You can also hear it, insulated quietness. Like stores that sell fabric, where the outside noise dies down when you enter.
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scytale@piefed.zipto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about?English3·4 days agoLike I said, not an expert. Also, regardless if it’s a revolutionary solution to something or not, it doesn’t negate the point that it was made to be used for something, but it’s being indirectly used for something else instead.
scytale@piefed.zipto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about?English424·4 days agoNot an expert, but IMO, it’s because it was misused. Cryptocurrency is just one application of blockchain technology, but people equated blockchain to crypto, and crypto was turned into an investment scheme instead of an actual currency. Then came NFTs, which people turned into rugpull scams. And news of the volatility of cryptocurrency and all those NFT scams drove away any chance of regular people adopting anything blockchain-related.
scytale@piefed.zipto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?English11·7 days agoAnything over a couple million probably. People can comprehend the largest amount with money (instead of apples for example). The fact that most people don’t realize how big of a difference a billion is to a million shows that the average person can really comprehend only up to maybe 7 or 8 digits.
scytale@piefed.zipto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party.English5·7 days agoThey also removed regional pricing, which made it expensive in countries that have lower value currency.
scytale@piefed.zipto science@lemmy.world•Women's sport: Why we need to talk about periods, breasts and injuriesEnglish55·9 days agoI can’t imagine having to play your best at the highest level of your sport while on your period. That sucks.
scytale@piefed.zipto Movies@lemmy.world•Am I alone or is Severance 2 lackluster compared to its predecessor?English9·9 days agoFor me, the issue is that the show hinges on one single plot point (what is the program and what is the main character’s role in it), and you can only go so long without revealing it that it starts to drag. It’s already a slow burn show in the first place, which isn’t necessarily bad. But you can’t keep going for multiple seasons prolonging things to keep it a mystery.
Season 1 was good because it set up everything, and you end it with the excitement of what S2 will reveal. By the end of S2, you still don’t really know anything. Yes, things happened and you get to know more about the characters, but nothing really moves forward. You can feel it’s getting there, but not quite because the show is planned to go 2 or 3 more seasons. For me, this show should’ve been two seasons max, with the second season revealing the mystery halfway, and the second half showing the aftermath.
scytale@piefed.zipOPto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can anyone help id these shoes?English3·10 days agoWow, thanks! It’s funny how it appears a lot of brands have the same design.
scytale@piefed.zipOPto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can anyone help id these shoes?English1·10 days agoAwesome! Great price too. Thanks for the suggestion.
scytale@piefed.zipOPto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can anyone help id these shoes?English11·10 days agoAmazing! I was gonna post it in the barefoot shoes and barefoot running community but wasn’t really sure if it was actually a barefoot shoe. Thank you so much!
scytale@piefed.zipto science@lemmy.world•Popular sugar substitute linked to brain cell damage and stroke riskEnglish5·11 days agoSorry, I meant I buy stand-alone stevia but all the options like Truvia and the store brand variant have erythritol in their ingredients. Which brand do you use?
scytale@piefed.zipto science@lemmy.world•Popular sugar substitute linked to brain cell damage and stroke riskEnglish3·11 days agoI do use Stevia. The thing is, all the stevia products I see at the grocery store are laced with erythritol. Does the product you consume exclusively use stevia only?
scytale@piefed.zipto science@lemmy.world•Popular sugar substitute linked to brain cell damage and stroke riskEnglish41·11 days agoWell shit I use it daily for my coffee and home-made milk tea. Reading all this stuff coming to light about sugar substitutes is gonna make me just go back to regular sugar or maybe coconut sugar, and I’ll just control my intake.
I know popping, but how does he get his chest to pop THAT much??
scytale@piefed.zipto Technology@beehaw.org•A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers SayEnglish43·16 days agoLmao an SCP actually breaching containment.
scytale@piefed.zipto Technology@beehaw.org•The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 MediaEnglish6·17 days agoYeah, I’m all against social media surveillance, but this was on the jumbotron at a concert. Having said that, I do hate those segments in concerts and sports where they feature audiences on the screens without consent. It’s not like there’s a line in the customer agreement when buying tickets that you allow your face to be featured (unless there is?). That’s why I always make myself as boring as possible - either just sitting with a straight face, or eating something - so I don’t get singled out.
scytale@piefed.zipto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Are password managers secure to use?English2·18 days agoYes, but it depends on which one you use. Some are better than others. The ones that can be hosted locally (i.e. keepass) are the most secure because you are not relying on a third party to host your password vault for you. It would be helpful to know why you think they aren’t very secure, so people can help clarify.
scytale@piefed.zipto science@lemmy.world•Subaru Telescope Discovers “Fossil" of the Early Solar SystemEnglish8·18 days agoFor those wondering, Subaru is the Japanese word for the Pleiades star cluster, which the car company is also named after and why their logo is what it is.
Take the comment you replied to with a grain of salt. IOS and Android are not rolling release unless you use their beta versions, so the analogy is not correct. Ubuntu and its derivatives have slower release cycles in order to ensure they’re stable. But it doesn’t mean packages are “stale”. A rolling release distro will give you bleeding edge updates at the risk of something breaking once in a while. If you work on stuff like music production, you absolutely will be better off with a more stable distro.