porous_grey_matter

@porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Richest American to FAFO?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The people doing the guillotining weren’t the state (at first anyway)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which timezone would win in a conflict?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody wins!

  Except the Brits, haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the train killed only left handed people, you should still be left with infinite train proof right handed people.

  Well, infinite left-hand-killing-train proof people, we don’t know about other trains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Great explanation, I’d just like to add to this bit because I think it’s fun and important

  And you would continue to kill infinite people every time you reached a new whole number.

  Or any new number at all. Between 0 and 0.0…01 there are already infinite people. And between 0.001 and 0.002.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  with the extra requirement that the probability applies to the whole set I think it checks out, intuitively anyway the expected ~0.0…01 * ∞ is still ∞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 enters final weeks of support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  this is so wrong I can’t even tell if they are supposed to be ordered from worst to best or the other way around

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 enters final weeks of support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The best windows was 2000

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I count three os on the bottom, from “common”, “problem”, and “poems”. Seems correct to me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Crussy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s this photo, it’s as old as the hills. Lots of people used to have it as a profile pic because of exactly that reaction when it’s a thumbnail. I hunted for a while but couldn’t find the original source, maybe someone else knows or has better search-fu than me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Encouragement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  because the withdrawal also kills

  Ah, you might be thinking of alcohol. Nicotine withdrawal just makes a very strong craving but there is no physical danger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the US is the best place he could go, it’s already so bad even he will hardly make it worse, and more factions and intra-right tension might even be a good thing that could come out of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We are the joke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a whole genre! ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah punch drunk love is also really good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you not entertained?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe that the best for billionaires is to be relieved of the morally corrupting influence of their wealth, and I do wish that for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the gang is all here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  tag urself im dz²

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If it were, it wouldn’t be a good joke, because this exactly conforms to the thermodynamic definition of spontaneity. Saying it is spontaneous is, quite exactly, simple thermo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, good catch, thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Spontaneous is actually the thermodynamic jargon in this case though :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrong, wrong, wrong.

  Eh, it definitely has a cause. A known one.

  Nothing to do with the physical definition of spontaneity. Spontaneity of a process just means that the ∆G is negative or total energy of the system is lower after the process, and additional energy isn’t required for the process to be thermodynamically allowed.

  for the sole reason which specific molecules is nigh impossible to predict

  Also unrelated, but it is fully impossible to predict, since in trying to predict it well enough you reach quantum scales where everything is probabilistic. That doesn’t at all mean everything is spontaneous.

  So, who is correct depends entirely on the mental framing of what someone thinks of when they read “water”.

  Nope, the first person is strictly correct and the second is strictly incorrect, as described above.

  Water as an abstract idea of a specific type of fluid? Not spontaneous.

  Nope, exactly spontaneous. You could even forget about water entirely and model this just as a bunch of nuclei and electrons in a box and derive that the lowest energy state has them being in a gas of atoms, and the initial state doesn’t, which is enough to demonstrate by our earlier statements that boiling is spontaneous.

  Water as in what will literally happen to the bottle of water in the picture?

  This is “not even wrong” territory.

  This post isn’t showcasing mansplaining.

  It absolutely is. We will define mansplaining here as the confidently correct dismissal of statements of women by men where we suspect that the genders of the participants may play a role.

  The first part has been demonstrated above. It is also reasonable to assume the second given that we observe this happening to women at a far greater frequency than to men. Although, like with atoms, we cannot prove that this individual instance is a direct result, it is consistent with the probabilistic data and we would need additional evidence to conclude that this particular guy just goes around wrongly correcting everyone equally.

  Nearly valid pedantry at that.

  Once again, not remotely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buying bread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s gunk scraped from the bottom of beer fermentation barrels. Tastes something like auto body filler putty with soy sauce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything is a normal thing for it to say, it will say basically whatever you want

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost like there’s a spectrum

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And nothing of value was lost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What those criteria are matters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  CCC was collecting some money for them last year, not sure if this is still active www.ccc.de/en/updates/…/das-ist-vollig-entgleist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creepy find: German customs net tarantulas in cookie shipment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention that farm animal welfare in Germany is extremely poor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yellow from the egg!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes that’s why they should be allowed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  French remained influential in the courts, higher education, and elite society long after it stopped being the “official” language. That last part is totally right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but many of those words for specialised doctors came to English through French, not directly from Latin or Greek. And I don’t think that you can reasonably argue that English words with French origins aren’t by now a native part of the language. We use many of the same names in Dutch too, coming from French loanwords.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “ear-nose-throat” is commonly used in English.

  And it kind of is like the medical field popped into existence in the 1700s.