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- Comment on Like most normal human males… 15 hours ago:
With all respect, yes, I hope so.
- Comment on Like most normal human males… 17 hours ago:
Well, that’s fair. I have to point out that the tabloids are pulling a lot of words out of very little data. Exactly the opposite of what Zuckerberg does. He might very well play them like a fiddle.
Anyway, another plus for him is that his phone number is publicly available. I’d like to call him up some day just to talk about meat, while I never really have any reason to call Elon.
- Comment on Like most normal human males… 18 hours ago:
I was only taught one comma rule in English: "if in doubt, leave it out ". In this case I would advise you to leave it in.
However it’s your pillow. You make the bed that you sleep in.
- Comment on Like most normal human males… 18 hours ago:
I’m not even sure if the previous poster was being serious, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone actually thinks of Mark Zuckerberg as a regular dude, because he’s so dorky and awkward that it’s relatable for some people.
It’s pretty clear that the guy has affuenza and having trouble with social relations. I don’t hate that about him, but it doesn’t mean that I will ever consider him to be a regular guy. Like many other rich kids, he never had to grow up and grow out of the juvenile belief that money is the end goal. He’s still a 15 year old thinking it’s clever to cheat and win in monopoly.
He’s a character though, and I like that about him. The world could generally benefit from having more oddballs, instead of billionaire eccentrics. In this way, I’d award him 1 more charisma point than Elon Musk.
- Comment on Like most normal human males… 1 day ago:
The thing is… everyone is a regular guy.
All the movie stars, famous musicians, politicians and renowned scientists, yes, those are all regular guys too. They eat, shit and fall asleep on a pillow every night or about as much as regular people do and usually not all at once. 2 arms 2 legs 1 head and so. Mostly. A bit above average perhaps, but generally they have a regular number of limbs.
Mark likely does all those regular things just as well as regular guys.
However… Someone who goes on a live stream to introduce his new cutting edge technology by staring into a camera without blinking for 45 minutes endlessly mumbling about smoked meats while rocking a caesarian haircut. That’s also perfectly regular… for a lizard.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 1 day ago:
Secret lovers.
- Comment on Fresh air 2 days ago:
What can I say, I like it hot. Hotter than public saunas.
- Comment on Fresh air 2 days ago:
I was chilling in a sauna in a holiday resort, when some guy opened the door poking his head in “Phew, it’s warm in here. Hey kids come over, they’ve got a sauna!”. He stood in the door waiting for the kids to come around. “Oh my good it’s unbearably hot, let’s let some of that heat out, so we can breathe.” "But dad, we don’t want to go to the sauna ". Leaves without closing the door.
- Comment on Anon makes money 4 days ago:
The average Joe won’t bother stealing your bike, but the pros will simply take a bolt cutter and remove your chain or lock.
A good bolt cutter is a small investment for people who do this for a living.
- Comment on Cum 5 days ago:
We’re on a different forum now.
These days the kids can buy a machine that does (up to) 700 strokes per minute.
- Comment on True quality 1 week ago:
I know and I get the meme, hence the introductionary disclaimer, but it appears that I really hit nail on people eyeballing wood in discount wood supply stores for no good reason…
- Comment on True quality 1 week ago:
I got a lot of downvotes… Is your wood really that shit? I buy the cheapest crap in Europe and it’s still… straight (enough) for ordinary construction and even more. It’s only if I needed unfixed poles or detail work that I’d ever consider looking for “straight wood”. We do have shit wood but that’s mainly aesthetics. Look at the edge. Bendy boards are totally fine. They’ll attach just fine.
Anyway, warning, long story coming in:
The only time I’ve purchased wood directly from a mill was for a musical instrument. My friend wanted to build a fretless basd and asked if I wanted to come along for the ride. Sure, dude.
So he got some kind of hardwood from Southern America perfectly cut but still a spare and it cost him more than buying a god damn finished fretless bass.
The best part is that the idiot never even followed through and built it.
He still has that $200 piece of perfect wood somewhere in his boxes of stuff that he didn’t unpack the last 2 times that he moved.
Anyway, go ahead and eyeball the wood. I don’t mind.
- Comment on True quality 1 week ago:
You don’t want to make hockey stick from a bend piece of wood anyway. Those are made of carbon fibre, and if you want a one from wood it’d be better to use some kind of laminate glued to shape, otherwise it’d feel dead and probably break when used.
- Comment on True quality 1 week ago:
Yeah sure, I doubt anyone would try to sell that as a 2x4.
Anyway the point is that the professional carpenters don’t give a shit about it, so neither should DIYers. Once the 2x4 is put up and covered in drywall, nobody will ever know if it has a mild curve.
The actual thing to watch out for are the edges if they are visible in the end project and also cuts that position the knots poorly. I’ve seen 2x4s where a knot went halfway through the width, which would would only hold half the weight that it’s supposed to.
- Comment on True quality 1 week ago:
What are you building that requires perfectly straight wood?
- Comment on Nice. 1 week ago:
Doesn’t make much sense for negative values of X, nor decimal numbers.
- Comment on True quality 1 week ago:
Funny meme aside, there’s usually no good reason to pick up each and every 2x4 in the store and close one eye to stare down it to judge how straight it is before buying.
It’s wood. It bends. You attach it at both ends. If you attach it straight, it’s gonna be straightly attached.
When you actually need a straight piece of wood for finer woodwork like making a guitar fretboard or similar, you make that piece of wood straight yourself by buying a large piece of wood directly from the sawmill and shaping it yourself.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
Maps without Japan.
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 week ago:
That is my understanding.
I can’t find the article that I read just yesterday, but this is somewhat the same story: theregister.com/…/microsoft_windows_recovery_envi…
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 week ago:
Can’t or won’t? The same issue exists for both windows 10 and 11, but they haven’t closed the ticket for windows 11… Typical bullshit. It’s not exactly planned obsolescence, but when a bug comes up like that they’re just gonna grab the opportunity to go “sry impossible, plz buy new products”
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 week ago:
Absolutely. The computers on Voyager hold the record for being the longest continuously running computer of all time.
- Comment on something something 1 week ago:
Cities are just like that. Food is transported in and shit goes out the drain. People commute in and out of cities in a daily cycle only to keep the toilets flowing.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
I agree. Smaller local modern salt reactors would be a better use of nuclear than investing in the conventional centralised nuclear plants. However they’re still in the experimental phase and not easily available. I too would love if “we” starting making a lot of them, but there’s no finished design or anyone offering to build them for mass deployment.
Right now, with the currently available options, renewable is the only cheap mass produced energy source that can beeasily deployed everywhere and in different scales.
Hopefully the container sized nuclear plants will eventually be as easy to setup.
Renewables also have a similar issue with storage. It exists mainly in experimental projects. It’s extremely local if it even makes financial sense to do it. In places where existing nuclear or hydro is available it will not be make much financial sense to store excess renewable energy with a loss.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
Nuclear is not cheap.
- Comment on It's called "social jet lag". Yes I know about sleep hygiene. 2 weeks ago:
Even this might be too simple.
The cicadean rhythm is synchronizing to the light of the sun, temperatures, when you eat, when you exercise and other kinds of routines, but what happens when we remove those?
Scientists in the 1960s set out to find out. From the late 1960 to early 1980s they put test subjects in a bunker. They found out that the human cycle is longer than 24 hours. The average might be around 25 hours, but not all. The longest was 50 hours. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_experiment
Another well known experiment happened in 1989 where Stefania Follini was isolated in a cave for 4 months. Her internal clock went into a 48 hour cycle. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefania_Follini
Of course these are extremes and not very useful knowledge for anyone who sees the sub daily or have actual stuff to do on a regular basis. However it shows that out sleep cycles are very much dependent on being synchronized to what we need to do.
Looking at people in hot places, who sleep (siesta) when it’s too hot outside, or people from non-industrial societies who might be active both during day and night and sleep in between, it’s pretty obvious that the 9-5 productive cycle is not at all “natural” for anyone.
- Comment on They say the opposite of pro is con right? 2 weeks ago:
“Fake it until you make it” is a profession.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 2 weeks ago:
Yes, the difference being that the existence of Neptune and Pluto could be visually confirmed through telescope more easily. They’re also not visible to the naked eye, but they can be found in telescopic images by comparing to a map of the sky at other times. Later on they were visited by probes.
I don’t know what counts as a discovery of a planet. Personally, I’d like to see any kind of real data from the planet before claiming it discovered.
The calculations can be 100% correct, but they’re not verified until there’s some kind of external proof.
The planet X (or 9 or whatever) has yet to be seen in any kind of way.
So far the calculations have been confirmed by other calculations showing the same thing, and they’re most certainly correct, but the “solid” proof is still missing.
(It doesn’t have to be solid or visual, I don’t know the English word for it; it just needs to originate from the actual existence of the planet and not only from the effects of its theoretical existence.)
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 2 weeks ago:
Yeah well, not really. Next year maybe, according to the article linked yesterday.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 2 weeks ago:
They found more evidence for its existence recently, but no. Nobody has ever seen it or even found out in which direction to look. The evidence is that the other planets move in ways that only makes sense if there is some mass somewhere pulling their orbits.
Sort of like having to discover the moon from watching the tides in the sea.
- Comment on speedometers 3 weeks ago:
Ha. Thanks. I’ll use that on my family today .