[-] TheYang@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I wonder what the effective radius of these things was (and what it wad expected to be)
low amount of explosives + low density shrapnel may have made this basically a touch-distance weapon.

[-] TheYang@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

We can reliably screen for HIV (all blood donations are) why the fuck are homosexuals discriminated against over this.

except that the tests are (per cdc) up to 90 days late in detection. So you may get infected and spend 3 months testing negative.

And judging by OPs being german, where the rule (admittedly only since 2021) is "you may only have fucked one guy for the last 4 months", this seems like being on the safe side, but not completely excessive to me.

[-] TheYang@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

I've donated plenty of times, because it makes sense that there is no other way to save lives than to donate.

On the other hand, I've been wondering for years, that while I've been told a million times that "blood reserves are low - donate blood now!", I've not ever heard that a single person died due to lack of available blood.
Why would something like that not be reported if you want to motivate people to donate?

My personal guess is that this comes because "lack of avaiable blood donations" isn't a valid cause of death, the cause of death is whatever else (gun shot wound, knife severed artery / complication during surgery etc), thus it's hard to pinpoint. Also Doctors may try to "save" blood, when they know little is available, and people may die that may have lived if they had gotten (more) blood, but also they may not have and it is hard to tell.

[-] TheYang@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I still wait for the day where smartphones become the only computer for most people.
dock it, (maybe cool it) and the available power is significant.

google is definitely taking steps there with their virtualization work and desktop mode, just slow.
Apple may be too, with their switch to ARM on desktop.

[-] TheYang@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

fuck yeah, definitely the right direction.

still a ways to go, but hey, baby steps

[-] TheYang@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

welp. so much for 'pics or didn't happen'

[-] TheYang@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Wonder if benchmarks will switch to a more sustained load profile.

I also hope that Android will get some desktop mode with maybe even linux app support like chrome os (but I of course am dreaming) to actually use the insane power in a more ergonomic environment than in my palm

[-] TheYang@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

why can I not install it?

first time i just get the share button on droid-ify

/e: installig directly from github was no issue

[-] TheYang@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

this could be bad for mozilla / firefox.

if Google can't continue to try to increase / sustain their market share, they may stop paying mozilla to be thw default.

[-] TheYang@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

oh this is a cool concept

[-] TheYang@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Now when it comes to overtaking if you get pushed wide that should be interpreted one way with it absolutely not counting to your track limits violations and if you choose to run wide to hold onto the position that should be interpreted the other way.

but isn't 'being pushed wide' and 'choosing to run wide' arguable in practice?
in a battle for position, the one on the inside will take any space given.

Maybe this is the reason they get 3 free passes for these situations (running wide with no clear advantage gained)

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submitted 9 months ago by TheYang@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

I've just found this Optimus Gen 2 demo, and I thought it's quite interesting.

The Hands are surreal, the gait is still weird, but from what I understand it's a lot easier to walk without an outstretched joint in robotics (avoiding singularity in the kinematics).

Very curious to see if they just did the "easy" 0-80% and will kinda get stuck here, or will keep improving rapidly.

Really looks like it may be used on assembly lines in another year or so. But this is promotion, so looking like that is kinda the point.

what do we think the runtime of these is untethered?
If they have a full AI stack in them, won't they need quite a bit of compute power?

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