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 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? 2 days ago:
just on a much faster time scale
I wonder if a creature the size of something like an ant that experiences time at a much slower rate would be able to enjoy a tiny ant-sized fire? That would be pretty neat
- Comment on 2 days ago:
For me, Heliboard is the best option. FlorisBoard is cool too if you like their interface, but Heliboard is super customisable. You can change the symbols around, padding, colours, etc., and it supports plenty of languages and can work well with Whisper for TTS, and the auto complete suggestions is quite accurate in my experience. You can also change the toolbar to include copy paste, undo and redo, left/right, etc.
- Comment on What year did white people start twerking in earnest? 3 days ago:
If a group of people self identified as “White”, what group would I expect to see.
Depends on who you ask :D
- Comment on What year did white people start twerking in earnest? 3 days ago:
…what? The idea of “white” people is not very clear cut, as it turns out, human genetics are not black and white! Who woulda thunk?
I did not say I would use the term “white” for African or Carribean cultures, I doubt anybody does, I mentioned Western cultures of different kinds. And since a Brit is very different from an Aussie, which is different from a Pole, and all quite different from a Frenchie, the idea of “Western” cultures is broad and you need to be a bit more specific :D
- Comment on Voyager app for Lemmy 3 days ago:
if you’re on iOS, mLem should be on the App Store
- Comment on Voyager app for Lemmy 3 days ago:
The apps listed for Android are either available through F-Droid or, in the case of Summit, requires Obtainium (if you don’t want to use the Play Store)
- Comment on Voyager app for Lemmy 3 days ago:
Welcome to Lemmy! After you login, you can change between different view modes (subscribed, local, and all), change some of the filters, and select to create a new post. When making a new post, you will have to select a community to post it in (e.g. “nostupidquestions”) and give it a title, and optionally a description, image, or link. Pretty neat!
If you want to experiment with different user interfaces, you can try Summit, Jerboa, or Thunder (on Android) or mLem (on iOS)!
- Comment on What year did white people start twerking in earnest? 3 days ago:
There is not much context of this question. Define “white people”, do you mean those of European ancestry, those living in Western cultures (if so, which ones?), etc. It’s ambiguous.
If you see other questions, they describe the problem and specify the details. If you ask “why do people do this thing” with no context, whatever that thing is, it will be disliked as it’s hard to answer.
If people do not agree with you, perhaps you are in the wrong. The Internet is cruel, but it is composed of people too you know? And you are one of those people, and you know many other people in your life, so treat people like proper people, even when it’s hidden internet people!
- Comment on Seagirl 3 days ago:
squawk
- Comment on Which emitter should I get for the Convoy T6 flashlight? 4 days ago:
However, the flashlight will have lots more power if used with a Lithium battery instead of an alkaline / NiMH battery (5A @ 3.6 V) vs. (0.5 A @ 1.5/1.2 V).
Good to know! I already have the NiMH batteries + charger on hand though used in other bits and bobs, so it will be more cost effective for me to use those over buying new 14500 Li-ion batteries. Will try 14500s if I have any troubles with the power!
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- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 5 days ago:
Mad skylights, my dude.
But then you wouldn’t get the protection from the elements being underground gives you, you would just be more vulnerable to flooding by creating a deep valley. Unless you mean placing glass over the entire thing, but that would be very expensive, it would be very heavy (so needs to have even stronger supports), and would need to be cleaned by somebody on the surface.
It is almost universally known that being underground is cooler.
It depends on where you are. In very sunny places, yes, it would be cooler. However, when you are deep underground, it can get very hot as well! Many construction projects involving digging out deep tunnels and holes have been cancelled because it became too hot for the workers and machines to operate!
why couldn’t the structure of the underground dwelling be similarly strengthened [for earthquakes]?
Yes, you would, I mentioned this point needed to be considered. It’s a larger consideration when you’re underground, as there needs to be additional supports to prevent the chamber and tunnels from collapsing (you might have seen the braces of those mining tunnels, think those but on a much larger scale)
Bro we already built that.
But with the solar panels idea (or your skylights w/ glass), you can’t really use the current infrastructure. You would need special roads, homes, etc. that go around them. Also, I would assume that less urbanised areas would need more development to be able to manage an array of solar panels or glass skylights.
Also, I treated this question more like what if humans never built massive cities above ground and we became underground dwellers (perhaps sometime after heavy construction equipment catched on),
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I think it won’t be necessarily body parts that become subscription services, though that could happen in the future if organ donations and/or genetic modification became privatised around the world, but I do think that certain implants will phase into human life and become near-essential, and those can be monetised. Like modern day smartphones and computers with all their tracking, subscriptions, and microtransactions, except it’s NFC chips in your hand or brain chips for controlling everyday electronics.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
You might also need to be aware if the project has a noncommercial license if you plan on cloning it to another Git repository. Codeberg does not accept commercial projects though, so in this case it’s not an issue.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
If the project is open-source, so with a GPL, MIT, Apache, BSD, etc. license, you can fork the project (ideally with attribution of the source).
Look for the LICENSE file on the git repository. If it is not present, it may be on the linked on the README. If there is no license, it means you do not have the right to modify or redistribute the program.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on people who say hate speech is free speech? 5 days ago:
Of note, looking at their post history, the original poster seems to have unfavourable views on transgender folks. Yikes!
- Comment on What are your thoughts on people who say hate speech is free speech? 5 days ago:
Free speech is the idea that anyone can voice their own opinions, yes. However, if these opinions hurts others or restrict their free speech in some way, I feel like that shouldn’t be allowed. I think most people would probably agree with this.
“Hate speech” is a very broad term that describes all sorts of nasty ideas, but let’s give an example of a bigot who wants to relinquish women’s suffrage (right to vote) and is advocating for this idea in a public area. This would be an attempt to block the free speech of women, and should not be allowed! You could replace this with other discriminated communities, bigots hate anything that’s even a little bit different from themselves.
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 5 days ago:
I also read about a psychological study of living underground reported by DW News, and the sense of time lengthens when you’re in the dark caves for a long period of time. Really interesting I think! This kind of thing would mess with our Circadian rhythm
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 5 days ago:
A lot of places already have underground malls, particularly those connected to the subway system. Many roads go underground too, especially when there’s a large mountain, ocean, lake, etc. in the way.
But yes, most places are still above ground, as for one, it isn’t cost effective to dig out all of the dirt required to create the large underground chambers, the supports needed to prevent collapse, etc. Many tunnels take years or even decades to become finished, an entire city of ground-dwelling people would take ages to dig out!
Aside from being expensive (in both money and time), there’s a few practical reasons why this isn’t the best idea. You wouldn’t get sunlight, so you would need to power artificial lighting fixtures for all the different parts of the area. You could probably save power by creating artificial nights, but still, it would be a monumental task to find enough energy to sustain something like this. Solar panels become out of the question for the most part*, and depending on where you are, you would need good A/C as well, since it can get hot when you’re underground, and that consumes additional power. Hydropower could be used, but with underground sources of water rather than rivers. Geothermal energy might become more mainstream as well, which would be kind of cool!
You pointed another big problem, flooding. This would be a large risk, particularly if you live in an area with lots of aquifers (sources of water that are underground) or with lots of permeable soil and rock (so rain easily seeps through the ground), flooding will be a significant issue to tackle. Earthquakes might exacerbate the issue as well, and the shaking of the quakes could also be a problem for the supports preventing the chambers and tunnels from collapsing, like how foundations of our aboveground buildings need to be strengthened. Maybe some sort of moving dampener could be used, like those in tall skyscrapers?
*Theoretically, you could have somebody on the surface maintain the solar panels the cover the Earth, but then you need to build all the infrastructure for somebody to move and live on the surface, in which case you might as well not have everybody live underground. Maybe that could be automated with robots, but that’s not feasible with current technology.
- Comment on If you slipped and fell into a waist-deep swimming pool, would you refuse to stand up and let yourself drown? 6 days ago:
Thus person is insane, they keep talking about these canals. Have your heard about Percival Lowell? He believes that there are signs of life on Mars, as he observed what he thought were canals. I feel like you would be the kind of person to still believe that Mars had artificial canals in the modern day.
Lowell was not completely crazy like you though, for one he lived during the late 1800s and discovered the “canals” in the first decade of the 1900s. He was working with limited information and pieced together the idea of Martian canals due to the ongoing industrialisation of the world, much of which involved building canals. He also helped hypothesise the existence of Pluto and founded one of the oldest observatories in the U.S., the Lowell observatory, and it was this observatory that discovered little Pluto!
I don’t think Lowell, being a pretty respected mathmetician and astronomer, would agree with you when it comes to this canal conspiracy. I highly doubt that he would mock the deaths of others like this or disrespect their families like this, he at least had the morals of the 1800s. I don’t think you do though, and I wonder what other basic human dignities you disrespect.
Please stop posting about these nonsense canal conspiracies, or the ghost of Percival Lowell will haunt you to the end of the Earth for ruining the reputation of his treasured canals.
- Comment on Tips for Surviving the Heatwave 6 days ago:
As it turns out, it’s called global warming since it is affecting the whole world. Now that heat waves are becoming a large problem in NA and Europe, Western media (being based there) is more likely to cover that. But lots of places have already been experiencing greater storms, floods, etc. due to the increase in global temperatures. And from my own experience in Asia, it’s really hot in the summer now, sometimes over 34 degrees (Celsius), far more than just a few years ago!
- Comment on Anti-fish language 6 days ago:
The seabass were too strong for the British to colonise
- Comment on Why Does Everyone Seem Ahead of Me? ??? 1 week ago:
For me, I do not have a use for social media. I don’t use Instagram, Facebook, or Snapchat. They’re all owned by big corporations who are known to spy on their users (+ they are actively developing consumer spy glasses which is kind of creepy), and I don’t feel a need to post my life on social media. Maybe you have a business or something and need that promotion, but most people probably don’t need it. I use a mix of Matrix, which is awesome, secure, decentralised, all that, and unfortunately WeChat, since I have some friends and family who live in mainland China, where WeChat is the most convenient option.
Although there are a lot of things that are not great about WeChat (Tencent having an effective monopoly in the Chinese market, they are likely snooping on messages, etc.) I do have to say their “Moments” idea is brilliant. It lets you post up to 9 images with a caption per post, and by default it’s only shown to your contacts, which is really cool! Maybe that’s something to do with restrictive Chinese regulations on the Internet, I dunno, but it’s kind of cool to see a curated set of images in a little feed of just people I actually know.
Right now, I have Matrix for connecting with the world, and WeChat for connecting with parts of my family as well as some of my friends that reside in mainland China. It isn’t the best, but it’s what works for me. Meta, Snapchat, etc. do not fit into that setup for me.
- Comment on What's a good software for making memes and simple comics? 1 week ago:
No problem man! The developer had added like 50 something bits in there, so it can do quite a lot.
- Comment on What's a good software for making memes and simple comics? 1 week ago:
Image Toolbox on Android is awesome and has lots of little bits for editing images, collaging, simple sketching, etc.! Super useful. And there are lots of dedicated drawing apps if you’re an artist, but those usually work better on a tablet w/ a stylus
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 1 week ago:
This is a pretty unhelpful, dare I say DUUUUUUMB, answer
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 1 week ago:
That is something I’ve heard of, and I think it’s because Apple has more resources to focus on more professional video codecs and such (which others may not bother with due to it being good enough for most people already)
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 1 week ago:
Just from my personal experiences when I was using an iPhone several years ago, as well as whatI have seen on the Internet
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 1 week ago:
I don’t see the issue with a 60 Hz display, you’re not getting one for gaming.
But the devices don’t exist in a bubble. Laptops that cost much less get 90 or 120 Hz displays, and similarly priced options get OLED and touch support!
They have thunderbolt 4 ports, which is all you need
Until you need to connect your laptop to an HDMI display and don’t happen to have the required dongle that is sold separately. Or when you have a USB(-A) flash drive, you need a dongle too.
Both of these cases are very common for all groups of people, particularly in educational settings.
Some people prefer shallow key travel.
Fair point actually
but there is absolutely nothing wrong with their laptops other than being a bit more pricey.
Again, that’s the issue.
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 1 week ago:
Personally, I don’t get why the solution to many of the issues people experience with Apple devices is to buy another one.
Yes, this is only a subset of people and the Internet shows you the worst of them, but I still find it a little hard to believe somebody reasonably suggests to purchases another device that costs so much!