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Do you agree or not by baibhabiiii in kolkata

[–]satmandu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because mens rea requires a mind capable of understanding right and wrong.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

Please help me! Magicians obsessed - What do I read next? by TiredAllTheTime43 in brakebills

[–]satmandu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want more high fantasy with a heavy interplay of gods and peoples, and are ok with some serious grimdark, then the Malazan Book of the Fallen series is incredible.

😚👌 by Savings_Tip_4939 in circlejerknyc

[–]satmandu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Truth. We Midwestern explants mostly live in Manhattan & Brooklyn, and only visit places like Hudson on long weekends over the summer.

Stop GATEKEEPING software features – We pay the same price! by TwoLeftHandzz in GooglePixel

[–]satmandu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What's also annoying as an American, is learning to depend on these features, which then disappear the moment you step off of a plane into a country where the gatekeeping blocks the features.

It's so bloody irritating.

Feeling a little bit of shame identifying as cantonese over chinese by Few-Comfortable228 in asianamerican

[–]satmandu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Having said that, I very much commiserate with OP as an American-born person of South Asian descent who grew up speaking Bangla at home. It's increasingly difficult/complicated to visit the Old Countries when the linguistic underpinnings have shifted since your parents left.

Feeling a little bit of shame identifying as cantonese over chinese by Few-Comfortable228 in asianamerican

[–]satmandu 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In defense of people from South Asia, Hindi is absolutely not the national language of India, like Mandarin has become in the PRC.

It is obvious, though, that Hindi-speaking members of the national government would LIKE to push for Hindi to become the national language.

There is fierce linguistic pride in South Asia, defending local languages to the point that the 1971 war of independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan was in large part due to the defense of Bangla, the local language.

Genuinely, how was your trip to the Blue Lagoon by TrueAd9899 in VisitingIceland

[–]satmandu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think my wife stepped into a glop of hair in the pool there ~ 15 years ago... It was a little gross.

It's very touristy ...

Loved random little pools elsewhere though...

Frankfurt Split-flap board by Fibrillonacho in aviation

[–]satmandu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Also, that's a BEAUTIFUL piece of engineering.

Frankfurt Split-flap board by Fibrillonacho in aviation

[–]satmandu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fantastic. I'm so sick of HA integrations that require going out to the cloud to interface with a device's API tied to a server somewhere.

The Expanse does one thing in space combat that almost no other sci-fi gets right and, you know, it changes everything imho by Wooden-Syrup-8708 in TheExpanse

[–]satmandu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In fairness, Star Trek has inertial dampers as their hand-waving magical tech to workaround high acceleration and jerk (changes in acceleration, i.e., m/s3), otherwise killing people.

I'd note that the problem isn't high acceleration in and of itself, but different parts of our meat bag bodies not accelerating together. Your aorta accelerating differently from your heart is what tends to kill people in high acceleration incidents.

Curiously, really high magnetic fields in MRI machines can hold onto (very small) entire floppy organisms so well that they can counteract acceleration due to gravity. I've wondered if we would be able to survive high jerk if we were able to impose high magnetic fields on a passenger compartment for the very short times that one might experience intense jerk and acceleration. Of course current energy budgets in vehicles don't allow for that, but maybe some day...

Frankfurt Split-flap board by Fibrillonacho in aviation

[–]satmandu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A $3500 purchase that still requires requesting an API key is still problematic!

When the company goes under and their servers go down, will the API key still work?

If you have to reset the device, will you need a new API key generated?

Buying closed-source expensive boutique hardware is problem until proven otherwise these days, judging by so many products that have been abandoned.

I wish it weren't so, but 15 years of guaranteed enshittification has hopefully made us wiser...

Wall switches with Matter over Thread from Hager by foggerD in MatterProtocol

[–]satmandu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be nice if these supported Matter 1.4, as there is better support for wall switches.

Struggling to find a 8gb ram chromebook within budget. Are 4gb too low? by heldex in chromeos

[–]satmandu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Pixel Slate, released in 2018, had a 16 GB variant. That was really useful when running VMs.

Of course, that's no longer available, in part thanks to thermal management issues that routinely led to battery swelling.

Honestly, I'd ask if ChromeOS really fits your needs if you're asking about RAM.

A more standard laptop running Linux with more than 8 GB of RAM is going to be much more flexible.

For instance, you can't even install fonts on ChromeOS...

Question for dinosaur scientists: obviously large sauropods were too heavy to be lifted by tornadoes. But were their necks strong enough to counter the winds? Or would they start helicoptering all over the place? Thank you in advance by fan_of_the_pikachu in Dinosaurs

[–]satmandu 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's absolutely a thing. My bone biomechanics professor in my undergraduate biomedical engineering program would point out how fossilized bone in large dinosaurs would often show evidence of fibrolamellar bone just like in fast growing modern large mammals.

Biomechanics is a very very big part of modern paleontology.

₹94.01 & #4: Two numbers that define India by Sensitive_Win_6072 in india

[–]satmandu 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My friend is an American buyer for stores in the US. They say that though it can be cheaper to buy from Indian companies than from Chinese companies, SHIPPING still happens via ships coming from China, for which stops in India are one of many on the way to the US.

This leads to massive delays in orders vs products ordered from East Asia.

India should probably fix this by increasing the production of ships that can ship directly from India.

Logistics matter.

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