[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So many people believe that Covid was a way to scare us all indoors, so they could change batteries in all the birds.

That's preposterous.

Birds use rechargeables, that's why they're always sitting on the power lines. Like, duh, wake up sheeple.

[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Good for you! Seriously!

For the rest of us, a few notes on how you accomplished this would be sha-weet! I think sketch up is the most approachable 3d program, but all my "post Windows" attempts have resulted in crashes and freezes. 😥

[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

Honestly, this is the most heartening thing I've read about US politics in recent years. (PS. Am not American, and not in America)

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This is likely a very niche request, but perhaps there's a genius here with the answer - or can point me to a better place to ask.

If I want it to look like a web page is loading an interlaced gif over an old modem connection, would there exist some tool to convert a given static image to an animated gif (preferably downsampled to 256 colours)?

You know, the one where it starts off as one giant coloured block which then gets progressively segmented into thinner lines with more detail as each interlaced line is received...

[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago

You know, if you want to replace Slack, look into Mattermost. It's foss but otherwise pretty much exactly what Slack does so well.

[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago

Cars should just come with a big open socket up front, where I can buy (or build) my own infotainment system to install there.

...which is precisely what we used to have, before auto makers decided to insist that they should be enclosed in a swooping dash.

[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Damn you, here's your upvote.

[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 54 points 4 months ago

I'm glad you ask about things you don't know. You're a smart person.

A dead name is a person's given name, in the context of a person having transitioned to a different gender and also changing their name to match the gender they identify as. It is bad form to then continue to call them by their birth name.

[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago

Seriously, how do you even get the data to make such graphs?

On another note, I don't have much sympathy for people who clearly "swipe right on everyone". I am aware that it's a numbers game, but have since standards, man.

[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 59 points 9 months ago

Bluntly, where would Mozilla be without Google's funding?

Gone, probably.

So while I agree that it is poisonous and there is something very wrong with Mozilla corporate structure, it is a necessary evil.

[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 48 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Very. And he was going blind, too. I read a marvellous interview with him not too long ago, I'll see if I can find it.

Ah, here it is: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keeping-the-internets-time

[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is related to the "airplane on a treadmill" myth (go watch).

Preservation of momentum

I wanna say it's incorrect, but really I'll say it's exaggerated. The man on the diving board is going to continue moving forwards just like the rest of the gear, he's not going to suddenly stop on relation to the road surface. However, he is going to be affected by wind resistance (which scales ~~exponentially~~ quadratically with speed) so he will need to make a good forward leap in order to not fall behind because of that. If he doesn't, he would be effective jumping backwards - but not as far as depicted (unless the car is travelling really, really fast).

If the pool (and indeed, the man) were encased within an envelope to protect from that wind resistance, he would be entirely unaffected. So there.

[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago
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From my understanding, (a) the brain has no nerves, which is why you can talk to people while doing brain surgery on them; and (b) headache is caused by blood vessels constricting. Now, I am unsure whether migraines are also caused by blood vessels constricting, but in any case - what is it that is doing the sensing of this pain? Or is it a(nother) case of the brain just making shit up because it hates me?

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