blind3rdeye

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates smartphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use it. At all. But nevertheless I still have to deal with people constantly telling me that I need to use their ‘app’, and or only giving information in the form of a QR code. I still have to navigate around zombie-people staring at their phones while they walk around. I still have to deal with the fall-out of bad online interactions that kids have had. and so on. The attention-span issue that the green-text mentions results in a dumbing-down of news and media and basically all kinds of information sharing…

  This stuff negatively affects me in obvious and measurable ways, even though I don’t use any of the features of this ‘tool’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Admin team update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a thoughtful and well motivated decision. Thanks for creating and keeping lemm.ee going. And thanks to Ella for stepping up for what is famously a pretty stressful roll, for the benefit of all of us ordinary users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but the original message sounded even more like BS. Like surely no one would think its a good idea to post on social media that you are firing your stressed employees to make a ‘supportive’ workplace. That makes no sense. So yeah, the explanation is bad - but I don’t think its untrue. It’s just that the original post was a bad idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny joke. But yeah, the creation, distribution, and disposal are not free - even if they are created from trees. Using two sheets isn’t a big deal, but why use double what you need?

  Anyway, I’m not trying to say we need to be super-frugal with our paper towels. I’m really talking about people who just keep grabbing more and more of them until their hands are dry. I’m sure we’ve all seen bins overflowing with barely-used paper towels. We don’t need that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just wish people would know how to use paper towels so that they don’t end up wasting huge piles of them for nothing. 1 sheet is enough. You don’t need 5. Do it like this:

  • After washing your hands, brush excess water off each hand using your other hand. Your hands should not be dripping wet when you reach for the paper towel.
  • Take a single paper towel. Don’t scrunch it up, and don’t just clasp the towel. Use all parts of the paper towel to deliberately wipe your hands. The paper towels are quite absorbent. They don’t need to be 100% dry to remove the water from your hands.

  The end. If you do this, your hands will not be wet. You will not need a second paper towel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like it when someone is only available on Epic either. I also don’t like it when someone is only available on Steam - which happens far more often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think so. On my screen I see that post I responded to said this:

  The game will be removed on 13. December?

  So in my post I tried to explain that the games will still be available to download from GOG, but it will no longer be purchasable. Different people mean different things when they say “removed from GOG”, so I thought this was good to clarify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It will be removed from sale on 13 of December, but everyone who already bought it will continue to be able to download it from GOG indefinitely. Furthermore, GOG has stated their commitment to ensure the game remains compatible with newer computer and operating systems. That’s what the preservation project mentioned in the post is about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People in this thread are hitting us with all sorts of whatabout stories with extreme conditions; and meanwhile I’m working in a office where people will come in and turn on the cooling because they just walked up some stairs, and then turn on the heating after they’ve sat down for a couple of minutes. No concept of self regulation. Just any hint of discomfort means the room has to change temperature.

  It that context, the pushback in this thread is a bit depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8 yr old me after my parents did my woodworking assignment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My proof is that actually that my pet cat knows more about manufacturing than he does, therefore he doesn’t know the most. In fact, my cat knows literally everything possible to know about manufacturing. It’s amazing. And if you don’t believe me, then you need to show your evidence that it isn’t true. Also, my cat doesn’t routinely give misinformation about the capabilities of the products made by their companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  By that reasoning, we should start putting all of our waste products in our water supply - since we weren’t able to sell them otherwise.

  … Or perhaps there are other reasons to consider?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much anything you can think of is recommended by someone, because different people have conflicting views. The key is to choose whose recommendations are based on the best reasoning & evidence aligning with your goals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re here in “no stupid questions”. The OP asked a question. So if you want to offer some of your knowledge and insight - go for it. But simply telling OP “you don’t understand” isn’t really adding anything of value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Open Source is so great...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  1. You can delete and edit comments on lemmy. But that doesn’t mean all severs or users will honour that request. Same is true for reddit, hence why it is possible to see deleted reddit comments on 3rd party websites. (And deleted tweets, etc. on other sites.)
  2. People post on lemmy for the purpose of sharing thoughts and ideas with the world. If your stuff is private: don’t post it! This is true for all social media. Also note, lemmy doesn’t ask for your phone number or other unrelated personal information.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The cost of constructing and decommissioning power plants is important for sure; but it has nothing to do with energy density - which is what we were talking about before. It’s true that building solar panels takes energy and resources, and the panels don’t last indefinitely. So there is a lifecycle cost to using them. But the same is true for all forms of power generation.

  A common way to compare these costs is to look at the ‘payback time’ of each form of power generation. The payback time is the amount of time it would take for the power plant to produce enough energy to pay back the lifecycle costs required to build, operate, and decommission that type of plant. It’s basically how long it takes for the construction to have been ‘worth it’.

  In terms of payback time, wind power is by far the best; typically taking less than 1 year to pay itself off. Solar is pretty good too, but is highly dependent on where it is used. And nuclear… is not good on this measure. It takes decades for a nuclear power plant to pay itself off, because the plants are very expensive to build and decommission.

  Obviously there are other things to consider in terms of the strengths and weaknesses of different forms of power generation. But you’ve been talking about the cost of materials and construction as though it is a weakness of renewables, and it really really isn’t. That’s in fact one of their strengths, and a major weakness of nuclear. Its strange that you say nuclear is ‘insanity powerful for its cost’, because its cost is the greatest weakness of nuclear power. Its much cleaner than coal, but much more expensive, even though it uses so little fuel. And it is not cleaner than solar or wind, but it is still more expensive.

  Your point about land usage is a stronger point in favour of nuclear power… except that depending on what country you are talking about, that could easily swing the other way. Solar and wind do take up more space than nuclear, that’s for sure. But nuclear requires certain geological conditions for the safe operation of the plant, and the storage of waste. So depending on where you live, finding unused land suitable for renewables can be much easier than finding a suitable location for a nuclear power plant and waste containment facility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was totally fine playing HL1, and HL2, and HL2 episode 1… but I never finished episode 2 because of motion sickness. The problem isn’t really with episode 2 though. The problem is just that I got old, and now I get motion sickness from FPS games that didn’t affect me before.

  But I do know that not every FPS makes me sick. I think mouse-look smoothing helps. I’m not certain what else, but I’d try messing with the field-of-view angle and stuff like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you trying to say here? Are we still talking about fuel types here?

  Again, let me point out that solar power does not consume any fuel. The materials used to construct the solar panels are not having any power extracted from them. And secondly, nuclear power plants require construction materials too. … So I really don’t know what kind of comparison you are asking for here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  only antimatter could provide more energy density, it’s insanely powerful.

  Nuclear energy indeed has very high energy per mass of fuel. But so what? Solar and wind power doesn’t even use fuel. So the energy density thing is a bit of a distraction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most powerful brain on Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And as I understand it, the existence of an inner planet (Vulcan) was a reasonable explanation consistent with Newtonian gravity. (The only problem was that the planet wasn’t there.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨your mom falls significantly faster than g⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, I’ve seen a video of an experiment done in a vacuum chamber. (Although they kind of botched the point of the video by showing lots of slow-mo and junk like that.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Uplifting Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I find Widelands to be slow and relaxing; but also challenging and engaging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self care⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the same time as Pink Floyd singing the same line?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And it is a license. I’m just responding to the comment about the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is that GOG is an exception to this. Here is a quote that I got from an Ars Technica article

  California’s AB2426 law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom Sept. 26, excludes subscription-only services, free games, and digital goods that offer “permanent offline download to an external storage source to be used without a connection to the internet.” Otherwise, sellers of digital goods cannot use the terms “buy, purchase,” or related terms that would “confer an unrestricted ownership interest in the digital good.” And they must explain, conspicuously, in plain language, that “the digital good is a license” and link to terms and conditions.

  Since GOG does offer permanent offline installers that can be used without an internet connection, GOG is except from the new law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So now I have to PAY you to NOT store files on my device that I don't want?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it amusing that they “use cookies to give you the best possible experience”, but then ask you to pay to not have them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End nuclear fusion!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Privatization seems like a really bad idea to me. Helium is non-renewable resource. Privatization is about being ‘efficient’ at maximising profits. Do you think the people / companies that own the helium reserves are going to be interested in keeping helium available for centuries in the future? I’d say probably not.

  For a profit based company, the only motivation to preserve the helium for future use is that maybe it will be worth a lot more money in the future. But there are two big problems with that. Firstly, the timescale is likely to be too long for the profit to be of interest. And secondly, the main reason the price would go up is scarcity; and that scarcity will come sooner if the helium is wasted in the short term. (Unless one company actually has a monopoly on helium, in which case they can create artificial scarcity by just not selling it. But that would obviously be bad for other reasons.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reDUcTIon iS gAIn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure why you’re saying its clocks that are wrong rather than the other stuff. Currently we have x = r cos(𝜃) and y = r sin(𝜃), and that’s what makes anti-clockwise rotations mathematically natural. But if we instead just used x = r sin(𝜃) and y = r cos(𝜃) then clockwise would be the natural positive rotation. And in that case, the unit circle would start at the top and go around clockwise… like we do for compass bearing (and clocks of course). So perhaps that would be better than changing what clocks do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancer Memes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say ‘outperform’… Cell death is a deliberate and desirable feature. Without it, we’d be unable to repair damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck happened to YouTube!?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The tides will turn though. I’ve been denouncing google for years, and I’ve find it quite striking how the pushback has disappeared recently. It use to be that any negative comment about google was met by a small army of google fans. That just isn’t the case any more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pringles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With the stuff about ‘super computers’, this seems more like a shitpost than a science meme.