Zwuzelmaus
@Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
- Comment on Was there a Cold War conflict where the Soviets funded the right-wingers and the Americans funded the communists? 19 hours ago:
The world isn’t only about leftists and rightists.
Even your country wasn’t, most of the time. There are so many more ideas and interests and strategies and beliefs…
- Comment on Couldn't big-tech shut out non-monopoly laws by saying that it's meant to be like that on "their" product? 3 days ago:
laws; telling a maker to make the product in a specific way, eliminating creative freedom?
Do you think we need no laws at all anymore?
Well, every law limits somebody’s freedom, somehow. That’s nothing special at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
The question wasn’t stupid enough, only the way of asking was…
- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 5 days ago:
Feels like there are tons of cultural differences involved. Maybe you are not aware of them?
Cultural differences are usually not changeable. I mean, you cannot change all people at once, obviously. Most times you cannot even change that one special person.
You can only be open to accept that one specific person as they are. And you need to talk about these things more, and much more explicitly, than about some other general topics.
Don’t know if this is helpful, but I must admit that I don’t know the Indian or Japanese cultures enough to really answer your questions.
- Comment on What would you do if your gym trainer is 5 minutes late? 5 days ago:
Assuming each time has cost you 15 minutes effectively, that makes a total of 45 min by now (1 hour after rounding).
Write a nice formal complaint letter to the company.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
But then it really helps to be a cow in order to make it sound appropriate.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Concertina.
That’s the perfect instrument for quick learning and then playing some complete music, not just a tiny part of it.
Needs no theory before starting, and you never look for the perfect tune. Only thing to really learn and practise is the coordination of both hands, and then for many songs you need only 4-5 buttons on both sides.
Unlike the piano or accordion, the variant with the round buttons has all the harmonies prepared for you.
- Comment on Soup of Theseus 1 week ago:
Why would you cook your whiskey?
- Comment on How long would it take for a ball rolling across the room to bounce off the wall and get back to you - but the room has a time traveling portal halfway through? 1 week ago:
Anything coming “back” (which kind of back?) through the portal was not in your scenario specification…
- Comment on Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber. 1 week ago:
just for entertainment purposes
A strong case of “Play stupid games…”
- Comment on Is it okay to cover the outside of a microwave in aluminum to prevent or lessen microwave WiFi interference? 1 week ago:
Hasn’t your device a housing of steel already? This is a stronger shield against interferences than your aluminium foil.
- Comment on What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend? 1 week ago:
Always a pleasure when people explain my texts to me. Even more so when I was deliberately unprecise, or not so serious at all 😉
- Comment on What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend? 1 week ago:
Try visualizing exactly 10000 apples in your mind.
Impossible. The first apple inside my head would have killed me already.
I can visualize 1 apple im my mouth.
I can visualize 2 apples im my mouth, but with some struggle.
I cannot visualize 10 or 100 or 10,000 apples im my mouth.
So my answer is 2. Every human can grasp that number. Above 2, not everybody can.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 1 week ago:
Is the Fediverse just a safe space for leftists
It is a safe space for former redit mods…
- Comment on I turned 30 yesterday but I look 18. Nobody believes me when I tell them my age. What do I do? Do I date a 20 year old guy or a 35 year old guy who looks twice my age? 2 weeks ago:
Mentally I’d say I’m at the age I was right before I got really sick, around 20.
So that’s what you are looking for in a partner.
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll remember this one. When I meet him, I will tell him.
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 2 weeks ago:
Hypothetical or not, your idea is racist.
- Comment on How would you take 'stfu' from a stranger online, provided what you said wasn't meant to be funny? 2 weeks ago:
provided it was the first and only 4 characters you see from a random person.
In that case you could also say nice to meet you stfu, I am dicska :)
- Comment on Does farting make you lighter or heavier ? 2 weeks ago:
But while holding a fart you’re technically a very shitty balloon.
But you don’t know at what immmmense pressure I can hold my farts!
- Comment on Does farting make you lighter or heavier ? 2 weeks ago:
Methane is lighter than air
Objection! ;-)
This comparison is not relevant, unless you take in as much air immediately as you have just pressed out.
Would you now please show us how you do that?
- Comment on Does farting make you lighter or heavier ? 2 weeks ago:
Makes me muuuuuch lighter. At least that’s the feeling in my belly!
- Comment on How would you take 'stfu' from a stranger online, provided what you said wasn't meant to be funny? 2 weeks ago:
the person on the other end actually meant it exactly as rude
Yes.
My response, if somebody is escalating such a thing so much: I allow him, politely and very formally, not to read anymore what I have written in the future. While it is kinda superficial (because everybody has that possibility at all times), it also suggests the possibility to him that he does not need to react in such a strong manner, or that he may even shut up :)
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 2 weeks ago:
it’s going to vibrate as fast as it can, at the fastest rate that liquid can move.
Not quite logical unless there’s a reason why it should vibrate as fast as it can
- Comment on Do Australians in the northern hemisphere celebrate Christmas in July to have a Christmas that reminds them of home? 3 weeks ago:
Hemisphere…
That’s one of these grey & heavy beer mugs, right?
/s
- Comment on Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum? 3 weeks ago:
I’d say we have set an artificial limit: at some frequency/wavelength, we do not call it “light” anymore. Around 1mm, we call it “Radar” or “microwaves”, and at about 1 m or more, we call it “radio”.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
How’s AI dubs in other languages?
In German: Unbearable.
No kidding. Each time when I hear one, I wish they have never been invented.
- Comment on How do people calculate pi to the hundredth+ decimal place? 3 weeks ago:
How do people calculate pi
They don’t.
Pi is well known, up to many more than hundred digits. People memorize it, or look it up, but they don’t need to calculate again (unless they want to go to extremes).
- Comment on How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t remember too much tbh, just that we heard about the theory at university and tried out some of the mathematical methods. They were tiresome ;)
Today I would recommend to start your studies on the wikipedia pages about Markov models and about machine learning.
- Comment on How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days? 3 weeks ago:
Models were a thing even some 30 or 40 years ago. Processing power makes most of the difference today: it allows larger models and quicker results.
- Comment on what do you think he was thinking? 3 weeks ago:
I think
Are you?