kbotc

@kbotc@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From 'quiet quitting' to 'coffee badging' — why employees are less interested in work⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Devil’s advocate: You can get an island for pretty cheap if you don’t care about amenities. Like, a chunk of inhospitable land on Lake Michigan that can only be accessed by Kayak during the warm months is in tech bro territory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain yourselves, comp sci.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dynamically sized but stored contiguously makes the systems performance engineer in me weep. If the lists get big, the kernel is going to do so much churn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Handy temperature conversion scale.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  CDs have ~700 mb storage because that’s how many bytes it took to store 74 minutes, which was how long a CD needed to be to store Wilhelm Furtwängler’s 1951 recording of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. That was the longest copy of the Symphony they could find and so that’s what set the standard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The actual research that you’re giving Taiwan credit for is US research. There’s a reason the US was able to tell the Dutch government “You can’t allow this hardware to go to China.”

  The basic research for the Extreme Ultraviolet lithography was done at US DOE labs as a hedge against Japan dominating the world semiconductor supply. The US allowed a few companies in as part of the EUV-LLC private-public partnership, and ASML ended up buying out the other players who had the licenses from the US. The EU certainly had a hand in the research after the test bed was built proving it could work. www.sandia.gov/media/ultra.htm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bread is metal⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Beer’s similar: Give beer sugars, the yeast generates poison to try and prevent other microorganisms from surviving and eventually the yeast poisons its own environment enough that it can no longer continue living.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two distinct eras of television⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true only true if there’s not a show people would watch instead. At this point they’re hoping these shows act as anchors for their streaming service. I just suspect they over invested in “what do millennials use as sleep aids” will come crashing down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shout out to my fellow caffeine addicts.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can drink espresso after a date night and sleep 30 minutes later, but god forbid I have a fucking caffeinated soda with lunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geography Quiz anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I got there, then was like “Fuck, if this was asking where Jakarta was, I’d be so damn stupid.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't explain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it was created because a pharmacist wanted something that reminded him of his pharmacy.