Hamartiogonic

@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Usernames using randomized nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, some people will intentionally add numbers at the end of the alias to make it look like all the good names were already taken. Sort of like a joke or a reference to all the bigger social media platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is suddenly weird⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen something similar happen when a site doesn’t load all the way. Refreshing fixes that unless something has gone horribly wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This one is a bit counterintuitive. My maths teacher explained it like this. Take a look at this graph. If you approach zero from the positive side, it looks like the line goes to infinity. If you approach zero from the negative side, it appears to go to negative infinity.

  Is it both, is it zero, is it all the values? The canonical answer is “undefined”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  First billion years free. After that it’s 17.99 per millennia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  These kinds of contradicitons exist in made structures, such as laws, rules and regulations. In situations like that, a judge has to pick which rule to follow and which one to ignore. The first time that happens, it becomes the standard solution (precedent) for those kinds of problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I choose to believe that the universe will crash due to division by zero, floating-point error, integer overflow and segmentation fault, all of them occurring simultaneously. The objects will experience infinite velocity and infinite forces, there will be rounding errors, the system will run out of RAM and storage space. The universal CPU will max out all threads, and run out of cooling capacity. The hardware catches fire, the entire universe immediately collapses into a singularity, resulting in a new big bang as the system reboots. Oh, and the log files are corrupted, so good luck troubleshooting that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biwatt releases 4.5 kWh sodium-ion battery - Energy Storage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory, you can stack cells any way you like, and calculate what the current, voltage and capacity should be. However, those simple calculations don’t consider what the effects might be. Due to material limitations, only certain voltages and currents are safe. Go beyond the limits, and things begin to burn.

  Also, these are modules, not cells. Each module probably contains some sensitive electronics that certainly can’t handle any random voltage or current. My guess is, that’s where you’ll find the first bottle neck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biwatt releases 4.5 kWh sodium-ion battery - Energy Storage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Consider cross posting to !batteries@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3083: Jupiter Core⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What happened to the ice cream ball with a chocolate core hypothesis? I think it looks like it could be a huge ball of Viennetta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yikes!

  Anyway, thanks for the clarification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Next step in the playbook is to outlaw all the minor news outlets that do cover this stuff. Is trump already working on that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally out of the loop. What’s goin on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspiciously strange correlations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about the times when I have data about two things that really should correlate, but don’t because life is complicated?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3077: de Sitter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm… that’s a good point. Basically anything other than a flat surface will have these bizarre properties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3077: de Sitter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. That would be truly bizarre kind of space to live in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3077: de Sitter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you draw a triangle on different parts of a toroid, would you get different angles?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3075: Anachronym Challenge⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s t true. Even steel utensils come in a variety of prices. The nicer ones look cool, have interesting shapes are heavy etc. Moderately priced ones are just stamped steel, but still good and durable. The cheap ones, are stamped out of the thinnest low grade trash you can find. Those will bend if you just look at them wrong. Also, some cheap fruit knives have a plastic handle and aluminum rivets. Stick that into a washing machine and you’ll find out how soluble aluminum is at high pH.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3075: Anachronym Challenge⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dumb foreigner here, so what’s the deal with silverware? I mean, if you really want silverware, you get forks and knives that are actually made of silver and come in a fancy wood box. Do people use that word for common steel forks too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Suggest a community" community?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently there’s a mistake. Feel free to update the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Suggest a community" community?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? I had to look it up, and I found out that it was shut down in late 80s.

  So that’s good to know next time I happen to be speaking with someone who is both old enough and from a particular part of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Suggest a community" community?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but first you would need to know that: 411 = “I can’t find a specific community because it doesn’t have a logical name, so can you help me out.” Ironically, the name 411 embodies the problem perfectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Suggest a community" community?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With a name like that, no wonder why I never found it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3067: SawStart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cannot be stopped, you say? How about you attach a generator to that blade before you start it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3066: Cosmic Distance Calibration⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a relevant XKCD about there being a relevant XKCD for everything?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3065: Square Units⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same goes for volume. People use cubic meters, but I would prefer to use liters instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3060: Omniroll⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, so that’s how you make the infinite fractal omniroll. You just need infinite materials, infinite space and infinite time. Shouldn’t be a problem, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3060: Omniroll⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Before you ask, it’s 51 layers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3058: Tall Structures⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If an unraveling sweater counts as a “tall structure”, then what about the space tether, where NASA used a 20 km long wire?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you already get the “hate magnet” achievement for having the most downvoted account? If not, you’re definitely getting close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA | ‘Poverty is not a crime’: outrage after California city passes law targeting homeless encampments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So it could be seen as a metric that measures the underperformance of the federal government and states, but not each individual city.