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garlopf t1_ja819b4 wrote
Reply to comment by daats_end in LPT: While driving, check for motorcycles. If you don't see any, check again! by Zero_Phux_Given
Wow such anger.
garlopf t1_ja5tqgd wrote
You can block sound completely by isolating the source of the sound from the ear with vacuum. As sound is waves traveling through matter, it can only travel where there is matter.
Light on the other hand is electro magnetic waves, which will travel wherever there is an electro magnetic field, including in vacuum. Light will interact with matter and you can block light completely by enclosing it in reflective and/or bsorbent material.
garlopf t1_ja5qqno wrote
Reply to LPT: While driving, check for motorcycles. If you don't see any, check again! by Zero_Phux_Given
Keep double distance as a car driver behind a motorcycle. It feels really uncomfortable as a biker when cars get too close behind you, especially in traffic.
garlopf t1_ja2q28d wrote
Reply to ELI5: in MS-DOS there were not-interchangeable audio cards and we had to manually select it to get sound, otherwise there was none at all. When and why this stopped being a problem? by 3RBlank
It stopped being a problem when Microsoft introduced plug and play in windows 95. This was a hardware standard and software stack that would identify each hardware device automatically, then load the necessary drivers and assign the IRQ and DMA numbers automatically.
In the beginning few devices supported the standard and so the auto detection was kind of hard and also very flakey. We all have vivid memories of how this would fail with blue screen of death and systems hanging. It even got the nick name "plug and pray". But as time went on hardware support improved, and so did the software, and now we take it for granted that hardware detection "just works".
garlopf t1_j5rjj8j wrote
Reply to TIL about medically unexplained symptoms, almost 1/4 of all people who visit a GP in the UK have phsyical conditions that cannot be explained by gorge_orwoll
Correction: they can be explained, but the gp just cant be bothered and/or isn't capable of determine the cause. Their mission is to keep people working, if the symptoms or condition does not interfer with the patient's work then better not spend tax dollars on a wild goose chase. This might be the best argument against free universal health care.
garlopf t1_j4ridmt wrote
Microsoft buys ChatGPT, Microsoft slash thousands of jobs. Coincidence? I think not...
garlopf t1_j48233c wrote
Reply to comment by MustLoveAllCats in UAE names its oil company chief to lead U.N. climate talks by KHaskins77
It was a joke.
garlopf t1_j47vkc6 wrote
U A E is a fucking desert. They already don't have any trees. Climate change is a joke to them.
garlopf t1_j2eo646 wrote
Guide for those that don't know: for every randomly selected typeable character you add to you password, it will multiply the number of combinations by around 60. So if your password is 3 characters, that means 60 * 60 * 60 = 60^3 = 216000.
Computer systems exist that can crack passwords by testing each combination one by one (a.k.a. brute force) and their capacity doubles roughly every 2 years. Currently the best of them are assumed to be able to crack passwords of 12 randomly selected digits within "reasonable time". These are farms of hundreds of computers each testing combinations at millions per second for days, months and years.
So if you select a password with 20 randomly selected characters, you will have a nice margin of 60^8= 167961600000000 longer time to crack than what is reasonable by the best technology of today.
You can stay at this edge by adding another randomly selected character every 60/2=30 years.
garlopf t1_izgq4s3 wrote
I always thought of the singularity to mean when our physical bodies would meld with machines and co-evolve to a state where we no longer could live without them, and our conscious thoughts would be shared among us.
garlopf t1_ixg4hz1 wrote
Reply to It is still too early to use artificial intelligence for criminal justice, claims new paper by Ssider69
Hint: it will always be too early. But we will do it anyways and then it will be judge Dredd all over again.
garlopf t1_jauiy0b wrote
Reply to Say No to Python/Django - Use PHP/JQuery Instead by jessie4_
Python + FastAPI with async io all the way...