Photonic
@Photonic@lemmy.world
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 hour ago:
This image looks like right wing corpo propaganda to me. It not only does it divert the attention away from the handful of megacorporations emitting 80% of all green house gases, it is attacking a moderate leftist – who admittedly causes a relatively large amount of greenhouse gases.
But Taylor Swift is not making most of those flights on a personal basis. It’s to provide a service to fans. So in that sense we can regard the emissions as those of Taylor Swift the company. And in that sense they are much lower than many other companies who we often give a free pass.
So, yes hold the big emitters responsible, but let’s start with the 57 on the list and work our way down to Taylor Swift.
- Comment on Troof 2 hours ago:
Liv’s mom has got it goin’ on! 🎵
- Comment on The moment you join the workforce 2 days ago:
Ahh yes, the grind
- Comment on Lifeguards 3 days ago:
“And they were known by no other name as The Deathguard. Whenever The Deathguard roamed the shores the mood of the bathing crowds instantly changed, as if a sudden thunderstorm had come rolling in. Mothers started looking for their children in fear, people hastily packed their belongings. Such was the fear that The Deathguard would bring forth.
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 6 days ago:
Well, electromagnets don’t work when they short-circuit in water…
- Comment on they're havin a laugh 1 week ago:
Can we please continue ignoring the existence of the ridiculous entity that is the FIFA World Cup?
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
I’ve had both sides as well, I’ve had jobs where some weeks I worked 7 insanely busy night shifts in a row from 10.30pm to 9.30am. Those weeks you don’t get anything done because you’re just sleeping all day and too tired to do anything after. Not to mention having a commute that was 50 minutes to two hours. That is where I learned I did not want to do that.
And then I also worked 5 days a week working only day shifts 8-6, which bored the shit out of me.
And then I had a much calmer job where officially I worked 8-5, five days a week, but I had to had to figure out how to keep myself busy and I could basically do what I want because my supervisor was fine with whatever because he only cared about the results and I kept those coming. But that was too little structure too.
And I worked part time shift work because that is what was offered at the time and shifts were much more doable. Then I had a little too much time on my hands.
So now I have something in between, where I do work some weekends, evenings and nights, and I’m compensated during week days, but most of my job is 8-5:30.
And lastly, I want to mention how crazy it is that there is a cap on your sick days. If you get sick, you get sick, right? It’s not really a plannable event, but maybe I’m too European and weak-willed for that.
- Comment on Don't believe everything that you breathe 1 week ago:
Ahh yes, how could I forget
- Comment on Don't believe everything that you breathe 1 week ago:
Well good news then! Neurotransmitters are just molecules, they cannot shut down as such.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You’re still at the quantum stage? Man if you’re not already living in the post-quantum world, are you really living ?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“This” as in a quantum computer, the thing we were discussing. And the physics and engineering is something you don’t know about. For example, you didn’t know about nitrogen vacancy centers that are already theorised to make room-temperature quantum computing possible. On top of that there are many breakthroughs yet to be made that even current experts may not yet know about.
Moore’s law applies to predictions, which is the other thing we were discussing. Moore’s law was indeed an accurate prediction up until recently, but only after the breakthrough was made, like I also mentioned in my previous comment. I never said it applied to quantum computers.
But it seems to me that you’re just going on a hunch. I’ve tried to apply logic, reasoning and sources to no avail, so I think I will just leave it at that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The artificial computer wasn’t so much a scientific breakthrough as a conceptual one. It didn’t require anything that didn’t already exist.
Neither does this. You just don’t know about it yet. And the link I provided you with shows this.
The quantum computer does exist. And it’s functional principles are built on physics not engineering. It’s a fundamentally different situation.
Not true. Electrical currents are physics too. And quantum computers have hardware too.
in 10 human generations quantum computers still won’t be portable personal devices.
What are your arguments for this? I’ve shown you that your central argument is already being addressed.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Of course, every increment is predictable after you make the scientific breakthrough. Not before, though.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That was a long series of inevitable predictable progress in engineering.
If it was so predictable, why couldn’t anyone in 1926 have predicted it with accuracy? The point is, they couldn’t and so can’t we.
Also, it’s definitely about engineering issues. In fact, scientists are already working on ways to overcome the major obstacles you named.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Of course there will have to be a major scientific breakthrough. As there have been many scientific breakthroughs to get to where we are now with smartphones.
Your smartphone houses a lot of technology that was either nonexistent or room-sized at the time. I mean, in 1926 most people still moved around by horse-and-carriage, we had cameras but they were analog, as were film projectors. Now we have a 4k+ digital camera and an OLED screen and they’re only a small part of an entire array of technology scientists at the time couldn’t even fathom, except for maybe Nikola Tesla, although he also made a lot of predictions that turned out to be false.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Well, don’t say never. Forever is a very long time. The scientific world of 100 years ago couldn’t predict PC’s and let alone smartphones based on technology and physics as they were known at the time. It’s insane to think about how much technology is crammed into this small device and how quickly we got here.
- Comment on "I love seeing protesters shot in the face, triggered yet, librul???" 2 weeks ago:
Horseshoe theory confirmed
- Comment on Most onomatopoetic town name 3 weeks ago:
Imagine hitting that post head on with your (metal) bicycle.
- Comment on I hope this clears things up 3 weeks ago:
Ahem, from the website
WD-40 Multi-Use Product protects metal from rust and corrosion, penetrates stuck parts, displaces moisture and lubricates almost anything.
- Comment on I hope this clears things up 3 weeks ago:
Also displaces water. Still a lubricant though.
- Comment on Not my theoretical degree in physics. 3 weeks ago:
No company will buy that specific AI then. Gotta protect the C-suite…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’ll tell you something more, I was born out of one!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Ok boomer
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Tacky interior and breakfast only consisting of sweets? No thank you
- Comment on A reminder that modern scientific publishing was pioneered by Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell 3 weeks ago:
Guess he taught her to be ruthless and take advantage of people
- Comment on I have a busy morning planned 4 weeks ago:
You should just fight fire with fire then
- Comment on Weak ah bih 4 weeks ago:
Gamma Rays are X-Rays for all intents and purposes.
So if you’re a Y-male, you’re also essentially an X-male.
That makes you an XY male, which makes sense.
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 4 weeks ago:
I would say rhinos rather than elephants, put elephants in neutral (although a bull in musth just wants to kill everything) and hippos in chaotic.
- Comment on How to Remove Linux and Install Windows on Your Computer 4 weeks ago:
Hmmm I kind of have a mesh thing going on but maybe installing a window on the side would help me see my GPU better.
Is that what they call side loading?
I tried to put my two work boots on top of the case but that didn’t work either.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 4 weeks ago:
Same! I have the black one though