MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@piefed.social
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 3 days ago:
Observational bias : You remember only the bad ones, especially as they are the ones most likely to wake you, and thus cross the memory barrier to the conscious. You likely have good ones as well that you don’t remember.
If it really bothers you consider keeping a dream journal for a few months which should make you able to remember more, and more of your dreams. If it turns out you really have no good dreams, the next step is to learn lucid dreaming and fix that shit. If that’s too much work, you can try repeating “I will have good dreams” in your head as you go to sleep, you might be lucky.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 3 days ago:
For the record, if the software updates stopped where they’re at today, I’d be fine with how the car functions until the end of its life. In fact, I kinda wish they’d just leave things alone at this point because I don’t want any extra features out of the thing.
And therein lies the rub, you don’t get to choose, the corpo does and you have to trust them (you do trust them, don’t you?). Pretty much like you’re renting, not owning. As the article points out this is similar to phone ’ownership’, hopefully in the fullness of time there will be a GrapheneOS equivalent for cars…
- Comment on Realistic Scientific Method 6 days ago:
Damn I wish there was a line between ‘hypothesis unsupported’ and publish. Negative results are results too, and now someone else will try it and fail too. So much wasted time, but publishers…
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, don’t use Lutris, either Steam or straight to Bottles. But I’ll guess yes, with the dongle it comes up as a normal XBox controller unless you jump through hoops to get extra buttons going.
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 2 weeks ago:
I have an 8bitdo and like it as well, one thing to consider tho is Steam Controller 2 is "extremely close", might be worth holding out for that to drop atm, the original is pretty legendary and 2 seems based on steamdeck layout.
- Comment on Been there 4 weeks ago:
Reminder, email is asynchronous, it’s not instant messaging, it doesn’t need to be answered immediately, that’s a corporate construct. Take a moment, take five or ten. Just don’t answer. No guilt, no judgement, it’s just email. If your work culture means you need to treat it differently, immediately, that’s on them and they suck, so give them the bare necessity immediately and take your time with the real answer, everyone will be better off, even you.
- Comment on sagan/sanders 1991 5 weeks ago:
Right you are, if a tad US centric, not sure the topic actually was Sagan and Congress, although Sagan for Sanders might give you some credibility. I suspect we’re on the same general side anyway and the ancientness of the argument helps both…
- Comment on sagan/sanders 1991 5 weeks ago:
Cool, never implied you did,(suggest that Carl Sagan invented climate science in 1985) and happy the spirit continues in you, here for it. Science is never proven (mathematics aside), just more and more probable in most cases, at this point the “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” is anything against climate change…
- Comment on sagan/sanders 1991 5 weeks ago:
While I adore Sagan, the greenhouse effect was was proposed as early as 1824 by Joseph Fourier (yes Fourier transform dude).
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 5 weeks ago:
Not what you mean, but one woman and a shit-ton of frozen sperm and ova would probably work, say 3 for redundancy…
- Comment on arborholing 5 weeks ago:
Eh, oxygen builds up, fire, CO2…
- Comment on Sometimes feeling bad is a correct response to the world around us. 1 month ago:
I’ve heard it as (and occasionally use myself),
Insanity is a sane response to an insane world.
- Comment on Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes 2 months ago:
Second, it sucks that the wrist band thing is being tied with bullshit ai glasses. I would love to see that as a regular input device for PCs and smartphones.
Seconded, have long considered sub-critical neuron monitoring a really good in to ‘thought control’ without the privacy complications. No thanks neuorolink, stay out of my head (at least for many years until the implications and side effects shake out, fMRI also spooks me) but I’m fine with wrists and perhaps voicebox (ala firefox ), you know, voluntary stuff.
- Comment on The best of both worlds with IEMs and TWS buds maybe? 2 months ago:
I like my qudelix-5k, does flawless 96Khz/32bit LDAC to my Pixel7 (not that I use media that high, but it works well). Balanced output, onboard equalizer, usb DAC as well., been solid for 2 years+, goes great with IEMs. It’s a bit pricey and likely to be a pain when I have to go in to replace the battery, but I find myself charging ~ weekly, so Li-ion is good for ~ 1000 charges, perhaps 500 before significant degradation, which is 10 yrs or so. Worth it for my use case.
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 3 months ago:
You seem to be assuming that the volume is immediately replaced by the external atmosphere, which I doubt is valid, more likely that the volume of the person would decrease, at least temporarily. The weight of 1 Liter (assuming a massive fart) of air is 1.275g according to wolfram, so, using your density numbers above, 1.275 * 1.06/1.2 = 1.126g lighter. Measurable with a really good scale, if the 90ml fart volume is realistic (has to be more realistic I guess), that's ~.1g,
Think of yourself as a hot air balloon with a very tiny chamber, and when you release a 90 milliliter fart, you lose a little buoyancy and sink a little. You get heavier when you fart.
No, you get denser, but not heavier.