LouNeko

@LouNeko@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but at that age people are usually mature enough to know what they want. And what they want surely isn’t an romantically inexperienced, socially inept, depressed loner. And if they do, that’s sort of a red flag in itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Roughly your age. All my life. Because I my family was poor and moved around alot so I never had the opportunity to develop passions or intrests and was always lagging behind everyone in life. Now that severe depression has manifested itself as constant part of my life, there is no chance for me to ever have a healthy fulfilling relationship without dragging the other person down with me. So I just stay at arms length with everybody.
  Also at my age, if heaven’s forbid there is still somebody who’s also single without kids, then just like me, there’s a good (bad) reason for it.

  At least I don’t end up as one of those 40 something year old steering head first into their 3rd divorce. I probably won’t even end up as a 40 something year old, period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Sir, this is a sperm bank”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever had to much stuff lying around and you thought to yourself “I should really buy some shelves to stow everything away”? Then you get more shelves and after everything is in its place you’re left with some extra empty shelves. Now will those remain empty? No, they will be an invitation to get more stuff and fill that space up.

  Same thing goes for rescources. Doubling the rescources doesn’t mean that life will suddenly thrive and everybody will live happily ever after. In a very short time life would also double and you’ll end up with the same problem but way more crowded.

  And how does “doubling the rescources” even work? Snapping half the life away is easy, just turn them into dust. But does doubling the water mean rivers overflow, oceans rise? Hydrogen is a rescource, does every star goes supernova because it suddenly has twice the amout of mass?

  Doubling the rescources doesn’t make any sense. In the Marvel universe there is probably at least one species that sees at least one element of the periodic table as a “rescource”. You’d essentially have to double the mass of the entire universe which most likely would result in a universal gravitational collapse.

  Also what would the lesson be that life takes away from this? That each time life expands beyond its means somebody will come along and give you more rescources? Thanos wanted to teach life the opposite lesson. That living beyond your means will result in a culling instead of a reward. It was his way of solving greed, even if he could’ve used the stones to eradicate greed directly, he is called the “Mad Titan” for a reason.

  Thanos is probably purple be because his armor is golden/yellow and purple/yellow are complimentary colors that look good together. Its probably a design choice to make his character more recognizable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry, guys, it's just not happening⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  China introducing the one child policy, 1979 (slightly decolorized)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What percentage of the world population ages 30+ do you suppose is capable of financially supporting themselves & living & thriving independently?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Independently, as in not counting the income and support from a partner?
  I’d say less than 5%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Woah, nobody said anything about burning. Those are just regular, easily obtainable household items. Of course there’s always, The Implication that something could might happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But where else am I gonna store all my 1/4" ball bearings other than a glass bottle full of gasoline to keep them nice and clean? And the rag conveniently serves as a stopper and a way to dry the bearings if I ever need one.

  But I gotta be carefull, the bearings can pop the bottle easily even if it hits something soft like a person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it was a scheme, just natural emergence from access to instant and global communication. There wasn’t a single point in time where people have been at tune with each other. There was always division into competing hierarchies, groups and social circles. Now it’s just happening on a global scale.

  Also, if women and men are so divided, then how come there are still couples and marriages and children? Don’t base your entire global world view on your own very limited personal experiences.

  And let’s not pretend people fight for somebody else. In reality the reasons for fighting aren’t that noble. You either get radicalized, have nothing better to do or nothing else to lose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Vodka it is then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People tend to forget how cheap gasoline is and how abundant glas bottles and rags are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazon with worker rights doesn’t work as a buisness modell. Can’t have profits on selling cheap China trash if you have to pay everybody a living wage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes non-programmers more efficient. If you reach the limits of what text editors or Excel can do natively with REGEX and have to write scripts for data formatting, AI is a godsend. Takes 10 Minutes to generate a small script, glance over it to make sure it’s ok, test it and start batch formating files rather than spend hours doing it by hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hires a goth chick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ultimately, capitalism is bad because it drains the only world we have of rescources making life for the next generation harder and harder. And you’re preaching this to people who will never have children.
  “Cut off the hands of the armless.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think retail workers care enough. As long as you know the PIN, there’re shouldn’t be any issues.
  Source: Was a retail worker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One day😔🤞⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern Medicine or the McDonalds Menu?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Henry Cavill Says ‘Warhammer 40,000’ Adaptation is Very Tricky and Complex: “The challenges that come with putting this on the page in a way that is doing justice to that complexity, that trickiness,⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t have to cover all of that. They can do what Arcane did for Leaque of Legends. Don’t go into the lore of everything, just pick a small fraction of it and make it excellent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only press who previewed the RTX 5060 under Nvidia’s test conditions are getting review drivers, reports claim⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to play little off topic devils advocate here.

  I’ve recently had to choose between a 5070 TI and a 9070 XT for my new setup.

  If I were to listen to any reviews - the general consensus would be that Nvdias 50XX Series is a steaming pile of dogshit that will burn your house down and kill you dog.

  Every single of those reviews boils down to: AMD slightly faster but actually worse at everything. But because price lower number, AMD better. PS: Nvidia bad.

  The RTX series is primarily a gaming card and gaming performance is all that matters, not all that additional fluff that reviewers dish out to make a 7 min video into a 20 min video.

  Nvidia has the clear R&D advantage for new technologies, older titles barely matter in this discussion because everything pre DLSS era is going to run at 200+ FPS at 4K anyway (with the exception of 32bit PhysX titles, dick move Nvidia).
  Newer titles on the other hand, are an absolute wildcard of performance because nobody cares about optimization anymore. I’ve used a 1080 Ti for 8 years and even some of the newest titles still ran at around 60 FPS maxed out. But here’s the catch, the discrepancy between highest and lowest setting has gotten miniscule, to the point where you’d get 60 FPS on lowest and 50 FPS on max settings with a 1080 TI. My personal reason for an upgrade tho, was Raytracing and Generative AI Performance, both at wich AMD sucks.

  “Don’t blame the Card, blame the Game.”

  Nowadays performance is more about the rendering technique rather than the visual settings. And when it comes to technique Nvidia is clearly the winner. Now that I have a reference between DLSS and FSR, I can confidently say that AMD will be in 2 years where Nvidia is now.

  Let’s talk about price. People are still living in the fantasy that GPUs are going to cost 400€ again like it’s 2014 (which they didn’t even do back then). 800€ is the new baseline for a midrange GPU - that’s just how it is now. I’ve paid around 900€ for a 1080 8 years ago, now I paid around 900€ for a 5070 TI and get about triple the performance. So what’s the problem?
  I think there’s a small but obnoxiously loud minority of “must have the newest thing” babies that didn’t get the memo when we reached the technical limitation of the Moore’s Law about 10 years ago. You won’t get double the performance in 2 years for the same price. No reason to whine about it. Want to get your moneys worth, keep you old GPU for another 2 years, there problem solved.

  Also, what not a single reviewer ever has mentioned is the significant increase in power draw that AMD has over Nvidia.

  Let’s do a simple calculation:

  Price for a 9070 XT: ~800€
  Price for a 5070 Ti: ~900€
  Difference in favor of AMD: 100€

  Power draw 9070 XT: 300W
  Power draw 5070 TI: 250W
  Difference in favor of Nvidia: 50W
  (Based on tests of the same games with equal settings)

  My regional price per 1kWh is ~0,40€
  100€ / 0.40€ per kWh = 250 kWh
  250 kWh / 50 W = 5000 hours

  My average game time per day is maybe 2-3 hours, make it 2.5 h.

  5000 h / 2.5 h per day = 2000 days ≈ 5.5 years

  Since electricity prices are constantly on the rise, and I intend to keep my current setup for maybe another 8 years, the price difference between Nvidia and AMD doesn’t really matter in the long run.

  The funny thing is I paid about 2200€ in 2017 for a high-end build that could play everything I throw at it, and now I paid 2000€ for another high end build that can play everything I throw at it. People forget to mention that while GPU prices have gone up. Everything else has gone down. RAM and HDD/SSDs, are dirty cheap nowadays.

  While yes, Nvidia is a greedy and shitty company, let’s not pretend like their product doesn’t do what’s advertised - that is playing games really well. And AMD is not a saint either, their GPUs aren’t exactly cheap either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mr. Deepfakes, Largest deepfake porn site shuts down forever due to critical service provider terminating their service permanently.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Advice⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I also think my sister is hoter than me.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon critiques humanity⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  >developes precise eyes
  >doesn’t know where to put the blood vessels
  >“fuck it, we’ll put them in front of the receptors”
  >blood vessels always visible
  >“we’ll fix it in post”
  >actually works out
  >MFW they have to add a blind spot for vessel/nerve management

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How magnets could change our fridges and ACs forever⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What does that mean “refrigeration tech […] energy hungry”? The technical appilcation of the Carnot-Cycle is as close to maximum mathematical efficiency as we can get. Sure, it’s far from 100% efficient but we’re actively going against entropy here. In the end it all comes down to thermal isolation and losses. Even cheap fridges from the past 20 years take like 100 Watts once they’ve reached their target temperature. That’s only a bit more than a laptop and a bit less than a desktop computer on idle. AC-Units take a lot more but we already have a 100% efficency solution, it called “not bitching about the heat”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happens every time⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  >Puts Iron-56 in a box.
  >checks at the heat death if the universe
  >still Iron-56
  >mfw box also Iron-56

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ready Player One

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physicists vs Normal People⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Physicians: “It’s all vector addition and differatials?”
  Mathematicians: “Always has been.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roll tide!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Baseball, huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crossbow killer Kyle Clifford was 'fuelled' by Andrew Tate videos before rape and murders, court told⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Andrew Tate is the actual guy, while Eminen was just a character. Marshall Matters was a guy who was trying to raise a daughter and give her a normal childhood, all while her mother and himself were fighting severe drug addiction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon envies the boomers⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exception to Rule 1: Be Conan Fucking O’Brian

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How was your valentines day weekend?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The girl got hammered and drilled too on that day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the tallest pyramid we'd be able to build? Can we reach space?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not really the limiting factor for pyramids. If you were to build a shape of equal height, say a cube, then yes this would be the main issue.

  What are the failure modes for a pyramid?

  • A 45° pyramid can’t tip over since it’s center of mass is always sufficiently far enough from the bottom edge. So tipping isn’t one.
  • I’d say bending through cross winds is also not an issue for a pyramid unless you make it out of jello. So that’s also not a failure mode.
  • Crumbling of the bottom layers because of the weight of the top layers is definetly one.
  • Uneven foundation strength can cause the supporting area to be weaker in some spots more than in others, so that’s another failure mode.

  I’d say the crumbling and Foundation issues are heavily mitigated by 2 main factors.

  1st:

  The outer edge is always of height zero. As the pyramid grows in height it also gets wider, but the only point that is at risk of imminent collapse is the very center of the pyramid, since it is the only point that will reach a critical supporting mass first.
  Let’s say the pyramid reaches a height and the furthes block at the bottom in the center crumbles (let’s assume it actually turns into straight up dust). The clumbled block will still support some pressure but will also transfer it laterally into the adjacent blocks (essentialy like a liquid). Now the main question is “How many adjacent blocks does it need to support one crumbled block?”. If the answer is ≤1, than you have no problem, because with each new block in height, the pyramid also gets 1 block wider at each side. Similar to water pressure, the lateral force the blocks exhibit will increase linearly with height therefore never outpassing the increase in pyramid width. If it’s >1 than you will reach a point where the outer walls of the pyramid will start to collapse from inside pressure, and that will be your limiting factor for height.

  2nd:

  The blocks can be cemeted together, so whatever forces are being transfered laterally will not only be supported by the adjacent blocks, but also blocks adjacent to them and so on, and so on…
  Same thing goes for uneven foundation strength. The local decrease in support will be spread over a wider area because the blocks are merged together. Also Pyramids are usually not build block on block, but with a 50% offset, which will further aid to stabilize the structure.

  Usually, If you look at mathematical calculations for things like sky elevators the form to support the structure looks like a symmetric reciprocal function. This function actually requires way less material to support the weight of the center piece of the structure than a pyramid. So not only could a pyramid essentialy support itself until earths centrifugal forces take over, it would also be way too overkill in doing that.