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- Comment on Search Engine Podcast Episode: The Fediverse Experiment 1 week ago:
Integration between lemmy and mastodon is clunky, I think it’s possible to subscribe and post to lemmy communities from mastodon but there’s no way to follow a mastodon account from lemmy.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 1 week ago:
I remember I wasn’t impressed with smartphones when they first appeared. Phones were already everywhere and gimmicky variations were appearing all the time. The Internet and social media were much less popular and to use them you generally wanted to be sat down at a desk. At the time it really felt like anyone with a fancy phone was just going to use them for calls and text and nothing else.
- Comment on Two Palestine Action Hunger Strikers at Risk of Imminent Death 1 week ago:
I realised I didn’t know what their demands are, but it’s in the article:
The group’s demands include immediate bail, the right to a fair trial, the deproscription of Palestine Action, the shutdown of Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems’ sites on British soil, and an end to alleged prison interference with their letters and other communications.
Worth noting that they’re not asking for any charges to be dropped, so they would probably still face long prison sentences for criminal damage even if the government agreed to all of this
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Personally I think it’s very cool that different kinds of software can interact like this, it makes content more visible for everyone. I’ve also heard some people say they don’t like the formatting, and tags can be confusing because they don’t mean anything on lemmy.
My advice is keep doing it, just make sure to follow community rules.
- Comment on Great British Railways flies the flag as logo goes back to the future 5 weeks ago:
Ah sorry I was talking about the train livery. You’re right, I don’t think the logo will be unpopular
- Comment on Great British Railways flies the flag as logo goes back to the future 5 weeks ago:
The geometric design thing can sometimes look quite generic, like not quite original enough to really stand out and also not quite the classic look of a solid colour. But then I think this one looks decent enough.
Of course I’m not a designer or anything and I’m thinking purely about how it will look on a Hornby train set.
- Comment on Great British Railways flies the flag as logo goes back to the future 5 weeks ago:
This might be unpopular, but I don’t hate it
- Comment on Where is heart?! 1 month ago:
A mixture of mercury and bromine makes for a funny kind of water
- Comment on Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea? 2 months ago:
I have a grain of crack here for those who are interested.
You don’t need to do many calculations to see that the AI has gone slightly wrong. Since water covers roughly twice as much of the Earth’s surface as land does, lowering the oceans 1 inch should raise the land by about 2 inches, assuming that the volume of dirt isn’t changed by the process of moving it.
More precisely: Area of the oceans = 361,000,000 km^2^ 1 inch = 2.54cm = 0.0000254 km Volume of dirt = 361000000 * 0.0000254 = 9169.4 km^3^ Area of land on Earth = 149,000,000 km^2^ Height of dirt spread over land = 9169.4 / 149000000 = 0.0000615 km = 6.15 cm = 2.4 inches
Not going to say how many Everests as estimates for the volume of Everest seem to be all over the place. But the point stands that it’s a huge amount of material making the idea somewhat impractical.
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 3 months ago:
we have assumed that Rex is comprised of a uniform nucleon fluid, with protons, neutrons and electrons in an idealised 1:8:1 ratio
This is how the author is estimating it, they are assuming 1/9th of the mass is protons. No idea how good that assumption is though, there is a source which doesn’t look the most convincing
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 3 months ago:
After reading I realised that this proposal isn’t a single new element for all neutron stars, but a separate new entry on the table for every individual neutron star in existence, unless there are two that happen to have the exact same number of protons which is unlikely. Sounds good to me
- Comment on 🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶 4 months ago:
Off topic but I think the lyric is bathroom floor, bathroom door could turn it into a slightly different story
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 4 months ago:
This was my first thought as well, sadly I’m probably not clever enough to fully appreciate and understand any of these people. If I’m not allowed to transfer my place then at least I can have some fun telling Da Vinci about planes and stuff
- Comment on Byeeeeeee 5 months ago:
Who else has done exactly this before on Gilly in Kerbal Space Program?
- Comment on YSK The World’s Most Common Passwords 5 months ago:
Strange how much higher the top one, 123456, is than the others, and how the most popular ones with repeating numbers also have 6 digits. Why do people like 6 digits so much more than 5 or 7?
- Comment on ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds 5 months ago:
Unfortunately yes. I’ve met people who ask chatgpt about absolutely everything such as what to have for dinner. It’s a bit sad honestly
- Comment on Where do British elites get their news? Publishers, social media and AI 5 months ago:
41% of all adults and 60% of decision makers according to the article. But that includes online newspapers, and the number who actually named their favourite newspaper was far lower.
- Comment on Where do British elites get their news? Publishers, social media and AI 5 months ago:
Anyone else shocked that 19% of people in “senior jobs and leadership positions” read the Daily Star??!!
- Comment on Time travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space. 6 months ago:
This is interesting because the most “realistic” (i.e. still not realistic) depictions of time travel in fiction involve travelling through a singularity or wormhole. So you probably have to be in space to start with, but also both ends of the wormhole have mass so they can be orbiting a planet or star and stay within a stable distance of it. It solves this particular problem (just leaving the other usual problem of causality!) It also proves your point since it does allow travelling in space, in fact it allows travelling faster than light.
I think the converse is true as well, that if faster than light travel is possible then time travel must be possible, at least if you take relativity at face value. As others have pointed out there’s no universal reference frame, and for any journey that is faster than light in one reference frame, there is another frame in which the journey goes backwards in time.
- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 7 months ago:
Thank you, this prompted me to go and look up the meaning of that song. It hadn’t occured to me before that it was about the Falklands
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
This post has a list of casual communities which might help: lemmy.world/post/2216085
- Comment on What does ZFC do that Peano arithmetic can't do? 8 months ago:
- Comment on Can anybody anywhere in the world 🌍 create a website like lemmy and Mastodon with possibility of creating multiple instances and feed it into the fediverse so that it gets shared into both lemmy and? 8 months ago:
Not sure exactly what the question is but I’m fairly sure the answer is yes. 😀 Anyone can start a Lemmy/Mastodon instance and anyone can create new software that federates with it.
- Comment on I made a tiny WebGL game/thingy! 8 months ago:
Very cool! I’m still impressed by seeing anything 3D in a browser even though I know it’s been possible for a while.
- Comment on I’m new to Lemmy 9 months ago:
Welcome! Good to have you here
- Comment on Is there a Lemmy equivalent of "r/bestofredditorupdates"? 10 months ago:
Doesn’t have the “updates” part, but there is !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales 10 months ago:
Good to see, but a shame that the plans only apply to new housing developments, and they’re being very vague about anything after that. Seems to take an extremely long time to do anything on this issue despite the changes apparently having wide support
- Comment on How are you dealing with the UK's Online Safety Act, that comes into effect this March? 1 year ago:
[feddit.uk/post/21568696](Feddit UK post about this)
The admins are hopeful at the moment that we will be able to comply without too much trouble
- Comment on Brought my Celestron NexStar 6SE out on a camping trip last weekend and pointed it at the moon 1 year ago:
Not an expert but I’d guess that is Tycho crater, and the stripes are called its ray system en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_system
- Comment on My blog now has Lemmy comments 1 year ago:
Nice work!