absGeekNZ

@absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨shrooms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting; I was in hospital last year, opioid pain relief doesn’t work for me. They tried a few times at increasing dosages and it just does nothing.

  Paracetamol works well, they tried ketamine and I told them to stop because it made me feel terrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨:-)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We tried a lot of techniques…

  Rigid schedules, no schedules , big feeds, lots of little feeds…nothing seemed to work. For one kid, he wouldn’t sleep unless he was next to one of us; one of the others wanted to be in the same room but not the same bed…

  But once they hit ~3 it was like a switch flipped, and now they all sleep with no issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨:-)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You sound like my brother after his first, who was a saint of a child…the second however…great kid but “not a sleeper” as they say.

  None of my kids slept through until they were 3…10 years of broken sleep

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blurble⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Octraine it is a kind of greenish-yellow-purple

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gayte⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even close; even an electric car has far more wheels than doors. Every rotating mechanism is made up of wheels, some geared others with groves for belts to run in.

  Even just considering the ones that you see, there are tires and hubs which (for a car) means there are 8 wheels and only 4 or 5 doors. You could count the bonnet (hood) as a door and make it 6.

  But there are hundreds of wheels, thousands in an ICE vehicle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beat down with the sickness⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “The bright side of genocide”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brian Eno, creator of the Windows 95 startup sound, calls on Microsoft to sever ties with Israel⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also 45, I have heard the name, but I don’t know who he is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  BMI is kinda like IQ, certainly useful, but it doesn’t tell the full story.

  If it is high, you may be fat, if it is really low, you are definitely underweight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The McRecession - Has Fast Food Cooked Itself?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A Food-like Product

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No we can talk here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading order

  I’d start with either The Watch, or The Witches. Both are great, I’d avoid The Unseen University initially, his writing gets significantly better so the early books are harder to read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No we can talk here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading order

  I’d start with either The Watch, or The Witches. Both are great, I’d avoid The Unseen University initially, his writing gets significantly better so the early books are harder to read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My password is not accepted because it is too long⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like it that the site says the max length…this is not common. I wish it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It would depend on the tech.

  Low tech: e.g. detect and destroy incoming weapons…if a single major power had this, it would bad. They maybe emboldened to use their weapons (both nuke and conventional), as their perfect defense would keep their assets (people, places, weapon systems) safe.

  High tech: e.g. directed EMP type weapon that could eliminate any weapon world wide at launch, this would eliminate the MAD doctrine. No-one would be able to launch nukes at anyone. Conventional war would likely have the same driving factors that it does today. But also, it may not get “car bomb” nukes, so nuclear war still possible, just in a very different mode.

  Super high tech: e.g. some crazy quantum detection and elimination of weapons that haven’t been fired. This would be terrible, basically the group/state that has this power eliminates its rivals ability to retaliate with a proportional response. They instantly become the major threat in the world, this would destabilize any alliances that they have, no one would believe them if they said that they also disabled their own nukes. This would put the world on the edge of WW3 in a heartbeat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doctors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Risk/benefit ratio.

  The benefit is X the risk is Y, but the risk increases with excess weight, at some point Y exceeds X. Once the risk exceeds the benefit, it no-longer makes sense to perform the procedure.

  From the patient point of view, the likelihood of a bad outcome is above the likelihood of a good outcome. They would be worse off getting the procedure; but likely they are only considering the good outcome and wishing away any bad outcome.

  From the doctors point of view, they are considering both outcomes and trying to communicate to the patient that it’s not a good option for them. There is also the opportunity cost to consider, they could be helping someone else that is more likely to have a good outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[XKCD] Pascal's Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only really limiting factor is the pressure holding ability of your cylinder wall and the sealing surfaces.

  Hey you wanna lift 6000T, hydraulics will do it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[XKCD] Pascal's Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to explain it using the word “spend”.

  Like all levers you spend one quantity to get another. Usually distance/force; you spend distance to get force, or you spend force to get distance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[XKCD] Pascal's Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hydraulic pressure is pretty crazy, power densities can get insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a fighter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard disagree, the tendons are attached at different points then a human. This gives them a huge (mind mindbogglingly huge) strength advantage; something like 10 times stronger.

  Chimps have a similar advantage, whilst smaller than us, they are also significantly stronger.

  Human vs chimp, skill may make up for the strength disadvantage; but against a gorilla…not a chance, it would be like fighting a 5yo, sure they may have skill but nothing they could do would make up for the strength disadvantage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things are getting really crazy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Take over Greenland, and rename it Red,White and Blueland

  Oh wait that one is already taken!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Mobile Browsers That Stick Their Noses Into Your Business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TOR Browser, based on firefox

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or that keepass is free and you can use any number of sync methods

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helpful tips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fae Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
  Fae Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
  Fae Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
  Fae Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
  Fae Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
  Fae Elves are terrific. They beget terror.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Socialism bad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Perfect community post

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Trees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mistakes aren’t stupid, they are human. Hell we are even making our AI in our own image now…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would this list look like for your generation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was using Ligma in the 80’s, glad to see it still in circulation.

  Ligma balls / Ligma sweaty balls / Ligma sweaty (sports clothing you happen to be holding) e.g. Ligma sweaty socks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a great word

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So the usage would be “I’m a bit spuddle today”? Or maybe “it’s a spuddle kind of day today” or maybe “I’m just going to have to spuddle my way through this”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  web.archive.org/…/the-age-of-realtime-deepfake-fr…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i get most of my news something like that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how I found out also.