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