[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 60 points 1 week ago

How is lye nonhazardous? Can't it cause serious chemical burns? Maybe it's just in low enough concentration that that's not a concern.

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 69 points 2 weeks ago

That's a nice paywall you have there, sure would be a shame if... https://sci-hub.se

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 114 points 1 month ago

"But I saw it on TV!" says the man currently saying untrue things on TV.

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 65 points 2 months ago

If anyone wants to actually run this, here ya go:

          #include              <stdio.h>
      short i=0;long          b[]={1712,6400
    ,3668,14961,00116,      13172,10368,41600,
  12764,9443,112,12544,15092,11219,116,8576,8832
,12764,9461,99,10823,17,15092,11219,99,6103,14915,
69,1721,10190,12771,10065,16462,13172,10368,11776,
14545,10460,10063,99,12544,14434,16401,16000,8654,
12764,13680,10848,9204,113,10441,14306,9344,12404,
  32869,42996,12288,141129,12672,11234,87,10086,
    12655,99,22487,14434,79,10083,12750,10368,
      10086,14929,79,10868,14464,12357};long
        n=9147811012615426336;long main(){
          if(i<0230)printf("%c",(char)((
            0100&b[i++>>1]>>(i--&0x1)*
              007)+((n>>(b[i>>001]>>
                7*(0b1&01-i++)))&1
                  *main(111))));
                    return 69-
                      0b0110
                        ;}

Bonus points if you can deobfuscate it!

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 102 points 2 months ago

Aren't modern GPUs more in the 200-500W range? They've gotten very power hungry recently.

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 80 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Spend 7 hours trying to get it to run, mysterious errors every which way, give up, go to bed...

I use arch btw

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 103 points 4 months ago

Nobody's stupid enough to connect their AI to their database. At least, I hope that's the case...

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 76 points 6 months ago

I've had that a few times on my accounts (I scrape content so they get suspended relatively often) and I always just grab a photo from thispersondoesnotexist.com and crop out the watermark. It hasn't failed me yet.

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 70 points 6 months ago

I just went ahead and deleted anything that looked Edge-related from all the system directories. Sure, my computer won't boot into Windows anymore, but all the more reason to use Linux!

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 59 points 6 months ago

Gotta review the 5 line PR ten times just to make absolutely totally sure there's nothing wrong with it before submitting it.

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 86 points 6 months ago

The main question is unanswerable as it couldn't happen without fundamentally changing physics in some way. However, the other one is a lot more interesting.

On a large scale, one in ten atoms vanishing would decrease both the density and mass of most objects by 10%. This would also decrease their gravity by 10%, resulting in all orbits becoming significantly more (or less) eccentric. I imagine the changes would be enough to destabilize some solar systems, potentially causing planets to perturb each other's orbits until they collide or end up being ejected from the system.

The change in density also means that gravitationally bound objects that are held up by internal pressure (like planets and stars) would collapse slightly as their internals are re-compressed to their original density. The collapse would release a lot of energy, heating up planets significantly and (just guessing here) maybe causing a burst of fusion in stars as they're temporarily compressed past their equilibrium point.

All of that is pretty bad news for life on Earth, but the worst is what happens chemically. Some molecules are just going to become different molecules when one or more of their atoms disappears. Take water, for example; a water molecule has an 8.1% chance to become a hydrogen molecule, an 8.1% chance to become a (highly reactive) hydroxide ion, and a 0.9% chance to become a (highly reactive) single oxygen atom. 18% of nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere would also become single atoms and promptly react violently. These molecular changes would instantly kill all life on Earth (and anywhere else). There's simply no possible way for an organism to survive so many reactive molecules being introduced throughout itself. Not to mention that all DNA would be irreparably damaged from the random deletions too.

I'm sure there are some other effects that I haven't thought of, but those are definitely the most noticeable ones.

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 90 points 8 months ago

EDITOR’S NOTE: This original story was sourced to MSN, who has since deleted their story. According to Snopes.com, this story has since been identified as a hoax.

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