What’s the strangest unexplained thing that’s happened to you ?
My dog is loving and wonderful. But she definitely knows what she wants: the ball, the bone, the food, outside, and pets.
You have your own space?
I thought it was fun! But I felt cheated with Spock and Chapel. They definitely should have had a duet. I'm also upset that they didn't resolve it in any meaningful way at the end.
Facebook really dates this meme.
Thank God it has a base case down there.
I've always assumed it's something in the engine. But I also wonder if it's some sort of friction based math? I have heard most cars are most fuel efficient at 55mph or so. My town has a large hill which my car can "coast" down with no gas required. However, like you, it stops increasing its speed around 55mph. It doesn't seem to go any faster without me stepping on the gas. I don't notice anything different about the car. It just seems to stop accelerating.
And if I hit the gas, it seems to re-settle back to 55mph.
I sometimes wonder if fuel efficiency being at 55mph is tied to friction of tires on asphalt. And maybe even on a steep hill, typical cars just cant overcome the kinetic friction to continue speeding up. Obviously the steepness of the hill matters, but roads have pretty stringent rules about grades. So we have an upper bound of what's "reasonable" based on whatever the steepest allowable grade is.
I've also had this question. I'd love to know the answer!
Who are those people who still let Big Tech piss on their face, thinking it is the lord of the rain?
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Yes. And I'm guessing you are too. Otherwise, how did you know I was using psychic powers to shitpost on the internet?
Its original intent was to filter good vs. bad content. Prior to karma/voting systems, message boards were just a list of the most recent posts by anyone. With a voting system, people can decide what content best fits the community's purpose. If I post a dog image on a cat forum, people can downvote the post so newcomers aren't seeing dog pictures on a forum about cats. Without karma, you're relying entirely on moderators to manage that. It's basically crowd sourced moderation.
Karma has other issues for sure. It can be manipulated with bots. People tend to use it to say "I don't like this opinion" and not to say "this opinion is within the domain of this forum".
All of that being said, I believe karma systems should be hidden from the users. Jerboa is an Android app for Lemmy and it shows the karma count. I don't prefer that. I like being able to vote, but I don't want to feel the bias of "big number == good opinion". But I think karma is a good system for helping moderate the content that shows up in a forum. It's a democratic way of managing content. But it probably has room for improvement.
Depends on the structure. As you said, a grain silo is a cylinder. A grain silo is certainly not tall enough to support it (based on my loose guesstimation).
What you're really describing is the various ratios between gravity, buoyancy, and tension required to "pop" a balloon. In the simplest model, you could put each balloon directly on top of the other. Imagine a cylinder which is the perfect width of the balloons. Also imagine, in this special world, that we have an infinitely tall cylinder which is impacted by Earth's gravity regardless of distance. The only thing in the universe is balloons, the cylinder, and Earth. Assuming the cylinder has no mass, the only thing that holds us back is the weight of the balloons. If the "popping" height of balloons is greater than the gravity of earth by some ratio of the weight of each balloon, the air, and the distance from the earth , then it fails to pop. But if it's lower than that, then we can theoretically pop it using the weight of the balloons above it.
I'm just going to guess that - yes - you can pop balloons filled with regular air.
The people who work there are generally nice. The DMV - however - is a beauracratic nightmare. It's simply over complicated. Why must I register my car? A license and insruance should be all I need. I don't register my shoes. I don't register my computers. A car is no different. I understand having an authority which says "I own this vehicle". But registering every year is basically just a waste of paper.
Why do we now need 2 forms proving residency to get a star on an ID in order to fly between states? Should the homeless not be allowed to fly?
Why do I need to fill out so much of it in person? I did everything I could online, but still they required me to pick up a packet of forms. Plus I had to retake my driver's license test despite owning a valid license in my state. At this point, they should be able to - at least - fill out everything online. Hell, I should never have to go in person except in the case of taking a photo (which arguably is kind of dumb, but I can understand the security reasons for it).
The DMV has convoluted forms, much like taxes. Filling out their forms should be idiot proof. But I - an idiot - have made mistakes on multiple occasions.
After all the forms and all the verification, human error still makes it a crapshoot. Believe it or not, I had my birthday entered incorrectly on a license. I owned a valid driver's license which lied about my month, day, and year of birth. At what point do we not just ask ourselves: what are we doing here?
And I have to pay for my license? That's absurd. In many cases, licenses are required by the government. How many times have you heard an officer demand a license despite a person not driving a car at the time? If a cop demands it as proof of my ID, then the government should provide it free (what else are taxes for?) Not to mention the fact that voting laws are starting to come up requiring a license. A license which you can only get if you pass a test, have a proof of residence, and have cash to afford it. I am very against disenfranchising the homeless (or anyone who meets that criteria) from voting.
The DMV is just what most poorly funded and poorly designed government entities end up becoming: a barrier for access to things that should be easy to access.
I've traveled all over the world and seen many systems. I've lived in many states. America is king of the poorly designed system.
That's the dumbest solution ever.
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How does domain names work?
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While everyone has covered the common cases with domains, I'll cover the less common with a basic overview of domains.
Domains are basically just mapping an IP address to a human-readable string. 127.0.0.1 might be hard to remember. But "localhost" is easy to remember. Domain Name Servers and ICANN have developed a ton of RFCs to support making the internet easy to use and safe. This has also made the whole notion of domains a bit complicated.
But - like I said - they are basically just mapping an IP address to a human-readable string.
IP addresses are unique for a given network. On your local network, you have a unique IP address (e.g. 192.168.1.50). This is unique to the local network. But if you Google for your "public IP address" you'll see that it's different than your local address. The public IP address you have is assigned by your internet service provider (ISP). It's basically the IP address of your home.
Every computer has things to optimize the domain name lookup for a given IP address. For example, your browser might cache something like google.com points to the IP address 192.168.1.50. Computers also usually have a "hosts" file. You can manually edit this file so that your computer will always try to resolve a particular IP address given a domain name. You can map Google.com to your localhost 127.0.0.1.
So the case of "who owns a domain" is actually dependent on how your computer and network is setup. You can own Google.com on your own personal computer. You just edit the /etc/hosts file (on Linux). If you own the router and have access, you can "trick" computers in thinking google.com maps to your computer's IP address. Thus in that case, you own the domain for the local network.
But your ISP owns their network. The one you use to access the internet. And they have a vested interest in making sure it adheres to the ICANN DNS resolutions. You can change your DNS server to anything you want. Doing so is usually safe since it's often 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1, but I suppose it's possible you could choose a DNS server that is malicious. Though thanks to SSL they can't do much.
Now you might be thinking: wait, if I'm on a local network, they can trick my computer into thinking a domain is valid when it's really being routed to malicious server? Technically yes. However that's why HTTPS exists. We use certs via a Certificate Authority to validate that the IP address you're accessing is mapped to the right domain. That's why it's important you always make sure SSL is on a website (usually represented by the little lock icon in the search bar)
Ok but, regardless, they can just turn back the clock to when it performed better right? Use the parameters that were set two months ago? Or is it impossible to roll that back?
I don't get it. I thought these models were "locked". Shouldn't the same input produce near-identical output? I know the algorithm has some fuzzing to help produce variation. But ultimately it shouldn't degrade, right?
I wonder if websites like Pornhub have enough dirt on foreign officials that they could change international policy. Maybe the great unification of nations will be started by Pornhub.
I think people can grow and change. I personally used to be quite cunty. Mostly because I was self conscious and - ironically - sought validation. Now, I'm less that way. Thanks to therapy, self work, and medication. I like to think I'm nice, but I know I can still have an edge from time to time. I like to think I'll continue to improve as time goes on!
I guess everyone is different. I used to wake up at 2am for gym + morning shifts. Eventually I woke up before my alarm consistently. I didn't feel tired.
These days, I wake up at 7am most days and feel just like I did when I woke up at 2am.
For real though, it's habit. They didn't naturally start that way. They just kept doing it that the body eventually "learned" to set their sleeping rhythm to that schedule.
Sounds like hunting + dressing an animal? Perhaps they buried part of it for some reason.