TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
- Comment on (Not so)Smartphone 10 hours ago:
You can make it do a bunch of stuff if you get creative with shortcuts.
My action button silences the media volume (and the phone just in case) and then vibrates the phone to tell me it has done this IF the phone is in a face-down orientation. Otherwise it toggles the flashlight on or off.
I’ve seen people with dozens of actions tied to the button depending on focus mode, orientation, time of day, location, all sorts of stuff.
- Comment on They are so clueless they don't realize that this just pisses everyone off. Shove your banana 14 hours ago:
I tried ordering a portion of a guy’s crop before it grew. Sadly the crop failed and I was refunded. I really want to try a gros michel.
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 2 days ago:
Bruh, you’re on lemmyshitpost, not lemmybetakenseriously.
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 2 days ago:
For someone on lemy.lol you sure take things too seriously. 😉
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 2 days ago:
Any of them are straight lines and decide the size of the star. Some of us are more refined and can handle diagonal sizing.
- Comment on Just keep typing, wage slaves 3 days ago:
Yeah, I kinda agree. They got lucky. Thousands would have died regardless of the evacuation plan if the right conditions came up.
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 4 days ago:
A proper company would instead be talking about compliance and how gifts of really any meaningful value have to be rejected outright.
- Comment on Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction 4 days ago:
As I understand it there have been a few towns over the years that have tried to ban them for pearl-clutchy reasons. “Oh think of the children!” or “how indecent!” type of thing.
Apparently they’re illegal in the entire state of Idaho.
And anything as harmless and silly as truck nuts that makes old uptight people lose their shit is something worth fighting for.
- Comment on Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction 5 days ago:
Most EVs have transmissions, they’re just usually single-speed. They have to adjust the RPM of the electric motor to a speed usable by the wheels.
Some have two-speed gearboxes, like the Porsche Taycan. This is needed because EV motors produce full torque at 0RPM and it stays there as the power increases, but eventually you reach a point where the power plateaus and the torque falls off. If you want more power at high speeds, you have to use a second gear.
- Comment on Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction 5 days ago:
Man, say what you will about truck culture, and I’ll probably agree, but I fuckin’ love truck nuts. I don’t know why, I don’t think it’s just immaturity because bodily humor isn’t usually my thing. But something about truck nuts makes me laugh.
I especially love that they trigger people enough that some places ban them.
- Comment on Poop In A Box 6 days ago:
That makes so much more sense.
- Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am. 1 week ago:
I often hear americans (even scientists) say that they prefer the Fahrenheit scale for weather forecasts, but I believe the perceived higher accuracy is an illusion. Forecasts aren’t that accurate for any given micro climate.
When I switched from Fahrenheit to Celsius I used a rough heuristic to get the Fahrenheit value from Celsius. What I discovered was that my heuristic, which was rounded and would skip entire degrees Fahrenheit, matched most weather app’s Fahrenheit value.
For example, if my app said 20°C, the other person’s said 68°F. If mine said 21°C, theirs said 70°F. If mine said 22°C, theirs said 72°F. If mine said 23°C, theirs said 73°F. It is very rare that mine has said, say, 21°C and theirs has said 69°F (or any temperature where the value was converted with decimals and then rounded).
That is to say, my experience certainly seems to indicate that for people using the same weather sources but in Fahrenheit, the value was still rounded to the nearest degree Celsius, then converted to Fahrenheit and rounded again.
That’s not to say you’ll never see 71°F or 69°F or other values that aren’t converted from an already rounded Celsius value, it all depends on what your data source is providing you. But nearly always, my rounded conversion from a rounded Celsius value matches what other people see in Fahrenheit.
This makes complete sense, because most people cannot tell the difference between 70°F and 71°F. And it’s difficult to predict regardless.
- Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am. 1 week ago:
Copying this post I made elsewhere recently:
I used to say this. But being a curious person, and one willing to test my own hypothesis, I decided to learn Celsius. Like, spend enough time with it to intuitively understand it, so that I could compare the two.
Almost six years later, I haven’t switched back. I much prefer Celsius for weather. Having 0° at freezing is far more useful than I suspected it would be, and having less granular degrees gives them more meaning, which makes understanding them easier.
Seriously, I struggle to express just how useful below-freezing temperatures being negative is. -5°C means so much more to me than 23°F, and that’s after thirty years of using Fahrenheit and only six of using Celsius.
- Comment on Poop In A Box 1 week ago:
Nah. Was it good?
- Comment on Poop In A Box 1 week ago:
That movie made me so mad.
The book I, Robot is a series of short stories presenting situations where it seems like robots didn’t follow the three laws of robotics and then explaining how they were caught up in loopholes, essentially. It’s great.
In the movie, the loophole is: “We put a second brain in the robots that doesn’t follow the three laws of robotics.”
(I might be wrong, it’s been a very long time since I’ve read the book or seen the movie. This is just what I remember.)
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 1 week ago:
F for temperatures affecting humans, C for science.
I used to say this. But being a curious person, and one willing to test my own hypothesis, I decided to learn Celsius. Like, spend enough time with it to intuitively understand it, so that I could compare the two.
Almost six years later, I haven’t switched back. I much prefer Celsius for weather. Having 0° at freezing is far more useful than I suspected it would be, and having less granular degrees gives them more meaning, which makes understanding them easier.
Seriously, I struggle to express just how useful below-freezing temperatures being negative is. -5°C means so much more to me than 23°F, and that’s after thirty years of using Fahrenheit and only six of using Celsius.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 1 week ago:
The range humans can survive in is roughly 0 to 100 in F, the full range of the scale. The range in Centigrade is roughly -17 to 30
Minor correction:
30°C is a relatively normal temperature for much of the world (not necessarily all the time, but during the hotter parts of the year at least). That’s 86°F. Where I am in Michigan today the high is 32°C.
0°F to 100°F is roughly -18°C to 38°C.
“Thirty is hot, twenty is nice, ten is chilly, zero is ice.”
(I’ve heard this as “ten is cold,” but to me ten isn’t cold, it’s just starting to get chilly. 10°C=50°F, and I wouldn’t call 50°F cold (depending on the season, I guess.)
Off topic, having spent my whole life using Fahrenheit until about six years ago when I decided to test the “Fahrenheit is better for describing weather as it effects humans” reasoning I always used by switching to Celsius on all my devices…I personally much prefer Celsius. It is remarkable how much more meaning I get from -5°C than I ever did from 23°F. Because a degree Celsius is less granular than a degree Fahrenheit, learning the meaning of a degree is much easier. And because the below-freezing temperatures are negative reflections of the above-freezing values, it’s much easier to understand cold temperatures in Celsius (in my opinion).
- Comment on Especially during this heat wave! 1 week ago:
But really breasts and the nipples on them aren’t inherently sexual and it’s tiring men think/act as if they are.
Inherently, no, but they are secondary sexual characteristics that our species has selected for long enough that the lizard brain instincts find them sexually appealing.
The problem isn’t that men think they’re sexual or find them a turn on. The problem is men not knowing how to control themselves.
- Comment on Especially during this heat wave! 1 week ago:
Although I was lightly bullied for my perky pokies as a young man, making me self-conscious about them at a level I have a hard time suppressing or ignoring.
- Comment on Moon Dust 1 week ago:
Turns out he’s also a climate change denier.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 week ago:
It’s “lemmyshitpost” not “lemmybetakenseriously.”
- Comment on America last night 1 week ago:
I heard a couple of comedians make jokes about the 787 Air India crash like two days after it happened.
They didn’t get any laughs, and even got a few mutters from the audience.
They said something like, “the plane crashed while taking off from Ahmedabad. Maybe it should be ‘Ah-plane-is-bad.’” Or maybe, “Ah-made-a-bad-plane.” I can’t remember. Crickets.
(Inside I wanted to tell them that the Boeing 787 has one of the best safety records of any commercial airliner. It’s not a bad plane. But obviously that isn’t funny either. And heckling is shitty.)
Then they said, “Miraculously one man survived. He walked off the plane, over to an ambulance, pointed back at the wreckage and said, ‘Do NOT go in there!’”
This got a few chuckles, but it was clearly uncomfortable.
I’m not sure how we know as a group what is okay and what isn’t okay to laugh about. But usually I argue humor is a good coping mechanism.
- Comment on We live in a society 1 week ago:
Right? I always laugh at this meme format because of that. Is she seriously shaming other people because she’s a poser?
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 2 weeks ago:
It’s actually a Chase credit card, and you can convert the cash back to Chase’s system IIRC. But you’d be better off using the Sapphire or whatever their metal card is called if you want the Chase rewards. Amazon rewards just give you cash to spend on Amazon by default.
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 5 weeks ago:
I hate the feel of loose fabric on me. If I wasn’t born male, I’d wear leggings.
Just wear leggings with shorts over them, that’s what I do when working out outdoors in the colder months. It’s a perfectly acceptable look.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 5 weeks ago:
That’s just what we call “the Tobias experience.”
- Comment on Just asking questions. 4 months ago:
- Comment on Snap, Crackle, Transubstantiate 5 months ago:
They’re pretty bland. Kinda melt-in-your-mouth. You can get them from a Catholic supply store, or you can order them online, if you want to try them out. They’ll sell them to anyone, they only care about limiting who eats them after they’ve been consecrated during mass.
- Comment on Smart methodology 5 months ago:
And could also corrode the cartridge. I knew a guy whose son absolutely ruined a Pokémon 3DS cartridge that way.
- Comment on My mom asking me why I'm burnt out from my job in health information management [Day 57] 5 months ago:
After you’ve seen it, go watch The Disaster Artist.