so there are no other wavelengths to filter out and if you filter out that specific wavelength no light at all goes through because there’s nothing else there.

  Calling a phospor a “filter” is like calling a system with a solar panel connected to a green LED a “filter” - sure, the spectrum of the light coming in is not the same as that of the light going out, but that’s pretty much the only way the thing behaves the same as a filter - it does not share any of the other characteristics of a filter.

  Anybody with a Physics or Engineering background will react the same as me when somebody describes a fluorescent material in front of a light source “a filter” because per the scientific and engineering definitions “fluorescence” is not at all the same as “filtering”.

  Whatever source you learned information about LED lights from, it’s really bad and shows no domain expertise, which is probably why you ended up with some things right in your explanations and others horribly wrong. If I was to guess, I would say that you “learned” it from AI, as getting the general stuff mostly right and the domain expertise details incredibly wrong is a common problem of AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not even close to reality.

  Read the material linked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here are the LED drop voltages for reference.

  LEDs aren’t just more efficient at those voltages, those are literally the difference in voltage between one side of the LED and the other side when in operation - if you feed it less than that the LED will simply not work. (Note that these drop voltages are not actually an absolute value but rather a very steep curve relative to current, but for simplification we can treat those as absolute ON/OFF voltage values).

  Also the phosphor doesn’t filter light - rather it absorbs light and re-emits it in different wavelengths, the process being such that the emitted light covers a range of wavelengths even if the input light has a single wavelength as is the case for LEDs - so it’s not at all light manipulation by filtering and mixing light sources.

  That said I went looking at how phosphor is used in LEDs nowadays and judging from this they don’t use red LEDs emitters at all nowadays, only blue and UV ones, and then chose a phosphor (which can be any substance, not just Phosphorous) whose emission range is towards the desired light range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I read last time I properly looked into this (so, almost a decade ago when I was considering setting up a business importing LED lamps), the blue light emitting diode junction simply uses less power to emit the same amount of light.

  Electrically speaking it’s no bigger or lesser a problem in terms of circuitry to have just blue diodes or blue + red diodes in there since they’re bundled in blocks of diodes in series (and then multiple blocks are in parallel) and the only thing that differs between those two kinds of junctions from a circuit point of view is the drop voltage of one kind of diode being different from that of the other (diode junctions done with different dopants have different drop voltages), something you take into account in the design stage when deciding how many LED diodes you use per block or what DC voltage will your 110v/220V AC input be converted to.

  More specifically for LED light bulbs, the messy stuff in terms of electronics is the circuitry that converts the 220v/110v AC input into a lower voltage DC suitable for the LEDs whilst limiting the current (as diodes only ability to “limit” current is them burning out from overheating due to too much current), not the actual LEDs.

  But I’ll put it even simpler: if the problem was indeed simplicity as you believe, then LED bulbs with only red LEDs would also be very common as they’re simpler than blue+red ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I just go for warm white for places which should be cozy and cold white for places with a more utilitarian use.

  Cold white LED light bulbs are actually more efficient, so I’ll even get more light out of the same power lamp making it easier to see what I’m doing (which is what you generally need lights for in an utilitarian use location).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a side note, the reason why cold white LED light bulbs are a thing is because they’re a bit more efficient than warmer light colors.

  The reason is because they all just have 2 kinds of light emiting diode (LED) junctions inside - red and blue - plus a phosphorus layer on top that smooths those two perfect lightwave color peaks in the wavelength domain into a broader light spectrum, and the blue is more efficient than the red, so lamps with a higher proportion of blue emitters to red emitters - and which hence emit more light towards the blue end of the spectrum (i.e. a colder white) - will emit more light for the same power consuption than those with more red emitters and hence whose light is more towards the red side of the spectrum (i.e. a warmer white).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Curry is the greatest dish of English cuisine.