No Stupid Questions

What would the properties of an infinitely long wavelength of light be? And what about a wavelength of light that is infinitely short? What would that look like?

I don't own much: My savings are around 50K$, money that now sits in the bank doing nothing.

For example, I know that sites like duck.ai let you use LLMs for free, but they limit input to 16,000 characters, so you can't actually leverage models like Llama 4 Scout, which supposedly has a 10 million token context window. Are there any platforms or tools (preferably without a paywall or input cap) where I could use models with context windows in the millions, as advertised? Or are all the free tools similarly restricted by much smaller limits?

@nostupidquestions Did AI voiceovers get much better recently? I seem to be hearing videos with AI voiceovers that have good English and Tagalog pronunciations even when switching between them.How's AI dubs in other languages?

So I know that pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter (and the ratio of r³x4/3 to the volume of a sphere).

We have "Patient Zero" for diseases but what is the term for someone who has a new genetic mutation?

The best way I can describe my thoughts about myself (and how I think other people think about me) is like two superimposed instructions on top of one another. You don't know which one to read, and it makes you confused. I don't know what I want in life and my views on things can change rapidly. I named that negative inner voice "Sarah". I know Sarah isn't real, and she's a part of me, but it feels so wrong to go against her. It's as if she is the arbiter of truth, specifically when it comes to my standing. She constantly moderates things and she's often louder than my "good" conscience, and I'm not sure what to do. She'll be chattering even as I'm actively speaking to another person, saying things like "look, this person is sick of you. Why are you such a failure?"

Not only could they exonerate themselves, they could vilify political opponents. Even if an accurate copy surfaced they would just say, "Nuh uh!" and MAGA would believe them.

This is a part two of a similar question asked here: https://slrpnk.net/post/24228904

How are you supposed to help the victim while simultaneously avoid being falsely accused of being the perpetrator?

We all see and hear what goes on over there. Kim will execute kids if they don’t cheer hard enough at his birthday party or something? He’s always threatening to nuke countries and is probably has the highest domestic kill count out of any world leader today.

Things like large 1” camera sensors, SiC batteries that offer 6-8k mAh, and other cool tech that would improve phones a lot. It’s not just Chinese brands either (e.g. Sony has an optical zoom camera on their flagship, Nothing has some excellent budget to midrange offerings).

this is a fun question, i guess. i don’t want to appear stupid, i’m just really autistic.

example: "what do you think was meant in this line in this scene?" or am i already here?

And not just for Mac OS.

As a not quite middle aged dude, I only just now figured out how to see magic eye stuff. I tried a couple times in elementary school but didn't get it so I stopped. Had a few drinks earlier, stumbled on some magic eye pic that I could see clear as day and it blew my mind a little

I don't know what to think about it:

And if not what do you expect/want to replace it with. I dont think the whole web being like the fediverse is feasible,since billions of users use the internet

If you had a machine that created a window through which you could see the future, and in the future you wrote down the winning lottery numbers and relayed that information to your present self before that lottery number was drawn.

They only expose approximate, not precise, locations, so they shouldn't be a risk like GPS that exposes precise locations?

When I was little I always though that being famous was a merit thing. If a musician was known it was because he or she was excepcional in his/her art: an incredible singer, a highly skilled guitarist, an amazing drummer.

When I was a kid, we had a collection of most of the books in the series. They were meant to help improve our English reading skills and learn vocabulary, sentence structures, etc. I still remember those stories very well, which is kind of crazy to me.

Is there anyway to make it use less at it gets more advanced or will there be huge power plants just dedicated to AI all over the world soon?

If a person reads a lot of theory about how to swim, different types of techniques, other people's written experiences etc., can they swim if thrown in a deep swimming pool? Or, at least, be able to swim enough to reach the steep end and save themselves from drowning?

Many moons ago I was in a band, and we had a website with our songs stored in Amazon AWS. I recently found that our site was archived on the Way Back Machine. But unfortunately, the audio was in S3 and those URLs don't work.

For those who don't know, it's where someone takes a QR code like on a poster for a concert and puts a sticker with a different QR code on top to a fake website that looks like the concert website (or a Rick Roll).

I realize there's no singular answer for this, but many of the MAGA crowd attribute many of our current woes to the prior administration, like cost of living, inflation, unemployment rates, etc.

(not in the US)

For example, in English, you might type something like:

Does anyone have recommendations for some chalk that resists water very well?

Would be asymtotic or something

Lemmy is great and it is in essence an aggregated forum. But I would like to know how I can also find forums about specific topics.

For me it was "Your mom looks like Gimli from Lord of the Rings.". My best friend took a few seconds to process what I just said to him and then started crying laughing. Good times. I think it was the deadpan delivery that killed him.

And if so what are the ratios? Are they as dominantly righties as humans?

Why isn't that common to cover with a blanket other parts of our body when we feel cold, like the belly or lower back?

Let's say you have something on your plate like rice or vegetables, and you need to push it onto your fork or spoon. Now say you have some piece of finger food with it, like a chicken tendie. Would it be better etiquette to push the veggies/rice onto your spoon/fork with the tendie or your finger?

You know that song by Freak Nasty from 1996? I heard it a few times and I still don't know what the "dip" is. Is it a dance? A drug?

Link to YouTube video in the vid the surgeon and the patient are interviewed. it was a CNN report

This question came about over a discussion my brother and I had about whether dogs should be on leashes when outside. We both agreed that yes, they should, for several reasons, but that's not the point.

The fediverse used to feel pretty anti-ai, but over the past month or two I've noticed a LOT of generated memes and images, and they tend to have positive votes.

And the whole root comes out with it in one pluck, no plucking the scab directly

Just asking cause I don't know what term to look for. I've also seen a couple sites that sell bunches of em for like 10 or 20 percent off, but those could be scam sites cause they disappear after a few months

Title. And this will also affect non-AI imitations of voices?

I just finished my first ever Lego set, the insect (+botanicals) collection and I absolutely love them and want more. Lego itself doesn't seem to have anything more in terms of the insects and my pitiable googling only results in articles, videos, and reddit threads about the same box.

Heyy everyone, This question might seem dumb for most but as a 19yr guy , still don’t know what to do. I wanted to know if there is anyway to find a companies to work with as an « alternant » in visual and audio specialisation ( french term for someone partially working some days in the week while also going to school ). As matter of fact I’ve tried to look for thing like that but don’t know how to contact them or anyway, Does anyone has some tips to give me, would be much appreciated ! And also if there is any alternative to LinkedIn because I’m getting sick of the people on this app being 50yr racist and self centered manager/ceo.. that I have to contact :) Much love to everyone thanks for reading this !

For Context: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/photographer-arrested-home-depot-ice-raid

When I go to people's houses, their toilet paper area never seems to have as much of that goddamn dust all over the place. Is it my toilet paper? I swear even when I clean, there's a film of that stuff that comes up all over the toilet and behind the toilet. Am I doing something wrong?

Overflow incontinence happens when your bladder gets so full that the sphincters physically give way and you pee yourself. In other words the muscle would give before the bladder ruptures. I came across a thread about Tycho's death on Reddit and virtually no one was calling bullshit on the story that he died of a burst bladder because he was embarrassed to go to the bathroom during a banquet.

I've moistutized it and wearing long-sleeves but I've never done that before so what can I expect in terms of healing time, process?

Edit: Its just the outside sleeve for meGonna be a complete bitch to get back in tho, talk about fine-motor tasks

inb4 the inevitable jokes, this is a genuine question.

Is there anything like this? Something like Roblox, but rather than using a central server, using a network of decentralised servers with different self-hosted instances (a bit like the fediverse, but for online multiplayer games)

Every year, tech reviewers position the latest chip as much better than the old one, and the same thing happens next year, and the next. The Snapdragon 8 Elite was better than the Gen 3, which was better than the Gen 2, and so on.

I prefer web over app. I tried a site which was said to be free. signup was fine so i started to use the site only to realise to see my matches or start chats i had to pay for a "premium" account or something. that really annoys me and it's a waste of my time so does anyone know any good dating sites which are actually free, as in i don't have to pay to use the site for what it should be used for? thx in advance 👍

I installed YunoHost and then Lemmy through yunohost. someone else already did this and i decided to try it too. my domain, cutecafe.nohost.me, doesn't show as the lemmy instance? what do i do? why?

Or the one?

It’s like feeling as if you’re in the Always Sunny episode “The Gang Broke Dee”, wherein the gang go to great lengths to trick Dee into thinking that she is a successful and respected comedienne, only for them to reveal that it was all a charade to belittle her more.

This became relevant specially after 2023

Hi

I don't know enough about the evidence but I've read they charged him with crimes that didn't fit? Was evidence weak? Any ideas?

I’m visiting a rural part of the southern US, and I have noticed that about 2/3 of the houses outside the town have yards full of cars and tractors in various states of disrepair, as well as tons of other miscellaneous stuff. Why is that? Is it kind of a culture of self-reliance and a supply of spare parts? Some other reason?

What happened to 50501? They were very active up until the parade.

I want to create apk files for the games I've purchased on Google Play. If I use the Google Files apps, it won't compress the whole game into apk (for example, APK file size for ‘Bendy and the Ink Machine’ is only ~2mB.) For now, only local backup seems to be the functional method.

I worked for a shady evil company, and when they illegally fired me, I never ended up returning a laptop - thinkpad running windoze.

I was talking to one of my friends and he mentioned staying home on July 4, citing how there are a lot of really ugly things going on in the US.

If they think your potential mate or potential rival for mating. Is it too much of a waste of their time and effort?

On one hand many countries will invest in heavy industry, manufacturing, and fall back to fossil fuels.

I mean, amateur radio was illegal to encrypt. That encryption ban could have theoretically also happened to the internet with just a few changes in legislation in a different timeline.

I really don't know what's going on with me. I was laid off rather suddenly and unexpectedly. I spent the next 5 months looking for a job. I spent the day searching for jobs and networking and applying, then taking weekends off. Additionally, I'm already diagnosed with anxiety and take meds. It's semi controlled.

I've realized that the display size, in inches, is sometimes in the name or model number of electronics that are sold not just in the US. Do people outside the US also talk about buying 55-inch TVs, 14-inch laptops, and 27-inch monitors? Does it naturally roll off the tongue or does it seem strange to anyone?

I heard a high pitched noise coming from the area the container was in, then a bubbly noise. Smelled like hand sanitizer and I saw that at the bottom of the container is this thick clear goo. I breathed in the fumes of whatever this stuff is. Any idea WTF it is? I threw away the container

Dont say Prometheus

Hi, I am a computer nerd. I also took a computer programming class and got the highest score in the class, but I never followed up with advanced classes. Recently, I've thought of different ideas for software I'd like to try to create. I've heard about vibe coding. I know real programmers make fun of it, but I also have heard so much about it and people using it and paying for it that I have a hard time believing it writes garbage code all the time.

The same thing was happening with my GPU so I underclocked and undervolted it to hell using msi afterburner and now instead of getting 85 C during gaming sessions it's around 70 C. my CPU fan is always loud. i think the thermal paste is gone. I'm not willing to take my computer apart because where my computer is it's really awkward and if it bricks itself i have the money to buy a new one. rn the package temp is idling at 46-55 C, jumping every second. min temp is 45 C. the max temp is 80 C idling according to hwmonitor. i'm getting spikes in high temperature that last a second or so but when I'm playing a game it can spike to 95-100 C

After seeing the latest Apple WWDC with the introduction of the new design system, it was surprising to see how their redesigned 'Liquid Glass' interface shown in the live stream was exactly consistent with their developer build. It wasn't just a screen recorder thing either; the presentation demonstrated individual components and multiple screens with morphing and other custom animations that couldn't reasonably be simulated in an app. On the other hand, animating the interface with normal video editing software would be equally impractical when replicating the behaviour of the actual software for displaying example cases of apps.

I’m looking for some advice as to what product(s) I would need to replace an access point in my house.

I’m a young mom with a pre-teen son and he’s called me “mommy” up until he was about 10 and a half. Since then he’s been calling me “Ma” which I find pretty cute. Especially when he extends it to “Maaa” when yelling from another room. Maybe it’s a southern thing lol. Just curious about what y’all call your moms?

Are you an ex-gasper? When and why did you stop gasping? You know when you say a word so many times in a short window and you forget what it means?

People say that this is more ethical than using AI. If this is really possible it may be hard to do?

Does PixellmatorTM do most of what PhotoShopTM does?

A recent trip to the dumpster netted me a couple of old laptops (from around 2012). The batteries are completely flat and will not take a charge. I plan on using them as beater computers around the house, so battery life doesn't really matter but would be nice to have. The cheapest no-name batteries available for them are about $15 each. A used OEM battery with about 75% health is a dollar more.

May be phrasing it wrong, but I look at actions like Labor rights, Pride, Civil Rights, Black Panthers, etc. where actions of protesters felt much intense and made more of an impact in actually changing things vs now where there are protests but it feels like it constantly falls of deaf ears.