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- Comment on Le Penguini 1 day ago:
NZ penguins are almost certainly counted on the number over Australia.
The fact that each entire continent gets a single number is misleading… But then, that’s why we are here.
- Comment on Damn sure I tried. 3 days ago:
Nah, I was a kid just trying to harass the insects, not trying to get rid of them.
They would fly off the skimmer anyway, and if your pool is the only water body around, they would be back in no time.
- Comment on Damn sure I tried. 3 days ago:
Have you tried throwing water on top of it?
One could imagine this would suffice, but no, it’s hydrophobic.
- Comment on Anon crunches some numbers 6 days ago:
Yes, it took a really long time for people to start adding numbers.
- Comment on Play dead 6 days ago:
For what color of bear you should impersonate an Interpol agent then?
- Comment on hehe 👉👈 6 days ago:
They ARE fairly safe, a lot of things have to go wrong
Well. Are they grounded? Because they look like any loose wire or even induction could make the stuff on the photo lethal. Not something common, but pretty clearly one single point of failure.
If they are grounded, it would also not be viable for an adult to push it around.
- Comment on Black Holes 6 days ago:
At the close vicinity where they don’t actually agree if it’s inside or outside.
- Comment on Black Holes 6 days ago:
All of the rest of the physics seems to check out, though
What is the entire problem, because all of the rest of the physics don’t get you coherent answers around a black hole.
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 6 days ago:
Also, it’s bothering me that it’s not immediate.
If he was going to be wooshed, he could at least get the details right…
- Comment on Expert here. 1 week ago:
“A new species discovered” means “hey, we noticed nobody ever catalogued that one!”
- Comment on The way two of the usb's are one way while the other is another way 1 week ago:
Nah, for some reason no device puts USB3 on every port.
- Comment on The way two of the usb's are one way while the other is another way 1 week ago:
Well, it accomplishes breaking the standard…
And the USB3 port that you would expect to get some attention is the wrong one.
- Comment on Why do people like the Punisher comics? 1 week ago:
Personally, I’ve never read it. But the reason people like or dislike stories isn’t because of powers or machines in them.
- Comment on Dirt Man 1 week ago:
Yep. It’s Towards-bear-land, and Against-towards-bear-land.
IMO, nobody every made it clear if it’s (against-towards)-bear-land, what would be away-from-bear-land, or against-(towards-bear-land).
- Comment on Bird 1 week ago:
Well, temporarily.
- Comment on Bird 1 week ago:
Yes.
if 'is_eating_birdseed' in obj.__dir__() and obj.is_eating_birdseed: return 'Is duck!'
- Comment on get sum 2 weeks ago:
It’s not obviously internet porn
It’s social networks and the loss of 3rd (and 1st) places. Everybody knows what the problem is. Everybody has some idea how to fix it (look how to fix car transit). Every person in power is intent on refusing to improve things in any way and making it worse.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 2 weeks ago:
Keep in mind that he already ordered the military forces to siege US cities, and they gone through the process of doing it while refusing to escalate into actual violence.
Trump doesn’t seem to have that much control. I’m not sure he would be arrested if he ordered a strike, but I don’t think it would happen either.
- Comment on I try to spice it up with some VB Macros but it's still ultimately just a spreadsheet. 2 weeks ago:
As an engineer, this is missing a first bump where you stop doing “basic operations” still in school, and develop an intrinsic fear of “numbers and counting”.
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a neurologist either, so take this with a huge grain of salt, but it seems that I’ve gone a bit deeper on the rabbit hole.
AFAIK, “brain processing” seems to be mostly signal propagation. Our brains don’t work anything like the neural networks we use, but it seems to work like some kind of neural network, and “processing” being made by moving signals from one place to another is part of it.
The one effect of sleep that I know of is exactly the kind of “environmental cleanup” necessary to make the electrical signals move faster. Now, there are certainly lots of other effects I don’t know of, and for all I know the speed could actually be bounded and all that sleep does is to keep it at the boundary. Also, “tired” is a very ambiguous word here. But still, I’d expect it to be important.
- Comment on 🐎 = 🪲 2 weeks ago:
Yes, most do. The question wasn’t about most.
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 2 weeks ago:
You’d be surprised. The speed of electrical pulses inside neurons change due to all kinds of factors, like training and diet.
I do really expect them to change with tiredness too.
- Comment on 🐎 = 🪲 2 weeks ago:
Crustaceans, probably.
- Comment on oof 3 weeks ago:
Well, if they are doing the same jobs you are, then they aren’t reaping any of the benefits.
They should be able to do some jobs that you aren’t prepared for. Personally, I would say anybody not to do one unless they have an specific job in mind… Most people I know that did one while working are quite happy with the result.
- Comment on oof 3 weeks ago:
Around here, it’s probably because people are deeply aware of all the problems and unaware of all the gains.
The neighbor’s grass is always greener…
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 3 weeks ago:
A medieval star!
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 3 weeks ago:
Just to add because nobody mentioned that yet… But you can always push stuff faster than the speed of sound, it will just stop being a liquid, and probably explode, but there’s no law saying the material can’t go faster.
- Comment on Not great, not terrible 3 weeks ago:
Well, one of those is “easy”, the other is really hard.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 3 weeks ago:
Force is the last refuge of everyone. What is weird is when people that one would expect to be powerful resort to it.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 3 weeks ago:
Get a bottle of pure oxygen and open it over a tongue-simulator¹ to see what happens.
People usually use a hot-dog. But with oxygen, even a piece of wood is close enough.