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zaebal commented on The Ladybird browser project   ladybird.dev/... · Posted by u/defied
dev213 · 2 years ago
This is a really cool project, but:

"Where are the ISO images?

There are no ISO images. This project does not cater to non-technical users."

This comes off as really abrasive. Wanting an ISO image to quickly test this out is not an indicator of someones technical ability.

I'm sorry I don't want to boot up a linux vm, install a lot of development packages and then build my own boot image just to try this out.

zaebal · 2 years ago
SerenityOS nightly builds: https://serenity-builds.halves.dev/
zaebal commented on The Domestication of SARS-CoV-2 into a Seasonal Infection by Viral Variants   frontiersin.org/articles/... · Posted by u/cempaka
chx · 2 years ago
People don't like to hear that COVID is airborne, that COVID is not over, and that COVID is NOT a respiratory illness but a vascular illness that causes multisystem organ damage, but this is true, and our governments don't fucking care who dies or becomes permanently disabled as long as people keep contributing to capitalism. So MOST GOVERNMENTS ARE NOW SOURCES OF COVID MISINFORMATION.
zaebal · 2 years ago
The whole multisystem-organ-damaged world is conspiring against you.
zaebal commented on History of Tcl   tcl.tk/about/history.html... · Posted by u/uticus
pabs3 · 2 years ago
Interesting that Tcl uses Fossil for their development, I wonder how many projects out there are using it instead of Git/GitHub.
zaebal · 2 years ago
Sqlite
zaebal commented on Absence of superconductivity in LK-99 at ambient conditions   arxiv.org/abs/2308.03544... · Posted by u/spekcular
KennyBlanken · 3 years ago
Well, except for the whole "research over the last decade or two has born superconductors that work at warmer and warmer temperatures" thing.

Superconductors look far more promising than the economics of nuclear power (which have gotten worse, not better) or fusion (still perpetually 20+ years out), and it's a critical field to work on because we desperately need stuff that superconducts at LN2 (or warmer) temperatures for things like medical imaging, because we're going to run out of helium completely in 100-200 years (and it will become wildly uneconomical well before then.)

zaebal · 3 years ago
It's half-truth, higher temperatures usually require high non-ambient pressure to achieve superconductivity.
zaebal commented on LK-99 is an online sensation but replication efforts fall short   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
v3ss0n · 3 years ago
Nature is an online sensational clickbait magazine for a decade
zaebal · 3 years ago
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
zaebal commented on Titanic tourist sub photos show wreckage being brought ashore   bbc.com/news/world-us-can... · Posted by u/tartoran
timbit42 · 3 years ago
Doesn't it depend on the type of failure? Apparently it didn't break but might have deformed to the point that the seal was compromised.
zaebal · 3 years ago
Assuming violent implosion.
zaebal commented on Titanic tourist sub photos show wreckage being brought ashore   bbc.com/news/world-us-can... · Posted by u/tartoran
UniverseHacker · 3 years ago
The hull imploded, not the window, but the shockwave probably pushed the window outward or shattered it, as it was only held strongly against moving inwards.

People make a big deal about the acrylic glass not being rated for the depth, but I think it's almost impossible that it was the window, and think it must have been the hull:

  * The properties acrylic are well understood, and the strength of an acrylic disc is trivial to calculate, even if not "rated" you can easily calculate if it's strong enough
  * The window should fail visually with a lot of warning before rupture
  * If the window failed with the titanium end cap, there would be no reason for implosion of the carbon fiber hull
The hull on the other hand is an irregular/non-homogenous part that is impossible to model accurately. There was no way to know how strong it was without extensive testing on a number of identical hulls- which they never did. The solidworks modeling method they used to give a ~2x margin of safety was nonsense as it ignores the realities of stress cycles, defects, etc.

zaebal · 3 years ago
Can we assume that if the acrylic was a point of failure, then the whole titanium end cap section would appear much more damaged, than what we can see on those pictures?
zaebal commented on Black holes might be defects in spacetime   phys.org/news/2023-05-bla... · Posted by u/wglb
giantg2 · 3 years ago
For some reason it really irks me that they are using the word defect. It's like they forgot that the rules/model we set follow what happens in reality. If there is a defect, it's not in spacetime, it's in our understanding.
zaebal · 3 years ago
Think of it as an abnormality in spacetime.
zaebal commented on TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language   toml.io/en/... · Posted by u/jonbaer
bruce511 · 3 years ago
I'm puzzling over where I would use this sort of thing, over say Json, or simple xml, and I realise that it's mostly useful in cases where you're expected to edit the configuration in a text editor.

That's not something I come across a lot - all my software (that I use) has a visual interface, and so raw editing of text/config files is not something we do.

So context really comes into play here. I can see how this would be very useful for some programs, and near useless for others. And more specifically useful for those who consume user-edited configuration files.

zaebal · 3 years ago
It also reminds me the syntax of INI files.
zaebal commented on Alex Jones told to pay $965M damages to Sandy Hook victims' families   bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-c... · Posted by u/bartread
Zigurd · 3 years ago
Defense of Alex Jones here, generally in the form of "it was just speech, it was just one falsehood, goodbye free speech, if I say just one wrong thing..." etc. speaks of a particular trait: Context-free pedantry.

These people imagine themselves practicing their context-free pedantry in the workplace and saying something like "Go to Massachusetts for your abortion" or something analogous regarding race, disability, sexual identity, etc. and getting crushed for their speech.

It's not the speech. In Alex Jones's case, the speech led directly to violence against the families of the dead kids. For the people who imagine themselves to be future victims of speech restrictions, it's not their speech, either. It's their lack of understanding that speech has consequences, like an inherent inability to work alongside others who cannot then trust them. What woman in Texas, for example, can trust a man who believes she has no right to control her own body when he could snitch on her?

zaebal · 3 years ago
I've never heard of anyone who went on trial because of the violence against the families. All I hear is people keep making those allegations. Nothing more than that.

u/zaebal

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