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- Comment on xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths 6 hours ago:
AFAIK, every single idea from string theory that could be tested was rejected. And the theory was made more complex, less predictive so that it could still work without the testable idea.
- Comment on xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths 6 hours ago:
I started with some articles on string theory
Yeah, that’s a mistake.
Unless you understand the working theories out there, you gain nothing by going deep into speculative ideas.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 2 days ago:
It doesn’t work when nobody lives around either.
The only way this can work is if both all cars are from the 30s, only able to move at 50 km/h, and nobody lives around.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 2 days ago:
Yes. The future serial killer is clearly the person that designed this shit. The one waving is just a useful idiot.
- Comment on we are in dire need of new memes to criticize marxist-leninists 6 days ago:
It’s pretty boring to keep beating that dead horse. The fact that people keeping moving it around to pretend it’s alive adds a bit of entertainment, but most of the “ha-ha look at that dumb clown” variety, not of the “let’s do something about it” one.
- Comment on I'm so tired of hearing about US police brutality and China being authoritarian. Why does it feel like everyone is a hypocrite here? Where are the posts about Chinese protests and police brutality? 6 days ago:
Full tanker mode, engage!
But yeah, you won’t see any of that on legitimate Chinese press.
You know that China is currently engaging in 2 different large-scale genocides, right? Or that they crushed (very literally) an entire city-worth of protests in Hong Kong just about 5 years ago, right? People don’t talk about those because people outside of China don’t spend their days criticizing China, and people inside China don’t spend any time criticizing China.
- Comment on It's a trap! 1 week ago:
Finally, one example where we don’t have to explain to people that actually Uranium being toxic will kill you first.
- Comment on Does color change how hot a laser can get something? 1 week ago:
Anyway, a maser or a xaser would create completely different responses on the material. There’s a good reason we use different names.
- Comment on Does color change how hot a laser can get something? 1 week ago:
if we asume a perfect energy conversion from electricity to photons
That’s not really necessary. Lasers are usually rated by the output power already.
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 1 week ago:
Isn’t the current government on extended time? That’s not a very democratic thing.
Anyway, when Iran was quickly moving to become a democracy, the US wasn’t supporting them.
- Comment on please tell your husband hello 1 week ago:
I always remember that cartoon exists. And this seems to be the only information I can remember about it.
- Comment on Syncthing ... where are the users? 1 week ago:
Hum, no. The last thing I need on the world is a piece of non-working hard to maintain software.
I’d write something before trying Nextcloud again.
- Comment on Are the people who read terms and conditions the same people who pre-heat their ovens? 🤔 2 weeks ago:
Do you prefer your food to taste good or not?
But reading the T&C is useless.
- Comment on Sad 2 weeks ago:
You cut one pineapple, share it with 6 friends, and goo around looking for people that want the other 36 ones.
- Comment on Syncthing ... where are the users? 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I’d really like if it could have different users on its management interface, with their own file shares.
It’s understandable why they don’t bother, but I would like to share my NAS without running several instances.
- Comment on Can’t stand it when they do that 2 weeks ago:
Just remember, you either have to run the entire market anyway, or the thing you are looking for wasn’t on the right place anyway. So no reason to be angry.
- Comment on Megafauna 2 weeks ago:
Condors are vultures too.
- Comment on Megafauna 2 weeks ago:
Does the US have unusually small vultures? Mexican vultures are famous, and much larger than a bald eagle, but even here in Brazil our vultures are about the size of a bald eagle.
- Comment on Our bffs 2 weeks ago:
Just to point out, but you need to make sure your data is unbiased much more than you need a lot of points.
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 2 weeks ago:
My father once made the mistake of letting himself be surroudee by chicken while having a flesh wound.
A coma is completely unecessary.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but that new evidence is way less distinguishable from noise than the one for Neptune.
At this point, the most likely is that there isn’t anything there.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 2 weeks ago:
and whatever species has inherited the earth by then
Well, only if we move the Earth safely outwards of the huge Sun.
- Comment on I think we should slightly rethink how login works on most Fediverse apps (Mastodon, Lemmy, but not only) 2 weeks ago:
What I understand the idea is to ask you to enter WhoLooksHere@lemmy.world in the username, and your lemmy.world password.
What I understand is happening (from the comment, because I don’t use apps) is that the app first expects you to choose lemmy.world in a list, and then asks you about your name and password.
Honestly, I have no idea what is easier for anybody. Both seem very equivalent to me. Also equivalent would be asking the server, username and password on the same screen.
- Comment on Showing appreciation for hard work. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
So, you’ve been listening to lemmy.lm…
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
The amount of tankies and idiots with idiotic opinions is way to high on here.
On an internet site?! I’m shocked! Shocked!
I mostly sign jokes and shitposting communities, but the people there are surprisingly calm and diverse. I mean, surprisingly for an internet community; most could pass just as a very weird group in another context.
But if you go signing for politics communities on the internet, you’ll get the expected result.
- Comment on Shape optimized spoolholder 4 weeks ago:
Less filament, yes. But it’s almost always weaker.
It’s common to add holes so you get a stronger part.
- Comment on Shape optimized spoolholder 4 weeks ago:
Hum, ok, I misunderstood you.
Your 1 triangle will need the inclination similar to that middle segment of the bottom side of the piece. I will be huge.
- Comment on Shape optimized spoolholder 4 weeks ago:
I imagine the “optimized” there means it has the maximum weight support with the minimum amount of filament.
This shape certainly beats a triangle with only the walls or with just a bit of infill. And it surely takes less filament than one with near to 100% of infill.
- Comment on Pause alerts during the night 4 weeks ago:
I’ll second people here in pointing that you are better allowing calls from your family during the “Do Not Disturb” than trying to set-up things not to call you during that time. Your phone almost certainly has a setting that allows “favorite contacts” or something like it.
It has a better configuration orthogonality :)