psud
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- Comment on Magic Rocks 3 weeks ago:
I loved hanging out with an entomologist during the brief time xkcd’s geohashing was popular. Just sharing the love of the insect world they had
They also taught me how to make a drosophila (fruit fly) trap (cut the to off a soft drink bottle, flip it, tape the two parts together, bait it with wine)
- Comment on US education 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, my high school was history, history, maths, and maths, at least year 11 and 12 I did double maths and double history. I think I learnt more about electricity when I got into amateur radio, the licence for that is pretty detailed
- Comment on US education 4 weeks ago:
That’s electricity by chemistry. Electricity by physics is done by moving a magnet relative to a wire, for example as the alternator in a car does
- Comment on US education 4 weeks ago:
Electricity is remarkably simple. Children make machines that can make electricity since all you need to do is chemistry or move a magnet relative to a wire. You can make electricity you can feel by rubbing a balloon on your hair
- Comment on US education 4 weeks ago:
Get charged to a few thousand volts, and you will feel the electric charge pushing your hairs away from each other
- Comment on US education 4 weeks ago:
Have you never been charged to thousands of volts? You can feel the static electric charge as it directly affects your body hair
- Comment on US education 4 weeks ago:
You can resist it
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 4 weeks ago:
The politics of the victim probably couldn’t be mentioned during the trial. They often suppress that sort of stuff
- Comment on Blue Whales 5 weeks ago:
♥️
- Comment on Blue Whales 5 weeks ago:
For those wondering, it’s an ice age because both poles are ice bound. We’re working on it though.
Imagine if industrialisation happened during an warm time, even now on the edge of an ice age we have hit all time records for heat and tripped tipping points that have been stable since the last interglacial. We’d already been screwed if we had been in a warmer period, as it is we’re just sure to be screwed without some new technology
- Comment on I can fix her 1 month ago:
You can get keen and competent without them being crazy
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 1 month ago:
That’s the point at which I assign a shop it’s very own email address and give it a bad phone number (not incorrect, unrouteable)
- Comment on we are creators 1 month ago:
Have you not seen 2001 A Space Oddysee? Kubrick couldn’t have made a fake moon video as realistic as the film from the crews of the six landers that landed and filmed on the moon
How would Kubrick’s film have fake livestreamed to the different downlink sites? Low orbits are much much faster than orbits at lunar altitude (90 minutes versus a month). How could a LEO broadcast satellite pretend to livestream from the moon?
How could they fake it so well Russia couldn’t tell? Russia could pick up and decode the signal from the moon when the moon was up. Radio direction finders were a thing back then
- Comment on we are creators 1 month ago:
Just as LLMs become better every year or less. Lots of money expects a lot from AI soon
- Comment on we are creators 1 month ago:
With the exception of smart phones, most of the things that make the now bad were unrelated to the tech
Climate change is happening because changing the way the world gets its energy is slow. Fossil fuels way predate flight
Lack of social cohesion is due to the car allowing us to isolate ourselves in sparse suburbia rather than to live in neighbourhoods
Wars are older than humanity but are affecting fewer of us now than in the past, though things were even more peaceful a couple of decades ago
The capture of almost all the value of labour by the owner class could probably have happened anyway, it started before computers, perhaps it was accelerated by computers
- Comment on you miss all the shots you don't take 1 month ago:
The OP image shows Google prioritising the quoted search term, but also get the similar meaning results
Quotes tell the search engine you want that or something like it, don’t show stuff completely unlike it
- Comment on (~_~;) 1 month ago:
Entirely possible. Boost used to be a Reddit client and probably has Reddit flavour to its formatting.
- Comment on (~_~;) 1 month ago:
I must have used it, as I used BBSes, but that was long enough ago that I have forgotten a lot
- Comment on (~_~;) 1 month ago:
Your Wikipedia link is broken. Underscores are formatting marks, they make text italic
- Comment on Anon describes experience 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Fractal might have meant that when Mandelbrot coined the name, but that is not what it means now.