Comments by "Nicolae Crefelean" (@kneekoo) on "Joe Scott" channel.

  1. 3:31 I love how confidently he destroyed the newspaper's name. 🤣 It's really funny because it usually doesn't occur to you how something you know how to read would be mispronounced. And then you get all kinds of different ways to butcher words and you remember your own butchering while learning a language and it never gets old. 🤣
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  2. Germany found a simple solution: more food! The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture studied the issue, and decided to make educational material about the bees and their favourite foods (flower species), which they recommend. They call this program "Feed the bees!" Now seed sellers have packages with these "bee-friendly" seeds (very cheap, by the way) that you can plant in your garden or wherever you have access, and there's plenty of food for them.
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  3. You're always in the same plane, so always use the manual focus and the image will look better and won't be disturbed by anything between you and the cameras. It's easy to do it - just place a book where your head is supposed to be, then focus your cameras to see the text as sharp as possible.
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  4.  @lundysden6781  What do you mean by fps? Obviously it can't be "frames per second", as that's not a measuring unit for motion.
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  5.  @lundysden6781  Oh, right. European (metric) here. :)
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  6. 10:07 Ahh... the glorious year of 2024, when people of the last century get criticized for identifying as someone they weren't born as, while people of the present day are free to identify as they see fit. Nothing gross about that. 👏
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  7. This was not 1 hour and a half. I feel robbed, we need a follow up and I'll settle for an(other) hour and a half - until next time. 😆 Great talk, good thing it happened before the great isolation! :P
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  8. 10:54 That piece of info just came out of the blue one day. :P
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  9. Canada is cool, man. They always like to lend a hand or an arm, as robotic as it might be. :P
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  10.  @turdle837  I live in Germany, and I'm still learning German. I was born in Romania (Transylvania), in a town with a mixed population of Romanian and Hungarian people. I grew up hearing both mispronouncing words, and it was always funny. But then I always liked playing with words, and make up new ones from parts of other words. Relying on online translators is not always great. Just listen to Google Translate how it mispronounces "the Appalachian and the Appalachia" both words, when the original one comes from the American natives and are pronounced app-uh-latch-an and app-uh-latch-uh. Sometimes Google Translate mispronounces German words too, but of course it gets it right a lot of times and people can use it for the content they publish. But I don't expect content creators to learn all phonetic rules of various languages that somehow end up in their videos. English itself is funny in how it's a huge mess of exceptions and inconsistent phonetic rules. Languages can be fun and people shouldn't be upset when they hear something butchered like that. If you feel like correcting that, fine. But it's still funny. Languages are hard to learn, especially by people who are no longer teenagers - when the brain is at its learning peak. So I'm fine with mistakes and of course I also pause and go back to read what was actually said if it's unclear. Mistakes don't exist strictly for us to learn the correct things. Sometimes we discover completely new things by making mistakes. So making mistakes is totally worth it.
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  11. Economically viable is not the only thing to be concerned about when recycling plastics. There's an obvious cost of not doing anything about it. So if we add that cost in the equation, does "advanced recycling" make sense or not? Clearly this is an answer someone in the field could come up with after enough analysis. I agree, we have to reduce the nonsensical wrap - it's also the cheapest step. And if the oil companies and plastic producers would be forced to do advanced recycling on their own money, maybe that would be a good enough incentive for them to reduce the plastics themselves. Wishful thinking, but one can only hope, and reduce. 😋
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  12. Come on, USA, it's time to finally put the foot down.
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  13. Keeping an open mind about potentially advanced civilizations somewhere out there, including outside our radio bubble, it's conceivable that they could have communication beacons across space, similar to Star Trek's subspace beacons. Those could be more than a network of communication relays - maybe even observatories, to do passive exploration. Because why not? :) That would easily allow them to get our radio signals and even study our planet.
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  14. So you're promoted Brilliant for quite a while and we're still within the "first 200 people"? Quite inspiring. :P
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  15. You know, politicians can invoke democracy all they want. The truth is that it's not a good idea to expect inexperienced people to make good decisions. Obviously most don't care to change something that works, something that would cause a lot of headaches for a while. And when I say inexperience, it's just that - lack of experience in how much easier the metric system is, and how much easier it is to convert back and forth with this system, by just moving the decimal point and not care about the numbers. The imperial system is harder, and it's easy to make mistakes with it if you're not good at math, or if you're not exactly sure how to do conversions. So while there will be headaches during the transition to the metric system, there will also be people who will be quite surprised how weirdly simpler the sistem is.
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  16. We think we're the pinnacle of human evolution, yet we're unable to explain a lot of things in our distant past. And we're audacious enough to assume there were no more advanced civilizations in the past, although barely anything would remain from us to offer a newer advanced civilization any chance to make out anything about all that we're living now. We're so uncomfortable with not knowing stuff, that we'd rather assume that we're the best that ever was, despite of being unable to figure out the pyramids and other (still) accessible relics of past civilizations. We just settled with some partial explanations that we're not even unwilling to challenge because it might shake our beliefs. And we still call ourselves the most advanced civilization to have walked this Earth.
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  17. 2:14 Yup, that's why increasing the combustion efficiency for better thrust-to-weight ratio is key to fight against the "tyranny", along with making the fuel denser by cooling it further, for smaller tanks that help reducing the dry mass of the rocket. And of course more compact designs for the many parts of the rocket help, like Raptor v3 on Starship that even ULA's Tory Bruno thought it wasn't fully assembled. 😆 That was really funny.
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  18. Quipus - the OG string theory.
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  19. 16:00 Huh... pretty much like gender-affirming care for minors. What can possibly go wrong? (17:41 Yup!)
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  20. 9:43 🤣🤣🤣♥
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  21. Not a Hollywood movie, though. It's a Netflix production, so it was promoted just like any other new production on their service. :)
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  22. Hey, Scott. :) I just wanted to let you know there's at least one good manifesto. Search for the "FreeDOS Manifesto" - an open source software project that is over 25 years old and still kicking. There, something nice for a change. :)
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  23. So NASA thinks 5 years? At their speed, no wonder. But SpaceX would move a lot faster, for sure, provided that the government bureaucracy (FAA & co.) would move out of the way.
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  24. Tesla is a lot more than a car company, so it's really weird seeing Joe say that. :P Anyway, Optimus Prime is not just a side project simply meant to attract talent. They actually want to put the robot to work in Tesla factories and also sell it to people at some point. And if they manage to stay on track, we might see a working prototype this September 30th.
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