DahGangalang
@DahGangalang@infosec.pub
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Whoever the dems run had better be playing to win.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I’m down to watch it play out, if Trump attempts to make it a thing.
I expect the biggest barrier would be getting Michelle Obama on board. Word is she HATED her time as First Lady, but now that they’re kids are more grown (seems like they should be done with undergrad college by now?), it might be more feasible.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 week ago:
Can you pass a translation for me?
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 week ago:
Like other commenter said, its more a general vibe.
Its the blocky graphic on either side with smaller text labeled modern squared off graphics in the middle. Its the font. Its the spacing. Its got the same general flow of the dozens of AI generated websites I’ve seen.
Its too cleanly unclean.
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 1 week ago:
It’s being caught logic.
Hitting cement and decelerating over 0.001 meters? Instant death.
Hitting heroes arms and decelerating over 0.01 meters? Totally fine, no injuries, good to head back to work or whatever.
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 1 week ago:
Eh, its non-spiderman marvel slop. I don’t really care.
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 1 week ago:
Almost worse if I understand the US Justice system well enough, tbh.
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 1 week ago:
Like I said, I didn’t actually watch the new Captain America movie, just some summary videos. That was my takeaway from those. I’ll edit my comment to better reflect that they jail the President in the end.
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 1 week ago:
In the Captain America movie, US President gets turned into a hulk and wrecks some junk (and maybe screws up some other stuff, maybe commits war crimes? Idk, I just watched some summary videos). The message is that none of that really matters; patriotism and loyalty to your leadership is important and so we should look past all that.
In Superman, a major plot point is a tacitly abstracted Israel/Gaza conflict. Superman continues to delay/obstruct the invasion by kidnapping the leader of parallel Israel, taking him to the middle of the desert, and dropping him from crazy high (and catching him before he hits the ground) to get him to back down.
- Comment on What stratgies do you have for dealing with people who "live in your head rent free"? 2 weeks ago:
Currently at insomnia. Not necessarily over this, but just as a combination of things.
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- Comment on Could machines develop consciousness just like we did? 2 weeks ago:
I must beg the question: what is it that makes Deoxyribonucleic acid so special? Is it possible that different specific set of chemicals could achieve the same thing? Would this same polymers not be an alternative building block of life?
To try to preempt an answer: they act as instructions for self replication. I would then conjecture that and machine designed to take in a set of input material, read a set of self replication instructions, and out put an identical copy would also be alive.
I had a similar disagreement with a coworker some time ago, who’s core thesis was that AI could never gave a soul because God is the only thing that can give something about soul, all of which is nice and unprovable in any kind of scientific sense. It feels like you’re making a parallel argument here.
- Comment on Could machines develop consciousness just like we did? 2 weeks ago:
My counter: what does it mean to be alive? Seems like biologists struggle with this when considering viruses, since they act in a very predefined and mechanical way.
I don’t see it has to far fetched for a computer or other machine to straddle a similar boundary.
- Comment on PLZ 4 weeks ago:
Makes me chuckle every time.
- Comment on Closed game studio returns to un-live service its game with community servers before shutdown: 'We don't believe Deceive Inc. should quietly disappear' 5 weeks ago:
So if seems like the peak of Good Guy Game Devs (but who still need to make money) would sell the game to normal gamers, but also offer the ability to buy a server build license.
From there, if they company goes under, they prepare to open source the game and server code in case the open source community wants to maintain both.
Is there anything else I’m missing in that assessment?
- Comment on Not a single one 5 weeks ago:
Agree that we can get to carbon neutral / carbon negative with current tech.
I do think making plans based on having it are foolish at best.
But I do think we need to keep working on research of it. If we ever hope to achieve a world with “electricity too cheap to meter”, nuclear fusion is the key to it. (That and dyson spheres, but that’s kinda not in scope of discussion).
- Comment on Not a single one 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, putting your hopes / goals on a fusion powered future is foolish at this point.
But I def support (lots of) research into it.
- Comment on Not a single one 5 weeks ago:
From Wikipedia
In 2019, the US EIA revised the levelized cost of electricity from new advanced nuclear power plants going online in 2023 to be $0.0775/kWh before government subsidies, using a regulated industry 4.3% cost of capital (WACC - pre-tax 6.6%) over a 30-year cost recovery period.[63] Financial firm Lazard also updated its levelized cost of electricity report costing new nuclear at between $0.118/kWh and $0.192/kWh using a commercial 7.7% cost of capital (WACC - pre-tax 12% cost for the higher-risk 40% equity finance and 8% cost for the 60% loan finance) over a 40-year lifetime.[64]
The article discusses why that number is probably flawed and relies on cherry picked data, but it seems somewhat close to profitability. Assuming theyre above with a cost of electricity of ~$0.20/kWh (already cheaper than some of US) should be viable, yeah?
- Comment on Not a single one 5 weeks ago:
Ideally we figure out some sweet Nuclear Fusion.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
So it sounds like its an exchange of size for customizability.
If you had a different installer for each language and/or video quality, then each installation could be much smaller. But since we (gamers) want to be able to change texture quality “on the fly” via the settings menu, we have to deal with all the possible textures coming in the game files.
Does that sound like I have it right?
- Comment on Neil the Seal 1 month ago:
Yeah, it was pretty low effort. Figured it might give someone a chuckle tho.
- Comment on Neil the Seal 1 month ago:
There is nothing funny about stealing a meal from Neil McBeal, the Navy Seal.
- Comment on And she got the deluxe model 1 month ago:
Wasn’t obvious to me, but apparently pictured item is a kitchen faucet. Company appears to still be in business.
Is this a stealth ad?
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 2 months ago:
Being a technical expert != being a good leader
There are a set of skills and attributes that enable one to leader well. An ideal leader will have both technical skills and leadership capability, but it is possible for each to exist independently in a person.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 2 months ago:
A single expert in a team of juniors can do so much more. Because it can delegate the junior work to the juniors while doing only expert work.
This part is definitely true but I think it misses the point. A single expert can be a force multiplier, or they can be overbearing dead weight. There is the possibility a technical expert wants to micromanage and see every step as it is done (thus holding up work that can be done while the expert is elsewhere).
I conjecture that those skills and attributes that separate the two experts we’ve described is what “good leadership” consists of.
I would never trust a leader who has no technical skills, but neither would I trust a leader who has only technical skills.
- Comment on *Honk honk* 2 months ago:
Yeah, I see the industrial revolution as an inevitable consequence of the agricultural revolution.
Which is to say:
The agricultural revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. - Comment on Wowee 2 months ago:
Wow, the Pacific Ocean must be really wide, like, that’s gotta be longer than 2 football fields placed end to end.
- Comment on Anon watches redditors talk about bodycount 2 months ago:
- Comment on I am not a high drug user. I mean I smoke and drink that's it. But it seems to me that the US president is using uppers midday and keeping him up at night and crashing half thru the day? 3 months ago:
I’d love to have sources on this to shove in my folks’ faces. Can you point me to any?
- Comment on Black men dating Asian women: where is the real conversation about racism, family pressure, and emotional risk? 3 months ago:
I know I’m perfect.
I can’t help if this is intentional and based or just typo. Either way, thanks for the chuckle.
