BartyDeCanter
@BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Is the periodic table still getting new additions? 1 day ago:
To expand on this, there aren’t any gaps left so the only new ones will be increasingly heavyweight and have vanishingly short half-lives, which means that they are increasingly difficult to synthesize and detect. In theory there is an island of stability once we can synthesize sufficiently heavy elements, but it seems pretty far off.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 4 days ago:
Yup! SNW is one of the few that has an actually good pilot episode.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 5 days ago:
By series: TOS: City on the Edge of Forever TNG: Measure of a Man or Inner Light DS9: In the Pale Moonlight or The Visitor VOY: Scorpion SNW: 1:1 or Memento Mori LD: Crisis Point
- Comment on xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems 1 week ago:
And does he know why? I’ve had to deal with it too often and it would be really nice to be able to expand RoHS to aerospace.
- Comment on We are living in the Pre-"Drone 9/11" era. 1 week ago:
That strongly depends on where you live, how much you need, and how good of a home chemist your are. Enough to take down a large building? Hard in most places. Enough to kill a bunch of people in a crowd? Quite easy.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
That is a surprisingly strong recommendation. I’m glad everyone was safe, keep it shiny side up.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
Thanks for the review; I’m glad it’s working out well for you. Time for me to meander out for a test drive.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
Oh, that’s really handy to know. Thanks!
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 2 weeks ago:
How do you like it? It’s on my short list for my next car.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
Does a just released mega patch to a 25 year old game count? If so, the 25th Anniversary edition of System Shock 2 is great.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 3 weeks ago:
What? I love spending my day going to meetings where I’m quizzed about things that won’t matter next week and writing Jira tickets.
- Comment on The Elder God 4 weeks ago:
Why not worship nature and wear special hats? Most of the witches I know do both.
- Comment on Generational differences 2 months ago:
Found the person from
Europea non shithole country. - Comment on sus 2 months ago:
Poly culture is a shared google doc and calendar for planning time with partners.
- Comment on Generational differences 2 months ago:
It is crazy to me that I can just walk down the street to a store, buy some pot and wave at a cop on the way out. Even crazier is that my kids schools fundraising auction has weed gift baskets donated every year from the local dispensaries.
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 2 months ago:
They met, they just didn’t interact. Kinda like me at a work party.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 months ago:
Buttermilk roasted chicken is delicious, so I assume it’s a similar lactose reaction. And you’d use goats milk because you have goats.
- Comment on With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster 2 months ago:
It’s a cat and mouse game, at best. If you have a tool that can reliably detect AI slop, then that tool can be used as part of the training process to fool the detection tool.
- Comment on Hello, ladies! 3 months ago:
Hey! Where’d you get that picture of me?!?
- Comment on This speaks for itself 4 months ago:
I really miss the unhinged topiary that used to be outside of every fast food restaurant when I was a kid.
- Comment on Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they really liked snacks, model suggests 4 months ago:
Same here.
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 4 months ago:
Have you taken a look at TheDarkMod? It’s a Thief 1&2-like game with several fantastic campaigns.
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 5 months ago:
You’re going to get a lot of advise about what makes life worth living, but it sounds like you have low level depression. Talking to a therapist and looking at an antidepressant are your first steps, along with the other things that can help with low level depression.
- Comment on ai comments on cbs videos, but why? 5 months ago:
“Subtle” thirst trap. Trying to get people to click on the profile which will have a link to whatever spam they’re peddling.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 5 months ago:
Just started Baldurs Gate 3 and have been enjoying it so far. My biggest complaint is that the keyboard map is just off enough from the Owlcats Pathfinder games that I keep screwing up small things.
Also looking at getting back into the system Shock remake since the big box finally showed up yesterday.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 5 months ago:
I just finished my third playthrough of it. I was disappointed to find out at the end that I screwed up one of the story points I was going after, but oh well. It was still a fun experience. After three time though I doubt I’ll go through it again. Still one of my favorites.
- Comment on Anything tempting you? 6 months ago:
Not a game per se, but I’m probably going to get a Switch2 on launch day. I have a Switch Lite, but want to be able to play couch multiplayer with my kids, starting with Mario Kart and some dancing game to get in some activity.
- Comment on Should i selfhost? 6 months ago:
As a point of reference, I built a 32TB Synology last year. I took me an afternoon to get it done, plus set up Plex media server, all the arrs and friends, a backup server and a couple other things. Since then maintenance has consisted of remembering to hit the “update containers” button once a month or so. I should probably automate that part but just haven’t bothered yet.
- Comment on Should i selfhost? 6 months ago:
A lot of NAS are capable of hosting containerized services. The Synology DS series, for example, can run everything you’ve mentioned and so much more. For a relatively gentle into check out mariushosting.com
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 6 months ago:
I’m going to try getting back into RDR2, and start on Undertale and Prey. Maybe Shadowrun: Hong Kong and Fallout 4?