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- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 2 days ago:
You can easily cross calculate between various, inertial frames of reference. The problem is that earth isn’t sitting still in an inertial frame. We spin around the sun, and we orbit the center of our galaxy. We also get nudged about by the pull of other stars.
Tracking a time jump (or technically a time-space jump) would be easy, if you just wanted to be within the solar system. With measurements the earth-moon gap would not be too hard. Hitting a surface exactly would be another story. Miss by a meter and your cut in half by a wall or floor.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 5 days ago:
I thought that only applied to steam keys?
You can sell your game for whatever you want elsewhere, but if you want them to be able to install via steam, you can’t undercut steam itself.
- Comment on Do old people still remember their childhood? Do people just start losing their memories and their sense of self as they get older? 2 weeks ago:
Various studies have shown this to be true. When you access memories, they become malleable. The brain makes various minor updates and repairs. It fixes holes, where bits have been forgotten, and pulls in new data, that wasn’t known at the time.
The core of the memory is often intact, it’s generally self referencing, and fairly stable. It’s the small details around it that can shift.
- Comment on I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work? 2 weeks ago:
That’s true, but they are also not likely to take you on either. They are part of the 95%+ that will not be interested.
- Comment on I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work? 2 weeks ago:
A thing to note is that staff tend not to leave good companies. That means they recruit FAR less than you would expect.
A useful method would be to make a list of all the companies you can find that seem to both be going fine, but not obviously recruiting.
Getting your foot in the door with them is the hard part. First thing is to check if you have any contacts there. Ex-coworkers, or people who are friends with a staff member. If so, try and leverage that contact to get your C.V. to them. Failing that, a polite phonecall to HR or the boss (depending on the company), with a follow up email is the best bet.
This method still has a 95%+ failure rate. The aim is to get your C.V. in front of the right person when they need a role filled, but haven’t started the recruitment process yet.
- Comment on electricity is honestly eldritch 1 month ago:
There is a path, from the ground, up your leg, across your torso (including your heart) and down your other leg.
This is the reason that downed high voltage power lines are so dangerous. Walking with a long stride can create enough of a differential to fibrillate your heart.
- Comment on electricity is honestly eldritch 1 month ago:
It actually takes all paths proportionally. This is partly why nearby lightning strikes are so dangerous. Even if the ground is a better conductor than your legs, enough current can still flow to stop your heart.
- Comment on French Anatomy 1 month ago:
That image will stick in the mind of every school boy (and possibly girl) who sees it. That’s a win for the textbook.
- Comment on How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results? 2 months ago:
Vitamin D helps if you are dealing with S.A.D (seasonal affective disorder). Basically, our brain gets to go into a state akin to hibernation. Unfortunately, modern life isn’t compatible with this. The effect is tiredness and low mood.
SAD seems to be triggered by low vitamin D, low exposure to sunlight, and the cold. The exact trigger levels vary from person to person.
If you’ve not tried it yet, a daylight lamp could help a lot, combined with the Vitamin D, it trucks the brain into thinking it’s still warm and bright outside. You want a hot in the morning, as well as one in the mid to late afternoon.
Failing that, accept your need to hibernate, and plan it in. It’s not ideal, but not fighting it will also help your mood.
- Comment on British plugs 2 months ago:
The type G was designed when things were designed to do their jobs. Any pain inflicted by user error was considered a learning opportunity.
The cord coming out the bottom means the plug can’t pull out. Combined with the big, chunky plug and pins, means the cable will likely fail first if pulled. It will also fail at the live core first, leaving a safe plug in the wall.
But yes, the foot pain is… impressive. It’s just blunt enough to not generally penetrate the skin, but it can happen.
- Comment on British plugs 2 months ago:
I’ve taken a 240VAC hit a few times. That will definitely wake you up.
Interestingly, the only times it has happened have been when I’ve been abusing the wiring. Never via a plug etc.
- Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist 2 months ago:
It’s not a true fractal, so the length has some finite bounding. It’s just stupidly large, since you are tracing the atomic structure.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 months ago:
It does have a pci-e socket… 😁
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 months ago:
Steam’s main thing is that they have recognised that killing the golden goose is a bad thing for everybody. They have consistently played for long term growth and profits, over purely short term gains.
Steam has made mistakes, but their demonstrated values have been shown to be mostly compatible with mine. I can work with that.
Also, them being privately owned means that they are less have seagull investors swooping in and demanding short term gains now now now.
- Comment on Fictional 3 months ago:
We do, light travels 1 lightsecond per second.
Oh, and 1 lightpicosecond is around 2.998mm.
100 lightpicoseconds is also very close to 1’.
- Comment on How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person? 3 months ago:
I’ve found comparing it to email works well. It’s about the only (mostly) decentralised service that most people have used.
“It’s like Reddit, but is decentralised, like email is.”, “This makes it far harder to manipulate to hide information.”
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 3 months ago:
The momentum matters when you hit something. A large truck has a lot more momentum than a small car. If it hits something it needs proportionally more force to stop it. Since forces are equal and opposite, that means the hit object has to absorb more force. Basically thing of the difference between someone dropping a marble on your head from a balcony to doing the same with a bowling ball. It’s the same with a child hit by a vehicle.
For passengers, only their mass matters. Whether you’re in a car, a truck, a train or an ocean liner, all that matters is the person’s mass and the rate of change.
- Comment on Imgur is now geoblocking the UK 4 months ago:
Making a lot of us angry. Unfortunately we are not as good as the french at complaining about it.
We also have the issue of this party being the better of the 2 viable options.
There’s talk of a new party forming, to the left of modern labour. Unfortunately, in a FPTP system, that can split the vote and make things worse, if done poorly.
- Comment on Woof is dog for "You may test that assumption at your convenience" 4 months ago:
It’s often one way or the other. “Get away from me!”, or “more babies!” Pregnancy hormones do a complete number on the mother. That’s before having a parasite attached to you near 24/7, demanding your attention, day or night!
Interestingly, her pheromones can do a similar job on any males around her (both human and dog). That was an interesting surprise.
- Comment on Woof is dog for "You may test that assumption at your convenience" 4 months ago:
That’s a trick many/most breeds of dog can pull off. It’s amazing how well a wet nose, and a slobbery smile shoved in your face can break a bad cycle.
There’s a reason they are used as emotional support animals so often. They can guard us from ourselves almost as well as this dog did the sheep from coyotes.
- Comment on Average plant behavior 5 months ago:
Given what it does, it eating you might be considered more humane! But no, is the fuck you, I just want to cause pain tree.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 5 months ago:
Latin is used BECAUSE it is dead. It means the terms don’t drift. It also lets the names/terms be a descriptive as necessary.
Asking a doctor to memorise some Latin words is a lot easier and less error prone than a sea of acronyms.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 5 months ago:
Fully agree with that. Tesla got thoroughly screwed over.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 5 months ago:
He could give lectures, but the computer massively slowed conversations. He also apparently had a bit of a temper. Some of his colleagues took to wearing steel toe cap shoes because of him (electric wheelchairs are heavy).
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 5 months ago:
Apparently he didn’t trust patents etc. He would come up with fanciful ideas, that sounded vaguely plausible, as cover for what he was actually working on.
At this point picking apart the Good, the bad and the cover is an …interesting exercise.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
It can, actually be done. It’s just inefficient and requires too much trust.
You either do a general broadcast of power. This is incredibly inefficient, at any real range. To get power to the edges, the power near the transmitter will likely be enough to cook your cat.
The other method is directed. You basically put out a power beam that improves efficiency. Unfortunately, you also now have a directable energy weapon in your living room. I wouldn’t trust something capable of cooking my brain, while I’m sat on the sofa, if it gets hacked.
Neither are likely viable for general use, though both could be useful under certain conditions.
- Comment on (Laser) Printer go brrrr 6 months ago:
My brother laser fits into the same basic role. I paid extra for the colour version however. The key is that laser toner never goes bad, unlike inkjets.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 6 months ago:
It’s actually not law, just custom. Most/all speedometers over estimate for this reason.
The motorway cameras, near Birmingham have been known to issue tickets for doing 71mph.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 6 months ago:
I would be wary of those roads. I’ve ran across several that seem like national, or 50 roads, yet limited a lot lower. Generally, there is a hidden danger on that stretch. The classic being a blind junction joining, or a school kicking out nearby. It won’t be obvious, unless you are familiar with the area.
At the same time, i also know of a 30 limit on an otherwise national road. It’s along the stretch in front of a previous Mayer’s house.
- Comment on Belkin is ending support for nearly all its Wemo smart home devices 6 months ago:
It’s our normal language for referencing each other. “The wife”, “the husband”. I’m sorry if it offended you.
As for the WAF comment, it doesn’t mean she can’t fix it, just that she has no interest in the nitty gritty of how it works. This seems to be a common occurrence with smart homes. It’s FAR more likely the male partner is interested in building it. The female partner tends to only care that it works. (And that their partner is enjoying themselves).
So far this gender stereotype holds up strongly (90%+)