Crozekiel
@Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 1 week ago:
I constantly hear people calling that tiny little blip just right of center “mountains” and its fucking ridiculous.
- Comment on What would happen if you maxxed out your credit cards and line of credit then moved to some village in the phillipines? 1 week ago:
Yea, imagine every transaction goes through except the plane ticket…
- Comment on What would happen if you maxxed out your credit cards and line of credit then moved to some village in the phillipines? 1 week ago:
After about 7+ years the debt is written off by the agencies and drops off credit reports.
*Is supposed to be written off, falls off your credit report, and they cannot take any legal action to reclaim the debt. This does not stop the bill collecting calls and e-mails and text messages, because the 7 year timer is from the last time you gave them money, so they will sneakily try anything they can to get you to pay them literally anything in order to re-open those doors, including lying to you about settlement discounts and the like. Debt collectors are a special breed of evil.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 week ago:
Like, actually building a data center in space would bankrupt Space X. But the hype from a bunch of dumbasses saying they are going to makes them a shit load of money, because our system is dumb.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 week ago:
Oh yea, 100%. I meant to talk about that in my first “OH” section, lol. The ISS is low. You either have to build it further out or have a nearly constant supply of fuel to keep it in the sky. Building it further out means more fuel and time to get to it and less frequent viable mission launch windows, so more difficult to build, but that is still probably the smarter choice than building it at the ISS altitude and needing rocket fuel sent up almost as much as water for cooling…
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 week ago:
You just wouldn’t. The ISS is the largest thing we’ve ever built in space previously. It has an internal area about equal to a 747 passenger jet. That’s about 4800 sq ft, but the entire structure is about the size of a football field, with the solar panels needed to power it and whatnot - that’s 57,800 sq ft total space taken up to get that 4800 sq ft. The average data center currently is around 100,000 sq ft. The ISS took about 1000 hours of space walking and 136 space flights to build. So we need 20 times the ISS to build one average data center, so 20,000 hours (that’s a team of 10 people working 12 hour shifts for 166 days) of space walking to build, 2700 space flights, and it would^1^ take up over 1 million square feet of space in the sky.
OH, and that is completely ignoring the fact that ISS orbits earth in 90 minutes. Maintaining data transfer capabilities from that to Earth would be a nightmare and building a structure that big that close to Earth also means it’s going to be BRIGHT in the night sky (like, ok, not as bright as a full moon or anything, but 20 times brighter than ISS which is the 3rd brightest thing in our night sky already… This data center would be well ahead and into the number 2 spot, you literally wouldn’t be able to miss it).
OH OH, that is also ignoring how incredibly difficult it would be to cool. Cooling components on the ISS is one of the biggest challenges because there is nowhere for the heat to go. So add on hauling several million gallons of water to space every month I guess? I dunno what their plan would even look like for cooling that is such a monumental problem.
AND THAT IS JUST ONE AVERAGE DATA CENTER. The cost would be astronomical. The environmental impact would be devastating. The repercussions would be severe. The benefit would be almost non-existent and very short lived if there even was any.
^1^ - Ok, this is all napkin math based on what it took to build the ISS. Could it be done more efficiently the second time around? Maybe, but we aren’t just talking about ISS 2: Electric Boogaloo either, we are talking about a giant 20x structure. Chances are it would be even worse than these estimates - and where the hell is SpaceX going to get the actual physical man-power to do the construction of this thing in orbit??
- Comment on Rate My New Gaming Chair 1 week ago:
Why the hell does it have corners???
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 1 week ago:
Franchises like Battlefield and Call of Duty are way down the charts from the free to play shooter games.
I think a big part of that is they are usually monetized the same (or even more aggressively) as the free to play games, but you also have to pay $60 up front every couple of years to keep playing because they come out with a new one (nuking any community they previously had built, further fracturing their community). It’s like they watch other games make bank on a concept and monetization system and think they can do the same thing, but they only copy the bad parts and then wonder why it doesn’t make them billions in a just a couple years.
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Too many people love a piece of media that makes them feel smart without effort. They don’t want to think, they want to believe they already know anything important already and they love to have that reinforced. They read something written by an adult human and their thinky meat gets all hurty, but if they read the dumbed down, stripped bare version that spoon-feeds the “answers” to them, they get all tingly in their bits.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
My best guess is, according this comic’s author, the princesses only exist as romance objects for Mario and Luigi. Since Wario and Waluigi are a couple, there is no reason to give them princess sex objects. The princesses apparently are not character in their own right to get mirror versions of.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
And we’ll likely never know his first name.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
You can’t put a portal on a moving platform, it has to stop moving first, so neither can happen… Unless the moving surface is a celestial body at least the size of The Moon, I guess?
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 5 weeks ago:
Generally, my understanding, is there is a “flow” and a negative reading would be flowing the other direction. Thinking about a multimeter - it usually expects flow from red to black, but if you swap those around, you get a negative number as it flows from black to red.
The actual number is usually (not always) the important part - the potential difference between the two ends or something like that. That difference is going to behave similarly no matter which direction, but we assigned it numbers like that to make talking about voltages easier.
- Comment on Non-stick pans? 5 weeks ago:
It’s also tough because generally search algorithms have absolutely shit the bed the in the last few years and very often just flat out ignore parts of your search and just start showing you generic carbon steel pans, which have to be seasoned and maintained very similarly to cast iron…
- Comment on Non-stick pans? 5 weeks ago:
Have heard really good things about nitrided carbon steel pans and titanium pans - very nearly as good as teflon but without the coating to flake off into your food.
- Comment on idiot you tuber leaving his 50 cal on the ground pointed at the picnic table 5 weeks ago:
That’s a harsh take, we are just random people on the internet, not the writers of SNL… :/
- Comment on idiot you tuber leaving his 50 cal on the ground pointed at the picnic table 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure that was a joke about 'merica going to war over oil. Like crude oil, not canola…
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 1 month ago:
I don’t know specifically about fire but I think the square-cube law plays a significant factor in the idea that alien life would be similar in scale to humans.
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 1 month ago:
And what, just break our treaty with the dwarves and end a peace that has lasted a thousand years?? We get the top 10 feet, they get everything deeper. I won’t go to war in the dark over a housing shortage we created ourselves through greed.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As an aside, I don’t think you actually have fast internet - or whatever you are downloading doesn’t have any mirrors even remotely close to you.
Assuming the GB is Gibibytes (worst case scenario), that is 730,144 Megabits (not bytes). With a 100 Megabit connection (lower end of what most ISPs offer that I’ve seen and still call it “high-speed”) that should be done in about 2 hours. In 8 hours at 100 Mb speed you should be able to download over 300 Gigs of data.
85GB in 8-12 hours is somewhere between 17 and 25 Mbps, which would be stressed out by 1080p video streaming.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 month ago:
I’ve had and been using steam since 2003… I really don’t want to know what that number is. And I am also convinced someone is collecting this data point for nefarious purposes, because its 2026 and everything is being used for nefarious purposes. Including this comment.
- Comment on The red bull guy who jumped from space what was going on with his body when him and his suit broke the sound barrier? 1 month ago:
I think his body was falling at the time.
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 1 month ago:
I don’t think we get away from that until we also get away from looking at the “resale value” of our homes and cars. We can’t enjoy them while we have them because we constantly have to worry about either “turning a profit” or “mitigating a loss”.
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- Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store 1 month ago:
Worried about health. Planned to eat nothing but pie for 2 days.
Wat?
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 1 month ago:
Toxic like that fucking Algae?
- Comment on Me after Jerboa announced it is ending support 1 month ago:
That isn’t so much “Boost is spyware” as it is “ads are spyware”. Boost is either paid or supported by ads, either can be enough reason to not use the app, but it doesn’t make the app itself spyware.
- Comment on 📡📡📡 1 month ago:
Any major combat movement is going to make her bits show.
She is an alien, so maybe she doesn’t have bits like humans.
- Comment on 📡📡📡 1 month ago:
Basically. Turn the S logo into a cleavage window and it’s Powergirl.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 months ago:
They’d be really upset if they weren’t monolingual.
- Comment on Don’t forget to regularly check your eyes! 2 months ago:
This whole time I just been making my little shruggy dude green.
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