NeatNit
@NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on green salad fingers 3 days 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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 weeks ago:
A quick glance at the summary table can answer that. Planck units seem to do the trick.
- Comment on Fictional 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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" 2 weeks ago:
Relevant sketch: youtu.be/X-7CaIA4ilE
- Comment on Banana 2 weeks ago:
Get out.
- Comment on Fight me 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 weeks ago:
(They’re not. Oil in the ground is mostly trees.)
- Comment on Inspirational 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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) 4 weeks 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.
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 5 weeks ago:
Nebula mirror: nebula.tv/…/tomnicholas-why-youtubers-hold-microp…
I wanted to link to this video myself but you beat me to it
- Comment on xkcd #3145: Piercing 1 month ago:
Why not?
It’s mostly a big desert so no land of great value is lost. And it has to be on land, doing this in the ocean would be impractical and crazy!
- Comment on Ripperonis 1 month ago:
Or perhaps, hear me out here, we could dedicate an entire field of science to understanding human biology, and train many people in this subject as professionals. They will be qualified to, among other things, examine a patient and determine objectively that they are deceased with no chance of revival. They can then verbally communicate this fact, or in other words, “pronounce” that the patient is dead.
idk I’m just spitballing here.
- Comment on You're Welcome, Grandma! 1 month ago:
Found it: “Calm down, Grandma”
- Comment on You're Welcome, Grandma! 1 month ago:
What are the other 2 words?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Like the other comments, you lost me at “designed” and somehow went even more downhill from there.
This is obvious trolling/ragebait.
- Comment on What happend to messenging apps interoperability in the EU? 2 months ago:
I’m in the same boat. What I’d give to keep contact with my family without being forced to use the WhatsApp app.
- Comment on Age check 2 months ago:
Not American, ELI5?
- Comment on The Balance of Terror 2 months ago:
Who says he’s cleaning though? It just says he’s about to “start on her teeth”, this could be an operation or an investigation into a complaint or anything else that a dentist would do.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 2 months ago:
Paleontologists hate this one weird trick!
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
Also, actual butt plugs. Yes, they can and they will slip inside to the point you can’t get them out.
- Comment on 🦈🦈🦈 2 months ago:
Funny, I just wish the image wasn’t so horribly compressed. I can’t even see the 4 gills on Facebook’s one.
Also, why does Apple get 9/10 and Samsung only 8/10 when they’re pretty much identical in terms of accuracy?
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 2 months ago:
You know, there’s something called “rule of three”…
