psud
@psud@aussie.zone
- Comment on I can fix her 2 days ago:
You can get keen and competent without them being crazy
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago:
Just as LLMs become better every year or less. Lots of money expects a lot from AI soon
- Comment on we are creators 2 days 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 3 days 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 (~_~;) 3 days ago:
Entirely possible. Boost used to be a Reddit client and probably has Reddit flavour to its formatting.
- Comment on (~_~;) 3 days ago:
I must have used it, as I used BBSes, but that was long enough ago that I have forgotten a lot
- Comment on (~_~;) 3 days ago:
Your Wikipedia link is broken. Underscores are formatting marks, they make text italic
- Comment on Anon describes experience 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago:
Fractal might have meant that when Mandelbrot coined the name, but that is not what it means now.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 week 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 1 week 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! 1 week 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 1 week ago:
He might be a d8 redhead
- Comment on Excel having a stab at dates 1 week 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 1 week 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”