TranquilTurbulence
@TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Both drive by wire and conventional throttle bodies are controlled by a wire. 1 day ago:
And shoes. Although, wireless technology is getting popular.
- Comment on Both drive by wire and conventional throttle bodies are controlled by a wire. 1 day ago:
Kites have utilized fly by wire technology for centuries already.
- Comment on Why are ghosts never racist? 1 day ago:
Maybe the ghost eventually turns into a faceless violent poltergeist that just wants to injure and murder everyone. Watching 200 years of history wreck your dreams can be hard to deal with.
- Comment on If humans can put cameras in the wild and animals will never know they're being watched. Then, an advanced alien civilization can just as well surveil us without any of us noticing. 3 days ago:
Or maybe aliens just don’t care. We may not be that special.
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 5 days ago:
Many years ago, I used to have huge phablet that I could only carry in the largest pockets of my jacket. It was also ridiculously thin, and made of glass, which made it very fragile. As s result, I was so worried about bending it or breaking it, that those ideas started to sneak into my dreams! Getting rid of it was a relief.
- Comment on What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole? 5 days ago:
E=mc^2 should cover it, proper physicists can give you a better answer. Either way, it’s a big boom. Wolfram says, it’s about 90 PJ, which is firmly in the nuclear weapons territory.
- Comment on What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole? 5 days ago:
If you press the universal terminal button, type in the command for spawning a black hole, set the mass to 1 kg, you get something very spicy. It’s so small, that it evaporates pretty much instantly, which means that all of that energy gets released as hawking radiation and the end result resembles an explosion.
- Comment on One major issue with social media is that it operates on a first come, first served basis. This essentially rules out the possibility of well-considered, well-researched content being successful. 6 days ago:
Web 2.0 was such a nice idea on paper.
- Comment on One major issue with social media is that it operates on a first come, first served basis. This essentially rules out the possibility of well-considered, well-researched content being successful. 6 days ago:
That’s a very good point. Also, the later comments don’t get seen by many people, and that’s why they don’t get many votes either.
Obviously, sorting changes all that, but I don’t think many people sort posts and comments by new. If you don’t touch the settings, things are sorted by hot.
- Comment on One major issue with social media is that it operates on a first come, first served basis. This essentially rules out the possibility of well-considered, well-researched content being successful. 6 days ago:
Most people aren’t into threads necromancy. New post and comments get more replies than the old ones. They aren’t completely forgotten, but the difference in attention is massive.
- Comment on Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc) 1 week ago:
Why would anyone use them when you can keep your opponents on their toes? Driving is essentially a full-contact sport, and you don’t win by playing it safe with turn signals. It’s all about the element of surprise!
- Comment on Is it really doom scrolling if it's just true? 1 week ago:
Does the scrolling make you feel like we’re doomed? If so, it’s doomscrolling.
- Comment on Saying "over" on the radio is like the null byte at the end of a string. 1 week ago:
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Did you know that HTML has something similar.
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- Comment on Someone had to mine all the metal for the coins that end up in jars 1 week ago:
The amazing thing is, there are so many ways the metals could have ended up in the coins. For example, iron is pretty simple, you just heat up the rocks and molten iron begins to leak out. Aluminium is really weird, because finding it in a metallic form is very rare. However, there are aluminium containing minerals pretty much everywhere. Turns out, you can dissolve those rocks with some chemicals, and separate the aluminium from all the other junk with electricity.
- Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 1 week ago:
There’s plenty of variety within that term. Also, recycling some of them requires very precise conditions.
- Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 1 week ago:
In the beginning, things would suck, because low prices come from economies of scale, and the petrochemical industry certainly has scale. Once you’ve ramped up glass, paper and metal packaging factories, it should be tolerable.
There are also new materials such as biodegradable plastic and even mycelia. That would be useful.
If we also ramp up various carbon capture technologies, you could technically turn that carbon into plastics, so you won’t need any more oil. Obviously, that wouldn’t solve the climate crisis. You need CCS for that. Probably not going to happen within the next century, but it’s technically possible.
- Comment on If you're having difficulty figuring out how to pronounce "data," say database. 2 weeks ago:
/ ˈdeɪ tə/, /ˈdæt ə /
/ ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs /
Source: dictionary.com
- Comment on When a person follows you and watches your every move, it's called stalking. When companies like Meta do it, it's just called collecting user data. 2 weeks ago:
Fortunately for you, LLMs are obnoxiously friendly, so why not generate a few slops of happiness for Meta every now and then. As a bonus, you’ll be polluting their next model too. It’s a win-win situation!
- Comment on Are some people too stupid to feel depressed? 2 weeks ago:
I’m going to ignore clinical depression for now, and focus more on milder symptoms like doomscrolling induced sadness, hopelessness and mild anxiety. Some people are resistant to these effects because they practice some form of optimism or stoicism. Other people just close their eyes and ignore the horrors around them. Either way, neither of these approaches tells you anything about intelligence.
- Comment on When we're home, we want people to think we're away. When we're away we want people to think we're home. 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, we are currently in a superposition of being simultaneously at home and elsewhere. If you’re here to sell something, the superposition will collapse into the state of not being at home. If you’re here to rob us, we definitely are at home and ready to call the cops.
- Comment on Would AI replacing humans in every workplace eventually make it easier for an advanced civilization from outer space to colonize us? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve thought about the way an excavator moves huge rocks and ant hills like they’re nothing. The driver doesn’t care about the ants, because he is focused on the construction site and staying on schedule. Maybe humans on Earth will one day be nothing more than an ant hill in the bucket of an excavator.
If super advanced aliens can carry out galaxy wide construction projects, one planet won’t matter at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s like one of those pitch meetings where the conversation goes something like this:
- That would be a bad idea.
- Yes, but money.
- I’m not going to do it. Your idea sucks.
- Yes, but money. Also, I’ll just hire another director who will bend to my will.
- Oh, ok then. Money it is then.
- Comment on You have been in a prison of bone for your entire life 3 weeks ago:
Well, at least some parts of you are outside the bone prison. Insects don’t have such luck, since the chitin is on the outside and everything else is permanently locked inside the exosekeleton. It’s even in the name: exo = outside. Jellyfish, octopuses, squids, worms, slugs, snails and some sea creatures are pretty lucky in this regard.
- Comment on Star Trek systems should use IPv6 3 weeks ago:
So, maybe Randall assumed that the nanobots had already devoured all the outer other planets completely before finally stopping with Earth.
- Comment on what's the word for a leg elbow? 3 weeks ago:
To which the answer is: “As high as a kite… No, wait. Higher. A GPS satellite? No. Even higher. Voyager 1 should be about right.”
- Comment on what's the word for a leg elbow? 3 weeks ago:
Those orange and brown stripes remind me this Minecraft cat. Such a beautiful color.
- Comment on Some popular sayings i combined: Evil is smart but kindness is naive, It's easy to give into evil but being Kind is hard 3 weeks ago:
Some popular sayings I’ve smashed together: “Don’t count your chickens before putting all your eggs in one basket and making an omelette.”
Bonus saying: “We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.”
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I probably interact with people who are at the pinnacle of their chosen skill but I'd never know because that skill isn't something that generates fame. 3 weeks ago:
A best selling author probably isn’t the best writing one. Actually, when the back cover of a book has various praises like that, I consider them a red flag.
Many highly praised business books like that are actually just mostly trash and useless fluff. Good books don’t necessarily get much fame or popularity.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Kelvin Farad, a unit for measuring something exotic related to capacitance and absolute temperature…. Sounds like something you could use to measure the performance of a hyper-space jump gate in a sci-fi story.
Either that, or simply potassium fluoride. Seriously toxic stuff BTW.
