Tlaloc_Temporal
@Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 40 minutes ago:
Not OP, but many topics last longer than a week.
I’m not going to finish Factorio in a week, and my collection of tabs on factorioLab, sheets, drawio, and the wiki are both interrelated and mark the several projects I have going. That’s also a topic that would be very annoying to reopen every week, and also would lead to bookmark clutter as most of those tabs will get closed when the projects are finished.
There’s also research tabs for things that will come up later. I have 6 open right now for configuring a smart home system that won’t get opened until I can actually see the system in person, but I don’t know when that will happen.
And there’s also long running series, like text stories, podcasts, or youtube series. That would be a nightmare to update bookmarks for, but those tabs will track progress just fine.
I suppose I keep tabs exactly because I want to keep interest for weeks, but I know I’ll forget all the details between sessions.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 hours ago:
I keep seeing people talk about tabs lagging their devices, but I have never had that since 2008. Is that a safari thing?
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 hours ago:
The problem with Pocket is that it’s out of sight. That’s like writing yourself a reminder note and putting it in a box under your bed. It also doesn’t maintain tab groups, so a collection of tabs will get scattered and messy.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 day ago:
There are lots of reasons to have binocular frontal vision. Redundancy, differing info for optic flow, sensitivity, reducing the frontal blind spot, compensating for retinal blind spots, higher frontal resulution, seeing around things, depth perception…
Most of there are good for predators, but predation isn’t the only reason to have them.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 day ago:
Aye-Ayes and Tarsiers have very forward facing eyes, yet eat mostly gruvs in trees.
- Comment on This comic is missing a chunk of asbestos. 5 days ago:
Randall does have a lot of geology humor specifically. I wouldn’t be surprised if he knows a few geologist.
- Comment on This comic is missing a chunk of asbestos. 5 days ago:
I can see a little grain of truth in finding depressions and soft ground as the dowser shifts their body to stand level, which may indicate geological features associated with ground water.
Humans also have a really good sense of smell for petrichor, which might also be related to ground water, with dowsing just being useful to focus on suble things like smell.
Anyone who thinks dowsing can detect water directly is clueless or lying though, and dowsing has absolutely been used as a grift before.
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 4 weeks ago:
That scutoid (possibly all of them, I don’t know) is just a pentagonal prism with a corner cut off.
- Comment on Bought to you by the central limit theorem society 5 weeks ago:
I think that’s part of the joke. Instead of the snappy punchline, there’s a long and tedious realistic answer that goen on long after the point has been made.
- Comment on Banana 5 weeks ago:
Not all apples, but many. Including Macintosh, which was found along a road and could never produce viable seeds. There were only three trees for like 30 years before people noticed that they tasted rather good. All Macintosh apples today are grafts of the one surviving tree.
- Comment on Banana 5 weeks ago:
Nope, all dirty fleshbag. I just like knowing things and hope others do too. :)
- Comment on Banana 5 weeks ago:
That old version “Gros Michel” is what artificial banana flavour is based on. Bananas used to taste like that. The newer “Cavendish” variety is firmer and lasts longer, but doesn’t have the same flavour. It seems like both are being wiped out by disease though, yay monoculture.
Cavendish seem to be especially vulnerable because they’re all clones. They don’t produce viable seeds, so they’re grafted to new plants.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 1 month ago:
The issue with processed food isn’t the artificial part or the refined part, it’s the calorie dense part. Fresh fruit juice is processed sugar, vegan pizza is highly refined, and organic granola bars are still highly processed.
The calorie density makes it far too easy to over consume, and to do so regularly.
- Comment on Been there 1 month ago:
Don’t worry, it will grow bright enough to fry Earth in only 300 million!
- Comment on nostalgia 1 month ago:
The difference here is that an artist has control over the medium. Every letter was put there with intent, every stroke carries meaning. Deciding not to do these things can also carry weight, and even the decision to let chaos decide is a choice.
GenAI isn’t that, it removes the creative process entirely. Sure, you can get creative with prompt engineering, but the resulting art is the prompt not the AI generation.
It doesn’t matter how much work you put into micromanaging an artist, a commission is not your art. Similarly, it doesn’t matter how intricate and elegant your prompt is, you did not generate the result.
- Comment on the dance may appease 2 months ago:
Flamingoes dance in large groups: youtu.be/QLV_K7DVeyU
More like this situation, some male Manakin birds dance in pairs: youtu.be/GZ2ieF2Kuek
- Comment on Left-handed sep funnel anyone? 2 months ago:
It would be far better for certain organic compounds though. Increase the effectiveness of drugs, eliminate side-effects, drastically cheapen the production of many componds making new products feasible.
But yeah, already living things would probably die very quickly.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 2 months ago:
Carried itens put strain along the sholders and entire spine, and contribute to a high center of gravity. Waist mounted items (like this tail) put strain on only the hips and legs, and in the most stable way. I’d only be worried if there was a particular problem with hips or legs.
- Comment on On Black Holes... 3 months ago:
So far, we haven’t seen a physical infinity in any part of the universe, so if our models produce a point of infinite anything, they’re probably wrong.
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 3 months ago:
Even better, no straw. Sip it straight from the cup.
- Comment on Tell me the truth. 3 months ago:
That definition means a planet has nothing to do with physical state, and everything to do with the proximity of your neighbors. We could promote the Moon to a planet by pushing it further away, or demote Earth from being a planet by slinging it a bit closer to it’s hungry uncle Jupiter. We could demote all planets by extinguishing the Sun! Then the entire system stops working and it’s all just asteroid or something.
That arbitrarily chosen definition doesn’t describe the object, only it’s place in the malleable hierarchy. With this, the title of planet tells us nothing about the object itself, except that it’s orbit is only dominated by a star.
Even worse, the IAU definition is extra arbitrary, as it only counts objects that orbit specifically the Sun, so the vast majority of bodies in hydrostatic equilibrium that don’t fuse hydrogen aren’t planets. They also play very lose with hydrostatic equilibrium, as Mercury isn’t in hydrostatic equilibrium, yet is explicitly classified as a planet. And “clearing it’s orbit” is also rather indistinct, with no method to determine this is given. It’s up to argument if Neptune is a planet, as many plutoids intersect it’s orbit.
Even more worse, the barycentre of our solar system is sometimes outside of the sun! That means sometimes the Sun is co-orbiting with the rest of the solar system bodies, and therefore by this definition nothing is a planet! It’s a definition so arbitrary that it periodically stops existing!
I’m not just saying I disagree with the IAU here, but that their definitely is objectively poor, and poorly used. I agree that Pluto, Eris, Ceres, and many others should be in a different category from Jupiter, but make some categories that make sense, please!
- Comment on 💀 💀 💀 3 months ago:
Sounds like a sweat lodge. I don’t know how hot they get those normally.
- Comment on Tell me the truth. 3 months ago:
Pluto and Charon orbit each other. The barycentre (the center of mass they both orbit) is far outside of Pluto. The Earth-Moon barycentre is still inside Earth, though this could be changed by moving the Moon further out.
Either way, Earth, the largest rocky planet, could be made into a moon by sending it to Jupiter, so I don’t think being a moon should disqualify a celestial body from being a planet.
- Comment on Tell me the truth. 3 months ago:
There’s also plenty of classifications of plants based on form! Non-vascular plants, woody plants, herbaceous plants, algae and lichen…
Most of our “rocky” planets are pretty wet though. Mars is drying out, but Venus is caked with volatile chemicals and Earth is downright infected. Only Mercury is really barren, partly due to it’s small size. I could easily see three categories for gravitationally rounded bodies that can’t fuse hydrogen: Dry planets (usully smaller), Wet planets (usually larger), and Gaseous planets (gas giants).
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 3 months ago:
Yeah, in MIB he has Agent K to play off of. MIB 3, where he’s the sole driver of the narrative, was a weak entry partly because of this.
He has plenty of good movies and is an objectively good actor, but I think his style needs to be used well, and i, Robot doesn’t quite hit it. Maybe if Dr. Calvin was a stronger character rather than a worrywort and source of romantic tension, I’d like his performance more.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 3 months ago:
Oh, that chemistry is great, but I don’t think he plays the investigator part well, especially when trying to follow the clues left by Dr Lanning. Will Smith’s style is very off the cuff and anti-authority, and while that works in MIB where there’s the very strict Agent K to play off of, I don’t think he works as the sole driver of a light mystery. Sonny and Spooner’s interactions are fantastic, but they’re usually driven by Sonny giving exposition. Spooner is usually just running from things as they unfold.
All in all, not a bad performance (there were plenty of objectively worse ones), but I don’t think it does the movie any favours. There are plenty of great things about i, Robot, but Will Smith is not one of them in my opinion.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 3 months ago:
I don’t particularly like his acting style, completely outside anything he does as a person. iRobot and Men In Black are some of his better roles, but like Jeff Goldblum or Eddy Murphy, he can only play himself. I don’t think it works in iRobot that well though, but that’s more of a casting choice than bad acting.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 3 months ago:
There were good parts in that movie, but Will Smith wasn’t one of them.
- Comment on The virus she told you not to worry about. 3 months ago:
And many bacteria can live for years in hard vacuum. That doesn’t tell us anything about the environment they need to live though.
- Comment on GET FISHBOARDED IDIOT 3 months ago:
Nyou guys nan shtill shmell?