[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 160 points 3 months ago

The point about the Bechdel test is that it’s such an incredibly low bar, and yet most fiction fail at it.

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[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 104 points 4 months ago

Bitcoin is estimated to consume 172 TWh, which is way more than Google and Microsoft combined.

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 153 points 4 months ago

Bermuda Triangle was always a manufactured mystery. It is true that some ships disappeared in the area, but that’s true for most oceans in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle

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Piped link: https://piped.video/watch?v=3so7xdZHKxw

Radiance Cascades are an innovative solution to global illumination from the devs of Path of Exile 2.

I think this video is informative and describes the new approach in a way that’s easy to follow. It’s simple with impressive results.

Link to paper:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L6v1_7HY2X-LV3Ofb6oyTIxgEaP4LOI6/view?usp=sharing

A more impressive demo:
https://youtu.be/6O9-BUDk_-c?si=j-cyMMPyjIBthDYw
https://piped.video/watch?v=6O9-BUDk_-c

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 101 points 4 months ago

This is like astrology but somehow worse

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 228 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think this is a bit disingenuous. There’s no customer interaction in these panels.

So waterfall would be:

Customer says they want to go to Mars.

You spend years building a rocket capable of going to Mars, draining all the company budget in the process.

Customer then clarifies they actually meant they wanted to go to Mars, Pennsylvania, USA - not the planet!

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 104 points 5 months ago

That’s right, it goes into the square hole

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 102 points 6 months ago

That wasn’t real communism. Everybody’s equal under real communism.

Hetero people would get executed too!

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 136 points 6 months ago

That XKCD is almost 18 years old and is still as relevant.

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 177 points 7 months ago

Freedom is obviously when I can be an asshole without repercussion.

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 127 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Being a bit nostalgic, but Gmail was such a leap forward when it was released. In a world where everybody took the shittiness of hotmail for granted, using Gmail was like peeking into the future. In many ways it was.

Now Gmail is that shitty hotmail we took for granted.

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 145 points 7 months ago

Had a coworker who was a bit like this. They were tasked to do one simple thing. Required a few lines of code change at most.

They end up refactoring the entire damn thing and introduced new bugs in the process.

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 118 points 8 months ago

Blockchain is only potentially useful if there’s no single entity that can be trusted. If banks can’t even trust themselves to manage their own internal ledgers, they have much bigger problems to deal with.

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