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If it starts moving then forget it (startrek.website)

submitted 11 months ago by Stamets@startrek.website to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 73 points 11 months ago

The human finger can discriminate between surfaces patterned with ridges as small as 13 nanometers in amplitude and non-patterned surfaces, surface chemistry Professor Mark Rutland said. "This means that, if your finger was the size of the Earth, you could feel the difference between houses [and] cars," Rutland said.

[-] vale@sh.itjust.works 76 points 11 months ago

Jokes on him, I can already tell the difference between a house and a car

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Houses are the ones with doors and glass on some of the outside, right?

[-] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

No, those are cars, you're thinking about the ones with A/C and mirrors.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

In practice I find that anything smaller than .0001 inches can't really be felt, and the difference between .0001 and .0002 is indiscernible.

13 nanometers is closer to .0000005 inches.

Suede: the little wrench goblin that lives inside my precision c clamp.

[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 10 points 11 months ago

most of that is what she said

[-] Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago

Micro-burn

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Burnette, if you will.

[-] Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago

I'll allow it

[-] Flumsy@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

But you can feel that the texture is somehow different.

[-] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

It's not that you can feel individual features, but rather that a repeating pattern of that size can be distinguished from a smoother surface.

[-] objectionist@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

that website fuckin sucks

but yes very cool

[-] crossal@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Why's that?

[-] objectionist@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

when you try to back into the previous tab it redirects to the websites main page, which is also filled with clickbait ads and garbage

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Yes, right, but not on a screen.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Yet numerous people can't find the clitoris. It's baffling.

[-] glorious_albus@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago

Some ads open the play store Store anyway when you click the close button. So rage inducing.

[-] orl0pl@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I recommend using AdAway

[-] jasonwaterfalls@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I prefer Rethink DNS or DNS66 for my phone.

[-] kubica@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago

you need to go to the opened apps menu and do the close gesture, it closes the ad too.

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 14 points 11 months ago

I love the ads that have that X's and O's background so you mistake a random X inside the ad for the "close" button and accidentally give them a clickthrough.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

I wonder how effective these tactics are. Like, what percentage more clickthroughs do they achieve with this deception?

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago

enough to justify themselves as outsourced consultants to people who don't understand marketing kpis

[-] gonzo0815@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Even if there are more klicks, there is no way any of these lead to a decision to buy their crap.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 14 points 11 months ago

opens Ublock origin clicks on dropper icon selects the Ad moves the scale up to select the most high level element in "cosmetic filter" gone

[-] Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago

On Mobile?

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 11 months ago

Firefox. It has extension support and uBlock

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

What exactly do you mean by "ads"? Is this a joke I'm too adguardhomed to understand?

[-] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

Block ads; problem solved.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

An example of a non ad one is the Google AI popup on Google Discovery articles. The button is a proper size but it ignores you hitting it unless you hit a very specific point which I am certain is not the center.

[-] BurtReynoldsMustache@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I'm convinced that x doesn't even function as the close button, i make extremely damn sure to press ONLY the x button, and it still pulls the entire window up. Graaaaaaaaaa!!!!

[-] Neato@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Is there a law saying there has to be an ad close button? Because I assume they are all fake.

Also the sun does move. But it's got so much mojo that everyone else just moves along with it.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not so real, there isn't a black cross to close the ad, it's normally a white cross of this size on a clear background, nearby the red download button.