troyunrau
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca
Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.
troyunrau.ca (personal)
lithogen.ca (business)
- Comment on statistics 2 weeks ago:
I’ve heard it phrased: “once is never, twice is always”
- Comment on periodic tablets 1 month ago:
A man who has big books… has a big… bookshelf.
- Comment on How to open a textbook 1 month ago:
My third year thermodynamics course opened with a similar quip by the lecturer. Entropy is actually depressing. You can’t fight it. You can’t not fight it. It just wins.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Air Bud 22
- Comment on Republicans Who Do Not Regularly Watch Fox Are Less Likely to Back Trump | Survey data shows more of them believe he acted criminally. 1 month ago:
If I’m a foreign bad actor, I look at this and go: how do we do this to the other networks?
If I’m a defender of democracy, I go: how do we undo this, or prevent it from happening elsewhere.
- Comment on Their new single 1 month ago:
Lithium as well, if I recall correctly. Most lithium is theorized to date to the big bang. There are no current pathways to create it, and only pathways that destroy it.
Most helium also dates to big bang, but some was created through fusion or alpha decay.
- Comment on field survey 1 month ago:
Plot twist. The raccoons are aliens in costume trying to learn about park rangers.
- Comment on Looks 1 month ago:
Brains are sexy
- Comment on I have attempted science. 1 month ago:
I had a null result for my MSc thesis. My supervisor lost interest immediately, and my funding went away. No interest in publishing a failure on his side, because the premise was flawed and he provided the premise. I dropped out and went to industry rather than be student poor with no funding.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Cryochamber test #42. Patient still dead.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
BOFH vibes haha
- Comment on Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears 1 month ago:
I still go to Reddit for some communities that don’t have critical mass on Lemmy. Sure you can talk about programming or Linux here, but the more niche ones (like specific mods for specific games) are entirely absent.
But when I want to post something or create content, it goes here.
- Comment on Sci-Fi Puzzle Platformer Planet Of Lana Hits PlayStation And Switch Next Month 1 month ago:
I’m assuming it’s on PC already based on this comment?
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- Comment on brilliant as silver 2 months ago:
I wonder what secondary compounds this was creating. Elemental mercury is pretty much fine, but if it was reacting with other things to create wacky fun times…
- Comment on brilliant as silver 2 months ago:
It has such low bioavailability…
- Comment on 30 movie directors with movies with an IMDB rating higher and 7.5 and 50.000 votes 2 months ago:
Could use a colour key in all the negative space in bottom right. Interesting data nevertheless.
- Comment on thr perfect body 2 months ago:
I just love this word. It has a great claw-feel.
- Comment on RNA 2 months ago:
We need a federated RNA solution. This tyranny has gone on way too long!
- Comment on Plant Natives 2 months ago:
Pro que no los dos
- Comment on Tomb Raider I-II-III Remastered details enhancements, new features - Gematsu 3 months ago:
Tomb Raider was one of my first 3D games, back in an era before 3D graphics cards were even ubiquitous. Of course, it appealed as much as it could to the horny teenager in me at the time, but it was also a pretty fantastic game. Keep in mind that it was competing against games like Descent II or Duke Nukem 3D, already established as franchises at the time. But look at Tomb Raider’s legacy compared to those. Also notable, Resident Evil came out that year too.
- Comment on New solid state battery charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles 3 months ago:
Battery breakthroughs are announced every day. Very few make it to market.
- Comment on Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere? 3 months ago:
Question is already answered, but. The BSG miniseries has a good nuke scene which is actually pretty reasonable: youtu.be/R-L4tVksGYc
- Comment on What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time? 3 months ago:
Don’t get me wrong, I also like TotK and BG3 and just replayed Outer Worlds (Fallout in spaaaace) and love me some “mainstream” games. But I think people unfairly exclude many genres when making these sorts of lists. E.g.: The Sims, Civ5, Minecraft, Pokemon, and many others that sold like hotcakes and have been extremely good games.
Personally, I’m always biased towards 4X, RTS, and similar, and find it strange they’re always overlooked. Europa Universalis 4 is ten years old and still getting DLC and updates – how many people must have played that game over ten years for the studio to justify that continued investment?
- Comment on A time-honored tradition 3 months ago:
There are parts of the US where they use soda; parts that use pop; and parts that use coke. In the latter, the following conversation is normal:
Server: what kind of coke would you like?
Me: root beer.
- Comment on Mistakes were made 3 months ago:
Likely a typo. Out and Our often autocorrect to each other, and the keys are next to each other.
But once again this proves: the best way to start a conversation on the internet is to be nearly correct. Bad memes start more conversations than perfect memes haha.
- Comment on The Perfect Webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same. 4 months ago:
Interesting. I just signed up for their “trial” version and punched my keywords in – “geophysical equipment rentals canada” and my region to Canada – my company came up first, followed by our primary Canadian competitor. It wasn’t until item number 8 that the SEO crap pages started showing up. Very nice. Now I just need to figure out how to make this a business expense ;)
- Comment on The Perfect Webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same. 4 months ago:
You’ve got to add “reddit” to any search term to get answers to anything. Sadly, and perhaps due to the distributed nature of lemmy (and the relatively young nature of the network), lemmy results are still not great.
I run a small business – a niche business in scientific equipment. I have about a half dozen competitors in North America, and maybe a few dozen globally. So you’d think it would be fairly easy to dominate the search results for those specific terms – and we do!
However, mixed in with the search results are a bunch of shell companies that don’t actually have any equipment – they exist only to drive traffic to another company through their website to get a referrer bonus. So it looks like there’s more competition than there is, but really it’s just a bunch of optimizers creating these shell companies to earn referral income. And those sites are terrible! We refuse to stoop to that level.
Unfortunately, google makes too much money now, and is too beholden to their shareholders to change it. So unless a competitor shows up with “don’t be evil” back on the menu, with their own algorithms (and not just repackaged bing or whatever), we’re stuck with this for now I guess.
I miss the google of ~1999 when it was disrupting the crap search engines. Now it’s just another crap search engine.
- Comment on BIG GEOLOGY 4 months ago:
I’m pretty sure this is the basis of Scientology – throwing the unvaccinated into volcanoes so they can become force ghosts.
- Comment on *Porcelain shatters* 4 months ago:
Outer Worlds 2 writing team here. You’re hired!