peopleproblems

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[–] peopleproblems 4 points 2 months ago

Ok, I still laughed, but it would have been a bit funnier if instead of Santa it still said "Saddam Hussein" with the Santa Hat, maybe a beard, and a bag of presents.

[–] peopleproblems 4 points 2 months ago

Ah, there's the key part that keeps confusing people: "Energy" when they are thinking of "Power."

Energy is a property of a thing. Power is the amount of energy (property of thing) transported over time.

It's impossible to list all the energies you interact with from a laptop, but here's a few:

  1. Various photons from the screen. A photon's energy is based on its wavelength. A higher energy photon has shorter wavelengths.
  2. The mass of the keyboard is an energy equivalent. A property of the laptop.
  3. The photons transmitted by Wifi, Bluetooth, or other radio sources - these are actually all a lower energy than the ones from a screen.

Power just means more of those flowing. An infinite number of Wifi photons can hit Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen (most commonly in DNA) and they will never knock an electron off. Same with the photos from your screen. That doesn't mean there will be no effect.

Wi-Fi photons in the 2.4Ghz range do transfer energy into water molecules and increase their total kinetic energy (since they can't "gain mass" this means velocity). Increased Kinect energy really means increased heat. Enough heat, leads to burns.

[–] peopleproblems 4 points 2 months ago

A radio spitting 1MW of anything on your stomach is going to give you a pretty nasty burn from waste heat, but wifi range - 2.4Ghz is gonna cook your water molecules real good. Still no ionizing happening.

Key thing here is your talking about power, and individual atoms don't care about that sort of thing. They care about the individual quanta they're interacting with.

1000 radio frequency photons will never have the individual energy to bump an electron. 1 UV (and shorter wavelengths) photon can bump an electron

[–] peopleproblems 4 points 2 months ago

For me?

Nothing, other than "I tried it with ChatGPT" before they bothered with Documentation.

Fuck anyone who skips documentation

[–] peopleproblems 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How would that work?

Even ignoring the almost negligible amount of mass a neutrino has, it's still limited to c meaning we aren't getting new information before anything else.

[–] peopleproblems 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They do it to me too. It's fucking weird, but it's all connected to the throat anyway, so it almost makes sense some of the nerves are shared.

Probably something do with balance or illness

[–] peopleproblems 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, Capcom figured that out ages ago with Monster Hunter.

They tweak some movesets on the skeletons, they improve the ai a bit. They create new textures, and spend their time making endgame bosses a more unique.

My favorite example is Kushala Daora. I don't exactly know how many times his skeleton has been reused, but I know Monster Hunter World had at least three reuses of it.

But they always have unique fights for final bosses, even if the Elder Dragon reused assets.

Programming is all about reuse in general. Reuse is part of good applications.

[–] peopleproblems 1 points 2 months ago

Hats... Why they are called beurocrats.

But the ones who are leaving are largely close to retirement and would rather not deal with bullshit to their own job, and I respect that. The ones who aren't leaving probably see this as a great stepping stone for their career, as they get to enforce rules most previous position holders were unaware of.

Federal government is just like corporate jobs in that there is a game to play - the game is fundamentally different in that it's based on law and office mission, rather than profit and deceit.

[–] peopleproblems 1 points 2 months ago

Which part? Convergent evolution towards a dolphin? (Dolphins and ichthyosaurus) Or the question of Dolphin to Crab or Crab to dolphin?

We gotta wait another hundred million years to find out that answer.

[–] peopleproblems 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not yet.

We might see marine animals trend towards dolphins, but given enough time, does a dolphin become a crab, or does a crab become a dolphin?

[–] peopleproblems 14 points 2 months ago

Can you think of the evolutionary pressures it went through to develop it's eyes, colors, and .22 round punch?

I shudder to think what it's ancestors faced.

Like the BOBBIT WORM

[–] peopleproblems -1 points 2 months ago

Yes, and you can sharpen them, it just takes time.

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