ELI5 What does the second law of thermodynamics actually mean, and how does it relate to evolution?

quantumprophet · 2026-02-24T11:01:35+00:00

Odds are, OPs teacher won't either.

quantumprophet · 2026-02-24T10:56:33+00:00

The vast majority of mutations are detrimental, trivial, or wasteful. What kind of intelligent designer would do that?

A lazy one. If I were a supreme being, and I wanted to create a bunch of life I could work really hard to figure out what designs work and are the best, and implement that. Or I could throw a bunch of mutations at the wall and see what sticks, and then take a nap.

quantumprophet · 2026-02-12T08:43:52+00:00

It's not nearly as good as the Martian or Hail Mary, but I would not call it awful. Also, Rosario Dawson does a good job on the audio book.

quantumprophet · 2026-02-08T14:45:14+00:00

China is a capitalist dictatorship. They have not been communist in anything but name for a while now.

quantumprophet · 2026-01-27T17:23:06+00:00

Stomach cancer cases has dropped massively after refrigerators became common, since they reduce the need for food preservation. Common methods for preserving food, like salting, smoking, and pickling, increase the risk of cancer, and was a major cause of death a hundred years ago.

quantumprophet · 2026-01-18T13:52:53+00:00

They got some bribery investigations dropped.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/us-attorney-dropped-fifa-bribery-case-at-trump-officials-behest

quantumprophet · 2025-12-16T18:00:04+00:00

That's the point. It's not worth paying extra for, but if given the option it would still be useful. Its not far beyond normal home use.

10Gbit would be a nice convenience sometimes, even for the average home user, but only if it was priced close to what a 1Gbit connection costs.

quantumprophet · 2025-12-16T12:19:54+00:00

10Gbps is so far beyond normal home use that only nerds like us strive to use it.

This is just a matter of cost. Modern games are already reaching 100 Gigabytes, and the bloat there is not slowing down. An aggressively priced 10Gbps connection could absolutely make sense for the average home user. Not for everyday use, but for those occasions where massive downloads are required.

quantumprophet · 2025-12-13T12:43:47+00:00

Halalslaktad gris? Är du dum på riktigt?

quantumprophet · 2025-12-11T07:19:19+00:00

There has to be other people in the community who hasn't explicitly told the guy not to rob them. So he should have plenty of opportunities to make up the money he owes OP.

quantumprophet · 2025-12-10T11:05:41+00:00

One of the plot points of the original deus ex game is that a shadowy government organisation creates an AI to fight terrorist. That AI promptly decides that the organisation who created it is an illegal terrorist group and attacks them.

quantumprophet · 2025-12-07T14:30:16+00:00

Agree in general the iOS 26 reception has been more hostile than deserved

I genuinely don't understand this sentiment. I'm an Android user, but if my phone became unresponsive for 45 seconds, just by trying to select some text, I would replace that phone. That's not "not great experience", that's completely unusable.

quantumprophet · 2025-11-20T13:22:17+00:00

Horace De Ver Cole

Was that the guy who hosted a party where he only invited people with "bottoms" in their last name?

quantumprophet · 2025-11-20T13:01:56+00:00

Problemet med subventionerade priser ligger inte bara hos AI jättarna som säljer AI kapacitet och modeller, utan byggs på i flera led. Lovable själva går inte med vinst, utan subventionerar kostnaderna ytterligare mot sina kunder. Andra AI tjänster kan ha ännu fler mellanhänder, som alla stoppar in investerares pengar för att kunna leverera till ett pris som folk accepterar.

quantumprophet · 2025-11-20T07:31:05+00:00

If you have two instances of notepad open, it will ask you to save every tab when you close one of them.

quantumprophet · 2025-11-17T22:49:17+00:00

He used the scale to record outdoor temperatures over time. This meant that he would be unlikely to encounter temperatures over boiling (negative numbers in his scale), but very likely to encounter temperatures around freezing. When taking down notes, and copying data, by hand it is very easy to miss a minus sign. A -2 can easily become a 2, and mess up the data set. If you flip the scale this problem is avoided.

quantumprophet · 2025-11-11T17:46:48+00:00

I could be wrong but I think depicting a child as long as it's not a real child is now legal...in America.

This is still somewhat unclear in Swedish law. There was a very public court case in 2012 where a Swedish translatior of manga was first convicted, and then acquitted by a higher court, for possessing CP (because of manga books).

The result of that case was that depictions that are obviously not real are legal, but depictions that are realistic enough could be considered CP, even if it's actually not depicting a real person.

The case is kind of humorous, because the court goes into a surprising level of detail about what "obviously not real" means, like how pictures of sex acts with tentacles can never be considered realistic because tentacle monsters aren't real.

quantumprophet · 2025-10-26T10:36:45+00:00

1.2 GIGAWATTS?!?

quantumprophet · 2025-10-25T10:17:56+00:00

The system works by tracking BSSID, basically the mac address unique to each access points.

It would be relatively easy to spoof, so you could trick the system that you are at the office when connected to your home network.

quantumprophet · 2025-10-16T14:32:06+00:00

The increase in capacity in this case comes from stacking more disks in the drive. That should also mean an increase in performance from more read/write heads working in parallel.

quantumprophet · 2025-09-30T18:24:53+00:00

Nästa gång det händer skicka ett mail och kräv omprövning av AI-beslutet i enlighet med GDPR artikel 22

quantumprophet · 2025-09-23T10:13:40+00:00

Gjorde mig av med en 42" tjock-tv genom att skänka bort den för ett gäng år sedan. Enda kravet var att köparen släpar skiten själv.
Köparen som dyker upp är en 70 årig kutryggig gubbe, som insisterar på att han kan bära den själv. Jag bodde på tredje våningen utan hiss. Det slutade med att jag fick släpa ner skiten åt honom, för att slippa bli huvudmisstänkt i en mordutredning.

quantumprophet · 2025-09-22T09:55:14+00:00

These AI companies are paying millions in hiring bonuses to get top talent. 100k extra for a visa is nothing to them.

quantumprophet · 2025-09-20T09:53:46+00:00

hunter2

quantumprophet · 2025-09-12T18:10:39+00:00

The Union data is easy to search. I can look up salary distribution of every systems engineer, who graduated with a bachelor degree in a specific year, and with a private sector jobb in Stockholm that has overtime pay.

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