davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on How long can someone last with the Death Note in real life? 6 days ago:
Your shinigami is going to die of boredom.
- Comment on 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙 2 weeks ago:
Just researching adaptations of classic literature.
- Comment on What was the stupidest form of US defaultism you've encountered in real life whilst they're abroad? 2 weeks ago:
I was super young, like maybe 4-5 or something, when my family took a short trip south from San Diego (USA) into Tijuana, Mexico since the border was right there and it wasn’t a big deal back then.
I remember seeing price tags and being really surprised… That they were in US dollars.
I don’t think I had even started school yet, but I still knew that different country = different language and different money. Not sure how people can miss that so easily.
- Comment on tuff enuff 3 weeks ago:
The limit that the 3 body problem presents is that there is no exact solution, and inexact solutions will eventually desynchronize so much as to become worthless for predictions. But the key word is ‘eventually’ - if your initial measurements are good, there could be years (and in the case of the planets of the solar system, millions of years) worth of useful predictions.
- Comment on The Most Horrifying Sci-Fi Story Ever Written 3 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, I remember reading this (and other stories by the same author) on Kuro5hin decades ago. I’m not sure I agree with the superlative, but it was definitely a freaky story.
Haven’t watched the video version yet, but from the first few minutes it seems like just an audio book of the text.
- Comment on Tough luck 4 weeks ago:
YES
- Comment on The End of an Era 4 weeks ago:
I guess you could count the atmosphere as part of earth, then things over 100km are in little enough of the atmosphere that it’s not really ‘touching’ it the same way. (For example not generating significant lift)
- Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 4 weeks ago:
Textra doesn’t mention RCS. And I have no idea what the deal is with the first one, it’s ‘not available in my country’. I’m inclined to think either it’s lying and just means MMS or it’s tied to a specific carrier and talks directly to their servers, like the old Verizon messages app which did RCS that way.
- Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 4 weeks ago:
As far as I can tell that’s still impossible, so they are just lying or it’s a different RCS (like retail custom solutions). Also that search shows SMS apps that don’t mention RCS.
- Comment on My emotions 4 weeks ago:
Perhaps fanatic.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
What about convection? There’s been at least some mixing, right? So I’d guess the average age of a nucleus from the core (ignoring fusion) would indeed be less than from the surface, but I would think it’s less difference (on average) than the raw math. If there’s enough mixing it could be very little difference at all.
- Comment on Schrodinger's Precious 1 month ago:
Eventually dead, from multiple potential causes. Especially with no lid.
- Comment on Unwound say it is a reasonable naming schema 1 month ago:
What’s Unwound?
- Comment on What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone? 1 month ago:
Well… He kinda has a point in a way. Doesn’t disprove yours though.
- Comment on Testing if I can get likes by abandoning my principles and blatantly r/AntiWork posting 1 month ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Anon makes a wish 1 month ago:
The monkey’s paw makes a shrug motion.
- Comment on Anyone remember that "First is the worst, second is the best" rhyme kids used to do? Where did that come from? 1 month ago:
I didn’t know what OP was talking about until your comment unlocked the memory.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Greed.
I think the main pushers of the ‘root = insecure’ narrative are movie and music studios who think only rooted users can rip their media. Banks have also bought into thinking root means compromised for some reason.
The phone OEMs themselves and the carriers also tend to dislike root because they like to have as much control over the users as they can get, such as system installed spyware which rooted users are likely to disable, or overwrite with a completely different ROM.
I really miss the good old days before SafetyNet.
- Comment on What's your favorite band? (Of frequency that is) 2 months ago:
Around 532 nm is pretty nice.
Oh, wait, did you mean audio?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“Sleepy”?
- Comment on every time 2 months ago:
You know sonic booms? This is basically like ‘optical booms’ from radiation in water that’s traveling faster than the speed-of-light-in-water (which is less than the speed of light in a vacuum)
- Comment on Fck it, we ball 2 months ago:
It is cute when they curl up into a ball.
- Comment on Top DuckDuckGo Image Result for "Morse code chart". It gets worse the longer I look at it. 2 months ago:
At least 6 makes sense
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 2 months ago:
I was thinking Hammond - old and rich (at least beforehand)
- Comment on So Deep 2 months ago:
Just seal it in dough (as in soup dumplings) then deep fry them.
I’ve had deep fried butter.
- Comment on Eep 3 months ago:
Interesting. That I think that puts it more on the ‘trivially true’ side (that everyone has a different view of everyone else, not necessarily an accurate one).
- Comment on Eep 3 months ago:
Huh. To me that seems like it’s either trivially true or it’s nonsense, depending on definitions.
Of course nobody knows anybody 100% - especially not oneself. So each person gets a different view, with slightly different facts and assumptions about each other.
But on the other hand, strong or important personality traits tend to be noticeable after spending just a few minutes with a person.
- Comment on Moder games with Abuse-like controls scheme? 3 months ago:
The title made me think you were looking for stuff like QWOP.
- Comment on pro choice 3 months ago:
… That’s the joke. (That he doesn’t)
- Comment on pro choice 3 months ago:
On the other hand, he Doesn’t think you can double a sphere by cutting it into 5 pieces and reassembling them, so there’s that.