wise_pancake
@wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Petrichor 13 hours ago:
Moisture is the essence of wetness and wetness is the essence of beauty”
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 13 hours ago:
Haha so true!
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 3 weeks ago:
I don’t care if it catches on, I’m enjoying it here where the people are still awesome.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
I skimmed that link and it’s pretty interesting, I’ll have to spend more time on it. I definitely liked the part at the end about God being the observer in this context, so what’s a day to him.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for that
I don’t see why God must be incompatible with evolution or the Big Bang or really any of science. God created us to be clever, surely that includes using logic and science to learn about the world.
Personally I’m agnostic and I try not to judge people. I do judge people who dismiss science and decide faith alone is better.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Also this doesn’t say anything about the Earth.
Plus you can’t keep give a liberal reading of the bible to be:
- god created the heaven and the earth. God created the heavenly bodies.
- God created the sky - earths atmosphere and climate
- God separates oceans - creates continental forms, and plant based life
- God creates the moon and sun and stars. This one seems out of order to me… maybe just the earth and solar system stabilize. I don’t know how pll ok ants exist without the sun, so maybe it’s microbes or something.
- God creates birds and sea creatures. Maybe birds are dinosaurs.
- God creates modern land animals, then creates man and woman. That makes sense, mankind is certainly new with only a few hundred thousand years of records before civilization starts.
That doesn’t have to imply the earth is 4000 years old. Even the original wording could be read as eon instead of day.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
I certainly hope so. It’s been great seeing PopOS and Linux Mint pushing the bar on what a good linux desktop experience can be.
I’d love to see Linux become a stronger competitor to macos (which is what I’ve used for almost 20 years).
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
Adium was awesome, that was the golden age of computing and the internet in my opinion.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
I miss Adium, I used it for a bunch of protocols, and I customized the CSS/html to make it look really awesome.
I had an app called snakeskin or something to skin my Mac OS X to be dark themed.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
Nudge
- Comment on I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet? 4 weeks ago:
That would violate the laws of thermodynamics, you can’t create more energy in a closed system.
- Comment on I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet? 4 weeks ago:
I suspect they couldn’t replicate dilithium because they’d be consuming dilithium, converting it to energy, then converting that energy back to dilithium.
The laws of thermodynamics state that this would be inefficient.
- Comment on I'm a reasonably well educated human living on Earth. What's to stop me from replicating starship parts until I can make my own Starfleet? 4 weeks ago:
- Extreme amounts of energy needed for large items, but it seems like Earth has transporter quotas, so presumably they enforce energy budgets (based on DS9 Sisko using his transporter budget)
- Not all materials like latinum can be replicated
- Materials like dilithium are seemingly not viable to replicate, probably due to it being an incredibly wasteful process
- Many dilithium byproducts are unstable controlled substances, so at some point Starfleet would interfere to prevent the creation of trilithium or other unstable substances.
- I don’t know if you need antimatter, but I don’t think you could replicate it. You could replicate the machinery needed to produce it though.
- The Federation does have industrial replicators but they seem to be treated as controlled assets they rarely give out or provide access to. So they might meddle if you start building these.
- Comment on 10001 4 weeks ago:
It’s a great way to save on number boards
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Yeah I remember when they rolled that out… it does not give me hope for the future of privacy.
Canada needs to really ramp up our privacy laws, I’m not crazy about GDPR specifically, but there needs to be something more substantial here.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Correct
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Never connect your tv to the internet.
- Comment on Ceiling lights, LED bulbs or fixtures? 1 month ago:
I would go with the bulbs
The fixtures are nice but they can have high failure rates and are more difficult to replace, as you have to replace the whole unit.
Bulbs on the other hand are easy to replace if they fail, they’re standardized so anyone can walk to the store and pick up an A19 60W equivalent.
- Comment on Horror Sign 2 months ago:
Jesus that’s realistic
- Comment on "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!" 2 months ago:
Do you guys have to memorize fluorine too?
It’s been a decade since I took chemistry, and I did not get very good marks in it, but it seems like the elements at the bottom of the table (with exception to Uranium and Plutonium) are just hanging out while the top elements do all the work.
- Comment on AAAAAAAAAA 2 months ago:
They also pee constantly
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
That’s bullshit
- Comment on Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ 6 months ago:
The IT guy who set up that backup deserves a hell of a bonus.
A lot of people would have been happy with their multi region resiliency and stopped there.
- Comment on Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ 6 months ago:
There were several months with people complaining their data was getting deleted and Google just ignored the whole thing until it blew up on hacker news.
- Comment on Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ 6 months ago:
The most surprising thing here is they got in contact with a human in Google cloud to resolve the issue.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 6 months ago:
Math is never irrelevant
- Comment on Calculus made easy 6 months ago:
This is the nicest I’ve seen this info presented.
They didn’t even need to draw a chart of decreasing deltas and partitions, or talk about tangents and secants.
- Comment on When you do it yourself and it looks like you did it yourself lol 6 months ago:
I don’t know anything about the trades, but this looks about as good as I’ve ever seen in new apartment buildings or expensive offices.
- Comment on Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place of Plato 6 months ago:
Yeah… I w trying to be tonight in cheek but then I felt like a total assshat.
Sometimes I just get pissed at how far we’ve backslid.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 6 months ago:
Yeah, kinda
You watch TikTok, someone shills a product, you buu it with a button that pops up, or you click into their store to buy their cosmetics line.