FuglyDuck
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- Comment on What does non-gui mean ? 6 hours 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 ? 6 hours 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 1 day ago:
“Let’s replicate!”
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 day 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 2 days 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 days 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 4 days ago:
That whooshing sound was the joke’s vortexes flying over your head.
- Comment on Praise Helix 4 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t go that far. But it’s a start.
- Comment on Beloved whale mural painted over for FIFA World Cup artwork 1 week ago:
Whale dongs seem particularly appropriate at this particular juncture.
- Comment on Fuck these doors 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
Bulgaria is in South America, right? It’s like, the tip, right?
(/s, if it wasn’t obvious.)
- Comment on What Happened When the Pope Had to Call Customer Service 1 week ago:
your bank’s security leaves you exposed to attacks via social engineering.
Confirming someone’s identity over the phone is almost impossible to do these days. security questions are, if you’re not giving false answers (or just random strings, etc), then someone who knows your entire life is able to just bluff their way through them. For most people, that kind of social engineering is difficult (they fail more than they succeed). But for someone like the freakng Pope… yeah. No. That information is out there and it’s easily found.
it’s actually a huge problem that a lot of “older” institutions have yet to fully grapple with, but this is now one of the most common forms of identity theft. there’s ways of getting around it, but that’s not going to something the first-line CS rep is going to be able to do.
- Comment on What Happened When the Pope Had to Call Customer Service 2 weeks ago:
It’s because he’s a VIP that they wanted him in person.
Think about.
How do you know that he’s really the pope? It’s a phone call. Maybe he has 28 character long randomized strings for secret questions, but maybe it’s actually his family’s dog’s name. The family dog he uses in a favorite homilies that everyone has heard before, and knows the name of.
Most of Pope Leo’s life is probably among the most researchable in the world right now. Most of the kinds of questions people answer is actually public info if you know where to look.
The answer is you don’t. At least not on the first call in.
Chances are it’s going to get escalated and a more senior team is going to get involved that can verify things and get it done.
But the bank CS rep was in fact protecting him, not screwing him over.
- Comment on Green herons 2 weeks ago:
magnificent work.
Also, ZOOP needs to be brought into common use. it really does.
- Comment on Green herons 2 weeks ago:
It’s how they hunt. A quick sudden thrust to catch their prey off guard.
- Comment on New Nightmare Just Dropped: '3D' Animated Ads on Trucks in Traffic 2 weeks ago:
Tesla’s gonna kill some peeps.
- Comment on Green herons 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Green herons 2 weeks ago:
“Hey babe can you help me out? I got a little Zoop problem.”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure ‘hoax’ is the word you want to use. I assume you’re referring to the Manchester Pusher?
The bodies are real, but it sounds like (after a quick search) the authorities blame accidents and such like.
keep in mind, if you’re falling into 3 feet of water, you’re more likely to be injured from hitting the bottom rather than jumping into deep water, and if you’re drunk or something, even if you’re not injured from the fall, you’re still likely to drown. you can drown in a puddle if you pass out with your face down in it.
- Comment on How do you pronounce 'Niche'? 2 weeks ago:
Both, and I’m not sure I have a hard and fast rule saying when one over the other. It’s probably some sort of soft rule I’m totally unaware of.
But both are correct. (though Nitch is more american and Neesh is more british.)
- Comment on If something could rotate infinitely after being initially pushed, would the initial push disqualify it from being classed as perpetual motion? 2 weeks ago:
“Due to tidal forces”
Because, the moon (and maybe the sun, and other planets like Jupiter) are acting on it, yeah?
The earth won’t stop spinning. What’s happening is that the moon’s gravity is slowing the earth’s spin as it drags our oceans towards it.
Once our day is the same as the moon’s orbital period, then the tide will essentially be fixed, which means it’s no longer slowing us down.
And all that energy, for the record, is going into the moon and expanding its orbit slightly.
- Comment on Robotaxis can break traffic laws without fines under new California rules 2 weeks ago:
The problem comes to who’s at fault?
Is it the passenger riding? The car itself? The company that programmed it? The owner?
Personally, I agree, robotaxis should be yeeted out of existence if they can’t abide traffic laws- but a lot of them are being operated privately too.
They should’ve not been permitted at all until these questions were answered, and corporations should not have been allowed to comment.
- Comment on The handle on one of our basically new kitchen knives MELTED in the dishwasher and fused to the heating element at the bottom. 3 weeks ago:
They don’t, actually.
The plastic on the handle is a thermoplastic. Every time you send it through the dishwasher, it loosens a bit each time. Eventually the handle will become a danger to use with no way to fix. Before that happens, small gaps form which will harbor bacteria.
Also the water spray causes them to bounce around and dull (or in the case of the OP’s ceramic, chip)
Finally, the harsh deferent used degrades the plastic. This won’t have any issues that’ll crop up before the first two become problematic, but it will cake the plastic to turn whitish
Basically, my parents agree with you and also wonder why my knives actually stay sharp.
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 5 weeks ago:
Everything is known to cause cancer to the state of California.
- Comment on Feeling superior 5 weeks ago:
Is it an outlier or is the sample just too small?
- Comment on For people who distrust police / the legal system: If you ran a small bussiness and need to hire people, and someone has a conviction but they claim innocence, do you hire them? 5 weeks ago:
So, just for people reading this, it’s actually not legal to interrogate people that long. Cops rely on you not knowing your rights. The best thing you can do is demand a lawyer and shut the fuck up
Generally, they must get a warrant to arrest you; or put you in front of a judge for a probable cause hearing (ostensibly within 48 hours of arrest.).
Once you ask for a lawyer, the interrogation is supposed to end until one is provided. If they keep asking questions, keep asking for a lawyer and say nothing else. And remember, cops are allowed to lie about things.
So ask for a lawyer and shut the fuck up.
