NeatNit

@NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're just scanning for the bear...⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be looking at any of that, where’s the smartphone showing dumb memes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What television series in your opinion had very good writing and character depth?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been rewatching Community recently and it definitely fits the bill. It has incredibly good writing.

  But more than that, Community gives me the impression that is has an infinite budget. Not a ridiculously big budget like some shows and movies do… an infinite budget. The difference being that they don’t waste a cent. There isn’t a single thing on screen that doesn’t serve a purpose. No ridiculous effect or expensive crane shot added in just to flaunt their budget. But if an episode’s script actually called for a particular shot to be done, they would move heaven and earth to make that happen. That’s what it feels like.

  In my head I compare it to having unlimited vacation days at work. Case studies have shown that workers take fewer vacation days when they can take as many as they want, compared to when they have a set number per year. So in the analogy, a show with a set ludicrously high budget will use every last cent of it even for pointless frill, whereas a (hypothetical) show with an unlimited budget would only use however much money is necessary to create the show. Somehow, Community became that show. … It probably has to do with how frequently they actually went way over budget in practice.

  I fucking love Community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨misleading cover⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fantastic. Thanks for posting the reddit link, which has now been edited further:

  EDIT 2: Apparently I also owe an apology to the small (but vocal) contingent who really wanted this to be minotaur smut. I’m doing my part. Now get typing.

  Be the change you want to see in the world.

  And the linked thread is basically a writing competition that the author is hosting with a $100 prize. The title is “Announcing the 2026 Beefhammer Prize For Excellence in Minotaur Erotica”. Lovely!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spray n Pray⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not American. I know he didn’t handle it well and spread misinformation, but how much worse did the USA have it compared to the rest of the world? We all had it rough regardless of our leaders, so can any of it really be attributed to him?

  To be clear, I think he’s incompetent in so many ways and is perhaps the worst thing to happen to world politics since WW2. I’m just saying covid was out of everyone’s hands, how different could it have really been if he handled it better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you watch enough Only Connect, this becomes trivial :P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they’re as useless and ambiguous as they are in English, we’re doing fine without them, thanks :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure all languages get proportionally similar amounts of flak, but crucially it’s in their own language. You don’t see anyone making fun of Korean because you (presumably) don’t speak Korean and don’t go to the same kinds of forums where such mockery is more likely.

  Source: I speak Hebrew and we make fun of Hebrew all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i need sleep⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Incandescent bulbs like that in the picture don’t really flicker. They might pulsate a little bit but even at their faintest they would still have significant light output.

  Some LED bulbs do flicker though, it depends on how they implement the AC to DC conversion. If they flicker, it is easily noticeable to the human eye, especially when looking at motion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I gave up electronics club⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Refusing to turn reality on its head for a null change in the end is something else entirely.

  I do agree with you, just want to give voice to the other side of this. Don’t underestimate just how much of a barrier this confusion is in teaching. It’s confusing. Students who are new to electricity almost universally hate this, and in some cases it can cause misunderstanding, miscommunications, etc. There is a genuine cost to this mislabeling, and there would have been effectively no cost if electrons’ charge was considered positive instead of negative.

  As I said, I do agree that in practice, with all the existing knowledge, writings and technologies that all agree that electrons are negative, it would be a global disaster if the labeling was switched. There’s no question about it. But I kind of disagree about “null change”, it’s true that it wouldn’t change what we can create or (almost) any of our equations, but it absolutely would make it easier to teach it to future generations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I gave up electronics club⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While funny, this doesn’t work because the time traveler told him specifically which one is negative.

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its name is “poo” twice. Fitting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check mate, Libertarians⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨electricity is honestly eldritch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The dose makes the poison!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes all kids need is a scientifically literate adult to explain precisely why their fear isn’t possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French Anatomy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like normal body temperature in Celsius. it’s probably holding the last measurement, presumably from under someone’s tongue.