NeatNit
@NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Sea Level 1 day 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 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 week 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 week 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 weeks ago:
Sometimes all kids need is a scientifically literate adult to explain precisely why their fear isn’t possible.
- Comment on French Anatomy 2 weeks 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 weeks ago:
Looks like normal body temperature in Celsius. it’s probably holding the last measurement, presumably from under someone’s tongue.
- Comment on Hmmm... 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
fucking finally!
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 5 weeks ago:
I don’t get the joke with the beaver.
- Comment on I knew it 5 weeks ago:
Good point, I edited that in :)
- Comment on I knew it 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
The post. The email in the screenshot.
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 1 month ago:
I call bullshit. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but this seems fake to me.
- Comment on Would one run faster without arms? 1 month ago:
I assume Windows is inexplicably a typo of QI?
I totally agree. I believe they make some effort to get their facts right, but it’s not their highest priority by any stretch. I also suspect they might sometimes leave crucial details on the cutting room floor.
In this instance I get the impression that Sandi actually meant the arms are still swung but just kept straight, like a Minecraft run. But then Bill interpreted it as the arms kept straight and motionless, like that one Seinfeld episode, and Sandi didn’t correct him.
- Comment on Would one run faster without arms? 1 month ago:
once you’re up to a steady speed it doesn’t make so much difference.
[Citation needed]. You’re still fighting gravity so being lighter makes each step easier. There is also less air drag (but I don’t know how much difference this makes).
- Comment on Would one run faster without arms? 1 month ago:
I have seen claims that this isn’t actually true, swinging our arms to counterbalance the legs is less efficient than just keeping them in place.
Where did I see this claim? Why, it was in this peer-reviewed scientific paper: youtu.be/-QW25fJ34nA , where by “peer-reviewed” I mean filmed with a live studio audience, and by “scientific paper” I mean segment of a TV panel show.
So uhhh yeah I’m not buying it but I can’t be bothered to check their sources.
- Comment on Fictional 1 month ago:
A quick glance at the summary table can answer that. Planck units seem to do the trick.
- Comment on Fictional 1 month ago:
Come on, you are able to analize words!
No, you can’t. Believe me, I’ve tried. I did everything I could to analyze this topic. There are many things that are possible to analize. Many household items. But not words.
- Comment on Fictional 1 month ago:
There are various systems of units where select physical constants are set to 1. A handy comparison chart is on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units?wprov=sfla1
It turns out you can’t harmonize all the physical constants. Some will necessarily end up as some non-round number.
Most of them have speed of light = 1, but some have it as 1/α where α is the fine-structure constant (α = e² / 4πε₀ħc ≈ 0.007297)
- Comment on 1 month ago:
They’ve come a long way. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-11-25
(click above link for full comic)
- Comment on Banana 1 month ago:
Get out.
- Comment on Fight me 1 month ago:
You’re welcome! Folding@home is the big one, and the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search is also pretty popular (though IMHO a waste of resources for a relatively useless result). But I just looked into this topic myself after posting that comment, and turns out there’s a huge list of such “volunteer computing” projects: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_volunteer_computing_pr…
So while Folding@home is a great one and medical scientific research, you might pick something else from that list. Perhaps more than one!
Now the confession: I’m a hypocrite. I never ran any of these volunteer computing projects on my own PCs. But that’s partly because I tend to shut them off every night, so a lot of the usable time for it isn’t really usable. The other part is basically that I never bothered to do it.
But I think after this conversation reminded me of it, I might look into installing it on my PC!
- Comment on Fight me 1 month ago:
At that point you might as well run Folding@home on your PC just to act as a heater. It’s literally a win-win for you and for society.
