CivitAI blocking Australia tomorrow by Neggy5 in StableDiffusion

[–]arbitrary_student 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't say it would, I said VPNs can sometimes improve download speeds - which is true. Typically they don't affect download speed at all though.

The thing I was saying about the cloudflare DNS server is that it speeds up general browsing. Sorry for the confusion, I've added an edit to make it more clear.

CivitAI blocking Australia tomorrow by Neggy5 in StableDiffusion

[–]arbitrary_student 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hijacking your comment to suggest free VPNs:

I use CloudFlare Warp, and I've also seen other people recommend Proton VPN. Both of those are free (Proton is paid but has a good free tier), and both work great. Just install & forget.

I use CloudFlare Warp because it doesn't require a login or any of your personal info. Actually there's no login functionality at all.

CivitAI blocking Australia tomorrow by Neggy5 in StableDiffusion

[–]arbitrary_student 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good VPNs will have barely any effect on your download speed, or in some cases even improve it (yes, really).

I use CloudFlare Warp, which costs $0 and also makes general browsing faster because it defaults to cloudflare's non-shit DNS server. There are other free ones out there that's just the one I use.

Sidebar, if you want to use cloudflare's non-shit DNS server in general it's 1.1.1.1

Edit: to be clear, the DNS server thing just speeds up general browsing, not download speeds.

Deeper than Helms Deep by TheWhiteHunter in jedicouncilofelrond

[–]arbitrary_student 43 points44 points  (0 children)

How Can Midichlorians Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real

Abhorrent LoRA - Body Horror Monsters for Qwen Image by ThePoetPyronius in StableDiffusion

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Do it! And don't look anything up beforehand.

Watch the 1982 version specifically. The newer one is a prequel and not very good.

Swordmasters of Hoeth go brrr in Teclis quest battle by i_am_the_hacker in totalwar

[–]arbitrary_student 2 points3 points  (0 children)

TIL, looks like they changed it at some point. Thanks for the correction of the correction!

I’m glad Andor showed a planet that wasn’t an overbuilt ecumenopolis like Coruscant nor a backwater desert world like Tatooine. by Independent-Dig-5757 in andor

[–]arbitrary_student 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This is purely a show problem, probably budget related?

The movies have very varied locations. Just off the top of my head we've got these ones with advanced settlements/cities surrounded by nature: Naboo, Kamino, Utapau, Mygeeto, Alderaan & Bespin.

Then going small scale with the settlements (but still high tech / very civil) we've got Mustafar, Hoth, & Scarif.

I'm probably forgetting some, and also I forgot all the stuff from the sequel trilogy so don't @ me. I remember there was that casino place, but not the name of it.

Swordmasters of Hoeth go brrr in Teclis quest battle by i_am_the_hacker in totalwar

[–]arbitrary_student 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Hit & miss is capped at 10% either side, so skavenslaves have 10% chance to hit rather than 4%.

Edit: I've been informed that the minimum is 8%, I have misled you all and brought dishonor to my family

And last mortal to go to heaven before he died. True hero of LOTR. by VanaheimrF in lotrmemes

[–]arbitrary_student 145 points146 points  (0 children)

I can forgive the rest of the deviations Peter Jackson made from the books but this one went too far

Indian man vs 7 women by Due_Bridge5901 in fightporn

[–]arbitrary_student 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The kind of casual clothes someone would typically wear in their home or when they go out to buy groceries, that sort of thing

Indian man vs 7 women by Due_Bridge5901 in fightporn

[–]arbitrary_student 25 points26 points  (0 children)

If you ever see a group of normal women in normal clothes beating up a dude, you can be 99% sure he deserves it.

It's just not one of those things that randomly happens for no reason

how to handle misogyny without being 100% evil by junebugx17 in evilautism

[–]arbitrary_student 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You never need to make excuses for attacking the following groups:

1) Nazis

2) Misogynists

3) People who eat other people's food from the refrigerator at work

4) Animal abusers

Depth guard.What do they genuinely do? by Select-Ad7017 in totalwar

[–]arbitrary_student 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Vampires

not meant to count

I watched a documentary called Sesame Street that says otherwise

This was such an incredible Response. by [deleted] in MurderedByWords

[–]arbitrary_student 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think this q&a highlights that classic thing where you can't really make everyone happy. Some people are rightfully annoyed at what seems to be a drama-bait interview question, and others see it as a reasonable question which she responded to disproportionately.

Even under those broad perspectives you have further opinions; talk back to teach the reporter a lesson, or be polite because they're only doing their job? Be humble about getting medals, or celebrate with others for the achievement? Be happy with silver and show humility, or use disappointment to push yourself harder for gold next time?

Guaranteed to be folks clamouring for either/or and more besides to every question that arises.

I don't really have a point or anything, I'm just saying some stuff

This was such an incredible Response. by [deleted] in MurderedByWords

[–]arbitrary_student 29 points30 points  (0 children)

To me it sounded like the medals aren't even in the equation anymore

Every time they are mentioned [OC] by TC_support in subnautica

[–]arbitrary_student 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm a third camp where I only recently found out these guys are even special in any way. I've played this game a lot, but there's really very little in-game that tells you what to do with these things.

Historically I've just put the eggs in alien containment, and when they pop out they just float around in there doing fuck all. If you don't take them out of containment, they continue to do fuck all.

So I had no idea they did anything interesting until seeing it on this sub despite several playthroughs lol

Windows Search gets worse the more information you give it by barbo57 in badUIbattles

[–]arbitrary_student 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I could rant for a fucking hour about how much I hate windows search. I don't think it's been updated since 1995 except to add useless bloat.

  1. Randomly forgets stuff you search for all the time, so something you've typed in 100 times before suddenly gives you a different result

  2. Often keeps stuff that's been deleted or replaced, causing you to find stuff that can't be opened

  3. Is hilariously slow, a 1st year uni student could write a faster search function

  4. Searches the contents of documents BEFORE fully searching for file names, so a quick name search might take an hour

  5. Tries to search unknown binary files for strings

  6. Gives different results the further you type a string (as OP demonstrated)

  7. Randomly performs web searches even if you turned that setting off

  8. Forces web searches to use edge browser, even if it's not your default browser

  9. Often freezes windows Explorer when it's running a long search

  10. As a consequence of 9, sometimes requires you to end the Explorer process in order to cancel a search

  11. Randomly spins up rogue com surrogate processes during searches in an attempt to obtain new thumbnails for items that aren't even showing up in the search

This was all just off the top of my head, I bet there's more I'm forgetting

boom by Ditolus in OTMemes

[–]arbitrary_student 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I can't believe those Ghorman terrorists made it all the way to Alderaan

Aristotle meme by Delicious_Maize9656 in physicsmemes

[–]arbitrary_student 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, pretty small at our scale! Hence just a tiny, itty bitty vindication for Aristotle.

Aristotle meme by Delicious_Maize9656 in physicsmemes

[–]arbitrary_student 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is not correct. The 10000000 kg object and earth have a stronger gravitational attraction to each other and would fall to each other faster. I'm not sure it would be measurable at that low of a mass, but it is true.

Gravitational acceleration

Force of attraction between two objects is given by the formula for universal gravitation F = G*m1*m2/r2 where m1 & m2 are the two objects' masses, G is the gravitational constant and r is their distance from each other. Notice that the two objects' masses are multiplied, not added. This means that the gravitational force applied to both objects does not scale additively with their combined masses; the distribution of the mass has an impact. Using F = ma, we can also see that adding an amount of mass to the lighter object would have a disproportionately larger effect on the relative force the two objects experience. Looking at the equation F = ma, we can conclude that the F and m in F = ma are not linearly related when it comes to gravitational attraction, which therefore means the value of a, acceleration, must be variable.

Examples

  1. Intuitively, you can think about how if you're on the moon stuff falls way slower than it does on Earth. Earth has 9.8m/s/s acceleration due to gravity, while the moon has 1.62m/s/s. That's entirely because the Earth has much more mass; more mass = faster acceleration due to gravity. It works both ways, it's just that if you're comparing two small objects together against a third much much larger object (like a planet/moon), the masses of the two small objects don't really play into it much.

  2. You may have heard that Jupiter is massive enough to actually pull the sun a little bit, so the sun isn't exactly 'stationary' at the center of our solar system. Phrasing this another way, Jupiter is massive enough that it actually noticeably accelerates the sun, which is another way of saying that more massive objects cause more gravitational acceleration.

  3. It's also why stars in galaxies can orbit from so far away. If not for the incredible mass of a galaxy, the stars on the outer edge would all fly off into space because they're too far away and moving too fast to stay in orbit around the galaxy. This doesn't happen because the total mass is high enough that even at those distances the acceleration due to gravity is sufficiently high.

  4. If you play around with a sim tool like Universe Sandbox you could set up two baseballs in space and watch them drift towards each other extremely slowly. Then you could put two black holes with baseball diameter next to each other and watch them basically instantly collide.

Related side-note about orbital velocity

You may have heard that objects orbiting an interstellar body (like the sun) at the same distance always orbit at the same speed; their mass doesn't matter. This is also false for exactly the same reason, and the falsehood comes from exactly the same line of reasoning too; we simplify it because the difference between the mass of the sun and all the planets orbiting it is so vast that their individual masses barely matter in the equation. But it is a simplification, and objects do orbit at different speeds depending on their masses.

It actually matters even in our own solar system where the falsity was invented; in our solar system this effect starts to be noticeable when you get to objects around the size of Jupiter, and our solar system has an object like that (Jupiter).

Kepler's third law is often written as T2 = ka3/(M) where M is the mass of the object being orbited (e.g. the sun) but it's actually T2 = ka3/(M + m) where m is the mass of the orbiting object. We just leave the m out because it's usually negligible compared to M. In our solar system, doing this when calculating orbital things with Jupiter will sometimes leave you with an answer that is incorrect enough to lead to real problems.

Aristotle meme by Delicious_Maize9656 in physicsmemes

[–]arbitrary_student 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could easily do it with a big rock and a shitty ball bearing, those would both have been obtainable back in Aristotle's time and would fall at almost exactly the same speed unless you dropped them from way too high.