davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 1 day ago:
I asked Google to roll a D4 and it rolled a 4. So my answer (correct or not) when following the directions in the question is the fourth one (D).
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 1 week ago:
Where I live it does that so often that many people from the area are known to just go outside and walk in it with no extra protection or shielding. Crazy in my opinion.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 1 week ago:
I rather thought that was one of the main selling points of the Proton services.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t any other provider just give up the senders’ details immediately?
- Comment on Anon plays ff14 1 week ago:
It can be used in moderation. Obviously when talking back and forth with an actual cat is one example.
Another is from the days before cell phones. If my parents got separated from each other when shopping, my dad would start to meow very loudly and mom would run over as quick as she could, to shut him up and stop embarrassing us.
- Comment on Are there rollerblading performances like ice skating performances? 2 weeks ago:
Slalom gets pretty close in some ways. It’s amazing to watch what someone highly skilled can do, even when just practicing.
- Comment on Neutronium would like a word. 2 weeks ago:
Not only does your explanation match my understanding, but your username suggests you know this stuff.
- Comment on Neutronium would like a word. 2 weeks ago:
I’ll go one better.
A (non-spinning uncharged) black hole with diameter 1+5/8th inches (so it fits in the box) has a mass of about 2.3 earths.(Near as I can tell QGP filling the whole box is around a ten billionth of that.)
Of course the box would Very quickly no longer be outside the black hole. QGP would also cause the box to no longer be a container in short order. To put it mildly.
- Comment on Anon watches Jurassic Park 2 weeks ago:
Epic win! Lol!
All your base are belong to us.
Ceiling cat is watchingEtc, etc.
- Comment on Monkey See Monkey Do 2 weeks ago:
At least the character is an adult. (I just checked.) So I don’t see much issue with this besides the usual parasocial relationship stuff.
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
That’s fissed, not fused.
- Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 4 weeks ago:
Australia.
- Comment on Come study linguistics!! 4 weeks ago:
ENGLISH HAS 4 LETTER SIMULTANEOUS 4-GENDER PRONOUN CUBE
- Comment on carlos for scale 4 weeks 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. 4 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 5 weeks ago:
Best I can figure it translates to “They are naive”.
- Comment on TIT-BABBLER 5 weeks ago:
A.k.a. Motorboater
- Comment on Was Donald Trump ever cool? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Cellular peptide cake with mint frosting
- Comment on Do I need to choose a language when posting on Lemmy? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Even denser and I’ll make it neutronium.
… But not too dense or it becomes ???.