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- Comment on xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths 1 day ago:
You could try reading Feynman’s lectures, he was a very passionate teacher, and he used intuition a lot, so you don’t need to grind on equations to follow. en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Feynman_Lectures_on_Physic…
- Comment on xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths 1 day ago:
In this case, it was probably the teacher not being knowledgeable enough to explain a more advance theory that goes beyond the simple model he was teaching. What’s sad is that the teacher didn’t take the opportunity to dig deeper with the student, it could have been very motivated for the student to feel like he found something that went beyond the normal curriculum.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 6 days ago:
Shoulderster
- Comment on 1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog 6 days ago:
DarkReader and PrivacyBadger are useful too.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 week ago:
Uncomfortable, mayby, for having to read information you oppose?
dog pilling, personal attacks and finally threats of violence […] I am not on Lemmy to consume my mental health
Not all violence is physical.
I think many people need to grow a little thicker skin in that regard.
Are you blaming me for not having a tick enough skin? Please reconsider that thought.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 week ago:
Lemmygrad and Hexbear are the most obvious ones, sadly lemmy.ml is also part of them in my experience despite being not being obvious about it (you have to check the admins and mods profile to see the link) and having some good content when it’s not about politics. There may also be some defederated by my home instance admins that I may not be aware of.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 week ago:
I think you are correct, but not having the opportunity to participate in a thread on those instances because you can’t see them anymore is part of the ways to avoid troubles.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 week ago:
If I’m not allowed to have a discussion or disagreement with you, and get kicked out instead, I’ll just go to places where they will talk with me
I actually tried to, and if it was possible to have rational and polite discussion, without straw man arguments, dog pilling, personal attacks and finally threats of violence, I would have continued to try. But sadly all of this happen, multiple times.
At some points I considered leaving Lemmy, thinking that this federation as a whole was not safe for debating. But then I started understanding patterns, either it was from the users from a specific instance, or it was communities from a specific instance that turned like that. Overall the pattern seem to be that if the instance mentions extreme political ideologies in its description or if the profiles of its admins do, then debating is not possible.
If they want to stay connected to people to avoid the circle jerk, they have to work on themselves too (ex: learning to debate politely), you can’t except us to absorb all the damages to help them avoid radicalization.
I do enjoy debating and questioning my own beliefs, but I am not on Lemmy to consume my mental health, so I need to take some actions to protect it.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 week ago:
You can conviniently block a whole instance from your account now, it reduces this kind of disagreement a lot.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 1 week ago:
They are “medical-grade” maggots raised for this purpose to avoid germs.
- Comment on Microsoft ties executive pay to security following multiple failures and breaches 1 week ago:
I’d be curious to see if this actually enforced and for how long. I see companies cutting costs on security all the time. You can’t really trust them with anything else than creating and optimizing processes to make money. I’d rather see public regulators eat their turnover until they comply.
- Comment on palaeoartists are dreamers 2 weeks ago:
Good *pteryx operating system.
- Comment on Don’t upvote this 2 weeks ago:
I made myself blind before voting to improve the result quality. I hope you are also blind op.
- Comment on 💤💤 2 weeks ago:
It’s fiction-biology research.
- Comment on epidemiology 2 weeks ago:
Not only will starship captains and crew not be able to have sex with the hot aliens they meet
Not so fast, we do have some convenient barrier device to avoid contamination in this context.
- Comment on epidemiology 2 weeks ago:
He would not have managed to get any support if it wasn’t for the hate and scapegoating, he’d be some unknown good guy.
- Comment on Ascended to Spanish 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about the difficulty, it’s that what they differentiate has philosophical consequences.
- Comment on Ascended to Spanish 2 weeks ago:
The essence of reality is in the difference between “ser” and “estar”.
- Comment on Checks out to me. 2 weeks ago:
However, plants still absorb 90% of green light and green light holds the highest proportion of the energy radiated by the sun
Did you mean reflect?
- Comment on xkcd #2925: Earth Formation Site 2 weeks ago:
Which referential are you picking? Is it better than Earth?
- Comment on Theoretical Physics 3 weeks ago:
I think a lot of them still rely on intuition and human level thoughts experiment. See The Feynman Lectures on Physics for a physicist using intuition. For example, when he explains the Fermat Principe with the lifeguard problem: the path of least time running on the beach and swimming to the victim is not the least distance. If you consider that you run faster than you swim, then you should run a bit further so you swim a bit less. This is analogous to the bending of a light ray (refraction, “broken” stick) when it enters water. Image
- Comment on fucking beautiful. almost a year into the 'verse and its starting to become more functional than that R place... better than i imagined. 4 weeks ago:
DuckDuckGo
- Comment on fucking beautiful. almost a year into the 'verse and its starting to become more functional than that R place... better than i imagined. 4 weeks ago:
The sheer coverage of every subject on Reddit is crazy. Yesterday I was getting infuriated at a stupid plot in the 3 Body Problem, so I ddged it, and of course I found 3 Reddit threads sharing my frustrations. What a shame it has to get enshitified.
- Comment on mmm space chocolate 4 weeks ago:
Or a flok of pooping birds.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 4 weeks ago:
Is it really possible to write off based on estimated art value rather than initial price?
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
I think December comes from Classical Greek number 10 deka. 11 is enteka. So the next month could be Entecember.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 4 weeks ago:
They get a huge tax write-off but they are still giving up at least the same money aren’t they? The issue is rather that these foundations may benefit them in another way, for example by providing a salary to their family and friends, if I understand that correctly.
- Comment on Big Tech Is Faking AI 4 weeks ago:
If the revenues generated were fairly distributed, this system would not be a problem at all.
- Comment on pluto 4 weeks ago:
Why do you think you were taught about it? What you learn at school is heavily influenced by the “national myth”. It’s most visible in your history lessons, but science is also impacted, it will be biased towards your culture’s scientists and discoveries. I am observing that in Europe too, I’m not saying the USA are worth on that.