CaptainBlagbird
@CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
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- Comment on Guy turns earthquake into music (9mins) 1 week ago:
That rocks!
- Comment on What would happen if every atom on earth was to simultaneously double in size? 2 weeks ago:
But think about our smartphones!
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 3 weeks ago:
Year 349 since the return of Late Jesus.
- Comment on It's lazy, if you ask me 3 weeks ago:
A house ‘in construction’ doesn’t have any taxes attached to it, hence the Sicilian’s abode can become an eternal work in progress to avoid hefty fees and excesses.
- Comment on Inside a Russian troll factory in Ghana 4 weeks ago:
Duration 7min 30s
- Comment on Why don't passanger airplanes come with parachutes for people? 5 weeks ago:
Wtf, Felix Baumgartner’s Jump was over 12 years ago in 2012? What wibbly wibbly time fuckery is this?? 😵💫
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’d imagine that nuclear reactors have multiple safety features, including automatic shutdown systems, passive cooling mechanisms, and containment structures, to prevent catastrophic events even in the absence of human intervention.
Over time stuff would likely still break/leak, but it would only contaminate the immediate surroundings compared to the big bang that would occur when failing fatally during operation.
I don’t know, chances are high that I’d still move away from those places…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
etc. should be well within the reach of anyone capable of reading this. Neanderthals could do it, so can you.
Oh you greatly overrate us internet people… 🧌
- Comment on I'm guilty, lol 1 month ago:
t(-.-t)
- Comment on I'm guilty, lol 1 month ago:
It’s actually not that hard, xD
- Comment on How is Russia not Financially Crippled? 3 months ago:
As I understand it, China/etc can buy the oil cheaper because there’s no competition from Europe anymore. Then they can sell it to us more expensive because we don’t have an alternative. So China/India profit from it, while Europe and especially Russia lose in comparison to how it was before. This is not ideal, but still better than supporting Russia by buying from them directly.
Please someone correct me who knows how that actually works…
- Comment on How can I clean my mouse wheel without taking apart my mouse? 3 months ago:
Instructions unclear, I can’t find my mouse wheel anymore…
- Comment on What's the best way to read a book in a dark room? 3 months ago:
That’s what the eyepatch is for though.
Mine stated the above on the package. But of course you’re right too, there are multiple benefits of having red light instead of bright white.
- Comment on What's the best way to read a book in a dark room? 3 months ago:
Use a headlamp with red light 🔦🔴. They are specifically made for not waking other people up while camping. The red light also is not a problem before sleep, unlike blue light.
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 5 months ago:
The movie is called Behind the Curve, and imo is a great move.
It doesn’t try to ridicule the people in it. Instead it tries to make a point that if a group like the flat earth society is being made fun of rather than engaged in discussions, then the gap just gets larger and the problem worse. (If everyone else makes fun of you, you avoid them and stay in the community that supports you.)
As far as I can tell, Mark Sargent is still believing in those theories and continues doing his part in it. This doesn’t surprise me, he’s quite prominent in that community and I guess if he stopped, he’d lose quite a lot of his personal achievements, friends, hobbies, etc.
I don’t know about the others who were in the movie, it would be interesting to know. Especially about those who were directly doing the experiments, yeah.
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 6 months ago:
This.
Surprise! If you want to go from 4:3 to wide screen, you still have exactly the same problem as when using pan&scan for going from wide to 4:3.
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 6 months ago:
I think it would be possible. But adding previously unseen stuff would be changing/redirecting the movie/show.
Each scene is set up and framed deliberately by the director, should AI just change that? It’s a similar problem like with pan-and-scan, where content was removed to fit 4:3.
You wouldn’t want to add content to the left and right of the Mona Lisa, would you? And if so what? Continuing the landscape, which adds just more uninteresting parts? Other people, which removes the focus from her? And this is just a one frame example, there are more problems with moving pictures.
It would be an interesting experiment, but imo it wouldn’t improve the quality of the medium, in contrary.
- Comment on What is the name of this type of image 6 months ago:
Found the progrmmer.
- Comment on What's that music called that was used in 90s documentaries about the birth of the earth? 7 months ago:
Yes, that’s the stuff :D
Thanks
- Comment on What's that music called that was used in 90s documentaries about the birth of the earth? 7 months ago:
Oooh of course, yes Vangelis (especially the Blade Runner OST) has tracks that sound similar!
- Comment on What's that music called that was used in 90s documentaries about the birth of the earth? 7 months ago:
This is very close!
I guess a lot of documentaries used similar copyright free music, that thus sounded “simpler” (lower production quality).
- Comment on What's that music called that was used in 90s documentaries about the birth of the earth? 7 months ago:
Could you be thinking of old educational videos that were played in schools?
Yeah probably, but I think I also watched stuff like that on TV.
Maybe like Bill Nye or Eyewitness?
Not the first one, the second one is closer but too “tropical”.
If you do find an example, it would help a lot to narrow it down
I keep searching
- Comment on What's that music called that was used in 90s documentaries about the birth of the earth? 7 months ago:
Yeah probably synthwave or close to it if there even was a name for it.
I’m still trying to find examples
- Comment on What's that music called that was used in 90s documentaries about the birth of the earth? 7 months ago:
Sadly I don’t remember specific titles. When I think of this music I picture badly rendered 3D landscape and violently erupting volcanoes 🤔
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- Comment on For those with larger phones, how do you handle them without grip accessories? 7 months ago:
And wine… Image
- Comment on What's good in small concentrations, but lethal in higher? What's a glaring red flag you're encroaching on a lethal concentration? 8 months ago:
What’s the LD50 of the internet? 🤔
- Comment on Is there a title (Mr/Ms/Mrs) that is gender neutral? 8 months ago:
Captain
- Comment on Idiocracy tried to warn you 8 months ago:
At least it’s one of the few people are happy distopias…
- Comment on I keep seeing the initials "ig" in comments. They clearly don't mean "Instagram". What does "ig" mean then? 8 months ago: