People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
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Technology@beehaw.org•This startup wants to use the Earth as a massive battery
5·7 months agoI would think all the incidents with fracking have shown rock not to be as impermeable as one would expect or want. Doing this and not causing huge issues seems very hard to me. And also very situational, which is a big problem pumped hydro has.
Pumped hydro works really well and is just about as efficient as we can realistically do, but you need to have the right circumstances. Like a biggish elevation difference, a place to store enough water at the top and bottom for it to be worth while and a connection in between to pump through and take out the energy in the other direction. Plus close enough to a place that needs the power not to be killed by transport losses.
This thing seems to require the perfect conditions as well, which may prove even harder to find compared to places for pumped hydro.
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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Open source re-implementation of Caesar III levels up in the new releaseEnglish
3·7 months agoPLEBS ARE NEEDED
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Coincidentally, FFM peg is also something you can find on the hub
14·7 months agoYes? What makes you think I’m not? I’m definitely not some kind of alien, you know wearing a human suit like some sort of second skin. Nah that would be crazy.
Relevant XKCD as required by internet law: https://xkcd.com/1530/
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Coincidentally, FFM peg is also something you can find on the hub
7·7 months agoYou would have to ask a doctor, don’t take medical advice from the internet.
From what I know it can irritate the skin and can lead to long term issues with the skin like dermatitis. It can also cause blood vessels to rupture under the skin, which is usually not a big issue and will heal. But it can cause some pain and leave a mark when healed and will only heal when it is given time to rest up, which can be hard if one is used to a lot of masturbation. If it isn’t allowed to heal, it can cause more problems. I’m sure there can be more issues, but I don’t know about those.
A lot of the risks of masturbation are myths or exaggerated a lot. Wanking once or twice a day is probably fine. And your body will let you know when you’ve overdone it.
And to add: Poor hygiene is a lot bigger risk than masturbation ever is. Keep your bottoms clean!
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Coincidentally, FFM peg is also something you can find on the hub
1651·7 months agoPORNHUB
It’s Pornhub, like https://pornhub.com/. One of the biggest (if not the biggest) porn site on the planet, used by millions if not billions. There is nothing wrong with watching porn if you feel like it. What you do in your own home is your own business. Just don’t wank too much, or you are going to have health issues. Which are also totally normal and you should just go talk to your doctor, they will not be surprised or shocked, it is literally their job to deal with stuff like that.
I feel the world is going crazy. Shoving all of this stuff under the carpet isn’t helping anyone and won’t make it go away. Half of the time I can’t understand my young niece and nephew because they speak in this code language, evolving all the time so they can talk about normal stuff young people talk about and stay ahead of the big censor machine. And often it’s censored so poorly, everyone can still read it, like what was the point then?
She did a follow-up on this on a recent Q&A with Adam Savage. She doesn’t use it at all, because her stump is too small. This means she has almost no leverage and strength in the stump. She said she likes the aesthetics but it’s not practical.
Imho she needs something with like a servo assist or something hydraulic. But that means stuff like a power supply, pump, sensor, controller, plumbing etc. It would get messy fast for something that’s on your hand. If it’s more of the hand it could make sense, but the loss of only the little finger probably has almost zero impact on the use of the hand.
I know someone who lives in a really old house, way over 100 years old. Her neighbour (same age house) was digging around the front yard at night. So we went out to see what was going on, along with a lot of people in the street. At one point they had a small digger and a big light and were digging up the front yard. Turns out her sewer was clogged and due to rain overflowing inside the house. So a crew came out to figure out what was going on and fix it. Which required digging out the ancient sewer pipes in the front yard.
When they broke open the pipe to figure out why it was blocked, it was completely full of used tampons. This woman had been throwing her tampons in the toilet for years and figured that was just the normal thing to do. Now this is bad in a house with modern plumbing, as we all know. But in a house with ancient plumbing, I don’t know what she was thinking. Having the entire street see what she did was probably punishment enough (plus the cost of the crew to come out and fix it). She won’t be making that mistake again.
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Formula 1@lemmy.world•2025 Hungarian Grand Prix - [PRACTICE 2] discussion thread
3·7 months agoIs it me or is the broadcast quality absolutely awful today? All sorts of ghosting and glitching all over the place.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•I wonder if this was made by AI or a shit programmer
17·8 months agoNot below average dev necessarily, but when posting code examples on the internet people often try to get a point across. Like how do I solve X? Here is code that solves X perfectly, the rest of the code is total crap, ignore that and focus on the X part. Because it’s just an example, it doesn’t really matter. But when it’s used to train an LLM it’s all just code. It doesn’t know which parts are important and which aren’t.
And this becomes worse when small little bits of code are included in things like tutorials. That means it’s copy pasted all over the place, on forums, social media, stackoverflow etc. So it’s weighted way more heavily. And the part where the tutorial said: “Warning, this code is really bad and insecure, it’s just an example to show this one thing” gets lost in the shuffle.
Same thing when an often used pattern when using a framework gets replaced by new code where the framework does a little bit more so the same pattern isn’t needed anymore. The LLM will just continue with the old pattern, even though there’s often a good reason it got replaced (for example security issues). And if the new and old version aren’t compatible with each other, you are in for a world of hurt trying to use an LLM.
And now with AI slop flooding all of these places where they used to get their data, it just becomes worse and worse.
These are just some of the issues why using an LLM for coding is probably a really bad idea.
Shame to block the windows and the natural light
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3DPrinting@lemmy.world•I finished my 3D Printable screw design! Excellent print ability, reliable for simple use, though the head is prone to strip... can't win them all.English
5·8 months agoIs that the LTT Noctua screwdriver?
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3DPrinting@lemmy.world•I finished my 3D Printable screw design! Excellent print ability, reliable for simple use, though the head is prone to strip... can't win them all.English
4·8 months agoSir, you really shouldn’t use your axe to drive screws. It doesn’t even work and damages the axe. Also this is a Wendy’s.
The monkey paw curls: all insects and other “bugs” are gone now, the food chain collapses bottom up and the human race is just about extinct within 10 years.
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Formula 1@lemmy.world•Perez: Red Bull did not protect me during 2024 F1 lows
4·8 months agoAnd they kept him around even when his results were consistently terrible. If that’s not protecting the driver, then what it is? Sergio hasn’t gotten the message on how F1 works these days, either you are at top performance or you are gone.
Is that really true? I see free frames advertised all the time, but we all know how “free” those kinds of deals actually are. But if I think about it, the frame is just a piece of plastic/metal and can be mass produced. The lenses themselves need to be specifically ground and fitted for that exact person, often with a difference for each eye. From what I understand this is still partly manual work, even though the machine does the grinding, an operator needs to set it all up and check the result. With often a couple of passes needed to get it just right. And those special coatings they apply aren’t cheap either. So I wonder where the actual cost is.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Has anyone pirated their internet?English
212·9 months agoNEVER SUBBED NEVER DONATED ADBLOCK ON STOLEN LAPTOP NEIGHBOURS WIFI MOMMAS HOUSE STOLEN SOLAR PANELS STOLEN SUN SOLAR ENERGY STOLEN WATER WHEEL NEIGHBOURS RIVER STOLEN HYDROELECTRIC PLANT CHARGING PHONE WITH WORK ELECTRICITY SHOWER IN BATHROOM SINK STOLEN FOOD FROM CAFETERIA STOLEN HAMSTER STOLEN HAMSTER WHEEL KINETIC ENERGY FREE ENTERTAINMENT
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Formula 1@lemmy.world•2025 Canadian Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread 🏎️
6·9 months agoYeah once you start noticing the digital ads, it gets super annoying super fast. Like in Monaco with the big “screen” in the tunnel, it looked so obviously fake.
The tracking often isn’t perfect and you can see things like heat haze being cut off by the ads. There are so many ads on screen, once you notice it.






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