sbeak
@sbeak@sopuli.xyz
Hi, I’m sbird! I like programming and am interested in Physics. I also have a hobby of photography.
- Comment on Is Maduro our generations Norega? 1 day ago:
Wait what the hell Trump actually went ahead and captured Maduro today? Holy shit I did not keep up with the news.
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- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 1 day ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 1 day ago:
One more thing, for PSUs, is the Seasonic Vertex GX1000 better than the Focus GX1000 in any way aside from 2 years extra warranty (10 vs 12 year warranty)
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- Comment on who was the aggressor in cold war? 3 days ago:
Both the U.S. and the Soviets supported countless proxy wars across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and the Carribean, with weapons, training, manpower, and a lot of propaganda. So many small conflicts were blown up to huge ones by massive amounts of funding and support from the two nuclear superpowers. They both had numerous spy operations involving the CIA and KGB respectively. Both sides were aggressive, there was no side that was not.
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 3 days ago:
When (low density) gas is released, the overall density of the manatee is increased (more volume is from the high density meat and fat bits instead if the low density gaseous bits) so the manatee sinks. Then, through digestion and such, gas inside manatee can increase, making its overall density lower and it floats. (Kind of like how ships float even though their made of metal, since the majority of the vessel is air, the overall density is less than water)
This is also how submarines sink and resurface I think, but they release and let in water.
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 3 days ago:
both can be true
- Comment on Snitches get switches 3 days ago:
idk I was just guessing. I don’t see how the joke with ecological conservation (since getting rid of invasive species is good, right?)
- Comment on Snitches get switches 3 days ago:
I am assuming “conservation areas” in this sense means native/indigenous lands
- Comment on Gundam Chestnut 3 days ago:
I am assuming because a) Japanese, as the other person said and b) Gundam is where robots in the future fight bad guys, right? So the invasive chestnut species is the bad guy, therefore Gundam
Also maybe Gundam has time travel, idk. I haven’t watched it so I’m pulling this from thin air. I just know Gundam has cool fighting robots
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- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 5 days ago:
It’s a nice ideacin theory, but that requires all the humans to be super altruisitic and just give stuff to everyone for seemingly no benefit to themselves.
As the other person said, bartering would only work if you both have the thing you need. If Allen is a woodworker and doesn’t have any bacon, and Alice wants some bacon in exchange for X thing, then a transaction can’t happen. It worked well when different tribes of humans could sustain themselves (hunt their own food, gather their own resources, etc.) and when people had very few needs (no technologies, no nice furniture, less mass produced plastic, etc.)
In other words, humans are selfish, and the promise of future benefit in the metals and paper (and now 0s and 1s with stuff like PayPal and plastic cards) we call “money” is necessary for people to trade effectively in the modern, interconnected world.
- Comment on How come laptops or pc's don't have a "webcam" facing both ways instead of just the user? 5 days ago:
There’s this neat laptop by Honor (the “MagicBook Art 14” I believe, I think it has the option of either a Snapdragon X Elite or the Intel Core Ultra series processors…) where the webcam magnetically attaches and can be flilled both ways, and tucks in to the side when it is not needed, so the display doesn’t have a notch/hole.
It’s a gimmicky feature though, most people don’t need something like that, and the people that do have other ways to go about it (e.g. document scanner, smartphone, mirrorless/DSLR camera). Most laptop webcams aren’t very good anyways
For PCs, I guess you could mount a webcam the other way? For most people you would only see wall.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 1 week ago:
Oop, yeo, they do. But it’s optional I think since I never used it
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 1 week ago:
RSS feeds are incredibly useful, I use them to keep up with all sorts of news. Most feed readers also let you group different feeds into categories. I have mine divided between science, technology, world news, etc.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 1 week ago:
Many RSS feed readers let you create an account to sync your read items and such (useful if you have multiple devices, also useful for bad actors to see everything you’ve read…) but there are plenty of readers where it’s not a thing/is optional. On Android, there’s “Feeder” and “CapyReader” (I use the latter) and on iOS there’s NetNewsWire
- Comment on Why tonsils grow most at center of body instead of even? 1 week ago:
Nope
- Comment on Why tonsils grow most at center of body instead of even? 1 week ago:
I don’t think anyone needs more toenail pictures
- Comment on Why tonsils grow most at center of body instead of even? 1 week ago:
When I was little, I think I kicked something really hard and bent my left little toe (pinky toe? Why do people call the little finger a pinky anyways? It’s equally pink as the rest of the fingers…) where the toenail now grows way off to the right, it’s bent to the right permanently it seems, which is kind of interesting.
- Comment on Why tonsils grow most at center of body instead of even? 1 week ago:
He’s asking why, after you cut your toenails, it gets pointy in the middle. It’s a fair question, I just think nobody likes to see toenails in their feed, it would have been better if that was omitted
- Comment on Why tonsils grow most at center of body instead of even? 1 week ago:
I think I understand what you’re saying. You are wondering why the middle of the toenail (not body, feet are clearly on the very end of that) grows a bit faster than the bits on the side, leading to a toenail that’s a bit pointy in the middle, which could be quite annoying to you.
I think it’s because, when you cut your toenails, you almost always cut from the corners, not straight on, leading to a toenail that is more pronounced in the centre, since you usually make the edges of the toenail shorter than the middle.
Another theory is that (pulling this from a hat, I didn’t take Biology), since toenails are essentially just dead stuff that’s growing from the corpses of alive stuff underneath the toenail, there was some evolutionary advantage to having extra alive stuff in the middle of your toenail. (perhaps to better protect that alive stuff, as it could be more vulnerable out near the edges or maybe to make the toenails sharper and pointier for better grip)
There is more alive stuff in the middle, I know this from experience that when cutting too far into the toenail, it’s far easier to touch the alive bits in the middle (it’s painful!) compared to the edges.
- Comment on Under what circumstances or axioms do spheres (the shape) have infinite surface area? 1 week ago:
Fair enough.
- Comment on Under what circumstances or axioms do spheres (the shape) have infinite surface area? 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure the question described a sphere
- Comment on Under what circumstances or axioms do spheres (the shape) have infinite surface area? 1 week ago:
sphere != circle
Sphere is like a ball (3D), while circles are like those round coasters for drinks (flat)
- Comment on If you were dropped into a pool of people's spit and prevented from getting out, would you melt to death? 1 week ago:
I think you would drown first. Wait, would you be able to float in spit? Depends on how salty/contaminated with gunk it is. Assuming you don’t drown, I don’t think you would dissolve in spit, as your skin is pretty tough. If you stick a chicken leg in your mouth for a bit, sure it would get gooey and yucky, but it wouldn’t just dissolve. That’s what your stomach acid is for. I think saliva softens up the food, but not dissolve it, but I didn’t choose Biology, so what do I know.
There’s also a very high likelihood that you get really sick though, who knows what’s in that spit? Not to the mention it’s probably from hundreds, if not thousands people given that there’s enough to fill an entire pool.
- Comment on Recommendation for Android File Manager 2 weeks ago:
It saves the file and it works. I think there might be a permissions issue with some images (are the images part of a particular album/folder? Are they all from a certain app? etc.)
Double check the permissions of Material Files, maybe you have it set to something like “only allow images I select”
- Comment on Recommendation for Android File Manager 2 weeks ago:
I still have the option to save stuff as a file with material files, so not sure what’s wrong.
- Comment on Scientific rigour: Be transparent in your research. Ethical obligations: 2 weeks ago:
Anonymity would probably specifically relate to identity (name, nationality, etc.), but confidentiality/privacy could include things that don’t link to identity (e.g confidential processes, private interviews)
- Comment on Scientific rigour: Be transparent in your research. Ethical obligations: 2 weeks ago:
In my opinion, confidentiality means information that is not disclosed due to legal or moral reasons (e.g. documents about an ongoing case), privacy is information that is not disclosed due to personal or ethical reasons, and anonymity is information relating specifically to your identity that cannot be disclosed (you are “anonymous”)
There can be some overlap (e.g. in an ongoing court case, leaking a suspect’s name would violate confidentiality AND privacy, since it is legally and ethically bad)
You can have a whole debate about morals vs ethics, what means what, but I am taking morals as legal/formal obligations and ethics as a more informal “do the right thing”.
