Iron_Lynx
@Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world
- Comment on Congratulations, homosexual! 1 day ago:
Initially I thought Cave Johnson, but the enumeration in the first paragraph seems more of a GLaDOS thing. The rest could go either way.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Something something leopards eating faces
- Comment on Don't ask for more pixels 2 weeks ago:
This has the same energy as the observation that the most reliable way to get an answer on the internet is to post the wrong answer.
- Comment on Rest in peace 4 weeks ago:
In a similar context, yep
- Comment on Rest in peace 4 weeks ago:
Y’know, it does sound like something sweet to wish upon someone if it did not literally mean death. I can imagine someone who doesn’t have the linguistic & cultural connection with The West to wish something like that upon someone in a heartfelt manner.
- Comment on Math is amazing! 5 weeks ago:
It’s The United States.
With huge boats.
With guns.
(Gunboats)
- Comment on So true 5 weeks ago:
And probably a deep fried snack next to it.
- Comment on *dies of cringe* 5 weeks ago:
At least he didn’t have a chat with Marjolein Faber. Otherwise he’d have retroactively died two months ago.
- Comment on *dies of cringe* 5 weeks ago:
There’s a thing going round Dutch media circles that the pope also spoke with Mona Keijzer, Dutch Minister of housing, appointed in the current PVV trash fire government that somehow still hasn’t collapsed, and herself fairly cringe. The running gag is that if either Keijzer or Vance met the Pope at a different moment, he might still be alive instead of having died of cringe overload.
- Comment on example of radical politics 1 month ago:
There is an official DragonForce map though, soooooo…
- Comment on Wait for it... 1 month ago:
You really can, when it finally happens his reaction is truly priceless!
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 2 months ago:
These. Albeit in various colours.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 2 months ago:
Ooh, Pilot Frixion, I like those. I did not expect myself to ever be able to get excited about pens, yet here I am.
I love lending out Frixion Clickers out to my DnD friends and seeing them struggle with the click before they realise that the pocket clip is the thing that goes click.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 2 months ago:
I have already chosen. And the one that I have chosen for life is not in this set.
- Comment on Old photos in real life 2 months ago:
I’m sure the creator of the original photos can help you find some good Czech mating positions
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 2 months ago:
There.
</thread>Learn some colour vocabulary, my esteemed internet posters.
- Comment on xkcd #3050: Atom 3 months ago:
What’s weirder is that muons turned out to be INCREDIBLY cute.
They almost have “mew” in the name, it’s like a kitten! 😻
- Comment on xkcd #3048: Suspension Bridge 3 months ago:
Would ride if it was a rollercoaster.
- Comment on Marge Sort 3 months ago:
If you want to zipper two sorted lists, you compare the first element of each list, pick that first, take the next element of that list, rinse & repeat until one list runs out and then just chuck the entire rest of the other list in the remaining space, even if that’s just one element. Since your two initial lists are already sorted, you can trust the combined list to also be sorted.
- Comment on AHHHHHHHHHHH 3 months ago:
Because inevitably, someone is gonna say it, I will take it upon myself to be that guy.
`*ahem*`...
x = 3
- Comment on Help 4 months ago:
Try H
- Comment on Even better than a cart of apples 6 months ago:
With the previous ELI12 under control, let’s ELI>12 overhead line catenary a little more. For instance, why do you need tension in the first place?
Fact of the matter is that using a rigid conductor is problematic with high voltage AC (skin effect and such), plus it’s more visually intrusive than wires. Meanwhile, a wire will sag, regardless of how much tension you can practically apply. So you need a few devices to help keep the wire at height.
For one, the wire is supported every few dozen metres. Secondly, there’s a second wire strung above the first one. And while both wires are pulled taut, there are dropper wires between the upper and lower wires, which vary in length. Longer near the poles, while at the shortest near the middle between two poles, which creates a structure similar to a suspension bridge to keep the contact wire within a tight margin of vertical space.
- Comment on Even better than a cart of apples 6 months ago:
In case people don’t want to click a link, let me explain it here:
If you want to use overhead line electrification, you need to suspend a wire over the rails. In theory, you could simply hang up a wire, but whichever amount of tension you choose, if it’s warmer outside, the wire will droop, potentially causing damage, while if it’s colder outside, the wire will pull taut and may snap. So you want a system to account for external temperature.
Instead of picking a tension at a standard installation temperature, you pick an amount of desired tension and use weights to pull it taut. Now, if the wire heats up and extends, the weights drop, and if the wire cools down and contracts, the weights are pulled up.
And to keep the amount of weight you need to add under control, you use a series of pulleys to control the tension in the wire.
In NL, the mainline system looks a lot simpler: They have only one wheel, but that’s two pulleys: a larger one and a smaller one. The larger one holds the weight, while the smaller one holds the wires.
- Comment on Shiny 6 months ago:
(do it again now!)
Hard like heroic, more than you can handle - Comment on Culture Wars 6 months ago:
There are only two things or people that I don’t tolerate:
People intolerant of others’ ways of life…
And the Dutch.
…
Wait, I am Dutch 😨
- Comment on Tiny pp 6 months ago:
It must be a rule on the internet:
There’s always a relevant xkcd.
- Comment on Mushrooms 6 months ago:
… it’s very hard experimenting when you’ve no idea of potency or dosages.
This.
Fun thing I bumped int a few weeks ago: the guy who’s credited with inventing LSD tried a bit to see how it worked and how it felt. But he had no idea just how ridiculously potent LSD is. I forgot the exact numbers, but I do recall the ballpark. So he had a Fermi-estimated 100 μg while he only needed like 10 μg for a good time, so not only did he have the first known LSD trip, he had the first known bad trip.
- Comment on Capsaicin 6 months ago:
After reading this, for some reason, the phrase “cryogenic hellfire” lives rent-free in my brain.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 6 months ago:
I’m thinking There Is No Planet B by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
- Comment on Colours of Blood 6 months ago:
Or at least by Big Penis Worm
