SorteKanin
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- Comment on Anon questions physics 5 days ago:
Thanks, that’s useful!
- Comment on Anon questions physics 5 days ago:
But temperature is not just the speed of a molecule right? Like a molecule moving very fast through space can still be at a very low temperature, right?
- Comment on Anon questions physics 5 days ago:
My chemistry teacher once explained it to me like below. Does anyone know how much truth there is to this explanation?
Temperature as measured by a thermometer or your finger is an average. Not every single molecule has the same temperature. The molecules constantly bounce around, smashing into each other, transferring heat to each other. By chance, some molecules will get hit in just the right way by other molecules to reach a very high temperature and then it evaporates. So there is constantly a gradient of temperatures among the molecules and the ones with the highest temperature are the ones evaporating, until there is no liquid left at all.
As the average temperature increases, the chance of some molecules reaching a high enough temperature also increases, so warm water evaporates faster than cold water.
This also explains why evaporation cools down (like when you sweat): the molecules with the highest temperature are the ones evaporating, so the average temperature decreases as those high-temperature molecules leave the system. Only the relatively colder molecules are left behind - thus it cools as a whole.
- Comment on [Meta] Could we consider avoiding political topics in this community? 1 week ago:
I don’t actually see that many political questions in this comm but maybe that’s just me. Looking at the top of all time, I mostly notice this one, which honestly is more like a rant than a question (I dislike Trump as much as the next guy but this is clearly not a neutrally stated/good faith question and just a way for the OP to vent their frustration) and should probably be removed on that basis rather than it being a political question.
Honestly looking further, a lot of the political “questions” in this comm are just rants disguised as questions. I think it would make sense to disallow rants. You could say it’s already included under the “all posts must be legitimate questions” part of rule 1 but explicitly calling it out and enforcing it would be nice.
- Comment on My mental health has improved after deleting games that have microtransactions in them 1 week ago:
Definitely, not disagreeing with that. I’ve played plenty of those games too. I just find that “enjoyment per hour” is actually better with shorter, finite games. But I also find myself spending a lot of time playing Civ or Stellaris haha
- Comment on How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons? 1 week ago:
That’s interesting, thanks!
- Comment on How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons? 1 week ago:
Go to a comic store and ask for some recommendations that prove this take wildly wrong.
Right, I don’t doubt that some might exist. But it’s a minority of what’s available.
Also I doubt any of it is serialized as a TV cartoon show in the same sense that animes are made from mangas. But I’d love to be proven wrong :)
- Comment on My mental health has improved after deleting games that have microtransactions in them 1 week ago:
Well… Without spoiling anything I would say, you are a member of an alien species on another planet. You are also an aspiring astronaut about to take your first journey into space. Let’s just say your journey is quite remarkable.
- Comment on My mental health has improved after deleting games that have microtransactions in them 1 week ago:
May I recommend taking it a step further and going for games that have no cycle in them at all? That is, finite games that you can play and actually finish, for good. That’s what I’ve been looking for a lot lately.
Some recommendations:
- The Talos Principle (puzzles with a story)
- Outer Wilds (best to go in blind, read absolutely nothing about it, not even the steam description)
- CrossCode (fast paced fun combat and a cool story and characters. Somewhat grindy but still finite)
- Beacon Pines (short and sweet visual novel)
- Chants of Sennaar (language translation game, surprisingly fun and satisfying)
- Comment on How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons? 1 week ago:
At least from my perspective, manga and anime are mediums. They can be used to tell any story, and they are used like that. You can find manga and anime for any age group and in any genre. The medium is used for all kinds of stuff.
The problem with western comics and cartoons is that (at least from what I know), the medium is mostly only targetting kid’s or it’s superhero comics. It’s just so very limited.
For example, I’m currently watching Ancient Magus Bride. It’s a very non-traditional romance story in a fantasy setting with interesting characters and emotional dynamics. So far I’m really enjoying it. I simply can’t imagine a western cartoon/comic even attempting to produce a similar thing. Or well, perhaps I can imagine it but it just doesn’t happen for some reason.
- Comment on Anon recommends a cast iron pan 2 weeks ago:
Can they actually explode?
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 3 weeks ago:
Maybe what I see as red is actually what I see as blue to someone else.
This is a very common interesting thought, but what I’ve started thinking is even more interesting is this related thought:
Why does red look like it does, to you? I’m not concerned with how other people see red here, I’m just thinking about a single person (me or yourself, for instance). Why does red look like that? Why not differently? Something inside your eyes or your brain must be deciding that.
You could say “oh it’s because red is this and that wavelength” but what decides that exactly that wavelength looks like that (red)? There must be some physical process that at some point makes the qualia that is red - but how does it do that? The qualia that is red seems to be entirely arbitrary and decidedly not a physical thing. It is just a sensation, an experience, a qualia. But your eyes/brain somehow decides that ~650 nm wavelength translates to exactly that qualia. What decides that and how?
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 3 weeks ago:
So what you meant to say is that you don’t see a difference above 60 Hz. But other people definitely can tell the difference. Don’t generalize on everyone based on your own experiences.
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 5 weeks ago:
Really? You can Google this and find plenty of sources online super easily.
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 5 weeks ago:
Well long story short sweden has had quite relaxed immigration law for a long time and is now dealing with major crime problems as violent gangs cause shootings in the cities.
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 5 weeks ago:
Check Swedens problems recently with unchecked immigration.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 5 weeks ago:
The choice of instance is kind of a big barrier though. There’s also a lot of bad UX around discoverability.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
That is a nice success story!
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
But this is only a default right? Surely an admin can open registration anyway?
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
I guess a new flag to only exclude it from the list but not exclude it from the stats 🤷
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
Sorry, but the fact that you’re here means that you are probably in the top percentages of tech-literate people. Especially considering you’re on programming.dev.
You’re severely overestimating the technical literacy of regular people. For many people (maybe even the majority of people) even email is complex.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
The platform right now is lacking actual discussions. Everyone seems to just like memes.
Honestly I’ve just blocked most of the meme comms 😅. It’s easy to see memes when I want to anyway by just opening a private window where I’m not logged in and going to the all feed. It’s always mostly memes anyway. Then when I’m logged in, I can see some other stuff without all the memes clogging up my feed.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
with the exception of pixelfed
Why not that one? I’m not familiar with pixelfed.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
Oh come on, let’s not pretend that the fediverse is just super intuitive and easy for regular users (i.e. non-techie people). Same ridiculous notion as when people say Linux is just as user-friendly as the more mainstream OSes. It’s sad and I wish it was better but it’s just not right now.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
That’s just how it works at the moment. It only counts active users from the sites listed.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
You may want to edit your comment :)
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
my comment was mostly a joke
Sorry for not getting it, it’s just that sometimes people (understandably) get very confused about the technicalities of the fediverse and mix up things like defederation and stuff like this. 😅
Consider a /s in the future :)
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
I think I generally agree with you, but I don’t think this is a big grievance. Lemmy.world has enough traction as it is, they don’t really need the “publicity” from join-lemmy.org.
It would’ve been better if they had written this as some kind of policy beforehand. Like if they had written somewhere before this pull request something like “any instance with more than 40% of active users may be excluded from the join-lemmy.org listing”, then it would’ve been more reasonable too.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
🎵 the internet is for porn 🎵
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
You can read their motivation in the linked pull request. FWIW I don’t think there’s any ill intent here and certainly not an attempt to boost their own instance. I think they just want Lemmy to be decentralized and lemmy.world being as big as it is kinda prevents that.
I’m not sure I would’ve done it that way personally but I can see the reasoning and it’s not entirely unreasonable.