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- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 2 months ago:
Computer Engineer here, studied QED and E&M.
This is the most accurate answer
- Comment on A cool guide to US States that have a rat problem 8 months ago:
What’s crazy is that some of the people I talk to, I expected to say something like “yeah, but he didn’t get a trial.”
It’s been “yeah, he’s been on trial for 3 years at UHC, and 20 before that. And he was declared guilty.”
- Comment on Literally c/THE_PACK 8 months ago:
AAAARROOOOOOO!
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 8 months ago:
Oh that would be a neat challenge.
AI security guards (which I can only imagine look like Daleks from Dr Who) vs the public. How long before they just outright massacre a crowd?
Or, better yet, what happens when people start using drones as flying pipe bombs and the robots can’t even aim at it.
Ooooh or better yet, we can create devices that create a distraction for the AI robots.
Or, since I am pretty sure they’d be using some wireless connection of some sort, bring a signal jammer and just push em over.
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 8 months ago:
Oh really? The image loads for me, but I certainly didn’t see anything.
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 8 months ago:
I don’t know what you were doing to end up in enough jails to know that, but I suspect that if there’s additional knowledge here, it’s that we should probably not do whatever that was
- Comment on Funny how uniting this is somehow 8 months ago:
I’m pretty sure NBC, and ABC news, as well as several articles, have mentioned the similarity to the book title. Plus, deny, defend, depose has a VERY different statement.
“Deny claims, defend legally, remove from power.” The insurance companies deny the claims, know they can avoid court because the insured can’t possibly afford lawyers when they get buried under medical debt, and the last one has multiple purposes. Remove the power of medical professionals in their care expertise, remove the power of the patient’s voice, and remove the insurance companies and executives from having this power.
However, I acknowledge that the media shills for the owner class, and I see where the suspension that they would change the words to fit that agenda is very possible. Unfortunately, without seeing the bullets, we have no way to verify what the actual words are. The only way we get that is from NYPD’s evidence storage which would need a criminal case.
- Comment on Today's reaction 8 months ago:
The problem is that he represented the hoarding dragons. The dragons believe they can keep affording these lesser beings to take the blame for their wealth.
He took measures that made things actively worse for the insured to make him and the owners wealthier.
You can’t just skip to the boss fight. You gotta carve a path.
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 8 months ago:
Language is strange man
Incredible our brains can make sense of any of it sometimes
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 8 months ago:
So here’s something wild I learned.
To Canadians, when I speak French, I have a very thick American accent. However, when I speak English to Canadians, they really can’t tell my accent (presumably because I live in a bordering state?).
I always respect anyone who knows just enough English to communicate something simple/frequent. Because there is no fucking way they’d understand what I was trying to say in their language.
- Comment on Is something happening in South Korea? 8 months ago:
According to a professor I had in college, this isn’t abnormal for South Korea. He fondly recollected his time spent rioting, and when he first learned how to make molotovs.
- Comment on Carcinisation? 8 months ago:
That seems unfairly obvious, but I certainly didn’t consider it before.
- Comment on That's right! 8 months ago:
No, see, the real red flags are the ones you aren’t aware of yet.
Those are the ones I’m frightened of. Like there’s just this itty-bit of something just waiting for the right bump to break and cut my brake lines while I’m on the highway.
I don’t know what it is, but I know it’s there, so I gotta be self-critical until I find the piece to fix!
At the very least I can tell you my job isn’t in sales.
- Comment on That's right! 8 months ago:
I know right? Turns out the kind of fish you attract with that bait are on the “catch and dispose” list.
- Comment on That's right! 8 months ago:
Amazing I didn’t know it was a real thing I thought it was a joke
- Comment on That's right! 8 months ago:
I appreciate the confidence, but girlfriends require time. While it would be cool and could be helpful to have that extra support around, all I can do is provide money and dick.
- Comment on Mom wasn't always right 8 months ago:
Didn’t they both have the shitty shift/atari button thing?
- Comment on santa 8 months ago:
Ok, I still laughed, but it would have been a bit funnier if instead of Santa it still said “Saddam Hussein” with the Santa Hat, maybe a beard, and a bag of presents.
- Comment on Are Increased Colorectal Cancers Rates Linked to Using Laptops on Stomachs? 8 months ago:
Ah, there’s the key part that keeps confusing people: “Energy” when they are thinking of “Power.”
Energy is a property of a thing. Power is the amount of energy (property of thing) transported over time.
It’s impossible to list all the energies you interact with from a laptop, but here’s a few:
- Various photons from the screen. A photon’s energy is based on its wavelength. A higher energy photon has shorter wavelengths.
- The mass of the keyboard is an energy equivalent. A property of the laptop.
- The photons transmitted by Wifi, Bluetooth, or other radio sources - these are actually all a lower energy than the ones from a screen.
Power just means more of those flowing. An infinite number of Wifi photons can hit Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen (most commonly in DNA) and they will never knock an electron off. Same with the photos from your screen. That doesn’t mean there will be no effect.
Wi-Fi photons in the 2.4Ghz range do transfer energy into water molecules and increase their total kinetic energy (since they can’t “gain mass” this means velocity). Increased Kinect energy really means increased heat. Enough heat, leads to burns.
- Comment on Are Increased Colorectal Cancers Rates Linked to Using Laptops on Stomachs? 8 months ago:
A radio spitting 1MW of anything on your stomach is going to give you a pretty nasty burn from waste heat, but wifi range - 2.4Ghz is gonna cook your water molecules real good. Still no ionizing happening.
Key thing here is your talking about power, and individual atoms don’t care about that sort of thing. They care about the individual quanta they’re interacting with.
1000 radio frequency photons will never have the individual energy to bump an electron. 1 UV (and shorter wavelengths) photon can bump an electron
- Comment on Q-tips 8 months ago:
They do it to me too. It’s fucking weird, but it’s all connected to the throat anyway, so it almost makes sense some of the nerves are shared.
Probably something do with balance or illness
- Comment on Sniper Elite Resistance dev defends asset reuse - “if they’re there to use, why not use them?” 8 months ago:
Yeah, Capcom figured that out ages ago with Monster Hunter.
They tweak some movesets on the skeletons, they improve the ai a bit. They create next textures, and spend their time making endgame bosses a bit more unique.
My favorite example is Kushala Daora. I don’t exactly know how many times his skeleton has been reused, but I know Monster Hunter World had at least three reuses of it.
But they always have unique fights for final bosses, even if the Elder Dragon reused assets.
Programming is all about reuse in general. Reuse is part of good applications.
- Comment on 5x Evolutionary Winner 8 months ago:
Which part? Convergent evolution towards a dolphin? (Dolphins and ichthyosaurus) Or the question of Dolphin to Crab or Crab to dolphin?
We gotta wait another hundred million years to find out that answer.
- Comment on 5x Evolutionary Winner 8 months ago:
Not yet.
We might see marine animals trend towards dolphins, but given enough time, does a dolphin become a crab, or does a crab become a dolphin?
- Comment on 5x Evolutionary Winner 8 months ago:
Can you think of the evolutionary pressures it went through to develop it’s eyes, colors, and .22 round punch?
I shudder to think what it’s ancestors faced.
Like the BOBBIT WORM
- Comment on un-natural 8 months ago:
I don’t know how you guys keep finding Saddam like this but goddamnit don’t stop.
They are fucking hilarious.
This one’s particularly great - cause the first image he’s holding a literal mouse, so you ain’t looking for Saddam to show up in his goddamn arm. Between that and the “Chile” problem a little bit ago.
Goddamn this meme is like my life blood
- Comment on Palworld announces Terraria crossover 8 months ago:
Man
I can’t even begin to fathom what they would cook up
- Comment on Thought-provoking 8 months ago:
Now I get why the incels are excited with the ultraconservative agenda.
They say “biblical values” and incels hear “free rape.”
- Comment on 🎵 You know the season and so do I 🎶 8 months ago:
Fuck me. That’s annoying as shit to sing
- Comment on i fixed Chile issue 9 months ago:
God fucking dammit this one got me too.
Is there a Saddam’s Hiding place that I won’t lose my shit to?