troyunrau
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca
Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.
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- Comment on Indian tech workers on edge about Trump's immigration policy 2 days ago:
It’s going to be much much worse than just “hard to get a visa” – this shitball is rolling downhill and anyone brown should be considering another country.
First they came for…
- Comment on Online gangs of teenage boys sharing extreme material are ‘emerging threat’ in UK 3 days ago:
Go poke your head into r/mensrights or similar. Basically everyone complaining that the show is going to get them cancelled or that the show misrepresented them or similar. It’s pretty rare to see any comments suggesting the show is provoking introspection. Instead it is defend and attack.
- Comment on Online gangs of teenage boys sharing extreme material are ‘emerging threat’ in UK 3 days ago:
See also: Adolescence and the backlash to that show.
- Comment on The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans 4 days ago:
Read this whole article and I guess what I’ve learned is: the idiots are in charge.
Where is the outrage to match “Hillary’s emails!”
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 6 days ago:
I found the most effective way to get a nerd into ham is: mention that ham radio is in the criteria to become an astronaut. Suddenly they’re doing the study courses all on their own. Granted, they have to already be a nerd. ;)
For the non nerds, the prepper angle seems to work with some.
The thing you have to deliver is the “why”, not the how. If they’ve decided they want to learn it, they will.
- Comment on Rockstar has some of the most restrictive mission design I've ever experienced 5 weeks ago:
A good contrast is something like Outer Worlds, where there is usually multiple possible outcomes. I think it comes from their Fallout lessons learned and GURPS background. Love the game design. (Dislike the combat, but that is a separate thing.)
- Comment on Doppler 5 weeks ago:
It’s very possible. Napkins are notorious for stealing orders of magnitude.
- Comment on Doppler 5 weeks ago:
I ain’t doing hyperbolic equations on my napkin ;)
- Comment on Doppler 5 weeks ago:
Instructions unclear, car stuck in dick.
- Comment on Doppler 5 weeks ago:
Okay, napkin math… his nose is about 20cm long, and assuming it rotated about a perfect circle. The car moved say 10m. At the speed the car is moving, it covers that distance in ~120ns. So he has to move the end of his nose around a quarter circle of radius 20cm in 120ns. Let’s say 30cm total movement, for easy math. 0.25cm/ns or 0.00025m/ns. The speed of light is 0.300m/ns, so we’re talking about ~0.001c at the tip of his nose. Which is incidentally very close to the speed of sound in air.
So, probably not quite a sonic boom off the end of his nose. Assuming my math is correct. Very strong neck muscles. Also, he’s been vapourized.
- Comment on Doppler 5 weeks ago:
Okay, just back of the envelope math. Assuming the car is truly 550nm, so the blue car is 400nm, and the red car is 700nm… How fast is the car going?
Napkin math says 0.27c.
Δλ=λ(V/c)
Now someone else can figure out the kinetic energy of the car and why the whole continent just exploded…
- Comment on Mobius tape 5 weeks ago:
You have the technology!
- Comment on Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth. 1 month ago:
I use old.reddit in desktop mode still, on occasion. Today I clicked on a screenshot of a game cause I wanted more detail. I was directed to the new Reddit interface. I right clicked on the image and chose “open image in new tab” and got the new Reddit interface. I tried CTRL-scroll to zoom in the image, and it made the UI elements larger and in the process shrunk the image. I left the site.
- Comment on Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed 1 month ago:
Did they think they could drive faster than the radar who catch them or something?
- Comment on Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth. 1 month ago:
Or, hear me out, they went public and now they are making their product worse as enshittification takes its toll.
- Comment on Yeah I'm Bi, how did you know? 1 month ago:
Mercury feeling excluded
- Comment on SimCity Classic in RetroArch - Who needs Windows 11 when you can play on Windows 98? 1 month ago:
Just use wine on windows ;)
- Comment on Gold 1 month ago:
Aww, shucks
- Comment on Say it. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Humans included* 2 months ago:
We can’t even agree on the definition of life (within the context of the search for life). Largely we’ve settled on: whatever definition helps win grants!
- Comment on Free Spot! 2 months ago:
Land whale. My new favourite phrase
- Comment on Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes [404 Media] 2 months ago:
It begins. Fascism requires enemies within and without.
- Comment on The Lost Art of Fancy PC Game Installers 2 months ago:
A 32 but integer can store a number up to four billion. If measuring RAM size in integer bytes, 32GB would be 0 bytes, because that integer would wrap around four times.
Assuming windows, if you right click on the executable, you may be able to choose to run it in a compatibility mode of some sort (like XP mode or something) in which case it should report smaller memory to the game, probably.
- Comment on Is there any (single player playable) game under $10 or equivalent which has made you point any go "ha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it? 3 months ago:
Only games I’ve passed 100 hours on:
Pokemon (multiple versions)
No Man’s Sky
Many Paradox games: CK2, CK2, EU4, Stellaris
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 15th 3 months ago:
No Man’s Sky. Again. It keeps sucking me back in.
EU4 with Anbennar mod – update just released with a bunch of new stuff.
- Comment on MMO interplanetary crafting adventure SpaceCraft from Shiro Games (Northgard, Wartales) announced 3 months ago:
Well, the trailer makes it feel like a cross between NMS and Factorio or something. No indication of actual gameplay loop. Cautiously optimistic.
- Comment on Survival game The Long Dark gets a big update with a deep Safehouse Customization system 3 months ago:
I know one of the developers on this game. They would call me to ask about the science of Aurora Borealis while working on the game, and other similar things. They decided that they were going to reject some of the science in favour of gameplay, and fair enough. The game is quite good.
- Comment on I will admit I had a nerdgasm at the portable pilet mini consoles from soulscircuit 3 months ago:
This is how I imagined “decks” when reading old cyberpunk (Snowcrash, etc.)
- Comment on Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff 3 months ago:
Definitely absurd. But if you were a sci fi author trying to make a consistent world building thing, it would actually be a useful video.
… I see you Neal Stephenson, hiding behind the couch.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
He doesn’t. He is lower density after transformation. Basically inflated. Also, he doubles as a life raft.
