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- Comment on I diagnose you with dystopia 2 weeks ago:
I’ve tried bookwyrm and hardcover and a few others. In general I think they’re getting there, but there’s weird edge cases where it’s not as smooth an experience. Partly because they don’t have a critical mass of users, partly because Goodreads really was in a pretty decent place when it effectively froze.
All that’s going to improve over time, but atm, for me, switching costs from the old platform aren’t worth it.
- Comment on I diagnose you with dystopia 2 weeks ago:
See also: every other service Amazon has bought.
I miss when Goodreads had updates.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
“Lets turn the Ionosphere and the Mantel into the halves of a capacitor! Free energy!” is Bond villain territory. :'D
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
It’s definitely at least “Internet Lore” at this point? I mean the car company isn’t a namesake for no reason. I don’t want to give The Oatmeal too much credit but it seems to have been the meme generator for a lot of ‘the legend’ on the web, though it’s been kind of a counter-culture staple basically since he died.
IDK, just one of those things that I got interested enough to read actual books about awhile ago and it’s kind of scary how much “common knowledge” is more “common mythology”.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
He wasn’t.
The War of the Currents was Edison and Westinghouse. The elephant was executed by the ASPCA and filmed by the Edison Studios years after, that company had been sold by Edison years before. The payment argument was Tesla and a manager.
Tesla and Edison wrote each other personal letters and spoke well of each other in public years later.
Edison was an asshole. Tesla’s ‘legend’ is weird.
- Comment on Technology Connections - The simple, clever sensor behind automatic windshield wipers 2 weeks ago:
Also a gas! Astronomical spectroscopy is fascinating.
“The star radiates at [these] wavelengths meaning it has [this] composition, after the light bounces off/through the planet we see <these> wavelengths, meaning it has <this> composition.”
- Comment on Technology Connections - The simple, clever sensor behind automatic windshield wipers 2 weeks ago:
The camera is many sensors.
You can overload anything by tasking it to do too much.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 5 weeks ago:
Honestly 5 gb is thousands of songs, especially if they’re not FLAC / mp3 320.
It won’t be your entire library if you’re a music buff but it’s days worth of music.
- Comment on he loves the jungle 5 weeks ago:
One is probably the Disney River Boat movie.
Decently entertaining for what it was.
- Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana? 1 month ago:
During prohibition grape (formerly wine) producers sold grape juice with the warning label “don’t store in a cool dark place for multiple weeks or this product may become illegal”. (or something to that effect) You can do much the same with any grain or fruit.
For Marijuana you have to at least get seeds/the plant first, which are now a controlled product.
Brewing at scale and/or for a specific product is difficult, making alcohol is easy.
- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 1 month ago:
/“marshland”, which would give a whole new relevance to getting “swampy”.
- Comment on RimWorld - Anomaly (DLC) Store page is up 2 months ago:
Y’all seem like you’re having fun in the corner but that’s not a great comeback when Terraria is just sitting there.
- Comment on I don't like what I've seen, man 2 months ago:
Yeah from the list the absolutely nuts, one-off, dragracing versions of cars from the 50s/60s made ~400hp. Which could be outdone by an option on the Camero last year. And if you wanted more it’s not difficult, just more money.
And raw HP numbers don’t take into account how much better modern cars drive or how much safer they are. I daily a car from the 80s and love it. But lack of ABS or traction control or airbags or a collapsible steering column does come to mind every once in awhile. Cars from the 50s/60s will have notably worse handling/cornering/etc.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
Currency is a pretty sound idea, whether it will ever get (back?) to a usable place is it’s own discussion.
A lot of the conversation about blockchain as a technology though involves the ones that store additional information as a distributed database, which comes with problems.
It’s also ‘neat’, but they all depend on trusting the validation method for putting info into the database, which largely defeats the point of having a “trustless” database once the data is in there. There’s the occasional proposed use case that seems vaguely useful, but they mostly boil down to replacing legal contracts with a database that’s distributed “somewhere”.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 4 months ago:
One of the things that convinced me to go Makita when choosing my “house” was that they don’t have separate high and low voltage battery systems. Dewalt, Ryobi, and the others have a 18v/20v system and a 36v/40v system. Makita has bigger tools that you plug two batteries into and by the power of math you have a 36v tool off two of regular batteries.
At least when I was looking that was a unique thing to them and seemed like a great idea.
- Comment on Air quality in there isn't too good 4 months ago:
“Backup squat toilet”
- Comment on It's a good thing they aren't in charge of adult toys... 4 months ago:
Next time you should unplug it from the wall first to be less stressful. :)
- Comment on prick 5 months ago:
Agreed that it’s probably the school selling themselves, but could be a bunch of overlap? Math 101 counting for each degree, etc.
- Comment on Dollar Stores: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 5 months ago:
I feel like a few times in the past year or so Wendover does a video and then Good Week Tonight does one on the same topic. I think at least one of them they credited/referenced Wendover? Could be fans on the writing staff, could be they’re both reading similar news stories that prompt deeper dives that lead to videos.
- Comment on Its most common use case is interrupting games 5 months ago:
More one of those long ramps that switches back several times that you can ignore and take the stairs.
- Comment on Instagram's monthly subscription 6 months ago:
I think this is much more likely what they think people will pay. And or what a percentage of people will pay that will cover costs/lost revenue from other users leaving. They have basically zero incentive to make it a 1-to-1 replacement.
- Comment on Facepalm 6 months ago:
YouTube premium
Offline and Background video play are the two main ones they tout. Which have also either been part of youtube previously or easily done for free by third party apps.
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 6 months ago:
The important part about Flat Earther beliefs that always seems to get left out is that they’re a fundamentalist christian sect.
They don’t believe the Earth is flat because of “the evidence”, or even necessarily that the Earth is flat that’s just the corner of their belief structure that got famous. They believe that the biblical Truth from God is the enemy of Science and that “they” are trying to keep that from people, in order to lead people away from God. Then comes the “evidence” and “debates” which are them trying to meet non-believers halfway, but fundamentally not understanding how/why science is a way of processing information.
Fortunately/unfortunately most Flat Earther’s got made fun enough publicly enough that they’re not really preaching it anymore. They’ve since moved on to other apocalyptic religious movements like Qanon/MAGA.
- Comment on Fantasy rednecks 6 months ago:
Imperial conquerors from across the sea with slave sorceresses and Texan accents.
Wheel of Time is top tier.
- Comment on Starfield Launch Details, PC Specs & More 8 months ago:
Personally I love Elite Dangerous, but have still only spent ~50 hours in it.
It’s a fantastic flight sim. But IMO it’s just not as captivating as a purposefully created narrative. It’s good for different reasons. I know they’ve added ground/walking stuff since last I played. I know you can discover alien stuff and wander alongside the ‘story’ in the game. But it’s closer to FromSoft style reading text descriptions and forum posts to follow the story than it is playing an RPG.
- Comment on why isn't the use of the bidet more widespread? 8 months ago:
YMMV but personally it makes everything 1-2 wipes to ‘verify’/dry. Got one in 2020 to lessen TP usage, which it does really well. I think you’re underestimating how strong the stream is (which is variable/controllable) and overestimating how ‘stuck on’ any residue is. Works kinda like a pressure washer where you can’t move/angle the washer (on the affordable ones) so you move the thing being washed for full ‘coverage’.
Regardless, if I got muck on my hands would rather rinse them in water than just wipe them off with a paper towel.
- Comment on we are devolving 8 months ago:
Most free trial subscriptions in the past have let you cancel but keep the subscription active through the trial period. I normally cancel immediately so if I forget about the thing because I stopped using it my card doesn’t get charged. Because all these free trials require a card on file so they can just automatically start the subscription.
Apple doing this makes it more likely people will forget to cancel if they don’t care for the product and automatically start the subscription. At which point it is far harder to cancel/get your money back.
- Comment on Lemmy.world's servers 9 months ago:
That’s how you can tell this is obviously fake, the RAM needs to be connected pins first.
If it were on it’s side 100% legit.
- Comment on Every game developer company should be like this 9 months ago:
Drug dealers would go out of business if users would stop paying for them.