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 Fallout 76 is currently testing the one thing that makes every game better: fishing 1 week ago:
You say pickerel and know about Goldeye. Manitoba or Minnesota or similar? ;)
- Comment on I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre 1 week ago:
That would qualify as work according to the US gov. Because by doing these chores, you are potentially causing someone to not need to pay a nanny or whatever. Be careful how you define work – you don’t need to be directly paid.
- Comment on Fallout 76 is currently testing the one thing that makes every game better: fishing 1 week ago:
I hate fishing games. Just chance games to waste time. But I also hate fishing so…
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
Rotate
- Comment on U.S. Has Spent $40 Million to Jail About 400 Migrants at Guantánamo 2 weeks ago:
Be glad they haven’t realized they need to make their bigotry efficient. That desire leads to gas chambers.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough. Allegory can still be sexual though. Layers.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 2 weeks ago:
Autocorrupt
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 2 weeks ago:
Starfucker and other songs would be considered quite horny. But it’s always more “rage sex” than sexy sex. So I mostly agree. Except when I don’t ;)
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 2 weeks ago:
Big Naked. Nine in Nails. Marylin Manson. Our Lady Peace, Alanis Morissette. There’s quite a few that could be both. But, alas, this is only a two axis graphic ;)
Also, how to tell I grew up on Canadian radio…
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, no kidding one of the most depressing songs ever: youtu.be/T69Yk6IccL0 – The end is the Beginning is the End (Batman and Robin soundtrack)
Also one of the best tracks ever.
- Comment on Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
This is because AI (vis-a-vis LLMs) became a religion to many, rather than a technology.
- Comment on Indian tech workers on edge about Trump's immigration policy 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
See also: Adolescence and the backlash to that show.
- Comment on The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
It’s very possible. Napkins are notorious for stealing orders of magnitude.
- Comment on Doppler 1 month ago:
I ain’t doing hyperbolic equations on my napkin ;)
- Comment on Doppler 1 month ago:
Instructions unclear, car stuck in dick.
- Comment on Doppler 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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. 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
Mercury feeling excluded
- Comment on SimCity Classic in RetroArch - Who needs Windows 11 when you can play on Windows 98? 2 months ago:
Just use wine on windows ;)
- Comment on Gold 2 months ago:
Aww, shucks
- Comment on Say it. 2 months ago:
