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- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 day ago:
There’s no appreciable drag up there, so if it’s in orbit it’s going to be in orbit for a while, regardless of how big or small it is. Is the amount of energy lost to ripping the debris apart enough to eventually de-orbit the object? I honestly don’t know. My immediate thought is no, barring outside factors, because if it did spacecraft would be torn apart during their de-orbit burns; but I honestly can’t get my brain around that well enough to be certain (maybe the longer time a spacecraft takes de-orbiting reduces the stresses that a piece of space junk suffers instantly).
The kind of crazy thing is that, if a 1,000kg satellite orbiting at an altitude of 36km and a speed of 11,000kph breaks into a thousand pieces, each of those 1kg pieces are still traveling at an altitude of 36km and a speed of 11,000kph.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 day ago:
Kessler Syndrome. The worst part is that, at some point, the risk of collision becomes so great that the problem becomes self-perpetuating, further increasing the risk until we can’t leave Earth anymore.
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 1 day ago:
In this case, the service is the same thing. Both the Minecraft client and the Hytale client are connecting to a Hytale server. So I guess you could say it’s like if Lemmy had an official app, and you used that and the Boost app to connect to a Lemmy backend: the hypothetical Lemmy app would be the Hytale client, connecting the way it’s meant to to the service it was designed for; and the Boost app would be the Minecraft client, designed to connect to a different type of server but modified to work because the workloads are similar enough that they can be translated pretty simply.
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 1 day ago:
Probably not. This is more akin to using different apps to access the same service, like one person using Ivory and the other using Tusky to access Mastodon. Multiple clients accessing the same API endpoints is kind of how the internet operates, or at least was before big tech decided to shut out third-party apps.
- Comment on How come laptops or pc's don't have a "webcam" facing both ways instead of just the user? 3 weeks ago:
It’s just not as useful as the rear-facing camera on a phone or tablet. You can’t aim it easily, so it’s stuck pointing slightly downward at the surface it’s sitting on, unless you’re interested in making your screen harder to see.
Plus it’s more expensive for a feature that few people would find useful.
- Comment on bumper sticker 4 weeks ago:
If the sticker is blue, one or the other of you is about to cease being biology and start being physics.
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 5 weeks ago:
Well, currently Ball doesn’t make any jars, as I understand it. And I don’t think it’s in Muncie anymore either. So the term is just a holdover.
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 5 weeks ago:
Those do look really nice, for sure. They’d make great snack cups.
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 5 weeks ago:
Oof. I think I lean more toward her side, to be honest. I don’t like having cold hands.
- Comment on I dunno 5 weeks ago:
Ok.
- Comment on I dunno 5 weeks ago:
Believe what you like. Including that all mathematics communication and education is flawless and incapable of any ambiguity, apparently.
But for your own growth as a person, I recommend you chew on this: the people who write these “questions” to put on Facebook are exploiting the exact same mindset that made you decide that insulting my intelligence was the best way to have this conversation, and using it to get a massive amount of rage-baity engagement. They’re not teachers trying to educate. They’re scammers trying to build up a following so that they can execute a scam.
Actual math educators, on the other hand, are moving away from using the “PEMDAS” (or “BEDMAS”) acronyms because of the ambiguity inherent in them, and using “GEMS” (or “GEMA”) instead. Partially because, if even smart people who know PEMDAS can get confused, the acronym must not be all that useful.
Anyway. You’re trying to make me mad, and for a minute it worked. But I’m over it. Again–have a good one.
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, for sure. Though if you drink it fast enough, it won’t warm the drink noticeably before it’s gone.
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 5 weeks ago:
See also: the Apollo Lunar Module (LEM), the humble US Postal Truck (LLV), and the F/A-18 Super Hornet, all made by the Grumman Corporation.
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 5 weeks ago:
Great at conduction, but with not a lot of thermal mass, meaning that actually your drink will usually just make whatever it’s touching (your hand, often) super cold or hot.
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 5 weeks ago:
Muncie, Indiana is the home of the Ball Corporation, which is the company referenced in this meme. Also of Ball State University, founded by his endowment. Like “Mason jar” before it, “Ball jar” has become a genericized trademark for the object itself, especially in the Midwest.
- Comment on I dunno 5 weeks ago:
I don’t take homework from insufferably smug jerks on the Internet. Have a good one.
- Comment on I dunno 5 weeks ago:
They’re definitely not
- Comment on I dunno 5 weeks ago:
Just patently untrue, but I’m no longer interested in this.
- Comment on Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video 1 month ago:
I’ve been ad-free for long enough at this point that I feel physically assaulted when I see one (at a friend’s house or whatever). It’s insane that we ever thought that was ok, and it’s become worse.
At this point, adblock is a survival measure. Piracy is self-defense. The first presidential candidate who campaigns on legalizing graffiti on billboards and mandating their eventual removal gets my vote. Burn it all.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 month ago:
Definitely a fair point. But for the most part, being in the country that collapses is going to be worse than being in a different country.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 month ago:
This is just me, and I’m no expert. But I kind of think that, if you’re legitimately worried about your country’s currency collapsing, you might want to consider leaving your country. Any sort of collapse that leads to hyperinflation or the large-scale elimination of financial infrastructure is probably going to be difficult if not impossible for the average person to survive, gold or no.
That said, precious metals are a niche enough market that I can’t imagine it not being rife with predatory sellers; companies that aren’t offering scams per se—you’ll probably pay them and receive what you pay for—but companies which are counting on people not knowing anything about the market and accepting a terrible price or poor quality goods.
Again, not an expert. But my end-of-the-world investment would be in shelf-stable food, easily-stored seeds (for planting), medicine, hand tools, high-quality camping gear, books, that sort of thing. If there is a collapse, those sorts of things will be immediately useful and also tradeable.
- Comment on This Minecraft map that recreates, [Kowloon Walled City], one of history's most notorious slums made me reconsider what's important in 3D level design 1 month ago:
I think part of what you’re saying is why the Kowloon build can’t deliver that, though.
- Comment on This Minecraft map that recreates, [Kowloon Walled City], one of history's most notorious slums made me reconsider what's important in 3D level design 1 month ago:
It’s a very good summary of the article. The things the author reconsidered were pretty nuanced, and trying to describe them in a headline without making the headline even longer than it is.
Would you have liked this better?
“This Minecraft map that recreates Kowloon Walled City, one of history’s most notorious slums, made me realize that 3D level design isn’t just about the complexity or the environmental challenge, but about the internal lives of the people who live there and the way that the game implies a greater reality that exists beyond the confines of the camera’s field of view”
Because that’s too long to fit in a tweet.
- Comment on This Minecraft map that recreates, [Kowloon Walled City], one of history's most notorious slums made me reconsider what's important in 3D level design 1 month ago:
I read the article. It appears to deliver on the promise of the headline pretty completely. The headline also isn’t sensationalized or misrepresentative of the content. Are you just upset because it sounds a little bit like a LinkedIn status in its construction?
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 1 month ago:
Speaking only for myself: because the American government has, for 250 years, claimed to act on behalf of the American people. When it was liberating concentration camps and sending people to the moon, that was something to be proud of.* When it was upholding slavery and winking at Jim Crow laws, it wasn’t.
It’s a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” and so he purports to speak and act on my behalf. That’s deeply embarrassing and shameful, even if I couldn’t have done anything differently to prevent it.
- (Yes, I know that even those “good” examples are complicated. I’m just forming an example here)
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
That…seems so obvious, now that you say it.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
That’s not about Bob trusting Grace specifically (that’s a premise of the entire operation), it’s about trusting that the letter Alice handed Bob was actually signed by Grace.
- Comment on I dunno 1 month ago:
Well and truly noted. I was unaware until I got called out on it, so the whole experience has made me wonder how often I do that sort of thing without realizing it.
Pretty hypocritical on my part, since I’m usually on team hey-actually-read-it-before-you-comment.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
That could very well work, yes; but I think that would require Bob verifying Grace’s signature, and that would require trusting that Grace didn’t make a unique signature that she only used for Alice, and making a note of who verified it.
There might be a way to verify those signatures with public keys in a way that didn’t require Bob to tell Grace that he was verifying the signature, which is still rattling around in my brain.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 1 month ago:
Are you kidding? I might actually stop buying new games and make it through my backlog now! This is great!