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- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 1 day ago:
Like a kid trying very hard to sound like everyone else. “Eloquent bullshit generator”
- Comment on RNAception 2 weeks ago:
It goes even deeper, mRNA controls ribosomes, which are mostly RNA.
- Comment on How can the Oregon government make drugs illegal again with no public comment periods or voter input at all? 1 month ago:
Making decisions is the whole point of repesentives. If you don’t like their choices, don’t vote for them. Unfortunately, most places use first-past-the-post voting, which tends to result in 2 extreme parties, and people end up having to vote for the one that sucks less.
- Comment on How can the Oregon government make drugs illegal again with no public comment periods or voter input at all? 1 month ago:
Making decisions is the whole point of repesentives. If you don’t like their choices, don’t vote for them. Unfortunately, most places use first-past-the-post voting, which tends to result in 2 extreme parties, and people end up having to vote for the one that sucks less.
- Comment on What produced the old dead channel tv static audiovisuals on tvs? 1 month ago:
The TV will try and amplify and display any signal. Without a station, it will end up amplifying random radio noise and tiny fluctuations in the amplifier circuits themselves.
The momentary signal strength is interpreted as brightness of a spot which is rapidly scanned over the display. In this case the signal is random so every spot on the screen will be a random brightness, changing every frame.
Modern digital TVs won’t do this, because with compressed video recognizable data is needed to even attempt displaying a picture.
- Comment on Can I lick it? Yes you can. 1 month ago:
You know it’s an old paper when it describes the taste of mercury salts.
- Comment on third panel: struggling with windows & android updates 1 month ago:
Pro tip: If you pick an obscure enough subfield, you can become the leading expert by virtue of existing.
- Comment on Detecting a tracker pixel/image in email 1 month ago:
Make another account to see if a different user/email address gets a different URL, which would indicate that it is used to track users.
- Comment on #justElsevierthings 1 month ago:
And those are just the ones where the authors did not even proofread the thing.
- Comment on It's ok, we sigma now. 1 month ago:
The wolf thing is a myth, these actually refer to the stages of software deveopment. Alpha is buggy, unstable, missing key features and unsutable for the public. Beta is mostly complete, but may still have bugs or occasional crashes. (So basicly teenagers)
- Comment on there are worse hills to die on 1 month ago:
Gallium explodes people who call it a stupid element. (it used in the plutonium pits of atomic bombs)
- Comment on checkmate globalists 1 month ago:
Good news, we are rapidly working on changing that.
- Comment on #justElsevierthings 1 month ago:
It is quite easy to find these with google:
- Comment on double slit 1 month ago:
It is clearly titled “double slit”.
- Comment on "Evolution" by Sarah Andersen 1 month ago:
Like it or not, this is the ideal body.
- Comment on Elsevier is the meme. 1 month ago:
Link? I want to see the entire pile of steaming shit.
- Comment on Can you live a fulfilling life with autism? 1 month ago:
I have personaly known a lot of people who have seemed super happy at first, but were putting up a facade over some real big mental health problems. Just because someone is able to socialize doen’t mean they are living a good life, and you can do lots of fulfilling things without in person interaction.
Don’t worry about being normal, just do fun and fulfilling things.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 2 months ago:
I don’t think the roof would be good at reflecting signals back at the device, it scatters them all throughout the building, rasing the noise floor. In a way, phone hotspots can cause less interference then a proper access point because they use a lower transmit power, and allow the other devices to reduce power.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 2 months ago:
I would think the metal parts of roof might be reflecting signals all around the building, which would cause interference between devices. (there is a limited number of WiFi channels), it might work better with a plastic roof, or one with RF absorbers.
- Comment on Why is ocean fertilization not taken more seriously as a climate change solution? 2 months ago:
CO2 emissions are not the only problem with burning things for power. Air polution causes an estimated 3.6 million deaths annualy, with the bulk of those (2.1 million) being caused just by ultrafine soot and ozone from burning fues. Additionaly, burning coal produces huge amount of ashes that are full of toxic heavy metals, in quanties that are near impossible to safely dispose of. Most of this ash just gets pilled up, where it it gets blown into the enviroment. (Fun fact, these ash piles are radioactive from naturaly occuring uranium and thorium)
The only way out is to stop burning things as fuel.
- Comment on Has Google’s search results drastically declined for anyone else? 2 months ago:
It seems gradual to me. It’s a combination of Google’s actions (They make money from ads and storefronts so they promote sites with ads and storefronts) and adversarial attacks on PageRank by spammers. PageRank used to work well until people started designing sites to game the system.
- Comment on Would nuclear reactors be feasible everywhere? 6 months ago:
Most power generation methods like coal have similar requirements, and it doesn’t have to be clean water. In costal areas, seawater can be used just fine.
- Comment on Why does looking directly at the sun damage your eyes? 6 months ago:
Wikipedia says that the heating from the focused light is minimal because the retina is surrounded with fluid, similarly to how a balloon filled, even partially, with water won’t pop over a candle flame. However, the light itself is damaging, as far UV is ionizing radiation and can rip apart the molecules making up your cells.
- Comment on Where can I find recipes without the author's personal anecdotes? 6 months ago:
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 6 months ago:
I have always heard “z stanów” in Polish, an equivalent would be “from the states”.
- Comment on I believe science but I don't understand science. Does that make me religious? 7 months ago:
Young Earth Creationism for instance
No, not really. They can and will claim that any evidence you present was created by God some 6,000 years ago. If you assume a creator (God in this case) that can create anything for any reson, their is no way to prove that the world was not created 6,000 years ago.
Fossils? God created them in rocks 6,000 years ago. Radioisotope dating? created that way. 20,000 year old archeological site? created that way.
Of course the same aguement holds for any creation date and method. I could claim that the world was created last tuesday, or even last second and there would be no way to disprove me. The boltzman brain is the most absurd continuation of this argument.
- Comment on I believe science but I don't understand science. Does that make me religious? 7 months ago:
In the case of science, the claims made are disprovable, but have not been despite many attempts. For example, if you want to see if light is a wave, you can do the double slit experiment with a laser pointer, a piece of wire, and some black tape: Tape the wire over the output in the center of the beam, and then use more tape strips parallel to the wire to create 2 narrow slits. Then shine the laser with the tape and wire on a wall a few meters away. Assuming light is composed of waves, you will an interference pattern consisting of a line dots instead a single dot or line. (Try it!) The same will happen for all forms of electromagnetic radiation, including radio waves, infrared, UV, and even X-rays. Even if you personally have not done many experiments, millions of other people have, verifying that the theories hold over almost any conceivable situation.
The claims made by religion are, if anything more believable, but impossible to disprove and therefor, no one has been been able to try. There is no experiment or observation for the existence of a god, or a soul.
There is a big difference between believing in empirically demonstrated facts and something that no one is able to check.
- Comment on Why shouldn’t firearm manufacturers be held accountable for the use of their weapons in crimes? 8 months ago:
One, people can make their own guns, it’s not that hard, and secondly, criminals can and do steal stuff. They don’t care about commiting extra crimes, they are already going to jail if caugh. All this will do is to make it harder for non-criminals to obtain guns for hunting or self defense.
- Comment on Is it possible to have privacy in a modern car? 8 months ago:
Disconnect all the radios/antennas, including trace antennas as PCBs. The car can collect all it wants as long as that stays on the car.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 8 months ago:
These people could have checked a weather forecast and had a lot of advance warning to GTFO. If you go out to the desert without doing anything to ensure your safety, it is mostly your fault if you get screwed. Same reason it’s funny when antivaxxers get measles and when COVID deniers get COVID. Of course it is still sad and the people responsible for spreading those theories should be punished, but it is sort of funny.