vithigar
@vithigar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on It was all a lie, wasn't it? 6 days ago:
“Conduit” is the word for those tubes for wires. Probably a shared etymology with “conductor” though.
Having the pipes in the mortar/bricks sounds like a maintenance nightmare.
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 1 week ago:
Let’s table that discussion.
Tap for spoiler
The meanings of “table” as a verb in US vs UK parliamentary usage are literally opposites. With the US meaning being to stop discussing or put aside for later, while the UK version means to begin discussing. This actually caused confusion during allied meetings in WWII.
- Comment on Pissebed 3 weeks ago:
I’m in one of “certain regions” for carpenter.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 5 weeks ago:
Spent a moment thinking about this and I think there’s an implied definition for what “on earth” means that we intuitively accept but don’t ever really need to state.
If your projected free-fall trajectory both forward and backward in time intersects with the surface of the earth then you are “on earth”.
Standing on the ground? Intersects twice. Thrown rock? Intersects twice. Person in an airplane? Intersects twice. ISS? No intersection. Incoming impact meteor? One intersection.
- Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining" 1 month ago:
isthereanydeal isn’t grey market and only shows prices from resellers that operate “above board”.
You can find "way* cheaper than the prices listed there if you’re willing to go grey market.
- Comment on Einstein-Landauer culinary units 1 month ago:
So what is the mass of a byte of ‘pure’ information? And how do you derive it?
That’s all in the linked wikipedia article, but since you asked:
At room temperature, the Landauer limit represents an energy of approximately 0.018 eV (2.9×10^−21^ J).
That’s 1 bit, so 1 byte is eight times that, which you can plug into E=mc^2^ to get its absurdly small equivalent mass.
It’s important(?) to note that Landauer’s Principle is not settled science and has yet to be rigorously proven, unless there’s some recent development which the comic is referencing. I haven’t checked.
- Comment on Einstein-Landauer culinary units 1 month ago:
No, you missed the point. See @milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee’s comment and link to Landauer’s Principle, the namesake of which is literally named in the title of the comic.
TL;DR: Storing information requires a change in entropy. A change in entropy requires a change in energy. There must be a minimum non-zero amount of energy required for a given quantity of information. Energy is mass due to mass-energy equivalence. ∴ information has mass.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 month ago:
Was ingrown on both sides, and grew back the same each time.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 month ago:
Ah, yeah. I was told that was a possibility when I had it done. Sucks that it happened to you.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 month ago:
Completely gone. Was badly ingrown and after a doctor removed it three times and it grew back ingrown again every time they just destroyed the root completely.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 month ago:
You joke, but I’m missing a nail on one of my big toes and it’s so much more comfortable and less hassle that I kind of wish all my toenails were gone.
…not so sure about fingernails though. They’re pretty useful for picking things up or praying things open.
- Comment on Thankfully I deleted my account 1 month ago:
I also still agree with most of my old posts, but younger me could absolutely have worked on the delivery. Had no chill.
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 1 month ago:
It’s a different example but Super Street Fighter II for the SNES was CAD$99.99 in the 1994 Sears Wishbook which is CAD$191 in today dollars.
- Comment on Tigers 🐅 🐯 2 months ago:
Same. Didn’t even realise they were different images until after I read the text.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 2 months ago:
By odd coincidence you just named the most recent two games that I purchased.
- Comment on Netflix Director Arrested for $11 Million Fraud, Spent $2.4 million on five Rolls-Royces and one Ferrari 3 months ago:
I’d be interested to see the actual wording of the agreement for that extra $11 million that was allegedly “defrauded”. Was it actually stipulated that the money had to be spent on the series, or did he just walk up to Netflix like “give me $11,000,000 and I’ll complete the series.”
The actual issue at hand seems to be more that the series was never completed than what the money was used on.
- Comment on Anon uses Discord 3 months ago:
It’s cannot be overstated how much of a boon Discord’s lack of friction is for connecting with people and forming communities. It is mind-flatteningly easy to get onto Discord and into a community, and while the content of those communities is woefully unindexed deep web, forever sequestered, the external discoverability of the communities themselves is exceptional.
You will not ever reach the same people with the same ease of use as Discord if you use a hosted alternative.
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 3 months ago:
Your laptop uses an iGPU. The “i” stands for integrated, as it’s built into the same package as the CPU.
The alternative, a dGPU, is a discrete part, separate from other components.
- Comment on Anon has brand loyalty 3 months ago:
Mine does something similar but there’s simply more pixels for it to float around in, so nothing clips. It’s a 3440x1440 display, but the actual physical screen is something like 3460x1460 so the image can shift without clipping.
- Comment on Are mood problems a “turn off” for people even when they’re hard to manage? 4 months ago:
People find sunsets pretty. That doesn’t mean they’re heliosexual. Finding a thing aesthetically pleasing is distinct from being sexually or romantically attracted.
- Comment on Why did Nvidia stock drop with R1 hype? 4 months ago:
It’s insane to me how stock prices are basically entirely disconnected from how a company is performing and are dictated by stock market buying and selling pressures.
You could pick literally any publicly traded company and make its stock price soar just by convincing enough people to buy it, with no relation whatsoever to how the company is performing or forecasted to perform. See: GameStop.
Nvidia tanked because a bunch of people sold Nvidia stock. Full stop. They may have been motivated by news of deepseek or whatever, but that’s not what moved the stock price. Had no one sold it would’ve stayed exactly where it was.
Frankly baffling that anyone can look at it and think “yes, this is how it should work and I don’t see any problems with it.”
- Comment on Anon has an antique revolver 5 months ago:
There’s a Ray Bradbury short story called A Piece of Wood about a man who invents a device that rapidly decomposes any modern weapon in his vicinity. It doesn’t end well for him.
- Comment on Water 5 months ago:
“Observable universe” isn’t how much we can see, rather how much it is theoretically possible to observe by any physical means.
- Comment on Anon's in trouble 5 months ago:
It depends on the size of the opening. If it’s small that’s no problem. You could block a 1 inch pipe at 10psi with your bare hand and be largely fine. It’s a little less than 10 pounds of force assuming a round opening.
The problem is that the total force scales geometrically with the size of the opening. Make it two feet wide at the same 10psi and now you’ve got about 4500 pounds of force trying to push you though that opening should you find yourself in the unfortunate situation that it’s been completely blocked by your body.
- Comment on Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff 6 months ago:
Celsius is also basically what accompanied by a ° when abbreviated. So much so that “℃” is a single Unicode character.
- Comment on Shape of the Heart 6 months ago:
Interesting, but this isn’t an entire heart, is it? Only half? Or isn’t a human heart? Human hearts have separate left and right pairs of chambers which pump oxygenated and de-oxygenated blood separately. Or am I mistaken?
- Comment on Make sure your priorities are straight 6 months ago:
I don’t even understand the appeal for either of the involved parties. I don’t want things in or around my asshole, nor do I want any involvement with those of others. For reasons that completely elude me there seems to have been a cultural shift during my life from butt stuff being deviant behavior and fodder for jokes to almost a default expectation.
I don’t actually believe that it is a common expectation in real life dating between actual non-terminally-online people, but it certainly seems to be portrayed as such.
- Comment on back to the ocean we go 6 months ago:
I was only a fish, now, watch me take a breath now, here we go
My need for air is killing me, and taking control…
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 7 months ago:
Oh man. Desert Combat was incredible.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 7 months ago:
This absolutely happened to me in Battlefield 1942.