davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 5 days ago:
No I didn’t, but you made me curious so I just looked it up.
It’s not a sound I remember hearing anywhere, but I certainly could have and not known what it was at the time so ignored it.
- Comment on Anon is looking for a new video game 1 week ago:
Which one is “The zombies scale as your character does, so the longer you play the harder they are to kill”?
- Comment on logs are for quitters 1 week ago:
Serious answer: A huge negative amount. Anything above iron requires energy to fuse (which is why it produces energy from fission.) and I’m pretty sure nothing with 184 protons could be stable enough to count as being produced - the nuclei be more smashed apart than merging at that point.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 1 week ago:
That’s fissed, not fused.
- Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 1 week ago:
Australia.
- Comment on Come study linguistics!! 1 week ago:
ENGLISH HAS 4 LETTER SIMULTANEOUS 4-GENDER PRONOUN CUBE
- Comment on carlos for scale 1 week ago:
I’m disappointed that nobody here has asked the right question yet:
How many Smoots is a Carlos?
- Comment on Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code. 2 weeks ago:
What is this “blue” you mention? That’s not green Or amber!
Seriously though, errors in native code back then would either freeze the system or just spontaneously reboot, either way no time to display a reason. (Although the BASIC interpreter would at least try to say what happened with errors in BASIC code.)
- Comment on trapped in the middle with u 2 weeks ago:
Best I can figure it translates to “They are naive”.
- Comment on TIT-BABBLER 3 weeks ago:
A.k.a. Motorboater
- Comment on Was Donald Trump ever cool? 3 weeks ago:
Trump was explicitly the inspiration for rich-Biff in Back to the Future part 2, so if you’ve seen that, you’ll have some idea of how people thought of him.
- Comment on sussvival instinct 3 weeks ago:
Cellular peptide cake with mint frosting
- Comment on Do I need to choose a language when posting on Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
This is one of the things that could have been a nice feature, but the devs never fixed it.
It should let you set a default, and options in the list should include ‘detect from browser settings’, and ‘most recently selected’. (Default should be that one probably, but on the very first post it should detect it automatically.)
If they had done that, and encouraged the same in apps and other clients, then filtering by language would actually work and not exclude the vast majority of posts.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 4 weeks ago:
There are hundreds (at least!) versions of the bible, and that’s just in English. Would have to make sure it’s exactly the same one.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 4 weeks ago:
It looks like a code even when not trying to.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 4 weeks ago:
The concept for this is called Steganography and that article has several examples, but most would be difficult without tools/references.
The easiest would be stuff like using certain letters of words or word lengths as mentioned in some other comments here.
- Comment on WWYD 4 weeks ago:
In reality though it would become a legal question, not (just) a moral one.
- Comment on Why is Jury Nullification a Thing, But You Can’t Talk About It in Court? 5 weeks ago:
Jury nullification can be used for evil.
From Wikipedia:“White defendants accused of crimes against black people and other minorities were often acquitted by all-white juries, especially in the South, even in the face of irrefutable evidence. An example is the trial of Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam.”
So I do think it’s a bit of a mixed bag.
- Comment on WWYD 5 weeks ago:
I feel like blame is the very obvious factor missing from most descriptions of trolley problems I’ve seen.
“Will it send me to jail?” is a highly important question for something that might easily be considered murder even if it does prevent other deaths.
- Comment on explain deez nutz 5 weeks ago:
Even denser and I’ll make it neutronium.
… But not too dense or it becomes ???.
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 5 weeks ago:
But why?
I’d think in all of those cases it should be the variant that has the greatest population or proximity.
- Comment on For your consideration 5 weeks ago:
Should go to 8, then “bunch”.
- Comment on How do you feel about someone taking the coins people tossed into a fountain or other public waterworks display for "wishes?" 1 month ago:
Toss a coin to your stripper, Oh valley of chintzy
- Comment on Lightning bugs!! 1 month ago:
Yeah. I once even visited the US South, but it was the wrong time of year or area.
- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 1 month ago:
The GPS ‘time zone’ does not account for leap seconds at all and is currently 18 seconds ahead of UTC. The GPS navigation messages from the satellites do however include the current offset.
- Comment on star bae 1 month ago:
Yes. 1/2 c is super fast still and gravity that strong would have effects like noticably bending outgoing light.
Neutron stars are right on the verge of becoming black holes and are incredible.
- Comment on Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post 1 month ago:
Good to know, thanks!
- Comment on Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post 1 month ago:
Could it just be any post that is ‘friends only’ or if the user has blocked anyone?
Sounds like it’s not systemic like Twitter or Reddit requiring logins for virtually anything.
- Comment on HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit Game Bundle - $25 for 30 games 2 months ago:
For some reason they don’t mention in the description that most or all of these games are not videogames, they are tabletop role playing game manuals. (The digital downloads are .pdf files)
Nothing wrong with that of course, but it certainly seems like an important detail.
- Comment on Gottem. :) 2 months ago:
Changes in the gravitational field definitely travel, and do so at the speed of light.
Look up LIGO