[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you for the explanation! – it puts that sentence into perspective. I think he put it in a somewhat unfortunate and easily misunderstood way.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, happy to see Todo again. He's fun & funny :)

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's reached 333 protesters! that's 1/3 of the way to 1000, it'd be cool if it kept on increasing :)

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It was (possibly is) actually like that in some historical periods and cultures: going to the bathroom was considered a social activity...

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Cheers, I had absolutely no idea about these marketing/competition sides of snaps and flatpaks...

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I saw another reply called it a "company" indeed. I had no idea!

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

PS: note that there was a Lego community on lemmy.ml though: !lego@lemmy.ml.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Great idea! Instance-generic link: !lego@lemmy.world

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you. So in theory the community-driven derivatives are always free, at least in theory, not to depend from the upstream corporation-driven ones. So it's more a matter of possible implications in the workflow, than in not being really community-driven.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

:D Haven't seen it yet. I'm sure it's a pun though!

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like most of Veritasium's videos because they usually explain correctly – and in a simple way – some points that are incorrect in common or standard explanations, owing to over-simplification (the video about electric current is a good example).

But this particular video on entropy unfortunately suffers from that very problem. Many statements are slightly or completely incorrect, others are so hand-waving ("energy spreads"?) as to become pointless. I hope the next one will be better.

It reminds me of a limerick by the thermodynamicist M. W. Zemansky:

Teaching thermal physics

Is as easy as a song:

You think you make it simpler

When you make it slightly wrong!

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