LastYearsIrritant
@LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on What is the difference between http and HTTPS ? 1 week ago:
You mentioned it, but I want to re-iterate this. The most important part of HTTPS isn’t that it’s hidden from anyone else, it’s that you can prove that data was actually sent by the website you expected, and it wasn’t altered in transit.
With HTTP, someone in-between can change the data, or hijack the whole session and you’ll never know. With HTTPS, anyone in-between must pass along the data (mostly) unaltered (except in very specific situations).
- Comment on The Sprayster | 3D Printed Hose Sprayer Sets Phasers To Suds 1 week ago:
If you’re wondering how [Curt] managed to 3D print a functional hose sprayer, the short answer is that he didn’t. Once assembled, the printed parts cleverly attach to the top of a standard sprayer, specifically the model 56516 “Pro Flo” from Orbit.
Boo, would have been neat if he got a working sprayer from only 3d printed parts. But that would be pretty unreasonable due to the pressures and the need for valves.
- Comment on How did we get "bike" from "bicycle"? 2 weeks ago:
It’s cause there were too many Williams, Richards, and Roberts. They shortened to Will, Rick, and Rob. But there were still too many so they started substituting the first letter.
Now you have Bill, Bob, and Dick.
Those got pretty popular just on their own so now they’re just common shortenings.
- Comment on Bright City Lights Might Be Making Your Allergies Worse 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, fuck these researchers. We should stop studying things cause you don’t like reading headlines.
Just pointless papers saying we should be cautious of things. Let’s ignore all that and put up all the lights and point them wherever we want.
Cities don’t have plants anyway, so what’s the harm!?!
- Comment on Title 3 weeks ago:
Surround the players with your own and starve them out.
- Comment on how much money is there in total? 4 weeks ago:
No, because they gave that $10 million to someone else first.
The bank became $10,000,000 in debt, then recovered it (with interest) what the bank gets in the end is the interest above the $10,000,000.
An example would be that a bank goes into $10,000,000 debt on paper, recovers $11,000,000 including interest, now bank has $1,000,000 extra due to it’s risk that the person paid their debt.
Assuming the bank is FDIC insured - If that money wasn’t paid back, the bank would have to sell that debt to a collector to get some of it back. If they did their risk calculations correctly than enough people would pay rather than default that they make a sizeable amount of money. If they didn’t, then the federal government takes over the bank, sells it to someone who can afford to handle the debt/credit load, and covers accounts due any lack of funds.
In theory this means that the bank is still required to keep their risk low enough to maintain their FDIC status. In practice it’s a lot more complicated and sometimes (but rarely) banks don’t get punished for risky bets that don’t pay off.
- Comment on Lefty tax 4 weeks ago:
I love how your defense of over generalizing one group instantly devolved into over generalizing a different group.
- Comment on I've been staring at this shirt for a long time and still have no idea what it means 5 weeks ago:
Don’t hate on Uranus like that, all we’ve got is Voyager pictures. That one kinda bad picture is cause we haven’t had a decent camera out there ever.
What we really need is a new mission with better cameras to get better pictures.
- Comment on Uno reverse😭 5 weeks ago:
Most likely someone took the picture in the original post, made a new fake account and replied.
It’s a fairly common joke.
- Comment on References: [1] out of his ass 5 weeks ago:
A hypothesis is only valid if it has any basis in reality AND a way to falsify it.
You can’t just say “it’s cause god got bored” that’s not valid.
You can say “it’s another dimension leaking, here’s something we can check and if we observe this, then it’s not true.”
Just throwing out random ideas isn’t a hypothesis, it’s fiction.
- Comment on Name one 1 month ago:
Most or All of the detectives on Law and Order.
- Comment on Mother 1 month ago:
Is this an Oviraptor reference?
- Comment on I am not a high drug user. I mean I smoke and drink that's it. But it seems to me that the US president is using uppers midday and keeping him up at night and crashing half thru the day? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Yup 1 month ago:
Thank you for not just posting “it is a thing!” But instead backing it up with sources.
- Comment on Given dogs' propensity for sniffing other animals' buttholes and piles of other animals' shit, do their noses and sinuses have specialised bacteria/antibodies that protect them infection? 1 month ago:
Clearly you haven’t heard the good word about Miasma Theory of Illness.
- Comment on Given dogs' propensity for sniffing other animals' buttholes and piles of other animals' shit, do their noses and sinuses have specialised bacteria/antibodies that protect them infection? 1 month ago:
Dogs stomach acid is a lower ph than humans (stronger acid) which helps reduce the chances of bacteria, viruses, and parasites from getting into their systems.
Dogs also do absolutely get sick from drinking contaminated water, usually specific parasites. If you have a dog that spends a lot of time in wilderness areas, there’s a lot of vaccinations you can give them to reduce the types of problems they’ll get.
You should still try your best to let them only drink clean water, but with enough precautions, dog’s bodies can handle much more contamination that human bodies can.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 1 month ago:
gitlab.steamos.cloud/…/SteamController
You can 3d print your own and play pretend!
- Comment on Not sure this was a good fortune reading 1 month ago:
So the restaurant shouldn’t buy those cookies.
- Comment on How do stunt people fall down stairs without hurting themselves? 1 month ago:
That’s not always true, especially these days.
Back in the day it was much more common to have men dressed as women doing stunts, but stunt women are extremely common now.
- Comment on I stil don't know why they thought it was ok to be this on saturday morning cartoons for young kids to watch back on the day. Ren and Stimpy 1 month ago:
Except that’s absolutely not true.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness
en.wikipedia.org/…/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_controver…
wiseoldowl.net/12-tv-censorship-rules-from-1950s-…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_AuthorityAnyone that thinks that society has gone soft and media can’t really be free doesn’t remember what it was actually like before.
- Comment on Wonder why? 1 month ago:
I wonder how many babies will have to suffer through potentially damaging fevers due to this fear being in the minds of pregnant humans.
- Comment on When you goof on your spoof 1 month ago:
If she called from the same phone number… Then probably, yeah.
- Comment on Even if we found a feasible way through physics to travel through time, wouldn't it still be impossible due to the evolution of bacteria and our immune systems? 2 months ago:
We have time travel, we just need to jump forward in time a couple years and download the maps for where earth was throughout its entire history, then we can go back to whenever we want.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 2 months ago:
- Comment on tuff enuff 2 months ago:
They have to. Because of the relative orbits, and rotation of earth, if they’re off by even a little, the pod might hit land instead, or be in a completely different location.
This would be very dangerous for the recovery.
It’s impressive, but also very necessary. Exact timing = exact landing location.
- Comment on According to an MIT study, relying on ChatGPT for stuff like essays and creativity leads to cognitive atrophy and such. What should I do when writing stories without ChatGPT and other AI chatbots? 2 months ago:
The VAST majority of the world do not use AI for anything.
It’s not where we are as a species, it’s where a small subset of people are.
- Comment on The Formula 2 months ago:
Maybe the first movie they saw was Earth Girls Are Easy and they decided that this whole moving pictures thing was not for them, and just went back to books.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 2 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
The spelling is actually also important for non-english speakers.
Alpha is hard to pronounce if you aren’t familiar with English ph, so it should be an F.
Juliet should have two T’s to ensure romance language speakers pronounce the T.
- Comment on How come they don't put out episodes of like Invincible, Simpsons, or whatever doing a side by side of the actor speaking into the microphone while watching what happens the cartoon? 2 months ago:
They record the audio, then match the animation to the voices.
They don’t watch the animation and try to match the voices, that only happens for a dub.
- Comment on The End of an Era 2 months ago:
China has a station. There are others planned.
It’s likely it will be true, even if it’s not the ISS or a NASA funded station.
