HugeNerd
@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
I am a huge asocial nerd that lives in a hovel surrounded by vintage computers.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 15 minutes ago:
Pretty much, and I don’t think my stylish cardboard and wood-shavings condo is going to make expensive Totem Acoustic speakers sound their best… I had a pair of affordable Paradigm floor-standing speakers, but everything sounded hollow. They sounded great in the store, that happened to be a field-stone and timber construction with corner room treatments, etc
In my dry-wall and toothpick chamber, the sound just bounces around randomly. So then I got rid of the big speakers and got tiny QUAD ones, and that’s all I need. I can of course tell the difference from a premium setup, but I can’t afford a nice home.
I can also tell Angus steak from grocery-store all-beef hot dogs, but … money.
Hot dogs it is.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 2 hours ago:
Well, I’d argue the placement and room are an integral part of it as well.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 2 hours ago:
I listen to QUAD 77-11L speakers from like a lifetime ago, and a cheap class-D thing from Aliexpress. It’s fine.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 5 hours ago:
Is it also a room-temperature superconductor and a dessert topping?
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 6 hours ago:
Because they all connect to the Kremlin via a single washing machine CPU.
- Comment on For that special someone on Valentine's Day 6 hours ago:
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- Comment on For that special someone on Valentine's Day 8 hours ago:
Then you wouldn’t be buying processed grease sealed in pseudo-wax in the first place.
- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 1 day ago:
We need no longer fear the birthday balloon. (With apologies to Seth)
- Comment on 10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town 3 days ago:
Not too many cliffs were they’re from. Now ice floes OTOH, lots. And it was the elderly. And rarely.
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 4 days ago:
Uh, it doesn’t? It makes the person choosing the bear look like someone whose life consists of entertainment.
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 4 days ago:
Because most people have a Disneyfied idea of what animals do. Most people think a bear in the woods wears a red t-shirt and carries around a honeypot.
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 6 days ago:
Duh. I’m not braining too well today, of course it’s the cooking.
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 6 days ago:
Dunno, but wiki says “Sulforaphane is present in cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage. Sulforaphane has two possible stereoisomers due to the presence of a stereogenic sulfur atom.[3]”
I eat those three foods with no problem, unless radishes are the different isomer…
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 1 week ago:
Also one of the few foods that give me inexplicable instant acid foaming back up from my stomach. I’ll eat habaneros for giggles, no problem, but a single one of those little round red monsters in a salad and I’m out.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 week ago:
The future is one of vast energy abundance
Wow. Isn’t it amazing that the majority of human history operated under renewable energy?
- Comment on Me after too long of a nap 1 week ago:
painful and gruesome deification
Hmm
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 1 week ago:
I’m sure you could scarf down an entire party size bag of Doritos on your own as well. That doesn’t make it a good or preferred source of nutrition.
Try asking the kid if he can routinely scarf down a dozen eggs every morning. He won’t, unless he’s the size of Andre The Giant, because that’s actual food that will correctly signal satiety.
healthline.com/…/are-breakfast-cereals-healthy#su…
Anyways I assume the story is referring to the industrial sludge Americans call “breakfast cereal”, garbage that is designed to be addictive. And not, say, some kind of ancestral Kashi type of thing.
If it were actual food, you wouldn’t be able to eat so much of it. Nothing in nature would have been easily available in industrial quantities like that, making it extremely unlikely we evolved to eat so much of it. It’s engineered to be that way.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 1 week ago:
That’s because that isn’t food.
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 1 week ago:
Can I still use stuff from the '60s to about the late '90s?
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
Wait, that works!?
BRB!
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
Yes, sort of like if your kitchen is on fire but you also need to vacuum the living room. You should definitely focus on finishing the vacuuming before addressing the fire, because, you know, you can care about more than one thing.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
I’m reminded of this type of absurdity every time my Creative T40 speakers auto-shut off after a few minutes of inactivity, and take 4 seconds to wake up again. Yes, that entire millijoule of (entirely renewable) electrical energy is making a huge difference.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 1 week ago:
Yeah but the morbidly-obese hang-gliding people videos are worth it!
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 2 weeks ago:
On public transit, it bottoms out.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Yeah. I'm on the spectrum alright 2 weeks ago:
go away, bating
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 2 weeks ago:
Oh sorry, I interrupted you in the middle of changing the world.
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 2 weeks ago:
Could you destroy unnecessary apostrophes in possessive pronouns? Get rewarded with correct grammar.
- Comment on Real and True 2 weeks ago:
USB video dongles.
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 2 weeks ago:
It’s also where I keep all my stuff!
