mnemonicmonkeys
@mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Sea Level 2 days ago:
a sidereal year is 365.256 days.
No. A sidereal year is 366.24 days.
And 11 days isn’t “and some change”
- Comment on Sea Level 2 days ago:
It’s the ratio of orbital distances being perfect for total solar eclipses, so it’s technically both orbital radii
- Comment on We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer] 2 days ago:
Palantir has contracts with multiple European governments to do similar shit
- Comment on Sea Level 3 days ago:
By far the coolest and most unique aspect of the Earth-Lunar system is solar eclipses. The size and orbital distance is just right to allow for the spectacle we get today.
This is even more true when you consider that the Moon’s average orbital radius is increasing by 3" (76mm) each year. In a million years, the Moon will be too far away to fully cover the Sun. A few million years ago it was close enough to fully cover the corona
- Comment on Sea Level 3 days ago:
Gross
- Comment on Sea Level 3 days ago:
In China, it’s 8 due to the number sounding like the Mandarin word for death
- Comment on Sea Level 3 days ago:
Only for pre-decimal society. Nowadays it’s not a problem
- Comment on Sea Level 3 days ago:
plus 5 days every year that’s not part of any month?
Get this Roman bullshit outta here
- Comment on Sea Level 3 days ago:
You don’t know what you’re talking about
13x28=364. The moon makes 14 sidereal orbits, not 13. The reaaon the year is split into 12 months is a combination of Roman dipshittery and the fact that 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. The number of factors of 12 made 12 and 60 way easier to work with for societies that hadn’t invented the decimal point yet.
- Comment on Anon follows orders 5 days ago:
The military trains you to follow orders without question
The US military trains the soldiers to assess whether their orders are illegal and refuse them if they are. Or at least that’s what they did pre-2025
- Comment on OP has a realization 5 days ago:
zero gravity
“Zero gravity” isn’t actually zero gravity. In orbit, you’re still falling, the planet is just curving away at the same rate as the fall
- Comment on OP has a realization 6 days ago:
All models are wrong, some models are useful
- Comment on Anon's neighbors have chickens 1 week ago:
ATHF reference in the wild
- Comment on Anon's neighbors have chickens 1 week ago:
Chickens like to eat rats and mice
- Comment on Roundup of Roundup 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, many people can’t tell the difference
- Comment on Actual theft 1 week ago:
The height of her head is the same and she has the same jaw position in both shots, yet multiple features of her face are larger on the left.
It’s a filter
- Comment on Actual theft 1 week ago:
Whatever Best Buy used as a filter to enlarge her eyes creeps me out. At least the Game Stop version looks like an actual person
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 2 weeks ago:
Many games on Steam don’t have any DRM enabled and will boot without it. You just need to check
- Comment on Soup 2 weeks ago:
If the “broth” in this case is ranch, that’s just a midwest salad
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 2 weeks ago:
Idk, The Elder Scrolls’ fandom debates a lot too. There’s still people fighting over whether the Stormcloaks or the Empire were right in Skyrim, or whether Morrowind or Oblivion are the best in the series
- Comment on Shut up science!! 2 weeks ago:
In that order?
- Comment on Gravity! 2 weeks ago:
Technically, this isn’t even a case of religion going crazy. The flat Earth conspiracy actually started out in the German Nazi party and were eventually pushed out because even the Nazis thought they were too crazy.
Notice how many of them mention a vague “they” as the ones maintaining the conspiracy. That’s them referring to Jewish people. While this is notmal for most conspiracy theories, few directly originated from the Nazis.
If you want more detail, there’s a couple episodes of Behind the Bastards explaining it. I definitely recommend giving them a listen
- Comment on Everyone's got a fetish, I guess. 4 weeks ago:
We whipped up a batch of improvised napalm with a bunch of kerosene and a styrofoam cooler
Kerosene doesn’t dissolve styrofoam. You’re thinking of gasoline.
- Comment on Everyone's got a fetish, I guess. 4 weeks ago:
Of course it’s JJBA
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 weeks ago:
It sounds like a Steam Deck is a perfect fit for you then. May your frames be high and your lag minimal
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 weeks ago:
Before you go in on a Steam Deck I want to give a head’s up:
While I like my Steam Deck, it does have limits. If you primarily want to play 2D indie games, it’s absolutely perfect. You get great framerate, and the battery lasts 3-4 hours or sometimes even more.
But if you want to play 3D games from the last 10-15 years, you’re going to need to compromise. Much of the time you won’t be able to get 60fps, and the battery life drops off quick. And if you want to dock it and run it on your TV you’re still going to have some performance tradeoffs due to the Steam Deck being built for 800p gaming
If you still have a powerful tower PC but want to play newer 3D games from your living room on a TV, you could run an application called Sunshine on it, allowing you to stream to a Steam Deck via Moonlight at high bitrate (4k 60fps with relatively low latency) and the Steam Deck is good for that because it has more power to encode/decode the stream than most alternatives.
Or you could wait for the Steam Machine to release. It won’t be as powerful as a PS5, but I’m expecting it to be a good value compared to most PC’s
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 5 weeks ago:
On the one hand, i get it. It will be for enthusiasts only if that’s the case.
Note that I haven’t said anything about what the price will be, just that Valve has stated that it won’t be a loss leader.
I’ve seen rumors that the Bill Of Materials plus Valve’s usual overhead would still result in a system valued at $500, though I haven’t seen the source and am very skeptical of it.
On the other side, XBox is allegedly targeting $1200 on their standardized custom gaming PC, which I doubt would be worth the price, especially with it running Windows.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 5 weeks ago:
Deck isn’t selling millions and it’s doing just fine.
I don’t have have an issue with the rest of your comment but this quote is factually wrong. The Deck actually has sold multiple millions of units.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 5 weeks ago:
Built-in GPU and VRAM with the CPU, RAM and cooling optional.
I don’t think that’d be a wise idea. After watching Valve interviews, it’s clear that they designed the entire system around a specific max TDP. Apparently they figured out the TDP, picked a fan to move it, then designed the rest of the cooling system based on that.
If you start swapping out different CPU’s that’ll change the TDP and very quickly become a problem. Plus, the CPU is soldered to the board. Having a socket to allow for swapping would require a redesign of the cooling to account for the increased height
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 5 weeks ago:
And honestly, we probably should have expected this from the leaked benchmarks. It was already showing hits of using a separate 7600