The layperson stares in horror at the manmade horrors beyond his comprehension. The highly intelligent person stares with even more horror, for he can comprehend them.

Aneurysm posting is my middle name :3

Gotta make sure to do it from a Russian VPN too.

The Earth is actually warmer than an object in space would be due to the greenhouse effect. But even without the effect, a spherical blackbody human won’t freeze. Since humans aren’t spheres, you could probaby get one to partially freeze by pointing its head or feet at the Sun, minimizing the surface area it receives sunlight from. This is definitely something that needs experimental testing.

Freezing would happen very slowly, and not at all if the human was relatively near the Sun (around Earth’s orbit or closer).

We do, however, swell up quite a bit.

I thought they just meant a mouse cursor…

Six months later, all 10 showed considerable hearing improvement, with the average volume of perceptible sound improving from 106 decibels (very loud) to 52 (much fainter).

They’re understating that a bit; that’s an increase in sensitivity of over five orders of magnitude. 106 decibels is about as loud as a chainsaw; 52 is on par with a normal conversation.

I’ve archived it on the Wayback Machine.

you must keep it in cash

you don’t have an address, a phone number, [and] you can’t interact [with] people in public

using just the internet and an email

What do you expect me to do, download a $20 bill from the internet and print it??? I guess the only realistic option is to walk around busy places after everyone’s left and hope you stumble upon someone’s dropped wallet.

Either works fine; I just use screen out of habit lol.

I’ve always just run the server directly from the JAR in a screen session. If you’re just running a simple server and don’t need the features of Pterodactyl it’s definitely the easiest option. Just download the JAR from Minecraft’s website to a new directory, and run with java -Xmx4G -Xms4G -jar minecraft_server.1.21.6.jar nogui (The page says 1 gig of RAM, but I’d recommend more if you have it available).

It’s definitely quality over quantity here. Every upvote means a real human person saw my post/comment and liked it enough to upvote it. And I can even see who on Mbin!

I agree with most of your comment, but your math is very wrong. 36^12 hashes (lower case alphanumeric) / 126.9 GH/s = 33.7 million seconds, or about 1.18 years. Still way too weak for secure use, but about 16 orders of magnitude above the nanosecond range. How’d you calculate that?

I can’t, what is it supposed to sound like?

I like this meme; it requires some very specific knowledge to understand. :)

Last I heard they’re invading Denmark or something…

Seems some people think accuracy is limited. That’s not the case. From the article:

Immediate access to satellite measurements and navigation results is disabled when the receiver’s velocity is computed to be greater than 1000 knots, or its altitude is computed to be above 18,000 meters. The receiver continuously resets until the COCOM situation is cleared.

The limitations are enforced by the GPS receiver itself. You can buy “unlocked” GPS modules without these limitations, but they’re harder to get ahold of.

Half of my feed is moth memes…

And I’m totally here for it, thank you for your contributions to the fediverse. May many great lights be in your future.

The video is an adaptation of the original text writeup (which I also greatly prefer): https://what-if.xkcd.com/147