timroerstroem
@timroerstroem@feddit.dk
- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 3 days ago:
- Comment on Im not familar on how to make meth. But is my mom in trouble with amonia windex bleach 2 empty 2 liters, batteries under the sink? 3 days ago:
Ammonia and bleach (sodium hypochlorite) make chloramines, not mustard gas. Still very not healthy, though.
- Comment on Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explains 1 week ago:
The Brussels effect in action.
- Comment on Is Pop_OS! kind of bad? 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, if being able to tweak everything makes you happy (and I get that), Gnome is probably a horrible choice of DE in the first place.
- Comment on Is there a European Union equivalent of BLS.gov? 3 weeks ago:
You could try Eurostat.
- Comment on Antivirus en Linux – ¿Lo necesitas? 1 month ago:
It’s in Spanish while being labelled as English.
- Comment on YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ is for those that already have a music subscription 3 months ago:
I think that’s called grayjay.
- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 3 months ago:
Astronomers would notice immediately, as the stars would be in very wrong positions. The IAU is the primary reason why IT people have to hack around leap seconds.
- Comment on Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better 3 months ago:
Published in World Economic Forum · 5 min read · Nov 12, 2016
- Comment on What even is fire? 3 months ago:
What the vast majority of people would probably think of when they hear the word ‘fire’ is actually flames; flames are quite simply particles emitting light.
For an everyday example, take a campfire: The wood logs you see burning are at such a high temperature that they give off methanol (and other flammable chemicals), which is most of what’s burning. Apart from the methanol being driven off of the wood, there will be other chemical compounds and/or larger clumps of more-or-less-burned wood that will be carried off. These larger clumps in particular, while very small, are nonetheless large and hot enough to start emitting light in the visual spectrum. This is essentially what a flame is: Particles emitting light.
Fire in and of itself is quite simply rapid oxidation in the presence of oxygen.
The above is, arguably, a gross oversimplification.
TLDR: Flames are particles, fire is combustion.
- Comment on When people say the AI bubble will burst, what exactly does that mean? 6 months ago:
Obligatory reference to tulip mania: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania