True. You know, the moment I left that comment, I thought that was pedantic, I shouldn’t have said it, but by that point if I had deleted it it would just sit there saying deleted forever and that would bother me even more

Heat pumps generally come with an electrical resistive backup in case it’s too cold outside, so even at arbitrarily low temperatures a heat pump can only drop to 100%

Tbf, it tastes so nice

Not sure we watched the same show. Not to get all film critic, but it’s pretty clear from his characterization that he deeply cares about the well-being of innocent people, he just hides it well

He would be the guy who wants to play a chaotic evil rogue, but ends up founding an orphanage or something

Fun fact! The police are the largest gang of armed robbers in the country, collectively stealing more money than all other armed robberies and burglaries combined, and it’s totally legal for them

Fr take the batteries out of a cybertruck and plonk em into a Metro and that thing would get 700 miles on a charge

I want it right now and forever

My favorite car has always been my precious tiny '93 metro, but I could settle for a Tracker

The 1800’s called, they want their medicine back

Praying for them to remain Anna-nymous 🙏

I wish piracy was stealing, because stealing from the rich is good

No like he literally bore the ring while Frodo was off getting imprisoned by orcs

In the book, the ring tries to tempt him by showing him a vision of a great garden, making Sam the greatest gardener in the world. Sam shrugs it the fuck off without a second thought

There aren’t enough data centers being burned down

I spent so much time playing Kerbal Space Program in the early days that my asshole still puckers when I see a return vehicle heading toward the water

I’m not a computer graphics guy, but I wanna math. Theoretically, if I wanted to make the smallest possible 3d model, I would define it as four interconnected points. Each point has x, y, and z coordinates, so each model takes a theoretical minimum of 12 bytes of storage. Someone who knows computers can correct me if I’m off by a bunch.

The lower estimate is around 100,000,000,000 stars in the Milky Way. That’s only 1.2 terabytes worth of my theoretical minimum 3d model. Doable! But you said all stars. The lower estimate is around 10^22 stars in the universe. That would be 120 zettabytes. That’s only a few orders of magnitude off from the total available worldwide datadata storage!

Edit: I might have thought of a way to define a 3D model in just 2 bytes. You need four points that each have values for x, y, and z. They don’t need 256 possible values for those, they can get by with two each. One bit can store two possible positions, so we can use as little as two bytes to define every point’s position with 4 bits to spare. Behold, a tetrahedron: 0000 0100 1010 1110

Each set of four digits defines the x, y, and z coordinates for each point, as well as one extra dimension. You could use those extra four bits however you want. An extra spatial dimension, defining a color, etc. The theoretically smallest possible 3D model. Take the numbers I said up there and divide them by 6. A model for every star in the universe, and it would only take 20 zettabytes.

And as we all know, technology progresses logarithmically and not exponentially

Do you just not really care about climate research and weather forecasting? Satellites give us more information about our atmosphere than you can shake a stick at, and they save more lives from extreme weather events every year than you can count. Not to mention GPS. You could rightfully call that a product of the US Military, but it is worth every cent that we’ve put into it

Why don’t more people use Linux?

the average Linux user:

You can tell he never intended to kill anyone by the fact that he had a bunch of guns strapped to his tank, and he drove into a building that he thought had children in it. The only reason he failed to kill anyone was because he was an incompetent piece of shit and the town was mostly evacuated in time