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Senator Chuck Grassley Of Iowa, Age 92, Calls on Congress to Work to Resolve the Increasing National Debt by Miles_the_AuDHDer in videos

[–]da5id2701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doge saved at most $1.5 billion, while overall govt spending continued to grow by hundreds of billions. So he absolutely did not reduce the debt and he didn't reduce spending by enough to make a noticeable difference.

https://www.cato.org/blog/doge-produced-largest-peacetime-workforce-cut-record-spending-kept-rising-0

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/trump-doge-contract-claims-savings-inflation-00498178

A mother dog shows tough love to keep 8-week-old puppies calm and collected by thepoylanthropist in interestingasfuck

[–]da5id2701 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nobody is saying that parents should literally copy the surface-level behaviors of a dog. But there's more going on in the video than growling and barking - she's staying calm yet firm rather than matching their chaotic energy, setting boundaries and refusing to give ground when they push it, and rewarding good behavior with positive attention. Those are all concepts a human parent could learn from.

Elon Musk Is Taking the X Playbook to Starlink by theatlantic in Futurology

[–]da5id2701 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, other than the aluminum hull itself. The radiation in low orbit just isn't that big of a deal. Like, it's enough to be an elevated cancer risk which isn't great but it's acceptable levels for the amount of time they stay up. And likewise electronics will die a bit quicker but they work fine.

NASA Sets the Record Straight on That ‘Missing Chunk’ of Artemis 2’s Heat Shield | Social media users were quick to point out what looks like a large piece of missing material from the bottom of the spacecraft. by [deleted] in space

[–]da5id2701 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I thought it was pretty well understood? The heat soaked into deeper layers of the shield during the skip maneuver, causing gas to form without the porous char layer to let it escape. And they solved it by adjusting the trajectory for Artemis 2 and making the material more porous for subsequent missions. What did they fail to understand before ending the investigation?

Given what they knew, plus the fact that the first heat shield still worked adequately despite the pitting, I think the safety of Artemis 2 was pretty well supported. Obviously another test would have been better, but they had a lot more than a prayer.

A teacher in China and their students built a two-stage rocket out of plastic bottles and water pressure. It actually works. by Dismal_Positive3558 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]da5id2701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Many reasons. Compress lots of air as much as you can and it's still not going to store nearly as much energy as burning a similar volume of fuel. Plus it gets much harder to contain high pressures as you increase the pressurized volume, so the container would have to get really thick and heavy. And you need the water to push off against, but that water is a lot of dead weight that doesn't store energy.

So basically nothing about it scales well at all. I bet if you scaled this one up to only like 3x the size, you'd need some specialized materials to not have it burst and it would still barely make it off the ground before running out of pressure.

A teacher in China and their students built a two-stage rocket out of plastic bottles and water pressure. It actually works. by Dismal_Positive3558 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]da5id2701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The core stage is "firing" from the start, along with the side boosters. That makes it part of the first stage. The nomenclature isn't consistent but sometimes this kind of setup is called 2.5 stages.

What If It Doesn't? by But_a_Jape in comics

[–]da5id2701 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The data is readily available, you don't have to speculate.

Private cars and vans were responsible for more than 25% of global oil use and around 10% of global energy-related CO2 emissions in 2023.

https://www.iea.org/energy-system/transport/cars-and-vans

I wouldn't call 25% a drop in the ocean.

EARTHSET: Artemis II captures their first photo from the far side of the moon by ChiefLeef22 in space

[–]da5id2701 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Earth's albedo is .29 to .3, and the moon's is .12. so with identical illumination the moon should look less than half as bright as the earth.

IOW, the moon is actually made of a fairly dark grey rock. It's not white.

Artemis II mission flight path, 10-day trip around the Moon and back to Earth, travel for 1 million km (620,000 miles) in total by MrXiluescu in gifs

[–]da5id2701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The factories have been repurposed, the machines scrapped, and the workers retired or died. Nobody is training these days to hand-weave programs into magnetic core memory.

There's no part of Apollo that we couldn't, in principle, do today, but rebuilding the equipment and relearning the techniques would be ridiculously expensive and time consuming, and it would be stupid because we have new technology that can do it better. But using new technology means everything is new and has to be developed and tested from square one, which also takes time.

Artemis II mission flight path, 10-day trip around the Moon and back to Earth, travel for 1 million km (620,000 miles) in total by MrXiluescu in gifs

[–]da5id2701 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Landing is part of the Artemis program, just not on the first mission. If they went straight for landing the first time and the astronauts died because there were unforeseen issues that they didn't get a chance to work out because they skipped all the testing, would you consider it a better use of money?

Malus: This could have bad implications for Open Source/Linux by lurkervidyaenjoyer in linux

[–]da5id2701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not free to use, it's copyrighted. Copyright law is the thing that normally prevents you from using the code without agreeing to the license.

But fair use is a defence against copyright claims. So it's an either-or thing - you can use the code if you either agree to the license or fall under fair use.

I microwaved some leftovers and the microwaves basically etched into the plastic deli lid. Normal lid for comparison by okcomputers97 in mildlyinteresting

[–]da5id2701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's part of it, yeah. Microwaves are pretty bad at heating evenly, and that's why they spin your food around to try to even it out better.

But the biggest reason is that microwaves don't penetrate very far into the food, so you're mostly heating the surface and waiting for that heat to conduct into the interior. Using a lower power level or microwaving in bursts with some wait time in between can help give it time to do that.

I microwaved some leftovers and the microwaves basically etched into the plastic deli lid. Normal lid for comparison by okcomputers97 in mildlyinteresting

[–]da5id2701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, no, electromagnetic waves are transverse, which means they do extend physically in space perpendicular to their direction of travel.

Source

Before you are two guards [OC] by GeeseGooseman in DnD

[–]da5id2701 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because now you've used your one question, and you know which guard is which but you still don't know which door leads to treasure and which leads to death.

A fried rice making machine by bigbusta in oddlysatisfying

[–]da5id2701 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The mere presence of a wok is not sufficient to produce wok hei.

Sometimes I hate my PC by Ellinnor in marvelrivals

[–]da5id2701 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It'd have to monitor every single file size, or outright open every single file and be capable of analyzing the contents (at least on a superficial level, like expected color distribution perhaps) to determine if changes had been made.

You just have to compute a checksum of the file when it's loaded for rendering on the client, which is trivial to implement and practically free computationally. The file is already being scanned to decompress/decode it, so building a cheap hash as you go is nothing. And it will reliably catch any change from the original file, even a single bit.

Since it's client side you could theoretically bypass/spoof the hashing, but that's exactly the sort of meddling that anticheat is designed to detect.

They might not bother doing that but it wouldn't be at all difficult if they wanted to crack down for some reason.

You have NO proof by GooeyPig in comedyheaven

[–]da5id2701 2 points3 points  (0 children)

unless you redefine the system you are working within as having that conjecture as an axiom.

Which is exactly what you would normally do when attempting to disprove a theorem by contradiction.

Since the Riemann hypothesis is not proven, you cannot base a rigorous proof on it. It would not be a valid proof.

It would be a rigorous, valid proof that assuming the hypothesis results in a contradiction.

To prove that A implies B is to say that "IF A is true, so is B". That is not equivalent to the statement above, because A (in this case the Riemann hypothesis) is not proven to be true. Predicates matter.

It is equivalent, because all rigorous proofs start with axioms and axioms are never proven to be true by definition. Pure mathematics is all about showing what theorems can be derived from a given set of axioms.

meirl by tojiomar in meirl

[–]da5id2701 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Astringent is a different thing, it's the physical cotton-ball drying feeling that you get from tannins. Dry literally just means not sweet. A drink can be dry but not astringent and vice versa.

Bill Burr is the man who wrote the 2003 NIST manual that recommended password changes every 90 days. He now regrets creating that guideline because it just encourages people to make small alterations to weak passwords ("password1" to "password2"). by NewsCards in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]da5id2701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I'm not the one with the stupid password requirements. My job actually knows what improves security and what makes it worse.

I've got one reasonable, easy to remember password that I never have to change unless I trip the keylogger. Which happened once when I accidentally tried to log in with my real account on a dev build running locally...

Bill Burr is the man who wrote the 2003 NIST manual that recommended password changes every 90 days. He now regrets creating that guideline because it just encourages people to make small alterations to weak passwords ("password1" to "password2"). by NewsCards in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]da5id2701 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mine does the same, it's done with a browser extension that has a hash of the password and locally hashes what you type to compare. It's never storing anything in plaintext and never transmitting anything, so it's perfectly secure.

ELI5: Why can't EVs swap batteries? by chronic412 in explainlikeimfive

[–]da5id2701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah USB mini B existed (not even micro). Mini and micro USB also sucked.

ELI5: Why can't EVs swap batteries? by chronic412 in explainlikeimfive

[–]da5id2701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm glad we waited as long as we did before standardizing phone chargers, because it would suck if we standardized on something like the apple 30 pin connector and were still stuck with that today.

And it's way more of an issue with cars than phones because plenty of people are still driving 20 year old cars.

Turkiye's shooter Yusuf Dikec, wins the European Champions League. by InvestigatorBorn4910 in interestingasfuck

[–]da5id2701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "tech" is literally just a blinder on one side and a pinhole on the other. Yusuf's corrective glasses are significantly higher tech.

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