Admetus
@Admetus@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Happy 3.14 Day 3 days ago:
Make sure a few stars die first in order to obtain those ingredients.
- Comment on Windows 11 is getting support for 1,000 Hz+ monitors soon as part of Insider builds — Microsoft has reportedly increased the refresh rate limit to 5,000 Hz 3 days ago:
The human eye doesn’t work via a pulsed frequency and is working on purely organic electrical signals. Quite a few sensory neurons will spot each frame. Article says the eye can sense up to 20,000Hz.
- Comment on The first rule of starting a fire, is to know how to put it out. 3 days ago:
I literally thought it was a reference to US-Iran but it’s a legit showerthought.
- Comment on They seemed nice and normal until.... 1 week ago:
I still can’t get used to her eyes, which makes her a perfect casting.
- Comment on What if it's actually pronounced "Arstralia," and we never realized because of the accent? 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Frig. 3 weeks ago:
Not sure why there is a mute button…I’m getting curious.
- Comment on Travelling on a flying carpet must be terrifying 3 weeks ago:
In ‘Rise of Endymion’, the ‘Magic Carpet’ creates a kind of force field that keeps its occupants in, and the wind out. But you can still slam and splatter into lots of bits if you hit a rock wall. The force field isn’t that powerful.
- Comment on Is this physics correct? 3 weeks ago:
Hello, Physics teacher here! Key to the concept of energy aka work is its definition:
Work done on an object = force X distance moved in the direction of the force. This can also apply when the force is in the opposite direction to the movement, i.e. gravitational force down, movement up. We say we’re doing work against gravity.
So the slope introduces horizontal movement but no horizontal forces makes this relevant. It only becomes relevant when say, sliding and friction is introduced!
- Comment on Value and 'likes' of a post are different things. 4 weeks ago:
You can downvote a post on Lemmy but you’re still looking at it, maybe examining it, thinking, is this post relevant to others?
So not having an algorithm to remove it from your life completely makes you less of a neuron-firing drone and more a consciousness.
- Comment on Truly identical twins as actors would present really interesting opportunities for a stage play 4 weeks ago:
Linda and Leslie Hamilton, yes
- Comment on You board a train, board a bus, and board a ship, but you don't board a car 4 weeks ago:
I’m getting because it’s a process in which you need to show a valid ticket of travel (or buy it) while boarding.
- Comment on You can ask any question to the people of year 3000, but can only receive information in the form of a single bit. What's your question? 5 weeks ago:
0?
- Comment on In a few years, the western liberals who claim to want a world led by countries outside the west are gonna get what they wished for, and realise that means western liberal values lose 5 weeks ago:
Has anyone used a bidet? Someone in this thread got me curious. Why are they so highly rated?
- Comment on In a few years, the western liberals who claim to want a world led by countries outside the west are gonna get what they wished for, and realise that means western liberal values lose 5 weeks ago:
I was going to say are you sure you mistyped bidets instead of something else, and then you really rounded it off with bidets.
- Comment on "A hill I'm willing to die on" is a weird phrase for what it means. 5 weeks ago:
Quite a few idioms like ‘You dodged a bullet’ or ‘I’m laying low.’ have originated from military in general.
- Comment on Surgeons have to have *really* strong stomachs 1 month ago:
That was one of the best I’ve ever read, made me laugh out loud ‘swamps of dagobah’ bahahaha.
- Comment on Sony Patents Buttonless Adaptive Controller With Customizable Layouts 1 month ago:
Imagine mashing your thumb against a hard flat surface for two hours. This is only doable if the controller is wrapped in something rubber-like, and some way of providing tactile button press feedback. In my opinion.
- Comment on obesity even kills stars, but the bigger they are, they shine brighter too 1 month ago:
I initially thought this meme was like Pacman, the Sun needs more fuel, must gobble gobble
- Comment on lemmy irl 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t want the yoghurt to go critical.
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 1 month ago:
Hydrogen: ‘Hi there, where’s the nearest star?’
- Comment on If I'm struggling with depression, I get ostracized as a "loser" that haven't accomplished anything but if I die in a tragic accident tonight, I'm a "young man with a bright future ahead" 1 month ago:
Wow, showerthought #2
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 month ago:
Wartime. Don’t know why the hell they didn’t remove it.
- Comment on Oh nooooooo 2 months ago:
Why kill spiders? Oh, maybe it’s Australia.
- Comment on I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop 2 months ago:
When I was chatting to someone about building my ‘mid’ gaming pc, we got chatting about RAM and I said I’ve got 16GB set up. His reaction was ‘only 16 gig?’
Well yeah, my OS is only using 16% of it at startup compared to you know what.
- Comment on Darth Vader was NOT a bad person 2 months ago:
He strove for power and renown. Points 1-3 didn’t trigger him, they were excuses to become the evil he was fated to become.
He had his redemption arc but that was something like when he was in his 40s or 50s and reaching the twilight of his life, and knowing that Luke may well kill and replace him. Seeing Luke sacrifice himself instead, moved what little good (or more accurately, moral principles) was left in Anakin.
In terms of alignment, Anakin was always Lawful Evil imo. My interpretation is that he was swayed by the strength of Luke’s adherence to the light side and his almost complete sacrifice. I don’t think it was really motivated by love.
- Comment on Failure is the best teacher 2 months ago:
I love seeing you pop in with tidbits of Chinese wisdom
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 2 months ago:
Oh that’s actually funnily enough the most applicable 2nd person mechanic.
- Comment on Ya yeet! 3 months ago:
Student in my physics class: ‘How much energy does it take to kill a person?’
‘Ok, assuming falling from 25 meters results in 100% death rate…’
Morbid I know…
- Comment on We live in alien zoo 3 months ago:
What we are witnessing is the near-complete isolation of the soul from the truth of everything. We are at the densest stage of evolution, stuck in material bodies and unable to look beyond them. What we see today is the perfect manifestation of it. We will live and die with so much understanding of it.
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 3 months ago:
It’s ironic, by trying to get them to hate each other he accidentally became something for all of them to rally against.
Like reverse Stockholm syndrome.