MalReynolds

@MalReynolds@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, oxygen builds up, fire, CO2…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes feeling bad is a correct response to the world around us.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.