MartianSands

@MartianSands@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨she just doesn't understand me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that we’re discussing the behaviour of phones, I’m quite certain that there was never a time when they generally had line out ports. Also, I can’t imagine people are connecting their Bluetooth speakers to the wrong interface.

  What you’re describing is still wishful thinking, because there’s no world where every consumer device is going to have accurately calibrated volume regardless of whether there’s a protocol which specifies it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨she just doesn't understand me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pure wishful thinking. The vast majority of users wouldn’t even know what line level is, and you can’t expect end users to have audio engineering expertise. You also can’t expect anyone other than an audiophile or actual audio engineer to be able to get alll of their consumer electronics conform to such a standard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨she just doesn't understand me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, perfectly reasonable precaution so long as it’s possible to calibrate it per device

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨she just doesn't understand me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get really irritated when my phone limits volume with a notification like this, because the phone has no idea what hardware I have playing the sound. They’ve made some unfounded assumption about how loud 80% volume actually is, and interrupt whatever I’m doing to complain about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think sake could serve the role beer did, historically. Certainly in medieval Europe, they made what today would be considered a weak beer yo drink for basic hydration. That was by far the easiest way for them to ensure the water was safe to drink.

  I’m pretty sure if you tried that with sake, you’d die

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do other languages use for "magic" words; or names and titles in fantasy and sci-fi novels or cinema?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what names are typical, but they certainly aren’t using actual norse gods. All the characters, gods included, have german-sounding names, but they’re mostly long enough that I doubt people use them routinely in real life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Throwing paint into a jet engine really is damage. You gave to take the engine apart and meticulously clean out the paint before you can run it again, because otherwise the engine could do itself serious harm next time it’s started. That’s a very expensive thing to do.

  That actually makes it a very effective act of protest, which is why the government has come down so hard on them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps, but they do still need to know who’s going to be absent even if they’re going to approve it either way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Light is a subset of the electromagnetic spectrum

  No, it’s not. In physics, we call the entire spectrum “light”, because it’s all fundamentally the same thing.

  We can talk about “visible light”, but that’s a subset of light in general. Microwaves, radio waves, x-rays, gamma radiation, and any other section of the spectrum you can think of are all light

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨blursed⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but there are far more things which will kill the entire person at the same dose they’ll kill the cancer than things which can be carefully controlled by choosing the right dose.

  These studies which claim to kill cancer in a petri dish usually turn out to be the former, because not killing the host is the difficult part

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT’S THE FEDS!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an implementation detail, not really relevant to my point.

  I don’t think you appreciate how powerful those magnets are. Any ferromagnetic object would be doing well to avoid binding up completely when held right up to the device

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT’S THE FEDS!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Realistically, the mechanism would jam. I doubt the hammer would fall, being squeezed hard against whatever structure supports it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Ljungavik Dog: A Mesolithic dog burial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Stories about events we can identify in the archeological record, probably. Forest fires, major battles, geological events, things like that which can be used to line the stories up with specific real-world events

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s unlikely to cause anything to outright fail, but it will certainly be creating bottlenecks and inefficiencies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delicious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cuboids are prisms. Specially, they’re rectangular prisms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we get humans on the moon in 1969 and are still struggling to get the Starship rocket to launch properly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Artemis 1 launch was also staggeringly expensive, and yet to be repeated.

  In the time it’s taken to develop that rocket, SpaceX has gone from it’s very first real flight (by which I mean actually achieving something, rather than a pure test flight) to launching far more every year than the entire rest of the world combined. Note that by that definition, Artemis hasn’t had a single “real” flight yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next on the hydraulic press channel!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just one padlock is enough, but you can use up to 6.

  You need all the locks removed before it’ll open, so you don’t need to count on someone to carefully count everyone back in. You just make sure that each person uses their own lock

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the Israel thing going on?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing I’d add is “not particularity nice to the Muslims living there” is putting it mildly.

  Because there’s always tension, Israel takes its security very seriously. Unlike most countries, who put a token effort into security most of the time, Israel really is an armed fortress. That makes it very easy for someone with an itchy trigger finger to shoot someone who didnt deserve shooting. Even with the best will in the world, it would happen from time to time.

  That, of course, makes the Palestinians very angry. An angry population poses more of a threat, and is more likely to do something genuinely aggressive. The Israeli security is thus tightened further, and their soldiers get even itchier trigger fingers and around and around we go.

  It doesn’t take long before everyone involved has a personal grudge for one reason or another, and things can get really vicious.