deranger
@deranger@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What are some actual good *sour* sour candy? 12 hours ago:
I think that’s probably a good thing. I’ve eaten so many warheads the skin started to come off my tongue.
- Comment on Is there a name for the smell or sensation experienced right before dawn? 5 days ago:
Ever shined a powerful flashlight or laser around and seen all the particles floating in the air? You can also see them sometimes with a particularly bright sun beam coming through a blind. While these probably aren’t spores, it does illustrate how much stuff you’re constantly breathing in. There is no escaping. You’re part of life, there’s billions of organisms on you and in you at all times, and they’re fighting for survival too. There’s no escape. The only reason you survive is because of your immune system, and that’s why AIDS patients and severe burn victims just die despite nothing particularly “wrong” happening to them.
- Comment on The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore 6 days ago:
To me, that job listing is a red flag and I’d not want to have that job if the bullshit is starting before I even apply. It’s probably only going to get worse if that’s the start.
If I really did want the job, and I knew they were outright bullshitting, I’d not feel bad about bullshitting them back.
- Comment on The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore 6 days ago:
5 years experience required for a programming language that had only even existed for 2 years
If this is the level of bullshit on the job listing, do you actually want that job?
If yes: if they’re bullshitting, why don’t you?
- Comment on The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore 6 days ago:
I have a 4 year degree and it has never advantaged me, ever.
You didn’t learn anything at school?
I went to an engineering school, switched majors to biochemistry, and I work an IT job now. My education was invaluable despite being overwhelmingly inapplicable to my current field of work. I learned so much and was exposed to so many people of a similar mindset. Easily one of the most important things I’ve done in life, just from a life experience standpoint.
What advantage do you expect it to give you aside from what you learned and showing you can complete a bachelor’s program?
- Comment on Water addiction 1 week ago:
No doubt, there’s a lot of factors at play. Having diluted pee is good preventative maintenance though.
- Comment on Water addiction 1 week ago:
Whatever minerals are in your water are far less concentrated than they are in the foods you eat. It’s not the absolute amount of minerals you ingest, it’s the concentration of your urine that causes more crystallization to kidney stones. Gotta keep that piss dilute.
- Comment on Water addiction 1 week ago:
Thirst alone keeps your pee clear to straw colored? If I rely on thirst alone mine will get much darker. Clear pee is good pee, I saw a friend get a kidney stone once, fuck that noise. I’ll do preventative maintenance by chugging some water every couple hours.
- Comment on Cheers Bro 1 week ago:
Seeming useless math can be applied if you look for opportunities.
When I attended military training for sergeant rank, there was a land navigation part. Plot the grid coordinates on a map, use a protractor to figure out the angles, which you then aim the compass towards to get to the points. I realized these made triangles and said fuck a protractor. I used trigonometry instead. Figured out the lengths of the sides of the triangles from the grid coordinates, then used those lengths and tangent to figure out the compass angle and distance. The instructors had no clue what I was doing. Took first place in that course because the other person I was tied with only found 3 out of 4 points in his two tries at landnav.
The best math skill for everyday life has to be dimensional analysis, though. Want to figure out how expensive it is to drive per hour? Well, you’ve got miles/hour, dollars/gallon, and miles/gallon. This can get you to dollars/hour by just canceling out the units. (I don’t have a paper to write things down but I think this is correct)
dollars/gallon X gallons/mile X miles/hour = dollars/hour
You can use dimensional analysis to convert all sorts of things. It’s awesome.
Yeah I know it’s the shitpost community but math is pretty cool.
- Comment on Time travel and the economy 1 week ago:
2 minutes later, I set my time machine to go 1 minute back in time, collect the coin from myself, bring it to the present. Now I have 2 gold coins.
I don’t follow. If you took the coin from your past self, the coin no longer exists in the present. You still have 1 coin.
- Comment on How do prisons handle people with peanut allergies? 1 week ago:
Airplanes do not recycle air. It’s constantly turned over with bleed air from the engines.
- Comment on Did anyone here ever actually play the Mousetrap board game or use the cards in Operation? 1 week ago:
Free parking rule is complete ass and makes the game take ages.
- Comment on Can enough solar pannels decrease the global temps? 1 week ago:
Didn’t realize users changed, my bad.
- Comment on Can enough solar pannels decrease the global temps? 1 week ago:
Just saying “watts staying underground” is a poor explanation. That’s an insignificant amount of energy compared to what the sun is delivering and what’s being trapped by CO2. “Carbon staying underground” is much more the priority.
- Comment on Can enough solar pannels decrease the global temps? 1 week ago:
Yeah, that explanation is bizarre. CO2 and other greenhouse gases are the issue, not heat released from combustion. If those gases could somehow be eliminated you could burn coal and other fossil fuels without any significant consequence in terms of warming the earth. The sun is doing the overwhelming majority of heating.
- Comment on Can enough solar pannels decrease the global temps? 1 week ago:
Burning coal doesn’t significantly heat the planet. The CO2 released by this causes solar heating to be more effective by trapping the escaping infrared radiation.
- Comment on sports are popular with sports fans follow for more 1 week ago:
I don’t know sports at all but I do know Joe Buck makes some stupid ass comments.
- Comment on 25 hours of snow. 1 week ago:
Because OP hates snow. I like it.
- Comment on Which one are you? 1 week ago:
Yeah, gotta agree there. It does seem like the inverter works better but maybe it’s just because I’m now using the power settings much more often.
- Comment on Which one are you? 1 week ago:
Did they license it to others? Mine isn’t Panasonic.
Surprisingly, I looked up inverter microwave reviews on RTINGS and they said it’s mostly marketing fluff aside from a few edge cases, such as trying to soften a tablespoon of butter.
- Comment on Which one are you? 2 weeks ago:
LG does it as well.
- Comment on Which one are you? 2 weeks ago:
Modern LG microwaves have a variable power inverter so it’s not PWM. I would imagine they’re not the only ones.
- Comment on Which one are you? 2 weeks ago:
My microwave does all of the humidity sensing stuff and has a variable power transformer. Setting it to 70% doesn’t mean 70% of the time it’s on at full power (ie PWM), it means it’s running continuously at 70% power.
It was made in 2024 and cost $120.
- Comment on 25 hours of snow. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t ever move to a lake effect snow area… I miss those nights when multiple feet fell on us in upstate NY and the world was completely transformed. Outside sounds like an anechoic chamber from all the fat snowflakes absorbing all the sound; the crunch underfoot being the only thing you hear. Shoveling out the driveway to go rip e-brakes in the snow covered parking lots. Winter without snow is a half assed experience.
Ice can fuck right off though.
- Comment on Why do airplanes have big front "headlights"? 2 weeks ago:
No red port left in the bottle
- Comment on If you have diarrhea and you hold it in will your body retain some of the water? 3 weeks ago:
Diarrhea isn’t necessarily “used” at all - with things like rotavirus and Vibrio (cholera) it’s caused by the infectious agent and aids in its spread. It can be so severe it kills the person via dehydration.
- Comment on What do drain unclogging liquids actually do? 3 weeks ago:
Bases were used because they were more compatible with the solder that connected copper pipes in older homes.
Bases are much more effective at breaking up organic matter than acids. You can pour concentrated acid on your hand to little effect if you rinse it off quickly. You will not be able to do this with strong bases (think that scene from Fight Club). Strong bases rapidly destroy organic matter.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 3 weeks ago:
The more resistance there is, the less the electrical load is. Maximum electrical load would be a short circuit; minimum would be a cord or device with infinite resistance.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 4 weeks ago:
You’re correctly identifying thermal mass as why they feel cooler to the touch, but this is mixed up in some incorrect and contradictory statements.
The ceramic tiles in your house aren’t really “colder” than you
This is incorrect. Flooring is literally colder, unless your floor temp is above 92℉ (33.5℃). You can measure this with a thermometer. If something is the same temperature as your skin you won’t feel anything - there’s no heat transfer. You could have a copper floor if it was the same temperature as your skin, you wouldn’t feel a thing.
[Ceramic tiles] also have a high thermal mass … they easily lose heat to the air.
These two statements are directly contradicting one another. High thermal mass means it has a harder time losing heat to the air. Given identical conditions, ceramic will take longer to change temperature than fabric. The reason fabric feels less cold is because you can easily change the temperature of it, due to its low thermal mass.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 4 weeks ago:
You can hold a ceramic tile in your hand and apply a blowtorch to the other side. They’re better insulators than conductors. That’s why you see ceramics used for insulating hot food bowls from wooden tables, or a more extreme example, ceramic tiles on re-entry vehicles. Ceramic is not a good conductor of heat.
Wood is about 0.1 W/mK, ceramics about 1 W/mK, and copper is about 400 W/mK.
A more apt comparison would be ceramic floor vs wood flooring, or ceramic vs air temp, not ceramic vs skin temp. Your skin is absolutely warmer than a ceramic floor tile.
Tiles do not feel cooler because they “easily lose heat to the air”. They are the same temperature as the other flooring in your house. They feel cooler because of thermal mass, which you’ve identified. Your body can warm the low mass of fabric or wood faster than it can ceramic, thus those materials feel less cold when you step on them.
If you’re going to be pedantic, at least do it right.