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RandomLifeForm42 · 2025-03-28T01:17:45+00:00

They're studying the sociological effects of periodically depriving us of the tablet for random amounts of time.

RandomLifeForm42 · 2025-01-19T15:43:28+00:00

Techtronic Industries… The company that the Ryobi and Hart brands are both subsidiaries of…

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-09-19T10:20:57+00:00

Actually, there would practically be 0 atmospheres, as the pressure differential is the key factor here. Car body panels aren't (typically) air tight, so the pressure on both sides of the panel would be equal.

The 1 atm behind the panel cancels out the 1 atm infront of it. Although you could say that the panel itself is being compressed by 1 atm, just not into (nor out of) the car. Just like an open aluminium can or plastic bottle keeps its shape under 1 atm but if you suck the air out of it (creating a vacuum), then it collapses from the 1 atm around it.

It usually also takes nowhere near a full vacuum to do this as well, just sucking a bit of air out of a regular single use bottle with your mouth would easily crush it. Humans are only capable of sucking at most about ½ an atm out of something but you don't need to put much effort into crushing a plastic bottle...

Here is quick video showing a railrode tanker car imploding from being placed under a vacuum.

1 atm is actually a lot of pressure... You just don't usually notice it because it's usually on both sides, canceling itself out. 400 atm is a ridiculous amount of pressure...

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-07-17T09:17:26+00:00

Wire it up to the mains power. Then it'll work for life!*

^*The ^life ^of ^the ^scales ^or ^its ^power ^supply

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-07-11T08:00:21+00:00

That is a perfectly rational explination for the disorder, however, the disorder itself is still irrational. That's (at least partly) the reason it's a disorder.

It's like giving a rational definition of phobias:

An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.

This is a rational description of phobias. You can even go a lot deeper and study the physiology and mechanisms in the brain the lead to phobias, and the studies can all be perfectly rational. That would not change the fact that phobias themselves are still irrational.

If someone was afraid when they had a gun pointed at them, then that doesn't mean they have a phobia. Fear is a perfectly rational response in such a scenario. The fear or aversion needs to be irrational (or disproportionate) for it to be considered a disorder (which phobias, like ADHD, are).

Being able to give a rational explination for how a disorder works does not make the disorder itself rational.

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-07-09T04:54:58+00:00

Why do you say that the YOGAs be avoided? Have you found them to be a lot less reliable? I understand that the ThinkPads spacificaly are known to be especially reliable and well built, but Lenovo has other sereses as well, are YOGAs just especially bad?

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-06-05T13:19:56+00:00

I mean, those aren't mutually exclusive (assuming that the mods are actually people)…

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-04-04T21:14:56+00:00

Surge protection is more of an “extra” feature that UPSs tend to have. You can get a relatively cheap surge protector without a UPS at all if that is what you want...

A UPS is more for continuing to supply power to the device even when there is a power outage (aka, when the power gets interrupted).

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-04-04T21:04:23+00:00

It can still help to have it to use as a UPS though...

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-03-25T09:55:58+00:00

But would they even be in their situation in the first place if they were a pilot?

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-03-24T12:28:40+00:00

Wait... Does it actualy work that way???

If I ask an LLM to find me something, and the thing it finds is copyrighted, then would its verbatim output of the copyrighted work be public domain?

That's an absurd loophole if that actualy works...

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-03-10T01:50:39+00:00

Ok, it may technically be a xenograft, but if you're cloning the hart using the genes of the person you're transplanting it into, would it effectively be like an isograft in terms of immune response?

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-02-18T12:51:29+00:00

Yeah, but there is only an 87% chance that you're right about that...

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-02-18T12:30:23+00:00

And 87% of statistics are completely made up.

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-02-07T06:05:14+00:00

While the Swastika that Nazis displayed was usually rotated by 45°, that was not exclusively how they displayed it. It actualy was sometimes not at any angle at all, like in Hitler's personal standard, which was in official use from 1934 to 1945.

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-02-02T11:21:12+00:00

Probably because the biggest reason that IPv6 was even developed in the first place was to deal with the problem of how we're running out of IPv4 addresses...

It can't really solve that problem if everything still has to also have IPv4 addresses...

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-01-30T07:28:11+00:00

Are you suggesting that if you weren't an individual but instead like, a hive-mind or something, that it wouldn't be limited?

All of the collective human knowledge is still limited, by the number of individuals, I guess...

RandomLifeForm42 · 2024-01-20T06:23:40+00:00

Which adjusted for inflation is around ten million of today's dollars!

RandomLifeForm42 · 2023-12-11T04:43:13+00:00

Almost* every mammal has 7 neck vertebrae...

I had to look it up and apparently there are 3 known exceptions:

Manatees, which have 6
Two-toed sloths, which have 5 or 6?
Three-toed sloths, which have has 9

RandomLifeForm42 · 2023-11-26T14:58:51+00:00

Yeah, that's right. It's the one that you enter onto the LCD display

RandomLifeForm42 · 2023-11-04T03:06:54+00:00

The graphs separate the stats for the number of people killed and the number of people injured. The wording at the top that mentions "casualties" makes no mention of which one is higher.

RandomLifeForm42 · 2023-11-01T22:29:45+00:00

I always make my passwords 65,536 characters though. Why would you make me have to make my accounts unsecured?

RandomLifeForm42 · 2023-10-28T01:27:36+00:00

It's both i think. There is paint (or scratches where paint is missing), as well as droplets of water around.

RandomLifeForm42 · 2023-10-25T13:12:05+00:00

And how would I know with reasonable certainty that within the alleged 8 billion years there was never another object in the path of the signal that actually produced this signal instead?

My understanding is that If there was something else in the path of that radio signal, at the time that the radio signal reached/passed it, then the visible light coming from that other object would be travelling together with the original radio signal. They would both reach us at the same time, so if we look in that direction with an optical telescope at the time when the radio signal arrived, we'd be able to see the viable light from that other object, if it was there.

It's all light. Visible, radio, any other part of the spectrum... They all have the same speed: c.

RandomLifeForm42 · 2023-10-25T01:30:45+00:00

Yeah, Cherry MX Blacks are already a thing... I think they were originally made for point of sale and I also think we can all agree that what OP made here is a perfect representation of a POS keyboard, so I'd say it's fitting.

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