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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had a huge slingshot, how much rubber band would you need to send a spaceship into space?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You couldn’t do it with one slingshot, as several people have explained. But if the slingshot was big enough to launch a ship carrying someone with another slingshot, you’d do a little better. With the second ship carrying a third ship and so on, the slingshot round on the last ship might move fast enough. This is how multi-stage rockets work, by the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t familiar with the term: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel#"Blackpill"

  It doesn’t sound good at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to say this but there are still interesting people on Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owners of laptops with very cheap aftermarket batteries, is it worth the discount?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, they generally work fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1. No it likely wouldn’t make them explode if they hypothetically were there.

  2. It’s reasonably certain that Iran didn’t and doesn’t have any usable nukes. The claim is that they were working on building them and that the bombing was to stop them from completing any such projects.

  3. There are conflicting opinions about whether they were really working on building nukes. One might reasonably also say that if they weren’t working on it before, they are NOW.

  4. IIRC there was some kind of religious fatwa against Iran building nukes, which made the claim somewhat credible that they weren’t building them. It looked to me like they were instead getting the precursor materials together without doing the final refining and assembly, so that if the fatwa was lifted and the clerics said build the nukes, they could do so relatively quickly. That’s just me though, and I don’t have any special sources of info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works Hesitancy about vaccinations is on the rise, but studies show there are specific ways to address people’s questions.”

  www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01771-z

  Optimistic, but a start maybe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No idea about internet integration or “arr”, but the Inkplate series are completely open. I got an Inkplate 10 because of an app that I wanted to write for it at the time. The hardware is nice, software is lacking, but I’d buy it again if I wanted a basic e-reader. It has an epub reading app and I’d just download epubs to it from my PC by wifi or USB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Works best with an air hockey table.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I do with this laptop keyboard?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Raspberry pi pico

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  x86 hardware interfaces are traditionally pretty well documented and standardized, going back to the original IBM PC in the 1970s(?), enabling among other things an aftermarket of plug-in expansion cards and other peripherals. That standardization also makes it possible to write device drivers and keep them working.

  ARM stuff on the other hand is closed and changes all the time. So this year’s peripheral won’t work with last year’s phone. Mac stuff is also like that, maybe not quite as much most of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would I pop a bag of popcorn on the microwave?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those bags are made for microwave popping and you pay a big premium for that, besides getting crappy popcorn. For stovetop popping, just buy loose kernels. Zillions of recipes online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A buddy of mine has a foldable Samsung and likes it. IDK what model but it’s big, looks like a full sized phone when folded, and opens out into something with 2x the screen space of a normal phone, basically a mini tablet.

  I had a number of flip phones in the old days and they all broke at the hinge. So there’s that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Android was initially developed by some other company, that Google acquired when it decided it wanted to do smartphones. The alternate universe that I see is they pick a different company instead, and things play out about like before. Maemo (Nokia product) unfortunately died before its time, but maybe it could have been where Android is now. Windows Mobile always stunk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How good are amphetamines for brain fog?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Talk to Dr rather than internet randos. This was interesting though (Naltrexone):

  reuters.com/…/addiction-drug-shows-promise-liftin…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just be nice, say your romantic feelings are getting to you too much and that you want to back off if you can’t purshe them. Staying open to occasional contact (like by email) is a lot better than cutting the person off completely.

  Getting involved with someone with serious mental health issues doesn’t sound like a great idea either, if they’re not under some reasonable level of control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a more convenient way to do this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just pick up a little bit of French and then when you meet them, you can get by with a mixture of Frenglish, gesturing, cross-language dictionaries, and help from Domenic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where on the internet would you discuss a specific case of a potential exploitation of a minor within the adult industry"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t feel any need to discuss something like that in public. If I felt reasonably convinced that someone was being abused, I’d probably flag the FBI. Otherwise if you insist, I’m sure there there are pr0n forums. In fact Lemmy has an NSFW instance lemmynsfw.com. Stuff from there keeps showing up on lemmy.world’s front page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No idea about clogging differences, but the toilet drain sometimes goes to a different sewer system than the sink drain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitary_sewer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For text generation the result would be almost useless since most public domain works are very old. For images, you could train with video feeds maybe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the U.S., are all voting booth areas required to have carbon monoxide detectors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In indoor crowded spaces, CO2 is often 2000 ppm or higher (background is now around 450). We might notice but just deal with it. In the past that meant getting sleepy at a lecture or that sort of thing, but today I’d consider it risky. I still wear an N95 mask whenever I’m in a public indoor space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  1. there are plenty of shy or anxious people in the US too!
  2. as you say, being outgoing is a skill. 21 is an awkward and transitional age where you’re still finding out things about yourself. As you get more comfortable it can get easier to talk to other people too.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the U.S., are all voting booth areas required to have carbon monoxide detectors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  CO comes from incomplete combustion and you’d usually only have detectors for it around gas heaters, generators, stuff like that. Maybe you meant carbon dioxide (CO2). I don’t remember ever seeing one around a voting booth. I’d consider them a good idea though, not because CO2 poisoning is a serious concern per se, but because high CO2 means that you’re breathing air that other people exhaled, increasing your exposure to airborne pathogens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you rank the millennium prize problems based on difficulty of understanding it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say P vs NP is the easiest, Riemann hypothesis is understandable in the sense that its statement is not too technical, but understanding why it is important is another matter. NS smoothness is probably understandable to the average math or physics nerd who has seen some PDE’s. The rest require developing more machinery to even state the problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(i feel really stupid asking, but what the hell!) could i be of french descent?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I can see your future. The good news is you become a starship captain. The bad news is you lose your hair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the digestive tract count as a pneumatic propulsion system?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Peristaltic, in fact that’s where the term comes from. You can type “peristaltic pump” into a search engine to see lots of descriptions and diagrams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes a bit of practice. A few minutes of instruction can show you how it works, but then you will want to actually practice (maybe an hour or so) on some quiet roads before driving in traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definition of concurrent vs cumulative?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Concurrent = multiple things at the same time

  Cumulative = amount of stuff added up over time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve worked in security for decades and nobody has ever asked me about certifications. I know a guy with CISSP and he said it has been useful sometimes, but basically I wouldn’t worry too much. Getting more involved with the security stuff where you work will give real experience which is likely more valuable.