The problem is that the places where this technology would be useful also happen to be the places with little to no humidity. You can’t pull water out of the air if there isn’t any.

The places where this would be useful are places with high humidity, but then water sources aren’t usually an issue. You’d have to have a region where it’s very humid, but doesn’t have access to drinking water. I don’t imagine those are particularly common. Such a region would probably benefit more from water treatment than pulling it out of the air.

Currently I think my leading theory is that Elon Musk has made a deal with a witch, and in exchange for eternal life he has to burn 44 billion dollars as fast as possible. I see no other explanation for these batshit decisions.

I thought about this before, and mostly agree. My mom knows nothing about computers and could probably use Ubuntu if I stick it on a machine and gave it to her. The thing preventing me from doing it is that when things go wrong in Linux, it often requires extensive terminal usage to fix. And my mother can often find new and creative ways to break a computer. If something went wrong with it, I would have to fix it. There is literally no one else she knows who would even know where to start. At least if she’s on windows, she can find someone to help her.

I’m sceptical that blue light lenses, even those that effectively block blue light, are doing much of anything. Blue light can mess with your circadian rhythm, but so can orange-tinted light if it’s bright enough. A better system would be to limit screen time after dark. If you are using screens, lower their brightness to the lowest amount you can still see. You can use a night -time filter to tint the screen orange after dark (most OS’s and devices support some form of this). Blue light lenses while holding a OLED device six inches from your face at full intensity? Likely not doing much.

“Clicking agree allows us to come into your bedroom at night and sleep with your wife. Don’t worry, we wouldn’t actually do that, even though we did take the time to explicitly add that to our terms of service. You can trust us.”

And it’s prioritizing short-term views over long-term stability. Sure, rushing the review gets you views now, but if companies realize that you’re not going to give their product a fair shake, they’ll stop sending you products. Then to review things, you’ll need to buy them yourself, further cutting into your profits. If Billet Labs ever makes another product, they’re not going to send LTT a review sample because of this whole shitshow. Other startups are now going to be hesitant to send LTT review products because 1. They may not get a fair review, and 2. They may not get their review product back.

This is an important point. We’re all pissed at LTT right now so are eager to jump on any story that supports that narrative. I’m not saying I don’t believe Madison (what she says pretty much lines up with what I would expect). But before we convict Linus in the court of public opinion, we should allow him to argue in his defense.

Like, is the Billet Labs issue supposed to be sabotage or something? He’s shitting on it right from the beginning, uses the wrong card, installs it poorly, then refuses to retest because…it’ll cost him…like…$500?

It’s like if I was reviewing a screwdriver, decided to use nails because I couldn’t find any screws, held the thing upside down, then bitched about how shitty it was. And when it’s pointed out that my review isn’t fair, refuse to retest because a box of screws is $8 at Home Depot and the screwdriver probably sucks anyway. And on top of that, just sell the screwdriver to someone else instead of giving it back.

Does LMG have investments in a competitor or something? It is so willfully irresponsible that I almost want to claim conspiracy because I can’t believe that a company would make so many poor decisions by mistake. What is going on over there where a $500 reshoot that would ensure a fair and balanced review of the product is such an nonnegotiable prospect?

On Artemis, yes. On kbin.social, no. Was kinda wondering why no one else was talking about it.

Awesome. I’m just lurking with Artemis until kbin.social enables the API, but really like how it’s coming along. Microblogging is the big reason I chose Kbin over Lemmy, so I’m excited for this.

But you know the industry will learn the wrong lesson from this.

“Wow, people really like Baldur’s Gate 3. I know, it must be the dice rolls! Let’s have every interaction in Assassin’s Creed: Tropical Freeze be determined by RNG!”

BS looks better than AAS, but honestly that’ll only really apply for your first couple jobs. Once you’ve got a few years of experience, your specific education matters less and less. I will say that a BS is “better” in terms of teaching you more, but your Associate’s credits will transfer if you ever decide to go that route.

Also, once you pick up one language, you basically know them all (with some obvious exceptions). If you know PowerShell, you can pick up Bash pretty easy. If you know JavaScript, you can pick up Python. If you know Python, Java is pretty easy. If you know Java, you pretty much know C#. Learning a language becomes just figuring out how that languages does things. Picking up a new language goes from being a process that takes a year or two and schooling to taking maybe a week and watching some videos. There are some exceptions (Python doesn’t tell you much about SQL, and systems languages like C/C++ are their own animal).

Now that I’m in my thirties, I can answer this. Two things come to mind.

First, really should have just done college after high school. I really wasn’t looking forward to more school after graduation and wasted about 5 years before going back for my CS degree. I’m in a good place now, but could have had a 5 year head start on life if I’d just gone straight in.

Second, please take better care of your health while you have it. I was skinny as a rail in my early 20s and sort of took that for granted. I’m not obese or anything right now, but as you get older keeping in shape takes conscious upkeep. Get in the habit now and it’ll be easier to maintain later. It’s harder to lose the weight once you have it rather than keep it off.

Ecosystem is a buzzword that means overly monetized hellscape.

You can’t just put anime catgirl in parenthesis and move on like nothing happened!

Taking a picture instantly after would probably create a different hash value. The thing about hashing is that even if one bit is different between source images, the resulting hashes would look entirely different.

I suppose I could conceive of a proprietary hash algorithm that would allow for fuzzy matching of iris photos, but as you said, eyes taken years apart in different conditions wouldn’t match the original hash. Or falsely match similar looking eyes. It’s not like this system allows them to get high resolution perfectly lit iris photos, after all.

The whole thing sounds dubious, and I suspect AI is mentioned solely to secure investor funding, much like how several years back everything mentioned Blockchain.

Several years ago for April Fools Day, Reddit launched /r/place, which created a canvas where users could place individual pixels every few minutes. Communities would get together to carve out their own little corner of the canvas for a piece of art, and overall the whole thing was pretty well received.

Last year for April Fools Day, they did it again. Overall, once again pretty well received.

Now, since Reddit has pissed everyone off, they’re doing it again again, likely in a desperate move to try and generate some positive community interactions. /r/place has always been pretty popular when they’ve done it before, so this is probably a ‘push in case of emergency’ attempt to placate users. Predictably, everyone’s still mad so they’ve littered the whole canvas with ‘fuck spez’ posts.

No, I have people to do that for me.

Kuh-bin, with the first syllable short and emphasis on the second.

@ernest, if Kbin starts making okay money, don’t be afraid to give yourself a salary. It’s important that you get to eat too.