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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think, it’s possible to find alternative materials which behave similar to plastic in certain use-cases.

  But yeah, I can’t see a one-for-one replacement happening. It’s part of the appeal of plastic, that it does not degrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  join-lemmy.org can help you find an instance based on your interests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If they couldn’t find/trust additional admins, I don’t see how they could’ve handed it off entirely…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IPv6 for self hosters⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have much experience with IPv6 yet either, but as I understand, the primary benefit is that you can get rid of a lot of the crappiness of IPv4, which you might just deem ‘normal’ at this point, like NAT and DHCP. It does happen quite a bit, for example, that we’d like a unique identifier for a host, but with IPv4, you need to store a separate UUID to accomplish that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's been a massacre!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, perhaps the most fitting example here is non-vegetarian diets: Feed plants to livestock. Livestock uses up some energy for its own existence. Then feed livestock to humans.

  There is a slight difference in that livestock can ingest leaves, which we cannot, but in industrialized farms, they typically get fed produce anyways, to make them grow more quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SUNS OUT GUNS OUT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, that’s a wild statement considering he later went on to formulate his ontological “proof”, which attempts to prove God’s existence without relying on axioms (and in my not-so-humble opinion fails to do so, because it assumes “good” and “evil” to exist).

  Sure enough, this statement here is about math and not a general statement, but you’d think he would’ve gotten a clue, that trying to prove anything without axioms is not a smart idea…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SOCKS SOCKS SOCKS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They could’ve also socked the tail…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A potential ‘anti-spice’ that could dial down the heat of fiery food⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, so they did find a use for homeopathy after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new technology for extending the shelf life of produce⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very interesting, but it’s wild to me that needles made from silk proteins are the first choice here. Surely there’s gotta be some plant protein or cellulose or such that’s a lot cheaper.

  I do also wonder, if they looked at bringing out melatonin onto the fields before the harvest, in hope of the plants picking it up via their roots.
  The article makes it sound like they had a solution (microneedles) in search of a problem, so maybe they didn’t even really look at other solutions. Which is fine, other studies can do that, but yeah, we should do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think, it’s mainly just companies trying to get their foot into the market. If Microsoft can establish LLMs as alternative to search, then it’s Google that loses market share. And once they control a share of the market, then they figure out how to capitalize on that.

  At the very least, they can use it to control what information is available to the public and how it’s framed. But they can also integrate things like the LLM generating an affiliate link when asked about a product, or just generally weaving ad placements into the generated answers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I’m neither much into history nor into movies, but I always found those scenes to be immersion-breaking, because well, apparently I was right to think that it made no sense to have your archers pause shooting. And yeah, now I’m wondering how this didn’t bother the directors producing these movies.

  Do you just get used to it, if you’ve watched lots of movies and don’t question it anymore?
  Or do you say, fuck it, it’s a trope that viewers expect, like how knives always make a shing sound, even though they don’t do that in reality…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you jest, but various pollinators depend on leaf coverage for winter protection. Fewer pollinators does result in less food…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this case, it’s about vulnerability reports, not about vulnerable code being contributed. There’s a bounty for any found vulberability in Curl, and then because telling an AI to try to find a vulnerability is essentially free, you’ll have lots of people looking to make a quick buck by just reporting whatever the AI spat out, no matter how nonsensical it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, now i get it! "Peanuts" is because they are nuts inside a pod-like thing, just like peas!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can find some that are not roasted, this actually becomes quite obvious. They do taste a lot like peas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think, the problem is rather that they have no budget for marketing. If they become visible on Steam, that’s significantly more visibility than they can hope for from a few social media posts…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Of all the vegetables beets is the most metal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing either because it looks like blood, or because it contains actually a lot of metal in terms of minerals…?

  I really don’t know, if it contains the most amount of metal among veggies, though. Apparently, it does contain a noteworthy amount of manganese.
  And I just compared it to potatoes and green beans, and well, it seems to contain rather much iron and sodium, but magnesium, zinc, copper, potassium are fairly average.

  Beetroot
  Potato
  Green Beans

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar panels cleaning solar panels⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe, I’m seeing a big ol’ brush underneath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poisonous Frogs with Ants in their Pants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would’ve been funny, if a fish was somehow snacking ants on the regular. 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poisonous Frogs with Ants in their Pants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s gonna depend on the specific ant species. Some ants don’t sting at all. Some ants only have formic acid. Some ants’ venom tickles. Some ant venom can kill you.

  But to quote Wikipedia for one of the latter, the Jack Jumper ant:

  The retractable sting is located in their abdomen, attached to a single venom gland connected by the venom sac, which is where the venom is accumulated. Exocrine glands are known in jack jumpers, which produce the venom compounds later used to inject into their victims.

  It then goes on to list all kinds of those compounds: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_jumper_ant#Venom

  I don’t have much deeper knowledge than that, but at that point, it might as well be a mixture of some compounds that they ingest and some that they produce from simpler compounds. At the very least, they would need to ingest appropriate atoms/molecules in some form, like for example nitrogen, which is contained in relatively many of those compounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jason Schreier is not a no-name. I would expect the guy to figure it out, if he thought about it for a moment. But yeah, the whole article seems a bit rushed…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and just because you know they’re lying, doesn’t mean you know what the truth is, much less so how to prove it to someone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't Oblivion and Morrowind turn the character model when you run in different directions?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You always attack into the direction that the camera is facing, so if the character was facing away, that would look quite weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda's Oblivion remaster passes four million players, breaks series concurrent records⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Skywind exists…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What purpose do carbohydrates OTHER than sugars serve in the body?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To perhaps lean more into why complex carbs are useful:

  Your body can’t really not digest something you’ve eaten. Once it’s in your stomach, it will be broken down and gets put into your blood. With the simple carbs, you get a lot of blood sugar very quickly and your body then has to deal with that. It does so by producing insulin, which tells the rest of your body to take sugar out of the blood. It’s put into either a limited, temporary storage (glycogen) or, once that’s full, into more permanent storage (body fat).
  Eating lots of sugar can also lead to your body producing too much insulin, which will cause too much sugar to be taken out of the blood, so you often have a high and then a crash/low after ingesting sugary foods.

  Ideally, you want blood sugar to always stay at a reasonable level, where it can supply your brain and muscles, but where your body does not have to start storing lots of it. And that’s where complex carbs are neat, because they don’t get broken down all at once, when they’re in your stomach/intestines, meaning their sugar enters your blood at a more sustainable rate. By eating them instead of sugar, you’re less likely to put on fat and less likely to have a crash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mindustry is basically Factorio with more focus on tower defense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my first thought was that we’re talking about a K-size bra cup…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every. Single. Game. Ever.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also kind of breaks immersion when there’s tons of different enemies, but they never fight between themselves. Only when the player character shows up, they’re like, imma ruin this woman’s life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is this something only introverts struggle with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Opposite of neurospicy. 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is this something only introverts struggle with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, that for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is this something only introverts struggle with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard before that it can be more difficult for folks on the autism spectrum, because we perceive more of the details in each voice, so it’s more likely to overwhelm us.

  But it certainly doesn’t have to be. Neuroboring folks also don’t find it helpful when two speak at the same time.