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New comment by signalToNose in "Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware"

signalToNose — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:53:17 +0000

Consumer protection laws prevents businesses following this to it’s extreme. For many businesses the ideal would be to just sell stuff that immediately breaks down as soon as it’s sold. It has the fulfilled its purpose from their point of view

New comment by signalToNose in "As a linguist, I want to find the words to measure chronic illness"

signalToNose — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:45:57 +0000

Must be a burden to have a family name that also is a disease, like Alzheimer.

New comment by signalToNose in "Does showing seconds in the system tray actually use more power?"

signalToNose — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:31:14 +0000

Coin mining and AI database centers consumer huge amounts of power. I’m not really exited about either. Both enterprises seems like scams to centralize wealth and power to a few actors.

New comment by signalToNose in "Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean"

signalToNose — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 05:59:55 +0000

And as a consequence, massive migration from inhabitable regions. Hard to imagine the implication when there are billions of people affected

New comment by signalToNose in "Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean"

signalToNose — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 05:52:43 +0000

The five stages of grief, often referred to as the Kübler-Ross model, are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

New comment by signalToNose in "After millions of years, why are carnivorous plants still so small?"

signalToNose — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 10:21:13 +0000

Mushrooms technically are not plants

New comment by signalToNose in "After millions of years, why are carnivorous plants still so small?"

signalToNose — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 10:18:14 +0000

The Day of the Triffids

New comment by signalToNose in "How I uncovered a potential ancient Rome wine scam"

signalToNose — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 09:31:06 +0000

Ancient people certainly cared about quality. (1) But as the article concludes, it seem they were not to concerned in this case

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir

New comment by signalToNose in "The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris"

signalToNose — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:51:35 +0000

Xkcd radiatorn chart:

https://xkcd.com/radiation/

New comment by signalToNose in "Can rotation solve the Hubble Puzzle?"

signalToNose — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 04:49:33 +0000

And my ax

New comment by signalToNose in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

signalToNose — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:59:23 +0000

Most of politic seems to be about negotiating to keep a third of the population away from power. Because once they get in power they will trash almost anything in their path

New comment by signalToNose in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

signalToNose — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:46:17 +0000

Polen corrected course slightly in resent time.

New comment by signalToNose in "David Lynch has died"

signalToNose — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:46:14 +0000

Wild at heart. Very approachable, but gory and brutal. The angst seep trough

New comment by signalToNose in "Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest"

signalToNose — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 05:33:30 +0000

Danmark is one of the biggest producers of Christmas trees

New comment by signalToNose in "IBM Quantum delivers on 2022 100x100 performance challenge"

signalToNose — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:40:51 +0000

So it’s mainly a science and engineering challenge that may or maybe not have any practical application. Quite similar to manned space missions and even bigger particle accelerators etc. The diminishing returns on these mega projects will strain the public’s support both financially and politically. James Webb telescope was a huge success. But many other projects have not resulted in much either science or business.

New comment by signalToNose in "Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist: 'If you trust the mathematics, we are immortal'"

signalToNose — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 07:44:34 +0000

The atoms in my body are not alive.

New comment by signalToNose in "A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser"

signalToNose — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:25:47 +0000

What is the definition of plain text? There is hardly any such thing

New comment by signalToNose in "Studios: Please don't spoil the movie we are seated to see"

signalToNose — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 05:52:11 +0000

One could argue that if a movie is spoiled by someone talking about it, it not that great movie. A great movie is great even if you saw it a dozen times

New comment by signalToNose in "Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles"

signalToNose — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 07:57:20 +0000

Not all tech is a destined to be all encompassing.

VR has been “the next big thing” for more than 50 years. VR was invented in 1968

Video phone was invented way back. (1936). It took a very long time to be common and in frequent use. And it’s still not a killer feature.

New comment by signalToNose in "IT tycoon Mike Lynch, daughter Hannah found dead"

signalToNose — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 08:27:29 +0000

His boat was also named Bayesian