TheTetrapod

@TheTetrapod@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard this too. It also allows for easily making your own thermometer, since you can just divide by 2 until you get all the way down to degrees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only one worth using! Up top!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it very difficult to believe that you don’t like a single Spielberg movie, just on a quantity level. He’s made so many at this point, at least one must tickle your fancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👣👣👣⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone in the inside, what’s the rationale behind having to publicly post jobs like this? Why can’t you just offer the job to the person you want to give it to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US accuses Visa of debit card monopoly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s interesting, I’ve only ever had Visa for credit cards and MasterCard for debit. I didn’t even know Visa did debit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polar Bear Dens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to know how polar bears figured out that they need an air hole in their dens. Is that passed down instinctually or demonstratively? Animals are so cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burning Up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rating inflation. If someone called you a 5 or 6 out of 10, you’d feel bad. 7/10 is the bottom of acceptability, just like 72° is room temperature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2981: Slingshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He just really wanted to impress his hot cousin!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Small reminder: Don't forget to sporadically renew your nozzle from time to time!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bought one of these a while back, and it’s been great. Yeah, you can get hundreds of cheapo nozzles for the price, but not having to deal with increasingly shitty prints and nozzle changes has made it worthwhile for me, at least. I don’t even use abrasives, mainly just matte PLA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bravo, Ridley⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably the fact that we can track the development of modern wheat from a natural grain to what it is today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dune is about worms.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally who?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨perspective⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great reference. The Bobs haven’t really achieved anything on this scale yet, though. The closest is the Skippies’ Matryoshka Brain, but IIRC they’re using a system of satellites around a brown dwarf star, which would be somewhat comparable in size to Jupiter. The Others’ Dyson Sphere project is closer, but I don’t think we really got a sense for how far along they were, but it looks like their home star is only a bit larger than Sol.

  Sorry if that came across as nitpicky, I was just excited to see a Bobiverse reference in the wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aluminum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People always argue that -num isn’t a legitimate way for the name of an element to end, but I never see you guys talking about Platinium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you just restated their joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This works btw. Our counsellor just called me and asked to have a session with just me. I have no doubt we'll be discussing how crazy my wife is.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the plague. Other plagues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High suspense⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Between how long they had known each other at that point and the situation Kirk was in, I find calling him “Doctor McCoy” very jarring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unequivocally no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to switch my primary search engine on Firefox to DDG yesterday when I heard the news. 3 searches later, I switched back. I don’t like Google, but damned if I’m not used to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely some of the college kids must have rich parents who can kick up a fuss? Maybe a class action lawsuit or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My dream is for Spotify (and other music playing apps) to let you customize your shuffle algorithm. Minimum number of songs between repeating an artist or album, that sort of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's offensive, is what it is.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand the emotion this meme format is trying to convey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My opinion on Bone conduction earphones⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This thread is wild to me as a shokz devotee. I use them for everything, no secondary set of headphones, music sounds good. I don’t care about bass at all, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My opinion on Bone conduction earphones⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The band needs to be a flexible metal so that enough pressure is applied to the ear pads. If they were floppy, you wouldn’t hear them very well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hooooooooooooooooooot⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently it’s the fancy word for wind power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a 3d printer enthusiast, I object to you implying that 3d printed parts aren’t high quality, while acknowledging that you’re very correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I initially upvoted this comment, but since every other comment you’ve made is weird and combative, you’ve somehow made me stop agreeing with you. It’s an odd feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something's fishg about religion...⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Secondary Fun Fact: It was created by a franchise owner, against the wishes of CEO Ray Kroc, who had created a sandwich with grilled pineapple as a meat substitute for that purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One month ago, I didn't really know what 3D printing was. Yesterday, I designed in FreeCAD my first model and printed it. What an amazing experience.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Blender is the last thing I would recommend to someone making functional parts like that. Fusion 360 is probably a more intuitive leap from FreeCAD, or OnShape, which I wish I had learned instead of Fusion in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The salaries of Wikimedia executives are sparking an online debate about tech sector wages⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is this such an unpopular take? Is it because Lemmy is largely comprised of tech bros who make too much money? I just don’t understand how people are justifying any salary above 200k, and even that’s a huge stretch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor finds heavy block of iron shavings inside cheap PSU, also appears to lack safety protections⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s definitely what they meant, I don’t know why you’re so certain otherwise. Just because a question doesn’t have an answer doesn’t mean it wasn’t asked.