Thorry84

@Thorry84@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to turn the car to a flying car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know hPa is the preferred unit for air pressure and is used a lot. Usually referring to the air pressure of the atmosphere.

  Also hectometer is used a lot when talking about land measurements. And we don’t mostly keep to mm and m, in my experience cm is the most used and most useful measurement for every day objects.

  All of the different prefixes are valid and are used. It just depends on what context, which one is the most useful. No reason to stick to the 10^3 units, just use them all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to turn the car to a flying car⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If we take the banana to be 180 grams and the square dishwasher to be 0.36 square meter, that would come to about 140,000 bananas per square dishwasher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to turn the car to a flying car⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  100psi is 6894 hPa for the freedom challenged among us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the aliens are hostile because they don’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EXCLUSIVE - Ubisoft Wants to Change the 'Far Cry Formula' with Far Cry 7 and Maverick⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked 3 and 4 fine, but I loved 5. It had mediocre gameplay, but the story and missions were fun, with a lot of Easter eggs. Especially in multi player coop it was pretty fun.

  I absolutely despised 6. It was bland and very broken on release. It also felt like 3 games shoved together that didn’t really fit or interact. I later found it this was because that was exactly what they did. Due to covid the people working on it didn’t really work together and the end result was a total mismatch. The story was very predictable and not worth it, even though they marketed the hell out of it. The side stories were mostly absent and not interesting at all. The game lacked any humor and wasn’t self aware like 5 was. The amounts of crashes and bugs made the game borderline unplayable when it came out. And these weren’t the funny amount of jank I enjoy kind of crashes, these were proper game breaking bugs. There was no enemy variation at all and a lot of copy paste assets. To the point that every checkpoint that needed to be liberated had the exact same layout and enemies, down to the spawn location. The weapons and enemy strength made no sense at all. You’d use a big ass gun upgraded with special armor piercing bullets, shoot a regular dude right in the head and he would just shrug it off and keep going. The AI was also a joke, with enemies not reacting at all to what you did, just milling about and shooting at random. The game would send out special forces, which would promptly give up once you rode down the street. Some random pleb enemy on a corner could however snipe you at 300m somehow. The whole game made absolutely no sense.

  The only interesting part was the firework backpack, but even this one fell pretty flat. There was one that was pretty OP, so that’s the one most people used. Which is a shame, because fucking around with different packs could have been interesting. These were also broken on release, where most of the times the rockets would clip into the character model and just explode. So instead of doing damage and helping in a fight, you’d just blow yourself up.

  I played a good amount of Far Cry 5, 100% completing it a couple of times. I did the story for Far Cry 6 and some of the side stuff in about 12 hours, then uninstalled the game and never played it again. I was so disappointed, Far Cry is dead to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ewww⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is about 1,260,000,000,000,000,000,000 liter of water on Earth. Lets say Hitler was a pretty good water drinker and on average he ingested 4 liter of water (not just in drinking but also in food). Hitler lived for about 20,454 days and would have ingested about 81,816 of water. Lets say you are a water superfan and live to be 100 years old, then there is a chance of 0.001185845% you will drink some of the water that Hitler drunk at some point.

  So it’s probably not been in Hitlers mouth. Dinosaur piss I’ll leave as an exercise for the reader.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching Joker: Folie à Deux, 37 mins in, I'm liking this!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, but if you’re posting on social media instead of watching the movie, is it really a good movie?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hopefully this gets fixed soon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The name of the band is for their quest to become a full circle, a feat they have not attained thus far even though they have gotten close on several occasions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Caves Of Qud': Roguelike RPG Finally Launches After 17 Years in Development (And It's Really Good)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This game is awesome. Fair warning tho: it is hard af

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

  Even in a unjust world mob justice isn’t justice. This means a mob deciding someone is guilty and acting out punishment is unjust. But also a mob deciding a crime should go unpunished is unjust.

  There’s plenty wrong with how insurance works and plenty wrong with the justice system. But instead of giving up, we should be trying to fix these issues. It’s all to easy to give in to our basic instincts and point to someone to blame. We punish them instead of fixing the issues. Killing one ceo might feel good, but it doesn’t really change the big picture and in fact constitutes layer upon layer of failure. We should be better than that. History is full of people (singular and groups) being used as a scape goat to deflect and feel like something is being done, whilst in fact not actually fixing anything and just feeding hate.

  Also in a capitalist world, the people with the most money have the most power. If we collectively decide it’s open warfare, purge style distopia, they are going to have the upper hand. So purely from a self interest point of view, it would be better to work on fixing shit instead of reverting to monke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My knee gave out at work today and all I could think of was this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And when you try to stand back up you make this involuntarily grunt sound that alerts everyone as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yo mama joke⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just going to sign all my mails at work with please long time to think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cowboy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then the cows get made into cow burger no wait ham burger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I once went down the rabbit hole of thinking about how the targeting works on the TNG kind of transporter. Like they need to know to the molecule where your body ends and the rest of the universe begins. And you want it to identify clothing, because you don’t want to end up nude on the other side. Plus it needs to identify what creepy crawlies are a part of you and which were just randomly wandering by. We don’t want any of those pesky Fly problems now do we? This might sound easy, but is actually extremely hard. The human body is very complex and like a ship of Theseus what is part of the body is a bit nebulous and can change. All of the microbiome in our gut is essential for us to stay alive. And more importantly we don’t want to leave behind a puddle of crap every time we transport. Plus what happens if we come out the other end, do our intestines just implode? Or does the transporter fill them with air, leaving you to fart uncontrollably until you die?

  And how does it know what clothes are? If I’m wearing shoes, does it know where the shoes end and the floor starts? What if I’m wearing skies? What if I’m barefoot on a carpet? What if it’s a leather carpet? What if I’m wearing shoes made by folding carpet around my feet?

  The only thing that makes sense is a super powerful AI system that can real-time scan every molecule and figure out what’s what. And it doesn’t only need to be smart, it also needs a lot of real world knowledge. It needs to know what is “logical” to include in every situation. This means it has to be an AGI, has to be superintelligent (at a minimum speed wise) and would most likely be sentient. Them being used for this one and only purpose is really cruel.

  This leads me to the conclusion TNG style transporters are basically slavery and put a whole different spin on the morality of the people in that universe. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a 'ama' sub?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybelline

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Withdrawal is going to make people go mad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one banana Michael. What could it cost, $10?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes the horsepill⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also you fart too. So there’s that…

  So you’re saying to solve climate change we need to remove the humans? You might be on to something there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes the horsepill⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  0 emissions? Methane from cattle is a large contributer to climate change. If we had as much horses as we have cars, the amount of methane would be too much to handle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Now I can see it’s the most magnificent thing I’ve ever seen…”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a variation on the default post causes masturbation copy-pasta. I think there are at least a couple dozen variations and most of them are glorious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Now I can see it’s the most magnificent thing I’ve ever seen…”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  PLEASE put an NFSW tag on your post.

  I immediately started masturbating furiously in the bus in front of 43 people. They realized what was going on, opened Reddit to this post and all 43 started to fap furiously too. Even the 64 year old Malaysian nun on the front seat couldn’t contain herself - her entire arm was up her vagina as she screamed with pleasure.

  I was so horny that my phone flew out of my hand & broke through the window, letting in a relentless tide of horny pigeons who were instantly fucked to death by the passengers. The nun shoved an antire pigeon family up her v. Now there is a bus full of exhausted passengers, dead pigeons and buckets of cum and squirt, all because you posted this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stars⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest question: Do people think stars look like the star shape because of diffraction spikes in refractor telescopes? I thought the star shape pre-dated any refractor telescope. And I don’t know how many people would have seen refractor images back in the days to make it so culturally engrained?

  The post-processing used in astronomical observations is a really interesting topic. I’m following the debate around the black hole images with great interest. I don’t know enough about the specifics to have an opinion, but it is very interesting and has overlap with some of the things I do for work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the next steps for Americans to help prevent the worsening of genocide in Palestine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The fight is over mate, we lost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the next steps for Americans to help prevent the worsening of genocide in Palestine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How can a regular person block shipments or arms or dismantle AIPAC? That’s not possible.

  What does boosting voices of soon to be dead people do to stop them from dying? What does organizing or donating do?

  Trump has promised Israel everything they need, no questions asked, no limits. And they already have so much, they don’t really need a lot more. They can already destroy Paletine, they can already destroy parts of Iran and Lebanon. They just need the extra stuff and funds to do it quicker and destroy more of those countries.

  And don’t think for a second Trump and their cronies won’t block any money flow from the US to anywhere near there and divert it to Israel instead. And block organizations in the US from doing anything. Israel is already blocking aid for Palestine even from organizations like the Red Cross. What are small organizations going to do?

  Plus the time to act has come and gone. Time is up, this is going to happen within months. We can’t organize, lobby for policy change, set up aid and demonstrations. It’s done, there is a deadline and that means death for a whole lot of people.

  All we can do at this point is look with shock and horror as the far right grips the world and destroys a lot of the things we hold dear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the next steps for Americans to help prevent the worsening of genocide in Palestine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm yes defend, by …checks notes… killing every man woman and child in neighboring countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the next steps for Americans to help prevent the worsening of genocide in Palestine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve said things yes, but not how to do those things (some of which are plainly impossible) or how those things will help (none of those things will actually help). Doing useless stuff just to feel like you tried isn’t actually helping anyone. Israel is going to kill a lot of people and finish multiple genocides and there isn’t a damned thing anyone can do about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the next steps for Americans to help prevent the worsening of genocide in Palestine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s doomerism and there is reality.

  This is reality and it’s bad. It isn’t a maybe it will be fine maybe it won’t situation. Trump has promised wealthy powerful people a lot of stuff to get him into power. And they put him into power specifically to do that stuff. They have plainly said exactly what they are going to do, laid out an agenda and promised to follow it as best they can. The final hurdle was the election, which even if it went a bit bad for them could have still worked with lawsuits about voter fraud or plain insurrection. But it didn’t went bad for them, it was a major victory. They couldn’t have dreamt of a better outcome. There are no more hurdles, no more barriers, no more limits. At this point it’s denial to think they aren’t going to do what they set out to do.

  I feel there are things we can do for our own mental health and maybe the people around us. But as for the big picture, it’s done, it’s over. We’ve seen first hand what happens if this kind of thing goes down in a country and the outcome is always the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny but it's even less funny⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well once the US stops support and drops out of Nato and Putin starts steamrolling across Eastern Europe countries after they decimated what’s left of Ukraine, I’m sure all the borders will be closed.

  Not that it does much good. If the option is get tortured and killed or try your luck with an illegal border crossing people will always try. Even if the border police starts shooting like at the North Korean border, people would still try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually a plastic ribbon with a metallic foil in a zigzag pattern on top of it. It’s extremely cheap and does a pretty good job. It usually sits on top of a metal bar that can deflect a tiny little bit.

  You can read all about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain_gauge

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because of the way these scales work. They use a material that deforms under stress and when it deforms the resistance changes. By putting current through this material and measuring the voltage drop, it can be mapped to how much stress the material is under and thus how much weight is on the scale.

  This is a pretty roundabout way and has a lot of caveats, but it is very cheap. So cheap scales always work this way. That’s why they aren’t super accurate and have deviations depending on things like temperature. Another big downside is any permanent deformation ruins the calibration, giving incorrect results. That’s why you never put more weight on kitchen scales than it says, it will break them.

  The issue you are running into is the way it measures. It applies a very specific voltage and current in order to get the result. The lookup table it uses is only valid within a narrow range. When the battery voltage goes outside that range, it can no longer perform the measurement. Even though there’s plenty of juice for things like the little processing chip and the LCD display. They don’t need a lot of power and can do with low voltages. But it can no longer weigh anything so it just errors out with a low battery warning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hehe he said "hole"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And bring him to a free clinic to see after his bunghole.