NeatNit
@NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 18 hours ago:
Your message might be correct (maybe) but the way you wrote it could not be wronger.
For starters, it’s not an unusual problem at all: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loneliness_epidemic?wprov=s…
Secondly, your whole comment is really aggressive, from “Um, excuse me?” to “you should work on it asap” it’s all just attacks as if it’s as simple as that.
- Comment on ex-kakapo 3 days ago:
Its name is “poo” twice. Fitting.
- Comment on Check mate, Libertarians 4 days ago:
Are you sure nothing moved? Perhaps they saw a twitch that was enough to confirm for them?
I can easily cause this reflex to myself.
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 1 week ago:
If you’re talking about the illegal settlements in the west bank, you’re damn right they should stop. It’s been a point of contention within Israel since it began, and I think it should be stopped, and should never have started to begin with.
If you’re talking about the entire country of Israel, kindly fuck off. This is an old nuanced and complex issue, your reductionism of is only making it impossible to talk about it realistically. No, the entire Jewish population of Israel is not going to just leave the only country they’ve ever lived in.
I do believe it is possible, in the far future, for us to coexist peacefully here. Sadly everything seems to be going in the opposite direction.
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 1 week ago:
Terror attacks. Every now and then someone tries stabbing people with a knife or running over people with a car. Sometimes they are successful. Most incidents like this end with the terrorist getting shot, usually by a nearby police officer or soldier (on- or off-duty at the time).
Political shit
Of course, I was talking about terror attacks by arabs against jews, but there’s no shortage of terror attacks by jews against arabs. These, “naturally”, usually end with no charges. Yeah, this place is fucked. This asymmetry is obvious enough that it’s even brought up and criticized often in mainstream media. But with the current administration it’s unlikely anything will change, and who know what the hell is going to happen in the upcoming elections. Cult-followers outnumber sensible people.
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 1 week ago:
Which country are you from?
I live in Israel, where there’s actually valid reasons to own a gun for defense, and I still hardly ever see one except on soldiers or police. I can only recall a single time I saw a civilian’s pistol, which they only showed me because we were having a conversation on the topic.
Granted, soldiers with guns is an everyday occurrence on pubic transport, so maybe you have a point. But still, gun safety/violence is not even remotely as big an issue as it is in USA.
- Comment on Mount an ISO in Linux? 1 week ago:
Unimportant nitpick: Linux Mint 22.3 was released this week. There is no Mint 23 yet.
(it was OP’s mistake but they at least added “(?)” to indicate they weren’t sure)
- Comment on what happens when you cut something? 1 month ago:
I think so, but if I’m honest, there’s a chance I’m just imagining it 😅
- Comment on what happens when you cut something? 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure that generally some particles break off from either side whenever you cut something in half. When I cut paper with scissors I get a distinct smell, that’s clearly paper particles that have escaped into the air. Under the right conditions you may even see some dust.
When using a saw it is very explicitly removing material to create a gap between the two sides. You can see this clearly in a lot of woodworking videos on YouTube. For other tools like a knife, it’s not as obvious, but I still think some material will inevitably be lost no matter what you do.
Maybe some extremely specialized nano-scale methods can cut things without losing material, but I doubt that’s something you can do on an everyday life scale.
Disclaimer: I’m not an expert and I did 0 research, just giving my opinion and personal knowledge (which may be wrong).
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 1 month ago:
Israel?
- Comment on What is in your pockets? 1 month ago:
Everything else looks pretty real to me that that’s a sign this might be AI
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Good point, I edited that in :)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Look, I happen to know what this is but I really hate posts that just assume everyone knows what they’re talking about.
So for everyone else: this is the newly announced Steam Machine, a gaming PC/console that will run SteamOS (Linux) and overall looks freaking awesome.
- Comment on green salad fingers 2 months ago:
It’s obviously been painted over and the word “Copper” in the text is replacing some other word that was there before. But I have no idea what it was before.
- Comment on Would one run faster without arms? 2 months ago:
I assume Windows is inexplicably a typo of QI?
I totally agree. I believe they make some effort to get their facts right, but it’s not their highest priority by any stretch. I also suspect they might sometimes leave crucial details on the cutting room floor.
In this instance I get the impression that Sandi actually meant the arms are still swung but just kept straight, like a Minecraft run. But then Bill interpreted it as the arms kept straight and motionless, like that one Seinfeld episode, and Sandi didn’t correct him.
- Comment on Would one run faster without arms? 2 months ago:
once you’re up to a steady speed it doesn’t make so much difference.
[Citation needed]. You’re still fighting gravity so being lighter makes each step easier. There is also less air drag (but I don’t know how much difference this makes).
- Comment on Would one run faster without arms? 2 months ago:
I have seen claims that this isn’t actually true, swinging our arms to counterbalance the legs is less efficient than just keeping them in place.
Where did I see this claim? Why, it was in this peer-reviewed scientific paper: youtu.be/-QW25fJ34nA , where by “peer-reviewed” I mean filmed with a live studio audience, and by “scientific paper” I mean segment of a TV panel show.
So uhhh yeah I’m not buying it but I can’t be bothered to check their sources.
- Comment on Fictional 2 months ago:
A quick glance at the summary table can answer that. Planck units seem to do the trick.
- Comment on Fictional 2 months ago:
Come on, you are able to analize words!
No, you can’t. Believe me, I’ve tried. I did everything I could to analyze this topic. There are many things that are possible to analize. Many household items. But not words.
- Comment on Fictional 2 months ago:
There are various systems of units where select physical constants are set to 1. A handy comparison chart is on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units?wprov=sfla1
It turns out you can’t harmonize all the physical constants. Some will necessarily end up as some non-round number.
Most of them have speed of light = 1, but some have it as 1/α where α is the fine-structure constant (α = e² / 4πε₀ħc ≈ 0.007297)
- Comment on 2 months ago:
They’ve come a long way. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-11-25
(click above link for full comic)
- Comment on If I were a waiter, I would describe the days soup as "Very hot, and very wet" 3 months ago:
Relevant sketch: youtu.be/X-7CaIA4ilE
- Comment on Banana 3 months ago:
Get out.
- Comment on Fight me 3 months ago:
You’re welcome! Folding@home is the big one, and the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search is also pretty popular (though IMHO a waste of resources for a relatively useless result). But I just looked into this topic myself after posting that comment, and turns out there’s a huge list of such “volunteer computing” projects: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_volunteer_computing_pr…
So while Folding@home is a great one and medical scientific research, you might pick something else from that list. Perhaps more than one!
Now the confession: I’m a hypocrite. I never ran any of these volunteer computing projects on my own PCs. But that’s partly because I tend to shut them off every night, so a lot of the usable time for it isn’t really usable. The other part is basically that I never bothered to do it.
But I think after this conversation reminded me of it, I might look into installing it on my PC!
- Comment on Fight me 3 months ago:
At that point you might as well run Folding@home on your PC just to act as a heater. It’s literally a win-win for you and for society.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
(They’re not. Oil in the ground is mostly trees.)
- Comment on Inspirational 3 months ago:
bottom projectile traveling at mach 5
- Comment on What's a bad habit you use to have for a long time but finally fixed? 3 months ago:
It appears that your habit for pedantic comments is as strong as ever!
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 3 months ago:
Spoilers about Tunic's language
The writing in the game is actually an alternate way to write English phonetically/phonemically. So the game technically is in English but you can’t understand it. There are guides on how to read it, but it always seemed like too much effort for me so I never did.
- Comment on I landed in another toxic workplace after quitting a previous one. What would you do in this scenario? (Open to all suggestions) 3 months ago:
(Comedy answer)
Seems like you have a tendency to get terrible jobs. Try the George Costanza method: whatever your instincts tell you to do, do the opposite! You’ll be working at the New York Yankees in no time.
