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- Comment on master manipulators 18 hours ago:
I shudder to write this, but it’s more like a self-replicating knife dildo. Or a sawzall.
- Comment on master manipulators 19 hours ago:
Nah, I assume it’s more like some unconscious dude shows up at your house with a weirdly sharp penis, he impregnates the house, and then the house explodes and a bunch of little dudes spill out.
- Comment on Improve your Wi-Fi with this one trick 2 days ago:
With less matter for the photons to interact with, I assume the WiFi’s SNR would be improved. If fewer data frames need to be retransmitted at the link layer (WiFi), I figure the apparent bitrate at the IP level might actually be improved!
Actually, I would not be shocked if WiFi itself adapts to conditions, e.g. by sending less data per frame with more error correction bits when SNR is already low.
(Not a networking expert, I am just bullshitting.)
- Comment on Germ Blaster 2 weeks ago:
I mean if you need two or three, that’s still way better than grabbing 20.
- Comment on Rust 3 weeks ago:
In practice, I tend to agree. It’s easier to avoid shooting yourself in the foot with C++, but it’s still just waiting for you to screw up.
I’m mainly getting at Undefined Behavior (UB), which both C and C++ have plenty of. This article from Raymond Chen has some excellent concrete examples: devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p…
- Comment on Rust 3 weeks ago:
The C++ side gives you what you need to create your own seat belt: spools of razor wire and clippers to remove the sharp edges (but no gloves). If you cut yourself, it’s your own damn fault. Real developers have discipline.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 4 weeks ago:
Democracy dlweaks in darkness
- Comment on At least he was a nurse on the walking dead lol 5 weeks ago:
It’s called “getting Munched”.
- Comment on Forbidden magic 1 month ago:
I only have a vague understanding. The technique used to manufacture integrated circuits is called photolithography. Basically, these circuits need such tiny features etched into them that we can’t do it through traditional means. Instead, we draw a picture of the circuit we want, hundreds of times larger, shine a light through it, and use lenses to shrink the pattern down to size. This big pattern is called a “mask”.
So what’s the deal with the demonic sigils above? As we make our circuits smaller, the physics gets stranger. For instance, there’s this effect called quantum tunneling where electrons just teleport to a part of the circuit we would not expect based on classical physics. Due to these kinds of effects, we have to do crazy things to the masks if we want the circuit to behave correctly.
Disclaimer: I am not an electrical engineer and I have no idea what I’m talking about.
- Comment on critical latex mod 1 month ago:
- Comment on Forbidden magic 1 month ago:
The nanometer-scale sigils are getting increasingly elaborate, presumably because the tinier demons are better at escaping.
Case in point, check out the “increasing need for mask correction” image in this article: …ieee.org/…/inverse-lithography-2659629907
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 1 month ago:
I wonder whether there was an infantarchal society where they took direction from toddlers. I suppose they wouldn’t have lasted very long if they did exist…
- Comment on Since when does a clock need a privacy policy? 1 month ago:
Ever wonder why you’re getting ads for melatonin?
- Comment on *screaming* 2 months ago:
This is Deadpool wearing a Spider Man costume
- Comment on At the doctors 2 months ago:
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 2 months ago:
If the earth stopped rotating, days would be about 365x longer.
I wanted to figure out a more exact answer, but I’m hung up on the fact that the length of a day is influenced by rotation and revolution together.
I have a feeling this requires calculus. If Sir Isaac Newton were here, I think he’d know what to do.
- Comment on Ok boomer 2 months ago:
Ok boomer
- Comment on GOTY 2 months ago:
That’s neat, I’d never heard of it before!
It is an open question whether an Angel of some power k can escape forever.
Looks like you’re quoting the Proceedings of 11th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics from 2005: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/2958119.2958180
Apparently, it was solved (twice!) the next year.
In late 2006, the original problem was solved when independent proofs appeared, showing that an angel can win. Bowditch proved that a 4-angel (that is, an angel with power k = 4) can win[2] and Máthé[3] and Kloster[4] gave proofs that a 2-angel can win.
- Comment on Nap game 2 months ago:
Well I know that I’m late for school, but I can’t go back after everyone saw me in my underwear. Wait, I’m a 40 year old man…
- Comment on Yes No 2 months ago:
___________________ < No no no no no no > ------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
- Comment on Preference 2 months ago:
Would you rather buy 15 pills for $15 or 500 pills for the same price? That’s why we buy the mega bottles.
- Comment on Let me at 'em!! 2 months ago:
I choose to believe it’s made of small atoms, the kind you get from firing a shrink ray at something.
- Comment on Are those top tier Geoguessers that do crazy stuff like figure out a location from 4 pixels and a mcslurry contracted by the CIA? 2 months ago:
Not to pile on here, but this is not an instance of the birthday problem.
The birthday problem would kick in if we asked “what are the chances that any two of these N people know the same place, whatever it may be.”
But instead we’re discussing “what are the chances that one of these N people recognizes a specific place P.”
- Comment on An artist says Nerf’s Destiny 2 hand cannon is a ripoff of their work 3 months ago:
Stupid question probably, but what’s stopping actual criminals from putting a bright orange tip on their real guns so they won’t get shot by cops? Pride?
- Comment on Religious people: The world is ending 3 months ago:
The classical options are that the world will end in the future, is currently ending, or ended in the past. Today, I’m here to tell you that there is another option: the world never even existed. Poof!
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 3 months ago:
This is like comparing paintings to the Mona Lisa. Shrek is the crowning achievement of our civilization.
- Comment on "It's better to piss in the sink than to sink in the piss" 3 months ago:
No, I don’t think I will
- Comment on "It's better to piss in the sink than to sink in the piss" 3 months ago:
Urethrarts are dangerous, consult a doctor
- Comment on Cheese board 3 months ago:
Oh hey, I bet that guy is related to Rubber Johnny en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_Johnny
- Comment on Trash Icon 🗑 4 months ago:
I’ve been on Linux just long enough. It’s called
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