NeatNit
@NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 4 days ago:
Your message might be correct (maybe) but the way you wrote it could not be wronger.
For starters, it’s not an unusual problem at all: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loneliness_epidemic?wprov=s…
Secondly, your whole comment is really aggressive, from “Um, excuse me?” to “you should work on it asap” it’s all just attacks as if it’s as simple as that.
- Comment on Volvo invented the three-point seat belt 67 years ago; now it has improved it 5 days ago:
That’s great. That’s not the world we live in.
- Comment on Volvo invented the three-point seat belt 67 years ago; now it has improved it 5 days ago:
That’s nonsense.
That’s why patents are relatively short. A patent grants exclusivity for the inventors, which incentives people and companies to invent in the first place. But it’s limited in time so that the whole world benefits eventually. Everything that was invented over 20 years ago is now public domain. This includes a ton of safety mechanisms, some in cars, that never would have been invented if there wasn’t a financial incentive for it.
I don’t like this all that much from a moral standpoint, but this is a good compromise for the world we live in. To say it would have been better if it didn’t exist it all is just plain wrong.
- Comment on The hidden engineering of airport runways: Engineered Materials Arresting Systems 6 days ago:
Same video on Nebula: nebula.tv/…/practical-engineering-the-hidden-engi… (16m36s, presumably because it skips a sponsored segment)
I’m actually surprised he doesn’t look to Nebula from the blog post version of the video.
- Comment on ex-kakapo 1 week ago:
Its name is “poo” twice. Fitting.
- Comment on Check mate, Libertarians 1 week ago:
Are you sure nothing moved? Perhaps they saw a twitch that was enough to confirm for them?
I can easily cause this reflex to myself.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If it was me I would DEFINITELY go to a doctor or emergency room, better safe than sorry. There’s a chance it’s nothing, but there’s a chance it’s a huge freaking problem. You can’t tell by yourself. Doctors and nurses know exactly what to do in these situations. Go to them.
But I’m in a country where an emergency room visit is very cheap or free, I know that’s a factor for you and it really sucks.
- Comment on Mount an ISO in Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Unimportant nitpick: Linux Mint 22.3 was released this week. There is no Mint 23 yet.
(it was OP’s mistake but they at least added “(?)” to indicate they weren’t sure)
- Comment on The RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs” 2 weeks ago:
“mainstream PC memory and storage costs rose by 40 percent to 70 percent, resulting in cost increases being passed through to customers.”
40 to 70 percent? Isn’t it more like 300 to 400 percent?
- Comments on this webcomic (SMBC) are only available on the first few days of every monthdiscuss.tchncs.de ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on electricity is honestly eldritch 5 weeks ago:
The dose makes the poison!
- Comment on Sea Level 5 weeks ago:
Thanks. I think the user who replied to me is the one with no idea that they’re talking about. No way of measuring it comes close to 14.
- Comment on Sea Level 1 month ago:
A bit late, but the moon does not make “almost exactly 13 laps”. Info from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_month
If going by phases of the moon (synodic month), it makes 12.37 laps in a year. Not close to a round number.
If going by position in the sky relative to the stars (sidereal month), it makes 13.37 laps - one more than the former measure, because of Earth’s year cancelling out one month.
There are also other ways to measure it, but none of them get anywhere close to an integer number per year.
- Comment on Sea Level 1 month ago:
Then please explain how the Hebrew calendar, and all other lunisolar calendars (calendars which follow both the solar year and the lunar cycle) have 12 months most years? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar
“The majority of years have twelve months but every second or third year is an embolismic year, which adds a thirteenth intercalary, embolismic, or leap month.”
- Comment on Sea Level 1 month ago:
It makes 12 months because the lap the Earth makes is deducted from the 13 the moon makes, so effectively it makes 12 cycles around the Earth.
- Comment on what happens when you cut something? 1 month ago:
I think so, but if I’m honest, there’s a chance I’m just imagining it 😅
- Comment on what happens when you cut something? 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure that generally some particles break off from either side whenever you cut something in half. When I cut paper with scissors I get a distinct smell, that’s clearly paper particles that have escaped into the air. Under the right conditions you may even see some dust.
When using a saw it is very explicitly removing material to create a gap between the two sides. You can see this clearly in a lot of woodworking videos on YouTube. For other tools like a knife, it’s not as obvious, but I still think some material will inevitably be lost no matter what you do.
Maybe some extremely specialized nano-scale methods can cut things without losing material, but I doubt that’s something you can do on an everyday life scale.
Disclaimer: I’m not an expert and I did 0 research, just giving my opinion and personal knowledge (which may be wrong).
- Comment on Splitting Hairs, Splitting Atoms 1 month ago:
Sometimes all kids need is a scientifically literate adult to explain precisely why their fear isn’t possible.
- Comment on French Anatomy 1 month ago:
When they say how much a heart weighs, does that include the weight of all the blood inside it? That doesn’t seem appropriate because the blood isn’t part of the heart, it’s actively being pumped through it.
If the blood is not included, then holy crap how is it 5 kg?
- Comment on Hmmm... 1 month ago:
Looks like normal body temperature in Celsius. it’s probably holding the last measurement, presumably from under someone’s tongue.
- Comment on Hmmm... 1 month ago:
Looks like normal body temperature in Celsius. it’s probably holding the last measurement, presumably from under someone’s tongue.
- Comment on What is in your pockets? 1 month ago:
Everything else looks pretty real to me that that’s a sign this might be AI
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh 2 months ago:
According to joinmastodon.org/about :
Mastodon gGmbH is a non-profit from Germany that develops the Mastodon software.
[…]
Mastodon, Inc. is a non-profit entity in the United States that supports the growth and operational capabilities of Mastodon, including being able to receive tax-deductible U.S. donations and in-kind support.
Doesn’t seem like it was a move, just a different entity. Seems like there’s a bit more history to this if you want to look it up, for example the German GmbH lost its nonprofit status in 2024, strangely.
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 2 months ago:
Forget all of these half-measures. The perfect way to write English had already been invented: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet?wprov=sfla…
Via RobWords: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D66LrlotvCA
- Comment on 2 months ago:
fucking finally!
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 2 months ago:
I don’t get the joke with the beaver.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Good point, I edited that in :)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Look, I happen to know what this is but I really hate posts that just assume everyone knows what they’re talking about.
So for everyone else: this is the newly announced Steam Machine, a gaming PC/console that will run SteamOS (Linux) and overall looks freaking awesome.
- Comment on green salad fingers 2 months ago:
It’s obviously been painted over and the word “Copper” in the text is replacing some other word that was there before. But I have no idea what it was before.
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 2 months ago:
The post. The email in the screenshot.
