clark_dent

8 ms·

1.
by clark_dent 1mo ago
A good proportion of the older generations still disdain or mock Germany as nazis-in-waiting. There may be an end to the damage done to their global reputation, but it's not here yet 80 years down the line.
2.
by clark_dent 1mo ago
A whole lot of Americans water their lawns consistently for months on end. Keep in mind that a lot of Americans outside of urban areas also get their water from their own private wells, making water use effectively moot.
3.
by clark_dent 3mo ago
I think this is going to depend strongly on population. Average age of the mother, width of the pelvic canal, and similar are going to vary widely with culture, race and country.
4.
by clark_dent 3mo ago
Computer UIs needed borders and outlines because there are no brain-intuitive visual cues: no depth parallax, no shading, nothing shifts as you move your head, and until relatively recently they had poor contrast and brightness variabilit
5.
by clark_dent 3mo ago
This one almost feels like the AI got stuck in a perseverating loop of "He <blank> the <blank>." <repeat> This is followed up by a sprinkling of every possible punctuative shakeup: bold, em-dash, semicolon, colon
6.
by clark_dent 3mo ago
I think the gigantic prevalence of huge or lifted trucks is a bigger influence, especially given the tendency to mod them out (poorly) with aftermarket lights. Truck headlights are already on a level with sedan drivers' eyes. There are
7.
by clark_dent 3mo ago
Exactly like the old one!
8.
by clark_dent 3mo ago
Biomedical research in the US has taken an absolute nose-dive several times over the past decade or two. This was my field for the past 20 years, so I'm fairly familiar. It requires enormous capital investment and a very, very long tim
9.
by clark_dent 4mo ago
Could you humor a coding noob--how do you deal with utterly insane inputs like that?
10.
by clark_dent 5mo ago
> Higher latitudes have colder climates. Not reliably, not continually, and much less often when you dump enough energy into the atmosphere to disrupt major wind patterns. British Columbia hitting 121°F/49.6°C at 50°N latitude would
11.
by clark_dent 5mo ago
How many millions of police officers do you think there are? How many of those do you think have open and available records for their use of surveillance tech?
12.
by clark_dent 5mo ago
Complexity doesn't necessarily mean it's suboptimal. Lithography and nanofab are usually doing a whole range of disparate and wildly exotic processes with extreme vacuum, plasmas, electron guns; any number of crazy and dangerous p
13.
by clark_dent 5mo ago
It didn't, but the advent of spellcheck and autocorrect has made everyone completely give up on proper grammar or word selection as long as no squiggly line appears.
14.
by clark_dent 2y ago
Well, no. Some common plastics like polycarbonate aren't biodegradable, and will basically never break down without application of significant heat/water/enzymatic activity/etc. For some of these, the half-life could be
15.
by clark_dent 2y ago
12" viewing distance?! It sounds like you should be spending more at the optometrist and less at Best Buy. I cannot even imagine sitting that close to a screen--don't you have to turn your head just to see both sides of a document
16.
by clark_dent 2y ago
TVs generally have more input lag, poorer color fidelity, and except at the high end like 8k the pixel size is often inappropriate for viewing close up. There's less of a gulf now than in the past, but TVs are generally made for media
17.
by clark_dent 2y ago
Why in the name of all that is unholy would you ever think that? The people in charge of pay and hiring will never, ever, ever set things up such that they're considered less important or are paid less.
18.
by clark_dent 2y ago
The link is completely incorrect, it points to the submission form for /r/technology.