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- Comment on Le Penguini 7 hours ago:
NZ penguins are almost certainly counted on the number over Australia.
The fact that each entire continent gets a single number is misleading… But then, that’s why we are here.
- Comment on xkcd #3127: Where Babies Come From 17 hours ago:
They [software engineers] had to be bad at their normal job.
So …
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You didn’t notice it by now?
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- Comment on Damn sure I tried. 3 days ago:
Nah, I was a kid just trying to harass the insects, not trying to get rid of them.
They would fly off the skimmer anyway, and if your pool is the only water body around, they would be back in no time.
- Comment on Damn sure I tried. 3 days ago:
Have you tried throwing water on top of it?
One could imagine this would suffice, but no, it’s hydrophobic.
- Comment on Play dead 5 days ago:
For what color of bear you should impersonate an Interpol agent then?
- Comment on hehe 👉👈 5 days ago:
They ARE fairly safe, a lot of things have to go wrong
Well. Are they grounded? Because they look like any loose wire or even induction could make the stuff on the photo lethal. Not something common, but pretty clearly one single point of failure.
If they are grounded, it would also not be viable for an adult to push it around.
- Comment on Black Holes 6 days ago:
All of the rest of the physics seems to check out, though
What is the entire problem, because all of the rest of the physics don’t get you coherent answers around a black hole.
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 6 days ago:
Also, it’s bothering me that it’s not immediate.
If he was going to be wooshed, he could at least get the details right…
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 6 days ago:
The secret is that you need proportional elections within each district. What also implies that they should be bigger…
Or, in other words, just copy Switzerland and you’ll be fine.
(Personally, I’m divided. The largest scale your election is, the most voice you give to fringe distributed groups. I can’t decide if this is good or bad.)
- Comment on Expert here. 1 week ago:
“A new species discovered” means “hey, we noticed nobody ever catalogued that one!”
- Comment on xkcd #3124: Grounded 1 week ago:
Sure, they can technically move the plane on regular roads too
Well, not really. Or technically, they can if they move fast enough. If they stop, wherever they are will stop being a road quickly.
And there’s that entire problem of making room for the wings. It’s one of the largest problems when designing airports.
- Comment on Why do people like the Punisher comics? 1 week ago:
Personally, I’ve never read it. But the reason people like or dislike stories isn’t because of powers or machines in them.
- Comment on xkcd #3124: Grounded 1 week ago:
Yeah, I will need an explanation on this.
Do they plan to taxi all the way to the destination?
- Comment on Brazilians burn Trump effigies as tariffs spark anger 1 week ago:
Mind sending him here for the burning?
- Comment on xkcd #3123: Canon 1 week ago:
Reminds me of the recent reaction to the director of the Supermen movie, and the people calling the xenophobia “barbaric”.
I mean, it’s nice when it falls back at the same meaning, but it reaching its antonym is just great.
- Comment on Recommendations for a version control system 2 weeks ago:
The added features made it harder to deploy, came with some bugs, and overall traded a simple design for community-oriented features that IMO were a negative value overall.
- Comment on Recommendations for a version control system 2 weeks ago:
IMO, the Gogs dev was correct. If you look at that community input and what Gitea became, I was glad to use the version that rejected it.
But I don’t know how it compares with Forgejo.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 2 weeks ago:
Keep in mind that he already ordered the military forces to siege US cities, and they gone through the process of doing it while refusing to escalate into actual violence.
Trump doesn’t seem to have that much control. I’m not sure he would be arrested if he ordered a strike, but I don’t think it would happen either.
- Comment on Some people think that proprietary software for a 3d printer is a plus? 2 weeks ago:
Not really. The software being proprietary turns support into a monopoly.
The support can still be better, but it will be despite the software being proprietary, not because of it.
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a neurologist either, so take this with a huge grain of salt, but it seems that I’ve gone a bit deeper on the rabbit hole.
AFAIK, “brain processing” seems to be mostly signal propagation. Our brains don’t work anything like the neural networks we use, but it seems to work like some kind of neural network, and “processing” being made by moving signals from one place to another is part of it.
The one effect of sleep that I know of is exactly the kind of “environmental cleanup” necessary to make the electrical signals move faster. Now, there are certainly lots of other effects I don’t know of, and for all I know the speed could actually be bounded and all that sleep does is to keep it at the boundary. Also, “tired” is a very ambiguous word here. But still, I’d expect it to be important.
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 2 weeks ago:
You’d be surprised. The speed of electrical pulses inside neurons change due to all kinds of factors, like training and diet.
I do really expect them to change with tiredness too.
- Comment on oof 3 weeks ago:
Well, if they are doing the same jobs you are, then they aren’t reaping any of the benefits.
They should be able to do some jobs that you aren’t prepared for. Personally, I would say anybody not to do one unless they have an specific job in mind… Most people I know that did one while working are quite happy with the result.
- Comment on oof 3 weeks ago:
Around here, it’s probably because people are deeply aware of all the problems and unaware of all the gains.
The neighbor’s grass is always greener…
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 3 weeks ago:
A medieval star!
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 3 weeks ago:
Just to add because nobody mentioned that yet… But you can always push stuff faster than the speed of sound, it will just stop being a liquid, and probably explode, but there’s no law saying the material can’t go faster.
- Comment on Not great, not terrible 3 weeks ago:
Well, one of those is “easy”, the other is really hard.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 3 weeks ago:
Get a bottle of pure oxygen and open it over a tongue-simulator¹ to see what happens.
People usually use a hot-dog. But with oxygen, even a piece of wood is close enough.
- Comment on It’s the little things 3 weeks ago:
Surface tension doesn’t tell you anything about the cloth-water interface.
- Comment on It’s the little things 3 weeks ago:
Without surface tension it would stick to whatever thing attracts it more. And a normal piece of cloth attracts water way more than a normal non-carpet floor.
But it also wouldn’t flow freely as the GP expects either. Some oils have almost no surface tension, and they are famously a nightmare to clean up.
As a positive, the water would evaporate faster.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 3 weeks ago:
Go ahead and lick pure oxygen. Nothing wrong with that, sure.