GamingChairModel

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[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

The judge controls when the jury is in the room. So the jury enters last, only after the judge orders them in. And the judge can order them out at any time to have discussions outside their presence, too.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I never needed more because I just had a dock. My monitor, keyboard, mouse, and Ethernet cable stayed in the same place, so I'd just bring my laptop home and plug in a thunderbolt dock, and I'd have every peripheral I needed. And I'm someone who tries to use wired stuff over wireless whenever convenient.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Same with RAM.

Unfortunately, the RAM shortage is caused by a RAM component being diverted to specialized packages that can't easily be converted into normal RAM. So even a bubble bursting won't bring RAM onto the market.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

definitely not for sensitive work.

I would argue that desktop software capable of doing this (storing and using past pixel values to calculate some sort of output) violates the principle of least privilege, so that an OS that supports this kind of screensaver being possible shouldn't be used for sensitive data, even if that particular screensaver is disabled.

Better to harden the OS so that programs (including screensavers) can't access and store the continuous screen output.

That's one of the problems we have with Windows Recall. We don't even want the OS to have the capability, because we don't want that data being copied and processed somewhere on the machine.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (3 children)

If the screensaver is saving the information of what a pixel has been on average, there's all sorts of potential for leakage of sensitive information onto a part of the computer that shouldn't have that information.

Well if you want to read about the many battery chemistries currently in use in EVs, there's this article:

https://insideevs.com/news/782685/all-ev-battery-chemistries-explained/

As the article explains, there are several chemistries that have already come and gone, and the current models being sold use a few competing chemistries with their tradeoffs. Some of the up and coming chemistries are also already being mass produced.

So whatever it is you mean by "leap," it sounds like it's already been happening in the last 15-20 years.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, but very cheap and sometimes free tools help a complete beginner do both, without any real technical knowledge.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Visa/Mastercard requires all cardholders, cardholders' banks, merchants, and merchants' processors to follow the comprehensive set of rules for disputed transactions. That way the dispute process tends to be uniform across different banks and across different merchant/payment processors.

The network sets the rules, while the banks implement those rules on behalf of the cardholder and the processor implements those rules on behalf of the merchant.

So replacing the network will require a comprehensive replacement for the network's dispute resolution rules (assigning who is responsible for paying when certain things happens) and procedures (how a cardholder can initiate a dispute and how that gets resolved).

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I liken it to a professional basketball player with a low free throw percentage. If they're still on the team and in the league despite missing 3 free throws a game, they must be really good at the other stuff.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I would think that accurate color representation would've generally required the bright lights and broad spectrum coverage of sunlight, so I imagine people just...painted during the day, by daylight.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There are lots of benefits to using base 12 for measurements.

12 is better than 10, I'll give you that. But 100 is better than 144, and 1000 is way better than 1728.

And that doesn't even get to 0.1 versus 1/12, or 0.01 versus 1/144.

So 12 might be a better standalone number, but it's a terrible base to work in.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Fahrenheit today is literally defined through Celsius

The same as pretty much every unit they use

At this point, that's basically every unit other than the seven fundamental units. Degrees Celsius is defined from the fundamental unit Kelvin.

Plus the actual definitions of those fundamental units were defined based on historical measurements tied to former definitions. Today the second is defined around the frequency of the cesium-133 atom, but it was traditionally measured as 1/(60 x 60 x 24) of the time of a single rotation of the earth, which stopped serving us when we realized the rotations had too much variation between days. The meter is currently defined around the speed of light and the second, but was previously defined in terms of what they thought the Earth's circumference was, and then a metal bar they kept in Paris, then based on the wavelength of light emitted from a transition in krypton-86. Same with the kilogram, currently kept at Planck's constant but previously based on a particular chunk of metal that was mysteriously losing mass over time, and before that defined from the density of 4°C water and the definition of the meter.

Conventions are important. The history of how we got to particular conventions can often be messy.

 

Curious what everyone else is doing with all the files that are generated by photography as a hobby/interest/profession. What's your working setup, how do you share with others, and how are you backing things up?

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