qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 70 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Hilarious to me that it OCRs the text. The text is generated by the computer. It's almost like when Lt. Cmdr. Data wants to get information from the computer database, so he tells the computer to display it and just keeps increasing the speed


there are way more efficient means of getting information from A to B than displaying it, imaging it, and running it though image processing!

I totally get that this is what makes sense, and it's independent of the method/library used for generating text, but still...the computer "knows" what it's displaying (except for images of text), and yet it has to screenshot and read it back.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think an email address is required to access their respective app stores, but is it actually required for creating an account?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 16 points 11 months ago (7 children)
[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 21 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I just say my name is Bigus Dickus whenever they call me. They usually hang up or insult me.

For the "car's extended warranty" I just tell them it's a 1969 Wayne Industries Batmobile. They usually just say they don't provide coverage for that car and hang up.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but where's Starfleet HQ?!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

Another option is to remove it and symlink it to a static version of your choosing. I believe NM won't replace a symlink. You can just remove the symlink when you're done and it should go back to normal...I think.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago

Only additional thing I would do would be to try to ssh into it to. Sounds like that wouldn't have worked anyway. But if you can ssh into it while it's in a degraded-but-not-completely-borked state you can poke around, troubleshoot, and of course cleanly reboot.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Googling around, you get about 1e11 kJ/gram of He produced (source.

Wikipedia says Hindenburg volume is 200,000 m cubed . Multiply by density of He at stp and you get north of 1e7 grams.

Multiply and you get 1e21 J. Estimate for worldwide energy consumption in 2010, from Wolfram Alpha, is half of that.

So, if all energy were from local fusion, it would take about two years of production to fill a single Hindenburg-sized Zeppelin. That is a huge amount of energy.

I don't think it's equivalent to compare energy with RAM like this. Energy is the realm of thermodynamics; things like boiling water don't care about technology, they just need a certain amount of energy. Unless we're talking about fundamentally new uses of energy, like floating cities or something whacky, I think the amount of energy here is really, really big.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm too lazy to work through the numbers but I think helium production would be very small


which is another way of saying fusion (as envisioned for energy use) produces a huge amount of energy.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 11 months ago

I kinda prefer xargs to the -exec option


just feels more UNIXy to me (do one one job well).

But as another comment said, for grep I just use -r and --include. So clearly I'm not very consistent...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Anyone else getting Lando Norris vibes?

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