Onomatopoeia
@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Apparently there are stupid questions
- Comment on $130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year 1 day ago:
Don’t worry, they’ll just build elsewhere that wants the tax basis.
- Comment on How do I remove this printing that transferred from my dish washing gloves onto my cabinet door?? 2 days ago:
Try Goo Gone (not Goof Off - that’s really strong, and while it would wok, it removes coatings too).
- Comment on AMD changes rules, denies researcher $10,000 bounty after taking 124 days to patch security flaw 2 days ago:
And simply paid they guy out of appreciation.
I generally support the model we’ve had for. Bug disclosure - it’s about preventing zero days which protects the users of these products.
But for AMD stuff now, go ahead and sell your discoveries, let the zero-days ruin AMDs marketing.
- Comment on CNN hosts shocked to discover that World Cup tourists think the South is welcoming 2 days ago:
Having traveled for work for a decade and enjoying driving around the country too, I’ve visited more states than I haven’t visited, and people are essentially welcoming everywhere - it just looks different in Philly than in Souix Falls, SD.
That these morons think otherwise just exposes their own ignorance and bigotry.
- Comment on Today I got 2 IDE adapters. One doesn't fit together with Molex, another is an aspiring fire starter. 4 days ago:
I do some shady stuff to my own gear, but holy cow they sold it like this??
- Comment on Bright City Lights Might Be Making Your Allergies Worse 5 days ago:
That’s not what I said at all.
Every time I go read studies, these useless “mores” really are meaningless, to the point of being deceptive.
Tell you what, go do a deep dive on Blood Pressure medication efficacy - turns out they don’t really do what they claim. And then dig into the safety - also turns out they cause as much harm as good.
Example: it takes medicating 33 people for 5 years to prevent a single cardiac event. That’s sixty thousand doses of a medication that carries a non-trivial risk of kidney failure (about 0.8 kidney failures in that same time frame).
Not exactly a convincing result.
- Comment on What does the word data mean per se ? 1 week ago:
To tack on to this:
SMS requires practically no transmission cost, as it is embedded in an unassigned portion of the frames being sent between the phone and tower - frames which are always being sent anyway for keep-alive, registration, etc. There’s some infrastructure required (SMS gateway, network to other cell companies) so it’s not completely a sunk cost for them.
MMS historically worked the same way, just the media was base-64 encoded, and required an http server to temporarily host the media files for the person you were sending to.
Begin the age of the smart phone and data plans - now MMS are sent via the data connection because it’s much faster and doesn’t consume voice channel time, leaving more voice channels available for voice calls.
Today SMS is still largely sent the old way, but with 4G the connection is completely different (it doesn’t use the same framing), so effectively it’s being sent via the data connection.
Voice is generally no longer via a voice channel, but really VOIP - vendors have pushed for voice-over-data since the beginning of 4G (I think LTE doesn’t even have voice channels anymore, 5G definitely doesn’t - it’s all essentially VOIP).
This is all from memory, so may not be spot on.
- Comment on What was the internet like before Y2K happened ? 1 week ago:
Bandwidth is akin to number of lanes on an interstate, latency is how long it takes each car to go from point A to B (or X, or wherever you’re measuring to).
Technically, bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in a continuous band of frequencies. It is typically measured in unit of hertz (so how “wide” is the signal) - in ye olden days the signal width corresponded to transmission capacity.
While latency is a measure of how long a specified bit of data took to transit a system, especially when compared against the “ideal” performance of the system.
- Comment on What would happen if the US got rid of the majority of their bases and brought all the stationed soldiers home? What would be the impact on society, the economy, and other things? 1 week ago:
Some good, some bad.
- Comment on How come people don't compliment other people on great word usage? If someone use the word lets say ecclesiastical or something like that they do not get complimented it shows they respect English. 1 week ago:
I complimented my doctor the other day for an interesting word choice.
He blushed.
Cool dude too
- Comment on If internet means wires, then how come my mobile phone gets connected to the internet ? I'm roaming everywhere with it inside my pocket. 1 week ago:
I mean a simple Wikipedia search would’ve corrected that.
- Comment on If internet means wires, then how come my mobile phone gets connected to the internet ? I'm roaming everywhere with it inside my pocket. 1 week ago:
Except, even from the start it wasn’t defined by wires.
- Comment on If internet means wires, then how come my mobile phone gets connected to the internet ? I'm roaming everywhere with it inside my pocket. 1 week ago:
It’s based on an assumption that was never correct.
- Comment on Wear Sunscreen 1 week ago:
No
- Comment on Why do people say "my taxes" 1 week ago:
That’s an interesting linguistic point - so tax in your language would use “less/more” being uncountable.
Technically, in English, taxes should be fewer/greater (being a countable dollar thing), but we often say “less”. Prescription vs description in action!
- Comment on Why do people say "my taxes" 1 week ago:
Yet another person assuming this perspective.
That may be the case for some people - no one I know thinks that way.
- Comment on Why do people say "my taxes" 1 week ago:
Not sure why you’re assuming that subtext.
The taxes one pays are the obligation one has, therefore “my tax obligation”.
Not yours, not another person’s, mine.
- Comment on If a God or God's is so Omnipotent why do they or them or he or she, supposedly get angry, show support, enjoy things, have sex (in Greek Gods), or show forgiveness? Are the not all human emotes? 1 week ago:
The Great Courses has a series on Comparative Religion.
They also have a series where each course covers a different world religion.
Then another course covers different mythologies (e.g. Norse) from different regions.
The first course would answer all your questions, the rest will fill out your understanding.
See if your local library carries them - mine does.
- Comment on In Hollywood why do all actors and such have fake names besides their own? How do they come up with them? If I went to hollywood could i make up something like Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler? 1 week ago:
Lots of last names are occupational names, like your Smith example, so were often a qualifier that others used.
And it seems the immigration story want really that common.
- Comment on Some Next Generation Humor 1 week ago:
Hence “refused”…
- Comment on if all birds sing and if they do why do geese honk, ducks quack, and chickens bawk? 1 week ago:
Only the passerines (songbirds) sing.
- Comment on if all birds sing and if they do why do geese honk, ducks quack, and chickens bawk? 1 week ago:
So passerineodons?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
*Phase
You just leave the body in a space about to be covered in dirt. Not very difficult (on the surface), the challenge is to not be seen doing it
- Comment on Bright City Lights Might Be Making Your Allergies Worse 1 week ago:
Well put.
I like how so many studies (or summaries of studies) use these ambiguous “more”.
Every time I go look at details, that “more” nearly always turns out to be meaningless.
- Comment on Moving just above the seafloor, ROV Deep Discoverer came across this jellyfish hovering with its tentacles extending outward in all directions (2018) 2 weeks ago:
Wow, that’s incredible camera work at a depth where there’s no light.
Why does the jelly have such vibrant coloration for those depths?
Beautiful shot!
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 weeks ago:
Regulation.
It’s very slow to change, and takes a lot of effort to make it happen.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Virtualization doesn’t “fake” anything, it virtualizes.
And a quick search reveals there are multuolea ways to virtualize or run an emulation layer on Linux and Windows for different things (e.g. Wine and WSL).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You should maybe check the communities you’re posting your nonsense in.
- Comment on What are the fun ways to learn and master the file management system in Linux ? 2 weeks ago: