Krik
@Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Anon makes life choices 6 days ago:
ATV is cool, yeah!
But sampling soil from who-knows-where is shit. Imagine two weeks of rain at 4 °C and everyday you have to drive out. You are muddy, you are wet, you are freezing.
- Comment on I may have too many computers 1 week ago:
Btw I use Arch.
- Comment on How do you go about getting rid of things around your home/apartment? 2 weeks ago:
I just follow the most basic rule:
Did I touch it in the last year? No? Then I can throw it away. - Comment on World travelers 3 weeks ago:
This is nuts!
- Comment on Anon gets handed a note 3 weeks ago:
“If”? What kind of question is that? You either want to go out or you don’t.
I think you dodged a bullet there.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 4 weeks ago:
But that’s not more that two sexes. It’s the same number or less. A hermaphrodite isn’t a third sex, it’s two sexes side by side and a sexless cellular organism has exactly one sex.
The distinction male/female is usually determined by measuring the size of the gametes. Female gametes are the bigger ones (e. g. ovum) and male gametes are the smaller ones (e. g. spermatozoon). There are organisms where the gametes of both sexes have the same size. So technically they have two sexes but don’t fit the categories male and female.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 4 weeks ago:
Relating to humans?
Yes but they are mutations (e. g. XXY, XXX, etc.) that often give rise to numerous biological problems or death.I don’t know if there are species that require more than two sexes to propagate. I never head of them.
- Comment on Solar noon is the only real noon 5 weeks ago:
No? UTC by definition doesn’t know time zones.
Let’s say the European goes to work at 8 o’clock UTC. The American in this example goes to work 6 hours later at 14 o’clock UTC. Both now exactly when the other one is in office. Time zones aren’t needed here.
Time zones are an invention to keep the zero hour (for hour counting) at about the same local time - midnight. Midnight was easier to determine that UTC (or GMT). A peasant could do it in a day without the help of expensive tools everywhere on Earth. As a matter of fact almost each city in medieval times had its own local time. To get that sorted out they where clustered into time zones.
- Comment on Solar noon is the only real noon 5 weeks ago:
Time to nerd this shit! 🥸
There were several counting systems:
- In Old Egypt and in the medieval times they counted 12 day hours from sunrise to sundown and another 12 night hours from sundown to sunrise. A lot of systems do/did that because one tracked the sun and the other tracked the moon and the stars. It’s more like as 12 + 12 hours system instead of a 24 hours system.
- In the Babylonian system the day had 24 hours, beginning at sunrise. The name has nothing to do with the ancient Babylonians though. 🤷♂️
- The Italian system was the same as the Babylonian system but began counting at sundown. This is also the case in the Hebrew and Islamic calendar. Btw that’s the reason why Christmas night starts at the 24th of December in some countries (like Germany) and the 25th of December in other countries (like USA). The former converted from the old date/time system to the modern done while the later just went 'Nah! We’ll do what the Bible says.'
- The ancient Babylonians had danna, double hours. Hence a day had 6 day and 6 night dannas.
- Then there are still used 12 hour clock dividing the day in ante meridiem (before midday) and post meridiem (after midday). It is mainly used in Britain and countries that were ruled by the British Empire.
- There’s the current 24 hour clock starting and ending at midnight.
- There is the Julian Day where the counting -again- starts at sunrise. It is still used(!) in astronomy.
- There is Rammesses II’s hour calendar where the number of day and night hours changed depending on the month. June-July had 18 day and 6 night hours. December-January had 6 day and 18 night hours. Why does a country near the equator need 18 day or night hours? It’s not that the day and night length change that much during the seasons. 🤷♂️
- The Chinese calendar changed several times. Each day started and ended at midnight (like today) and initially was divided in 100 ke (1 ke = 14.4 minutes). Later that number changed to 120 (12 * 10), 108 (because 12 * 9) and 96 (12 * 8). When they also introduced double hours, ke became 15 minutes long. The double hours started counting at 23:00.
- And many more.
Also it isn’t a bad idea to work less hours in winter so you can experience the sun at all.
In the times before the light bulb work could only be done during the day. Candles made from beewax were too expensive for the peasants. If they used candles instead of kindling they were made from tallow and created a lot of smut and didn’t gave much light. That made them a bit unpopular. I wonder why? 👤
At least in my country work days were divided in morning, midday, afternoon and night. You worked your field during the morning, went to market at midday, did handyman work and chores during afternoon and slept during night time. - Comment on Ancient problems require modern solutions 5 weeks ago:
I like the tape. Won’t hold but also won’t fall apart especially if you want to remove it. The right kind of mixture to make yourself hate yourself. :D
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 1 month ago:
According to Picard in the Movie First Contact money doesn’t exist anymore. I guess those latinum bars are only used by Ferengies, in border systems and outside the Federation.
That doesn’t mean there’s nothing that measures expense. The Federation might have a lot of available resources but they can’t be infinite.
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- Comment on Has no soul 1 month ago:
That was the one from before. It’s probably cached on your device until you reboot it or the app.
- Comment on Has no soul 1 month ago:
The green one!? Can’t you see my avatar pic?
- Comment on Has no soul 1 month ago:
Dude! I just picked a new avatar 2 hours ago from that screen! And now you post it here.
The chance for that was so incredibly low!
- Comment on Was big bird called little bird when he was young? 1 month ago:
Reminds me of Dragon Age: Origins.
- Cut scene starts.
- Camera shows some guy: “Please you have to help me! My daughter needs <random items> for her wedding this evening. Fetch them for me immediately!”
- Camera switches to my party.
- All of them wearing heavy armor, carrying big and nasty weapons and still soaked in blood from top to bottom from the last battle: “Sure. By Andraste, let’s go!” - Comment on telecommunications dish 1 month ago:
- Comment on Murica 1 month ago:
Mount a flag to it. Quad bikes often add them so you can see them behind obstacles.
- Comment on Murica 1 month ago:
My mother brought my sister and me to kindergarten and elementary school on one bike early in the morning in every weather. After school she collected us and then went to buy groceries before returning home.
A colleague of mine rides with his son to the kindergarten, each on his own bike.
It works. You just have to work out how to do it. Concentrate on what you can do with a bike instead of what you can’t.
- Comment on Murica 1 month ago:
Nah, I switched to cycling because of the weather. In the winter it took me longer to clear the car windows of snow and ice that the actual drive to my work. Now with a bike I’m about as fast as with my car in total. But a bike costs less than a car - by a lot! It’s something like 50-80 bucks per year including a service at my local bike dealer. That wouldn’t get me enough gas to keep my car running for a month.
If weather is a concern for you then you need to research how to cloth yourself for different kind of weathers. It’s perfectly fine to ride by bike in -15 °C (5 F) or strong rain with the right kind of clothes.
- Comment on Skyblivion, the fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, nears completion 1 month ago:
A different engine? Are you sure? They just buffed up their creation engine 2 for Starfield.
- Comment on Murica 1 month ago:
I don’t ride in the rain
That’s probably the difference between us. I ride all-year all-weather.
- Comment on Murica 1 month ago:
Commuters ride cheap bikes. The most expensive stuff is usually your clothes, they are like Star Trek tech today.
- Comment on Murica 1 month ago:
I drove cars for years until I was fed up that I need more time to clear the windows of ice in the winter than the actual drive. That’s when I switched first to a moped, then to an e-scooter (the small one which you stand on) and then to an e-bike.
It’s such a difference to be out in the open. It’s fun.
I’ll never go back owning a car. They cost a lot more than my bike and I always feel stressed using them (driving = maintaining focus all the time, that is stress).
I now don’t need to go to a gym anymore. Cycling is enough to keep me fit.
- Comment on Murica 1 month ago:
If the 70 year old has problems with keeping balance there are trikes too. And if the knees hurt get an e-bike or e-trike. 👍
- Comment on Murica 1 month ago:
A bit of easy maintenance should be possible for everyone. Just clean and lube the chain every month. Check tire pressure every two to four weeks (depending on how fast they lose air).
And once a year do a complete checkup either by yourself or by a bike shop.You should easily get 10 years of life out of your bike. 20 years might be possible too.
- Comment on Murica 1 month ago:
Wax can flake off leaving that space unprotected. You have to check it more regularly than a lubed chain and dry it off after rain. It’s not uncommon for a waxed chain to rust. But a big pro is cleanness of the chain and you won’t get greasy hands.
Personally I keep using (eco-friendly) lube. Yes the chain gets dirty fast but I don’t care. :D
- Comment on Murica 1 month ago:
I would get another job. :D
- Comment on Didn't believe what I was seeing 1 month ago:
Curves have entered the chat.
- Comment on A Colossal Burden 1 month ago:
It was too big to be called a sword. Massive, thick, heavy, and far too rough. Indeed, it was a heap of raw iron.
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