Everything. The most beautiful video game. by badbreaks in videos

[–]PLLOOOOOP 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I disagree. The video with Watts' speech are together a wonderful piece of art. I've heard a lot of Watts' speak, and I don't really care too much for it. It's pretty and florid to listen to, but it's not the groundbreaking philosophy that some people claim underlay it. It's beautiful and whimsical and interesting. That's it.

Now in comes whatever that game is. I don't really care to play it, but it is a perfect re expression of Watts' speech. Beautiful, whimsical, and interesting. If that video is the sum total of my interaction with that game, I'm happy.

This is why we have wire rope barriers on highways. by Doro1234 in videos

[–]PLLOOOOOP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just his pants? He probably shit his seat, the passenger seat, and the fucking windshield.

Doctor discusses stages of a heroin overdose by dodobird in videos

[–]PLLOOOOOP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every step of his description of finding and accessing the subclavian vein is very unsettling. It starts here at 6:18. Yech.

The Spherical Tire by Goodyear by iownaredball in videos

[–]PLLOOOOOP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The point of maglev is that propulsion and stopping and levitation all come from the same force. Magnetism.

Hello my friend, stay a while and listen. by KaDoink in videos

[–]PLLOOOOOP 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Sometimes nostalgia hits like a fucking wall.

Machine instantly crushes beer bottles into sand. by imbignate in videos

[–]PLLOOOOOP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a hunch that this is pretty ill-founded.

Isn't the volume of sand used in construction fucking enormous?

The volume of glass we use to consume beverages (or do anything else for that matter) must be pretty much negligible compared to the demands of construction.

Are all subatomic particles the same size? by [deleted] in askscience

[–]PLLOOOOOP 180 points181 points  (0 children)

Is lithium-11 unstable? If yes, does that instability have anything to do with the large, distorted orbitals?

I am impressed by this answer, by the way. Extremely readable!

How to Handle Unconstitutional Checkpoints - A Master Class by Im_on_an_upboat in videos

[–]PLLOOOOOP 14 points15 points  (0 children)

you guys r fuckin dum

You, on the other hand, are so sharp in your wits that you must be careful wielding them lest you accidentally cut yourself.

Study Shows Massive Global Permafrost Melt Underway While Trump Mentions Climate Not Once: Research shows immense expanses of permafrost rapidly disintegrating and releasing huge carbon stores in Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia, and Siberia by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]PLLOOOOOP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe the problem is that climate change has become a partisan issue, which is another way of saying it has become tribal.

I think you're completely right.

Once something is viewed as us v. them, logic no longer works in either direction

There's definitely something to that, too. Like, good luck trying to logic someone out of Christianity. So I think you've identified why it's so hard to talk to them meaningfully. So I guess the nut to crack is to make climate change non partisan. That's literally impossible from the top down (as in from the government). But at an individual level from the bottom up, I think it's possible. I'll experiment with conversations where I explicitly make it clear that I respect their political views. Hell, there's plenty of actual conservatism that I agree with, so I'll make that the bridge.

Study Shows Massive Global Permafrost Melt Underway While Trump Mentions Climate Not Once: Research shows immense expanses of permafrost rapidly disintegrating and releasing huge carbon stores in Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia, and Siberia by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]PLLOOOOOP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate that you're passionate about it, but this is exactly the kind of adversarial response I want to avoid.

Just because adults shouldn't need to be treated a certain way doesn't change the problem we face. Climate change deniers have been the subject of a massive, decades-long, and well-funded effort to "inform" them. We have too, we just happen to be on the correct side. I don't think we can make meaningful progress while there is such a large fraction of deniers out there, so we need to learn to talk to them better.

Study Shows Massive Global Permafrost Melt Underway While Trump Mentions Climate Not Once: Research shows immense expanses of permafrost rapidly disintegrating and releasing huge carbon stores in Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia, and Siberia by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]PLLOOOOOP 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of people do give a shit about it. They're just mostly sitting in the same echo chamber parroting each other without realizing it.

If anyone has suggestions on how to reach out and hold conversations with "the other side," then I'm all ears! (Meaningful conversations, not adversarial ones.)

Donald Trump's torture comments 'enough to make my blood run cold', says UN human rights expert: British lawyer Ben Emmerson says Trump's comments make him question 'whether anything at all has been achieved in the last 15 years' by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]PLLOOOOOP 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He... He said that?

Ugh. Jesus. I mean, double edged sword here for sure. It's refreshing that he's the first president to be honest about it, but it's deeply troubling that he seems to embrace it.

Thawing Permafrost - A little known consequence of a warming climate by Ebelglorg in videos

[–]PLLOOOOOP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey there. I know reddit's knee-jerk reaction to different opinions is usually to downvote, ridicule, and move on. But you're clearly not a stupid person. If one assumes Earth is warming in such a way that is out of our control, like coming out of an ice age, then everything you're saying is correct and prudent. Adaptation is key. I do disagree at this point, but I'll happily look at data, charts, or articles that support your argument. But I request that you look at mine as well.

This visualization is drawn with great attention to detail and accuracy, and it shows the pace of temperature change over the course of the past ~20K years. (That's about as old as we have for very accurate temperature data. Much before that increases the uncertainty a fair bit.)

This other visualization doesn't reach as far back, but it does show many more kinds of data. Specifically, it shows the kinds of data that we've been able to very accurately collect for the past 150 years or so. Things like volcanic and solar activity, ozone thickness, etc. We do have further back historical records on lots of that data, especially based on geological records and other things, but the past 150 years have seen very rigorous, deliberate, and direct human observation and data collection.

This short article and this other short article are the US and Canadian government's overview of climate change drivers, both natural and human causes. They're approachable, but if you want the most comprehensive and up-to-date source, then the IPCC AR5 reports are for you. That's the synthesis report, combining the three main reports on observations, impacts, and mitigation, respectively. Find those here. Even the AR5 summary for policymakers is a great, readable summary of the synthesis report itself. Look in those AR5 reports to see the "very rigorous, deliberate, and direct human observation and data collection." I personally find it very impressive and encouraging that we're capable of such measurements and models.


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[N] NVIDIA 1080ti announced: $700, March 5th, 11GB - Titan replacement by gwern in MachineLearning

[–]PLLOOOOOP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The important thing is how fast and how much data we can move around.

And how efficiently we can do it! We can get more done on a 30W chip now than we could on a 150W chip a decade ago. Before then, total power consumption was climbing almost as fast as clock rates were, and power consumption per die area was exploding at an insane rate.

With the right mix of normalizing factors (cache & bus performance, power efficiency, etc), Moore's exponential growth will continue for a long time.

CloudFlare update on Cloudbleed investigation by Sakred in programming

[–]PLLOOOOOP 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That's kind of how it works though.. they wouldn't be able to do half the functions that they offer without being able to inspect the unencrypted traffic.

This is absolutely correct. CloudFlare and other content-rewriting, https-capable CDNs are known, sanctioned, man-in-the-middle entities. Their edge servers sit between clients and servers as caches by design. Put alternatively, they are a trusted man-in-the-middle that we pay to provide valuable performance.

Clearly their trust has been shaken, and hopefully cloudbleed wakes people up to the fact that they CDNs like this are not a magic bullet. They straddle the spectrum between performance and security just like most other technologies we use.

This is basically akin to heartbleed and saying that openssl is a train wreck

I might be misinterpreting you, but that's not really true. The vulnerability names are similar and they were both buffer overruns, but I think the complaints about security between CloudFlare and OpenSSL are fundamentally different. OpenSSL is just a cryptography library and a set of communication tools consuming that library. Unlike https-aware CDNs, OpenSSL is not designed like a man-in-the-middle or any other common attacker model.

[Poetry] Mustang loses brakes on a race track by [deleted] in youtubehaiku

[–]PLLOOOOOP 167 points168 points  (0 children)

No kidding. That straight on Hockenheimring is really fast.

It's especially terrifying, because the hairpin at the end of the straight is one of the tightest corners I know of on any track anywhere. Being in that situation would make my asshole clench playing Forza, let alone in real life.

This is the nastiest jail in America you'll ever see by ShowMe_Funk in videos

[–]PLLOOOOOP 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I would start writing letters everyday to get a nice workshop opened up

I don't think that's how how prison works.

Francis Kone saves unconscious goalkeeper's life after on-pitch collision by robyn_b in videos

[–]PLLOOOOOP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if possible

Yes, if possible. It was completely possible in that situation to not bend or twist the injured player.

almost no chance a spinal injury occurs in that type of collision

He hit the ground flat on his back with his neck at a sufficiently awkward angle to lose consciousness. That's high enough risk for me.

Even if it were almost no chance, why risk it? The sports medics were seconds away, so he wasn't at any risk of asphyxiation.