Bassman1805

@Bassman1805@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In general, people on Lemmy don't want high effort or high quality posts that take longer than 30 seconds to digest.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a big difference between someone who is/thinks they’re funny, and someone who does comedy as a hobby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Layers are the way to go.

  1. Long Underwear, a long sleeve breathable undershirt, good WOOL socks
  2. A sweater or other medium-thickness top garment.
  3. Waterproof snow pants and coat.

  Good boots, preferably waterproof if you’ll be in the snow a fair amount. Definitely good so you have better grip on snowy/icy ground. Thin “liner” gloves and thick waterproof gloves to go over those. A warm hat that covers your ears (I really appreciated my trapper hat when I went to Tromsø).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Best news I’ve seen in weeks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dead end of chips: Manufacturing semiconductors consumes as much energy as entire countries⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even a non-IoT electronic device still runs on many different chips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dead end of chips: Manufacturing semiconductors consumes as much energy as entire countries⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The vast, vast majority of chips produced are “old generation” chips used for relatively mundane purposes. The high-tech stuff you see in the news is a minority (though it’s pricey enough that it doesn’t look that way in company earnings reports).

  Think power supplies, middle-of-the-road CPUs, ASICs for common I/O like USB and ethernet, timing devices, and wireless communication modules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This feels wrong. I love it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason it doesn’t work is that 1 is a scalar while i is a vector (with magnitude 1). The Pythagoras theorem works with scalars, not vectors, so you’d get 1^2 +1^2 = 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s 54, I think he looks pretty average for that age. He looks like an old dad, because he is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He got old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s literally a poem in the original language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ouch my texicles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t underestimate Colorado. Though it’s largely the recent Denver transplants keeping up that stereotype, whereas it’s the long-term Texans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm going insane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, three geometry actually works out such that it doesn’t matter your distance from the mirror, only how tall the mirror is and how high it’s mounted.

  A mirror that is as half as tall as your, mounted at head height, will show your white body regardless of how far away you are from it. TECHNICALLY, the bottom edge must be halfway between your eyes and feet, and the top edge must be halfway between your eyes and top of head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mental hell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This definitely seems like the more likely explanation. There certainly is a mental/emotional hell to go through, but with three y-axis being specifically about psychiatric medication… all I’m seeing is that grad students like/need Adderall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We lost Keanu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The vast majority of the time, nepotism refers to a patent giving their children special privileges due to the power the parent has.

  The word itself comes from from the Italian word for “nephew”, because of a trend of “nephews” of popes getting special privileges (often, these were the popes’ illegitimate sons).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Celebrate Pokémon Emerald’s 20th with Stunning Art ROM Hack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kakuna wearing a tux?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this a triangle?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Spherical isosceles triangle, in this particular example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA says astronauts stuck in space will not return on Boeing capsule, will wait for SpaceX craft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Take solace in the fact that musk has little to do with the running of SpaceX anymore

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. unveils sweeping sanctions targeting Russia's wartime economy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Cuba embargo is entangled so deeply into US law that it is a total cluster fuck pain in the ass to undo. It’s not just one law, it’s an entire web.

  We should be going through the pain in the ass to undo it, because the embargo really isn’t doing us any good and it’s keeping Cuba decades behind in development due to a 60 year old grudge. But communism or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lichens are things⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The short answer: fungus and algae work together and create a multi-organism structure.

  The medium answer: [this meme]

  The long answer: [years of graduate school]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trash Icon 🗑⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer 2000, myself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shart, not fart⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alas, still depressed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geography 101⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IDELAND: Where people go to bitch about visual studio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨poni⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disjointed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They only show up after midnight though⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh, and they’re deficit deadlifts too. Nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn't want to emulate Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t even need “power hungry mods” for that to go wrong, you just need mods who don’t care. That’s EXACTLY where Facebook and Twitter are right now. Getting content removed there is basically impossible, I’ve reported people for death threats and was told they never violated community standards.

  If the platform isn’t going to moderate itself, the users should be able to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn't want to emulate Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While it’s true that the downvote often gets abused as a way to stifle otherwise-good discussion, without it it’s hard to deal with discussion that truly should NOT be happening.

  There’s a reason election denial is more common and looks more legitimate on Facebook and Twitter. It’s because they don’t have a mechanism for people to nuke that discussion out of the top of the thread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “China is the worst polluter on the planet and they need to do better”

  [China invests heavily into green technologies]

  “NO NOT LIKE THAT!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the “all your eggs in one basket” problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They crack nuts with their beaks, we had to invent a tool for that job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earthquake detection kit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or one less cup of coffee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨madlad⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf, even the “right” way to balance 7 tubes in 24 slots is a bit cursed of you don’t look at it as a superposition.

  But you’ve got 3 tubes in an equilateral triangle and 2 pairs mirrored across the center, so we’re all good here.