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xylogx@lemmy.worldto
Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•Popular science / understanding of science by non-scientists is nothing but religion.English
11·8 days agoImagine if religion had to adhere to the scientific method. All claims need to be peer reviewed and reproducible. Seems like a pretty big difference to me.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are mundane actions we get to do everyday with technology that would be a superpower to people from before say.. the 1600s?English
4·9 days agoFood from thousands of miles away in abundant quantities.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•are there any resources to learn how Windows internal/kernel works?English
1·9 days agoAlso great is “The Case of the Unexplained” series by Mark Russinovich, author of Sysinternals, where he uses the various Sysinternals tools to solve real problems:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/resources/webcasts
xylogx@lemmy.worldto
Casual Conversation@piefed.social•Which music clip are you always happy to stumble upon?English
1·14 days agoThat made me laugh way too much!
xylogx@lemmy.worldto
Casual Conversation@piefed.social•Which music clip are you always happy to stumble upon?English
1·14 days agoLittle Debbie, Little Debbie
xylogx@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Bobby Dunbar was kidnapped, and returned to his parents... decades later DNA testing proved he was a different childEnglish
12·15 days agoThe boy was 4, not like this was two infants being swapped. The parents had to know.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Why do NetBSD and OpenBSD have more lines of code than Linux?English
1·20 days agoIs that more than the kernel? How much more?
xylogx@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How far back in time could you go with your skills?English
1·20 days agoGive me some stone knives and bear skins and I could construct a mnemonic memory circuit. ;-)
Your car has rolled into a ravine and is now on fire. Roll a save against car insurance bankrupcy.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•calico in Kubernetes is so helpful, I want it everywhereEnglish
2·20 days agoSo its like Ntop for Kubernetes? Is it better than Ntop?
xylogx@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•At 16, I was experimented on by the CIA and now I'm suingEnglish
7·21 days agoAt least they did not become the unabomber?
Einstein was not sure if the universe was expanding, contracting or static. He famously had a constant he could use to change this:
"…Einstein’s cosmological constant, is a coefficient that Albert Einstein initially added to his field equations of general relativity.
Einstein introduced the constant in 1917 to counterbalance the effect of gravity and achieve a static universe, which was then assumed. Einstein’s cosmological constant was abandoned after Edwin Hubble confirmed that the universe was expanding."
xylogx@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Passkeys Explained: The End of PasswordsEnglish
1·24 days agoOk I see a lot if discussion on this topic but no one seems to have mentioned the main feature of the spec that makes them phishing resistant: presence detection. This is what makes FIDO resistant to credential replay. The spec is not perfect but it prevents most common phishing attacks.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What old movies hold up because of a lack of special effects or because clever use of effects?English
2·25 days agoIt is a little slow at times, but the fun bits are really awesome. And you can get a linux package to display system info as !Krells
Fine. If you insist, I will include the periodic table in my password cracking table.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Lemmings over 30 who try to stay active, what are you doing to accommodate for your incredibly decrepit bodies to avoid boo-boos?English
4·27 days agoI transitioned to an ebike.
xylogx@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How Do You Feel About Professional Sports in 2025?English
4·27 days agoI enjoy watching sports, but I do not obsess over it. I have a MythTV DVR setup to record OTA broadcasts. It records some matches, I watch those matches. I skip all the commercials and a lot of the boring bits TBH. Sometimes I go watch highlights on Youtube of my favorite teams.
So I guess that you don’t say “Played-out” anymore.











Like all human endeavors, science is imperfect and often fails us. Yet still it is the best system we have for learning how the world works. And when it does work it is very powerful. Look at for instance the Michelson-Morley experiment to find the ether. When this experiment produced negative results it upended our understanding of electromagnetism and caused a revolution in science. Scientific progress can be slow, but learning from our failures is built into the system.