Gust
@Gust@piefed.social
- Comment on Into the rabbit hole we go! 12 hours ago:
Strange take, given the source of the quote
- Comment on Wiley Coyote 19 hours ago:
Very true. I’ve benefited from doing that countless times, and I keep final drafts of all of my work in folders organized by publisher title explicitly so that I can pass it forward if anybody ever emails me looking for something ive written that is now behind a paywall
(I deleted my last comment because it ended up more vitriolic than I want on the internet forever, but for anybody reading this afterwards the gist of my deleted comment earlier in the thread was “I do not respect academic publishers")
- Comment on Wiley Coyote 20 hours ago:
In case somebody made the meme because they need that paper and couldnt get it, enjoy.
- Comment on Welp 2 days ago:
He actually said that in 2001
- Comment on Into the rabbit hole we go! 3 days ago:
If it makes you feel better, thats also true in every other field of science. All models are wrong, but some are useful
- Comment on Yall are missing out 2 weeks ago:
Bruh… get a shower head with a hose on it. They cost like 20 bucks and will change your life
- Comment on Geneticist be like 3 weeks ago:
A warning from the sacred texts for anybody else looking to avoid math by doing biological sciences. Its all math, all the way down. Always has been
- Comment on Mint 4 weeks ago:
Peppers and tomatoes can do this too. I used to grow tomatoes and habaneros in the same raised garden bed, and the tomatoes always came out with quite the kick
- Comment on Theories on Theories 1 month ago:
All models are wrong, but some are useful
- Comment on Those who know, know 3 months ago:
I guess I was a bit overdue for my annual week of listening to Weightless on repeat. Thanks for the reminder!
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 3 months ago:
Big agree on the ubisoft and assasins creed points. I’m also “playing through the second one” right now, though I’ve been on the Junon area for a month or two now, and I also haven’t opened up the game in a month or two. I just don’t think I’m ever finishing that game, which feels wild to me given the absurd amount of time I’ve spent playing and replaying the ps1 original. I’m just about as much of a simp for that story/those characters as a person can be
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 3 months ago:
I thought ff7re (the second part of the remake) sucked ass compared to ff7r (the first part.) The first one felt like a cool modernization of ff7 that still felt like the same game at its core, but the second one felt like complete focus-grouped buzzword filled nonsense. And the most annoying fucking element ive ever seen in a video game, birds that would constantly fly around your screen squawking and generally just being a nuisance until you went and completed their little meaningless side objective. Even the combat aspect felt like a bad monster hunter clone rather than a final fantasy game
- Comment on beyond science 3 months ago:
What? No, that sounds I’m making is laughter, not crying. Definitely laughing
- Comment on jellyfish go to hell 4 months ago:
BORN TO SWIM OCEAN IS A FUCK 鬼神 Drown Em All 1989 I am trash-island man 410,757,864,530 UNDISCOVERED JELLYFISH
- Comment on Restaurant the not good :( 4 months ago:
Rocket is another word for Arugala, for anybody else who knows that green by the latter name and is confused AF by “rocket salad”
- Comment on Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE 4 months ago:
“Even users in r/massivecock, where most of the posts are images of erect penises, railed against ICE in their captions.”
- Comment on Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W 4 months ago:
The politicians go where the people are, not the other way around. It sounds weird but I think a social media platform has to be a good place for folk with low tech literacy to post and chat about cute cat videos before it can ever be politically relevant. I’ve yet to come across a fedi client that I think my mom in her 60s could handle/would find appealing, and I kinda think you need something like that for widespread adoption. If you had a fedi client like that and some incentive to sign up like free lotteries run on the eu server for the first few months to catalyze a critical mass of users, I bet you’d have a fighting chance at breaking away from US social media walled gardens
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Well yeah. I said they were *topologically flat, not *bottomologically flat ;)
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Calculus tells you how curves work. Aqueducts are famous for their ability to be topologically flat. The math checks out
- Comment on I love science 5 months ago:
It’s true. Friends call me Snow Miser, whatever I touch turns to snow in my clutch. Interstellar was still awful though lol. I might have enjoyed it like any other scifi if it wasn’t specifically advertised as a scientifically accurate portrayal of space travel, but that is how it was advertised and accurate it was not
- Comment on I love science 5 months ago:
Im not familiar with kurzegesagt or Rick and Morty hentai but I’m pretty sure that was the expression on my face for most of the runtime of Interstellar
- Comment on if I ever have grandkids that is 5 months ago:
“Most people used the iron lung for a few weeks or months depending on the intensity of the polio attack. However, those with chest muscles permanently paralyzed by the disease need it for their lifetime.”
I am not any kind of medical professional so I can’t personally vouch for it, but here’s where I got the quote
https://www.medicinenet.com/how_long_can_you_live_in_an_iron_lung/article.htm
- Comment on Hydrogen Atoms 5 months ago:
Assuming the probability distribution is gaussian, I’d guess something like 3.5 to 4 times as large. I dont remember if that specific probability density function is gaussian or not, but assuming a distribution is gaussian is usually a safe bet
- Comment on They are German, of course. 5 months ago:
What happens at the Large Hardon Collider stays at the Large Hardon Collider
- Comment on 5 months ago:
My biological father did that shit every time we went to a restaurant while I was growing up. Then he’d usually try to get them to flirt with me, starting from when I was like 8. I still hate going to restaurants with table service decades later
- Comment on ¡! FREE REFILLS !¡ 5 months ago:
The coca cola dispenser didn’t even need to be edited. I’ve used that stuff as a solvent for engine block corrosion more times than I can count
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 5 months ago:
Same but I still keep the gun around in case any printers sneak back in
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 5 months ago:
Thanks! Trying right now to figure out how to ask my former advisors for letters of rec without explaining my motivations, which heavily imply that I think they’re in denial about their work being “make tools for fascists”
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 5 months ago:
Was working on a PhD in CS focused on industrial cybersecurity, though current events involving the three letter agency that funded my research lead to me crashing out and now I’m trying to get into law school and do immigration law. Far too frail and pasty to buy a farm though
- Comment on Machine go brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrr br br br br br br brbrbrbrb 6 months ago:
Pedantically, I think you could call muon tomography an antimatter imaging method. It doesnt explicitly use antimatter as a probe, but you do often measure products of antimatter decay or decay products that are antimatter themselves when doing it (depending on how much fidelity you need on the structure being imaged). I say pedantically because I assume you meant medical imaging methods and muon tomography doesnt have medical applications afaik
