May I suggest reading Carl Sagan’s Cosmos? Or watch one of the TV shows.

While your average human is about as smart as a brick, there are so many minds throughout history that were able to pull humanity out of our dark caves and into space.

What we need, to survive as a species, is to nurture people, give them (proper) education, and more will come up.

You’re not alone brother, Einstein himself had beef with quantum mechanics (as did most of the guys who developed the whole field, AFAIK).

His famous quote “god doesn’t play dice” isnt about destiny or religion or something. It’s specifically about this, about how the universe is mostly deterministic (the tree DOES make a sound, the cat IS alive OR dead) except in quantum physics where things supposedly are random and based on probability? Hogwash.

Proving that it is hogwash, however, is a Nobel prize and a ticket to immortality…

In the reflection, the box appears to have a cat in it. There is no cat in the original (right side) box.

This is a joke on the famous “Schrödinger’s cat”, a thought experiment about quantum superposition where a cat inside a box is both alive and dead at the same time, up until the moment someone looks into the box.

To me as a layman, this sounds like utter hogwash, so it’s funny because it “proves” the experiment as best as it can be proven (which is not at all).

I suspect many theoretical physicists think the same way, but they’ve learned these equations that tell them they need to believe this hogwash. Let’s spare a thought for their troubled souls…

That’s phrased brilliantly, and capturey my own perception of Musk

This is how we have 3 different APIs that sometimes do the same thing, but most times are incomplete when compared to the original v1, who in the meantime wasn’t properly maintained because we were “migrating” and now you have to use bits and pieces of the 3 of them to do anything.

It’s a nightmare. Can’t wait for the next genius to come along and start a v4, that will never be completed and will only re-implement parts of the old APIs while implementing all the new features

Definitely not, a bacteriophage is like 500 nanometres. A tardigrade is 0.5 mm, or 500 000 nanometres, literally 1000x the size.

Definitely.

Of course I am, there’s no way I can escape mkvs. It’s not too bad if it doesn’t have to transcode the actual video stream, but having to burn in subtitles is a common issue 😭

I still can’t play my videos on Firefox without transcoding them, so I honestly hope they get it right this time.

Ah yes, selling your integrity for clicks and pushing propaganda for cash, welcome to the information age.

It seems like a smear piece because it makes it sound like DeepSeek is doing something that the others aren’t, while the truth is that ever single on of them collects your data.

At best, it’s disingenuous. At worst, with the ability to run locally, it’s a blatant lie.

They got me, installed Mint a couple of weeks ago

I purged the Windows partition yesterday, fellt like pouring bleach on a stain…

Shhh don’t spoil it, that’s the plot twist for the season finale!

The ex’s perspective is just a harem anime, where he gets bullied relentlessly by the girls who still don’t 100% believe the shape shifter story but are willing to look for it just in case.

NMS is one hell of a redemption story, a really amazing job at persevering to follow through on their vision.

There’s now a new candidate for the same thing, a game called Techtonica that just released this month and totally tanked.

In the early access builds, the game was the lovechild of subnautica and factorio, two of my favourite games ever. It had the gorgeous and eerie alien open world exploration and compelling storyline, along with all the conveyor/inserter and min-maxing goodness that I crave.

It had some optimization problems as you scaled up, though, and I suppose sales in the early access must have been quite bad. My guess is that, with money running out, they opted to release on consoles for that extra buck, and completely gave up on solving the optimization issues.

Instead, they chopped up the world map into “levels”, that you unlock by constantly feeding this elevator/drill thing.

This totally breaks the open world immersion, the sense of scale from the big map, the unease one felt when running through all those miles of cavern, the thrill of finding gorgeous spots out there or hidden loot…

Plus, the dialog is at times incoherent with the revised narrative/progression path, and the factory production chains are a mess and the math doesn’t work, the balancing is just awful.

I mean, it’s still a gorgeous game and worth playing, but it has the potential to be so much more :(

But that’s just a happy little accident. Gabe is too much of a good guy, so he actually built a good distribution platform that also pushes for improvements for the whole ecosystem (like the Linux thing).

When he’s gone, capitalism dictates that enshitification must ensue in order to squeeze out every single cent of short term profit, and we’ll be screwed.

Just wondering how that staff works, will they have to go picking through dragon poo to get all of meemaw, Dungeon Meshi style?

For $2000? Is this comic from the 50s?

The secret here is to come up with a business case that shows management what an incredible ROI they should expect from this initiative.

Then you get to play with robots for a few months instead of actually working!

It looks like a fun chair.