fubarx
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- 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. 2 weeks ago:
Technically, it’s ‘pipes’ not ‘wires,’ but they function the same.
When you hold the phone in your hand while standing on the ground, you’re closing a very long circuit that connects everyone via underground ‘electro-acoustic pipes.’ A few years ago, they laid conduits under waters so people from island nations could make overseas calls.
That is also why they would ask people to turn off their phones when they get on airplanes. They finally got it working while moving using flight attendants on break, small flashlights, and quantum encryption.
Scientists are still working on calls dropping when people are on trampolines.
- Comment on This place is a prison 3 weeks ago:
Tweas?
- Comment on Caption this. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on WTF is this??? 5 weeks ago:
When using the turn signal handle, “Down is left, Up is right.”
This picture is obviously indicating the car is down.
- Comment on New Hungarian Minister of Health starts dancing 5 weeks ago:
The new US ambassador, explaining his positions through interpretive dance.
- Comment on dog 1 month ago:
Nature is healing.
- Comment on What is it like traveling with two passports at the same time? 1 month ago:
We have several family friends who do this regularly. What helps is there are no direct flights to their destinations. They leave with their US passport, and if they have to exit the terminal, go through customs with their US passport.
When it’s time to board, they use their other passport. At the destination, they go through customs with their local passport and don’t have to stand in long lines.
The only situation I’ve heard of is if they stay in the other country and make money while there, those may incur US taxes as foreign earnings.
- Comment on Behold: A vibe-designed pcb 2 months ago:
Nothing a little bodge-wiring and a Pi compute-module can’t fix.
- Comment on why does almost nobody live here? 2 months ago:
These are ceremonial, organ-harvesting sites.
Best to stick to the main roads.
- Comment on Let's say hypothetically I wanted to leave the US permanently; 2 months ago:
Canadian ‘Express Entry’ program for those with Skilled Trades: www.canada.ca/en/…/federal-skilled-trades.html
- Comment on A shrubbery! 2 months ago:
Outstanding meme abuse.
- Comment on Traditional Easter baked bean boba 2 months ago:
Is this Vegan?
- Comment on uncomfortable but better than walking 2 months ago:
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 2 months ago:
Says so right on the box.
A U.S.-made Robot, designed to play sports.
- Comment on Mission to the Cloud Server 2 months ago:
Guess NASA didn’t want them writing SMTP rules while circling the moon.
- Comment on Turbines are our friends 2 months ago:
Everybody with a college course in Thermodynamics.
- Comment on Just like me fr 2 months ago:
Wondered where that branch of the family went.
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 2 months ago:
There was a cheapo Japanese restaurant downtown. Plastic everything. Went there for lunch a while back. Worst Bento box ever.
Six months later. Hmm, Bento box sounds good. Go to this Japanese restaurant. Halfway through the awful meal, remember I’d been there! Swore never to go back. Again.
This cycle repeated SIX times.
What broke it was the whole building burning to the ground because of a grease fire.
Point is… hmm… Bento for lunch sounds good.
- Comment on How to be attractive 2 months ago:
Gas station down the street.
- Comment on Elephant in the room 2 months ago:
The sample essay is… interesting.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 2 months ago:
Agnostic, for development. iOS and Android.
Daily driver is iPhone, but keep a Pixel for staying uptodate with services and latest updates.
- Comment on bro 2 months ago:
If you have a password manager, you can set the answers to random, junk strings. My first pet? Why, dear Flag!spl@tch9. As long as the answers match next time.
And if they give you the option to create your own question, that could be a random string. As well as the answer. Static noise is your friend.
It’s lazy security.
- Comment on Fucked up 2 months ago:
Pre, or post-9/11?
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 months ago:
Nvidia actually used two RTX 5090s for its demos: one plays the game, the other exclusively runs the DLSS 5 technology. The use of two GPUs is required right now as DLSS 5 still has a long way to go in terms of optimisation - both in terms of performance and its VRAM footprint. However, DLSS 5 is designed for use on a single GPU and that’s how it will ship later this year.
So much easier when you can just throw 2x the hardware at things. Let’s wait and see how it works on a single card.
Also, guessing it will be set up so developers can turn it on and off as needed in their game. If they make it a user-facing global setting, it will quickly turn into a meme generator.
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 3 months ago:
Cat-9 tails.
- Comment on AI Agent Hacks McKinsey 3 months ago:
XKCD needs to update Little Bobby Tables (xkcd.com/327/) to include prompt injection.
- Comment on I heard you like pointers, so I put pointer to pointer in your pointers 3 months ago:
Villain flashback backstory for Rust.
- Comment on It's quite simple really 3 months ago:
There’s no allowing for Unspecial Soundness.
Or where most fun knowledge resides: Unspecial Unsoundness.
- Comment on How we are brought into this world 3 months ago:
Ah, pregnancy… when internal organs migrate to the arms.
- Comment on I was all set but then saw the sign and moved over one to the left 3 months ago:
There’s a reason that sign is there.
