thevoidzero

@thevoidzero@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you don't know me⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow I have opposite problem. I don’t like reading papers that much. And while I do write I don’t like to spend too much time there either, so I just end up procrastinating by making new things with plots, analysis, codes, helper scripts and such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do dams pregame?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Flood control is very close to my area of research. My research involves effect of dams on river water and I don’t get to talk about it often, so it was fun. But I haven’t actually worked on a dam control or made policies, so my work is more theoretical what ifs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do dams pregame?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have mentioned they already do that to a degree they can with the uncertainty of forcast. It’s called Forcast Informed Reservoir Operation (FIRO).

  Important thing is that the forecast is uncertain farther you go in future, and smaller the area you’re looking at. So the policies will have to take that into account, you can’t simply empty your reservoir because if your forcast is wrong and you don’t get enough rain, then you don’t have the precious water anymore for dry season. But if you’re wrong on the other side you get flood issue.

  Satellite data and a lot of ground sensors are in place that help us better forcast the future storms along with improved computation and technology, but nothing is sure, and it might get worse with current situation. We already have problems because of previous funding cuts causing us to lose so many sensors.

  Also a fun fact, we’ve had dams for so long that we don’t know the natural flows for so many rivers so we can’t calibrate our models well. Basically we built dams long before we started measuring the rivers. I’ve been meaning to publish this, but it’s just stuck in a draft for almost a year now :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Game controller works fine in the computer. It’s the applications that need to support it. Problem is finding normal applications (not games) support it. I could map the controller to keyboard keys, but it’d be nice to have it work directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am just using Firefox to open web sites for most things. For games I open them directly. And I have kdeconnect to control it from my phone.

  Ideally I’d love a launcher that just stays on there forever, with some virtual desktop options where I can open different apps. If it can support game controller to choose apps along side kdeconnect it’d be the best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I want it to be run as a desktop environment. Is that possible? I already have laptop connected to tv with hdmi. I just use it like a normal computer. But I don’t have any applications that can work well with that setup with TV like UI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Internet looks very different without it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signs that rhyme⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After coming here I can’t tell how to say g and z differently. Why are they doing this :(

  It had perfectly different sounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨blursed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Killing cancer cells: easy Not killing normal cells: hard

  Guess who found an easy way to get PhD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐇 🐇 🐇⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest opinion programming is easy and fun when you learn it and it saves you time and allows you to test your ideas. Creating something gives you dopamine.

  Problem is before people even try any programming for themselves, they are introduced to it through school or work where they have to do it for homeworks or analysis while also learning new things. And they hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Warm as in heated water, yes. Room temperature or lukewarm water from the pipes, NO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait people don’t like drinking water? Drinking water (not warm) when you’re thirsty is a really good feeling. I only struggled with forgetting to drink water when I’m not thirsty, but once I am I drink.

  Seeing the sugar addiction and soda problem maybe it was because I didn’t drink those regularly growing up. They were just treats. Also as a child we had fun eating certain fruits that were sour/bitter and then drink water after that, it makes the water taste sweet.

  Maybe you can try eating/licking lemon/lime a bit and drink water later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nine out of ten dentists approve!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $4/month for this article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nine out of ten dentists approve!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I think about so many home/traditional cure. Maybe it works for those people due to placebo effect, and I’ve lost that magic because I’m too critical of everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem with MS word is you can’t really put vector images in it externally without it being weird. I think that’s why people are used to drawing it in the software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You cannot learn without failing.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll keep saying it. Let’s have a journal system for negative results and replication studies. Give partial credits for it relative to journal papers with novelty.

  So if you have an idea you can search there, see if someone has tried it and failed, and how they failed. You can also search a certain paper and see if people have replicated the study.

  It’ll help everyone immensely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ggplot2 is love. ggplot2 is life.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s inkscape plugin to make barplots and piecharts. Why don’t we add for more? Honestly we could even make it just take r code or python code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨light pollution⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t need that complex algorithm here because streetlight is static (the walkways don’t change), so all you need is just a different light design for each. Or maybe a modular source you can change while installing.

  Honestly a great idea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dunning-Kruger⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you don’t know people with PhD that don’t tell you they have one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course we’d rather it stays pest free. For if you have black mold, would you stay there and have health consequences for rest of your life, your children and all. Or would you just think I’ll abandon this, it’s gonna cost a lot to give up the furniture and everything that you have build up over the years but it’s not important than your life. Specifically as a non-white person where even your residence status isn’t protecting you anymore.

  And this current thing isn’t the problem it’s a symptom of a problem so deep, I don’t really see us getting back to normal anytime soon. We might mitigate it, or maybe it’ll get so bad people will realize the actual problems and work towards solving it. I just don’t have energy to be that optimistic. I really wish people would be more empathetic, think about the community and be altruistic enough to address the bigger problem. But I don’t see that happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is a meme about me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup simlink is so nice. I sometimes use it for color vs monocrome plots. Change simlink and compile. Although I learned you can also use if statements in latex, I use that now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is a meme about me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. When I rerun my things, in latex I just overwrite the plots file (pdf/png) and compile latex. In word I have to find where it was and replace it there. It’s way easier on latex if you make your code just write plot files in the same location.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is a meme about me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the ease with which you can generate hundreds of lines of page with a simple text template and code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keep them guessing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had this idea that we should have server dedicated to people just putting their research. Other people can review and get responses/improve it. People new to science and students can reproduce the results and validate them. And of course we can have upvotes system (i worry about this as everyone have same weight of vote seems dumb, so maybe everyone gets points for contributions and votes are based on the person’s credibility/points).

  Our current system is too expensive and only profitable to journal systems. We could make a system where people can donate when they submit a paper and the money goes to reviewer/server/papers they cited, etc. and we lack reproducing results because there’s no credit, giving credit for that would encourage learning and make sure papers are reproducible. If a lot of people tried and can’t reproduce it, we can doubt the results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches anime⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He doesn’t actually. Only her sister knows. He can’t recognize her sister now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans included*⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This simply means the only reason we search life in other places is to take those places for ourselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do linux users have wives?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We need more information to reach people. So far I’ve only seen people be into Linux when they have less social life growing up so they spend time online (not in tiktoks or such like now).

  Since most people hearing about Linux from class or other people only hear about the bad aspects or how hard it is if they even hear about it. When I came to US university, I was so surprised noone knew about linux or cared enough except handful of people. And most people did it for work (super computer people, grad students) that didn’t like it and express their opinions openly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not an author, I’m a scientist. So I don’t know what the through process of authors are. But I it probably would take long time to actually find alternative ways to do the things same as us but underwater. The civilization won’t be like us, they would not have same technology, they wouldn’t have same values. Authors are probably trying to capture general population’s interests by making things they understand.

  And do you think “hey I haven’t heard anyone say something to me about earth rotating sun” would have been a good counter argument in the past.

  Water is incredible, we don’t know all the ways we can use it. Sometimes it takes hours to simulate what water does in seconds. Unlike other materials like metals, which are lot easier to predict. And if we’re talking about aliens, don’t even have to think water, it could be something else as flexible as water, while having properties that makes it easier to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does your glasses need electricity to function? Before electronics came and we started making everything need electricity do you think we were not advanced civilization because we only used mechanical power? If you had come that far and suppose had limitations like “can’t use electricity coz I said so”, the development would have stopped? They would have found other ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, that’s because you are human, and you think your way is the only way.

  To make hydraulics you need metal

  How does your arm work? How does octopus move? You think you can’t make an structure like human arm, or octopus tentacles without metal, and then have a tube going through it in a way the water in it can move them. Look up soft robots. There isn’t just one way to tap into mechanical energy and move things. We did what we found first, improved on it. But thinking that’s the only way just shows narrow mindedness.

  You need to heat metal

  You don’t. You know aluminum used to be so expensive because you couldn’t really extract it from the ores like iron. Wasn’t found in pure form like gold. Then someone found you can use electrolysis to get aluminum from its ore. Then it became so cheap.

  You don’t just heat metal and put it in mold for every type of metal work. In micro scale there are 3d printing methods similar to electroplating, it’s very precise.

  And even if there is a need of heat, how can you say ocean doesn’t have it. A species could find out a way to tap into volcanic vents. Similarly how we use groundwater and rivers. They could use volcanos and geothermal energy. We do many many manufacturing processes under water in a tank containing water. They could make air tank and do things there too.