davidgro

@davidgro@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it so⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But in negative energy, which isn’t known to exist independently. (You can’t take the Casimir effect out from between the plates, etc.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a wonderful world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m quite proud that I correctly guessed both links before opening either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tests their IQ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It can easily go the other way. I had a contact during which I lost a relationship right after losing my dad. Failed to deal with it, and soon after lost the contract too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Constraint 5 seems like an odd addition, why wouldn’t you want something like this to also be potentially useful? I would imagine if anyone does this for real it probably would break that constraint (as the xenobots do), because there’s a good chance the builders would try to accomplish something with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your link is missing the https:// so it doesn’t work in at least some clients. Working link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Stick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can stick the rock in my pocket but can’t rock the stick in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s usually in the context of there not being a single app alternative (like WhatsApp or that one China uses) which took off before SMS became unlimited here, so SMS is the default if you want to exchange text messages with someone or if a company does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I suppose I could actually pay attention to your username.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You don’t have to be Marion Delgado to know which way the wind blows.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Skimming the Readme and the Philosophy documents, this seems really nice to me, and like a lot of thought has gone into the design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You don’t have to be Marion Delgado to know which way the wind blows.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. That page and your other links aren’t working for me (504 gateway timeout) but the codeberg home page is working. Weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. What country are you in? Whenever SMS comes up on the Internet usual people mention it being a US thing almost exclusively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You don’t have to be Marion Delgado to know which way the wind blows.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is it article 1.4 of? Where are the rest of the articles?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US. I’m assuming OP is not in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satan's Ballsack⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  They sure do. Tragic how bullying ends up being passed along like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t know why, and maybe the prompt says to occasionally make a mistake or something? Or could be hand edited after it was generated, but I also don’t know why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The rambling ‘questions’ like this are bot posts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since light cannot pass through a black hole does that mean light has mass? Also why does light form a singularity in a black hole? Is that like a fixed point on a map or something?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, just get a tester. In reality the weight difference is immeasurably small (like completely swamped by dust particles)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since light cannot pass through a black hole does that mean light has mass? Also why does light form a singularity in a black hole? Is that like a fixed point on a map or something?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s “yes, but not rest mass.” - light has energy and energy is mass. (Specifically m=E/c²)

  In theory a sensitive enough scale could measure the difference between a charged battery and a drained one* without the battery gaining or losing any matter. Not even electrons, since each one leaving the negative end is replaced by one going in the positive end, and vice versa when charging. This is the type of mass light has, just pure energy.

  *I did the math a while back and if I remember right for a typical AA size Ni-MH battery the difference would be about the weight of a bacterium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what the article I linked was about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh sure, I am sure they weren’t saying humanity would last that long (although technology may help), just ‘any plants’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently saw an estimate of around 2 billion more years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think civilization in its current form may end, and with it billions of people, but as a species we are pretty adaptable, I think there will be lots of survivors and they will be able to thrive eventually.

  But I think it’s even more likely that there won’t be any one big collapse, and things will either oscillate or reach a steady equilibrium for millennia to come.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Bad” is of course subjective, but the games I play most are gacha games. Amazing graphics and music, etc. in a free to play* game.

  *Of course they are designed to inspire spending money, and I do somewhat: The fixed monthly IAPs only, if I would need to spend extra to get a specific character or weapon I wait for a rerun.

  But I like anime girls, and these games are full of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Regular glasses do not help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Played Piano with My Washing Machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My mom had the fridge, dishwasher, clothes washer, and dryer. And over the years every one of them had stuff break. Worst was the ice maker in the fridge, those are notorious. But each of the others had at least one minor feature fail and more than one of them also had the major feature fail at least once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Played Piano with My Washing Machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My mom had Samsung appliances, so I knew where this was going the moment he opened its door.

  Side note unrelated to their musical tendencies: never buy Samsung appliances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I’ve heard this one. What if it’s already full of infinite people and infinitely more arrive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s 5. I might have forgotten one or two, but it’s near there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AH LAWDY GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still really sad that the Turing Machine one got enough votes, but was rejected by the LEGO judges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music just isn't good anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t listen to music much, but I feel like this graph would be nearly inverted for me. Didn’t care much for the music I was forced to hear on the school bus, but inherited my mom’s enjoyment of both oldies and classical, and enjoy some modern music (which is just much more diverse than when I grew up, so there’s something for everyone)