psud

@psud@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Little did they know nearly no one needs to wield a pen now, or for the last couple of decades

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  She clearly had no idea which way the vectors point on the outside of a spinning sphere

  I wonder if she ever played on a roundabout, being spun fast enough that holding on is barely enough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Learning vowels, aeiou and sometimes y. Ok

  Quizzed on vowels “a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y” “No psud, it’s just a, e, i, o, and u”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And a good teacher would have told you that water freezing is one of the weird cases, as water has a less dense solid form than its liquid form. Although even water is less dense at 2° than at 20°

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s good out there too. I was good at maths in school and was encouraged to do more advanced stuff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Minecraft has private servers (at least on Minecraft java) as well as their own server platform “Realms”, also every client is also a server. Though the authentication system is a Microsoft account so that’s likely to still be online well into the future

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how you could do that without staying exclusively on open source

  I’m old enough that the games I’m nostalgic for are on floppy discs on my shelf, but now the games I play are downloaded and rely on whatever company keeping a server up to authenticate me

  Who knows what Microsoft will do with Minecraft in 30 years

  Who knows what Steam will do with the licences it’s sold me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can all the milk replacements bubble if you blow thru a straw in it like a child?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was allergic to cow milk products as a kid and usually had goat milk products, and even that tastes nothing like cow milk. I couldn’t imagine anything made of a plant being any kind of replacement for cow milk when a different pasture raised ruminant’s milk isn’t close enough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can all the milk replacements bubble if you blow thru a straw in it like a child?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I correctly recall the Hoffman video on frothing fake milk you need different temperatures and techniques compared to milk, and you get an inferior result

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perpetual motion eludes us again.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You think it would work if one end is a magnet and the other ferrous metal? I’m pretty certain it wouldn’t

  Whatever happens there’s no work done as the magnet and it’s partner don’t move relative to each other. There’s force between them, but no movement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cursed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fractal might have meant that when Mandelbrot coined the name, but that is not what it means now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Physicists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And your LEDs will last a lot longer if you remove one of those two resistors

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excel having a stab at dates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I got my first office job thanks to Y2K. An enormous amount was spent fixing it, with some of the fixes needed years before 2000-01-01, for example systems that projected into the future

  Biggest problem I saw was a program that stored 1999 as 99 and displayed “19”.year

  So when set to January 2000 it showed 19100. Its calculations were fine, just its display and reports were wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh Boy!, Golly!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are rules in Australia that if you set a trap for an animal you must check the trap at least daily. I don’t know that people actually follow that when it comes to nice though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A slow and painful death⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He might be a d8 redhead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excel having a stab at dates⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we’re mostly using 64 bit machines now. Even loads of embedded stuff is running on 64 bit processors now.

  There will still be a lot of old software and hardware that needs updating before the 32 bit Unix time overflow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excel having a stab at dates⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  LibreOffice calc has

  • 0 = 1899-12-30,
  • 1= 1899-12-31,
  • 2=1900-01-01

  I wonder if they were trying to one-up excel, but only made it worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Oysters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re description will be fine with our diverse friends, it’s pretty correct and non judgmental

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Purge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, I’m no linguist or expert. Small jellyfish will go out with the water

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Purge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It only stops solids above a certain size, so a filter is more accurate. Check valves generally stop everything or all of a class of things, the turtle passes all liquid and some solids

  Our heart valves are check valves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask the crickets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really it was “find something that is different to the reseller scales”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask the crickets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Using the metric version you can get zero with no chirps. The method doesn’t work at all for the current temperature though, you can’t get -1°C any way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if I fits...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Room temperature is another great way to get decoherence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always there⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The next one after nuclear

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hol up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Much the same in Australia, though we now have more American style churches appearing and I’m not yet willing to judge the people who attend those

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protection⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is probably more of a reflector rather than blocker, sending the signal back through the wall

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You missed that the image on the right is a zoom in of part of the background of the image on the left

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And you only see the error in classical physics is the very fast orbit of mercury or the precision of GPS satellites

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s close enough for radio. You can’t cut an antenna much closer than that precision, and it’ll stretch or shrink with temperature anyway. I guess the error could add up enough to be a problem in lengths of fibre optic cables, especially as they run at about c/3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no way of producing pi as a number. There aren’t enough atoms in the visible universe to write out pi in an 8 bit font. There aren’t enough atoms to write out pi in binary with atoms representing ones and empty space representing zeros