GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Anon is a test subject 1 day ago:
Yeah, I suffer from chronic pain, too, though not to the degree that you appear to. It’s kind of funny because I know I’m really tired or mentally exhausted when I start noticing all the pain I normally have, but just haven’t even noticed for hours before.
It’s impressive what the mind can tolerate.
- Comment on Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs? 2 weeks ago:
A 9v battery powered skateboard is viable if you pick the right combination of weight, speed, and distance. Doesn’t mean it’s going to change the world.
- Comment on science 3 weeks ago:
All these giant rocks and tools fit just fine, but he couldn’t fit one little bottle of superglue.
- Comment on Stare at it. 3 weeks ago:
I hope you aren’t a pilot, or at least not my pilot.
- Comment on Stare at it. 3 weeks ago:
You can just talk to one of your more inept coworkers.
- Comment on Stare at it. 3 weeks ago:
I had a theoretical math professor. He said something along the lines of, “Being a theoretical math professor is the best job in the world. You can lean back in your chair, put your feet on your desk and close your eyes, and no one can tell if you’re working or having a nap.”
- Comment on Non-binary 5 weeks ago:
I’m kind of autistic and this whole premise flies in the face of set theory. I think this might be a joke, but I can’t be sure.
- Comment on Non-binary 5 weeks ago:
So turn off the lights and anything can happen?
- Comment on How do things get stuck in the anus? 5 weeks ago:
Having trouble finding the knife.
- Comment on Learn how to count with Bill Gates 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, those were the days, back when more often than not a Windows upgrade was also an improvement. As much as I loved Win2k, WinXP was even better. Let’s not talk about Vista and while Win7 was nice, it wasn’t much of a UX improvement.
- Comment on Learn how to count with Bill Gates 5 weeks ago:
Ever tried to use all the hidden features on the sides and corners? Absolute nightmare with a mouse, fairly reasonable with touch. The UX was very dependent on the hardware being used.
And I hate the bing search bar, too, don’t worry. Never used Cortana, occasionally use the search at the bottom of the screen, only select from installed apps or documents. I already know how to use a web browser, thanks, and they all let me choose my search engine, too.
- Comment on Learn how to count with Bill Gates 5 weeks ago:
I can appreciate what you’re saying, but it’s a terrible idea to force a tablet paradigm in non-touch screen scenarios. 8 would have been fine if you could choose your start bar. Don’t say this wasn’t possible, because there was third-party software to make that happen.
- Comment on Learn how to count with Bill Gates 5 weeks ago:
Win2k wasn’t consumer. It was the business offering at the same time as ME, which may be surprising to some. Xp was their successor, merging the business and personal lines.
- Comment on Anon helps with his gf's vaping addiction 5 weeks ago:
The point of my math is that it doesn’t matter if it’s mg or percent. Assuming the bottles remain consistent, the difference for each step will be the same volume.
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 5 weeks ago:
Why just enemies?
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 5 weeks ago:
When destroying civilization just isn’t enough.
- Comment on Anon helps with his gf's vaping addiction 5 weeks ago:
Math time.
Let’s say it’s 50mg/30ml. To get to 49mg/30ml you need 49/50 of the original bottle or 29.4ml of the original concentration with the last bit being 0 nic.
Now our hypothetical 50% nic bottle has 15ml nicotine. 49% would be 14.7ml. Now our original mix is 50%, so we have to add twice as much as that 14.7ml to get to 49%. 14.7×2= … 29.4ml.
The cool thing about dimensional analysis is that once you cancel out your dimensions the math takes care of itself, same as if you’re using percentages. Anon may not know much about vape juice, but his math is on point.
- Comment on Anon helps with his gf's vaping addiction 5 weeks ago:
Tack a few more zeros in there and sure.
- Comment on Anon plays GTA: Dubai 1 month ago:
Fair enough.
- Comment on Anon plays GTA: Dubai 1 month ago:
Where did I spread misinformation?
- Comment on Anon plays GTA: Dubai 1 month ago:
And if I don’t go, I’m not lending support to a place with archaic laws and other abusive practices, even if I wouldn’t be at risk if I went there. It’s as simple as that.
- Comment on Anon plays GTA: Dubai 1 month ago:
There are multiple stories of women being raped and then charged with having premarital sex, as if they had a say in the matter. Here’s one example. The fact that’s it’s happened enough for an organization to be created to deal with it sounds fairly damning from where I stand. I can only assume those 15 million people don’t find that to be reason enough to stay away.
- Comment on Seedless Catholics Against Watermelons? 1 month ago:
Come on. A lot of foods were bred for shipping, not flavor or nutrition. Some used GMO, others used selective breeding. Here’s an article talking about it 20 years ago. The short answer is people want to make money, and most foods aren’t priced based on their nutritional value.
- Comment on Wish for your greatest desire 1 month ago:
And now you know why genies turn evil.
- Comment on Existential trolley problem 1 month ago:
Yes, because he’s finally rolling the boulder down a hill.
- Comment on Never Forget 1 month ago:
There is a difference between illegal and unauthorized. If I go into a store that doesn’t allow trying on the clothes before you buy and I try a shirt on, I haven’t broken a law. It still isn’t authorized. The store can throw me out, but I shouldn’t be charged with shoplifting.
What Aaron was doing wasn’t even unauthorized. He was just doing more of it than they liked. In the example above, it would be like bringing 20 (or 2000…) pieces of clothing to the change room when there’s a 5 piece limit. Again, it shouldn’t be illegal, and the site could have enforced account limits if that was their issue instead of relying on bandwidth limits doing the job for them.
Now, the only thing left to question is how he hooked up the computer doing the downloading. I don’t know about the legality of that, but he was accused of illegally accessing the website, not the university network, so I’m guessing even the prosecutor who was trying to expand the scope of the DMCA law didn’t see a way he could charge him with anything on that front.
- Comment on True quality 1 month ago:
You’re kind of making his point, as well as showing why it results in a subpar finished product.
- Comment on True quality 1 month ago:
If your wood for your wall is bowed, and you match the bows, your wall will have a slight bow or cup depending on which side you’re looking at. If you don’t match them, it adds strain on your drywall and may cause deformations. The taller the wall, the more obvious this will be. If your wood is doglegged, it will be almost impossible to match that. Twisting is more of a problem because if it’s bad enough you’re either going to spend a lot of time and fasteners correcting it or you’re going to have a board that doesn’t line up with the rest of them since a board on the diagonal has a greater depth than a square board. This can also cause problems when attaching drywall.
It’s less hassle, and possibly less time wasted picking better boards for your project than it is correcting those defects during your project. It also doesn’t cost any more.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 month ago:
I thought we were discussing what qualifies as structural. I guess we’re just talking about whatever you feel like talking about.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 month ago:
No.