[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Usually it's not inside the same chamber as the food as then it would be a nuisance to clean. You need to take a microwave apart to see the wave stirrer.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Most microwaves have a spinning wave stirrer in addition to the rotating plate. From the description here, it just sounds like either your plate rotation motor is broken or you've got a weirdly simple microwave.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago

When AMD's biggest market was Litecoin (and derivatives like Dogecoin) mining and Nvidia's hardware was pants at mining, they initially couldn't increase production of the HD 7000 series quickly enough, so the initial glut of money went to scalpers. They responded by making huge volumes for the Rx 200 series, but shortly after it launched, Litecoin mining ASICs became available and GPU mining stopped being viable. That meant that:

  • they'd spent lots of money manufacturing lots of GPUs.
  • miners were selling used GPUs for a fraction of the retail cost while those cards were still the current generation.
  • people didn't want to buy a new card for several times the price of the same card but used for a few months.
  • retailers had to drop prices to keep selling new cards.
  • wholesale prices had to drop to keep retailers stocking new cards.
  • AMD weren't making any profit when they sold these cards.
  • the RX 300 cards weren't compelling compared to a massively discounted RX 200 card, so they didn't sell in huge quantities or with good margins, either.

This wasn't the only time ATi/AMD took a calculated risk and it backfired horribly, so with their history of bad luck, chasing the AI bubble in any way that involves risk instead of just selling things for money might be a bad idea.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Instead of git history, you get a git fairy tale. Practically, the merge conflicts and their resolutions get spread across one or more commits on the branch that was rebased, and the history makes it look like all the work was done after the upstream commit(s) that there was a conflict with. This can be much tidier, but also loses the context of changes. E.g. you can no longer see that something is done differently to everywhere else that does the same thing not because it needs to do it differently, but because it copied and pasted something from ten lines above and the thing ten lines above received a bug fix on another branch which the feature branch was rebased onto. Based on my experience working on large projects that used both approaches, I'd rather scroll past extra commits and squiggly branch lines than try to reconstruct what someone was thinking when they made a mistake without access to the original commit they made the mistake in. If I had to allow history-rewriting operations in git, the one I'd pick would be rewriting the history of Earth so that when history rewriting operations were implemented in git, they defaulted to adding some metadata to the rewritten commits making the operations reversible so I could decide I wanted the real history back.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

No, that would be an orchiectomy.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

In this case, the product was free to OSS developers not because they were the product, but because they're influencers likely to end up encouraging their users and/or employers to buy the paid version, so it was the marketing that those people could do that was the product.

This change with the data harvesting makes those developers the product, though.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Technically it's even a ToS violation to install extensions from the VS Code marketplace (or whatever it's called) if you're using VS Codium. Many are also available somewhere else like the code forge where they're developed and are under open source or free software licenses, but quite a few important ones are only available through the one distribution channel you're not allowed to use, and contain proprietary components that can't be forked to lift this restriction.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

I don't think they're necessarily trying to have enough moral high ground to justify a genocide, just vaguely enough factual events that they can convince people there was a legitimate reason to engage in a legitimate war, and that there's a worldwide antisemitic campaign to pretend it's not a legitimate war, and that there are enough antisemites that they've managed to capture the whole UN etc.. Whether or not that's the goal, it's a pretty widely-held belief worldwide that the Irsaeli government's obvious lies are more plausible than factual claims about Palestinian civilians dying, and everyone accusing Israel of genocide is a lying antisemite is the easiest way to reconcile the conflicting information without landing on the country whose ministers are tweeting genocidal intent and that blocks independent journalists accessing Gaza is probably doing a genocide.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

If you're looking at a guide like this, it's pretty likely that it's because you need to know what to put into a search engine to buy the right screwdriver, so it's absolutely got value to know the name other people are using for a thing and selling it as.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 117 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

He was found guilty of medical malpractice after gene editing babies by treating their embryos with CRISPR/Cas9. He claims that he was trying to make them resistant to HIV, and that medical ethics are preventing cures from being discovered, but his critics say that we know CRISPR is too unreliable to use on a genome the size of a human's, and is more likely to introduce dangerous mutations than apply the intended change, hence why no one else has done this before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 141 points 11 months ago

I've had an unreasonable number of arguments against people who seemed to think animal was a synonym for mammal. Thankfully, we're now in an era where you can look it up and show them now mobile data is cheap, so it's become a winnable argument.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago

To go one better, there's http://isthereanydeal.com/, which tracks prices across a bunch of vetted key retailers (i.e. companies that buy wholesale keys from publishers and sell them to users, but not grey-market or dodgy sites) so you can see where's cheapest and get notified of discounts etc.

Why check GreenManGaming and Steam (and potentially a bunch of their competitors, too) when you could check one site and know who's best?

I've accidentally made this read like an ad, but they've not paid me to say this, I just always check the site before buying games, and have either saved loads of money by doing so over the years, or have ended up buying a bunch of things I'd have ignored on the grounds they were too expensive otherwise. I don't know in which direction, but it's definitely changed the amount I've spent on games over the last ten years.

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Edit 1: I'm attaching the image again. If there's still no photo, blame Jerboa and not the alcohol I've consumed.

Edit 3: edit 2 is gone. However, an imgur link should now be here!

Edit 4: I promise the photo of some plugs does not contain erotic material (unless you have very specific and abnormal fetishes). I can't find the button to tell that to imgur, though. You can blame that on the alcohol.

Edit 5: s/done/some/g

Edit 6: I regret mentioning the dartboard, which was a safe distance below these sockets, and seems to be distracting people from the fact that one's the wrong way up. I've now replaced the imgur link with a direct upload now I'm back on my desktop the next day.

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