Phineaz
@Phineaz@feddit.org
- Comment on Bottom of the Ocean 3 days ago:
Dang, you were faster
- Comment on Bottom of the Ocean 3 days ago:
Wouldn’t the bottom of the ocean NOT be water?
- Comment on Swords suck, spears are a way more effective weapon 1 week ago:
I feel you. I know how many hits I can get in just stabbing at unexpected moments at long range with my sword, with a spear it would be plenty easier.
- Comment on Swords suck, spears are a way more effective weapon 1 week ago:
Have you ever fenced against a spear?
- Comment on Come to Biotech! 1 week ago:
Seemingly pointless tasks such as washing sand!
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 1 week ago:
Toxicologists and medical scientists looking for data on humans suddenly having to learn Japanese (or German) …
- Comment on Sore loser Kamala STILL hasn't admitted she lost as world waits for concession speech and Biden stays silent 2 weeks ago:
I … you do know that it has benn, like, two days? One day? I don’t know when you folks are done over there. If you think “ah, Trump still does not recognise the election, but Harris is just as bad!” then I don’t think we have a further basis for discussion.
- Comment on Sore loser Kamala STILL hasn't admitted she lost as world waits for concession speech and Biden stays silent 2 weeks ago:
Damn, what a loser. At least Donald Trump never refused to admit his defeat for a good four years, and instead ceded right after the polls were closed, right?
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 4 weeks ago:
I mean, yes of course I would, but solely because I somehow voted for Trump.
- Comment on Truly a tragedy of our times 4 weeks ago:
That’s … actually very high quality!
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 5 weeks ago:
Tbf, this has proven to be extremely effective: Just think of how many tobacco or chili plants are grown today! Domestication really is a two-way-street
- Comment on Explains a lot... 5 weeks ago:
*Ah, here we go shit again
- Comment on Batteries/Chargers 1 month ago:
Great answers already, I’d like to add a few things: Lithium batteries like to be charged at 1C, meaning that if they have a capacity of 1.6 Ah they like to be charged at 1.6 A and will (theoretically) be fully charged in one hour (this is wrong in practice though). You can charge most of them at a higher rate (e.g. at 3.2 A), but they should be rated for it. If you don’t better, stick to a lower amperage. Too low of an amperage should not be an issue but I’m not sure - it will take ages though.
The voltage has to fit! Batteries change their voltage over the course of charging/discharging. This is more pronounced in older NiMH or NiCdH (discard those) batteries but still relevant. A 12V charger can charge your batteries to 12V. Most chargers can handle different voltages and will usually select the correct voltage depending on the battery. This is important if you are charging LiIons or LiPos (two types of Lithium batteries), as overcharging them is NOT advised. They generally peak at around 4.2V per cell I think with a working charge (don’t know the term) of 3.7V per cell. Some chargers require you to select the number of cells. Charging a 2-cell LiPo with 12-13 volt is a bad idea I wager and charging a 3-cell LiPo with 9.something volt won’t work (it won’t drain it, but the minimal voltage is higher than what the charger provides - current would like to flow the other way if It could).
TL,DR: If you can adjust the charging parameters manually or you are doing something the manual states you shouldn’t be doing, educate yourself. If however you only plug in your phone (with a painfully small battery at 2 Ah) and only provide a 1.5A*5V=7.5W charger, you are perfectly fine.
- Comment on Anthropologists: "You motherfuckers!" 1 month ago:
Well, what else is there to human behaviour? There are some serious hypothesis about the interface between neurology and quantum mechanics, but if you break humans down to their foundations they will invariably die. Don’t do that, it’s bad.
- Comment on Any game with a forced stealth section needs to have it as a warning so you know not to buy crap. 1 month ago:
Hot take.
- Comment on Citation Ascension 1 month ago:
+1 for Zotero and Biblatex. You do need the “Better Bibtex”-Plugin though, or at least I highly recommend it.
“Zotfile” allows you to more or less automatically create a filesystem, so as long as you have a way to sync parts of your drive (or access a server) you can have working links to every paper in your library on any machine.
- Comment on Bethesda, you just entered the no flight zone 1 month ago:
Consider getting a therapist, this sounds very unhealthy.
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 1 month ago:
Something to remember: thicker filaments, while they do last longer, worsen the ratio of light to heat.
- Comment on Climate change 1 month ago:
They’d … switch to metric?
- Comment on "rebellious" 3 months ago:
It’s going to be very hard having the same opinion for all of these (somewhat abstract) instances - considering how wildly incompatible some of these are.
- Comment on Corn 🌽 3 months ago:
Well, alright thanks for clearing that up. I understand the meme now, although I still struggle with the … unusual use of terminology. But yes, it very much makes sense to show teosinte then!
- Comment on Corn 🌽 3 months ago:
I … what? This is such a gigantic leap, going from Teosinte to modern day mazie and calling it a GMO, what is it even suppoed to mean? We shouldn’t use domesticated plant? I am seriously scared by the lack of what I consider to be general knowledge of breeding in the general population, have people stopped going to school in the last 5 years?
- Comment on dopamine detox 3 months ago:
People did WHAT?
- Comment on New tech discovered 3 months ago:
Trust me bro(ette): Rubber duck is the SHIT. I don’t even program save for a few rare instances, but any complex issue where you just know something is wrong but can’t quite put your finger on it? It works miracles. A lot better tbf if you are actually explaining it to someone who can ask questions, but any object that you can look at is a good substitute.
- Comment on Copper Nanotubes 4 months ago:
I’m guessing it’s a derogatory term for the female reproductive organ?
- Comment on When creating a story, how many black characters can I create without them calling the story woke? 4 months ago:
To give a serious answer: As many as the story requires. The same thing goes for any ethnicity. If neither the story nor the character nor any of their dialog require it, not describing a character by their ethnicity is a valid (albeit somewhat harder) choice. This way, anyone can read and imagine the story with what they are familiar with. Now don’t get me wrong, you can absolutely assign every character a full set ranging from emotions and values to physical attributes and ethnicity - but you don’t necessarily have to state that “Jade” has dark/light skin. Simply describe the character on a different level. This is complicated, but beautiful if done with cultural identity: Someone from a community of turkish guest workers may have a very pragmatic and hands-on approach at their job but be somewhat hands-off in the household, until they have guests (Chosen from an arbitrary pov, this is not grounded in experience). If you wish to determine what ethnicity a character has, first ask yourself: is it important/does it influence them? If no, try to leave it out maybe? If yes or you absolutely want to know it, rolling dice is a valid option: Check the distribution in the chosen community and simply roll. From what I know many authors base characters, settings and scenes on some kind of real-life example, so naturally one might base the ethnicity on the same example.
- Comment on They did the math. 4 months ago:
Ye, they would probably bow down to vomit. Would be interesting to see how giraffes do it.
- Comment on Every sperm for themselves! 4 months ago:
… I disagree. It is funny due to the contrast in “behaviour” (these are cells, not animals) which is shown via the contrasting images (don’t worry, I’m not going to mansplain the term “meme” ). I daresay that if you can easily turn the joke around, it doesn’t rely on stereotypes. Since this is the case (make a meme about asymmetric division in oocytogenesis compared to equal division in spermatogenesis) it’s simply funny. I suggest more calm.
- Comment on Every sperm for themselves! 4 months ago:
I’ll bite: How is this related to gender?
- Comment on Synthesize this 4 months ago:
I’m a simple life scientist: I see DNA, I upvote.