Thorry
@Thorry@feddit.org
- Comment on Fuel for the fire. 4 days ago:
FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Yeah once you’ve been in over dozen of these kinds of meetings it stops being funny and more of a reason to cry.
Just the other day I was in a meeting because a c-suite at a client needed to use a portal from a supplier but didn’t know how. There was one person in their company who had used that portal before, but didn’t want to get involved. I had done some work with this supplier, but hadn’t really ever done anything with their portal.
This man was aggressively hostile for some reason. He acted like it was somehow my fault he had to use the portal. Like I had personally arranged the situation he was in. I said I had nothing to do with this supplier or the portal. But he said I had worked with them before. Yes that’s true, but it’s not like I chose this supplier for them, they had worked with them for years before I ever heard of them.
I suggested if none of us knew how to use the portal, perhaps there was a manual available. Or a support department at the supplier? Perhaps they offer training if it’s hard to use? The man proceeded to laugh at me as if what I said was a ridiculous suggestion. I was puzzled, like how else are you going to figure out how to use the tool? That’s the way people learn, they don’t just start using it and know all there is to know, there is a process involved.
In the end we decided to just look at the portal together and figure out if we could do what we needed to do at that moment. The man opened up the portal and used an overview with some filters, but it was very slow and crashed a couple of times. So I suggested opening up the detail page in a new tab, so the overview didn’t need to keep reloading constantly. This absolutely confused him, he opened up the overview twice and the portal proceeded to crash again, so we abandoned that idea.
Once we got to the right detail page, what he wanted to do was a simple clear button. Very simple and clearly marked, it did exactly what he needed to do. I was again baffled, like why has this issue been stalled for two weeks, with several meetings and now a meeting with a bunch of people only to do something as simple as that. He hadn’t even tried to do it, just made such a fuss about it. Costs everyone a lot of time and money, for something that should have been a 2 minute task. Now I understand why that other dude didn’t want to get involved in this, he knew.
- Comment on Is starlink internet worth it or shit for gaming? 1 week ago:
Please note that Starlink still uses the regular fiber optic cable internet. Your dish connects to a satellite, which connects to a ground station and from there it’s just regular fiber internet. It isn’t like all of the satellites are interconnected and form their own internet. That would have way less bandwidth than required, as each hub would be it’s own bottleneck.
They do have the capability of using lasers to connect from one satellite to up to four others, but that was in beta for a very long time. I think they actually do use it now, which allows for a satellite over a conflicted region to connect to another satellite which can connect to a friendly base station. This allows hardware from Ukraine to maintain an internet connection when flying over Russia, without using Russian base stations (which would be problematic). But I don’t think the regular commercial package offers this, it’s only for military use.
It’s very hard to get good info on Starlink, as a lot of what Musk and such are saying turns out to be actual BS. They like to hype up their shit. Whenever actual technical details come out, it’s usually much more scaled back and simpler than what they said. They do however have actual cutting edge tech on board and a lot of very smart people working on the development of that tech.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
But the rich people told us we should care about this now!
- Comment on It's the spelling for me 2 weeks ago:
I wonder what kind of coffee they drink…
- 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? 3 weeks ago:
If you scale a human down to the size of an ant (somehow?), they would quickly die. Our metabolism is very slow, we don’t generate enough heat to be alive at those sizes. Since our mass would scale down with the power of 3 and our surface area with the power of 2, the mass to surface area ratio becomes such we would quickly cool down and die.
This among the many many other issues a tiny body would have.
As for creating fire by friction I assume? There needs to be a concentrated amount of energy to create enough heat. Such a energy output would be impossible for something that small.
But say you get a bunch of tiny sticks and somehow also have it catch fire. It still wouldn’t work, since the speed the fuel burns is related to the amount of available resources. So you could definitely set some tiny amount of sticks on fire, but it would burn the same as you would do it yourself at current scale. So a little flame, similar to a candle probably and burn that tiny amount of fuel in 3 secs. Compared to the tiny size, the fire would be pretty large.
So no, it doesn’t scale like that at all. Scaling stuff like that is all make belief, so you can make up the rules as you go along.
- Comment on Seagirl 3 weeks ago:
They used to be a real big thing, in the before times
- Comment on Gaming industry right now 3 weeks ago:
And this should include any terms or conditions! No more “Please accept our updated privacy agreement”. Fuck you, I bought the thing, the thing should remain as I bought it. No more planned obsolescence, selling of data and all of the other bullshit. Companies have been getting away with this shit for far too long.
- Comment on I'm currently at the toilet while posting this does this count as shitpost? 3 weeks ago:
I’m reading it while at the toilet taking a massive shit, so yeah I’d say it qualifies.
And for those of you worried about the germs on my phone because I use it while shitting: It’s absolutely fine guys, I lick it clean right after!
- Comment on Would a metal gazebo be safe during a lightning storm? 4 weeks ago:
The thing being metal has a very tiny impact on being more likely to be struck by lightning. There is no such thing as “attracting” lightning. Lightning starts as a widespread charge in the clouds, until it reaches a tipping point and discharges. Often this discharge is between two parts of the same system in the sky. However sometimes the discharge can be with the ground itself.
When the electric field is large enough, a similar field is induced in the ground. These fields are often on the large side, with one pair of fields being able to serve a lot of strikes and each strike being a whole bunch of discharges. At the top the air begins to break down and form a lightning channel. This follows a random, often branching pattern, moving generally downward being attracted by the field in the ground. When this channel gets close to the ground little “feelers” begin to discharge from sharp edges of everything near the channel. Once one of these feelers touches the lightning channel, the actual strike happens. That single channel will be used to transfer energy, due to the difference in field charge. The air becomes super heated and turns into a hot plasma. We see the bright white lighting arc and a wave of expanding air moves out from the strike. Often these strikes pulsate, where the channel moves a lot of energy, heats up, stops moving energy, cool down and heat up again. I’m not sure how many cycles one strike has, I think something around a dozen or so. Sometimes when there’s multiple suitable channels available, it will jump around between these, which can look very pretty.
As I said these fields are usually on the big side and that’s what determines where abouts the strike will occur. The bit on the ground only plays a part in the last few meters of a process that is often hundreds of meters long. The material doesn’t matter all that much, as the charge is enough to break down the air itself. If something has sharp edges often matters more than the material, but the biggest factor is height.
Large towers, a singular tree in a field and stuff like that is said to “attract” lightning, because we dumb monkeys see those things get hit more often than elsewhere (but not exclusively so). Like I said the lightning channel is formed up to down, because of the two opposing fields. When the channel gets close to something, it can complete the channel. So things being more up are more likely to do so, just by virtue of being up.
Just a little tangent not directly related to your question tho. If you want to ground the thing to make it less likely to explode when hit by lightning, sure go ahead. But remember a lighting strike is very violent, so it will never be safe. Best to stay indoors during a heavy lightning storm.
- Comment on Why don't urban/suburban streets and roads use a center storm channel? 4 weeks ago:
Civil engineering is a very complex thing, which also has been around. A lot of the things they due is because of lessons learnt in the past. If you have questions like “Why don’t they just?”, I’m sure an actual civil engineer with knowledge of the situation can tell you exactly why. It’s all much more complex than you could imagine.
I’d suggest watching some of Grady on Practical Engineering on YouTube to get a basic idea of how much goes into projects such as designing and building a road. In my experience a road contains a lot of infrastructure around and underneath, way more than you’d assume.
- Comment on *laughs nervously* 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like you are speaking from experience
- Comment on *laughs nervously* 4 weeks ago:
I also pay specific sewage tax, which is legally required for anyone with a sewage connection to their home. And for people who don’t, they probably have some kind of septic system where they pay for the materials and personnel to upkeep that.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 4 weeks ago:
MHI makes the best shit!
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 4 weeks ago:
Well in an ideal world it would make everyone more efficient, letting us do more in less time. Thus we would need to work less for the same amount of money. Like switching over to 4 days a week, same amount of hours per day, for the same salary.
But in reality we’ve already stepped up efficiency a lot and it never works out that way. It just devalues the work, so we need to produce more to get the same salary. We end up working the same or even more for the same amount of money, or even less money. All of the gains go to the people at the top, creating an ultra rich upper class that really should never exist.
However AI has so many more issues that even this best case scenario has huge downsides for everyone, which will hit the middle class and poor people the hardest. It’s really bad news across the board.
- Comment on Surviving a heatwave : Prison Edition 4 weeks ago:
Yes same. But I’ve heard the advice applied to both.
- Comment on Surviving a heatwave : Prison Edition 4 weeks ago:
I think these kinds of windows are often called Velux even if they are from other brands, just one of those brandnames that got synonymous with the product itself.
I’ve always been told never to put anything on the inside of multi-pane windows that can cause thermal shock.
- Comment on I love houses that trap heat! /s 5 weeks ago:
Modern windows can give oldskool walls a run for their money in terms of insulation. Although a proper designed and insulated wall can do better. It’s not just the glass, but also the gasses used in between the panes and special coatings applied.
- Comment on I love houses that trap heat! /s 5 weeks ago:
This is simply not true. Many Europeans have windows specifically designed to let infrared radiation in, but block it on the way out. So as soon as any sun hits any window, that’s a lot of heat coming in and not going out. Very nice when it’s cold, but not as good when it’s hot. Most people have blinds and curtains on the inside, which doesn’t help. I have blinds on the south side which are closed, but the rest of the house only has blinds on the inside. So for a lot of hours in the day heat does get in.
- Comment on What they say to me after an interview. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on THATS A DEAL! 1 month ago:
- Comment on The Picard Video 4k 1 month ago:
I AM CUTE AS A BOAR!
- Comment on Map of all AI data center in Europe 1 month ago:
You might want to check what the Netherlands looked like in 1837, because it looks nothing like what you have here.
- Comment on GitHub spammers. 1 month ago:
I have never once had this happen? Are you sure it’s related to Github?
- Comment on Misaligned cabinet in apple wwdc 1 month ago:
Nah the rest don’t look perfect. In your last pic on the left side the line also doesn’t match up. I think all of the top units are just slightly bigger than the bottom units. It’s aligned on the left side, but then every unit is slightly more misaligned on the right side. Once we get to the end the differences stack up and it clearly sticks out a lot.
- Comment on What does the word data mean per se ? 1 month ago:
Which isn’t true in the strictest sense of the word. With modern phone networks everything is data and the phone is continually both sending and receiving bytes. These don’t count towards the data budget. Usually it’s the amount of data excluding metadata that has been exchanged with the wider internet. Or often even only the amount of data downloaded. These usually exclude all of the overhead and instead focus on actual package contents being transmitted. Now this can get very complicated when looking into stuff like a VPN and compressed data packages.
I’m sure the provider has some technical definition internally of how these metrics are collected and how the accounting works. But this isn’t something they will share with the outside world. There would probably be a legal document somewhere that states they are using industry standard means of collecting those stats. Depending on where you live there might be strict definitions the provider needs to adhere to.
As for the question posted by OP: This is way too vague of a question. If you ask a more specific question, you can receive a better answer. Data is one of those words with a whole bunch of meanings, depending on the context. If you strip the context, you also strip the meaning.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
What sort of genres have you tried? You mention 1984, but that’s a very specific book only very specific people would like. There’s so many kinds of books and genres out there, there might be something that does grab your attention.
- Comment on sjmmbmgvgdh 😱😱 noowomder,,,,, ghhbhh.. hb& 1 month ago:
Oh lord he chonk
- Comment on Elden Ring Tarnished Edition launches August 28 1 month ago:
Being able to dress up Torrent without the use of mods has been requested so much. On one hand I feel like it worsens the experience as it can break the immersion. On the other hand, people already abuse the character creation screen to make abominations (although the lack of a hide helmet option makes this not super useful). And mods are also used a lot for all sorts of weird visual stuff. If someone wants to have some fun, why not?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer 1 month ago:
Still better than Nadella.
