Nibodhika
@Nibodhika@lemmy.world
- Comment on Does it seem odd to track my lifespan? 3 days ago:
My grandpa used to do this way before smartphones, I remember his 30.000 days birthday when I was a kid.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 6 days ago:
It’s curious, I have a similar story but with different countries, and the reactions are VERY different. I was born in Argentina, but my family emigrated to Brazil when I was 13 years old. I speak fluent Portuguese but obviously have an accent that people can’t quite place, but once it’s pointed out they notice it. Yet the vast majority of my interactions about it are something similar to:
- Where are you from?
- I was born in Argentina, but lived in Brazil over 16 years
- Ah, so you’re mostly Brazilian then
And I think that that says a lot about Brazilians and how they’re very welcoming and friendly. Unfortunately the British don’t seem to be the same way, at least from your experience, maybe people in larger cities are more used to immigrants so they would see you as mostly British or something.
As for the voting, for me at least the only way was to become a citizen, most countries allow you to ask for citizenship if you’ve been living legally long enough so you probably qualify. Just bear in mind that some countries ask you to abandon your other citizenships when you do so, so not sure if that’s your case and if it’s worth it just to be able to vote.
- Comment on Does color change how hot a laser can get something? 1 week ago:
Yes, but the input power moat likely varies, and that’s because the energy conversion is not perfect, depending on the mechanics some energy might be dissipated as sound or most likely heat. But since I don’t know the specifics I can’t account for it, and it’s possible that red lasers require more energy than blue lasers because of a quirk in the way they’re generated currently. If we ignore that and imagine a magic box that can convert 100% of the energy given into specific color photons, for any given input it will generate more photons when configured to red than to blue, because a single blue photon contains more energy than a single red photon, therefore you need more red photons to get to the same level of energy.
- Comment on Does color change how hot a laser can get something? 1 week ago:
This question has lots of different answers depending on exactly what you want to know, I’ll ask it in a few different ways and provide answers to them
Does the color of a photon change its energy content?
Yes, color is the result of how energetic a photon is, red is low energy compared to blue, so a single blue photon contains more energy than a single red photon.
Does the color influence how much energy is transferred to an object?
Yes, the color of an object is the result of white light hitting it and it reflecting back that color. For example leaves are green because they reflect green light while absorbing most others. In a way the color of an object is the color that the object rejects. So if you have a blue object it will reflect the blue laser more than the red one, so the red laser will heat it more because it’s being absorbed.
Which color heats lead the most?
That is a very interesting question, to know this you need to look at the absorption spectrum of the material, i.e a graph showing you which wavelengths are more absorbed by the material, so if I’m reading correctly the spectral lines in the wiki page for lead en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead it seems a cyan/greenish laser would be most effective in heating it (or I might be reading it completely opposite and that is the least effective color for heating lead)
Does a blue laser produces more energy than a red laser?
It depends, lasers emit photons, and while a single blue photon contains more energy than a single red photon, thousands of red photons contain more energy than a single blue photon. So it depends on how many photons each laser emits, if it’s the same amount then yes blue lasers will output more energy, but that’s not a given. In fact while I’m not intimately familiar with the physics of lasers, if we asume a perfect energy conversion from electricity to photons if two lasers use the same energy input they should have the same energy output, which would mean less photons for the blue laser.
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 1 week ago:
That reminds me Jedediah has been stranded on the Mun since around 2016, so I hope a long time hahahaha
- Comment on Wise words from Master 1 week ago:
I imagine you played the remaster on Steam, how did you defeat him though? In the original
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You had to plug your controller on the Player 2 slot so that Psychomantis couldn’t read your mind.
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And that seems hard to reproduce the feeling on a PC while still giving everyone a chance to win the fight
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2: "Beach properties assets are all gone and my city is screwed. Thanks a lot." 3 weeks ago:
Long story short:
- CO released an unoptimized game
- Community complained
- CO vowed to fix it before releasing DLCs
- CO released an assets only DLC
- Community complained they broke their promise
- CO tried to explain it’s different teams
- Community kept complaining
- CO refunded the DLC for everyone and removed it from Steam and will add the content for free in the next update
- Community gets refund and assets become gray boxes until the new version is released
- Community complains about grey boxes
Yes, CO did bad releasing an unoptimized game, but if you put pressure for a cosmetic DLC to be removed you can’t be angry that they removed said DLC.
- Comment on How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement) 3 weeks ago:
Because it has a special place, i.e. it’s leveled with the ground, so anything above it you need to climb up, anything below it you need to climb down.
Think of it this way, floor is a synonym with level, if I asked you to tell me which level the ground is at the only logical answer is 0, if you say the ground is at level 1 that implies that the first basement is level 0 which sounds ridiculous.
If you’re in an elevator that has the numbers from -5 to 15, where is the only logical place for the ground to be at?
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 4 weeks ago:
No, best before is for the market, it was never intended for customers, that’s not the date the food goes bad, it’s the date it starts to be different from their best, e.g. a bread might become harder than intended, so it’s meant to have the store sell it on pristine condition. Use by date is the one that is for customers.
- Comment on Virtual Boy Pro for Nintendo Switch - Announcement Trailer (2024) 1 month ago:
There’s also an emulator for the oculus quest, the moment you launch a game you understand why it wasn’t that successful and why VR was abandoned for a while.
Monochrome games are all good and fun when the screen is not a few cm from your eyes and that’s the only color you can see hahahah
- Comment on What can we do when something is too vast to provide representative examples for? 1 month ago:
Games: Tomb raider, Life is strange, Control
Movies: Taking lives, Bone collector, Silence of the lambs
Movies (just because the first three that I thought were all the same genre): Carrie, Alien, Arrival
Movie franchises: Hunger games, Twilight, Star wars episode 7-9
Tv shows: Law and order SVU, Bones, Sabrina
Books: Monstrous Regiment, Alice in wonderland, The handmaid’s tale
Comics: Coraline, Wonder woman, Supergirl
These are just the first 3 of every category I thought of.
- Comment on Exception implies deficiency. Am I the only one who sees this? 2 months ago:
So are you saying we shouldn’t give crutches to people that can in fact walk but shouldn’t because they need to heal their leg properly?
A crutch is an aid, it is given to people that need aid to be able to walk properly. This might be because of some inate deficiency, or because of some injury, you wouldn’t say a person who twisted her ankle and will make a full recovery in 1 month is deficient, they are currently in a state of deficiency, but it’s not inate to them. That’s the jump in logic you’re making without realising, just because someone needs aid doesn’t mean they’re inherently inferior, but they might be in a situation that makes them less able than what they should be.
- Comment on How can I clean my mouse wheel without taking apart my mouse? 3 months ago:
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I don’t think so, I mentioned this scenario in another answer, imagine they took the pills to the patient at 7, the patient only took them at 10, but the chart says he took it at 7. The next day the doctor looks at his chart and decides enough time has passed and a surgical procedure can be done to the patient. Because he took it at 10 that’s not true and because he’s on blood thinners there are complications and the patient dies. Who’s legally at fault? The doctor has a paper trail to explain why he did what he did, this leaves the blame entirely in the hands of the person who signed a paper saying the patient took the pills at 7.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It doesn’t, you take the pills to the person, if they don’t take them immediately ask them to take the pills now, if their answer is a refusal chart it and leave, if their answer is something like “I’ll take them later”, explain that you need them to take it now, if they still refuse chart it and leave (with the pills obviously), possibly come back later, you have other patients to take care of and can’t waste time on a staring contest. But if you give pills to someone, put it in the chart that they’ve taken them at X time but they actually took it 3 hours later, doctors might act on that chart and cause problems to the patient and hospital. E.g. if the patient will have some surgery the next day the time they took their blood thinners is extremely relevant, the patient can’t be expected to know this, you as a nurse might know, the doctor who will read the chart and decide on the procedure knows but might be acting on wrong information if you didn’t watched the patient take the medicine. If the next day the doctor sees a refusal to take the medicine at the appropriate time he might choose to alter or stop the procedure, explain to the person why he’ll have to stay another day at the hospital and that this time he better take the pills at the appropriate time or he’ll have to stay another day, and not risk putting someone’s life in danger because a nurse decided to write a random time for when the patient took the pills. Think about it this way, if you wrote that the patient took the medicine at 7 but he actually took it at 10, and he died or had complications because he was still on blood thinners during surgery, who do you think will be to blame? The patient who was not told the medicine had a specific time? The doctor who has a paper signed by you that the medicine was given at 7? Nope, 100% the nurse who wrote the wrong time on the chart will be solely liable for this.
When I read the question I thought it’s stupid, he’s an adult, but the more I think about it the more it makes sense that nurses should chart only when they’re sure.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 3 months ago:
Life is strange is very close to what you’re asking, in the game you can rewind time to a limited degree to try different thing, but sometimes your actions only have consequences much further into the game. Even the things that you can rewind and try different things there’s rarely a clear better choice, since all of them are morally ambiguous, do you take a picture of the security guard harassing a student or do you intervene? One is obviously better, but the other gives you proof which you might need later on.
- Comment on What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish? 4 months ago:
Same reason that Dwarf Fortress also has the same problem. Simulation is a lot heavier than graphics, and it’s CPU heavy, but gaming computer usually have acceptable CPUs and powerhouse GPUs, so they bottleneck on the CPU with simulation games.
- Comment on Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris 4 months ago:
I haven’t read about the specifics of this Tetris crash, but usually what happens with these old games is that memory is very tightly packed, imagine you have a small version of Tetris that has 3 digits XYZ where X is the speed of the game, Y is the amount of lives and Z is the level you are in, so for example if you’re in speed 5 with 8 lives on level 7 the number would be 587, if you go up one level it becomes 588, now on that example if you’re on speed 9 with 9 lives on level 9, i.e. 999, and you go up one level the number becomes 1000, but because only the 3 last matter you’re now on speed 0, with 0 lives on level 0, since speed zero means nothing moves you crashed the game.
Again, this is not exactly what happened here, but probably something similar where increasing a number overflew to the next one in memory and that caused some weird behaviour.
- Comment on What is the best way to safely and completely erase all data from old laptops? 4 months ago:
The easiest options in order of effectiveness, and how to bypass them:
- Do nothing.
- Reset Windows or erase all files you don’t want to be found. To recover from this you need a specialised piece of software that will recover the files, but not the names or locations, so while the actual data is easily recoverable, the person would need to sieve through most files you’ve had in your PC since forever with no order.
- Zero the disk, my way to do this would be to boot a Linux USB and run for example
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
, this will delete EVERYTHING on that disk, including windows, partition table and the bootloader. The way to recover from this involves specific hardware and a sterile lab, unless the authorities are investigating you it’s very unlikely someone will recover from this. - Multiple passes with zeroes and random data, the way I would do this is the same as above but use
/dev/urandom
for theif
parameter, run it multiple times, then run once with zeroes. Theoretically it could be possible for the same lab as before to recover some data if the machine ran out of entropy and didn’t wrote actual random data, and someone could predict the random data and compensate for it on the residual magnetic field, but it’s highly unlikely. Almost no one would be able to recover this, and if someone can they will charge A LOT. - Physical destruction, e.g. drill a hole or smash the disk for an HDD, break the chips for an SSD.
All of that being said, why throw it away? Why not sell it or use it to self-host something cool like a media centre or a steam machine if the laptop is good enough.
- Comment on What is the best way to safely and completely erase all data from old laptops? 4 months ago:
That doesn’t work for SSDs though.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
You can be Latin and live your life as if you weren’t, one thing does not contradict the other, just like you’re Mexican and that doesn’t necessarily tell me anything about you or how you live your life. In fact Mexican is a subset of Latin, so if you are Mexican you are by definition Latin. But like I said, there is no such thing as neutral when we’re talking about culture, what you think is neutral will sound strange to other people.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I’m not saying you sound angry at me, you sound angry at your own heritage. Latina is the female of Latino, you said you’re not a son, so the assumption is that you’re a daughter. Yes, there’s nothing biological, there’s also nothing biological in being a Mexican or an Argentinian, but regardless of how you feel about it you’re still a Mexican and I’m still an Argentinian, nothing racist about that. You might not identify ad Mexican, but you are, and others will identify you as such, there’s nothing wrong nor right with being a certain nationality or culture, you are Mexican and you are Latino, you don’t have to be a stereotype of either, nor do you need to agree with what others Mexicans or Latinos think about anything.
You keep saying you like to stay neutral, but you grew up in Mexico from what you told, so your neutral is different from mine, and it’s different from an Irish or Italian. Culture is in everything, a food that you might consider weird is someone else’s favourite breakfast, e.g. toast with beans in the UK, and where you grew up informs a lot of what you consider neutral.
- Comment on Doom at 30: how a LAN session changed my life 5 months ago:
Your comment unlocked repressed memories of having to rewire ethernet cables for direct connection between PCs. And to make my father take me and my desktop+CRT monitor to my friend’s house for a weekend of HL+mods, AoE, and whatever new game one of us had found that month…
Fun times, online matches are great, but the feeling of a Lan party is something that I think it’s mostly lost.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
You can identify as whatever you want, you will still be a Latina though. Nope, I’m not Irish, nor do I wish to identify as such. Don’t mean to offend you, but you read like an angry teenager that’s angry at their parents or has watched one too many racist movies depicting Latinos as a bad thing, in time and with age you learn to appreciate your origins, and the more people and cultures you know the more you realise you do have a culture and that your culture is different from others. Getting to know other cultures and appreciate their differences is one of the cool things in life, understanding that what you consider normal is for others strange and vice-versa can be an eye opener.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
You were born in a Latin America country, presumably son of Latin Americans, you grew up in said country, you are a Latin American, or Latino for short.
People born in USA with USA born parents that grew up in the USA are Americans, the ones that claim to be Italian or Irish are made fun of by a actual Italian and Irish people, source I’ve lived in Italy and now live in Ireland.
Latin America is arguably one of the largest demographics in the world, since it covers essentially all of the countries in the American continent with the notable exceptions of USA and Canada. An Argentinian like me will have almost nothing in common with a Mexican like you (except perhaps we both watched el chavo del 8), or at least no more than I would have with a Canadian, yer we’re both “Latinos”. Plus I don’t see what’s the problem with being a Latino, that doesn’t mean anything, whatever prejudice someone will have for you being Latino, they will have it regardless of whether you consider yourself Latino.
- Comment on Recommend a game for me to play with my partner 5 months ago:
Out of Space: it’s very similar to Overcooked, but a lot less chaotic, me and my wife love it and play it all of the time because Overcooked, while great, can be too much action. It is available for PC (and should work even on the crappy one possibly), and switch. Let me know how that goes, I love this game and it is not widely known so I love showing it up to people.
- Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work? 5 months ago:
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Most religions that believe in reincarnation believe people can be reincarnated as animals, which would also mean animals can be reincarnated into humans. There are a lot more humans now, but also a lot less bisons and dodos.
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It’s very small thinking that earth is the only planet with life, what’s to say that souls don’t reincarnate from one planet to another?
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Most religions that talk about reincarnation mention a dimension above time when you’re not incarnated, as such it might be possible for a soul to reincarnate at the same time it’s already incarnated. In fact certain religions take this to an extreme of saying we’re all the same.
There are plenty of rational answers to that problem.
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- Comment on Is the right to abortion a "negative right" or a "positive right"? 5 months ago:
Yes, my entire point is that even if it was a human being, no questions asked, fully developed, with 100% chance of dying and 100% chance of you surviving, still the vast majority of people would agree the government can’t take your kidney, which means that on a case where there’s debate whether it’s even a human being, when it’s debate whether its alive or not, and where there’s questions as to whether it will even survive, the argument becomes that much stronger. Bodily autonomy is one of the rights out society considers most valuable.
- Comment on Is the right to abortion a "negative right" or a "positive right"? 5 months ago:
When it comes to abortion however, I do believe that it’s a tricky situation ethically. I’m pro-choice, but I say that with difficulty, because considering both sides it’s not an easy position and I see it as much more ethically complex than the issue of unnecessary animal exploitation. That’s because I think you can make the argument that either forcing a person to undergo pregnancy, or terminating the life of an (admittedly unconscious, undeveloped) fetus, are in both cases breaching a sentient (or would-be sentient) individual’s negative (protective) right.
I’m going to answer this, because if we remove the ethical dilemma you have everything else is meaningless.
The right to bodily autonomy is essentially absolute in most people’s moral compass, let’s give an example: imagine a fully grown adult was in a car accident, completely out of his control, he lost a lot of blood and his kidneys were damaged, you are a match to him, and he will 100% die unless you donate blood and one kidney, in that scenario: should the government be able to force you to donate your kidney and blood?
There is no question that the person will die if you don’t, there is no doubt the person is a human being, there’s no doubt you’ll survive the procedure and live a normal life afterwards, yet the vast majority of people would agree that the government should not be able to force you, because we recognise that a person’s right to their own body triumphs over other people’s right to that person’s body. Applying the same logic to a Fetus is straightforward, even if it was a person, it wouldn’t have a higher right to your body than you do, there’s no moral dilemma there just like there isn’t one in the kidney situation.
In the unlikely event that you think the government should in fact be able to force you to donate your kidney, it means you value life above bodily autonomy, the logical next step is that as long as it saves more than one life it’s okay for the government to kill you, e.g. if your heart and lungs are compatible with two people who will die without them, then it should kill you to get them because obviously saving two lives is better than saving one.
- Comment on Why do people want games that are just stories without any gameplay, these days? Why not just watch a movie for that? 5 months ago:
What are you talking about? Ratchet and Clank had as much story as God of War, they were both released for the same console, and both of them had a new game released recently. If you don’t care about story Halo and CoD are very similar, and there’s a new CoD every year, why not play that?
Plus there are plenty of games that got released recently and are focused on mechanics, have absolutely awesome gameplay and are not “story” heavy e.g. Dead Cells, Spider-Man, Stellaris, Two point hospital, Factorio, Rimworld just out of the top of my head.
I’m really trying to understand your argument, but really can’t:
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You mention games without gameplay and list as examples games that were acclaimed by their gameplay as well as storytelling
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You say you don’t care about graphics but list games that were at the top of the graphical capabilities of their time
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You talk about a recent trend and provide examples from 10 or more years ago
I’m not sure you know what you like in a game, I think it’s quite possible you enjoyed those games because you were in a different mental situation when you played them, and now nothing quite stands up to them because you changed and are not able to enjoy things as much. I’m saying this because objectively The last of Us is a masterpiece in every single aspect, not only one of the best stories I’ve seen in a while, but also a lot of great innovative mechanics and a gameplay that fits just perfectly, even if you skipped every Cutscene in the game you would still be playing an absolutely awesome game, it might not be your thing because you don’t like stealth, or scare easily, but to claim it’s a game without anything but story is more proof that you either haven’t played it or are trolling.
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