wewbull
@wewbull@feddit.uk
- Comment on I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 16 hours ago:
1 is always 1. It’s $1 × b^0$ where b is the base.
10 is the base. $1 × b^1 + 0 × b^0$
- Comment on nuclear 1 day ago:
Yes, as I live in neither.
- Comment on nuclear 3 days ago:
I think you misunderstood what was written:
The Katsurao village official said about 337 square kilometers of land in seven Fukushima municipalities are deemed “difficult-to-return” zones. Of those, just 27 square kilometers in six of the same municipalities are specified reconstruction zones.
27 km² are the worst areas. The other 310km² are still “difficult-to-return”.
- Comment on nuclear 3 days ago:
At what point am I supporting coal? Totally irrelevant
I’m saying Fukushima was an ecological disaster. Thankfully very few people died, but to only focus on that minimises the impact of the event. If you’re going to say Fukushima wasn’t that bad, you can’t just cherry pick at the impacts.
Is nuclear better than fossil fuels? Yes. But that was an argument for the 80s. The time for nuclear was 50 years ago. It didn’t happen.
- Comment on nuclear 3 days ago:
They need cooling water, so “on the coast” is a reasonable location. Or do you mean “not in Japan”? A country without many great options for clean energy generation. Frankly Japan is one of the places nuclear makes sense to me. There’s not many options.
It doesn’t make sense to me in the US where there’s a sunshine belt across the country 5 timezones long, large windswept plains and shallow coastlines. The US is rich in options and nuclear falls down the list.
- Comment on nuclear 4 days ago:
There was still 164,000 people who needed to evacuate 230 square miles. The land is contaminated and cleanup is proving difficult. Japan will be dealing with the environmental impact for a century I’d wager.
- Comment on NatWest to hike chief's pay as bank returns to full private ownership 5 days ago:
If true then something is fishy.
The company was in trouble, so the initial investment should have been at a good price. The company has now recovered, and the states investment should have grown with it.
How do you make a 20% loss on that?
- Comment on NatWest to hike chief's pay as bank returns to full private ownership 6 days ago:
So my question is, how much did the state invest and what was the return on that investment (index linked)?
I’m sure NatWest are very happy not to be partly owned by the state.
- Comment on British Army successfully tests new drone-destroying laser 1 week ago:
Unlike conventional munitions, laser weapons are virtually limitless in terms of ammunition supply,
We have trucks with limitless energy!
- Comment on Percentages 2 weeks ago:
In a thread about being clear in mathematics…
- Comment on Percentages 2 weeks ago:
Convert percentage to fraction, i.e, 80% become 0.8
That’s not a fraction.
⅘ is a fraction.
- Comment on billions & billions 2 weeks ago:
Why would it bankrupt them when they were never going to the moon?
At least, that’s what some people seem to believe.
- Comment on billions & billions 2 weeks ago:
Elon on top of a super-heavy. He can be like Solomon Epstein.
- Comment on billions & billions 2 weeks ago:
The whole thing was about national pride on both sides. The soviets didn’t admit they were striving for the same thing because they never wanted to be seen to lose. Their pattern was always the same:
- They didn’t say they were working towards having the first satellite. They just announced it when they were successfully.
- They didn’t say they were working towards having the first living animal in space. They just announced it when they were successfully.
- They didn’t say they were working towards having the first man in space. They just announced it when they were successfully.
- They didn’t say they were working towards having the first man on the moon. They just denied it when they were unsuccessful.
However, the Soviet lunar program was confirmed many years after the fact under Gorbachev’s policy of Glastnost when the Soviet Union fell. The Soviet Lunar program is fact. Their lunar landers were built just months after the US. Some still exist. There’s one on loan for display at Disneyland in Paris. I’ve seen another at the London Science Museum. Russia loans them out to show how advanced they were at the time. To take pride in what they accomplished, and rightly so.
This is all very public, yet you’re trying to convince me that 50yo face saving propaganda is the truth?
- Comment on billions & billions 2 weeks ago:
Your point of view is 83 billion years out of date.
…but I like the meme.
- Comment on billions & billions 2 weeks ago:
You don’t need anything that powerful for earth orbit. Salut and Mir launched on much less ambitious rockets. They became the focus after the moon race was decided.
The N1-L3 version was designed to compete with the United States Apollo program to land a person on the Moon, using a similar lunar orbit rendezvous method. The basic N1 launch vehicle had three stages, which were to carry the L3 lunar payload into low Earth orbit with two cosmonauts. The L3 contained one stage for trans-lunar injection; another stage used for mid-course corrections, lunar orbit insertion, and the first part of the descent to the lunar surface; a single-pilot LK Lander spacecraft; and a two-pilot Soyuz 7K-LOK lunar orbital spacecraft for return to Earth.
You build an N1 or Saturn V to go to the moon.
Had the N1 launched without incident, the Soviets were on target to get a man on the moon first. When the Soviet Union fell all the details of the program became available.
- Comment on billions & billions 2 weeks ago:
They are not moving faster than light.
The distance between us and them is increasing at a rate than means light leaving earth now could not ever reach them. Such is the impact of an expanding universe.
- Comment on billions & billions 2 weeks ago:
Impressive rewriting of history.
I guess the N1 was never built, right?
- Comment on Introducing Amuse 2.2 Beta: With Stable Diffusion 3.5 Support and AMD Ryzen™ AI Image Quality Update 3 weeks ago:
Following links, 3 websites later, Windows exe. RX 7900 XTX only (from the consumer card line).
Come on AMD
- You need to support developers. This field is moving too fast for binary blobs in partnership with some other company.
- You need to support them on your whole consumer line. Developers don’t have arrays of “professional” GPUs waiting to spin up whilst they bash out code. They’re on a machine with a single consumer GPU that they can trial code on. Might not even be a high end one.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 5 weeks ago:
Not so much that period, but the late 30s - early 40s.
- Comment on Somebody has a case of the Mondays... 5 weeks ago:
…may your conflicts be short, swift and decisive.
- Comment on Bears Cave 1 month ago:
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 1 month ago:
Governments see inflation as a way of making things cheaper in real terms. Public sector wages should be index linked IMHO, but I’m always told that to do so would be “inflationary”. To put that another way - Not giving people real-terms pay cuts is, apparently, a driver of inflation.
Economists have built a system which relies on the buying power of the workers going down.
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 1 month ago:
It doesn’t help that GCHQ is mainly seen as a department that enables all the authoritarian aspects of government in the digital age. Nobody wants to have their work put to use against their own countrymen.
Now, the truth maybe different but GCHQ is so secretive, nobody knows.
- Comment on Britons are dying in a blizzard of cheap cocaine. Why is so little being done to save them? 1 month ago:
…and you need less of it.
- Comment on Time has come for reparations conversation, say Commonwealth leaders 1 month ago:
Countries should not be pushing for reparations when it was them selling their people into the slave trade.
It’s historical revisionism.
- Comment on ‘Fight Club’ Turns 25 with 4K Remaster, Theatrical Re-Release 1 month ago:
I don’t think he’s positive or negative. He’s a twisted product of a diseased society. What struck chords with a lot of men was the recognition of the disease. They felt a connection to Tyler. Not in his response to his life, but just to his life.
Millions of men live Tyler’s life and endure. Tyler is the one that cracked.
In a lot of ways it’s similar to Office Space, except that take a comedic instead of psychological look at the subject.
- Comment on Big Ol' Beavers 1 month ago:
Omg. It’s the Beavles!
- Comment on ComfyUI V1 Release - Fully Packaged Desktop Version 1 month ago:
Ewwww! Hard pass.
I’ll keep with the old way thanks. Sure, pytorch installs are a pain in the butt, but that’s why I’m pretty sure a pre-packaged version is not going to make life easier. I also despise electron apps.
I realise as somebody who isn’t afraid of a little command line Linux, I’m not the target audience. However, is anyone who is using diffusion models right now… especially someone who isn’t scared off by noodles… asking for this? The software is for experimenters who enjoy building their own flows. It’s mode of operation is “some assembly required”.
- Comment on Pick some unrelated lectures, they said. 1 month ago:
It always got me that the maths I was doing in electrical engineering outclassed what my friend was doing for his astrophysics degree. He was probably at the better university too (Debatable for the subjects in question, but both really good).
Did I need that level of maths? No, but it was compulsory for the first 3 years so not much option.
