thirdBreakfast

@thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens to flies when you let them fly out the window of a car at 75 mph?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This. When your mass is so small, you live in a very different world than we do - momentum and gravity are tiny forces on you, but others such as air resistance and static are huge. Additionally they don’t have the sort of inner-ear positioning system we do - so no real sense of “up” and “down” that would be recognizable to us - so probably the inevitable tumbling motion as you are sucked out of the window would not be disorientating to the fly the way it would be to a big animal.

  So the answer is they will likely be fine. From their point of view the blob of air they are flying around in gets sucked out the window and they are just traveling in it. I imagine they would notice the acceleration, but it’s a tiny force on them. The sudden distortion to the block of air (being stretched out to fill the sudden low pressure zone outside of the car window) would be a big deal to the fly, but I don’t think enough to damage them.

  Source: idle speculation, and a long standing interest in cats surviving huge falls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What OS does the Batcomputer use?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Batocera surely?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To stray even further from OP’s question (because books), I loved the dialect in Riddley Walker and the slang in A Clockwork Orange.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games have mastered "Both emotional extremes"?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doki Doki Literature Club is a fun dating sim, but it has slightly more emotional breadth than that, so it might pass this test.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Recommendation request] Simple monitoring?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for Uptime Kuma. I use it in conjunction with a tiny Go endpoint that exposes memory, disk and cpu. And, like @iii I use ntfy for notifications. I went down the Grafana/Influx etc route - and had a heap of fun making a dashboard, but then never looked at it. With my two Kuma instances (one on a VPS and one in my homelab) in browser tabs, and ntfy for notifications on my watch, I feel confidently across the regular things that can go wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Believe and be saved!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  6 hours before: “This is fine”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  #2 back and sides, finger length on top

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever seen coal in real life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, in a shallow tourist mine in Australia. Apparently coal starts to flake easily once it’s been exposed to air for a bit, so they kept a big chunk in a large jar of water that you could take out and handle. It felt like a light wet rock.

  The sample, and the coal at the workface of the mine was stereotypicaly black. We wore hats with lights on, and when we emerged back out to the daylight I had an overwhelming urge to speak in a Monty Python type Yorkshire accent and go home and have my back scrubbed clean of the coal dust by my swarthy tired looking wife while I sat in a tub in front of the fire in the kitchen and our urchins played in the street.

  I don’t want to give the impression I’m a big fossil fuel tourist, but I’ve also seen blobs of crude oil on beaches near Mediterranean sea oil terminals.

  Sadly, I didn’t try to set fire to them on either of these occasions, which I now regret.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How fast can you theoretically run on the moon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  If you didn’t have to deal with a cumbersome spacesuit, I imagine you could run, but you’d lean over much more towards the horizontal - like maybe 45° or lower, so each ‘step’ would be a push backwards in line with your longitudinal axis. Don’t waste energy by bounding up.

  Source: wild speculation.