EpeeGnome
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- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 1 day ago:
Exactly! You know how it is.
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 1 day ago:
Thanks! Expert might be too strong a word, but considering how few people have likely done the same experiments, I guess it’s somewhat accurate relative to the normal amount of knowledge on the topic.
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 1 day ago:
I think, that’s a good idea, in that it would make a good channel. I’d enjoy watching it. However, if I was making content, I wouldn’t be relaxing, so I wouldn’t enjoy being the one filming the channel. I’m sure there’s someone out there who could have fun making it. Plus I got bored with the whole pursuit once I got the hang of it.
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 1 day ago:
Ooh! I have actually experimented with fire scaling myself. To some extent, a scaled down campfire can work, but at a different burn rate. I once made a tiny hearth and experimented for a while at making tiny fires in it. I found that within the range I was trying, a little scale model of a fire that worked well at full scale worked just as well at mini scale, just on a much faster time scale.
If I had a human scale teepee style fire burning, say 1 to 2 inch diameter sticks at about 12 to 18 inches long, I’d need to toss another stick on it roughly every 1 to 5 minutes to maintain a nice blaze. Scaled down to sticks about 1/8th that size, I needed to feed it a stick every few seconds to maintain it. Much smaller and I wouldn’t have been able to move my tweezers fast enough to keep it fed.
The interaction of different stick sizes also scales that way. If was to add a couple of eight inch wide split wedges on that same human scale fire, and once those caught, I could slow down feeding sticks into it to about 1 every 10 minutes, and still keep the same flame size as long as the larger pieces last. Likewise on the same mini fire as above, I could add a few 1 inch wide split wedges, and slow down to feeding it a little stick every 10 seconds.
The size I was playing with could be considered, say, mouse sized. By the time you scaled down to ant sized, the time scale would be so exaggerated as to be meaningless to compare to human sized fires. This isn’t taking into account any additional non-obvious factors that change how it behaves. So no, ant sized campfires are not possible. Rat sized scale campfires are possible, but only if you tend them constantly and quickly.
Also, I didn’t take any precise measurements, I was just making tiny fires to relax. All numbers above are just rough estimates from memory, so you can’t really calculate how the scaling works from this, only that is sort of does work, within limits.
- Comment on Emergency with Tim Heidecker - ALEX JONES POPPED LIKE A BALLOON 2 days ago:
If you saw the Thursday stream with the podcast followed by Emergency, still watch this one, it looks like a lot of Emergency was cut for time in that video. This is a fuller version. If you skip this one, you’ll miss out on the “Alex Jones has been replaced multiple times already” caller and the Phoenician conspiracy.
- Comment on Emergency with Tim Heidecker - ALEX JONES POPPED LIKE A BALLOON 2 days ago:
Alex Jones claims to be alive and well, but Tim Heidecker says he believes that must be an imposter. The Onion/InfoWars remains the only source claiming “Alex Jones popped like a balloon in his car two months ago.” Tim’s forensics expert, who is definitely not some paid actor, said the video appears authentic, but that it was impossible he popped because he ate too many burgers, so it must have been some sort of explosive. Anyway, I can only assume that he’s dead until proven otherwise.
- Comment on Not all of these are true 2 days ago:
Correction on point 1: Most men prefer you pour yogurt only into their mouth-hole, not any of the other holes. Please respect that.
I refuse to comment on points 2-10.
- Comment on Keep off the sofa 2 weeks ago:
He’s always worn suits that fit like a fat kid trying on his adult dad’s suit. I can’t guess why, but he does it so consistently it must be on purpose.
- Comment on Was Alex Jones right about anything? 2 weeks ago:
No, nothing he added was correct, he just technically wasn’t 100% wrong in what he said on the topic. This is only notable in that he usually is 100% wrong.
- Comment on Was Alex Jones right about anything? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it wasn’t secret government chemicals like he thought, but regular old pollutants. I can’t recall if it was medication from insufficiently treated sewage, or industrial runoff, or what, but there really was a case of stray chemicals making some wild frogs gay. So he was a little bit right about gay frogs. He just was, as usual, astoundingly wrong about those chemicals being a secret government plot to turn people gay.
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 2 weeks ago:
I assumed it was a Linux person making it.
- Comment on Sperm have been made magnetic to allow IVF inside the body 3 weeks ago:
I’m a little confused by the terminology in the headline and article, since IVF stands for in-vitro fertilization in this context. I’m pretty sure that literally means the fertilization takes place inside labware. Unless they are trying to say that they are somehow sticking a petri dish up in there, the usage of the term doesn’t make any sense.
The article explains that they really mean some sort of remote control artificial insemination of naturally released eggs, which is an interesting idea, but not IVF. They do use the term in-vivo in places, but you can’t just swap which word a letter in a standard acronym stands for without explanation and expect to be understood. Most of the places the article says “IVF” they meant to say “controlled fertilization”, except the few places they actually were referring to IVF.
- Comment on Cute Easter outfit 3 weeks ago:
It’s just the one tit actually.
- Comment on We Put A Man On The Moon. We Did It. 4 weeks ago:
He’s trying to make the whole UFC on the White House lawn thing sound like a good idea. His argument isn’t coherent because the whole thing is stupid.
- Comment on Self sacrifice is honorable 1 month ago:
Well yeah, that’s why it automatically calls his lawyer.
- Comment on If AI is so smart, how come it doesn't track the time and date? 1 month ago:
It never was, and the current technology never can be.
- Comment on Texas woman arrested after Facebook post over city's water concerns. 1 month ago:
If the police didn’t hear about it, how can anyone be sure it really happened? Seriously though, it sounds like there was more to it than just that, since she said her lawsuit will include a specific (but unnamed in the video) city council member.
- Comment on Texas woman arrested after Facebook post over city's water concerns. 1 month ago:
Felony false alarm or report under Texas Penal Code § 32.06 for saying she had heard reports of hospitalizations from drinking the water, but the police had not heard any such reports. She’s now suing the city.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That’s a lot of sales. I was going to wait, but it was a slow day at work, so my boss bought and played it the moment it went live. After seeing him play, I wanted it too. I bought it that night. I didn’t factor it into my decision buy, but I take joy at imagining certain dickheads at Krafton watching those sales numbers shoot up.
- Comment on stuttering search engine 2 months ago:
I couldn’t replicate it, but I’ve seen LLMs fail this way before, so it’s very plausible.
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 3 months ago:
I mean, I don’t actually want to talk you out of your vow there, but I’m fairly confident this was from a random troll with no affiliation to the actual company. I mean, I don’t doubt they’d do it if they thought it would be profitable, but even if they did foolishly think this would work, I’d be shocked if we’re even on their radar.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
That was my strategy. Thought I’d give the fediverse a try during the blackout protests over the API lockdown. I missed reddit for a little while, but after a while I just didn’t anymore. Sure there’s not the avalanche of content here, but there’s substantially less bullshit too. Now if I end up back on reddit from a search for something in particular, I find myself amazed at how shit it all is.
- Comment on He lid 5 months ago:
Sure, of course he lid, but I try to look for the deeper wisdom that can be harder to see.
- Comment on see, no one 5 months ago:
jaybone: Stop misusing this meme format!
greenknight23: You know what? I’m gonna start misusing it even harder.
- Comment on He lid 5 months ago:
“S bren s beve”
Such words of wisdom.
- Comment on True evil 5 months ago:
Diabolical.
- Comment on Good point 6 months ago:
I can’t see the thumbnail, but I could already hear the Ryan George character in my head just from reading the image text, so when I saw a youtube link I assumed it had to be one of those skits.
- Comment on 6 months ago:
Go ahead, no one will notice. No one will immortalize it on camera to be viewed across the internet. It’ll be fine.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 6 months ago:
Steampunk then: What if we combined real Victorian craftsmanship and tech with imagined advanced machines.
Steampunk now: What if I glued two plastic gears to a cheap vinyl corset.
- Comment on I'm definitely giggling 6 months ago:
How alaming!