TheActualDevil

@TheActualDevil@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to read a book in a dark room?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🎵 MaaaaaaaaaataVatnik 🎵

  🎵 You got to put on the red light 🎵

  🎵 The day is all gone, You’ve got to read your book into the the night. 🎵

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I breathe quietly through my nose?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually pretty normal and you probably do it without realizing it. Occasionally the lungs just need to absorb a little extra oxygen to catch up. You ever watch a dog sleep and every now and then they just take a big inhale? Same thing.

  Found this neat source:

  “A sigh is a long, deep breath that is often viewed as an expression of stress, sadness, exhaustion or relief. However, the most frequent sighs are unnoticed and occur spontaneously every several minutes, about a dozen times per hour.”

  . . .

  “The lung is composed of hundreds of millions of alveoli, the gas exchange units at terminal ends of the respiratory tract, each of which is about 200 micrometers in diameter. During normal breathing, alveoli spontaneously collapse, a pathological condition known as atelectasis. A sigh is hypothesized to reverse any alveolar collapse, because it is a large breath that re-expands all alveoli, filling them all with air.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is just cruel⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … all those other words that don’t follow the rule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is just cruel⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh boy. I made the jump from SLA to (kinda) publication order. Going from his most intricate series to his first published book was almost jarring. I still liked Elantris though.

  Personally, I read through close to publication order, but grouped series together. Well, I guess it’s really just Mistborn and maybe Emperor’s Soul with Elantris, but those last ones aren’t actually in the same set, just the same planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is just cruel⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because the author is friends with one of the lead guys over at Epic in charge of the game. They cycle through so many characters that they just start asking their friends for ideas I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually know this one. Access is available through the MS Office 2019 bundle officially and they pretend it’s not really there with 365, but if you have Office365 you can download the app version to work offline. Access still doesn’t show up on the main list in the app, but if you search it’s there. There’s also a way to search it in apps online in 365 but it just downloads it and only runs in the app.

  I recently went back to school and the basic degree requirements necessitated an intro to CIS class. It was just a glorified MS suite class. But I had an interesting time figuring out how to get to Access and no where online makes it clear. That’s the main reason I typed this out. Maybe some day someone else will have the same issue and this comment will show up on a search and be able to help them. You’re welcome future person!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the Hell Happened to my Cookies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s maybe a little but of both of what you and Annoyed_[Crabemoji] said. From what I remember of baking, butter being not chilled enough will cause it to be too soft and cook out before the chemistry can happen and they deflate like that. But obviously, it’s real tough to mix in chilled solid butter, so by the time you’ve needed it enough for it to incorporate, it’s warm again. When I was in culinary school back in the day we’d bake in huge batches, obviously, so we’d use big ole mixers to combine the cold butter quickly with giant mechanical paddles that forced it to combine while still cold. But at home, if you have to mix by hand and you know that the butter isn’t cold anymore you can definitely chill the cough before baking. I don’t remember much from those days (I was never a baker, I was a line cook, but baking classes were required), but when I saw your picture my immediate thought from the dredges of 20 year old memories was “That butter wasn’t chilled.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Planet, some string and a bell.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, but what if there is no compression or expansion? What if it’s a rigid string already stretched out just enough to be expanded completely but not enough to move the bell? Or maybe a thin wire of the same weight?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, no. The service charge is there so the restaurant can use it to pay the wait staff if they don’t make enough in tips to equal minimum wage and they have to pay the difference. So if we tip, none of that money goes to the wait staff and goes entirely to the business. If they’re going to add a percentage charge to add to the base pay of their servers, then they should just pay them a living wage and not expect/encourage tipping. This is a business trying to take advantage of tipping culture and make a little bit more on top of their already established profits. I say we call their bluff and make them give that money to the staff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You didn't bought it you rented it!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Even more fun! In-car record players were made upside-down so that the weight of the record held it against the needle. These are all of my record player facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You didn't bought it you rented it!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact! Motorola started out as a company making record players specifically for cars. The big name in record players at the time was Victrola, and since they were making them for motorcars they called themselves MotoRola.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reported UFO sightings. Aliens are very interested in the USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It sure is. In my life and job I go out of my way to be very exact in my language, but that was a skill I had to learn after years of interactions like this, where I’ve been on both sides of the misunderstanding. And I still struggle not sounding like a robot when I explain things clearly. English is an expansive language with a lot of utility, but the flipside is that meaning can often be ambiguous and require lots of words to be clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reported UFO sightings. Aliens are very interested in the USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ya know what? I misread this interaction. My bad. I didn’t realize we were arguing the same point. The last week has shown a lot of people on this site arguing fervently for the case of aliens visiting earth, and I made assumptions. I’m sorry buddy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reported UFO sightings. Aliens are very interested in the USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I’m pretty sure I fully understand you. I’m just pretty sure that people are either making it up or ascribing normal, terrestrial things that they don’t understand as fantastical things. There aren’t ghosts, spirits, dragons or aliens that have secretly visited earth but choses not to make actual contact. My point is that all of those things are equally unlikely. I assumed my over-the-top absurdity made that clear.

  And I feel like you might be underestimating literally all of the world if you think these things are actually aliens. You’re implying that they would assume something they don’t understand is some mystical nonsense. That “almost everywhere that isn’t the US, even today” is superstitious and wouldn’t know what aliens are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reported UFO sightings. Aliens are very interested in the USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So it couldn’t be Americans mistaking ghosts for aliens? Or bigfoot, a creature that we haven’t been able to verify because their culture advanced past ours and is able to cloak themselves and occasionally go on joyrides in their more advanced technology and forget to turn on the cloaking device? We have just as much evidence for all of these things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reported UFO sightings. Aliens are very interested in the USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So… what were they mistaking the aliens for?

  I mean, the actual verified “alien craft” in America is actually more of a “not sure what that is” grainy footage in an age where Donald Trump tweeted out classified satellite images that showed the cameras we use are actually far more advanced and show far more detail than any we knew existed. And that technology was over a decade old at the time!