blackbrook
@blackbrook@mander.xyz
- Comment on Gravity! 2 days ago:
This is really fascinating to me. Do you mind my asking, with no intended disrespect, how intelligent your wife is? And did she have any kind of unusually isolated situation for much of her life?
- Comment on Quitting Spotify for Navidrome 6 days ago:
I have no idea about Navidrome, but I completely agree with the gist of this article. Actively choose the music you listen to. When the music you’ve chosen has run out, if you’re not motivated to make another choice, let the music stop and enjoy quiet for a while.
- Comment on How do you handle junk email? 1 week ago:
I use POPFile, open source software that classifies email into whatever categories you set up using a Bayesian algorithm (so you train it). It works as a proxy so it does it when your download email, so not a solution to your inbox filling up unless your can figure out how to run it on the server automatically.
It tags the email with a header and I use Thunderbird filters to move mail to folders for spam, adverts, political spam, and regular inbox.
It’s abandonware but it still works and doesn’t really need any more features IMO.
- Comment on Quantum teleportation between photons from two distant light sources achieved 1 week ago:
So how would this mechanism (“quantum physics allows information to be transferred from one photon to another as long as the information stays unknown”) interact with the feature of being able to detect interception (“Because photons follow the laws of quantum mechanics, their polarization cannot always be completely read out without leaving traces. Any attempt to intercept the transmission would inevitably be detected”). If intercepted and read it is no longer unknown. Does that not make the transfer between photons fail? And will that be distinguishable from other failures or would not this transfer lose the interception detectability?
- Comment on The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a brain throughout its anatomy. 2 weeks ago:
This is such a shit magazine. They are not “all brain”, its more like their brain is just scattered evenly throughout their body.
- Comment on Archaeologists Find Tools Contradicting the Timeline of Civilization 2 weeks ago:
Despite our potential for these accomplishments we’re still pretty dumb most of the time. And get amazed by anything we don’t immediately understand and blame it on God or aliens.
- Comment on Oechslegrad 2 weeks ago:
45 degrees in time is about 1:08
- Comment on Nanananana 3 weeks ago:
That’s the ‘here, have a banana gesture’.
- Comment on same, honestly 4 weeks ago:
wears the candles Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
- Comment on Scientists Think This Animal Could Help Humans Live for 200 Years 4 weeks ago:
Is Popular Mechanics just general science articles these days? This doesn’t seem related to the works “mechanics”…
Also WTF is with that image?
- Comment on Space is beautiful 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t the butt end, the end you normally look through? I’d think the end facing the stars would be the front end.
- Comment on Bought to you by the central limit theorem society 1 month ago:
The unfunnyness and homophobia of the joke aside, this kind of joke doesn’t expect people to actually believe that statistics work this way. Part of the joke is the ridiculousness of expecting statistics to work that way. While there may indeed be some people so stupid/ignorant that they DO expect statistics to work this way, that’s not really the way this kind of humor is meant to work.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 month ago:
Well vegetable used to be used sometimes to mean “plant”.
Most people don’t really understand how words work.
- Comment on Fucking idiots 1 month ago:
You call that counterpoint? Bach’s Mass in D minor. Now that’s counterpoint!
- Comment on anyone have a sheet music system/workflow that works? 1 month ago:
Give each person a folder in which to stick whatever loose sheets they are currently working with. Keep these folders plus whatever music books are relevant on a shelf. Tell each person to put their shit away when they are done.
There can be another folder for sheets people fail to put away. Your wife can just stick everything left out into this folder when stuff gets left out and she gets annoyed. People will learn they have to look through all the shit in this folder to find their stuff it they leave their stuff out.
- Comment on The audacity of my Christmas cactus, trying to bloom before Halloween and Thanksgiving 1 month ago:
Your cactus is being controlled by marketers!
- Comment on Toxic pollution builds up in snake scales: What we learned from black mambas 1 month ago:
Don’t eat black mambas, got it. That’s the easiest dietary advice I’ve gotten all year.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 1 month ago:
A light spirit lives in the battery. It reaches out across the wires until it reaches the round window which it uses to show its power.
- Comment on An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it. 1 month ago:
“regardless of texture physics…” If I had been drinking milk when I read that, it would definitely have come out my nose!
- Comment on Mid Career Marine Biology 1 month ago:
Never mess with someone trained in gorilla warfare. Those gorillas don’t mess around.
- Comment on Dawg... 1 month ago:
Risky click of the day
- Comment on Dawg... 1 month ago:
I agree with all the comments here, but also, now I’m craving hotdogs.
- Comment on An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it. 1 month ago:
However many is fatal.
- Comment on What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage? 1 month ago:
Example of content evolution.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 1 month ago:
Could you explain what you mean by laying at an angle?
- Comment on What do you think the PPE is for 1 month ago:
Well it seems lazy. And I think elements of accurate realness in contrast to the twist in a cartoon make it funnier.
It also bothers me that they are using the wrong definition of ‘mad’ for the joke. I think it was easier to find a word for a milder version of that ‘mad’, but it detracts from it for me.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 1 month ago:
Doesn’t that put your back into a curve? I feel like that would kill my lower back, but maybe I don’t know how to use a hammock properly.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 1 month ago:
Maybe if it was a small enough pillow? That picture looks exaggerated. Their ears certainly aren’t what I would call over their shoulders.
- Comment on Perfect little cup hiding in a log 2 months ago:
Blue Velvet moment…
- Comment on 2 months ago:
And only a fraction of those are jelly filled.