RegalPotoo

@RegalPotoo@lemmy.world

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was Isaac Newton physics jesus?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  … no?

  if I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything is a wire if the voltage is high enough.

  Every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not promoting violence or anything. But stupid quest since Iran has an 80 million bounty on Trumps head. If someone would follow thru do they just go to Iran and be like pay up? Why or why not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most likely outcome (assuming you make it to Iran) is they make a big show of congratulating you and setting you up with a super lavish lifestyle that is totally not a compound that you are definitely allowed to leave if you want but why would you want to with all the people trying to kill you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised it’s not already in place for rail freight. Pre-defined, well known routes, automatic right-of-way. You’d need some exception detection - spot things on the line or if any part of the train is behaving abnormally, but like cars you can “fail safe” - do an emergency stop if the computer or a remote operator decides that something has gone sufficiently wrong which you can’t do in a plane

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technology wise, aircraft are already 90+% automated - autopilot does basically the whole cruise phase, pilots are there to do the communication with ATC, manage the autopilot, and be hands on for taxi, takeoff and landing.

  From a legal/policy perspective, the aviation industry is held to a much higher standard of reliability and safety than the automotive industry - the AI driven YOLO that companies like Waymo get away with. It’s not just that autopilot systems have to always work, it’s that they have to always behave in a predictable way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh well...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when I worked a shitty retail job we would usually hire a few people on fixed term/fixed hours over the Christmas/New Year peak (ie, you get minimum 20 hours a week for 16 weeks starting November 1st), first couple of weeks are mostly training, then peak, then cover into the new year while the full time people take some leave.

  Had one guy who got to the end of his training then informed management that he would need leave approved starting now and right through peak because his family was going to an expensive ski resort but that he’d happily pick up some more hours when he got back. Got really salty when he was told that that wasn’t going to happen, and he was welcome to go anyway but shouldn’t expect a job when he got back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That time of year for wearing Crazy Christmas sweaters⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kiki

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to turn the car to a flying car⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, but in my line of work (programmer) it makes me look like a damn savant. “How did you know how to do X?” “Oh, I vaguely remembered something from reading the API docs 2 years ago so I just went and looked it up again”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you forgive someone that poisoned your dog when they only offer bad faith apology ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they did it deliberately and I could prove it, I’d rent a billboard across the street from where they worked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say the only ethical way to be a residential landlord is if you are renting out the only house you own because you aren’t in a position to use it as a house - say you’ve brought a house, but had to move somewhere for a few years for work and intend to move back at some point.

  The moment you own 2 houses, you are profiting from a system that only works because of inelastic demand - you could have put your money into the stock market and made it do something productive, but instead you are collecting rent, making it harder for others to meet their own basic needs, and profiting from a speculative bubble

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Desks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  shrug if you think you can run 100 ft faster than concrete can fall 30 during an earthquake so strong you can’t stand then more power to you I guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Desks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Having lived through a major earthquake - if it’s a brick or concrete tilt-slab building, you are way better off inside the building. The risk isn’t so much some random piece of something falling off, it’s the entire facade of the building coming down on your head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about people making such big deal out of whether they're "black" or "white"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a good answer to your question, but to me “white” as an ethnicity makes about as much sense as “Christian” does as a religious description - they both cover such a wide range of backgrounds and beliefs to be essentially useless. Do a Catholic, a baptist and a modern evangelical actually believe the same things beyond how they frame those beliefs?

  To my mind, same goes for ethnicity - “white” can mean anything from the baltics to western Europe to north America, and to my mind, is kinda racist. It lumps people from as diverse places as Ireland and Russia together purely based on appearances. I get “black” as a self-selected descriptor of people who do have a big cultural touch-point in common - our ancestors were enslaved, brought here against our will, and we still feel the impacts of that even if our ancestors themselves were from a wide background.

  I guess “white” is an easy antonym to “black”, but then that still comes back to a racist tint - “we are white because we aren’t Them” - and lumps in people who have nothing to do with the lasting impact of slavery in the US into this “oppressor vs oppressed” false dichotomy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to school in Arlen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Better than the half dozen Cartman wannabes at my school

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The MAD doctrine aims to make the intentional use of nukes in war unworkable, but in doing so makes their accidental use due to mishap, misunderstanding or miscommunication much more likely, and the more people that are party to the MAD doctrine the more likely accidents are.

  You don’t need to look very hard to find examples of cases where billions of people would have been killed if not for people choosing to ignore doctrine even when the information they had at hand said that they should use their weapons

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meal prep⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure that counts as a hate crime against the English

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has an idea to get laid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of places would happily pay a couple of million not to find out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since the government can theoretically access the location of everyone's phone, wouldn't it be unsafe for an undocumented immigrant to have a phone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, if you are at the point where law enforcement is going to a cell provider with a location request warrant you are pretty much already fucked. They know who you are, they know your phone number, they probably know where you live and work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since the government can theoretically access the location of everyone's phone, wouldn't it be unsafe for an undocumented immigrant to have a phone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, I wouldn’t carry one across the border any more than I’d take one with me to a drug deal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon creates a business plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not being an American the whole idea of not including tax in the stated price just seems so alien. You expect me to work out what 12.5% of my bill is on the fly as I’m shopping? Fuck you, that’s your job. You are the one actually paying the tax to the government, you work it out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't want to join the flesh nexus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my daughter is just about 2 and I can’t imagine being as disconnected as I’ve seen some parents be

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't want to join the flesh nexus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol same. “Bro you should play Elden Ring”. I have maybe an hour a week where I could reasonably play games, it would take me a decade

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Right up until we have an Arch Duke situation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not the worst sales technique.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a weirdly body-positive message for a gym; you can be fat and beautiful or skinny and ugly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't sleep, he's watching⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  28 megawatts at peak. Enough power for 21,000 homes.

  bUt iTS soLaR!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a very strange question about washers, dryers and the Middle East.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not in the US; in NZ most houses will have a “wash tub” - essentially a sink in a metal cabinet specifically for doing “dirty” jobs like laundry. That will have water hookups for the washer, so that goes next to it where there is space, then the dryer will do next to that or on top of the washer.

  The last few places I’ve lived in have all had the tub in a corner with space on its left, so it’s been dryer, washer, tub. Annoying, my dryer door opens to the right and the washer to the left, so it’s harder than it should be to move clothes between them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you follow it, you quickly end up with the Infinite Improbability Drive from The Hitchhikers Guide - if you have an infinite number of typewriters, an infinite number of them will be loaded with paper that already has the complete works of Shakespeare written on it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Doctor” is a title you become entitled to use by virtue of holding a PhD - you have the option to use it, but nothing compels you to do so if you don’t want to.

  Note that the reverse isn’t true - representing yourself as holding a doctorate when you don’t can be a fairly serious crime - if you did for the purposes of getting money from some, then it’s probably some kind of fraud

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions physics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This game has far too many mechanics. The dev team should prune it back to the essentials and focus on polish rather than getting over ambitious and not executing anything well