GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 6 days ago:
Distillation doesn’t have to be of water. Not all impurities are solid. And the evaporated water does go back into the water pool, just with steps we aren’t directly involved in.
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 6 days ago:
What exactly do you think evaporation ponds are doing, then?
- Comment on Thought provoking tee shirt 1 week ago:
The lacy top makes it a lot less ambiguous. Also, the ties in OPs image look like spidey swinging towards you while the ones in your link really do not.
- Comment on Thought provoking tee shirt 1 week ago:
This shirt looks old, but I’ve never seen it before. Reddit has let me down again. Thanks Lemmy!
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 2 weeks ago:
I have a Win11 ThinkPad for work, so I get MS ads, Lenovo ads, and 2 or 3 versions each of Teams and Outlook. We use SharePoint, so when I open a file from there via the web interface, I don’t want to deal with that BS for printing. Depending if it’s Word or Excel, the button/link for opening in the desktop app will be located differently (or maybe it’s based on editing permissions), but it never fails to throw a dialog saying it couldn’t open the file in desktop mode and asking if i want to cancel or try again…just before the desktop app opens.
Some of these things don’t happen every day, but they all happen every week, and anyone who doesn’t see a problem with that hasn’t used a half-decent OS (and I’m willing to include early-release Win10 in that group, telemetry and Cortana notwithstanding).
- Comment on Anon describes their dream home 2 weeks ago:
Regionally dependent, typically based on the weather, terrain, and how populated the area is. In cold places with more than 16 feet to bedrock, you will typically have basements because they’re cheaper to heat in the winter and cool in the summer. If the bedrock or the water table is close to the surface, basements are too expensive or impossible. If there is lots of space around you and it isn’t too cold, you won’t have basements because they cost more per square foot than building on the surface. If you’re densely populated (and don’t have the exclusion conditions listed above), you will likely have a basements because it costs less to have a second floor (above or below) than it does to buy more land.
In short, bungalows have basements where it’s more cost-effective than having a bigger bungalow.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how this works, but I checked your posting history and it didn’t show up there, either. I guess the great weakness of the fediverse is if the links are interrupted. Perhaps it was due to instance maintenance or something.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been cheated!
Could not find post in your instance.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate. 3 weeks ago:
But heating the gas inside would also work because, no matter how perfect the seal is, it won’t matter if there is no vacuum to hold the two pieces together.
- Comment on DIY X-ray Machine 4 weeks ago:
That guy was exposed to a lot more radiation than was safe or necessary to make that video. Running an unshielded radiation generator for fun is a special kind of insane. Not saying he’s going to die of cancer, but if he gets cancer he’s probably going to think of this video.
And get the camera out of the radiation beam!
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
I have a Win11 laptop for work, and they changed the Start menu. Now it’s recent apps and recommendations for your starting point, and you have to click an option to see installed apps. Every. Time. There is a setting with 3 options - more recently used apps, more recommendations, or an even split of both, but the option to go straight to installed apps is mysteriously missing…
I will never install Win11 directly onto my hardware. If I have to use it, it will go into a VM of one flavor or another.
- Comment on There is no Vibe Engineering 5 weeks ago:
That feeling when LLM matches your worldview.
Also, this. (Not LLM, but still beautifully disturbing.)
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 5 weeks ago:
If you haven’t seen her other posts, I’d jump on her profile and read it. There are 7 more of these out there!
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 5 weeks ago:
As a Voyager user, the image load takes a looong time, but everything scrolls smoothly (except for the text jumping as images load).
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 1 month ago:
This is fairly inaccurate, as well. Paid work was certainly lower, but prior to the Industrial Revolution merely putting clothes on your back was a fairly labor-intensive task. One estimate puts it at 10 spinners to supply one person on a loom, and this work was often done by women at home, and was generally paid work in the Middle Ages. A British census in the mid 1800s, which over-represents unpaid work in domestic services as laborers (I’ll let you decide if that counts as women being part of the economy or not), still had about 50% of women in the census as employed.
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 1 month ago:
There are good indications that the stock is overvalued by as much as 10 times, even after the recent drops in stock prices. A lot of that appears to be propped up by his hype. If the stock just normalizes to values typical of other car companies, it will be a major blow to anyone that owns the stock.
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 1 month ago:
Pretty sure he can’t, since he isn’t a normal person, just like he and the rest of the board have to announce any shares they buy or sell.
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 1 month ago:
Some youtuber was saying as much. A lot of his wealth is tied up in Tesla and a lot of Tesla’s valuation is tied up in Musk. But Starlink is making far more than Tesla, he owns a larger portion of it than Tesla, and he’s selling Tesla shares. If he makes the right moves he can entirely walk away from Tesla and leave the shareholders holding the bag.
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 1 month ago:
I mean, you didn’t say the balls couldn’t have flat sides, right? Innovative solution to a dangerous request.
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 1 month ago:
When life needs parentheses.
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 1 month ago:
Well obviously your worldview is about 15° off true. You should fix that.
- Comment on I left negative feedback on ebay for dropshipping and the seller has messaged me four days in a row asking me to change it 1 month ago:
Well, I prefer to learn from other people’s mistakes. I’ve avoided some of the common pitfalls, but hadn’t realized the prevalence of this trick. I’ll keep it in mind when I research my future purchases.
- Comment on Bad news for Starlink: Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking 1 month ago:
Except that isn’t how it works. The lower your orbit, the quicker your orbit decays due to atmospheric drag. If the atmosphere was 10% less dense, this wouldn’t significantly reduce that at those altitudes. In the current scenario, if every one of those satellites stopped working right now, the vast majority of them (and their parts) would deorbit within 10 years. This would be a bit of a problem for manned space flight, but wouldn’t affect things too much otherwise.
If this was happening in geosynchronous orbit, with comparable amou to of mass, it would be a bigger deal.
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News 2 months ago:
I don’t know how it’s done, but I know images can be inserted. On the plus side, posts, including titles, can be edited, so any failed image attempts can be removed. This post was already enjoyable, but I’m interested in seeing how much more enjoyable it could be.
- Comment on PS5 Pro sales ‘have fallen behind PS4 Pro in the US 2 months ago:
It’s surprising how well the Steam Deck plays new games and how much support has been added to older games for something with a form factor similar to the Switch and a price point that is lower than most computers or consoles with similar capabilities. It’s a big change to the cost/benefit calculation.
- Comment on ‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot 3 months ago:
Welcome to the internet, you must be new. Keep scrolling through new here and you should see some pretty common jokes about the falliability of AI of various flavors. Criticism of the weighting on training models can be found with just slightly more effort.
- Comment on The Insane Biology of: The Greenland Shark | Real Science [26:21] 3 months ago:
The thumbnail for that video looks exactly like what I expect a 500 year old anything to look like.
- Comment on Day 189 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
I was going to post that you didn’t seem like you were trying very hard, on day 189, then I open the post and you prove me wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Well, about half the states have one, so that is no guarantee, either.
