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  • ShaunaTheDead@fedia.iotoMemes@lemmy.ml•curved it is
    212·
    4 days ago

    Katana’s are weak on the flat side. They aren’t really meant to be used for parrying. In fact, most sword fights in Japan would be over after the first or second swing. It was commonplace to hold the grip of a katana but not draw it in such a way so that your enemy has trouble judging how long your katana is and what is a safe distance to be from you. Once your opponent is in range, draw it quickly and kill them in one blow, ideally.

    The act of killing your opponent in a single blow is called “nukitsuke” from “nukiuchi” meaning “to cut down an opponent” and “tsuke” meaning “to stop an opponent’s attack before it begins”.

    The Sekiro and popular media image of extended katana fights didn’t really happen, but if they did, there would almost certainly be some broken katanas.

  • ShaunaTheDead@fedia.iotoMemes@lemmy.ml•Free Thinker
    11·
    10 days ago

    Capitalism and Communism are bad, there is a middle ground which is better than both and most of the western world uses it. Have a largely free market, but also have socially funded services that wouldn’t work under a free market system like healthcare.

  • ShaunaTheDead@fedia.iotoMildly Interesting@lemmy.world•This microwave burrito advertises energy in units of kJ
    2·
    1 month ago

    It’s extremely confusing but there are basically 2 measurements systems for food energy:

    There’s kilocalories (abbreviated as cal) and there’s kilojoules (abbreviated as kJ). It can get very confusing because some places will label them calories (cal) and Calories (kJ), lower and upper case respectively which is extremely confusing because 1 kJ is equivalent to 4.81 cal.

    According to Wikipedia the US and Canada use kilocalories (cal or calories) and pretty much the rest of the world uses kilojoules (kJ or Calories).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_energy#Nutrition_labels

    The main difference between the two is that kilocalories are a measure of heat energy, where 1 kilocalorie is the heat needed to warm 1 liter of water by 1 degree celcius. Whereas a kilojoule is a measure of energy usually described by force in newtons.

    They’re both actually from the metric system, but kilocalorie is the old and obsolete form while kilojoules is the currently accepted metric measurement.

  • ShaunaTheDead@fedia.iotoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Lets Help Adobe
    191·
    3 months ago

    Cool animation! 10/10 style points!

    For those unaware, Adobe changed their terms of service recently to say that if you agree to the terms then they officially own anything you create using their software and can use it however they want. Specifically this line:

    you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content.

    This probably means that Adobe has built some kind of backdoor into their programs to access your files and send it off to their servers. Pretty shitty of them!

  • ShaunaTheDead@fedia.iotoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Automation
    250·
    3 months ago

    Reminds me of an early application of AI where scientists were training an AI to tell the difference between a wolf and a dog. It got really good at it in the training data, but it wasn’t working correctly in actual application. So they got the AI to give them a heatmap of which pixels it was using more than any other to determine if a canine is a dog or a wolf and they discovered that the AI wasn’t even looking at the animal, it was looking at the surrounding environment. If there was snow on the ground, it said “wolf”, otherwise it said “dog”.

  • ShaunaTheDead@fedia.iotomemes@lemmy.world•Yeah, science!
    17·
    4 months ago

    Vf = Vi + at

    Means final velocity equals initial velocity plus the product of acceleration and time of acceleration.

    F = m(ΔV / ΔT) or F = ma

    The second equation is much simpler and means force is equal to the product of mass and acceleration.

    This can basically be broken down to be “it’s not the speed that kills you, it’s the sudden deceleration” which is usually attributed to Eddie Rickenbacker who was an American WWI pilot.

    “It’s not the speed that kills you, it’s the sudden stop” - Eddie Rickenbacker

    It was also famously paraphrased by Jeremy Clarkson:

    “Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that’s what gets you.” - Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear

  • ShaunaTheDead@fedia.iotomemes@lemmy.world•Mom Burn
    3·
    4 months ago

    I think sarcasm usually has more of a negative tone to it. Like “oh yeah, sure, uh huh /s” whereas light hearted is more like “omg stop picking on me! /lh” conveying that they understand that the other people are also interacting with them in jest.