BigDanishGuy
@BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on JPEG is pronounced Jay-Fegg 1 week ago:
It’s “L"a"s"e"e"r”
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Someone mentioned that their entire google account got banned for 10 years over adblocking youtube. I stopped watching youtube immediately… I’m not about to watch ads, but I don’t want to lose access to my 22 year old personal account… So many accounts are tied to that address, that I can’t manage to move to a different service.
FML what happened to “do no evil”? Now it’s “make money with the baby grinding machine for all costs”
- Comment on Pornhub’s owner to block Australians over age check laws 2 weeks ago:
Cool, Good thing you’re only skirting around age restrictions and not trying to stay anonymous while protesting privacyradar.com/…/proton-mail-payment-data-stop-…
- Comment on An identification key 2 weeks ago:
Obligatory milenial joke:
Your mom, very big, causes gonnorhea
- Comment on You need to lock in 2 weeks ago:
TBH it’s been more than a decade since I graduated electronics engineering, I really didn’t like filter theory, so I went with embedded electronics for my specialization, and went to work in an entirely different field so…
What’s the purpose of this filter, if all you’re getting out is DC? I mean wouldn’t you want to set the cutoff frequency high enough to actually get a signal through? If all you’re looking for is the DC component, then wouldn’t you be better off (as in a more simple, thus cheaper, solution) just doing a rolling average filter?
Again, I really didn’t follow along in signal processing that well, so I may just be exposing my ignorance here.
- Comment on Why nor???? 3 weeks ago:
Ah but maybe a small obscure group of elves decided that they could rule middle earth by their sheer superiority and therefore stayed behind. Such arrogance would make them perfect as tech overlord types.
- Comment on bold words 3 weeks ago:
ADHD not stupid
- Comment on bold words 3 weeks ago:
With you on 1 and 3, not so much 2…
When I was 18 ADHD was something kids had and you outgrew it. I probably couldn’t have been evaluated then. So nuclear engineering it is.
- Comment on Why nor???? 3 weeks ago:
Oh… it would be kinda cool though: the modern world set in middle earth. Maybe add a little steam punk dwarven tech and some elves with electric doodads. I could definitely see an elven technological schism with one traditional group and another consisting of hipsters with the latest innovations.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 3 weeks ago:
Remember when you used to host your own citrix? Pepperidge Farm remembers
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 3 weeks ago:
* word used in the neural sense
There’s good propaganda and there’s bad propaganda.
Good propaganda is your effective propaganda, or your opposition’s ineffective propaganda. And vice versa.
This is good propaganda.
- Comment on Why nor???? 3 weeks ago:
Have guards at a safe distance ready to flood the casting floor with molten iron, while the dwarves are working. It may be cruel, but an influenced dwarf wouldn’t get away with the ring.
Imperfections would be acceptable. I mean once the ring is encased in 2 tons of steel good frigging luck getting to it unnoticed.
- Comment on Why nor???? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not big on lotr lore. My Atlas of Middle Earth was mostly just used for RPG, and the Silmarillion has been left untouched on the book-shelves in my home. But are you saying that there’s a nazi-hunting-artifacts storyline? Like Indiana Jones in Middle Earth?
- Comment on More police busts in Italy 3 weeks ago:
I usually don’t put my rocks in my socks to get my rocks off (ತ◞౪◟ತ‵)
- Comment on Why nor???? 3 weeks ago:
Have the dwarves cast in into a huge lump of steel a dump it way out in the ocean.
- Comment on Betty the Elephant of the Leningrad Zoo 3 weeks ago:
Maybe, maybe it was hyperbole. Maybe it was just me, reacting to waking up and unexpectedly seeing a majestic elephant suffering.
- Comment on Betty the Elephant of the Leningrad Zoo 3 weeks ago:
Thank you !Trudov@lemmy.world
- Comment on Betty the Elephant of the Leningrad Zoo 3 weeks ago:
FFS mark this NSFW/NSFL who needs a tortured dead elephant in their morning feed?
- Comment on YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows 4 weeks ago:
Holding down the up and power button brings my phone into recovery mode… It’s a bit like that. Just don’t run both commands, if you don’t want to wipe your device.
- Comment on Guinness wasn't proud of this one. 4 weeks ago:
No, and it’s rats that we are citing the LD~50~ for.
You still haven’t answered my question: are you trolling? or just not intellectually capable of understanding simple medical terminology and statistics?
- Comment on Guinness wasn't proud of this one. 4 weeks ago:
My point is the LD50 is much lower than 192mg/kg. Even a middleschooler could observe that much…
Are you trolling or do you genuinely not understand basic medical terminology or statistics?
- Comment on Guinness wasn't proud of this one. 4 weeks ago:
And claiming that the story is fake because “36 red bulls would literally kill a horse” is just plain old hyperbole.
While I’m not big on equine nephrology, or veteranary physiology in general even, I suppose that it’s reasonable to assume, that not 100% of horses would survive ingesting the caffeine equivalent of 14l of coffee at once. But going from “some horses would die from this” to “this story is definitely fake” is just bad reasoning.
Sure, it’s reasonable to question the story, but dismissing it because a horse couldn’t do the same? WTF?
Not every horse, human, or humpback whale would survive consuming 36 red bulls. But it’s not unreasonable to assume that a majority of humans would survive.
Personally I want to believe the story, if for nothing else than it’s not a story about how the world is going to shit.
- Comment on Guinness wasn't proud of this one. 4 weeks ago:
Yes, there’s always going to be outliers, that’s how statistics work. That LD~50~ is 192mg/kg just means that 50% will have died by that point. Some individuals can survive beyond that point, while 50% couldn’t.
I’m not saying that 50% of the population will be honky dory a-ok after surviving, what killed the first half. Just that it’s not unlikely that you could survive consuming 18l of red bull over the course of 10h23m. You’d probably still be pretty fucked up, but surviving is a subset of being fucked up, not the other way around.
And claiming that “20g of caffeine could kill a horse”, as someone did in this thread. Well sure, while I’m not big on equine nephrology, or veteranary physiology in general even, I suppose that it’s reasonable to assume, that not 100% of horses would survive ingesting the caffeine equivalent of 50l of coffee at once.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 4 weeks ago:
It’s a racket, plain and simple. There used to be laws against this sort if thing.
Keyword: used to
I hope that it was worth it, and that America is great again. Let me just check some news articles… Oh my
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 4 weeks ago:
IDK at the current price trend, maybe we’re approaching a point where having sweatshops make ferromagnetic memory modules in GB sizes. I’d better start building a couple of hangars for my GPU memory.
- Comment on Guinness wasn't proud of this one. 4 weeks ago:
One thing is how you’d feel, another is survivability. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine states that LD~50~ for oral caffeine ingestion in rats is 192ppm, and only estimates the value for humans. Wikipedia doesn’t exactly state it but it’s safe to assume that the surviving 50% of rats will definitely not have had a good time though.
But “36 red bulls” is how much? I can buy red bull in 0.25l and 0.5l cans in local stores, what is available in the US in unknown to me, so I’ll assume equivalent can sizes. So between 9l and 18l of red bull over about 11hrs. IDK that sounds like a lot of fluid no matter what. Maybe the electrolytes in the red bull will prevent water intoxication, but he’d definitely have had to pee a lot. Perhaps his kidneys would have a hard time following along with the excess electrolytes, but enough to become hypertonic?
Anyway a liter of red bull contains 320mg of caffeine, and thus 9l is 2.88g and 18l is 5.76g. Assuming a 100kg human body that’s 28.8-57.6ppm spread out over 11hrs.
Had the caffeine been ingested all at once, then he’d at worst have hit 30% of LD~50~. But given that the subject probably didn’t ingest 18l of fluid instantly, because then the story would include that in the title, the consumption was spread out. Elimination half-life for caffeine is 3-7hrs, meaning that the initial caffeine could be reduced to 1/8 by the end.
I don’t have the time to do the integral equations, but my best bet is that our subject plausibly could survive, but his kidneys, penis and psychiatric state could do with a check up.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 4 weeks ago:
Damn, and that’s just the ones where swapping the email is possible without access to the original. More and more services seem to send a verification code at login. I guess you’re just shit out of luck then.
I better stop watching youtube then.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 5 weeks ago:
So you lost access to gmail as well?
- Comment on Acciracy 5 weeks ago:
I’m just gonna go make some popcorn while I wait for the random Swede or Canadian to wander into this thread.
- Comment on Follow me for more shitty diet tips 5 weeks ago:
Sowreee ofeesir, I’m on a diet