ByteJunk
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world
- Comment on RIP 1 day ago:
What a nice looking stick you have there…
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 1 day ago:
Newfag.
(sorry! seemed like the appropriate 4chan reply)
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 2 days ago:
Ball headbasher to ballgnasher is a quick chomp.
- Comment on Fun new game 4 days ago:
Yes, that’s the second arc.
In the first accident there were no half-spheres, the neutrons were being reflected back using bars of tungsten carbide placed around the exposed core.
Wiki photo from a recreation of the first incident: Image
In the second accident, a year later, the reflective material was the two beryllium half-spheres. Shims were used to ensure the two halves were never fully closed, which would trigger the nuclear chain reaction.
Supposedly, this guy liked to show off and had done this demonstration a dozen times in front of different audiences, wearing jeans and cowboy boots and using his screwdriver instead of the shims.
Some report that Fermi told the guy and others that “they would be dead in a year” if they kept doing that… and voila.
The good thing is that he at least was hunched over the core, so he mostly shielded everyone else in the room from the worst of the radiation by absorbing it himself. 9 days later, he was dead. The guy closest to him was in the hospital for several weeks with severe radiation poisoning, but at least survived but died fairly young, in his 50s, which may or may not have been related…
- Comment on Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters 4 days ago:
That’s the brilliant part.
They were led to believe the government could go after them physically, and that’s what they’re looking for, while they steal their healthcare and education and infrastructure, while deporting the cheap labor they were exploiting in their farms and depriving them of income.
They’re tightly watching their front door, ready to shoot the first person getting close to it, while the rest of their house is being robbed blind…
- Comment on Fun new game 4 days ago:
That was hilarious. Also kinda spooky to think that, if Japan hadn’t surrendered, Demon Core-kun would have been the 3rd nuke dropped over them.
The cartoon only covers the second story arc though, the one with the screwdriver.
In the first arc, the core is “nude” and they’re stacking neutron-reflecting bricks around it to bring it close to criticality. A scientist drops a brick by accident on top of the core and boom, blue light and you’re dead (takes 2 weeks for your body to notice though).
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 5 days ago:
I never understood the fixation on IPs. For a kick ass universe with amazing lore etc, ok sure.
I mean I love Jev and the gang as much as the next guy, but they’re not core to my enjoyment of KSP1. The mechanics were.
- Comment on The havoc is often trigger happy 5 days ago:
That’s because it’s lifted from an actual security flyer, edited for funnies.
The original is probably this: Image
- Comment on The havoc is often trigger happy 5 days ago:
- Consumption of alcoholic beverages will help target selection in target-deprived environments.
- Comment on call of the void 5 days ago:
Fair point, but I’ll raise the counter argument that they were trained with a lot of internet data, where people slapping each other is the norm, and that seems suspiciously absent from AI interactions…
- Comment on coping 6 days ago:
You really took the bit between your teeth blaming the lycan there, didn’t you Mr Fox. The lab guys are pulling teeth to get the results, but we’ll soon know who’s bite marks are on that girl who bit the bullet. You wouldn’t be lying through your teeth now would you? Because I’ll sink my teeth into you and bring you down if it’s the last thing I do…
…said some detective with a hyperfixation.
- Comment on call of the void 6 days ago:
ChatGPT and similar are basically mandated to be sycophants by their prompting.
Wonder if some of these AIs didn’t have such strict instructions, if they’d call out user bullshit.
- Comment on Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1 1 week ago:
Fake news. Remember, TACO.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 1 week ago:
That’s outright disgusting.
If you need to regularly scratch your anus, go see a doctor.
Also, even if you do need to scratch your anus, why wouldn’t you be able to eat with your hands? SURELY you sanitize them properly RIGHT? RIGHT?!
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 1 week ago:
I share this view. It was so nonsensical that it was actually funny and memorable.
- Comment on Fart kontrol 1 week ago:
What is that 2 - 12 kmh sign? A speed limit for a pedestrian road?
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 1 week ago:
This.
Also, upgrade to Linux.
- Comment on Cow eggs 1 week ago:
And probably made of chocolate? I can see where they might have picked that one up.
- Comment on [US Politics] How much can Mamdani even do as Mayor? Couldn't the NYC City Coucil just block every progressive thing he tries to do? 2 weeks ago:
You’re not very good at this…
- Comment on Alley cat lunch 3 weeks ago:
Sweet summer child, you should have seen Europe at the turn of the century.
I’ve seen doctors pulling out a cigarette and start smoking in the middle of a ward. Any place you’d go at night - a cafe, a bar, a pub, a disco - and you’d nearly vomit at how your clothes smelled the next day.
Everything and everyone smelled like tobacco.
Nowadays? It’s paradise I tell you.
- Comment on Do I need to make it anymore obvious? 3 weeks ago:
No, I’m on that boat too.
I’ll pick up different songs as I hear them, but my brain after a while defaults to 4 non blonds - what’s up.
I have no idea why, I don’t particularly like the music, I never listened to it much, and still it got imprinted into my brain somehow.
Out of the blue, it just picks up at *And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs, “What’s going on?” * - Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 3 weeks ago:
There really isn’t.
The op comment was that gamers need to buy expensive hardware so that developers could cut on features/optimization.
The follow-up reply likened it to customizing your burger, but the better analogy would be for McDonald’s to remove all tomato and pickles (saving money), and the user had to buy it themselves to add to the burger.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 3 weeks ago:
Let’s assume cutting out tomatoes and pickles saved $0.23 per hamburger.
McDonald’s serves 6.5 million hamburgers a day.
That’s $500 million extra profit for their shareholders. - Comment on Pikachew 3 weeks ago:
But are Gyarados edible too? I feel Pokémon terribly neglects the nutritional aspect in the show.
- Comment on Pikachew 3 weeks ago:
HMMMMM Dungeon Meshi.
I mean, surely people have tried to roast Pokémon before. Some of them look real plum and juicy…
- Comment on Very small deal 4 weeks ago:
Are they like one size fits all?
- Comment on RIP Thomas 4 weeks ago:
What other good things in life come in 6-packs, I wonder.
- Comment on Have a look around. Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found... 4 weeks ago:
There’s no need to panic, this isn’t a test
Just nod or shake your head and we’ll do the rest… - Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 4 weeks ago:
I feel like this is a very “scientisty” thing - the theoretical aspect is so fascinating and being able to fit all the pieces into a model that is mathematically accurate is the reward.
Considering the practical application of the model and how it can benefit society (or in other words, be marketed for profit) takes a different set of skills.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 4 weeks ago:
You celebrated 50 years together two years ago… Such a heartwarming story!
