Technus
@Technus@lemmy.zip
- Comment on TRUE AND REAL 2 weeks ago:
Does the genus name literally translate to “shapeless dick”?
God, I love scientists.
- Comment on Have you seen that vigilante man? Have you seen that vigilante man? 2 weeks ago:
Just listened to that one. Also great.
- Comment on Have you seen that vigilante man? Have you seen that vigilante man? 2 weeks ago:
If anyone is a punk rock fan, Dropkick Murphys put out an album based on unused Woody Guthrie lyrics.
It’s called This Machine Still Kills Fascists.
- Comment on GO FORTH AND SEIZE YOUR DESTINY 4 weeks ago:
There’s also natron and potash which have been known since antiquity, but I can’t find any reference to them being used as leavening agents before the early Industrial era.
Sodium carbonate (washing soda) is used in baking to encourage browning, but it doesn’t produce carbon dioxide when heated.
You need sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) which is only a small constituent in trona, and without knowing how to concentrate it, or that you can, it’s unlikely it would have been used as a leavening agent before the advent of modern chemistry. You’d have to add so much that it would ruin the batter or just turn it bitter.
Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) turns into sodium carbonate when heated in an oven, which is used by amateur chemists sometimes to make the carbonate if they don’t have it on hand.
Baking powder is a combination of baking soda and a food-safe dry acid, which react when water is added. This wouldn’t have been invented before the chemistry of acids and bases was discovered.
- Comment on GO FORTH AND SEIZE YOUR DESTINY 4 weeks ago:
This got me for a second until I looked up the actual object.
It’s made from sandstone, not oatmeal.
Baking powder wasn’t invented until the 1800s.
- Comment on motherfu.... 1 month ago:
That’s where Buddhists who die with bad karma get reincarnated.
- Comment on garlic 1 month ago:
If you’ve never had the Indian soda Thums Up, it’s remotely like this. It tastes like Coke spiced with ginger and similar spices. It’s actually pretty good.
- Comment on motherfu.... 1 month ago:
Hell yeah brother that’s where all the cool people are going
- Comment on motherfu.... 1 month ago:
Pfft, you think you’re going to heaven.
- Comment on Grirrrll.... 2 months ago:
You know how big an antacid tablet is? About that amount.
- Comment on Grirrrll.... 2 months ago:
Limestone, calcite and chalk are the same compound as the active ingredient in antacid tablets: calcium carbonate. There isn’t much danger in eating small amounts of it.
- Comment on Valve set Palworld back as Steam Deck Playable but with multiple listed problems 2 months ago:
Called it: lemmy.zip/comment/15677719
- Comment on While Palworld enjoys a resurgence Valve dropped the rating to Steam Deck Unsupported 2 months ago:
If it was only a performance issue I’d expect it to remain at Playable. Plenty of Verified titles guzzle battery and get barely more than 30 FPS at minimum settings.
Unsupported is generally for games that literally won’t run, often because they have DRM or anti-cheat that isn’t compatible with Proton.
I feel like this may have been a mistake on Valve’s part.
- Comment on Riot Games is cracking down on players’ off-platform conduct 3 months ago:
Anyone remember this? www.pcgamesn.com/…/sirfoch-wargaming-hate-speech
Different publisher ofc, but I can totally see Riot using this as carte blanche to censor any streamer whose statements they disagree with, especially ones critical of their games.
- Comment on don't be a coward 3 months ago:
Oh yeah, that crab could definitely get it
- Comment on Falling for keto and other anti-carb lies is as unscientific as being a climate denier. 3 months ago:
You’re arguing with a stranger in the comments under a six month old post with zero score. You’re here because you went looking to pick a fight. You’re either a troll or just a sanctimonious asshole. Good luck winning anyone over with that approach.
- Comment on Falling for keto and other anti-carb lies is as unscientific as being a climate denier. 3 months ago:
LMFAO are you going through posts mentioning vegans looking for people to argue with? Whoosh.
- Comment on Colours of Blood 4 months ago:
Chlorocruorin is really confusingly named. I was trying and failing to find the chlorine in it and was wondering if I was just dumb or blind or what.
khloros is Greek for “green”. That’s also where chlorine gets its name. So they’re only related etymologically.
- Comment on Explains a lot... 5 months ago:
Plants: develop hard pericarps for their seeds to survive animals’ digestive tracts
This beetle: G O T T A G O F A S T
- Comment on Congratulations to Tom! 5 months ago:
Knowing Tom, he’d be too embarrassed to accept it.
- Comment on Sea Turtles 5 months ago:
Meanwhile, giraffes:
- Comment on Cloud Imperium quietly steal Star Citizen developers' weekends from under them with mandated overtime in the lead up to Citizencon 5 months ago:
What’s the point? It’s not like the people who still put money into this scam are going to be turned off by yet more undelivered promises.
- Comment on Academic writing 5 months ago:
Yeah, it can be really helpful to understand the context and the problems they were trying to solve.
Like for example, I think a lot of pop-sci talk about Special/General Relativity is missing huge chunks of context, because in reality, Einstein didn’t come up with these theories out of thin air. His breakthrough was creating a coherent framework out of decades of theoretical and experimental work from the scientists that came before him.
And the Einstein Field Equations really didn’t answer much on their own, they just posed more questions. It wasn’t until people started to find concrete solutions for them that we really understood just how powerful they were.
- Comment on Academic writing 5 months ago:
Trying to teach yourself higher math without a textbook is nearly impossible.
You could try just Googling all the Greek letters and symbols but have fun sifting through the hundred-odd uses of σ for the one that’s relevant to your context. And good fucking luck if it’s baked into an image.
The quickest way I’ve gotten an intuition for a lot of higher math things was seeing it implemented in a programming language.
- Comment on Academic writing 5 months ago:
I understood about 45% of that, and I also hate them.
- Comment on I miss Adam West... 6 months ago:
It takes a real class-act to happily play a parody of himself.
He was a true American treasure.
- Comment on Microsoft embraces more open standards with DirectX 12 adopting SPIR-V 6 months ago:
When I was gaming on Windows, the DirectX 12 implementation in every game I tried was kinda garbage.
It usually either would just perform bad in general, or just have really bad input lag.
The first thing I’d try whenever I had problems was switching the renderer to DirectX 11, and that would often fix things.
In fairness, Vulkan implementations have been pretty hit-and-miss too. I think developers still just need to get used to the new execution model.
This also was on Nvidia graphics, which may or may not have had something to do with it.
- Comment on The next Battlefield is a return to the "peak era" of Battlefields 3 and 4, with a modern setting and smaller headcounts 6 months ago:
Despite a rocky launch, I ended up playing a fuckton of Battlefield 4.
And Battlefield 1, while not historically accurate in the slightest, was actually a nice breath of fresh air, and a setting that hasn’t been covered nearly as much in popular media as other 20th century wars (with possibly the exception of Korea). It’s actually one of my favorites.
Battlefield 5 just felt so… bland by comparison. They tried to change too many systems, and ended up making just a completely milquetoast game. Really disappointing for what should have been a triumphant return to the series’ roots.
Battlefield 2042 had no soul whatsoever, and some of the worst designed maps in a Battlefield game I’ve ever seen.
One of the maps that was available in the beta that I played was literally just a giant fucking field with hardly any cover and a hundred-foot wall for the enemy snipers to stand on top of and pick off attackers one by one. I really wish I could have been in the meeting room when they were workshopping that map, because I wanna know exactly what the fuck they were smoking to think that it would be any fun at all to play.
I’d honestly welcome a return to formula here if it means another game like BF4 or BF1, even if most players don’t consider that “classic” Battlefield.
- Comment on Histories Mysteries 6 months ago:
This is undeniably hilarious, but if you’ve ever seen actual dissection photos or videos of surgery, you kinda recognize that good anatomical drawings required a lot of mental effort to create.
Imagine making a completely accurate diagram of everything in a car’s engine bay, either while the engine is running and it’s doing 70mph down the highway, or after it’s had a head-on collision at the same speed.
- Comment on Steam Beta adds new shortcut key to save a clip of recent gameplay 6 months ago:
Your opinion is posited as an absolute: “This is useless”
That’s not even correct. I said “not all that useful” and then “next to useless”. Never “absolutely useless”.
The whole point of this feature is to provide something built into Steam that works without a whole bunch of fiddling like other recording software. It currently fails at that on Linux because the implementation of it is half-assed. That is my position. End of conversation.
