RegalPotoo
@RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 6 days ago:
You can’t use logic to talk someone out of a position they didn’t use logic to get into in the first place
- Comment on Make a new friend! 6 days ago:
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 3 weeks ago:
This only works with rational actors
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe don’t engage in a war of escalation with unstable people
- Comment on agi graph slop, wtf does goverment collapse have to do with ai? 3 weeks ago:
People keep imagining AGI like its going to be benevolent skynet, when it’s probably going to be more like the Tyrell corporation from Blade Runner
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 4 weeks ago:
It does, but it’s super dangerous to do unless you have it wired up properly. Proper installations will use a special connector so you can’t plug anything else into that receptical, and will have it interlocked against the main breaker - you can’t plug anything in without disconnecting from the grid. The dangers of doing it amateur-hour are:
- You now have a cable that you can unplug and have live ends exposed - which if you don’t realize is connected to an active generator is super dangerous, and even if you do one slip and you are now the ground conductor
- If you connect the generator while still connected to the grid, your generator is almost certainly going to be out of phase. This will probably cause damage to your generator and anything else plugged in at the time
- If you don’t have an interlock and run the generator while connected to the grid (say during a power outage) you will be back-feeding power into the grid. This is super dangerous for anyone coming to fix the outage, as things that they’ve isolated to fix can still end up being live
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know about strictly racist, but it’s definitely got colonial overtones. Europe has used “they are uncivilized” as an excuse for the way they brutalized their colonies, erased cultures and enslaved people for centuries
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Another point on this, in events like this the cell network is often under very significant stress as every single person tries to contact their family and friends at the same time to check if they are OK. The general advice is to avoid making phone calls if you can to keep capacity free for people who need to contact emergency services
- Comment on *hands to an undergrad* 2 months ago:
Over COVID I was given 3 of the widgets that my company manufactures to take home in case I needed to help diagnose a customer problem. Stuck them in my backpack and walked to my car, then realized that my backpack was now worth about $150,000. When I got home I emailed my boss to confirm that, if my house were to burn down, the widgets would be covered under the companies insurance policy
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
Existence is suffering
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 2 months ago:
If you are going to propose a law, you need to define “stupid”
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 2 months ago:
IIRC Ubiquity make a line of point-to-point ethernet bridges that operate in the 20GHz range (because more bandwidth, and if you have line of sight you don’t care about interference as much). Responsible vendors won’t even sell you one without sighting a license cos they can also get in trouble for selling it to you if it turns out you are operating it illegally
- Comment on When Lemmy got named did no one think that the "lemming" association might alienate people? 3 months ago:
There are two truely hard problems in computer science; P=NP, naming things, and off by one safety
- Comment on What's easier to shoot, a bow or a firearm? 3 months ago:
Beyond just being able to draw a bow, being able to draw it well enough to have a chance of shooting at all repeatably takes a lot of training - it’s not just lifting a 50+lb weight, pulling it towards you with one and and pushing it away with the other while keeping your arms stable requires a lot of strength in muscles the people don’t tend to use.
Source: former colleague is an international competition level archer - the sheer amount of core strength and coordination and balance you need to be a good archer is wild
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 3 months ago:
Oh one one eight nine nine nine…
- Comment on Trump Suggests No Laws Are Broken if He’s ‘Saving His Country’ 4 months ago:
Something something Luigi
- Comment on These still don't taste like Steve Harvey.. 4 months ago:
… My first thought was “is this loss?”. I’m probably too online.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 4 months ago:
Nah, cos the way the self driving thing will be structured will make it pretty much impossible to actually buy one - they’ll be crazy expensive to buy outright, but you can absolutely lease one - oh but if you are using it for commercial purposes it’s more expensive cos… insurance or something, oh and don’t forget the per-km fees, and the servicing fee, and the battery wear fee, and …
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 4 months ago:
Yeah, doordash can gdiaf. Local burger joint only does delivery through doordash, but adds 20% on top of the base price to cover the fees doordash change them (fair enough), then doordash adds the delivery fee they charge me on top of that as well. They double dip on fees by changing both the restaurant and the customer, what should be a fairly affordable lunch when I don’t have time to make something or go out and get it myself would end up being stupid expensive
- Comment on After completing my first job I'm thinking of quitting my regular job and doing plumbing full time 4 months ago:
Many years ago, the university I studied at did some construction work in the chemistry department, which included rerouting the supply lines from the big oxygen and LPG tanks so they could reach the new lab they were building.
Turns out the contractor was either an idiot or misread the plans, and ended up running the pipes straight through one of the fire-resistant walls designed to compartmentalize the building so fires can’t spread as easily - a hole in one is a Big Deal on its own, but then running pipes full of accelerant through it essentially voided the buildings safety certificate and insurance, and ment that if there was a fire, the main evacuation path would have been a deathtrap.
I don’t know what happened to the contractor, but labs were closed for a few weeks while they purged the lines of gas, removed the badly installed lines and repaired the wall
- Comment on Fill it up buttercup 4 months ago:
It won’t help, but not having it sure will hurt
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 4 months ago:
No worries - I’m a native, but still had to think about it a bit. English is weird
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 4 months ago:
Sort of, there is a parallel derivation where tool can be an innuendo for penis (“used his tool”), so describing someone as a tool is a slightly less vulgar way of calling someone a dick; unrefined, rude, obnoxious.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 4 months ago:
In colloquial English, you can say that someone is an idiot with the construction “you absolute [noun]” or “you complete [noun]” or similar.
It doesn’t actually matter what the noun is, but it works better the more obscure or specific the thing is. For example “you absolute saucepan”, “you complete hose pipe”, or my personal favourite “you absolute strawberry plant”.
- Comment on Do you need to adjust your speedometer if you change the size of your tires? 4 months ago:
Using GPS to drive the spedo/odo on a car seems like it wouldn’t be super reliable?
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- Comment on If we are going to rename the Gulf wouldn't this be more appropriate 4 months ago:
An alternative suggestion - do what they did with UTC. It’s an acronym of both “coordinated universal time” and “temps universel coordonné”, which doesn’t work in either English or French so everyone is equally unhappy
- Comment on I hate when this happens 4 months ago:
It’s the tech aura. The machines know not to misbehave in his presence because they know what happens to machines that misbehave. It’s especially effective on printers, because (as everyone knows) printers are sentient machines imbued with the spirit of a lesser demon, and therefore do experience proper fear.
- Comment on Punk circa 1200 AD 4 months ago:
If you think you saw someone stealing food no you fucking didn’t
- Comment on There is a scene in Saving Private Ryan where a soldier gets shot in the helmet and it bounces off. Now a days soldiers seem to get shot in the helmet and it goes right thru. How come and why? 5 months ago:
The thing people don’t really get about “bullet proof armour” is that it’s job is to stop the bullet going into you and messing up your fragile internals - but Newton still wins. The force still has to go somewhere.
Imagine someone held a stake to your chest then someone else smacked it with a sledgehammer - this would be a Very Bad Time for you, what with all the bleeding and internal trauma. If instead someone held you down with a steel plate and that was sledgehammered with the same force - it would hurt like hell, but probably not do the same amount of internal damage because the force is distributed over a wider area. There is of course a limit - at some point the force is still going to be too high and cause fatal damage.
Helmets work the same way - the internals of your head are very fragile, so keeping the bullet out is pretty important, but the same problem exists. The force has to go somewhere, and while getting whacked in the face with a sledgehammer is better than having a stake driven into your forehead it not that much better