My dad tells these stories about how my great grandpa used to joke and pull pranks on the family. I wish I could have met him in person.

That or getting an hour to pick Alan Turing’s brain. He’d probably hate the current generation of “AI” as much as I do.

I honestly don’t get what people were so up in arms about, besides just not wanting to change what already worked for them.

That’s because cancer is an umbrella term that encompasses tons of diseases. It’s not one single gene mutation that causes all of them that you could just find and fix forever. Usually it requires many mutations for a cell to become cancerous, so curing cancer is basically like playing whack-a-mole.

Cancer is still your own body’s tissues, so often the hardest part of developing treatments is finding something that will kill the cancer without fucking up everything else. Like, sure, sodium hydroxide kills cancer but we’re not going to just start injecting it into people’s veins.

Who tf actually uses Docker Swarm anyway?

So what you’re saying is bro should have used a ghostwriter like with The Art of the Deal.

I want to say Mein Kampf but I wonder how many people actually read it before Hitler came to power.

On that note, I’ve always wanted to get my hands on a copy just because I want to see what kind of insane ramblings it contains but there’s basically no way to do that without looking like a neo-Nazi. I wonder if there’s scans of it online.

I’m pretty out of shape but I think I could probably beat Trump in hand-to-hand combat.

Yeah but we’re talking diminishing returns here. Doubling the resolution to 8k makes about as much sense as doubling refresh rates to 480hz. At that point it’s going to be mostly dependent on the individual, and likely heavily subject to the placebo effect.

By my math, a 55" 8k screen has pixels that are 0.056" (56 thou) wide.

At ten feet, that subtends an angle of 0.268 degrees or 1.6 arcminutes.

There’s obviously a lot of variation and it depends on exactly what you’re measuring, but normal human visual acuity struggles to distinguish details less than about 5 arcminutes, maybe 1-2 arcminutes depending on the test.

It’s because we’re at the limits of the human visual system. The difference in pixel pitch between 4k and 8k at the distances we watch TV is literally imperceptible.

It also doesn’t help that there’s not much content authored and distributed for higher resolutions. It’s exponentially more expensive to produce, store, and deliver.

Home Internet connections on average aren’t any better than they were ten years ago, either, at least not in the US. I doubt a lot of them can even support 8k streaming, let alone with anyone else using it at the same time.

Was boutta say, the math ain’t nothing

I’ve seen videos of regular-ass people manhandling deer which means they couldn’t be more than ~200 pounds

Bitwarden sold keys recently.

Source?

Chrome and firefox are the same product now and neither should be allowed to hold anything important.

Source?

It doesn’t even have to be that long. 12-16 characters and it’ll be infeasible to brute-force for the foreseeable future. But unless you’re talking a high-value target like government, military, or executive suite at a company, no one bothers to brute-force anyway because there’s easier ways to gain access.

The biggest issue with password security is reuse and sharing. The most secure password in the world doesn’t mean a damn thing if you use the same email/password combination across a hundred different websites, because all it takes is for just one of them to suffer a leak and now your credentials are in a dump with millions of others that can be bought for a song and a dance.

This is why it’s imperative to use 2FA for your most important accounts, because it can mean the difference between an attacker getting access and hitting an error page and trying the next poor fucker’s credentials instead.

But also, no one wants to try to remember a hundred different unique passwords so it’s also a good idea to use a password manager. Chrome and Firefox both have them built-in (note that Firefox stores passwords unencrypted on disk unless you set a master password!), but there’s also services like OnePass or Bitwarden that have stronger guarantees.

Yeah, I realized that as soon as I posted it.

You know what this is launching just in time for?

Tax season.

Cue* 10 million people getting audited because they let their browser file their taxes for them.

What’s going on in Montana?

I bought a jar of butter chicken sauce from Target while I was holiday shopping last month. Best by date of April '27. Plastic seal on the lid was unbroken.

I opened it earlier this week and it had mold growing on the top.

So there’s two reasons to hate them for you.

Sorry babe, but the Brocs stay on during sex.

Being queer and in IT, there’s a decent chance Alan Turing would have been a furry.

Let that sink in.

They don’t even have to sell what they’ve got. They just have to stop buying more and invest elsewhere instead.

The US runs on a perpetually increasing deficit. If that line were to stop going up, we’d instantly fall into a recession.

It’s possible to design fluid couplings for torque. That’s what a torque converter in an automatic transmission does.

It’s not quite as elegant, of course, but still.