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- Comment on Woke up this morning pondering THIS question 20 hours ago:
Almost, it is more like they hear it, they don’t see it.
- Comment on Woke up this morning pondering THIS question 22 hours ago:
That has actually been answered.
Beavers react to the sound of running water.
Researchers put a speaker playing the sound of running water in an area with beavers and came back to find the speaker buried in a beaver dam structure.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 4 days ago:
I keep a pair of ear defenders and a large pack of ear plugs in my car, just incase I decide to go planespotting, then I can also help friends who forgot to bring theirs.
- Comment on It comes with an add on countdown timer. 6 days ago:
I saw a company presenting a silent gaming mask thing for use with VR, it was basically a combination of a gasmask, ear defenders and a microphone…
Looked a bit kinky…
- Comment on Screw MS 1 week ago:
Yes, but I don’t know if any software on windows can actually send ctrl+alt+del to windows given that the key combo is a system interrupt sequence…
- Comment on Screw MS 1 week ago:
Not all laptops have the ability to remap keys in the BIOS/UEFI
- Comment on Screw MS 1 week ago:
I hate that they defined a Copilot key on standard keyboards
- Comment on Remember the whole covid thing. Well instead of wearing a useless mask THIS GUY had the solution that actually worked 1 week ago:
Back in my early school years, I attended a school built on top of a hill, it had an exciting school yard, it had a wooded area, a small field, two football pitches and a secluded steep stone staircase where few teachers could see you.
Anyway, during one winter I was down at the bottom end of the staircase playing during recess, and there was a brown plastic pipe leaking warm water coming out of the ground.
I was fascinated by how it melted the snow, so I started playing with the water, it went on for a few days, possibly a week, only then did I suddenly see a tissue paper and brown stuff coming out of the pipe…
Yeah, it was a pipe with raw sewage that I had played with, shortly thereafter the pipe was dealt with by the school.
I am 37 now, and I was seldom sick as I grew up…
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 1 week ago:
Sometimes when my room is very cold, I sleep with socks on, though the rest usually stays off.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 1 week ago:
20 at home, 18 when away.
- Comment on Wireless EV charging hits 90% efficiency in Swiss real-world trials 1 week ago:
Simple, since the system knows the VIN of every car, it knows who to send the bill to.
You could even have a Terminal at the entrence of the facility for those who want to prepay.
- Comment on Ah, to have multiple console emulators in a single portable device 1 week ago:
Ah, I am currently looking for a Trimui Brick Hammer, though I may start with an Anbernic device and they are easier to come by for me…
- Comment on Wireless EV charging hits 90% efficiency in Swiss real-world trials 1 week ago:
Why does the cars need to move?
Just build car charging coils into every parking spot, then have a computer keep track of what car arrived at what time, and give them an hour each of full charging sequentially.
Example
Car 1 parks in space A and starts charging, car 2 arrives shortly after and parks in space D, the computer logs the VIN and timestamp, placing it first in the queue. 30 min later car 3 arrives and parks in space B, the computer logs the VIN and time stamp, placing it second in the queue. Then car 2 leaves space D, the computer logs it and removes it from the queue, making car 3 first in line, then car 2 arrives back in space D, and is placed second in the queue since it left earlier.
No need to move tonnes of metal and batteries, just switching the power, a cheap and fair way to extend the number of charging spaces, while not overloading the circuit and ensuring that everyone gets a fair timeslot, all without having to risk dammage while moving the cars.
- Comment on Ah, to have multiple console emulators in a single portable device 1 week ago:
R36?
- Comment on DAE name their characters by their official name? 2 weeks ago:
That is different, the player is seldom refered to by name in games.
Though to keep it classic, I often use AFGNCAAP
- Comment on Posts about storage being removed from /c/selfhosted 2 weeks ago:
I had a look at rule 3, it is really vauge, about making it clear that you are self hosting.
When I look at the modlog screenshot you posted, the rule seems to be applied way to broadly.
They either need to make a rule denying posts about storage server, or start enforcing it fairly.
If they had a rule like that, I could accept it, as selfhosting to me implies more of running a service on the internet rather than a “simple” or “standard” storage server.
I could see the mods being annoyed at seeing the same questions being asked time and time again, especially when the community was created with a different focus in mind.
But that needs to be communicated clearly and not just randomly enforced.
TL;DR: Looks like a combo of bad rules, bad communication and too eager mods.
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 3 weeks ago:
Ah interesting!
That explains why I don’t see it!
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 3 weeks ago:
I see you took the screenshot on your phone, I just tried it on mine and had no issues getting the proper link, even after updating it as I wrote this comment.
Can you describe more about where you encountered it?
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 3 weeks ago:
Does this happen when you copypaste the URL?
Because messing with the clipboard is a really scary thing.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 3 weeks ago:
PR?
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 4 weeks ago:
Some people care more about being remembered as a good person after they have died rather than having the highscore when they die.
Look at Alfred Nobel, the entire reason for creating the Nobel prize was to try and rehabilitate his memory after having invented dynamite.
I could see something similar motivating modern billionaires.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 4 weeks ago:
Dear Mr. Bezos, instead of pushing for increased energy use to create more slop, how about making something truly meaningful?
You have the money to do a LOT good, you also have the resources and contact to actually do it.
Here is a suggestion:
Set up a fund with 10 billion USD, have it managed to produce a decent, but predictable return every year.
Take another billion USD, and fund a non-profit organization that will develop the following:
- A semi autonomous garbage collecting boat, powered by solar power.
- A mothership for number 1 with a processing facility that takes the garbage collected by a a fleet of the smaller crafts, basically dry it, filter the water and compact the dry gargabe.
- A high power incinerator at a port that can burn the garbage at a very high temp.
At the end you should have a large fleet of the semi autonomous garbage collectors, a minimum of two motherships and a port side incinerator.
Deploy the garbage collectors and motherships to the great garbage patch and set to work cleaning up the surface.
As the initial funding for the company dries up the funding of the organization should come from the returns of the fund set up earlier.
The organization should accept donations and build more garbage collectors and motherships, and also develop new methods of collecting garbage from the oceans.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 4 weeks ago:
But taxing the rich would give them even MORE resources
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 4 weeks ago:
With higher progressive taxes, not only do we stop billionaires from possibly existing, but the government gets more resources to spend on spaceflight R&D among other things.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 4 weeks ago:
Like everything in life, most dangers is a matter of quantity.
Listening to music with headphones is a fantastic way to enjoy music, as long as you are reasonable, it is fine to listen to music loud enough to drown out other sounds for periods.
Back in 2022, I got double flat feet, double heel spurs and a bad knee at the same time, walking was agony at the end of the day, so when I had to walk home from the bus stop, I put on some quite loud Sabaton in my headphones, used that to gather strength to move, usually ending up crying hard as I dragged myself up the path to my apartment building.
I still hear ok, sure, I have a bit of bad hearing, but that was something I had found out a decade before.
You won’t go deaf just by listening to music in headphones, they are an important tool in several sectors, especially in music, every live performance artist is wearing in ear monitors these days, they are special headphones that allow the artist to not only hear the other performers and instruments, but also protect their hearing from the extremely loud speakers and crowds at a live event.
Then you have the people working post production, they all wear headphones all day, you have radio DJs, they also wear headphones all day, pilots, air traffic controllers, police, security guards, and similar professions also often wear head phones constantly.
What you are being told about headphones is just fearmongering, but built on a small kernel of truth, loud sounds can and will damage your ears, but that goes for all loud noise, not just headphones.
- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, blocked!
- Comment on Contents of Queen's Purse 5 weeks ago:
I remember a documentary about the Queens guard, where they mentioned that she did indeed carry small amounts of cash in her purse.
- Back in 1993 Amtrak ran trial runs with European high-speed trains, Sweden's X2000 and Germany's ICE, here is a well made documentary about the event.youtu.be ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 5 weeks ago:
Probably
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Several, in hopefully this order:
- Mr. - for a few minutes
- Suspect.
- Prisoner.