deranger
@deranger@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Wouldn’t an electrical failure of a fuse mean it doesn’t pop at the rated current/voltage?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Obviously some goes out laterally, but next to the ground is where the lowest flux of shrapnel will be.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
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easily will break glass, they’re heavy, dense, and hard
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hit the deck, the explosion will be up and out
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shrapnel is how fragmentation grenades kill, not the overpressure wave
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- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 1 week ago:
What is the ideal amount of biomass for mammals, then? Same question for agricultural land. What’s the ideal amount? I’m torn between thinking this is just how things go or maybe I’m just terribly ignorant. At some point the majority of biomass was dinosaurs or something, so what? That’s the ebb and flow of life. It wasn’t the biomass of dinosaurs that caused their extinction.
I can’t disagree with the industrial farming and overall ecosystem points you raise but the biomass bits seem awfully arbitrary.
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 1 week ago:
how do I know if you mean memes or memes tho
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 1 week ago:
What is a meme?
- Comment on Embracer Intends to 'Activate' Deus Ex, Saints Row, TimeSplitters, and Red Faction 1 week ago:
Didn’t they just kill a new Deus Ex game that was in development months ago?
- Comment on Why cables have that strange cylindrical thing? 1 week ago:
They function as low pass filters, acting as resistors once the frequencies are high enough. All wires function as antennas and these prevent spurious transmission or reception of signals.
- Comment on What's up with all the captions on short form videos? 1 week ago:
So you can still consume them with the volume off
- Comment on Why do I constantly see testostorone being put into evreything from pills to candy bars but its illegal for trans men to get it? 1 week ago:
Whey protein is awesome and there’s a large body of peer reviewed research supporting it. It’s just as good as eating a bunch of chicken or pork but faster and easier. It is just another tool in the box for hitting your macronutrient goals.
However, it won’t do anything without exercise and it’s not a substitute for eating a proper diet.
- Comment on Why do I constantly see testostorone being put into evreything from pills to candy bars but its illegal for trans men to get it? 1 week ago:
anabolic steroids are controlled substances
- Comment on Why do I constantly see testostorone being put into evreything from pills to candy bars but its illegal for trans men to get it? 1 week ago:
Because I’m 40 and want to get jacked and my diet and training are pretty well dialed in. I figure I got one last decade before I’m officially old, so why not juice a bit? Under medical supervision, of course.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This is a shitty right wing Trump supporter ass meme
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, sometimes you just gotta kill those who disagree.
- Comment on PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies 2 weeks ago:
Never heard of it before, personally.
- Comment on PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, they never talk about games on YouTube
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re right in this argument, but that’s a tiny smoothie. It’s barely more than a cup.
- Comment on Who grew up watching Beakmans World? 2 weeks ago:
That’s what’s up. All those old school science shows and classic Discovery channel is a big part of why I got into science / medicine. Learned a lot and got a ferocious curiosity from them.
- Comment on Who grew up watching Beakmans World? 2 weeks ago:
Hope he explained the water isn’t what’s doing the conducting but rather the dissolved ions within. Pure, deionized water is a fairly good insulator.
- Comment on What’s all the hubbub about this Marks guy he seems pretty chill 2 weeks ago:
eat the burgers
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 3 weeks ago:
I don’t believe you’re correct. Small discharge cycles are not at all bad for the battery.
batteryuniversity.com/…/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lit…
Similar to a mechanical device that wears out faster with heavy use, the depth of discharge (DoD) determines the cycle count of the battery. The smaller the discharge (low DoD), the longer the battery will last. If at all possible, avoid full discharges and charge the battery more often between uses. Partial discharge on Li-ion is fine. There is no memory and the battery does not need periodic full discharge cycles to prolong life. The exception may be a periodic calibration of the fuel gauge on a smart battery or intelligent device(
- Comment on Why are some people deciding to switch to iOS as Android is putting on more (iOS-like) restrictions? 3 weeks ago:
As soon as most Android boot loaders were locked, I jumped ship. If I’m in a walled garden, I’d rather the garden be as nice as possible. Also, I don’t really want a customizable computer in my pocket, I want a communications appliance. I have a computer at home to tinker with.
Don’t care about file management, files app works just fine for sneakernet trading with coworkers.
Don’t care about deep customization, I think this makes most phones look worse, not better. It also makes troubleshooting harder when my parents or kid have changed everything.
With regards to price, I find Apple phones are cheaper in the long run; I can buy a refurb phone for my mom and it’ll get updates for 5+ years.
Ultimately I just don’t care about phones anymore. They all are boring and I want the easiest family fleet of devices to manage. For me, Apple is easier. I can fuck with phones less and do literally anything else more.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [55:50] 3 weeks ago:
That makes a lot of sense.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [55:50] 3 weeks ago:
Why couldn’t catenaries handle the power being fed into them? Seems like they’d be able to handle up to whatever the max power output for driving the train is.
I seem to remember some old story about electrified rail going over some mountains and the first run was actually net negative in terms of energy consumption because it was more downhill than uphill.
- Comment on Given dogs' propensity for sniffing other animals' buttholes and piles of other animals' shit, do their noses and sinuses have specialised bacteria/antibodies that protect them infection? 3 weeks ago:
That’s not how bacteria are transferred.
- Comment on Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds 3 weeks ago:
meanwhile, you can get an ounce of meth online for like $200
- Comment on How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him? 5 weeks ago:
Tsar/Czar is also derived from Caesar.
- Comment on greatest enemy 5 weeks ago:
It’s also your greatest ally. Never had a terrible hangover or comedown? Soul-crushing grief? Nothing like the passage of time to alleviate those.
- Comment on People with bad/no hearing, can you "hear" yourself chewing when you eat? 5 weeks ago:
Someone needs to make a vibrator with aux in so you can really feel the music
- Comment on How do I drink more water? 5 weeks ago:
Have a source within arms reach 24/7 and drink as much as you can everytime you think about it. That’s it. It’s one of the many annoying maintenance items of life, just get used to it like brushing your teeth. Eventually you’ll hate how you feel when you don’t do it, and this outweighs the annoyance.