maskedinvader (u/maskedinvader)

maskedinvader commented on How a photographer captured his eclipse photo petapixel.com/2024/04/21/... · Posted by u/elijahparker

JKCalhoun · 2 years ago

Glad others were photographing it. I was just there for the ahhhhs. It's a kind of a religious experience for me and, though it was my second, I knew from the first one that I ought to just ignore the phone and just take in the experience. No regrets.

I'm old enough that it's questionable I'll be around in 21 years for the next one in the U.S.. Only my middle daughter has not yet seen one (wife and the other two daughters are good). If I am lucky I'll be alive to join her for it.

I have to say, bit off topic, I'm fairly pissed off that I didn't get "my Halley's comet". Or rather, I got it, but it was crap. I suppose I could live to be 97.... (I am not sure if Mark Twain was lucky or unlucky with regard to Halley's.)

Anyway, Hale-Bopp was a treat, I have to confess. I suppose I am fortunate for that.

maskedinvader · 2 years ago

I ditched the phone, camera, telescope all of it. In 2017 when I saw it the first time I think I wasted precious seconds fiddling with the gear trying to get the best shot. This time soaked all of the time and gave my eyes a visual treat ! totally worth it. No regrets whatsoever. Anyone reading this and hasn't seen one yet, I would advise to prioritize viewing it with your eyes a bit more than trying to capture it , its just very hard to capture the visual effect of experiencing totality.

maskedinvader commented on China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers: Report channelnewsasia.com/busin... · Posted by u/fnordpiglet

beefnugs · 2 years ago

It makes it tough for us trying to figure out if it is because: - They are projecting that they know they are shipping backdoors into motherboard all over the world, so they are scared of the same - or else its just paranoia

Regardless the simplest way to protect ourselves is major shift into whitelist only network allowance

maskedinvader · 2 years ago

nit: lets stop using whitelist and switch to allowlist

maskedinvader commented on "3 Body Problem" Is a Rare Species of Sci-Fi Epic newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/irtefa

maskedinvader · 2 years ago

I love this series, read all the books multiple times and also watched the 30 episode long book 1 tv adaption in Chinese. I can't wait to watch the book1 adaption on Netflix in a couple of days. I am really hoping its well received and they go on to make the season 2 based on book 2 which was by far my favorite book in the series.

maskedinvader commented on How far could the sun possibly be? profmattstrassler.com/202... · Posted by u/cwillu

ForOldHack · 2 years ago

Speed has no existance in space, it requires the passage of time. The one way speed of light can be measured, and is very important to the design of curcits. Anytime you wish to argue this point, take it up with RtAdrm Grace Hopper. I count myself as very very bright, but I do not hold a burning punch card to Hopper.

"Since 1 July 1959, the international avoirdupois pound (symbol lb) has been defined as exactly 0.45359237 kg. In the United Kingdom, the use of the international pound was implemented in the Weights and Measures Act 1963. (a) the yard shall be 0.9144 metre exactly; (b) the pound shall be 0.45359237 kilogram exactly."

"The kilogram is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant, ℎ, to be 6.626 070 15 × 10-34 when expressed in the unit J s, which is equal to kg m2 s−1, where the metre and the second are defined in terms of the speed of light, , and the hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium-133 atom..."

Nothing new. Rando hacker news poster, vs say... the International Standards Organization on Weights and measures. Hmm... I am going to place my faith in say... a group of people who's degrees far outnumber most of the colleges I studied at.

No, the speed of light is not defied in the "flattest" one of them. Please do your homework. "The speed of light is a universal constant denoted by c."

In my second college physics class, the final exam was one single question: "Derive the speed of light." I got a grade of 4/10, which put me at the top two students in the class. The class was a 5 1/2 month exercise in brutality of math. I would suggest you get a few college physics classes under your belt.

maskedinvader · 2 years ago

> The one way speed of light can be measured.

Nope it can't. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k&t=0s for a good explanation.

maskedinvader commented on Intel's Core I7-14700K Benchmarked: More Cores, Higher Clocks tomshardware.com/news/int... · Posted by u/belltaco

maskedinvader · 2 years ago

Wow core i4900k and 14900ks editions rumored to have 6.0 ghz and 6.20 ghz clock speeds ! I thought we were had hit a 5 ghz ceiling with current tech. What a time to be alive !

maskedinvader commented on Young people are flocking to astrology washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

maskedinvader · 2 years ago

Astrology originated with astronomy and then parted ways, in the old days people relied on astrologers to predict when spring would arrive or winter will come, once astronomy separated from astrology, some people just continued to believe the astrologers even though we have astronomers today. Sigh.

maskedinvader commented on Meta stops ordering new parts for Quest Pro zdnet.com/article/meta-ca... · Posted by u/miiiiiike

seydor · 2 years ago

quest 2 is the most interesting gadget i got the past decade. honestly space rockets are ok at current tech , but too much work just to see the blue planet from above, everything else looks pretty much the same as a clear night sky

maskedinvader · 2 years ago

I agree (for quest 2 being the most interesting gadget in this space), quest 2 sold 10s of millions of devices and arguably came closest to making VR mainstream although they have much more ground to cover. Would be interesting to see the sales figures for their upcoming quest 3 , if it can sell as much or more units than quest 2 , I think there is a chance all this investment would be worth it. Ofcourse a cheaper consumer apple vision headset could easily come in and eat metas lunch.

Edit: copies-> devices

maskedinvader commented on Intel's 14th Gen Core K-Series CPU Specs Break Cover with Speeds Up to 6GHz hothardware.com/news/inte... · Posted by u/rbanffy

whalesalad · 2 years ago

I just got a 13900K on Monday. Naturally something bigger and badder is right around the corner. I cry evrytim.

maskedinvader · 2 years ago

Haha yes that’s me every time I upgrade, every new thing you buy is bound to be outshined by the next iteration. The best cpu you can buy is always the next gen going to come soon I guess.

maskedinvader commented on You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply sending an email twitter.com/JakeMooreUK/s... · Posted by u/KomoD

swader999 · 2 years ago

Too bad it didn't work for the entire meta user base. We could free the world. It would be like independence day when they uploaded the virus to kill the mothership.

maskedinvader · 2 years ago

I get why one would feel this way if this was one of Meta’s social media apps, but WhatsApp is one of the biggest messaging apps used in so many countries and perhaps also helped kill the telecoms companies paid sms plans to force cheaper sms msging rates, if anything WhatsApp is perhaps the best value Meta has provided to the world, bringing the world closer.

maskedinvader commented on The deadly “dancing plague” of 1518 bigthink.com/the-past/dan... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

NoMoreNicksLeft · 2 years ago

> Surely there would be people like me who could resist the dancing plague.

Intelligent humans are in some ways the dumbest humans. You assume that your consciousness/will is the only "code" executing inside your skull.

It isn't. You're just unaware of the rest. What is it doing, and how much influence or control does it have on your overt behavior? Well, wouldn't you like to know.

The biggest part of the illusion that "you" are in control, is your capacity to re-interpret your behaviors after the fact. Someone asks you, "hey, why'd you A?" and your brain panics at the idea of blurting out "I honestly don't know". There has to be an answer. You're not exactly lying when you come up with that answer, it's more like your best guess. I think in some ways, all those teachers and other authority figures that punished you extra if you said "I dunno" when they asked why'd you break the rules have something to do with this too.

Finally, if you could be the one person immune to so-called dancing plagues... would you really want to be the inhuman freak who didn't?

maskedinvader · 2 years ago

Alright fair that as a human myself I wouldn’t know what I’d fall prey to, but until we can see this in modern times with video recordings and learn more about the actual mechanism here , I’d like to continue believe this is BS and probably an urban myth.