Donkter
@Donkter@lemmy.world
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 2 weeks ago:
Aren’t all consoles?
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, but it’s more like a crab apple.
It looks like an apple, it’s presented like an apple, it’s advertised like an apple because that is what makes the YouTuber money. But scientific methods and standards exist for a reason. It’s very easy to produce bad data and especially easy to extract bad conclusions from data if you have an incentive to do so (such as a fan base who might engage with the video less if the conclusions were against their expectations)
There’s a chance that this guy’s conclusions reflect what a proper study might have found, but it’s just too hard to tell if it’s a crab apple or not it’s essentially probably a little better than chance.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 4 weeks ago:
Laguette de la botte is definitely a dish I would try at a French restaurant
- Comment on tiny tot engineering 5 weeks ago:
Invest in tungsten
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 1 month ago:
Yeah for real, what does this mean exactly? All forms of machine learning? That’s a lot of computers at this moment, it’s just we only colloquially call the chat bot versions “AI”. But even that gets vague do reactive video game NPCs get counted as “AI?” Or all of our search algorithms and spell check programs?
At that point what’s the point? The disclosure would become as meaningless as websites asking for cookies or the number of things known to cause cancer in the state of California.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 1 month ago:
I think the point is it doesn’t prevent wide spread use. If a plant resists cultivation then it’s not worth it to try to farm, either industrially or in your back yard. Especially if you’re trying to farm for sustenance.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 1 month ago:
Yeah, you can’t just lay down electricity, especially not practical electricity it requires a ton of diverse knowledge from many different studies. What I would do is give them the concept of using steam to power to spin wheels or create an engine. Then use gear ratios to show them how to scale it up. Idk if they had found neodymium magnets back then, but teach them how to use them to heat iron by spinning them on the end of a steam engine and you’re starting to cook with electricity.
Again, getting to electricity from there is still a whole fucking chore. But hopefully you could rely on science to advance way faster from your advances than if you weren’t there.
Actually, the most important thing you could give the greeks is the concept of the modern scientific method. That shit was invented so late and just skyrocketed science (literally) the moment it was refined.
Just write a book about everything you remember about a null hypothesis, randomized blind trials, control experiments, variable control etc. if you can squeeze any bit of statistics out of your brain, even if it’s just making a graph, you probably advance the world by thousands of years.
- Comment on In this essay... 1 month ago:
If those couple of lines couldn’t be determined to be true without the 83 page setup then it took all 83 pages to prove 1+1=2
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 month ago:
Doubling down on not paying for her food when there was no indication that he was expected to was definitely strange. It’s a perfectly fine thing to be uncomfortable with, don’t try and force the fault on her.
- Comment on geography is neat 1 month ago:
Oklahoma is his mondo dumpy rumpy takin a poo
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 1 month ago:
On the bright side, my nuts don’t stick to the side of my leg anymore cause I sweat PTFEs.
- Comment on sticker 2 months ago:
Chill, I was making a joke about how it was technically ambiguous what group the op was talking about. They could also have been talking about the sticker maker group.
- Comment on exausting 2 months ago:
But have they tried gender studies? They might learn just how good they have it being a welder.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
You do your most important learning outside of the classroom
- Comment on sticker 2 months ago:
Idk man, pants pissers generally make for an unpleasant environment. It tends to stink and god forbid there’s more than one and the crowd is shoulder to shoulder. They should go in the toilet like everyone else.
- Comment on Shh 2 months ago:
Yes, I would rather healthcare and science used 5x as much plastic as they do already and everyone else had to go completely wasteless than try to put any undue limits on them.
- Comment on Wrong Groomers 2 months ago:
I think the difference is that good/popular anime will still have women groomers where as most anime involving a male groomer is just fetish/wish fulfillment.
- Comment on The “Shrekking” Dating Trend Is All Kinds of Toxic 2 months ago:
I’m sure your dates felt the same
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 months ago:
Spontaneous doesn’t mean “happens suddenly without explanation” what are you on about?
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 2 months ago:
Excellent for pokin’ olives. 7/10
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 2 months ago:
Mostly ocean flora but there’s a lot that comes from the Amazon rainforest too.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 2 months ago:
The frogurt contains potassium cyanide.
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 2 months ago:
This article convinced me to buy a flipper (I’ve been debating it for years). It’s a super useful item that is absolutely going to get banned/hamstrung any day now for putting too much power into people’s hands under the guise of “public safety”.
I want it because it’s so easy to use. I’m no hacker, but with a tool as convenient as this I’m sure I can piece some useful hacks together.
- Comment on Vanilla comes from beans 3 months ago:
One more bean type and youve got a three bean salad going!
- Comment on Aspergers officinalis 3 months ago:
I expected them to hang off a central stalk. Or perhaps grow like corn, where there’s a more plant-looking plant growing with the asparagus inside it.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 3 months ago:
Every Canadian knows that the secret forests of magical splendour begin 101 miles from the border.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 3 months ago:
I read this and my phone exploded :/ sorry but the puritans win again
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 3 months ago:
Lol I understand why you might read it as unchill because of how it calls you out but it really isn’t.
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 3 months ago:
If the only way you can argue against their point is if they have a specific opinion about NATO then you’ve already conceded the point to anyone who doesn’t have that opinion on NATO.
If not, then it’s weird to ask a non sequiter about NATO without any other argument.
- Comment on Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button 3 months ago:
“she” being a conservative woman talking about pronouns again