Depending on where you’re coming from, you might have a different idea of what friendly is. While nearly all Canadians will treat any foreigners with kindness and respect, we don’t tend to go out of our way to talk to and be hospitable towards strangers as much as people in a lot of other countries do. Especially in big cities.
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zifk@sh.itjust.worksto
Ask Science@lemmy.world•Can anyone tell me how this rainbow cloud is formed?English
481·4 months agoCloud iridescence! . Typical with thin high atmosphere clouds. When very small ice crystals or water droplets form the cloud they can diffract the light from the sun, causing an interference pattern to form. Not entirely dissimilar from an oil slick.
Actually she said pegging French guys
zifk@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.ml•China mass producing quantum radars to track US stealth jets
34·5 months agoThe article literally only says they’ve developed a new photon detecting device, not a quantum radar system. This isn’t news.
Anubis isn’t supposed to be hard to avoid, but expensive to avoid. Not really surprised that a big company might be willing to throw a bunch of cash at it.
Awesome! Glad you’re aware. It’s slowly taking over my neighborhood and I have a young puppy who loves to chew now so I’ve been overly vigilant.
Careful, that looks like Siberian Squill, somewhat toxic to animals and fairly invasive.
zifk@sh.itjust.worksto
Dull Men's Club@lemmy.world•My local hardware store has recently changed the colour of the plating on their screws from zinc to something more golden
16·1 year agoFor the longest time I thought pressure-treated wood meant it was treated with pressure. Only just crossed my mind that it means they use pressure to get the treatment chemicals further in the wood.
zifk@sh.itjust.worksto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•DeepSeek collects keystroke data and more, storing it in Chinese servers
73·1 year agoAnnoyingly, some of the censorship is baked into the model, it still won’t answer all question about china.
Yeah if you’re exposed to cold weather then ski goggles tend to handle not fogging up with a scarf/mask better. You can get some pairs with clear, swapable lenses for biking at night.
I frequently wear safety glasses, you can get some that can be worn on top of a pair of glasses but still provided wrap around protection like:

I can’t explain why but I find this really house of leaves coded
zifk@sh.itjust.worksto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Grapes double sensor magnetic power in an epic quantum breakthroughEnglish
1211·1 year agoLmao yes technically correct. The grapes aren’t doing anything new, they’re acting as a microwave resonator which makes some very interesting plasma physics you can do with a grape in the microwave. However, this is not a new phenomenon and there are much more convenient microwave resonators you can build out of metal.
Enjoy your stable systems while you can! Learning comes through solving problems as they come up. It’s a good sign if you don’t have to.
Need some new functionality? Figure out how to set it up. Encounter a bug or issue? Troubleshoot and fix it. Functionality that you want doesn’t exist? Time to program it yourself.
You can also start customizing (ricing) your system as you wish. Take a look at unixporn style communities for inspiration and advice.
that’s not how addition works
I can’t say I’m ever particularly aware of my gender when I’m dreaming
zifk@sh.itjust.worksto
Data is Beautiful@mander.xyz•City street network orientationEnglish
21·2 years agoFun thing is that in Montreal, ‘North’ is refereed to as the direction where streets go away from the river, which ends up being the WNW, further from north than “East”.
Ah of course, the bog blog log
maaaan I really wanted the Maryland flag to be official, but it was made by someone on /r/vexillology










Depending on how far of a distance you’re trying to simulate you probably also want to change the eq. Higher frequency sounds get attenuated faster over distance, so probably something like a low pass filter with a cutoff frequency that gets lower the further away the sound is would work well to start.