NeatNit

@NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is your God now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not 100% sure, but I think it’s a coffee machine with the coffee blasphemously being poured into a bowl instead of a mug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And here I am, stuck living in the one country in the world that’s only getting closer to the US: Israel. I pray that by the end of the next decade or three, when the dust settles, we’ll be closer to Europe instead, as we’ve been in the past. But that seems practically impossible.

  Sigh maybe I’ll move to Europe. I’d probably fit in better culturally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has there ever been a country who did not have an enemy or pick a fight? And was pretty much like all of you do you we will do us. kind of like isalationism but charitable when it counted?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this answers your question, but this might interest you if you haven’t heard of it before: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am guessing that it’s different because they spend weeks and months on the ship. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t be too keen to enlist in the navy if it required not having my personal phone for months on end. They gotta make some concessions in policy to keep everyone sane.

  Or maybe they’re banned but people sneak them in anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you call this style of art? It is common in online articles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (not a real answer) corporate art / art by committee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m near an open window, I might have an intrusive thought of “what if I accidentally chuck my phone out the window?”

  I have no idea how anything like that could happen accidentally. I grip my phone tighter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨they say we never really touch something because our electrons repel.. so how does something like dirt stay on my hands when it's not really touching my hands?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend this video by Sixty Symbols, the same production of Numberphile and Computerphile in case you’ve heard of them.

  But basically, when atoms are close enough to each other they attract each other (van der Waals force), which can cause things to stick to each other even without chemical bonds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  boring

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not from the US. And I think the way they’re trying to tackle it is stupid, roughly for the reasons you say. But on a surface level it’s good that there is some action taken on this matter.

  The country does matter. It allows oversight and regulation to a greater extent. And if it turns out that there’s a backdoor in a router, if it’s made locally there will be someone to criminally charge, whereas if it’s made in China or wherever, that would be impossible.

  Then again, it’s the US, so they’d probably charge some random worker instead of the CEO who demanded the back door be implemented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest, this is probably justified. My knee-jerk reaction was “oh look, USA in antagonizing everyone else again”, but consumer routers are a really significant security junction which historically has always been somewhat neglected. I only read a few sentences before the paywall stopped me, but sounds like they’ll whitelist any foreign manufacturers that are legitimate.

  Yes, it’s gonna have corruption and bribes all over it… But on paper, it’s justified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hebrew and English. I have tried once or twice to learn a third language but I just don’t have the discipline for it.

  Hebrew is my native tongue, and English I speak pretty much at a native level simply by lots and lots of being online and watching TV from a young age, and often chatting with my sister in English for no real reason. I’ve even got a pretty convincing American accent. In hindsight I would have preferred most British accents, but I can’t seem to change it now (refer to the aforementioned discipline issue).

  I still regularly talk to two of my friends in English, still for no apparent reason. We just switch between Hebrew and English arbitrarily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve long since decided that these are probably fake, but that doesn’t make them any less entertaining. Keep them coming!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10!=10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fine, I’ll do the math:

  60 seconds in a minute (10 × 6)

  60 minutes in an hour (9 × 5 × 4 / 3)

  24 hours in a day (8 × 3)

  7 days in a week (7)

  6 weeks (3 × 2)

  The bold 3’s cancel out and become × 1, and then it’s easy to see each integer from 1 to 10 appears exactly once when it’s all multiplied together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We All Know This Guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your sacrifice is greatly appreciated! Also, what the hell, since when can tweets be novels?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We All Know This Guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to see the rest of that quoted tweet. There aren’t a lot of ways to finish that sentence that would make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're just scanning for the bear...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its name is “poo” twice. Fitting.