nickwitha_k
@nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on My brain to itself 6 days ago:
Shawty got JEANS, JEANS, JEANS, JEANS, JEANS
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
Yup. Over here in the Western US, nearly every apartment is built as cheaply as possible and run by slumlords that will do everything that they can to refuse to return deposits. Painting over bugs and black mold between tenants is the norm, in my experience, not the exception. Add to that that insulation between apartments is scant, if present and frequently there are no physical barriers between apartment building attic accesses (in every top-story apartment that I’ve been in, it would be easily possible to gain access to others’ apartments via the attic and the attics also act to channel sound between all top apartments).
- Comment on youth risky 1 week ago:
I’m a person who is less phobic and more risk averse. For example, I used to ride a motorcycle daily for my commute (on long-term hiatus). I did a great deal to mitigate risks involved including taking two and three wheel MSF courses, riding only when safe, sane and sober, researching gear safety standards and testing requirements, using that information to buy the best gear that I could afford, and riding ATGATT.
Despite all of the risk mitigation, I still ended up in the hospital after getting sideswiped by an SUV. I avoided moving in case I had a neck injury since I involuntarily slowed myself with the visor of my helmet and got hit by my bike after sliding for a bit (high-side get-off - nothing quite as profanity-inducing as looking back to see a 480lb/218kg chunk of metal and plastic gaining on you while you’re sliding, uncontrolled down a highway at about 25mph/40kph). I was even able to give my wife a phone call before the ambulance arrived to let her know I’d be late and remove my gear non-destructively with some help from the EMTs.
After being triaged in the trauma ward, I was wheeled out into the hall because my injuries were so minor and another motorcyclist was being admitted who wasn’t wearing a helmet. The guy was actively bleeding from his head, extremely confused, and kept getting off of his gurney and wandering around yelling every time the medical staff wasn’t paying attention. It wasn’t good.
My discharge came about 16 hours with my worst injuries being a severe ankle sprain, a unilateral adrenal gland hemorrhage (an esoteric injury that required no surgical intervention - basically internal bruising/bleeding of an adrenal gland), and a minor abrasion about the size of a nickel (~21mm diameter) that was treated with a bit of antiseptic ointment and an adhesive bandage. I was sent home with a cane and prescription for pain meds. Now, my main lingering issue is an ankle that appears to react to changes in atmospheric pressure.
With replacement gear, I’d definitely be riding again but, have a wife with GAD who is very loss averse and don’t feel right putting her through increased anxiety.
TL;DR - Always wear appropriate PPE for the risks that may be present.
- Comment on youth risky 1 week ago:
tips faceshield
- Comment on Make Billionaires Pay (Their Taxes) 1 week ago:
Ideally, to pay for infrastructure and public services.
- Comment on youth risky 1 week ago:
Wearing appropriate PPE is sexy. If you’re not going to do it for your own health, do it to impress the freaky labrats.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
They really have, yes. But, currently, I find them best for notebook/journal replacement tablets. I agree that, based upon the the mechanism used (physically moving pigment capsules in fluid), it’s very unlikely to be useful for gaming. Physical displays can only refresh so quickly.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
Could get that with eInk pretty easily. Refresh times are still pretty awful though. I had a dumb phone years back that had an eInk display and it would easily last a month between charges.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 2 weeks ago:
Good to remember that not everyone is aware of the bullshit by 17 or 18 when recruiting is at its height (gotta pay for college somehow, right?). I know I wasn’t but, luckily planned to do ROTC instead of enlisting, then, educated myself out of being willing to do that.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 2 weeks ago:
Neutral as far as pH is concerned, yes. However, radicals tend to be very reactive due to their valance not being full. I am a bit rusty, TBH, as I’m about a decade and a half out of uni but, the best way to predict the products of the reaction is to look at the high-level of the equation:
H• (excess) + H••OH + H••R + H••N-R -> H2(g) + •OH + •R + •N-RAll of the products of the initial reaction here are radicals except for the H2 molecules. They all are going to further react to form more stable species with full valances, with possible exception being the molecular hydrogen. Because the elemental hydrogen is introduced as a radical rather than protons (H+ ions) in the solution, the final products are likely to be more negatively charged, neutral, and/or have some interesting hydrogen additions, especially in the hydrocarbons and amino acids.
For example, there could be reactions like:
R• + •OH + •N-R -> R-OH + HO-N-ROverall, however, the amount of free hydrogen/protons is likely to be reduced as they are effectively removed from solution as hydrogen gas.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 3 weeks ago:
It would be more likely a secondary or tertiary effect. That is, H• radicals ripped away from their parent molecules would leave •OH, •R, and •RNH radicals. These are unstable and highly reactive, “desiring” to have that stable electron configuration. Likely, this will result in elections being shifted to bring in more stable species, like OH-. Overall, we’re looking at effectively a deprotonation of the saliva, with extra intermediary steps to stabilize the radicals.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 3 weeks ago:
In the hypothetical, if one were able to lick elemental hydrogen in its atomic, rather than molecular form, it would have a few potential effects. The one that would concern me most would be its aggressive reactivity, ripping hydrogens away from anything that it could in order to achieve stability. This would potentially cause tissue damage both from the deprotonation and shift in pH.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 3 weeks ago:
Please don’t lick elemental hydrogen.
- Comment on "Let me in right now or I swear..." 3 weeks ago:
“Delicious Leaf Friend! Where are your agreed-upon offerings?”
- Comment on Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness 5 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on So cool! 5 weeks ago:
*Neature walk.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 5 weeks ago:
That or Rosetta, the built-in, hardware-accelerated x86_64 compatibility layer.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Git isn’t very good with large binary files, git blame doubly so.
Good point. I’d hope that there is some equivalent version control though.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Do game devs not have
git blame? Honest question. Seems like not having version control on development of 3d assets is a bit of an oversight. - Comment on car insurance 1 month ago:
No, you can walk around with a gun, even with it cocked and so long as you keep your finger off the trigger the likelihood of an unavoidable or unforeseen accident is still fairly low. A gun is an inert object that must be compelled to become lethal by the pressing of a trigger. A 5000 pound SUV on the other hand, by simply moving at normal driving speeds in close proximity to other people, consistently presents lethal opportunities that the driver must actively take steps to prevent from becoming realities. A gun and a car are almost precise opposites in that respect.
This is, I think, an apples:oranges comparison as you’re not taking the objects’ functional properties into account.
What is a gun, objectively, designed to do, in the most basic terms?
Fire a projectile when the trigger mechanism is actuated.
What is an automobile designed to do, in similar terms?
Move, when the accelerator is pressed and slow when the brake pedal is pressed.
An apples:apples comparison would be something closer to this:
You can walk around with a safely holstered gun and, barring a very unlikely malfunction or external factors, it will not go off, until the trigger is pulled. You can also walk around a safely parked car and, barring a mechanical malfunction or external factors, it will not move, unless someone presses the accelerator.
Like a computer, cars and firearms generally just do what their operator “tells” them to do.
- Comment on MFA 1 month ago:
MFML.
- Comment on acceptable screws 1 month ago:
Pozidriv is basically Philips++.
- Comment on acceptable screws 1 month ago:
Could be that it’s not a Philips but a JIS. I didn’t even know that JIS existed until a couple years ago. The shape is close enough to Philips to mostly work but make it super easy to strip.
- Comment on acceptable screws 1 month ago:
This and the centered shape that Philips and Robertson have were key. The lack of a sharp driver bit being able to slip out of the fastener prevented a lot of injuries.
However, Philips, at least, needs to go away.
- Comment on Thrill seekers 1 month ago:
I’ve been working at reducing my caffeine intake off and on for a bit. And thought I’d share a similar thing that I recently discovered. My wife got me a tea advent calendar from Adagio for the holiday and one of them was called “chicoriccino”. It’s a chicory-based coffee alternative with caffeine only from cocoa nibs.
Good flavor, though I’d never claim it’s a “coffee replacement”, just a beverage with a similar flavor category (like apples and nectarines). The big game changer for me was discovering that it brews very nicely in my overly-fancy drip machine and at the same ratios as coffee. So, I can just use my regular coffee scoop and get a nice, no-effort brew. Definitely recommended for anyone who likes coffee-like things.
- Comment on Thrill seekers 1 month ago:
I’d like the low-stress part.
- Comment on Thrill seekers 1 month ago:
That reminds me that I need to go to the library this weekend.
- Comment on Thrill seekers 1 month ago:
Try 30s. Going to Costco and Home Depot with my wife is awesome.
- Comment on shoot for the moon 1 month ago:
Thank you for doing the math on that.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
“And this is the machine that I use to attach lasers to the heads of cafeteria worker so that they may crush my enemies. Would you to see the different lengths of wire that I used to make it?”