kopasz7
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- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 4 weeks ago:
A modern high-end BMW can have over a hundred separate ECUs (microcontrollers). All communicating over multiple CAN and FlexRay networks. The complexity is mind boggling, just so you can have subscription based seat heating and other nonsense.
No technician on Earth will be able to debug this black box spaghetti except the manufacturer. If you try to access/reprogram one of these chips (as you should be able as you OWN the damn thing), the microcontroller has OTP (one time programmable) memory that ensures the device can physically brick itself should you try.
- Comment on PLEASE bro 4 weeks ago:
What’s next, are you going to tell me gravity waves aren’t the same as gravitational waves?
- Comment on Thats fair 1 month ago:
The adults: I learned to live with it and now it became part of my identity
The kids: this sucks! everyone’s mean to me and the world makes no sense!
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 month ago:
New road I vengence
- Comment on Morpheus Actor Laurence Fishburne Reveals He Was Turned Down for The Matrix Resurrections — So He Might Not Be Back for Matrix 5 Either - IGN 2 months ago:
That’s actually crazy to me. There must be some untold personal reason.
- Comment on cherry pickers 3 months ago:
What’s a vakker?
- Comment on Science has not gone far enough 3 months ago:
What does a pillow like that look like? Got a pic?
- Comment on Gottem. :) 4 months ago:
We are in “free fall” around the Sun so that’s why we don’t feel its pull of gravity.
You would similarly feel weightless if you were in an orbit around Earth.
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 4 months ago:
Remember having to use (a modified version of?) quincy for C. Trying to paste anything would put random characters into your file.
Still beats programming on paper.
- Comment on A bit rubbery... 4 months ago:
Ice crystals can and do rupture cells. But it’s not a good method to disinfect as a lot depends on the freezing rate resulting in different crystal sizes.
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 4 months ago:
No, you just get a new set growing in the gums.
- Comment on I guess we are fucked now 4 months ago:
Space is emerging faster than it can transmit changes. This is why no light can reach us beyond the observable universe.
- Comment on Steam has the best UI 5 months ago:
There is a scaling factor for the GUI (by default it checks your monitor’s DPI).
- Comment on A delicate balance 5 months ago:
As hard as it may be to believe, I can’t eat metaphysics for put a roof above my head with it. Even Plato didn’t sit on perfect abstract chairs or ate abstract apples.
- Comment on A delicate balance 5 months ago:
If I mix water and cement there is a distribution of the two, a ratio if you will. Just because statistics deals with distributions (of probabilities for example) doesn’t mean all distributions are in the field of statistics.
I’ll leave it at that.
- Comment on A delicate balance 5 months ago:
Depends on the type of distribution too. In some discrete cases there isn’t a mean value. A binary choice for example has no applicability of the golden mean. Like a two party system. If neither represents your values, you can only choose the one that mostly does. Which is not the optimal outcome, just the local maxima.
The golden mean argument also assumes that there is only one good soulution, where multiple equally good ones can exist too.
- Comment on A delicate balance 5 months ago:
While I agree that most things require a compromise of two extremes, it is also important to acknowledge how they could result in worse outcomes.
Eg 1: You are sick; the doctor prescribes antibiotics. But you have some concerns about them so you only take it until you feel better.
But now the pathogen is still there, and it will rebound with new strength. (there’s also a chance it becomes resistant due to selective pressure and its survival)
Eg 2: Compromise of democracy and authoritarian state. Those countries’ governments tend to be more stable and enduring that are either of the two, but not a middle of the road. This is why the reansition from one to the other is usually turbulent as well.