stembolts

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[–] stembolts@programming.dev 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I'm going to take a leap of faith and say you don't work in aviation..

Step one.. define safety in the context of the airplane.
Step two.. measure it.

So yea. If safety is never defined it cannot be measured. But is the sentiment you are attempting to express is that measurable safety guidelines have not been defined for these massively complicated and long-running commercial aircraft?

Maybe I am misunderstanding because at first glance your comment comes across as nonsensical, please elaborate.

How do you think safety is verified?

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ah! Makes sense to me.

There is always a chance I misinterpreted as well, I def have whooshed on many jokes on Lemmy. Can't win them all lol.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Edit : minor addition. I was reading a comment the other day and found out helium can also result from other reactions outside of a star, such as the decay of a radioactive element, which ejects an alpha particle (which is just a helium molecule with special attributes, aka no electrons). The alpha particle crashes into something, picks up electrons and suddenly its a helium.

No, they are clearly making the following comparison.

  1. For climate change : World is heating up, heading toward the result of mass extinctions. The most valuable resource is the time to act. Ten extra years to work on the root cause. Unsustainable emissions.

  2. For Helium : A finite resource is being exhausted, heading toward a world with no helium (helium is typically created by one of the fusion cycles in the core of a star, fusion is a nascient technology on earth). The most valuable resource is time to act, +X% helium extra supply to address the root cause, unsustainable consumption.

In both cases, the root cause is being (mostly) ignored.

So they're pointing out that if you have 800 finite helium, then suddenly you find out you have 880 helium.. that hasn't changed the finite nature of the helium. The root cause remains a "spending problem". And they are likely annoyed that 880 ~> 880 results in, " Omg yay!" vs what should be, "Oh thank goodness, more time to address the root cause of consumption."

Idk, was that not obvious? I'm not being facetious here, I'm really asking. Brings to mind the "curse of knowledge" fallacy where when you understand something you assume others do, and they often don't, resulting in disjointed communication where the listener can't grasp the idea. As condescending as this sounds I assure you its only because I'm not a writer, I'm legitimately making an attempt to communicate neutrally with you as we both seem to have genuine interest.

Anyway, corrections and such always welcome. All numbers in this post made up for illustrative purposes only.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

To me it brings about the question of, "What is the shelf life of answers?" Like if reddit had existed 100 years ago, how do you go about "cleaning" a model of deprecated information? Or maybe you don't? I know very little about LLMs, just a thought.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 6 points 8 months ago

One of the lucky 10,000?

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The concept of opportunity cost applies to everything.

If you think it does not, then I now know the person that should be explaining crypto electric consumption to me is a person who failed to fully grasp the concept of opportunity cost.

Enlightening.. at least..

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

From a planning perspective, the West must assume Taiwan is already "lost" and merged into China. Therefore the rational action to take is to begin spinning up as much chip production as possible in the interim, while continuing to rely on Taiwan's manufacturing.

Fun fact, the guy who founded TSMC was an immigrant working in tech firms in the mid-late 1900s but was unable to get promotions due to American racism against asians. So he said, "Aight guess I'll go back and make my own company."

The US had the TSMC founder and drove him away with hate.

Please do yourself a favor and check out podcasts covering this topic, there are some good ones.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

So you don't know how to uninstall Firefox on Ubuntu?

Where do these "Ubuntu ads" display in the operating system? Are you talking about the software browser? An application used to get software suggestions is suggesting software? Or something more nefarious?

To me, your post just says, "I haven't used Linux much," because I've never encountered any of these problems.. but I'm always open to being wrong.

Edit : Just wanted to add that I now see that I missed a joke. I appreciate the helpful replies!

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Good additions. I actually struggled to find a good way to criticize the left because I am extremely left-leaning myself. I caught myseld writing a "cons bad" post and decided to attack the weaknesses I see in left-wing politics as a bit of a self-challenge, tho admittedly with only about two minutes of consideration. Judging by the points on the post my perspective is not very popular.

Tbh I should give this more thought, finding flaws in your own positions is a harder exercise than I realized. I'll have to explore and flesh out these ideas a bit more.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A reporter asked a very very long question in a press conference 2-3 years ago. It has become a quaint F1 copypasta due to this. The author took that quote and replaced all of the Formula 1 references with Linux references.

It's obscure as hell but funny to encounter as a fan of both.

I am pretty sure the long question is used in Netflix's Drive to Survive series in one of the seasons with Sebastien Vettel. Good show even for a non-F1 fan, but I admit I am biased.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

As a huge Formula 1 fan and daily Linux user for a few decades now, while also being quite stoned.. this fusion broke my brain, haha, well written. I could hear the words in the voice of Lauda, Seb, and Rossberg.

Pastor Maldonado I would assume is a windows user.

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