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- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 day ago:
That’s quite controversial.
- Comment on pluto 4 weeks ago:
Sure, people have taken the matter way too personal. That’s mostly people who have a nostalgic relationship to their childhood classes about “the 9 planets”.
As I’ve read, they made the definition in the particular way to remove gray areas of inaccurate meassurements. A celestial body shouldn’t be wrongly classified due to being a few kilometres larger than some limit, then be reclassified later due to better meassurements. Planets need to be somewhat spherical, orbit a star and clear their orbit from significant debris. They made a great system which doesn’t leave big gray areas. A planet is defined in a well thought out way by people way smarter than me.
And then they go and call the non-planets “dwarf planets”.
- Comment on pluto 4 weeks ago:
The “big” deal is that a ton of celestial bodies of comparable size to pluto would have to be considered either as planets or as general debris. Finding a clear definition which would include pluto as a planet and not include other stuff would be very impractical and possibly nearly impossible.
But the biggest fuck up was to name a non-planet a “dwarf planet”.
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
Hence how the artist was able to choose that the time machine in this context rewinds time while conserving the universal position(?)… Relative to the center of the universe(??)… assuming eucledian space(???)
- Comment on launch him anyway 2 months ago:
Yeah, I was refering to the OP’s calculated result in that it’s incorrect not only by incorrect math, but also incorrect physics.
- Comment on launch him anyway 2 months ago:
Besides, if you really needed those kinds of speed, you’d obviously have to calculate with relativistic formulas. Energy is asymptotical at the speed of light.
- Comment on Mongolian. Like the barbecue. 3 months ago:
And the ‘S’. And to be fair, the ‘OU’ could have just been a ‘U’.
Randevu.
- Comment on Fuck the balloon police 4 months ago:
Reaching almost 5000 meters is very impressive, and I love the plan of popping the balloons with a BB-gun to control the descent. I’m almost annoyed that they fined this unique effort.
- Comment on Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris 4 months ago:
I’m guessing the gloves provide low and consistent friction theoughout the game. It’s probably easy to get either sweaty or dry fingers during a long run, which could probably ruin some precise movements.
It’s just my guess, though.
- Comment on Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris 4 months ago:
Nope, reaching that screen of the game is a true first for any human.
- Comment on You understand? 4 months ago:
The wind resistance shouldn’t be dependant on the mass. Shape of the sleigh would be the real factor.
But another thing to consider is that the gigantic mass. Given that the sleigh has a good heat distribution, it would take a lot of air resistance to actually make the sleigh combust. I don’t have a decent guess for the average heat capacity, so I don’t actually know if it’s significant enough, but the calculation is more complex than just looking at the speed.
- Comment on You understand? 4 months ago:
I thought we agreed that he was in a quantum state, a superposition of all children’s homes, relying on not being observed as it would collapse the quantum state.
- Comment on Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times 4 months ago:
You know how the sun radiates an incredible amount of power through millions and millions of tonnes of material undergoing nuclear fusion every minute, and the sun is expected to last for millions of years?
Well, not that much. But it’s still a lot!
- Comment on Someone didn't think out the implications. 4 months ago:
I mean…
They are divorced, and there was a dispute over several months (or years) to resolve the divorce with several rumors about cheating and other controversies. Not saying that it indicates an physically abusive relationship, but the relationship wasn’t great either.
- Comment on A fair trade 4 months ago:
Disc golf does this. I find it to be the superior golf sport by far.
- Comment on xkcd #2866: Snow 5 months ago:
My graph has a new peak as soon as I walk outside on slippery ground and am terrified of falling.
- Comment on Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars 5 months ago:
Its a nice idea which probably has a lot of complex implications. It would probably be a huge pain to figure out dimensions and compatible electric motors for every brand of non-electric vehicle, so the production of replacements would become very wide. Typically, the battery of an EV isn’t just a brick in the engine room, but it’s a whole range of cells along the length of the vehicle. Using the same space as the combustion engine might leave you with a vehicle with terrible range. Also, the safety of a car takes the engine into account. Replacing a combustion engine with an electrical engine would likely require a whole new safety overview for each individual model.
I honestly really hope that your suggestion would work, but I’m not expecting to see this becoming a wide solution before EVs dominate the market anyway.
- Comment on Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars 5 months ago:
We need the incrementally more eco-friendly options as well. Most pickup truck driving office workers won’t suddenly get a bike and change their ways, so a more eco friendly personal vehicle is probably a lot more likely to reduce emissions for that demography.
- Comment on Appliances with an off light. 5 months ago:
I visited my parents last weekend. They have s printer which has a wave light signal in standby - gradually switching from off to strong light and back. What my parents probably never noticed was the high pitch loud screech which followed the light. I guess the pitch was too high for my parents to hear, but not for me. So whoever designed that can go fuck themselves.
- Comment on How long do you think until AI writes and debugs code better than the average programmer? 5 months ago:
I’ve had a lot more success in debugging than in writing code. I had a problem with adjusting the sample rate of a certain metrics framework in a java application, and stackoverflow failed me, both when searching for an aswer and when asking the question. However, when I in some desperation asked GPT 3.5, I received a great answer which pinpointed the necessary adjustment.
However, asking it to write simple code snippets, i.e. for migrating to a different elasticsearch client framework, has not been great. I’m often met with the confident wrong answers.
- Comment on Back in my day 5 months ago:
I basically knew every line of Space Jam by heart. I even knew when to look for the funny parts of the VHS when rewinding it and watching the movie in reverse.
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 5 months ago:
I hate the fact that people who are trying to obtain information about the war are met with condescending answers like this. Attempts at gaining knowledge and learning should be motivated, not insulted.
- Comment on It would have to be a VERY lazy dog to allow a fox to jump over it anyway. 5 months ago:
The V is in “oVer” and the S is in the “jumpS” which the poster incorrectly wrote in past tense.
Or did you mean the second phrase which contain both?
- Comment on Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for. 5 months ago:
I don’t see why 7 day weeks are bad in regard to the number system. We rarely need to divide the days of the week into equal portions. Remembering 1, 8, 15 and 22 as mondays would be trivial after a while.
You also claim that failure to address the 365th day and leap years is an issue, but your proposal also includes several cycle-breaking days. So the same issue would persist.
Moon deviation isn’t something I really worry about, but having a period which almost align with the cycle seems useful. It would be easy to just examine the initial phase within the month to chart out the rest of the month.
However, I think the biggest flaw is that the calendar would be divided into 13 equal parts, which sucks to divide into typical use cases, i.e. into 2 parts. You could split the 7th month, but it’s not really elegant. Dividing the year into 3 or 4 parts would be a mess.
- Comment on Jragon 5 months ago:
I’m sure the Swedes would find a way yo fuck it up. “Yeah-ragon” or “Ji-ragon” or something.
- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 5 months ago:
I love it! That would be EPOCH!
- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 6 months ago:
I would hope that time and date formats would be redesigned by that point. If we would live to y10k, I’d expect a lot of space colonization. At that point, I’d expect there to be some other point of reference to define timestamps.
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED announced 6 months ago:
Yep, I’m just shouting out my country because it checks the points.
It’s a country which isn’t usually far behind to receive technology, but for some EU/EEA-reason, Steam doesn’t really have Norway on the list of countries to include for physical products.
Also, we have a few third-party sellers with 50-100% markup, which is lovely.
But I’m sure it’s similar elsewhere.
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED announced 6 months ago:
Norway?
- Comment on One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion 6 months ago:
Is this the wikipedia-argument back at him? The whole twitter post history could fit on a single hard drive, so why are people paying for it?