Krik

@Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar noon is the only real noon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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.

• Why aren't all rooms holodecks?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has no soul⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The green one!? Can’t you see my avatar pic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has no soul⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mount a flag to it. Quad bikes often add them so you can see them behind obstacles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A different engine? Are you sure? They just buffed up their creation engine 2 for Starfield.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t ride in the rain

  That’s probably the difference between us. I ride all-year all-weather.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Commuters ride cheap bikes. The most expensive stuff is usually your clothes, they are like Star Trek tech today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would get another job. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Didn't believe what I was seeing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Curves have entered the chat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Colossal Burden⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

  Description of the Dragon Slayer - Berserk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon sets up a prank at school⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In university we were taught C programming. We started with simple things like loops and stuff. After a while the topic processes, threads & stuff came up and of course we were instructed to program that. In the computer lab there where only thin clients so everything actually run on the server.

  A good friend of mine - not know what was about to happen - entered:

  while (true) {
      fork();
  }
  

  Astoundingly it took a whole minute until the server froze. :D He got scolded by the sysadmin the next day but nothing serious happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brain blowing orgasms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell that to all the animals that only have one shot. There are quite a lot of them and usually they all lay thousands of eggs.

  Probably the most well known of them is the salmon. Only about 5% of them survive the procreation after the salmon run (of those salmon species that actually do the run).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brain blowing orgasms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As was said before: The genes are already passed onto the next generation. It doesn’t matter if the parents become stupid now. There’s no evolutionary advantage to become more or less stupid at this point.

  It became like it is now by some random chance(s).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah, tunafan9000??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t explain why a truck can drive at double digits mph with the trailer up.

  Torque.

  But yeah a safety feature would be easy to implement. It could be a buzzer that goes off or a enforced max speed of like 10-20 mph as long as the trailer isn’t locked in the down position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions North Korea⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In Germany some sections of the Autobahn do double as runways for aircraft. The middle section has a dividing wall that can be removed if necessary. Afaik they are supposed to be used during war. I don’t know if they are still being used except to test if new fighter jets are able to land and start again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No beans, only dogs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can’t be sold as hot dog because the sausage isn’t boiled. A bratwurst is always fried or grilled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No beans, only dogs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never saw such a ‘light’ hotdog. No matter where I went they always sold them with everything I wrote.