psud
@psud@aussie.zone
- Comment on Ask the crickets 2 days ago:
Really it was “find something that is different to the reseller scales”
- Comment on Ask the crickets 2 days ago:
Using the metric version you can get zero with no chirps. The method doesn’t work at all for the current temperature though, you can’t get -1°C any way
- Comment on if I fits... 2 days ago:
Room temperature is another great way to get decoherence
- Comment on Always there 3 days ago:
The next one after nuclear
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 3 days ago:
I use it mostly for family chats, I got the extended family to use it rather than Facebook Messenger
What makes you not trust signal?
- Comment on hol up 3 days ago:
Much the same in Australia, though we now have more American style churches appearing and I’m not yet willing to judge the people who attend those
- Comment on Protection 3 days ago:
It is probably more of a reflector rather than blocker, sending the signal back through the wall
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 4 days ago:
You missed that the image on the right is a zoom in of part of the background of the image on the left
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 4 days ago:
And you only see the error in classical physics is the very fast orbit of mercury or the precision of GPS satellites
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 4 days ago:
That’s close enough for radio. You can’t cut an antenna much closer than that precision, and it’ll stretch or shrink with temperature anyway. I guess the error could add up enough to be a problem in lengths of fibre optic cables, especially as they run at about c/3
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 4 days ago:
There is no way of producing pi as a number. There aren’t enough atoms in the visible universe to write out pi in an 8 bit font. There aren’t enough atoms to write out pi in binary with atoms representing ones and empty space representing zeros
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 4 days ago:
I think you need this symbol: ≈
- Comment on Absolute unit 4 days ago:
Cubic metres. I guess they find 32m^3 less clear
- Comment on *pat pat pat* 4 days ago:
Sea bird
- Comment on Dear Kevin 5 days ago:
PEMDAS for order of operations, we had BEDMAS which seemed memorable on it’s own, since we called these ‘()’ brackets and multiplication and division are equal so can be either way
- Comment on Dear Kevin 5 days ago:
Répondez s’il vous plaît?
- Comment on Dear Kevin 5 days ago:
We had to memorise South East Asia and its capitals. You had it easy. Look up the capital of Brunei.
We weren’t advised to use mnemonics
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 5 days ago:
Also there was no need in Italy and Greece. Britain invented steam engines because they needed a better way to pump water out of their mines, people worked out later that they could use these engines to power a cart, a digging machine, a rail machine. They needed mines for heating fuel due to the cold climate, they needed coal fired heat for their metallurgy
You need reasons to invent stuff (necessity is the mother of invention) and you’re not going to get much reason in a perfect climate with all the food you need coming from the sea and land all year
Britain already had rails for human and horse drawn carts
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 5 days ago:
Good for us as we wouldn’t exist without the world going exactly as it has (I guess unless you’re from a culture that didn’t get conquered/settled and has been quite insular), but imagine where technology would be if industrial civilisation had been continuous from so early
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 5 days ago:
AI tools are pretty good in Photoshop; they’re pretty good in copilot; Ukraine claims they’re good at guiding a drone to a Russian bomber (though they also hit decommissioned aircraft). I think you only see the use of less specialised AI used to generate low quality text and soulless images
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 5 days ago:
I feel like there’s a bit of trying to scare the kid off from that life course and get married like a proper person in that letter
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 5 days ago:
What, jessvj is not baffled? That’s an odd thing to study
- Comment on [XKCD]#3101 Good Science 1 week ago:
If you add “m.” before XKCD like: m.xkcd.com/3101/ you can tap the image to display the alt text and then copy it
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
Yeah, most of those guys look like they have a lot of visceral fat (they don’t have waists). Only the two on the right look healthy
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 2 weeks ago:
Murdoch was Australian, he chose to be American
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 weeks ago:
This reminds me of a much more reasonable bad teacher from my childhood, which I still remember as unfair
We had been learning the vowels, which in one thing were listed as a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y, among others with the just the five most common ones
So days later when we had a quiz my answer to which letters are vowels was a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. I got a red x, with “and sometimes y” crossed out. I don’t think we were given points but it felt like zero points.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 2 weeks ago:
What are the arguments
“Protect delicate children’s eyes from seeing nudity”
I think that’s about it
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 2 weeks ago:
Not just that. The tax preparation industry has gotten tax more complex and harder to file in the US
You get the government you can afford. The tax preparation industry has been able to buy several governments
- Comment on Do you care about up/down votes? 2 weeks ago:
When I see someone downvoted for no good reason, I tend to support them; upvotes don’t sway me at all. My own stuff I see votes as a guide to how well I fit a community (except in one controversial group which attracts down votes – there voters are meaningless
- Comment on Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you want to be named Md. in America at the moment or in the last several years