frezik
@frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 2 hours ago:
Send unsolicited cat pictures. Trust me, works way better.
- Comment on No fucking way! I got invited to the Illuminati 3 hours ago:
That sorta happened. Discordianism takes some notes from the idea of the Illuminati. You can draw a straight line from there to 4chan, and from 4chan to /r/The_Donald, Qanon, and MAGA as a whole.
- Comment on Fictional 1 day ago:
It’s neat to think about what units an alien civilization would come up with independently. Like the Plank Distance is fundamental to physics, so they’d probably have something for that.
Degrees Celsius is based on freezing and boiling point of water, so if they came up with a base 10 numbering system and water is key to their biology, then they’d probably come up with that.
A calorie is the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1L of water by 1C. A liter is a volume of a cube 0.1m on each side. The meter was originally ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and north pole (and subsequent redefinitions are based on that original measurement). They wouldn’t come up with the meter, and they wouldn’t come up with liters or calories, either.
- Comment on Fictional 1 day ago:
Speed of Causality is the absolute maximum speed. Speed of Light in a (perfect) vacuum happens to be equal to the Speed of Causality.
- Comment on Anon studies Organic Chemistry 1 day ago:
That seems so low that it makes the benefit of the class dubious. Can you really say you’re making good use of the students’ time when it’s clear none of them are understanding the material? Maybe the material needs to be broken up into more digestible chunks.
- Comment on Yum 1 day ago:
What does not kill you makes you stronger. Chew that hair.
- Comment on #environmentalist 3 days ago:
You could have posted this exact message to other replies in this thread, but you choose this one. That’s rather telling.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 3 days ago:
The pits just represent numbers. A 1-bit memory cell typically stores high or low voltage. The numbers 0 and 1 only exist as a platonic ideal, and there are many ways to represent them in the real world.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 3 days ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc - This one floundered and died before coming to market
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_optical_data_storage - A bunch of different solutions, and it looks like they were all being developed independently circa 2008, and then went nowhere
My guess is that there’s not much use case beyond archival backups. That’s not going to get the economies of scale that CDs/DVDs/Blu-rays have. It’d be priced for the corporate market, but they already have perfectly good archival backup solutions. You’d also have to prove that it can be durable for at least a few decades, but even for commercial duplication, previous optical formats are just OK at best on longevity.
- Comment on #environmentalist 3 days ago:
That’s the whole problem. You’re considering what most people do, but not a minority who already have extra burdens in their life.
- Comment on #environmentalist 3 days ago:
I remember when disability rights groups pointed out that these laws were placing extra burden on disabled people that weren’t being put on everyone else.
These laws accomplish nothing except make liberals feel good that they actually passed some kind of environmental rules. Meanwhile, conservatives are making sure they can legally torture gay kids, let billionaires get away with pedophilia, and burn lots and lots of coal. But we passed straw bans in a couple of cities. Yay us.
- Comment on This man is suffering 3 days ago:
I don’t think their buffalo sauce is better than any other generic buffalo sauce. Frank’s is my go-to standard. You can get a bottle of Frank’s anywhere for like three bucks. If you’re not doing better than Frank’s, what are you even doing?
- Comment on Banana 4 days ago:
They’re radioactive.
- Comment on Fight me 4 days ago:
Most of the time, we consider heat output to be inefficient. It only works here because heat happens to be its purpose.
You could say it’s 0% efficient.
- Comment on a sight to behold 4 days ago:
Right, so, not enough.
- Comment on Arby's steak bites 4 days ago:
It also doesn’t anything like the actual steak bites I got last night. They’re actually pretty good.
- Comment on Fear their power 4 days ago:
And it’s wasted on plants, who just spread their cum around the whole damn planet and make me sneeze.
- Comment on a sight to behold 4 days ago:
I dunno what he’s paid, but it isn’t enough.
- Comment on egg time 5 days ago:
Is there anyone arguing against dinosaurs being birds anymore? This was still a relatively new thought to the general public when Jurassic Park came out, but IIRC, it was pretty well accepted among paleontologists even back then. More people try to badly argue that Pluto is a planet than try to say dinosaurs aren’t birds.
- Comment on another TUI 5 days ago:
Absurd? That has quite literally happened, and is within living memory.
- Comment on Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party 6 days ago:
Wonder if this will force the issue on a PC release of GTA VI sooner rather than later.
Or maybe Rockstar won’t care.
- Comment on I AM BETTER 6 days ago:
It’s complicated. I know that Newton’s model of light as a particle was wrong. If I had a time traveling Newton in front of me, could I explain all the experiments in between him and Einstein about light that get us knocking on the door of Quantum Physics? More importantly, could I show it well enough to satisfy the level of evidence he would need (even ignoring his giant ego)?
Probably not. Maybe if I had months to prepare.
- Comment on Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game" 1 week ago:
Moore’s Law was originally formulated as the cost per integrated component being cut in half every x months. The value of x was tweaked over the decades, but settled at 24.
That version of the law is completely dead. Density is still going up, but you pay more for it. You’re not going to build a console anymore for the same cost while increasing performance.
High end PC’s can still go up, but only by spending more money. This is why the only substantial performance gains the last few GPU generations has been through big jumps in cost.
- Comment on Living his best life. 1 week ago:
“Hey, this is Bob from the Nobel Committee, if you could give us a call back, that’d be great. It’s important.”
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
What if there’s cookies?
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
Also see Dyson’s Eternal Intelligence:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Dyson's_eternal_intelligence
Basically, if you assume it’s possible to upload our intelligence to a computer and run it, then you can keep the energy going to run it for a very, very long time. Well past the heat death of the rest of the universe. It depends on running things in an on and off state to conserve energy for trillions of years. Subjectively, the people in there wouldn’t notice that and would simply see their active lifespans go for trillions of years. It’s not clear what the limit would actually be.
It’s something like Zeno’s Paradox. You cut things in half each cycle, but never quite get to zero.
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
But that happens because of matter falling into them, right? When they’ve already swallowed everything, there’s not going to be accretion disks.
- Comment on tiny tot engineering 1 week ago:
Now bring back Pogs.
- Comment on It's not? 1 week ago:
naughty hole-approved.
You might be overestimating how regulated the sex toy industry is.
- Comment on the humble and disguised crow: 1 week ago:
Yet somehow just as sketchy.