davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tough luck 2 days ago:
YES
- Comment on The End of an Era 2 days 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? 5 days 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? 6 days 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 6 days ago:
Perhaps fanatic.
- Comment on 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
Eventually dead, from multiple potential causes. Especially with no lid.
- Comment on Unwound say it is a reasonable naming schema 2 weeks ago:
What’s Unwound?
- Comment on What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone? 2 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Anon makes a wish 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t know what OP was talking about until your comment unlocked the memory.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks 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) 5 weeks ago:
Around 532 nm is pretty nice.
Oh, wait, did you mean audio?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
“Sleepy”?
- Comment on every time 5 weeks 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 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
At least 6 makes sense
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 1 month ago:
I was thinking Hammond - old and rich (at least beforehand)
- Comment on So Deep 1 month ago:
Just seal it in dough (as in soup dumplings) then deep fry them.
I’ve had deep fried butter.
- Comment on Eep 2 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 2 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? 2 months ago:
The title made me think you were looking for stuff like QWOP.
- Comment on pro choice 2 months ago:
… That’s the joke. (That he doesn’t)
- Comment on pro choice 2 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.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 3 months ago:
Genuinely surprised that nothing old-school made the list: NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, A2600, etc.
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 3 months ago:
Interesting. Hadn’t heard that one. (Or the sentiment)
On a side note, these days I feel like something affecting someone personally means it’s more likely to move them left - see leopards and faces.
(Unless it’s a tax or regulation, perhaps that’s what Phil was thinking of)
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 3 months ago:
To most Americans (including myself before reading into it due to Lemmy) Liberal is simply a synonym of ‘left-wing’ and has no distinction at all from that and other terms like ‘leftist’, ‘progressive’, etc. All of these terms mean exactly “not conservative” - mostly in a social sense.
My (weak) understanding is that outside the US, Liberal is a (mostly) economic position - specifically one supportive of capitalism, which both major parties in the US are. (With slight policy differences.)
- Comment on Is This The GREATEST In-Camera Effect of ALL TIME? 3 months ago:
It’s actually an interesting video. (To me at least) Of course the presentation is over-the-top, but they cover some of the history of forced perspective, and how Fellowship of the Ring did it in a way that hasn’t been done before or since in a feature film.
- Comment on boogs 3 months ago:
I think the comic is pointing out a funny hypocrisy that we usually have between land bugs and sea bugs, but they are all bugs.