psud
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- Comment on [XKCD]#3101 Good Science 4 days ago:
If you add “m.” before XKCD like: m.xkcd.com/3101/ you can tap the image to display the alt text and then copy it
- Comment on Peak male form 5 days ago:
Yeah, most of those guys look like they have a lot of visceral fat (they don’t have waists). Only the two on the right look healthy
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 6 days ago:
This reminds me of a much more reasonable bad teacher from my childhood, which I still remember as unfair
We had been learning the vowels, which in one thing were listed as a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y, among others with the just the five most common ones
So days later when we had a quiz my answer to which letters are vowels was a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. I got a red x, with “and sometimes y” crossed out. I don’t think we were given points but it felt like zero points.
- Comment on Do you care about up/down votes? 1 week ago:
When I see someone downvoted for no good reason, I tend to support them; upvotes don’t sway me at all. My own stuff I see votes as a guide to how well I fit a community (except in one controversial group which attracts down votes – there voters are meaningless
- Comment on Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"? 1 week ago:
I don’t think you want to be named Md. in America at the moment or in the last several years
- Comment on Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"? 1 week ago:
Nah, it’s enforcing law, and if needed, suppressing revolt
- Comment on Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"? 1 week ago:
Because our system grew out of the past. In the past people had fewer rights, the rich could hire a professional defence.
As time passed rights for common people increased, we got the right to use a professional defence even if we couldn’t afford it. But we, like everyone else would need to choose that and organise it
I’m sure that future fairness focused governments will rule that representation is automatic, but it hasn’t happened yet
- Comment on Minecraft 1.0 comes out 1 week ago:
If your mum is a good one, keep in contact. Write and phone often if you’re far away, visit often if you’re near. You only have them for a while. People don’t live long enough.
- Comment on Kevin Smith says he's cracked the story for the Dogma sequel 1 week ago:
Dogma will still be as it is. Enjoy the new movie or not, the old stuff remains the same unless your director is the kind to update their old films, but that’s not common
- Comment on Romantic gesture 1 week ago:
Come to Australia, barriers between urinals are rare
- Comment on Game files are verified, House 1 week ago:
I’m in Canberra, so a nice mix of nearby bushland and rural, with an almost big enough town centre 20 minutes away
It sucks that the previous government screwed the NBN, I missed it as I already had FTTN, you missed it because it was cities first
I think your best option is starlink now
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 week ago:
I think it’s more about power. Musk wanted more, but got less.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 week ago:
Regarding “Elon is stupid” I don’t agree. He has shown exceptionally good technical skills, he has no people skills, he’s worse than useless at presenting himself to the public in general
I don’t think he engineered much at either Tesla or SpaceX, but he had an excellent understanding of what they were doing - he could answer all the (non-ITAR, non trade secret) questions Tim Dodd asked in his tour of Starbase. When model 3 was new Randall Monroe did and assessment of the vehicle, Musk took the criticism and the next version fixed all the identified problems.
I would say Trump is the opposite. Actually low IQ, poorly educated, but good at talking to the population at large
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 1 week ago:
I think I have personally fixed my last three phones, my current one is so far undamaged. I’m clumsy and break phone screens too often.
I have kept old fishing gear in service where my friends replace their gear every few years.
I did maintenance and mechanical repair on my cars before they went electric.
My computer keyboard is currently on “the healing bench” waiting for the correct size LEDs, as I destroyed the LED for a key role replacing its switch
I really hate throwing stuff out when a minor but vital part is broken.
Better repairability also makes repair cheaper if you pay someone to do it
- Comment on Game files are verified, House 1 week ago:
I’m in Australia and get about 100. High latency to the rest of the world though
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 1 week ago:
Repairability is important to me in things I buy. I’m glad iFixit get that information out quickly so I can decide to avoid or buy a thing better informed
- Comment on Bugs are the tits 1 week ago:
“spider” as if there’s only one sort. Presumably likewise scorpion.
Is a black widow bite comparable to a redback bite (very painful, unlikely to kill an adult)?
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 4 weeks ago:
SNL is comedy, and there’s comedy in using a man to portray a woman. That’s not the same as using the wrong sort of person because you think it doesn’t matter
- Comment on it's making the frickin frogs gay 1 month ago:
I felt I needed more than 1L of DHM after breakfast, I have been a habitual user for pretty much my whole life
It’s there hope for me‽
- Comment on Take a seat, young Australian Magpie 1 month ago:
Australian magpies have a much nicer song than any corvid
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I really loved my Trinitron, but it needed so much space
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Flat CRTs were excellent though.
- Comment on Pens in Space 2 months ago:
That do. The failure comes if the spacecraft use lower air pressure, then the ink is pushed out of the pen by the pressurised gas in the ink
The same thing causes some pens to leak in aeroplanes.
- Comment on wednesday, my dudes 2 months ago:
Sure, but don’t lick your lips after
- Comment on Disappointed 2 months ago:
If you’re American I don’t think you really want passenger pigeons
- Comment on Anon's little cousin plays with MLP toys 2 months ago:
People judge 4chan by /b
It has always had wholesome bits too
- Comment on It's the law! 2 months ago:
Sure, but if we take it as true that light speed is the same in every direction – which is perfectly consistent with everything ever measured – you can measure speed between two endpoints using two atomic clocks and a synchronised experiment, with corrections for the relativistic effect of moving the clocks to the different places
- Comment on It's the law! 2 months ago:
Unfortunately you then get the low bandwidth of the frequencies that can penetrate that much ground
- Comment on It's the law! 2 months ago:
That speed of causality is usually at least 3 times better than you can get in real life
You get 300 million metres per second in light (including radio in free space) so wifi to your laptop is at that speed
A wave in wire (eg ethernet over cat6 cable) is seldom better than 0.9c
Laser light in an optic fibre (how almost all data moves long distance) is about 100 million metres per second as it follows a zig zag path in the fibre reflecting off the walls of the fibre
The future promise of starlink – where your connection goes to a satellite then to another and another satellite until being down linked to the server farm hosting the content – should provide much lower latency
- Comment on Anatomy 2 months ago:
Because they were illustrating the leg muscles, and the rest was mostly just a sketch to fill out the picture