SoleInvictus
@SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Why We Love to Get Lost in Games: The Enduring Appeal of Metroidvanias 10 minutes ago:
Metroidvanie? Metroidvanii?
- Comment on Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month 1 week ago:
Great write up, I appreciate the modeling.
- Comment on son, happy birthday 2 weeks ago:
It’s a radiolarian skeleton, more info here: lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12782032
- Comment on son, happy birthday 2 weeks ago:
I am a microbiologist, there’s no way in hell that’s a virus.
- Comment on It's not easy being cheesy 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know, detailed knowledge about animal scrotums could be useful at the right parties.
- Comment on Caveman technology 1 month ago:
I know you know what I mean, so I’m similarly going to also pretend I don’t know that and simply state: oof.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 1 month ago:
My wife and I ran the numbers and, in our area, Uber Eats was pulling in about 1/4 to 1/3 the cost of the meal between charges to the restaurant and the customer. We were discussing opening a non-profit delivery service in our area. Turns out it’s pretty hard to do.
- Comment on Caveman technology 1 month ago:
Bad jokes like these make me feel right at 127.0.0.1
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 1 month ago:
I’m sorry that you have so little faith in the 10 year olds you know.
Does your comment have a constructive point or are you simply the sort that looks for technicalities to correct so they might feel smugly satisfied about themselves?
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 1 month ago:
They stole referrals. I’ll explain like you’re 10, it’s a bit much for a 5 year old.
Let’s say you watch a video with a link to a product in the description. Normally, when you click that link, a referral code is embedded so the person who made the video gets a referral fee when you make a purchase.
Honey would remove those referral codes and replace it with their own.
- Comment on My favorite 1 month ago:
“Italian Inspired Food”
- Comment on BBC staffers reveal editor's 'entire job' to whitewash Israeli war crimes 1 month ago:
I suspect the issue they’re having, much as I am to a degree, is that a country is literally murdering men, women, and children so it can take their land and possessions and most of the world continues going about its business as if nothing is happening. Scaled vastly down, it’s almost as if a gang was murdering a neighboring family and the family is screaming for help while the other neighbors do their best to ignore it.
I get why people aren’t flocking to Palestine en masse to defend Palestinians, but especially for anyone with friends or family there, it’s all bizarre. It’s a huge, devastating, pressing issue that weighs on their minds all the time and most of the world doesn’t seem to even care.
- Comment on brains! 2 months ago:
It’s really both, neurons communicate electrochemically. Neurons establish a voltage difference across their membrane, typically positive outside, negative inside, by concentrating ions on one side or the other. In a single neuron, the action potential (signal) results in the electric polarity of the cell membrane switching to negative outside, positive inside, with the change in gradient cascading down the length of the axon as ions are allowed to flow across the membrane by voltage-gated ion channels. After depolarization, ions are actively and selectively pumped to either side of the membrane, repolarizing it.
There’s a lot more to it than that but it’s 100% charge dependent. The change in charge is mediated by the flow of ions across a membrane instead of the flow of electrons through a conductor, hence why it’s slower.
- Comment on Surprise! Nintendo Tracked Down Alleged Switch Pirate in Arizona via Reddit Posts and Repair Orders 2 months ago:
Further evidence of why you use a dedicated alt for anything even vaguely sketch.
- Comment on Kermit :) 3 months ago:
He’s a frog, they breathe through their skin.
QED
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 3 months ago:
I have seen some surprisingly uninformed users on the Internet, but you’re definitely up amongst the worst of them.
You know you’re on the Internet, right? You can use it to learn things instead of uncritically repeating whatever your favorite talking heads said.
- Comment on ... 3 months ago:
Hah, I haven’t thought about Dragonball in ages.
Progress through turnover is true, and it’s maddening because the core tenets of science are explicitly against this. At our hearts, we’re still just apes with extra inflated egos.
- Comment on Automatic emergency braking is getting better at preventing crashes 3 months ago:
He truly is an idiot. I wish he’d just step down from Tesla. The company has some great ideas, but instead of making them better, he’s making everything worse.
- Comment on Automatic emergency braking is getting better at preventing crashes 3 months ago:
I’ve also had mixed results. My 2018 Prius is flawless, not a single false brake in nearly seven years. We recently purchased a Tesla (I know, I know, long story) and we had to turn the braking sensitivity so far down that the feature is now basically useless.
- Comment on “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock 3 months ago:
It’s actually Steve Huffman, AKA “Spez”, and the website Reddit.com.
- Comment on “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock 3 months ago:
I do love that so many people on the internet know exactly who you’re talking about when you say “greedy little pig boy”.
- Comment on ... 3 months ago:
Am scientist (well, was, before career change), can confirm. Fuck dogmatic scientists, they’re worse than regular dogmatists because they’ve been given many opportunities to know better.
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 4 months ago:
You are correct. In English, when a noun is used to modify another noun (as an adjective does), it’s referred to as a noun adjunct, attributive noun, or, more rarely, an adjective noun. While it serves the purpose of an adjective, it’s still technically a noun.
Examples are chicken soup, toy store, race car, boat lane, etc.
- Comment on Classic SNES RPG Illusion Of Gaia Gets Fresh Translation 30 Years After Its Western Release | Time Extension 4 months ago:
Nintendo takedown in 3…2…1…
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 4 months ago:
It’s a hot button topic for some people. I’m for the biological variation explanation - some people seem to really notice a difference while others don’t.
I think what the people who get really upset notice is that they dropped a few extra $100s on what’s often largely a marketing gimmick.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 4 months ago:
It’s noticeable, it’s just not massive. My phone screen runs at 120hz but I don’t notice a difference unless I’m scrolling rapidly. Gaming culture (driven by corporations) really overemphasizes its importance.
Also keep in mind there likely isn’t a lot of selective pressure on biological vision refresh rate, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a fair amount of variability in the ability to discern a difference amongst individuals.
- Comment on Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges 4 months ago:
If you’re extra lucky, it’ll still be running on the original included demo toner cartridge.
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 4 months ago:
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 4 months ago:
Same, during a boss fight in Elden Ring. I died.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 5 months ago:
This is an art form if you play a lawful good face character and your DM says you aren’t allowed to lie.
This is the real pro tip.
