[-] Crotaro@beehaw.org 1 points 18 hours ago

Alright, so what makes this special is the fact that it comes from America's biggest medical authority (from my understanding of the CDC's role)?

[-] Crotaro@beehaw.org 5 points 18 hours ago

"Don't use Wikipedia as a source."

Man, if I want to get a pretty good overview on almost anything, Wikipedia is the best and most accessible way. Luckily, the consensus seems to slowly change to a cautious "Don't use Wikipedia as your only source, especially on controversial topics."

[-] Crotaro@beehaw.org 8 points 1 day ago

Wait, what do you mean doctors haven't received guidance on the pain relief options before? I would've assumed it's standard practice for any potentially painful procedure to be carefully reviewed and then have guides written about them (and revised with major breakthroughs in knowledge or technology), specifically so that doctors don't have to guess what the best course of action is. And with something as relatively common as IUD, I'd assume there are more than enough female doctors having one who can vouch for them being sometimes painful enough to warrant bigger anesthetics than just an ibuprofen.

[-] Crotaro@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago

German (native), English (not native-level but compared to my work colleagues I might as well be lol) and some American Sign Language (I can carry a simple conversation as long as I may fingerspell words I don't know yet/anymore)

[-] Crotaro@beehaw.org 39 points 3 days ago

I absolutely get where you're coming from, but to be fair Team Fortress is basically a hero shooter as well, except that there can be multiples of the same "hero" on the battlefield at the same time. Or - and I'm genuinely asking because I haven't played "hero shooters" in that long - am I missing a core distinction of hero shooters?

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Literal rule(r) (www.baustoffshop.at)
submitted 7 months ago by Crotaro@beehaw.org to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Another post for the post-god.

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submitted 7 months ago by Crotaro@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

Not sure if there's a better place to ask this. From what I understand, OsmAnd~ is basically a community-run version of the otherwise subscription-based OsmAnd+

To add POIs and make other changes to Open Street Map, I need to log into an editing account of sorts. Will this be fine or could my access to the app get wrecked in some way? After all, I am not subscribed to the "official" service.

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submitted 7 months ago by Crotaro@beehaw.org to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

This is Jacky. He is the sacrifice I make, so that I may leave back to another tab or community.

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submitted 9 months ago by Crotaro@beehaw.org to c/science@beehaw.org

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/9197489

I was only looking for some validation posts because I was annoyed at a couple of the more unrealistic reactions you have going in NMS. Like being able to get salt from combining dihydrogen and oxygen (instead of receiving the obvious water, which doesn't even exist in the game as usable item/component). Then I stumbled upon this research paper, read it completely (unfortunately the discussion section is longer than it needs to be due to them repeating most of their results in it) and now (by looking it up before writing this post) learned that you can form salts with hydroxide ions.

So while the process is much simplified and not always intuitive in the reactions in game (and the Salt icon says NaCl despite no sodium or chlorine having been used in the "refiner", just H2 and O, even though Na and Cl exist in game), that particular combination for the refiner now makes at least some sense to me.

A couple nice highlights from the paper:

To the question “What did you feel about the presence of chemistry in No Man’s Sky?” in which players had 5-levels to choose, from 1- Frustrated to 5-Excited, 46% selected the level 4, 23,8% the maximum-level and the lowest two levels combined for less than 6% of the answers.

To the question “Did No Man’s Sky make you feel motivated to know more about scientific topics?”, 57,9% answered “Yes”. And to the question “Did No Man’s Sky help you understand some concepts about chemistry?”, 35,7% answered positively.

In the end, we asked “When you think about chemistry or listen to words like ‘chemistry’ or ‘chemicals’, is usually a good or a bad thought?”, and 87,3% of the respondents answered “Good”.

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submitted 9 months ago by Crotaro@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

I was only looking for some validation posts because I was annoyed at a couple of the more unrealistic reactions you have going in NMS. Like being able to get salt from combining dihydrogen and oxygen (instead of receiving the obvious water, which doesn't even exist in the game as usable item/component). Then I stumbled upon this research paper, read it completely (unfortunately the discussion section is longer than it needs to be due to them repeating most of their results in it) and now (by looking it up before writing this post) learned that you can form salts with hydroxide ions.

So while the process is much simplified and not always intuitive in the reactions in game (and the Salt icon says NaCl despite no sodium or chlorine having been used in the "refiner", just H2 and O, even though Na and Cl exist in game), that particular combination for the refiner now makes at least some sense to me.

A couple nice highlights from the paper:

To the question “What did you feel about the presence of chemistry in No Man’s Sky?” in which players had 5-levels to choose, from 1- Frustrated to 5-Excited, 46% selected the level 4, 23,8% the maximum-level and the lowest two levels combined for less than 6% of the answers.

To the question “Did No Man’s Sky make you feel motivated to know more about scientific topics?”, 57,9% answered “Yes”. And to the question “Did No Man’s Sky help you understand some concepts about chemistry?”, 35,7% answered positively.

In the end, we asked “When you think about chemistry or listen to words like ‘chemistry’ or ‘chemicals’, is usually a good or a bad thought?”, and 87,3% of the respondents answered “Good”.

[-] Crotaro@beehaw.org 38 points 10 months ago

This would explain why I feel like Google results have rarely been high quality unless I'm just trying to scratch at the surface of a topic or include "reddit" at the end of my search term.

[-] Crotaro@beehaw.org 19 points 10 months ago

OkCupid really used to be awesome. I would not have met my spouse, had I not checked it out because of the amazingly interesting and varied questionnaires.

I'm so sad that it was made shitty.

[-] Crotaro@beehaw.org 33 points 10 months ago

I really hope people don't get over this just because Unity went "we're sorry we got called out for trying to screw you". Unfortunately, like with how little effect the Reddit blackout had, I fear most will just accept it because Unity is what they're already used to.

[-] Crotaro@beehaw.org 28 points 11 months ago

I haven't played Starfield yet. That being said, I think I will enjoy most planets being rather dull (as long as you still occasionally have reason to go there). I very much love the stance of "When everything/everyone is remarkable, nothing/noone is." One of the bigger reasons (aside the gameplay usually not being quite to my liking) why I don't play MMOs anymore is, because about every MMO culminates in 80% of the people wearing "the armor of fabled legends" and being "Slayer of Demonlord and Demigod Sckholzhlak".

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submitted 1 year ago by Crotaro@beehaw.org to c/diy@beehaw.org

Hiya, I hope I'm not completely in the wrong place (/c/Technology seems to only be dedicated to tech news but not questions). I have this powerbank with a built-in solar panel. The powerbank itself seems great so far, but it's a pretty tiny solar panel. I've read about the difficulty of just hooking up a regular powerbank to a solar panel (spikes and dips in voltage due to clouds, people, etc.).

But since this powerbank is already designed to be charged with solar energy, can I simply hook a big-ass solar panel onto it and recharge it much faster than the officially displayed "several days, depending on the weather"?

[-] Crotaro@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago

Hmm, reading the article, it sounds to me like there's still a schedule. But instead of it being based on a set time, it's more like "The busses should try to keep a 2 km distance to each other at all times" (purely imaginary/exemplary number). I'm just confused what the bus drivers are supposed to do, once the leading bus hits a traffic jam or something of the sort. Will they pull over to the side of the road and not move until the leading bus(ses) go?

As @bluGill@kbin.social said, if the busses are super frequent (I would say 5 min and less in between each bus) then nobody really checks the timetable anyway (according to my experience with Munich's public transit system)

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submitted 1 year ago by Crotaro@beehaw.org to c/space@beehaw.org

I witnessed the almost turquoise fireball while on a walk with my dogs. Since reporting it today morning, the event report features two pretty good videos of the meteor.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Crotaro@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

As the happy recipient of a previous giveaway (thanks again, you know who you are!), I just bought the Prey Digital Deluxe Edition to gift one person.

Since I will be at an event almost the entire day tomorrow, I'll be checking in around 2100 or 2200 UTC+2 to randomly choose a winner!

Edit: Winner has been randomly selected!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Crotaro@beehaw.org to c/diy@beehaw.org

Hey there, I hope question posts are okay. My fiancé and I are planning to turn our Dacia Dokker into this sorta mini camper amalgamation. Do any of you have experience with this sort of endeavor and can offer tricks or insightful knowledge?

Edit: I should add that it's supposed to be modular. So luckily (or unfortunately?) I don't need help on how to permanently fix furniture onto the car frame.

[-] Crotaro@beehaw.org 28 points 1 year ago

I would also rather deal with the occasional troll or rude comment than to close off this community from the outside world. But, I recognize that it's very difficult for our four(?) admins here, because they would rather try to talk out individual cases instead of blanketting beehaw with a boatload of very specific rules. And it's a tightrope walk here when people can say (maybe just to waste time or not, but we should rather not err on the side of malice) "Why do i get punished but you allowed xyz the other day?".

I'm just going to trust them here that there was a really big income of clear-as-day bad actors. Since they do not get paid at all for their services here, I see how it's easier to defederate for the time being, seeing how they already have their hands full just trying to keep the instance up and running while working "proper jobs" and managing their own health.

So ya, for now, stay defederated. But as soon as you guys get more tools to play with, please tear down those walls again.

[-] Crotaro@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago

Whatever causes the website to have trouble, I'm all for it, right now.

I already wondered if I got lightning-banned for sending too many API requests in a short time, when I used a script to auto-edit all my comments and text-posts.

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submitted 1 year ago by Crotaro@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

Not sure if this is a known problem, but for me it sometimes happens (especially when coming back to a browser tab after a few hours) that the comment threads and the main post are from two entirely different posts. Since it probably matters, I'm using beehaw via the Brave browser.

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submitted 1 year ago by Crotaro@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

I should probably go to bed at this point. I typed up a short story of my arduous attempts at defending an outpost in the STALKER modpack GAMMA and how my game crashed when I turned in the quest. Sent off that post and woe-is-me, the entire text didn't get submitted and I didn't have it saved in copy-paste. It's just so ironically fitting.

So ya, what's something you'd like to ramble a bit about?

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Is this legal? (imgur.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Crotaro@beehaw.org to c/humor@beehaw.org

I sure made it legal

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