[-] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 57 points 1 month ago

Management: Gee whiz, we really have no idea how to gauge productivity to decide who gets promoted. We could manage. Or, better, we could just have someone write a script that pulls info from git on how many lines of code each person has written.

Programmers:

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My preferences keep getting reset to the defaults. Not sure why - it’s not just when the app updates, or when it’s booted from memory.

Kind of a pain to go through and redo my gestures and appearance settings every week or two.

[-] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 68 points 2 months ago

Man, one group is actively creating policy and legislation to deny people who I care about the right to exist. The other is doing the opposite.

Get that eighth grade both sides horseshit outta here. Grow up.

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submitted 2 months ago by becausechemistry@lemm.ee to c/dnd@lemmy.world

The new College of Dance Bard subclass looks like it will be really fun. Unarmed strikes whose damage scales with Bardic Inspiration dice and uses Dex. Unarmored Defense that adds Charisma. Bonus action unarmed strikes when you use Bardic Inspiration.

You get to be 3/4 of a Monk, but also be a Face, and also be a full caster, and also get half proficiency in everything. And then the level six stuff buffs your party’s initiative and movement to the point it’ll be very hard to get the drop on you.

A fantastic new subclass all around.

[-] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 51 points 2 months ago

I enjoy a good non-oversexualized depiction of Samus. She’s an absolute badass. But everyone just wants to drool at her skin tight blue suit.

[-] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 70 points 3 months ago

No no no no no.

I’m a chemist. Organic chemistry PhD, now a process chemist in the industry. I do this for a living. Do not distill isopropanol that’s been exposed to air for any meaningful length of time.

Isopropanol slowly reacts with oxygen in the air to generate peroxides that, when you concentrate them down, EXPLODE. Source. Sorry, not an open access journal. But please take my word for it.

Unless you have a way of confirming the peroxide levels in your isopropanol are near zero, do not concentrate it down by distillation. You’ll blow up your glassware, which will probably expose what you’re distilling to your heat source, which will generate a secondary fireball.

PLEASE do not do this.

[-] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 52 points 4 months ago

I bet she drinks prune juice

[-] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 58 points 4 months ago

Admission: I stole it.

qntm’s cool science fiction stories are my favorite.

[-] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 157 points 4 months ago

Worse: your sleeper ship arrives at what should be a pristine planet. But FTL capable ships beat you there. And they ruined the planet over a few thousand years. And now they’re sending out refugee ships of their own.

[-] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 49 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

“both sides are the same”

account created less than two weeks ago

Lmao get fucked

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by becausechemistry@lemm.ee to c/askscience@lemmy.world

Famously, Oppenheimer and co worked out how close a nuclear bomb test would be to causing a chain reaction of nitrogen fusion in the atmosphere. They made a lot of worst-case-scenario assumptions and still came to the conclusion that no, a nuclear bomb test wouldn’t scour the surface of the world.

But let’s say the atmosphere was twice as dense as it is. Or ten times as dense. At what point would that calculation turn very, very scary?

Obligatory xkcd

Edit: man, seriously, most of the people ‘answering’ this question didn’t even read it.

[-] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 76 points 7 months ago

Alternate take: this is the same sort of mark self-sorting that scam artists use.

A reasonable person isn’t gonna reply to a typo-ridden email from a Nigerian prince. But those few who do are going to be easy to get everything from.

Imagine you’re an executive at the company your dad founded. You’re an idiot. Everyone knows you’re an idiot. But you think you’re smart. This guy is willing to consult with you about how your company will use AI (for a modest fee, of course). You don’t understand AI, but you think you do, and you just need someone to help with the details. And everyone has to nod their heads and agree to pay him because they’re afraid of getting fired.

You don’t have to fool everyone.

[-] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 67 points 8 months ago

Rings similar to “My daddy beat me and I turned out fine,” says man who considers it okay to beat children

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Clearly, AR is the way forward. And Minshew played as well as he could last year and has been rewarded with a likely starting role.

But man, I’m gonna miss that guy. And if AR gets hurt again it’s hard to imagine a backup who will step up like Minshew did.

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[-] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 91 points 1 year ago

No, don’t you see, in an impossible hypothetical situation, they assume you’d do something against your stated values. You’ve been pwned by a person of logic and intellect, I’m afraid. I’m sorry, but you agree with them now.

[-] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 58 points 1 year ago

Libertarianism is a theory espoused to those with good intentions by people that have bad intentions.

It doesn’t work for almost anyone. But it super works for some. That’s the point.

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submitted 1 year ago by becausechemistry@lemm.ee to c/avelon@lemm.ee

Not everyone wants to defederate with trolls, which is fine. But I’d like to hide posts and comments from instances that never seem to make Lemmy a nicer place.

For instance, it would be cool to configure Avalon such that any comment by a user from hexbear be hidden until tapped. (And I’d probably never tap it.)

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Lots of corrective actions to complete, but it’s a step.

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