[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Well, who did you trust to build your hardware?

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

It's simple ⅯⅯⅩⅩⅣis a number, MMXXIV is not.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Education has really failed to impress upon people the importance of asking questions. It's amazing how much time is wasted on making people learn answers to questions they don't even know how to ask.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

For some reason I read 'zombies', was wondering what on earth you were planning.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

If someone's licking any of the transuranic elements I'm not sticking around to watch.

Some stuff should simply not exist in a lickable quantity.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

Wouldn't surprise me if that's what sealed the deal for him.

I mean the deadlines are closing and having to fight to even stay in the race while president of the U.S. and recovering from an illness is not something anyone looks forward to.

Frankly I hope he can catch a break for a bit, and enjoy a pension after all this is over.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 86 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

People using devout to describe their political views unironically is the scariest thing I've read today.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

I mean it's not the first time they've done so.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

In a way AI refusing to recommend using so much computing power on LLMs could well be the first sign of actual intelligence.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

Not sure about the self-driving, but he had a video challenging the idea that electrons in wires that carry electricity. Basically arguing that it was the electric fields themselves that carried the power, which is largely outside of the actual wires.

Not sure if that's the same one where he asked what would happen if you used a light switch connected to a lamp by two wires. Apart from some truly egregious mistaken units (1s/c as unit of time), I vaguely recall thinking it was basically a huge clusterfuck of misunderstandings about what an electrical circuit diagram even is (stuff like real vs idealized components, parasitic capacitance / inductance etc.)

They're the kind of 'Well actually' half true factoids that you never hope to encounter in the wild if you actually understand the stuff. For someone claiming to be enthusiastic about science communication he did one heck of a job poisoning concepts with subtly wrong/misleading explanations that make it a lot harder to explain stuff to anyone with the misfortune to encounter his version first.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To settle this argument could you clarify if we're supposed to be considering the straw as a solid 3D object with a thickness, or as a curved 2D surface? The answer kind of depends on which you pick.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For some more context, this is probably tied into at least two things. One is that the bubble was starting to be recognized for what it was. The other is that interest rates became positive again, so the bar for a good investment suddenly went from "I'll be happy if I get my money back" to "I want to be paid back double within 20 years".

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