Pazuzu
@Pazuzu@midwest.social
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
The original post only gave half the explanation. It’s not that lead exists in general, it’s that lead exists within zircon crystals.
Under normal circumstances that would be impossible, zircon crystals strongly reject lead atoms as they form. There’s no way to stuff lead into the crystal lattice in the quantity we find them there. But uranium and zircon go together just fine, we just have to wait for it to decay into lead. The trouble is it takes ~4.5 billion years for just half of those uranium atoms to turn into lead. So any zircon crystal we find with half as much lead as uranium must be roughly that old
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 8 months ago:
65°C (150°F) will give you third degree burns in 2 seconds:
Most adults will suffer third-degree burns if exposed to 150 degree water for two seconds. Burns will also occur with a six-second exposure to 140 degree water or with a thirty second exposure to 130 degree water. Even if the temperature is 120 degrees, a five minute exposure could result in third-degree burns.
(°F)
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 10 months ago:
A “no stupid questions” for Linux would be super helpful. A big one for me is shell commands. Like are shell commands different between distros, or do I have to install something to have certain commands? How do I even know what commands I do have?
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 11 months ago:
Idk about other phones, but at least on my pixel the volume down button is also a shutter button. And double pressing the lock screen button opens the camera
- Comment on Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence 11 months ago:
Even if they gave us a second usb-c port instead of a 3.5mm jack I’d be fine with that, don’t make me choose between charging and decent audio
- Comment on Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence 11 months ago:
If they gave us a second usb-c port instead I wouldn’t complain so much. Absurd that I have to choose between charging and audio unless I plug in a stupid dongle
- Comment on She broke it so she could baguette properly.... 11 months ago:
Big difference between being walking distance from groceries and needing to drive there. Bagging a few days worth of groceries is a lot faster than 2 weeks worth
- Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police 11 months ago:
Takes time to precisely seek to each timestamp, but really I just meant that an hour was reasonable even with a lazy cop doing the search
- Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police 11 months ago:
I thought this had to be hyperbole, so I did the math myself. I’m assuming human history is 200,000 years as google says, and we want to narrow this down to the second the bike disappeared. also that the bike instantly vanished so there’s no partially existing bike.
each operation divides the time left in half, so to get from 200k years (6.311×10^12 seconds) to 1 would take ~42.58 divisions, call it 43. even if we take a minute on average to seek and decide whether the bike is there or not it would still be less than an hour of manual sorting
hell, at 60fps it would only take another 6 divisions to narrow it down to a single frame, still under an hour
- Comment on Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family 11 months ago:
Hell, just add a “recommend this to your friends” option on videos if you want to make plex more social. Complete watch history is creepy stalker levels of ‘social’
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 11 months ago:
Another thing with the trial I was a jury on was the plaintiff themselves were not always present, most days it was just their lawyer and paralegal. The judge reminded us each day that we can’t hold their physical presence or lack thereof for or against them.
I’m no lawyer, but if neither the plaintiff nor the witnesses needed to be physically present I don’t see how they can justify forcing Gabe Newell to be. Despite being CEO he’s still not the defendant.
- Comment on Tehc 11 months ago:
Easier to add more ram than it is to change my tab hoarding habits
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 11 months ago:
I was a juror last year for a civil case, half the witnesses were cross examined over zoom before the days of the trial and played back for us. The judge made it explicitly clear that we were to take remote testimony the same as any others done in person
This isn’t a criminal trial with Gabe Newell as the defendant, it’s a civil trial against the company Valve.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake 1 year ago:
microsoft does have a launcher for android. I’ve heard good things about it, but haven’t used it myself so can’t confirm
- Comment on Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up 1 year ago:
it’s too bad the stock launcher on android doesn’t let you change app logos. you can do it using most 3rd party launchers, but that’s probably not worth it for that one feature
- Comment on Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up 1 year ago:
TIL how to link to communities on other instances in a way that keeps you on your own instance. thanks for that!
- Comment on Am I strange for not loving Everything Everywhere All At Once? 1 year ago:
that’s the only part I didn’t like about the movie, the repeat hot dog fingers and butt plugs and such felt more like a skit from robot chicken than the “what the heck is even going on” kind of weirdness I was hoping for