However, if someone went to a phone store with a stock graphene on display and anything else next to it, which one do you think they’ll choose?

Given the past couple years I’d like to think the fraction to choose graphene would be multiple times what it would have been 5-10 years ago. But not close to a majority.

“How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

Spoken like a true sales/con artist. I can almost hear the brand guidelines poking through… Always mention safety before privacy, always treat safety as a given and privacy as the buffer zone in which to find compromise.

The compromise is how far each town chooses to go above security tier 0: emergencies with immediate threat to life or property.

• tier 0 is defined as covering 100% of law enforcement requests of all agencies with jurisdiction in the covered area.

Not again!

Damn you…

✊ Netanyanuuuu!!!

Yeah it’s less like something new and more like “Thank you, ancient me, for deciding it was always a good policy to go heavy on the RAM.”

Even if generated images originally could be traced to the training data, I think that maybe just maybe the shady gigacorps would have some incentive to remove or obfuscate the copyright & IP violation paper trail from their trillion-dollar toys.

Oooh excuse me, b- but did your apt just brush up against my pacman?

Oh no, I will be sure to keep an eye out for these scary vandals invading my peaceful town over these next few days!

I mean, you never know when a passionate young person needs a “thumbs up” to brighten their day and boost their confidence.

And in case any of them want to step to me, I can threaten them with all the old power tools I have in my house that they could learn to use.

God: eternal and omniscient.

Also god: surprised pikachu.

Very happy Adderall user here.

I went years without being medicated after I was pretty sure I needed it and got with a mental health provider.

Apparently the fact that my wife’s questionnaire answers were like 1% too optimistic, and the fact that I did really well on the short term memory and mental math questions in person (hyper-focus due to performance anxiety driven by Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, anyone?) with their psychologist meant I was fine and just needed to work on my anxiety that kept me from getting things done.

Well shit, I never cared about the name but this convinced me because adoption and teaching about FOSS matters more.

Just rolling through here like “Do not cite the old firmware to me Witch. I was there when it was written.”

Sometimes it’s not the moutains that get you, it’s the smaller hills and valleys surrounding them because there are actually people and roads there.

Sometimes if you make a wrong turn in Pittsburgh, you are not just going the wrong direction but are also at the wrong elevation or on the wrong layer, and there’s no looping around the block to get back to where you started.

Disclaimer: This thread led me to read the Wikipedia article about Appalachia. Some definitions of the region do not include Pittsburgh or even parts of Pennsylvania, but at the same time there’s a photo of downtown Pittsburgh at the top of the article, so I went with it.

Translation: I am uncomfortable with people different from me and I want to dictate how they live their lives, therefore I project upon those other people that they must want to do the same to me and all the world’s decent people who are (of course) like me.

Black holes can exist with any amount of mass, as far as we know. You can calculate the size of the event horizon for any given quantity of matter. IIRC, even the Planck Temperature is the limit to our current understanding that it is because a photon emitted by an object that hot would be energetic enough to form a little tiny black hole.

This graph shows a few things about black holes in a way that I love.

1. Black holes do have a lifetime and are not eternal. I think somebody already mentioned Hawking radiation.

2. Extremely small black holes actually have a pretty short lifespan. The math says they glow brightly and basically explode as they get close to fully evaporating.

3. Black holes with any appreciable mass last a REALLY fucking long time. A black hole with only the mass of the Red Sea or Greenland would last many orders of magnitude longer than the longest-lived red dwarfs, which themselves go for trillions of years. An online calculator tells me that the Schwarzschild radius for 10^20 kg (roughly greenland on the graph) is 1.4852e-7 m, so sub-micron in size. And though it will not last forever, it will still be virtually unchanged in trillions of years after every current star burns out.

I also hit up Wolfram Alpha’s black hole lifetime calculator. For 10^20 kg it gives me 2.667 x 10^37 years. For one in the range of metric tons or less, you are looking at nanoseconds or faster. For a black hole to last longer than a second, you need to be up around a quarter of a million kilograms.

So when I said they are supposed to basically explode as they get tiny and evaporate? The most powerful hydrogen bombs convert a couple kg of matter to energy at most. A 250,000 kg black hole converting entirely to radiation in just a second must be some crazy shit.

I actually used to do single dots in my own file/folder names. It’s probably my favorite way visually, since it’s a minimal separator and as you showed it works without a separator at all.

oh yeah. There are numerous benefits to the format itself, outside the question of hyphens vs slashes.

I find the sortability quite satisfying, but also as somebody living in the US, I also like that it’s unambiguous regardless of my audience. Hell, half the time I see people hand-write a date on something they don’t even use a year.

Oh they’ll give “answers” alright. They could just be wrong or untethered from reality.

Yep and it needs to use hyphens and not slashes. It helps avoid missed typos or mis-reads in some situations, especially if hand-written.

Maximum tip-to-tip efficiency or it’s back to apprenticeship with you!

Go after the companies

Sir this is a Merica.