sheridan
@sheridan@lemmy.world
- Comment on rules of the pirate code 2 days ago:
Looks like he has some spare ribs.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 1 week ago:
I’m not sure. It was about the “turbo” button on 80s PCs, and how its function could be confusing to users depending on how it was wired. You look at the talk page and edit history there’s still a lot of arguments about this.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 1 week ago:
I once posted a Wikipedia article to r/TodayILearned, and my post went really popular. Someone a few hours later then edited the Wikipedia page to contradict my Reddit post title, reported my post to the subreddit mods, and my post got taken down.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen someone get so worked up about the 18th century opera composer Christoph Willibald Gluck.
- Comment on They look like little angels. But they really like biting the ankles of strangers 4 weeks ago:
As a kid, my family had up to 15 chihuahuas at one point. Watching them stampede as a herd across the backyard everyday was a quite majestic sight to behold.
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- Comment on It's all relative 1 month ago:
Walter White probably had the chemistry knowledge to make an amazing cheesecake.
- Comment on Energy drinks 1 month ago:
Why is it glowing? 😳
- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 1 month ago:
Until I was like 23 I didn’t know how to cut and peel an avocado. I would peel the skin off in chunks with my fingers like it was a giant boiled egg. It was a very laborious and frustrating process.
- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 1 month ago:
I don’t understand how drivers know if they have enough time to go through a yellow light. I don’t drive anymore but for the short time I did I dreaded yellow lights.
- Comment on Why are some shows so dark? 2 months ago:
I’ve noticed this problem with a lot of media made in the past decade. I think Netflix’s ‘Ozark’ is one of the worst examples. In almost every indoor scene the lights are off or very dim.
However, I got an oled screen this year, and it’s helped a lot with dim scenes. I’m guessing hollywood is calibrating for expensive high contrast screens like oled and mini-led?
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- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 2 months ago:
Thanks! I’ve been collecting old computer books from resell shops. I’ll look for it.
- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 2 months ago:
Thanks! I’ve heard of FPGAs in the retro gaming space. Cool stuff.
- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 2 months ago:
Ah sorry I was asleep. Just now reading all the responses.
- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 2 months ago:
See my reply to jcubed above
- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 2 months ago:
“But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone” by J Clark Scott. It’s a short self published book aimed at laypersons written in a very simple, sort of conversational style. Through the whole book he guides you to building a functioning computer that does some bitwise operations. I built most of the computer in a simulator program called Logism (cburch.com/logisim/).
I’d recommend it if you’re looking for an easy introduction to the topic. It was a fun read for me. Get the print version; some of the diagrams in the Kindle version are badly compressed.
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- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 2 months ago:
9
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- Comment on Kinesi Protein 3 months ago:
Do they move this slowly? Or is this animation in bullet time?
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- Comment on The Uncanny Ancient Monkey that Roamed Europe Before Humans [10:05] 4 months ago:
This is not an AI generated channel. This channel has been posting videos in this format for 6 years now, (eg youtu.be/1sjPGo_6unY) long predating AI made infotainment.
The visuals are comprised of stock footage and artist impressions, but they’re not AI generated; you can see on some illustrations he credits the artists.
And they only post a few times a month; AI channels post several times a week.
This format (visuals and narration) has been common among science topic YouTube channels for over a decade. Unfortunately AI spam channels have appropriated this format and now legitimate channels are being incorrectly confused with them.
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- Comment on UFO/UAP Close Technosignatures — New Information on the Palomar Transients 4 months ago:
The video is merely summarizing new scientific research into night sky anomalies found in data recorded prior to the launch of the first human made satellites. Apparently the data suggests the presence of objects in orbit of Earth reflecting light from the sun. They’re not saying it’s proof of aliens but it is curious.