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- Comment on Hair trade offer 1 day ago:
Isn’t the idea just to slowly kill them?
- Comment on Suddenly all of Lemmy 2 days ago:
There’s nothing to know. Lemmy is just into corn right now.
- Comment on A secret cord 2 days ago:
Some people claim to use them to plug generators into their homes when the lights go out.
But your generator should plug into some place before the main panel, and it’s easy to put the right connector on that one place destined to it and where you shouldn’t plug anything else. So it’s people not prepared to use a generator, that want to use one anyway, and that have to be sure to disconnect it before the power comes back on or they will find the main use-case for the cable (AKA, the one on the meme).
- Comment on Still out there 3 days ago:
It’s actually very real machines, doing extremely well controlled chemical reactions, and no AI unless you count all computer software as AI (ok, processors have neural networks controlling them nowadays, so just “normal” amount of AI).
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 3 days ago:
Some (many? most? IDK) gold sellers are scammers. They will sell you overvalued stuff and insist it’s extra-valuable because of some feature they made up. They are the ones being loud on the web and making you hear about it all the time. So, if you hear an ad, and buy gold, you’ve probably fallen for a scam.
But investing in gold by itself is just like any other commodity. And just to say, the rule on that last phrase is valid for almost everything (it’s absolutely valid for stocks and investment funds).
- Comment on Still out there 3 days ago:
How big is its genome? There isn’t much in a virus.
People can replicate a lot of them from purely data.
- Comment on Still out there 3 days ago:
Keep the virus data in a computer where it can’t escape from.
- Comment on You guys had a peak? 3 days ago:
Looks like you need practice to go together with that theory your brain thinks is useless.
- Comment on Let the awkward silence begin... 5 days ago:
That one makes .world throw an error for some reason.
It’s not the “this community does not exist” page, just an error.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 1 week ago:
Oh, so a con-man, not a stupid man.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 1 week ago:
This one is empirically falsified. I never heard it before, and even though I can believe somebody is saying it somewhere, it’s an incredibly stupid thing to say.
- Comment on How much money's out there? 1 week ago:
The amount changes all the time, and depends on what you define “money” as.
Almost every country (every one on the WTO) publishes monthly volumes. Here’s the one for the US if you consider that money is cash and the contents of all the bank accounts:
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
That “M1” is a standard definition, that is easy to search for any country.
If you start to add things like credit card balances and government papers that can be used in most large transaction, you arrive at the other definitions. There’s a wiki page for them:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
The M1 to M3 set is an international standard, but many countries add other definitions to their publications.
- Comment on it's free psst 1 week ago:
On the other hand, that solar panel has a clear value proposition, and it probably has a battery in there too.
- Comment on How Lemmy users feel when they delete their Reddit account 1 week ago:
I just never logged there again since … hum … about a week before the Grand Reddit Exodus whenever that was.
I think I’ve tried once since and it didn’t allow me, but I’m not sure I remember the date right, and I’m not in the mood to try again.
- Comment on It's nothing 1 week ago:
Have you checked for gastritis and digestive difficulties (food allergy, lactose or gluten intolerance, etc)?
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 week ago:
When people say they “believe” in science, I think they mean they are putting their faith into the scientists performing the science. That whatever conclusion they come to after an experiment or study is the correct conclusion.
That’s literally what they mean, where “scientists” may as easily mean real scientists as charlatans.
It’s still completely antagonistic to how science is practiced (if scientists behaved like that, they would never learn anything), and something closer to religion than science.
- Comment on Reddit global rank is going down 1 week ago:
I’m not sure there’s anything accidental in it.
- Comment on They still have a lot to scrub out of those files 1 week ago:
Why do you think he would use the pump on himself?
- Comment on Bread mold 1 week ago:
That’s a conversation I’ve had more than once with my parents:
– Doing X is fine! Everybody did it in my time and we grew up just fine!
– Didn’t that friend of yours die because of it?
– Yeah, but he’s only a single person, and everybody did X…
- Comment on Microsoft VS Code: open-source video game where hackers fight each other with weapons such as CSS and JavaScript, named after Plants vs. Zombies 1 week ago:
Instead, it is played by typing cryptic commands into a console requiring you to actually learn something unlike the typical banging your keyboard until you win.
Yet another thing the AI companies destroyed…
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 week ago:
Nah, remember that Australia is “western”, Chile is not… I’m pretty sure Ukraine doesn’t qualify.
US people have a great handling of geography.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 week ago:
Nah. You’ll probably want several shells operating above any sane temperature for steam. You don’t want to lose that extremely high temperature by just heating water to 600 °C or so.
- Comment on Just browsing Lemmy and then this sequence... 1 week ago:
He is in a chair, looking distrustfully to somebody that is by his side.
Newspapers are good in picking pictures like this of people they don’t like. But in his case, it’s either that nobody likes him, or all of his pictures are like this. (Non-exclusive “or”).
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 1 week ago:
Burning everything will surely help Climate Change!
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 1 week ago:
Most NVidia cards work well. Nobody will recommend them because NVidia is known to pull the rug out of your perfectly working card all the time, and being completely aggressive against people trying to make the cards work without by their own.
- Comment on Assumptions 1 week ago:
Yes, they bite.
The local news had to run a campaign for people not to try to pet the capibaras.
- Comment on Assumptions 1 week ago:
There’s a band of capibaras living in my city… they already killed 2 people.
- Comment on I dunno 2 weeks ago:
Social conventions are real, well defined things. Some mathematicians like to pretend they aren’t, while using a truckload of them; that’s a hypocritical opinion.
That’s not to say you can’t change them. But all of basic arithmetic is a social convention, you can redefine the numbers and operations any time you want too.
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 2 weeks ago:
No hate for Cortana?
- Comment on I dunno 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that’s a module operator…