Adalast
@Adalast@lemmy.world
- Comment on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unified 3 weeks ago:
Thank you kind lexical hero.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 3 weeks ago:
You dont have to since the set of all positive integers belongs to the set of all real numbers, you actually hit both tracks by just taking the lower track.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 5 weeks ago:
Hope things get better man, or whatevet idiot manager you have gets caught with his hand in the boss’s daughter’s cookie jar.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 5 weeks ago:
The Bhor’s model is at least a useful simplification of the atomic structure. What needs taught is that everything you learn before college and intensive narrow topical courses is simplified to the point of being incorrect with the hope that you get enough of an intrinsic understanding of the concept that the less simplified explanation you get next will make sense. I say this because it will still be simplified to the point of being wrong, but will be a step closer to the truth. This is the essence of education.
Elementary/middle school: ice is water that has frozen solid HS: ice is water that has lost enough energy that the molecules form a crystalline lattice. College: there are actually 19 or 20 kinds of water ice that have been verified, but as many as 74,963 might exist. Post-collegiate: There may be 74,963 kinds of ice, but I know one ICE we should definitely eliminate from this world.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 5 weeks ago:
Yes. This is an artifact of a destigmatization coupled with better diagnostics for evaluating ASD. More people aren’t autistic, more people are being diagnosed and receiving counseling for coping with the neurldivergence in a cold and uncaring neurotypical world.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 1 month ago:
I have a real issue here too. Though mine more centers around the purchase of IP to bury it because it would be competition. How many amazing creations that would benefit humanity and make all of our lives more livable are buried in archives at these big corpos?
This is what I would like to see fixed, in the most aggressive way possible. I want a clock on the ownership to bring a product to market based on the purchased patant and if that clock runs out, ownership reverts back to the creator.
- Comment on Awooga 1 month ago:
Yes, yes, but we live in this timeline so the research that will be done into the mediating factors will 100% become a “breast enlargement therapy” in health spas should it even remotely be found to be repeatable, controllable and safe be damned.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 2 months ago:
God, I literally cannot choose. That list is probably my perfect list of scientific figures in history. Aside from Edison, he can burn in hell.
The only ones I might add would be Goodenough and Gauss.
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 2 months ago:
I kinda hope they also weight reviews based in hours in the game. If ten people with 1000 hours I’m a fame recommend and 1000 people with <10 hours don’t recommend, I really hope the score is better than 50%.
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 2 months ago:
I don’t seem to have this problem as much. That said, I didn’t on Reddit either. Maybe it is because my feeds are mostly science, weird maps, and things discovered on lemmy.nsfw.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 2 months ago:
Just letting you know that you are definitely suffering a Dunning Kruger moment. I have had to study how printers work all the way down to the electrochemical level and no paper printer is simple to make aside from a dot matrix printer. In my educated opinion I will say that you are borderline correct that a laser printer might be more feasible from a materials standpoint, neither are feasible in general for a home lab, let alone a guy at his kitchen table assembling a kit.
Laser printers and ink jet printers involve extremely complex electrochemical and physical processes to function that a home lab is going to struggle to replicate. The optics for laser printers have to be assembled in a clean room because even a single stray particle of dust will destroy the print quality for a large section of the page. Ink jet printers use tiny heaters to vaporize the ink and electric fields to propel it through a nozzle to the page. These jets are created using multilayer acid etched circuitboards that are precicely tuned for the specific inks and substrates that are used.
These are just examples of challenges to overcome, and are by no means exhaustive.
I hate the printer companies probably more than anyone here, so do not think I am a shill for them. I am articulating why what you are saying is impractical and unreasonable. Laser printers are probably easier to source most of the mechanical parts, but assembly is obscenely delicate and prohibitive. Ink jet printers are simpler to recreate and assemble, but the miniaturization required makes it impossible to do at home.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 2 months ago:
You are missing a vital part of how a laser printer works. The toner is dusted onto a drum that has a static charge. That charge is manipulated by the laser, which means that there is a very specific frequency that the laser has to utilize and it has to be keyed to the material used for the drum. I would have to dig more into the specific interaction, but I am pretty sure that off the rack lasers and drums are not going to be functional, both in wattage and frequency.
So the laser printer process is: a laser traces the negative space on a drum with a static charge to discharge those spots, next a pigment substrate is dusted onto the drum, being held by the static where the positive space is going to be. Following that, a heater heats the substrate to permanently affix it to the page.
- Comment on Toot toot 2 months ago:
I prefer the didgeridoo.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 2 months ago:
Ben Browder, he has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 2 months ago:
Honestly, that one I can’t agree with. While none of them are in scientific fields, James Franco is a rogue scholar who holds 4 MFAs and 2 PhDs. They could have picked MUCH worse and less educated people. He also avidly researches science and technology as he pursues the craft of writing science fiction.
- Comment on Hmmm... 2 months ago:
Soooo, fish, fish, and… Ummm… Fish, got it.
I love how every vertebrate is a fish or none are.
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 2 months ago:
All Valve would have to do is announce that they would be making sale and install of mobile games and apps through the Steam App and the entire industry would shit the bed.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 2 months ago:
True, but what did Valve actually delist on Steam? I frequent the AO section and everything has appeared to be business as usual in there. I had honestly not even heard about the pressures on Steam until I saw the stuff about Itch.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 2 months ago:
Time to start lobbying governments. EU/USA legislation stating that outside of legal violations, a payment processor is not allowed to refuse a legitimate legal transaction.
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 2 months ago:
Thank you kind stranger. I vehemently oppose censorship, especially by uninvolved 3rd parties, so this is precicely what I needed with all of this. Good list of games too.
- Comment on robot slurs 2 months ago:
Reminds me of the ST:Next Gen episode where the colony finds the silicon based life and the crystal ends up calling humans “sacks of mostly water”
- Comment on [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga 2 months ago:
Seriously. I was so surpeiced when I learned that porn in Japan is serialized and you only need to know the serial number of a porn to find the exact one piece you are looking for.
- Comment on [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga 2 months ago:
Nah, we just both have the same parent.
- Comment on I try to spice it up with some VB Macros but it's still ultimately just a spreadsheet. 2 months ago:
I like to spice up my time with spreadsheets by doing them in Pandas. That way they can be theoretical and it is like mathematical roleplay.
- Comment on be gay, do computers 3 months ago:
Thank you. That part got my pedantic ass in a tizzy. Glad someone else mentioned it.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 3 months ago:
Fair enough. I guess I am just so used to the way things are I struggle to see how a government payment processor works without running the risk of police overreach. I do understand that long standing agencies like the IRS and DoE do a good job of fending off advances of police trying to illegally obtain private info, but a new agency or new power for an agency wherein they have access to the exact purchase data of every transaction done using anything other than cash gives me strong pause. It would be trivial to put it under the executive branch and put in there that if someone uses it they waive their 4th Amendment rights in such a way that it is not unconstitutional. The police state already wants to push us towards a cashless society because getting the information is already borderline too easy and there are privacy laws in place to supposedly protect us from such intrusion. Taking out the middle man means I have to trust some department head who is probably a political appointee, and we all see how well that can go.
Rock meet hard place.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 3 months ago:
Honestly, I am OK with payment processors being privatized, they always have been. What needs to happen is regulatory legislation that restricts the grounds on which a financial institution can reject a transaction to strictly what violates interstate commerce law.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 3 months ago:
Fucking signed.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 3 months ago:
Then let them fuck through a hole in a sheet and never allow a woman to climax. Leave the rest of us alone.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 3 months ago:
I am a guy who wants more jackoff material, and I am an adult, and I am allowed to have sources for that material that is not some piecemeal ad hoc storefront where I subscribe to individual developers who drip feed content as it gets developed.
I am all for supporting artists and have subscribed to a few Patreons when my wallet allows, but I like having a place where I can play some demos or games that an artist puts up for free because why not? I am so sick of storefronts being targeted like this. All of the porn on Steam is behind an age gate, and sure, Itch could use such a gate, but it doesn’t need to delist an entire form of art.