[-] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

Before AI it was IoT. Nobody asked for an Internet connected toaster or fridge...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I would call this "harsh" and indirect lighting with a shallow depth of field. It seems like a relatively low-light room, and there's tons of shadows making the images noisey. On cameras, the more you open the aperture to let more light in, the narrower your focus becomes. That's why there's so much blur or "bokeh" in the images.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The biggest use-case I see for hydrogen is more of an energy storage and transfer mechanism. With the world switching to renewables that generate power inconsistently, some countries are looking at putting the extra power into hydrogen generation via electrolysis, which can then be used at night/low-wind days to keep the power grid stable.

If we ever get to the point that we've got a surplus of renewably generated hydrogen, then it could make sense to start using to power cars, heating, cooking, whatever.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What race is being discriminated against here? I'm pretty sure monsters would be a species, not a race.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

These "euro-kkkolonizers" were all several generations ago. Maybe you want to pretend nothing has changed, but things have gotten significantly better since then.

I won't pretend we don't still have problems. People of color are still statistically lower income, and they're still affected by all the same capitalist problems that come with that.

The problem is also not the same across the country. Every state has their own top issues.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I'm not talking about history. I'm talking about the US today.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Standard seconds are defined based on measurable properties of a cesium atom. The historical definition of 1/86400th of a day doesn't work for science if the duration is inconsistent.

For example the statement:

Earth's Days Are Getting 2 seconds Longer Every 100,000 Years

becomes self-referencing and loses all meaning without some other reference point.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

China also kinda just forces anyone out who's in the way. To build any new infrastructure the US ends up getting slowed down to a crawl because of red tape and beurocracy. Land owners have a lot more rights in the US.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

I guess you haven't heard they're experimenting with injecting ads right into the videos on the server. Just turning off scripts won't do anything for that.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Interesting read.
I think by all the same arguments, running raw machine code (not even assembly) is not a "low-level language" either by their definition.
The branch prediction, instruction-level-parallelism, and cache behaviors all happen in hardware at a lower level than the programmer can control.

All the talk about compiler optimizations seem irrelevant because you can still just turn them off and output simple machine code.

I'm not really sure what the point of arguing the distinction is anyway? Any practical arguments would be much more specific about typical high-level features like garbage collection.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

5.26 minutes per year*

[-] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

It's probably pretty important. This paper on the terminal velocity of water droplets shows an upper limit of around 10m/s. And terminal velocity is reached in under 6m.

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I was on a road trip through the prairies and had to stop on the side of the road to watch the northern lights. The entire sky in all directions was lit up. I was able to take this shot with the big dipper visible.

4-second exposure, Sony A9 II, f2.8 24mm Sigma Lens, taken Sept 18, 2023

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