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  • Imma invent a new image format that just counts all of the photons and their wavelengths

  • CPUs are 100% efficient if they’re also replacing your electric space heater

  • The top 10% have 70.7% of wealth in the US currently (from the federal reserve website)

  • the dry, cracking skin on hands thing can be worsened significantly by using bad (read: most) hand soap, in my personal experience at least

  • aa i didn't see that lol

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  • Every app on the App Store is so bad because of that fee too. There just basically isn't anything open source. Its 90% of the reason why I switched to Android.

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  • Proton is way better than whatever thing Apple has going on (didn't they say they were working on their own proton-like thing? did they just forget about it? I remember seeing a video with some sort of dev preview a while ago...)

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  • When I was probably like 10 or 11 or something I started learning JavaScript because I thought it was the language Minecraft was written in (It's actually Java)

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  • When I was 13 I installed Linux in Virtualbox on a Mac because for some reason thought dual booting would be harder, we did not have any non-apple devices in the house, I do not recommend, the performance was terrible (I probably had something set up wrong because it was really way worse than you would expect)

    I have ended up on Windows with a Linux laptop for traveling, but will probably switch to Linux as soon as either:

    1. I get a new VR headset
    2. Monado gets decent controller tracking support
    3. It's 2026 and Windows with WMR support has stopped getting security updates

    Then I will have crossed the whole mac->windows->linux pipeline.

  • honestly if you can 3d print something you can make something almost as strong out of wood, it just takes more effort

    one could also easily make a disposable mold for a low-melting-point metal alloy, those are much stronger than 3d prints and many can be melted on a normal stove

    I think the problem is more that information on how to make guns is now easily available, rather than the specific usefulness of 3d printing as a manufacturing technique

  • a court case also draws out media coverage, possibly more than an extended search would

  • China invented fireworks around 1k years ago, but Germany made the first one that went to space (the V2, the same one they used to bomb a bunch of places in WWII), and scientists from Germany helped to develop rockets a lot further after Operation Paperclip

  • the context was one singular example of this happening btw, its still a bad take tho

  • I'm on 4gb of ram right now (travelling so I'm away from my desktop) and firefox is using ~2gb I think (only 4-6 tabs open though)

  • IDK, I can't tell from looking at the 2015 CIE CMFs (I think these are the most accurate? also I used the firefox plugin "unpaywall" to see them as sci-hub wasn't working) if there are any completely identifiable red colors or not. I initially assumed there were, but I guess I don't really know (I had assumed any perceived color could be made from a standard red green and blue, but now I also don't know if that's true).

    edit: if that assumption is true than there would be no way to produce photons of different wavelengths in a way that looks like a fully saturated red

    also the falloff at the end of the spectrum might mess with that a little, it looks like there is a continuously varying ratio of red to green along the end of the spectrum, but I can't really tell

    edit2: it also varies somewhat with age and among individuals apparently, so that might complicate things further