Tlaloc_Temporal

@Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This was more like leaving all your valuables in a cardboard box on your front lawn. Anyone can just take it, if they care to look inside the complete unsecured box.

  Someone just drove up and tossed the box in their truck. No lock involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Recycling paper (or not recycling) is far better than plastic is every respect. It’s not so much futility in this case so much as inefficiency.

  Paper also is rarely, if ever, fully recycled, usually being downcycled into rougher and rougher materials like cardboard and egg cartons. No matter how well it gets recycled, it’s not going to displace primary production.

  If you want to talk about futility here, the problem is way bigger than recycling. It’s consumerism, unrestrained capitalism, and ROI of power now vs power later. No amount of recycling of any quality will fix the world alonge but it is one step of many.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The manufacture of straws on that scale can’t be simple to ramp up though. Maybe they just speculated correctly on paper utensil production capacity?

  Either way, there are opportunities for fast large scale change out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Paper can be composted or burnt, and will decompose relatively quickly if dumped. I can’t see any post-use situation where paper is anywhere nearly as bad as plastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a surprisingly fast change, to the extent that I wonder if they weren’t planning something along those lines as an industry wide PR stunt or lobbied industry takeover already. Or maybe paper straw machines are just really easy to setup.

  It does show that widespread lasting change is possible. Even if it’s just a single step, we won’t get anywhere if we stop taking them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's get Physical⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some kind of drama, probably of the affair kind, but who knows? Maybe it was just a great reaction to a jump scare out of a loving couple. Maybe it was people at a zoo getting manured by a rhino.

  These two stills are the only context I have. I’ve seen them twice in the same day, so it’s probably topical, but it could be from the 90s and made relevant by a certain list or something.

  My first thought was certain politicians getting freaky in a puplic theatre on security cams though, so not too far off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's get Physical⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t figure out that it was a kisscam at all. I was thinking a photo booth or theatre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a solution to the Königsberg Bridge problem.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The original idea was taking a walk before a meal, so maybe if you were a really fast walker…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I lick it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apollo 1 says hi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This comic hung in my office for years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say a normal CPU is inefficient at graphics or cryptography, rather that a specialized GPU is particularly efficient at those tasks.

  We only consider a CPU slow at these tasks because of how much faster a GPU is with them, but we never see how much worse a GPU is at general conputation tasks, because of how stupendously bad it is.

  As soon as operations need to share info, the GPU speed advantage is gone. Branching paths bog a GPU down with redundant execution. Latency is quite poor too. And exceptions & interrupts are basically impossible at the system level. Trying to run normal programs on the GPU would be a disaster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holee shiet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And adding more fuel to a fire make it burn hotter and faster. Largers stars die faster, so more fuel will reduce the lifespan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the universe about to have a little minty b⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That suggests we can change the superposition collapse distance by changing how much were observing. By measuring the proportion of change as we turn on or off large-scale observation systems, we can calculate how much of the universe is being loaded by other users. We can finally start solving the drake equation!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not saying Lamarck was right; I'm just saying being an absolute unit probably isn't in the average human's genome⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Genes aren’t the only inherited trait. Environment, wealth, culture, and ideas are also roughly passed down to offspring, but these can’t modify the genome, only the gene expression.

  Of course it gets way more complex as these things do change fitness which does apply evolutionary pressure to the genome, but you can’t get bigger muscle genes by working out.

  That is to say, there are some Lamarckian effects, but it’s all by Darwinian mechanics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Planck units⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick, someone make a heavier Honda Accord and destroy the universe!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cell wall is the wall of the cell.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Canadian, I share your confusion. I think that phrase was just a common descriptor of mitochondria in US textbooks, or a catchy line in a popular US biology video.

  It’s just strange enough to make a big impression on bored students, so I’m not surprised it’s been memed so hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah failed successfully⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t learned behaviour though. The kites tried eating the invasive snails immediately, but they were too large to be cracked by their beaks, being two to five times larger.

  The change to eating the larger non-native snails was facilitated by larger beaks seen in the years after the invasion.

  It seems like the local applesnail had a crash due to drought in the early 2000’s (partly caused by the draining of wetlands for development), and the invasive island applesnail was first seen in 2004. There are even more species of invasive snail now, but the opportunity likely arose because of a population crash.

  The fittest in this case are the kits that can eat the snails they find, not by being less picky, but by having larger beaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah failed successfully⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Evolution is just the change in allele frequency of a population over generations. This includes 90% of the population dying before they figure out new food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cats were originally used for their curiosity, but training hamsters and eventually parakeets led to much smaller machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(゜O゜;⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just that it needs to focus on from of itself like filter crabs, or that it needs to see through things like kelp forests or hole enterances.

  Given it’s size and the extreme binocular vision, it’s unlikely to have any ambush predators.

  I looked it up, it has bony plates all over it’s body and likely a lateral line, so seeing predators directly may have been less necessary. It was also a suction feeder, so likely an active predator of much smaller things. It may have needed good forward vision because it’s maneuverability was poor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨science never ends⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue that we can’t do a resurrection because that’s really complex, not because we don’t know how.

  I’ll also point out that there are people alive today who were declared medically dead that live normal lives because we made their heart beat again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let me be *perfectly* clear...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, fish have digestive tracts that go all the way through. Changing that would be way harder than keeping it mostly empty or full of water to make it clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, 42,000$ is more natural and consistent with other units.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me want cookie⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fluorescence, which turns invisible light into blue light. Like how your teeth and some clothes glow at a rave or glow bowling alley.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m rocking an S8 as long as I can, but no updates in 5 years is starting to cause compatability issues. I’ll have to look into /e/OS soon I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All of those platforms have sources of revenue besides ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨imagine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The messenger is getting shot for not bringing receipts. I was about to shoot them too, then I retrieved a receipt: geneticliteracyproject.org/…/dissecting-claims-ab…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluto's Orbit⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also not that much rock, only 73% of the mass. The rest is ice and mud, with half it’s volume being water in some form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluto's Orbit⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dwarf planet is a planet!

  IAU names aren’t the best, “planet” should be major planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat Calibration⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That happens regularly whenever the bones start to solidify. It’s analogous to the “strech” function on other platforms, but functions significantly differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owl Pellets⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think most if not all tetrapods should have the 1-2-3-4-5 hierarchy for their arms and legs (although the later branches often fuse together).

  I just checked, and mice have the 1-2 pattern for front and hind limbs. It’s just the arms that are weird, but this mouse’s arms have always been weird.