ThePyroPython
@ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 1 week ago:
IP over Carrier Pigeon.
- Comment on MrBeast scraps AI YouTube thumbnail generator days after announcing it: 'If creators don't want the tools, no worries' 1 week ago:
May I present, The Smiler Image
- Comment on Shut up Jimmy 2 weeks ago:
Or philosophers and philosophy.
Damn philosophers, they ruined philosophy!
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 weeks ago:
“Hello, is that DarkHorse comics?
Boy, do I have an epic 5-phase graphic novel for you!”
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 weeks ago:
Then ascended to become pure EM spectrum as his final Gigahertz form.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 weeks ago:
Title of the paper:
Proposal for B-rated Motion Picture to Stimulate Growth in Cinema Ticket Sales by Utilising Highly Contagious Memetics in the Screenplay Writing Process
Caption: Fig 1. The Plot MacGuffin of Smart Cocaine Megladon 2
- Comment on Downing Street ‘exploring plan for digital ID cards’ 4 weeks ago:
Which will be met with the response “but I’m not an ‘immigrant’ why should I have to carry this ID card?!”
‘I’m not an immigrant’ is their code for “I’m white”.
As much as xenophobic cunts fantasise the idea of stricter border controls and US-ICE style raids, they’re also the same cunts that complain about long queues at airport security and HATE it when an authority figure questions them or forces them to do something.
- Comment on Downing Street ‘exploring plan for digital ID cards’ 4 weeks ago:
They keep trying this every few years.
This ain’t going to work unless it’s sold to the public like Estonia’s X-Road:
Complete digitisation of government, using the NHS, passport application, driving, taxes, etc. to reduce cost overheads and speed up government services. It needs to be a properly implemented super app with best industry security practices. I’d even go so far as to make it open source and have UK developers who log contributions to the project get a tax rebate according to hours/lines contributed as a sort of payment.
Plus it would help sell UK digital services abroad by developing and advertising a local talent pool.
Getting the UK public to be on board with just a digital ID isn’t going to fly. Why when your driving licence/learners license or passport is already being used as an ID that people carry around, and then you have your NHS number, your national insurance number, and even a gov.uk account.
What the point of adding another one?!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
“I ain’t no bitch” that’s some strong whining that makes you look like a bitch.
Where’s your stoic attitude of “suck it up and deal with it” Mr Manly Man?
Christ, I’ve eaten peaches that didn’t bruise as easily as his ego.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 5 weeks ago:
Well she is from Doncaster so that explains a lot of her delusional thinking.
- Comment on Never Forget. Please dear god don't forget 5 weeks ago:
We all are Ralph, we all are… (Slaps knees) Aaanyway, just got to get on with life (stands up and walks off stage left)
- Comment on 100% people who drink water die 1 month ago:
- Comment on skynet would be better than these clowns 1 month ago:
Literally the plot of every sci-fi show with an “overseer”.
- Comment on The mods are asleep, post wide office chairs! 2 months ago:
I think Edward the 7th had one of these when the Throne started splintering under his enormous reign.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 months ago:
I don’t know that- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
(Gets tossed into the air and into the Gorge of Eternal Peril)
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 months ago:
This is why you have to factor in the airspeed velocity of your laiden and unlaiden
swallowspigeons. - Comment on I feel happy.. 2 months ago:
Ah stop your moaning, you’ll be stone dead in a moment.
- Comment on New Harry Potter series based on the "magic" of Weed 2 months ago:
- Comment on Space Quarry 2 months ago:
Then go to ZipWorld. That way you get to zoom over the typical North Wales Quarrys used for Dr. Who.
Also whilst you’re there, check out Bounce Below and Surf Snowdonia.
- Comment on Make gravity your bitch 2 months ago:
This unlocked a song that has been buried in my mind for YEARS:
Now some of you may think that gravity is strong Cuz when you fall Off your bicycle It don’t take long Until you hit the earth And you say, “Dang that hurt!”
But if you think the force Is powerful You’re wrong
You see, gravity It’s weaker than weak!
And the reason why Is something many Scientists seek
They think about dimensions We live in just three But maybe there are others That are too small to see
It’s into these dimensions that gravity extends Which makes it seem weaker here on our end
And these dimensions are rolled up, curled so tight That they don’t affect you in your day-to-day life
But if you were as tiny as a graviton You could enter these dimensions and go wandering on And they’d find you…
LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone, ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
- Comment on logs are for quitters 2 months ago:
Yes boss, I did work out the dynamic range of that log amplifier we wanted to use in our next product’s sensor PCB, it’s 80dB.
The results are over here. (points to a roll of A-4 paper)
It has 40 data points and only took me 1 week, 10 pencils, and 20 erasers to plot the chart. Yeah I can present it, it’ll take me 10 minutes to roll it out, pin it down, and fetch the A-frame ladder.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 3 months ago:
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 months ago:
Mathematically yes. Practically, right now? No.
So you need a resistor of this value for your widget.
For that many places of precision you’re looking at a potentiometer with a 10 nano-ohm precision.
I am not aware of any commercially available resistor that can do that but you could create one using microelectronic structures used for ICs and derive a 10 nano-ohm resistor by design and then chain enough of these elements into a resistor network or potentiometer to create the super precise resistance value you want.
Cool, congratulations.
Now how are you going to use this 10 nano-ohm resistor? What voltage will you be applying across it? What current do you expect it to handle? And therefore what are your power requirements? What are your tolerances, how much can the true value deviate from the designed ideal?
Because power generates heat through losses, and that will affect the resistance value so how tightly do you need to manage the power dissipation?
How will you connect to this resistor to other circuit components? Because a super precise resistor on it’s own is nothing but an over-engineered heating element.
If you tried connecting other surface mount devices (SMDs) from the E24 or even E96 series to this super precise resistor then the several orders of magnitude wider tolerances of these other components alone will swallow any of the precision from your super accurate resistor.
So now your entire circuit has to be made to the same precision else all of your design work has been wasted.
Speaking of which, now your heat management solution now needs to be super precise as well and before you know it you’ve built the world’s most accurate widget that probably took billions of dollars/euros/schmeckles and collaboration from the worlds leading engineers and scientists that probably cost more time and money than the Large Hadron Collider.
- Comment on >meme arrows 3 months ago:
All correct.
The only other things to add is that “Effective Altruism m” started as asking the question “what charity or charitable causes should you donate money to for the greatest positive effect in the world?” and because lonely terminally online people in the tech industry got hyperfixated on the answer evolved from “mosquito nets and access to drinking water” to that belief outlined in the previous comment.
The other thing is “timeless-decisions” which is where you should consider the far future impact of EVERY decision you make because all these little day-to-day decisions (what to eat, how to dress, your hobbies, how much you sleep, etc.) will have a “butterfly effect” on the lives of future people and whether the super AI that eventually comes will judge you to be a good person to be rewarded or a bad person to be punished.
It’s basically Calvinism for Tech-bros where God is an AI.
Behind The Bastards has done a four-part podcast on an offshoot of the Rationalists called the Zizians who were recently directly involved in that stabbing and shootout with the border patrol agent in Canada.
Also, a lot of Tech-Bros are into Rationalism like Musk, Zucc, Theil, and Sergey Brin. Basically, everyone who was at Trump’s inauguration thinks that his appalling actions justify the ends because it gives them the money to make the god AI to ensure they survive the impending judgement day and collapse of civilization.
- Comment on What's the problem sweetie? You've barely touched your eggsicle 3 months ago:
Untap artifact everytime the current US administration doorsteps a country for eggs.
- Comment on I present my girlfriend's daughter. 3 months ago:
(Cyberpunk sting plays)
- Comment on >meme arrows 3 months ago:
Sam you can’t “effective altruism” a way of making people not using the general purpose AI tools you designed to “cure cancer” to make silly memes or saucy images.
If you wanted to cure cancer, you should have made an AI start up focused on curing cancer. But no, you had to buy into that “Rationalism” logic-circle-wankfest and now you’re disappointed when people aren’t making the “correct” timeless-decisions and “optimising for the future” because they’re regular people that spend their free time touching grass and hang around in person and not debating pointless logic thought experiments with strangers on niche Internet forums.
- Comment on wriggle wriggle 3 months ago:
New hentia category unlocked?
- Comment on Sounds logical to me 3 months ago:
Agreed. I’ve kissed two boys as like dares but didn’t like it and I can acknowledge a guy is hot without being turned on by them so I think I’m comfortably on the straight side of the spectrum.
- Comment on When fighter jets are scrambled to intercept a plane for security reasons, what can they actually do? 4 months ago:
I can only speak for the UK and from a amateur perspective but here’s the rough breakdown:
90% of the time it’s likely a private pilot that’s wandered into a restricted airspace without realising it. They’re politely escorted out.
9.9999% of the time is an adversarial nation testing the response time of the quick-reaction force defenses. They’re politely but forcefully escorted out. Maybe some insults traded over the radio but that’d be about as heated as it gets.
0.0001% they pose a threat and refuse to be escorted out. At that point it’s basically the same thing of asking “what would happen if someone climbed the fence to the White House and towards it and when the secret service pointed guns at them didn’t stop, would they get shot?”
It’s the pilot’s call at that point, but if they posed a threat to life then yes they probably would shoot them down.
