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First@programming.devto News@lemmy.world•Family of teen who died by suicide after video of her assault was posted online sues school6·1 year agoYeah, the sadistic psychopath students are blameless, as are the parents who raised them and the cutthroat individualistic society that favors narcissistic traits.
First@programming.devto Technology@lemmy.world•Instagram finds that AI Mr beast scams do not go against community guidelines.English91·1 year agoBetter solution: leave their platform
First@programming.devto Technology@lemmy.world•Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquakeEnglish14·2 years agoAndroid & IOS have an emergency alert system that the government can use if they want to.
First@programming.devto Technology@lemmy.world•UK firm develops jet fuel made from human poo | The starting material is generated in excess and available in plenty. It is a win-win for everyone that the waste is repurposed.English13·2 years agoYou certainly can, with proper carbon emissions taxation. But you can’t stop said people from voting for parties that advocate unrealistic pipe-dream technological solutions like poop jets and full-scale CCS, rather than parties who make them take the red pill and face reality and the consequences of their actions.
He looks like he’s trying to scam us of our internet points by making a face.
First@programming.devto Technology@lemmy.world•Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders.English1·2 years agoOk it sounds like what you experienced was caused by something completely different than detecting an audible difference between Spotify’s 320 kbps AAC encoding and lossless encoding, encoded over a 256 kbps AAC BT codec, but if you actually want to do a true A/B blind test of 320 kbps vs. lossless on your setup, here’s the place to do it:
https://abx.digitalfeed.net/ (select the first link - “The statistically valid Tidal test to make”)
First@programming.devto News@lemmy.world•Biden unharmed after car strikes president's motorcade in Delaware3·2 years agoThat’s not true, he can also pardon his French.
First@programming.devto Technology@lemmy.world•Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of FigmaEnglish111·2 years agoAdobe XD got AXD xD
First@programming.devto Technology@lemmy.world•Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders.English16·2 years agoDo you realize AirPods Max/iPhone is capped at AAC/256 kbps over BT, and needs DAC -> ADC -> DAC to use a wired connection?
First@programming.devto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What Film Are You Surprised Didn't Get A Sequel?3·2 years agoDistrict 9 + 1
First@programming.devto Technology@lemmy.world•Japanese experimental nuclear fusion reactor inauguratedEnglish13·2 years agoIAEA’s estimate is that Nuclear fusion, if successfully researched and demonstrated at full capacity within 2036 at ITER (which is already lagging behind schedule) will result in commercial availability in 2050. So yes, we are still decades away from putting it to use.
Prepare your butthole for the Danish spoken number system, where they express integers in fractions
Great skills, giving a tiny fraction of the budget to vaccine research during a global pandemic that halted the economy. I’m sure no one else would have thought of that.
Totally made up claim, the average passenger car age is 12.2 years in the US, and 12 years in Europe. BMW market share is 2.4% in the U.S., 6.7% in Europe. Similar figures for Mercedes are 2.5% U.S. vs. 5% Europe.
First@programming.devto Technology@lemmy.world•Solar energy storage breakthrough could make European households self-sufficientEnglish3·2 years agoYeah and what does that have to do with the Hydrogen being stored in gas form? The fuel cell converts it, it isn’t a storage mechanism. Hydrogen has a boiling point of -253C, are you saying that Hydrogen powered cars are fitted with a power hungry cryo chamber to cool down the fuel to a liquid form?
First@programming.devto Technology@lemmy.world•Solar energy storage breakthrough could make European households self-sufficientEnglish7·2 years agoThey don’t? When the Toyota hydrogen cars were introduced here around 2015, one of the issues were that a full tank of gas would dilute through the tank walls within a week. From the marketing material of the latest Toyota Mirai, it seems that they still use Hydrogen stored in gas form, boasting improvements in a 3-layer tank that is tested for 235% of the pressure that the gas is stored at, compared to 150% for regular gas containers.
First@programming.devto News@lemmy.world•Alabama Mayor Kills Self After Right-Wing Blog Outs His Cross-Dressing2·2 years agoMy statement wasn’t about what’s “morally right”, it was an example of a suicide that the average person will consider a net gain for society.
A civilized society should obviously not have as its’ goal to make parts of its’ inhabitants kill themselves - the podcast that I got the statistic from was actually an interview with a police officer who worked on monitoring related internet activities, and proactively confronting said individuals to offer preventative chemical castration and therapy sessions. That still doesn’t change the fact that most would rather just see those kinds of people gone, at least after they’re convicted/proven to act upon their urges.
Grab him by his tower!