kinsnik

@kinsnik@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear Demonology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Richard Rhodes’ The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a great book that kind of explains all that in detail…

  but i would say it is either the Curie’s experiments, discovering the neutron, splitting the atom, Fermi’s reactor, or the tests during the Manhattan project; all really well documented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Suffering⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  well, with 2 trolleys it is the same amount of suffering as with 1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh Elon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  snowballing

  yeah, it is not snowballing, it is Network Effect. for the people who want to use a twitter-like social network, the value is in the many other people using it.

  but, as you are doing, telling people to leave is the correct move. because for every person that the network loses, the network loses value for everyone (the network effect going in reverse)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman's UBI study finds that money can buy happiness • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Giving people money to rise them out of poverty does but happiness

  Greedily accumulating wealth after you have enough money for anything you could have ever needed doesn’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any advantage to tying game logic to frame-rate?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  also, if a game relies in a complex physics engine, the physics simulations has to be done with a stable interval and FPS, which means it had to be decoupled from the rendering (which was not stable and depends on what you are drawing)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're in the right place⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  for when you want to rock a Jesus’ cosplay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do teeth don't regenerate?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The diet that we evolved to consume (fruits, lean meats and fibrous plants) was much less damaging to our teeth than the current high-sugar, high-fat, highly processed foods. And human lifespans was shorter, so less time for teeth to damage. So there wasn’t a strong evolutionary need to regenerate them (unlike an animal like sharks)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like debuty editor Alice Bell⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RPS already has an article “celebrating Alices in games” as a sneaky attack on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is Reddit doing⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the thing is, the one and only purpose of this dialog is to increase metrics of engagement, like how many users download the app. they don’t need to convert every mobile web user to an app user immediately. as long as that dialog is driving the engagement metrics apps, it is doing its work correctly. obviously at some point there will stop increasing engagement, so the middle managers will turn and try to squeeze a bit more by removing the loopholes, but it is not an urgent problem. it even might be intentional so they can squeeze a bit more later

  the one that i am surprised at how bad it is is Twitter, that is still hosted at twitter.com . even going to x.com just redirects to twitter.com . i assume that there’s some major engineering problem that is preventing them from switching, but still, it has been almost 10 months and the clown at chief really pushed for the rebranding

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish to give this many fucks⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that the fireman was so polite and whisper, so to not disturb him during his relax time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How comes despite modern medecine, (western) society is less violent ?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if people were thinking “i want to just harm someone in a way that they can still make a full recovery”, modern medicine also tells us much more about ptsd and other mental health issues that can happen from violence. So even if the while premise of “let’s get violent, they can heal” was true, it would still lead to less violence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  also, having the document was not the issue. it was the intentional hiding and lying about them when the gov went to recover them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uno reverse 🔁⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  i’m going to stop calling it twitter when twitter.com redirects to x.com, and not the other way around

  at that point i would stop talking about it, because X is just too stupid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do modern phones have device encryption on by default, but computers do not? Why doesn't computers also get encryption on by default?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  if you don’t trust microsoft, why would you use windows at all?