davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on TIT-BABBLER 1 day ago:
A.k.a. Motorboater
- Comment on Was Donald Trump ever cool? 2 days 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 4 days ago:
Cellular peptide cake with mint frosting
- Comment on Do I need to choose a language when posting on Lemmy? 6 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 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? 2 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 2 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 2 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? 2 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 2 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?" 3 weeks ago:
Toss a coin to your stripper, Oh valley of chintzy
- Comment on Lightning bugs!! 3 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Good to know, thanks!
- Comment on Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post 5 weeks 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 1 month 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. :) 1 month ago:
Changes in the gravitational field definitely travel, and do so at the speed of light.
Look up LIGO
- Comment on Gottem. :) 1 month ago:
Expanding a little on the last part, Earth’s orbital velocity is about 29.8 km/s so that’s the speed at which we would suddenly be leaving the former location of the solar system in a direction that depends on what time of year it happened. Regardless of direction though, the escape velocity of the Milky Way around where we are is about 544 km/s so there’s no way we’d be leaving the galaxy. On the other hand the plane of the galaxy is only about 6 degrees off from the galactic center at the moment, so if this happened at the right time of year (don’t know when that is) we could launch somewhat towards the core. We would not however get very close to it because the sun’s own orbital velocity is about 230 km/s so we’d still be in close to the same galactic orbit overall, just potentially a bit more eccentric.
- Comment on What are the possible ways a computer can kill you? 1 month ago:
The electrocution risk would actually last even after it’s unplugged: Power supplies can have big capacitors in them.
- Comment on What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection. 1 month ago:
Just One can also do a lot more than 4 players. If you add additional writing surfaces and erasable markers (or pencils or whatever) it’s pretty much unlimited.
- Comment on PUNCH PUNCH FOREVER! - Pilot 1 month ago:
The name and theme remind me a bit of Perfect Hair Forever
- Comment on [META] Actually Infuriating Community 2 months ago:
Well, actually…
- Comment on [META] Actually Infuriating Community 2 months ago:
That would be infuriating.
- Comment on Anon checks in on their bully 2 months ago:
And you can see them again at your next traffic stop.
- Comment on Anon gets a job 2 months ago:
It’s .ml that can’t stand a little bad language. I doubt they are scanning images though.
- Comment on Real ones will recognise this molecule 2 months ago:
Hey, that’s not nice, they just asked a question.
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