SimplePhysics

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[–] SimplePhysics 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t quote me, but I remember someone they were interviewing on NPR say the system wasn’t activated because it was a tsunami warning system, which tells residents to go to higher ground, and in this case going to higher ground would be suicide.

[–] SimplePhysics 6 points 1 year ago

I personally like the system, and it works 99% of the time. But I can see where you are coming from.

[–] SimplePhysics 17 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Apple’s face recognition system relies on

  1. infrared light being blasted on your face
  2. infrared camera creates a map of your face based on the 30k dots blasted onto your face and stores it
  3. when you try to log in again your iPhone compares your face by repeating step 1 and 2 (but not storing the map this time) and comparing it to the map created in step 2.
  4. if the black box “machine learning” program thinks your face is similar to the map, it lets you in.

The IR blaster and camera makes Apple’s system more accurate and secure (requires 3D face) than just taking a photo of your face (2D), but it does take up more room on the notch.

[–] SimplePhysics 2 points 1 year ago

Oi, sorry, misread.

[–] SimplePhysics 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, it does. The roads will change color.

[–] SimplePhysics 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The moon is a fourth the size of Earth. Even if we had the infrastructure and technology (spoiler, we don’t), we can’t even make a tiny tiny tiny tiny dent in the moon, at least in the next hundred years or so. Heck, nuking the moon with every nuke humanity has won’t even make a noticeable dent in the moon!

[–] SimplePhysics 31 points 1 year ago

Modern Firefox is more “modern” looking than Chrome in my opinion. Also, iirc each tab is now its own thread.

[–] SimplePhysics 1 points 1 year ago

Still not vegan though.

[–] SimplePhysics 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From Wikipedia*: In a 2020 post, Lemmy's co-creator Dessalines wrote about the origin of the name Lemmy. "It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals. I was playing that old-school game Lemmings, and Lemmy (from Motorhead) had passed away that week, and we held a few polls for names, and I went with that."[8]

(*Accuracy not guaranteed)

[–] SimplePhysics 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I guess. But there are some hybrids that charge via EV plug. My point still stands either way.

[–] SimplePhysics 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well, if you drive a hybrid, have you ever thought of where your electricity comes from? Probably a very inefficient coal or natural gas plant! Also, its not the gas gauge, its the engine heat gauge lol.

Point is, don’t fret over your fossil fuel usage. Big corporations use more fossil fuels a day than you will ever use in your lifetime, even if you drive a fuel guzzling truck.

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