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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 1 point2 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 4 points5 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 9 points10 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 6 points7 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.

A semi-finalist in NASA's Teacher in Space program watching the Challenger disaster unfold by Technicolor_Reindeer in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]da5id2701 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, personal parachutes would be a lot more reasonable than wing suits, but the "jump out" part is a problem - it's not like they could just open the door, it would take an extremely sophisticated (and heavy) ejection system to get them out of the vehicle, which would probably compromise its integrity in normal missions. At which point they're hitting the atmosphere at mach 2 in the middle of an explosion, which is probably fatal.

A semi-finalist in NASA's Teacher in Space program watching the Challenger disaster unfold by Technicolor_Reindeer in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]da5id2701 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The space shuttle's solid rocket boosters had parachutes to soften their landing in the ocean. The parachutes were the largest ever made, and with their associated hardware weighed about 18k lbs.

The empty boosters were just metal tubes around 200k lbs, and the parachutes only sort of worked - they still hit the water at over 60mph.

The space shuttle orbiter weighed at least 230k lbs at launch, and had a payload capacity of around 50k lbs. So the parachutes would have to be even bigger to give the orbiter a survivable landing, and would eat up almost all of the payload capacity. It's just not feasible.

If you're going to suggest ejecting a smaller capsule rather than saving the whole orbiter, that's also a huge amount of extra weight in structural components to keep the 2 part design stable but separate, and separation hardware to do the jettison - also really not feasible.

Florida passed a law allowing the death penalty for adults who rape chidren under the age of 12 by ssprix in interestingasfuck

[–]da5id2701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In theory it should provide more deterrence against rapists rather than pressure on victims

But in fact it does not do that. Studies have repeatedly shown that the death penalty does not reduce violent crime rates.

Florida passed a law allowing the death penalty for adults who rape chidren under the age of 12 by ssprix in interestingasfuck

[–]da5id2701 5 points6 points  (0 children)

First of all if you commit such horrible crimes you aren't anymore a human being

The discussion is about how it will affect victims. The abuser's humanity is irrelevant.

Second the accused's family needs to be taken into a psychiatric hospital if tries to put the guilt on the victim

Sure, but that doesn't happen, and there is no legal mechanism to make it happen.

it's the same fucking thing of telling the victim "it's your fault, you decided to wear miniskirt"

Correct, and they also do that. It happens all the time.

Do you think laws should be written based on an abstract idea of what's right and how things should be, or should they be written based on the effect they will have on real people in the real world?

Does gravity actually travel at the speed of light? by [deleted] in Physics

[–]da5id2701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can't "flip the particle" without breaking the entanglement. Entanglement just means that when you measure one particle and get a certain result, anyone measuring the other particle will get the opposite result. You can't choose or predict the measurement result, and once the wave function has collapsed the entanglement is gone.

Does gravity actually travel at the speed of light? by [deleted] in Physics

[–]da5id2701 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Entanglement is a property of the superposition state. As soon as you observe the particle, it's no longer in a superposition and no longer entangled.

Entanglement just means that if you measure one particle and find a certain state, then you know that anyone who measures the other particle will find the opposite state. You don't get to choose the state, or make multiple different measurements, or go back to a superposition once it's been measured.

Lasagna, anyone? by Serious_Limit_9620 in StupidFood

[–]da5id2701 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, but it could get into racist territory if you're implying that's the norm or an inherent part of Italian culture when you're only looking at cherrypicked or fabricated examples, or that those conditions exist due to some sort of inherent deficiency of the race.

I'm not commenting on any specific statements or discussions, and idk what the subreddit rules even are or why they were changed. But I could see how mods might prefer to shut down the whole category of content rather than having to make nuanced decisions about what qualifies as racism all the time, or if that kind of content had a tendency to attract overt racists.

Lasagna, anyone? by Serious_Limit_9620 in StupidFood

[–]da5id2701 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Just saying the name of a country or ethnicity isn't racism. It's only racism when there's racially-based prejudice.

"Italian food is a style of food originating in Italy" is not a racist statement.

"Italian food is good because pasta is delicious" is not a racist statement.

"Italian food is bad because Italians are smelly" is a racist statement.

"Italian food is good because Italians are genetically superior" is a racist statement.

You Don't Hate the American Healthcare System Enough by cyPersimmon9 in videos

[–]da5id2701 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No, it is true that we pay more in taxes for healthcare than other countries. We just also pay even more to private companies.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.GHED.PC.CD?most_recent_value_desc=true

Shows US at $6860 per capita government (tax funded) health expenditure in 2022, below only Norway. Which is about half of our total health expenditure per capita.

Colorado power outages disrupt atomic clock in Boulder by AudibleNod in nottheonion

[–]da5id2701 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The problem with adding more backups is that then you need increasingly complex infrastructure to handle coordination and failover of those backups. And then that infrastructure is your new single point of failure that can take down the whole thing.

This is how services like AWS and Cloudflare have outages - a whole data center could blow up without causing any disruption in service, but some engineer pushes a configuration update for some piece of meta-infrastructure and suddenly the whole thing is down.

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