zik
@zik@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bombs Awat 4 weeks ago:
I wonder what the “duck that hurt” rate is for these fish
- Comment on US Democracy 1 month ago:
Trump has threatened to end democracy. So yesterday may end up being the last time anyone in the US gets to vote.
I wouldn’t call that a win for democracy.
- Comment on Hermit Crab Housing Market 4 months ago:
It’s a tax on buying a house.
- Comment on Do 9-5 jobs still exist in the U.S.? 6 months ago:
Expected work hours seem to be increasing everywhere over the last twenty years or so. It’s gotten pretty nuts.
- Comment on Never Forget 7 months ago:
I thought there was a prosecutor who pursued this beyond all reasonable bounds, making Aaron’s life a living hell and driving him to suicide?
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 7 months ago:
It’s a great heat conductor roo
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 7 months ago:
Fair enough. I’ll fix that.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 7 months ago:
It was hardly ever used in WiFi. Two modulation schemes were available in the original WiFi spec, FHSS and DSSS. DSSS was always preferred over FHSS and in practice FHSS was hardly used and eventually obsoleted a decade ago. It was never “the basis” of WiFi as claimed in the meme - that’s simply incorrect.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 7 months ago:
Yes, it’s been obsoleted in wifi since 2014
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 7 months ago:
This is mostly wrong: while she did invent what would later be called Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS), it isn’t used in modern WiFi or in GPS. It is used in Bluetooth though. (It was an option in older WiFi for a while)
- Comment on Horrible!! 7 months ago:
Honestly that sounds like the kind of conversation I’d be into.
- Comment on Smooth brained tick taster 8 months ago:
For Australians: they mean American opossums, not Australian possums. Our cute little guys have appropriately wrinkly brains.
- Comment on Taylor Swift needs a glass of water at night too 8 months ago:
In my country that means you wouldn’t respect most people who’ve paid off a house. 1 million isn’t as much money as it used to be.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 8 months ago:
Close… That moon’s called LV426
- Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana? 8 months ago:
Also politicians drink alcohol so they’re not exactly lining up to ban it.
- Comment on Police stopped Brad on his morning walk for wearing a hoodie. Ten minutes later, he was dead 9 months ago:
If police don’t have a working body cam there should be an automatic presumption of guilt on their part.
- Comment on CFCs 9 months ago:
It’s already been addressed in Linux - not sure about other OSes. They doubled the size of time data so now you can keep using it until after the heat death of the universe.
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 9 months ago:
You appear to be arguing that even if microplastics are present in the environment it’s not a problem. That’s a brave stance to take given the wealth of information to the contrary.
Even if they do break down it’s bad. Plastics have additives in them which are used to improve their material properties. These additives include BPA and PFAS (and similar). We know that these compounds cause problems in humans and the environment. So if they were “easily digestible by the body” that would absolutely be a big problem.
There’s no world in which “nothing will be harmed” by plastic decaying. Some people even argue that conventional plastics are less dangerous in landfill than bioplastics because at least they don’t release dangerous by-products like microplastics or “forever chemicals”.
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 9 months ago:
They don’t break down completely in landfill. They just turn into microplastics.
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 9 months ago:
Despite claims to the contrary, PLA does break down into microplastics. It’s possible that under certain conditions (such as those found in industrial composters) those microplastics might be broken down into starches and consumed by bacteria, but most teabags will just end up in landfill and won’t break down beyond microplastics.
- Comment on The document specifying the usage of ISO8601 doesn't use ISO8601 9 months ago:
ISO uses a weird separator between the time and the date. eg. 2018-04-01T15:20:15.000-0700
RFC3339 can have a space instead which is a bit more readable: eg. 2020-12-09 16:09:53+00:00
- Comment on If only it was like that 11 months ago:
As an Australian enjoying summer right now I honestly think it’s a bit chilly on days we don’t get to 25C.
- Comment on If only it was like that 11 months ago:
We see 50C in Australia from time to time now thanks to global warming.
- Comment on If only it was like that 11 months ago:
A perfect temperature to slow cook beef ragu
- Comment on Headphones are a crutch 11 months ago:
It’s not uncommon among high level classical musicians apparently.
Personally, I prefer Spotify.
- Comment on Come Back! 1 year ago:
If you knew about Poland’s political situation you’d want to run too.
- Comment on Control Ultimate Edition on Steam | 75% off - 9,99€ 1 year ago:
Well it’s not really a gun game. So not guns.
- Comment on Control Ultimate Edition on Steam | 75% off - 9,99€ 1 year ago:
If you go into this game for the gun combat you’re probably playing the wrong game.
- Comment on 'Wildly more expensive': Workers with in-office jobs spend about $31/day that they wouldn't working from home — here's what employers need to do 1 year ago:
Companies that adapt to remote work will have access to better workers who can afford to be choosey about jobs. And since remote workers concentrate better and work longer hours they’re even more productive.
Companies which force workers to come into the office will languish and become less profitable and they won’t even know why.
- Comment on Unity ...It Just Keeps Get Worse 1 year ago:
Godot has C# as an option.