FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on How far back into the human/mammal family tree does one think we would have to go to find a genetic relative that doesn't give a whit about how good their hair looks ? 1 week ago:
Chimps have been observed using bits of straw as jewelry, so I imagine at least our last common ancestor.
- Comment on Buzz off 1 week ago:
Please tell me you’re not in the PNW. I thought we had eradicated the fuckers on this side of the big pond.
(sorry about the tree though. that sucks.)
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 1 week ago:
Yeah, that sort of depends on the level of physics you’re talking about. regardless, it’s still a property of stuff even if that stuff is not always matter. if you want to go off on the weeds on that, go for it.
even so, energy is not something that exists, but a quantified attribute of things that do exist.
- Comment on Buzz off 1 week ago:
Asian giant hornet, yeah.
Aka the MuRdEr hornet
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
most people are too ignorant to understand the problems with AI or that the bill that will be coming due. they just like that the chatbot glazes them. It’s addictive.
they don’t know that AI consumes shitloads of water and other energy, is driving the cost of computing (ram, GPUs, etc.) up, and is too stupid, that if you just keep pressing it will totally tell you that killing yourself is an insightful and brilliant solution to whatever problem you’re trying to solve.
And then there’s the people that are making these things- scumbuckets. all of them are scumbuckets and most are fucking nazis.
And then there’s the concerns about social manipulation and propaganda.
- Comment on Buzz off 1 week ago:
I think we can all agree this fucker deserves some hate, though: Image
- Comment on On an open source platform, I'm supposed to be able to change my username/display name, right ? 1 week ago:
“Open source” means that the code they used to build software is freely and publicly available. (And more broadly, if any given IP is released to the public.)
It says nothing about how user accounts are managed on a given platform, even if that platform is open source.
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 1 week ago:
To clarify, energy isn’t a “thing” that exists. It’s a property of matter, and so is mass.
So spacetime are only related in that matter exists in spacetime, and can influence it in ways we don’t (or at least I don’t,) really understand.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Oh she got a healthy river basin, alright.
(I’m getting the eye roll when she sees this…)
- Comment on The speed of light 2 weeks ago:
You have two observers, moving directly opposite each other.
Each has a flashlight pointing back at the other.
The speed of the light from those torched is the same for both observers.
(Instead the light would be red-shifted.)
Add a third observer, stationary to one and moving towards the other. As the third observer passes that observer, the speed of light from their flashlight never changes. (Instead it would go from being blue shifted to red shifted.)
- Comment on Can't prove environmental issues if you don't have the data 2 weeks ago:
He shook hands with Death and Death turned to shit.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on South Park's take on trump both in 2016 and 2025? 2 weeks ago:
They ain’t saying anything we all ain’t saying or thinking.
- Comment on What does non-gui mean ? 2 weeks ago:
And then there’s that.
- Comment on What does non-gui mean ? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, they’re text files. It’s a custom whonky language that gets complied/rendered
- Comment on What does non-gui mean ? 2 weeks ago:
there’s OpenSCAD which uses a whonky scripting/programing language to build 3d models. You can do quite a bit in it, if know what you’re doing- and the neat part is that the files, so they don’t take a lot of space.
- Comment on What does non-gui mean ? 2 weeks ago:
Yup. though a lot of things are more effecient and easily understood with GUIs than command line interfaces. Imagine a volume slider. on the other hand there’s a lot of things that are much more convenient in a terminal window.
sure. you can use
amixer sset Master 50%to set volume to 50%, but it’s faster and more intuitive to use the GUI for it.
- Comment on DNA->Rna->Protein 3 weeks ago:
“Let’s replicate!”
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 3 weeks ago:
You can ban the sale of super high power bulbs, though. all of the bright headlamps fail (even LEDs, eventually…) and they simply get replaced with compliant bulbs.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
If you think about a square drawn on a paper, it’s 2 dimensional- you can measure the height and the width. But it’s still a square and it’s s on a piece of paper.
A cube is 3 dimensional- height, width and length. You can measure them and it takes up a volume of space.
But that cube is also experiencing changes, and stuff, and that is a fourth dimension we call “time”. We can measure it, too.
Our universe has 4 dimensions, not three. (It maybe has more, but that’s way beyond me. I’m sure someone here is far better able to explain spacetime than I.)
It’s not that we’re moving through space and time. We’re moving through spacetime. S Part of the reason is we can’t move through space without time because moving through space is change.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I think it means whoever said it doesn’t understand that it’s all one thing.
(Spacetime.)
Of course I don’t understand spacetime either, so……
- Comment on Praise Helix 3 weeks ago:
That whooshing sound was the joke’s vortexes flying over your head.
- Comment on Praise Helix 3 weeks ago:
It’s sort of like those traits that handicap the bearer and so the better that aspect is, the more suitable a mate. Like peacock tail feathers.
The swallow is spiraled for her pleasure.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Go to a library and ask the reference desk/research desk if they have any introductory textbooks on electrical engineering.
maybe also something more basic for general physics.
They’ll have something that fits your needs, or at least know where to find it.
- Comment on Beloved whale mural painted over for FIFA World Cup artwork 4 weeks ago:
oh I chuckled at the dork. I’m just saying, it might take a few times for them to learn.
(and suddenly over night a new form of protest art…)
- Comment on Beloved whale mural painted over for FIFA World Cup artwork 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t go that far. But it’s a start.
- Comment on Beloved whale mural painted over for FIFA World Cup artwork 4 weeks ago:
Whale dongs seem particularly appropriate at this particular juncture.
- Comment on Fuck these doors 4 weeks ago:
kicking doors is bad for your feet. Get a battering ram like the pros.
- Comment on What's up with all the captions on short form videos? 4 weeks ago:
A lot of these videos are clip farmed “backgrounds” with content from the brainy-rotty-er sections of Reddit.
They’re meant to be “cheap” low effort content to get you to watch and eke out some monetization made profitable by quantity over quality.
- Comment on Why Ireland? 4 weeks ago:
Bulgaria is in South America, right? It’s like, the tip, right?
(/s, if it wasn’t obvious.)
