Also, “smart” and high IQ are different things.

There’s no way to objectively measure how “smart” someone is, but if you think the bogus test and bogus score developed by eugenic pseudoscientists looking for an excuse to prevent the untermensch from breeding is the objective measure, you are in fact stupid.

Genuinely curious: why use an AI image instead of the many real Constructivist buildings?

I especially this one, nice balance of raw concrete and ornamentation:

Brutalism. The few brutalist buildings in my city are a welcome respite for the eyes against the blinged out crap they’re building nowadays.

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Can’t say I’ve ever experienced this kind of confusion in Java but that’s probably because they intentionally restricted the syntax so there’s no ambiguity.

Why any international students still want to go to the US is beyond me.

Better than an integer at least.

Race condition that only happens on the much faster production hardware: Allow me to introduce myself

Radiation, in this context, is light. Everything from old school AM radio, to microwaves, to infrared, to visible light, to UV, and finally gamma rays are all just photons. For light, there are two energy metrics: how much energy the individual photons have, and how many photons are being emitted per unit of time. Only the energy level of the individual photons determine if the radiation is ionizing, as in, powerful enough to rip electrons off what it hits, including important molecules like DNA. Ionizing radiation starts at the UV range, so anything below that is not ionizing. This is why you can get skin cancer from UV but no amount of visible light can cause cancer. And microwaves are well below even visible light so they aren’t ionizing either.

Also, Wi-Fi and cellular networks operate in the microwave range. In fact, your microwave oven is 2.4 GHz, which is what older Wi-Fi equipment exclusively used, which is why your Wi-Fi connection used to crap out when you microwaved something. The reason you don’t feel your hand heating up from the microwave rariation coming out of your phone is because the number of microwave photons per second being emitted by your phone is far less than a microwave oven. Your phone’s antennas are 1 or 2 watts while your microwave is over 1000 watts.

Another case of piracy having far superior user experience compared to the legal, honest way of playing the game, not because piracy is intrinsically better but because the publisher deliberately makes the official experience as inconvenient and exploitative as possible.

I used to have a git repo in my emulator’s save directory so I could have checkpoints that I can restore to if I ever get stuck.

Does Pokemon have microtransactions now? If so, I wouldn’t be surprised if they deliberately made the transfer mechanism buggy so some kid loses all their Pokemon and their parents are forced to buy them back to get them to stop crying.

This is why the “nothing to hide nothing to fear” line is bullshit. You can be a model citizen and there will still be people actively trying to use your data to harm you.

Would you leave your door unlocked just because you’re not hiding illegal activity in your house?

This was recently featured on Linus Tech Tips: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Ruggedized-trifold-computer-offers-three-18_1600635369600.html

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Al Blue: When Al Capone becomes a cop.

Damn.

I suppose the obvious question of why Amazon doesn’t have an intuitive way of rate limiting those can be answered by the huge bills people rack up.

Never used AWS but would it help to bake a daemon into your default OS image that shuts it down after 24 hours? That way you need to manually disable it for the ones you want to keep.

Shouldn’t it be MANGA now that Facebook renamed itself to Meta?

We speak Mandarin at home and microwave in Mandarin is 微波 “way bo” (literally means “micro wave”). To “microwave” as a verb usually gets shortened to the first character in colloquial speak. We 微 “way” our leftovers.

微波 means microwave as in that particular frequency range on the electromagnetic spectrum. When referring to the kitchen appliance as a noun, we specifically say 微波炉 “way bo lu” which means “microwave stove.”

Additional fun fact: If you think it sounds like Weibo the website, you’re right. It has almost the same pronounciation but has a tonal difference on the second character. Weibo means “micro blog,” same first character but the second character is 博 which is a loan word for blog.