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zksmk commented on Picture This: The Periodic Table   pioneerworks.org/broadcas... · Posted by u/laurex
hcrisp · 3 years ago
I recently ran across Benfey's alternate periodic table (1964) which is similar but more complete:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_periodic_tables

zksmk · 3 years ago
I love Benfey's table. I find it the most intuitive to interpret at a glance at what's actually going on with the electrons and the filing of the orbitals (in the version where they're marked) around the nucleus. Might be just taste, but it's my fave.
zksmk commented on There’s No Algorithms   photomatt.tumblr.com/post... · Posted by u/twapi
idlewords · 3 years ago
The way it's always worked; she can publicly post the link to her Tumblr on her Alice.com homepage, or you confirm with her in private outside of Tumblr.
zksmk · 3 years ago
So it's not any different than Mastodon then.
zksmk commented on Oxford University Press’s new logo is unfathomably bad   joukovsky.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/vitabenes
elijaht · 3 years ago
I found the Met's rebrand interesting to consider.

I am on the younger side/moved to New York recently. Without knowing the history of the Met logo I have always found the (new) logo fairly iconic- the stickers visitors wear, and the various paraphernalia with the logo look good to me. I find it clean and sharp. I think I actually prefer it to the old logo (which I do not remember seeing before today)

zksmk · 3 years ago
I like the old logo more. It looks less commercial, more old-fashioned, and less sleek, which I think is a good thing for a museum.
zksmk commented on Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions   knowledge.autodesk.com/su... · Posted by u/d4a
adastra22 · 3 years ago
Is there anyone interested in working on an open source alternative to Fusion 360, Solidworks, etc.? A Blender for CAD/CAM?

There’s a real need for this.

zksmk · 3 years ago
FreeCAD[1] is the most advanced in my opinion. The next release is also supposed to solve the longstanding topological naming issue, and finally be the first 1.0 version.

[1]https://www.freecad.org/

zksmk commented on Wire is now on F-Droid   f-droid.org/en/packages/c... · Posted by u/lucgommans
wanderingmind · 4 years ago
https://wire.com/legal/licenses/

gives Error 404, so we have no idea what license they are under and we are supposed to trust and use them.

zksmk · 4 years ago
Why would you follow that link in particular? You can find all the license information here: https://wire.com/en/legal/terms-of-use-personal/ , scroll down and click on license information, there's like a 100 different licenses for the 100 different things they used in the software.
zksmk commented on Gitea Is Joining the Fediverse   social.gitea.io/@gitea/10... · Posted by u/nafnlj
boardwaalk · 4 years ago
I honestly thought it had something to do with a fetish community up until now.

Which I suppose it not entirely wrong when considering some of the stuff on Mastodon.

It's still a bad name though.

zksmk · 4 years ago
I was honestly confused for a second why would you think the name had anything to do with a fetish (minus some mastodon content) until I realized you saw it as fe-diverse and not fedi-verse. I never saw it that way because I pronounce the "i" in it as "ee", not as "ay". I wonder what's more common now. Is this another gif/jif situation?
zksmk commented on Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity   reuters.com/markets/commo... · Posted by u/_lnwk
petre · 4 years ago
What about limiting the electricity, causing brownouts when the limits are abused?
zksmk · 4 years ago
The people in charge quite possibly have crypto farms themselves, so... don't expect a solution until there are literal electricity blackouts due to shortages or the electorate gets really angry.

But if it were to be implemented, it would work. It wouldn't make the electorate happy either short-term, it would be like flushing out an infection with a fever.

Plus, with the delicate nature of the political situation, I wouldn't recommend Kosovo's institutions imposing brownouts on Northern Kosovo, or at least not just on Northern Kosovo.

zksmk commented on What Animals Think of Death   aeon.co/essays/animals-wr... · Posted by u/pseudolus
zksmk · 4 years ago
A much better example for this topic are IMO elephants, they behave with certain gentle quiet reverence around elephant bones they stumble upon.

They also exhibit some even more ritualistic behaviors[1][2][3][4] around other dead elephants, such as throwing leaves and branches over their bodies.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_cognition#Death_ritua... [2]https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/elephants... [3]https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/animal-grief/ [4]https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20120919-respect-the-dead

zksmk commented on Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes   pnas.org/content/118/50/e... · Posted by u/Lwepz
supreme_loquat · 4 years ago
I did actually touch on it briefly in [1] but it was not my only focus so perhaps you missed it. But I fully agree our voting system is one of the primary reasons for our polarization (social media is probably another but that's mainly an instinctual hypothesis). Unfortunately the alternative with the most support currently is ranked choice/IRV which does not really solve polarization (perhaps it might help it due to external societal factors, but in a mathematical vacuum I believe IRV is just as polarizing as first past the post). As far as single winner methods go, approval and STAR are gaining momentum and they do address polarization, so if one of these catches on I expect it to help slowly improve our current situation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29550838

zksmk · 4 years ago
Yup, I've missed it somehow. I'm also a fan of approval and particularly star voting compared to IRV. It's good they're gaining ground.
zksmk commented on The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of the World   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/infodocket
rangoon626 · 4 years ago
The realization that in order to actually stop pollution, the us government would need to wage war on china
zksmk · 4 years ago
The US's green house emissions per capita are twice as big as China's[1]. Considering China's population is about 4 times bigger it puts the absolute pollution at about 1:2. Chinese percent of renewables is 25% compared to the US's 15%[2]. What exactly do you want from China? I'm not even gonna address the war idea...

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenho... [2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewab...

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