midoridensha

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by midoridensha 3y ago
>While our current models seem nearly perfect and therefore nearly complete Huh? Where did you get this idea? Our physics is clearly nowhere near complete. Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are at odds, which is why physicists
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by midoridensha 3y ago
The science clearly says FTL is possible: Einstein himself postulated wormholes (known now as Einstein-Rosen bridges), and warp drive has been proven to be possible (though not too practical yet) by Miguel Alcubierre and Sonny White.
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>The problem is when you work out the math on rocket that can sustain 1G for multiple days with any Earthly isp you realize the math just doesn't work. >our best chemical rockets are more like 450 seconds If we're talking ab
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Sounds like another version of enshittification.
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by midoridensha 3y ago
It certainly couldn't be any worse or more idiotic than the scripts for probably every Hollywood natural disaster movie: The Day After Tomorrow, The Core, Deep Impact, Armageddon, etc.
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>Building high speed rail is complicated because of land rights, the US is not China where the government can just order people off large swathes of land as needed. Japan is not China either, yet Japan has little trouble building new bul
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>But laundry requires being hung or transferred to the dryer immediately after to avoid things getting stinky This is why you should get a combined washer/dryer. I never worry about this.
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by midoridensha 3y ago
I don't see the board of directors or other large shareholders complaining to Microsoft about their product quality.
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by midoridensha 3y ago
I don't see how. As I said before, the Earth has been hotter than it is now. We're currently in an ice age, and coming out of it: that's why we have ice on the poles. The Earth was never like Venus, and never will be; the
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Without an official rating, how exactly is a consumer going to know how much energy an appliance uses? Magic?
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by midoridensha 3y ago
No, you're not. Water isn't free, and a good dishwasher is more water-efficient than you. Water requires a LOT of energy to pump, so less water means less energy.
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by midoridensha 3y ago
It was a highly successful special lunar operation.
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how we'll ever run out of arable land. The Earth has been warmer than now, in the distant past: there were times when the poles were not frozen over. Of course, this means the se
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Why should Microsoft spend any money on maintaining a QA team and doing functional verification? What's the business benefit? Leaving QA to a bunch of amateurs is a good thing: it saves MS lots of money, and so increases profitability
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>Who actually likes this? It’s insane! It's not insane at all, it's good for business. Who likes it? Microsoft shareholders of course. All these annoyances help to increase Microsoft's profits, so they're good by d
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>What makes the install cost high? US skilled labor costs are insane. It makes all construction costs ridiculously high.
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by midoridensha 3y ago
You haven't answered the question about why you think doing math should be a fundamental right.
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by midoridensha 3y ago
I definitely do not recommend mixing monitor resolutions; I tried that on my work PC and it was a disaster. So for both work and home, I have dual 27" monitors with the same resolution (4k at work, QHD at home). The one at home works
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>You just aren’t going to get the same quality documentation. In my observation over several decades, documentation in general has gotten really bad, or non-existent, all across industry. It's everywhere: no one wants to write st
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>I can't even use my large MSI 1440p monitor with this computer because Linux (also perhaps because of the actual gfx card too, to be fair) This part makes no sense. Linux works with any monitor; monitors connect via DP/HDMI a
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Those people probably aren't "valuable assets".
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Yeah, I think Napolean used to show off his wealth by using aluminum silverware at his fancy dinner parties.
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Granpa doesn't need to use command line tools; he certainly doesn't on Windows, even though he's old enough that he might have used MS-DOS or Windows 95 and had to use command lines then. Grandpa just starts his PC, clicks o
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by midoridensha 3y ago
The French are still mad that their language is no longer the Lingua Franca and has been supplanted by English, so they (or at least the academic types) really hate English borrow-words. Most other languages don't have this inferiorit
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by midoridensha 3y ago
The interesting thing about Japanese is that, unlike most other languages, it writes loanwords differently than native words: they're written in the katakana character set rather than kanji (Chinese characters) or hiragana. So "p
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>"Stealing words" That's a bit harsh. We borrow words (or loan them). We certainly don't steal them Exactly: you can't "steal" a word, because when Language B borrows a word from Language A, Language A
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Those are loanwords, very recently borrowed from English, like so many other recent loanwords. That's what they're always written in katakana.
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>Some people might say Linux has grown up but for me it's off-putting. I don't want my OS to be for everyone because my wishes are pretty different than most people's. Linux CAN be for everyone; that's precisely why s
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>and you can't make users care about this stuff when they just want to do their taxes, manage their businesses, talk to their friends, and look at their photos. The thing is, you can easily do all that stuff right now on Linux, even
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by midoridensha 3y ago
For almost all the times when you really need Chrome because Firefox doesn't work, Chromium will work just fine. You probably don't need Chrome.

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