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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago

I learned better in 2012 when they tried to put an Amazon search bar in their start menu, the same thing people are complaining about with windows today.

If I wanted to use corposhit I would have stayed with windows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

It only breaks asymmetric encryption like SSL and PGP. The strength of symmetric encryption, like you have with password protected files and drive volumes, is reduced somewhat but should still be more than sufficient.

And like the other commenter said, there are asymmetric algorithms that are quantum-safe, they just aren't in widespread use (though apparently just this year NIST announced a standard for lattice based cryptography).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

In some ways phone cameras are very impressive, since CCDs are now cheap and good enough that they're no longer the bottleneck. All the computational photography stuff they do boosts their capabilities even more.

The thing that really limits them is the size and optical quality of their lenses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Someone should post a Chinese cabbage or Jerusalem artichoke as well.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

Reminds me a lot of this image:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I feel like we should be trying to engineer fusarium venenatum to express various animal proteins.

It already does a really good job as a meat substitute, and (unlike lab grown meat) the process for culturing it is very well understood and mature.

I don't know if trying to genetically engineer a fungus would present any special challenges vs a plant or bacteria though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I'm not trying to be mean when I say this, but to me your comment sounds a little bit like "I know you guys are starving but if you ever solve that issue make sure you don't go too far in the other direction. I sometimes buy food that I don't end up using, which is fairly pointless."

I wish the biggest grievance I had with my country's politics was that some of the parties are redundant. I think I'd be willing to give up a limb or two for that actually.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That's a veritasium clickbait video.

While it's true that no voting system is completely perfect that's a little bit like saying that no one's body is completely perfect, so trying to be healthy is pointless. The efficacy of voting systems can in fact be quantified and compared based on baysian regret, and some are better than others.

That's for single winner elections. Almost any proportional system is going to be better than any single winner system, with the added benefit of eliminating gerrymandering. Presumably the best proportional system available is proportional score voting, but I don't know if there's been rigorous mathematical analysis of that yet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The really interesting thing about costasiella kuroshimae is that its digestive system branches and goes up into all of those 'leaves', which is how the algae makes its way there to have its chloroplasts extracted.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope that after the bubble bursts the nuclear reactors can be used to put energy on the grid and maybe they'll find something worthwhile to do with all those compute GPUs.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Most diagrams don't include the mesentery, so people just think their intestines are sitting there like a pile of rope inside their torso.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Solar panels aren't worth it for a normal EV, but supposedly the Aptera is so small, lightweight, and aerodynamic (with that teardrop shape) that they actually add a significant amount of range.

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