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[–] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 72 points 1 year ago (5 children)

haptic doom

The human finger can discriminate between surfaces patterned with ridges as small as 13 nanometers in amplitude and non-patterned surfaces, surface chemistry Professor Mark Rutland said. "This means that, if your finger was the size of the Earth, you could feel the difference between houses [and] cars," Rutland said.

[–] vale@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jokes on him, I can already tell the difference between a house and a car

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Houses are the ones with doors and glass on some of the outside, right?

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

No, those are cars, you're thinking about the ones with A/C and mirrors.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In practice I find that anything smaller than .0001 inches can't really be felt, and the difference between .0001 and .0002 is indiscernible.

13 nanometers is closer to .0000005 inches.

Suede: the little wrench goblin that lives inside my precision c clamp.

[–] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

most of that is what she said

[–] Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll allow it

[–] Flumsy@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

But you can feel that the texture is somehow different.

It's not that you can feel individual features, but rather that a repeating pattern of that size can be distinguished from a smoother surface.

[–] objectionist@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

that website fuckin sucks

but yes very cool

[–] crossal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] objectionist@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

when you try to back into the previous tab it redirects to the websites main page, which is also filled with clickbait ads and garbage

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, right, but not on a screen.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yet numerous people can't find the clitoris. It's baffling.

[–] glorious_albus@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some ads open the play store Store anyway when you click the close button. So rage inducing.

[–] orl0pl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jasonwaterfalls@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I prefer Rethink DNS or DNS66 for my phone.

[–] kubica@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

you need to go to the opened apps menu and do the close gesture, it closes the ad too.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

opens Ublock origin clicks on dropper icon selects the Ad moves the scale up to select the most high level element in "cosmetic filter" gone

[–] Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago

Firefox. It has extension support and uBlock

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love the ads that have that X's and O's background so you mistake a random X inside the ad for the "close" button and accidentally give them a clickthrough.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder how effective these tactics are. Like, what percentage more clickthroughs do they achieve with this deception?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

enough to justify themselves as outsourced consultants to people who don't understand marketing kpis

[–] gonzo0815@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Even if there are more klicks, there is no way any of these lead to a decision to buy their crap.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

What exactly do you mean by "ads"? Is this a joke I'm too adguardhomed to understand?

[–] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Block ads; problem solved.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An example of a non ad one is the Google AI popup on Google Discovery articles. The button is a proper size but it ignores you hitting it unless you hit a very specific point which I am certain is not the center.

I'm convinced that x doesn't even function as the close button, i make extremely damn sure to press ONLY the x button, and it still pulls the entire window up. Graaaaaaaaaa!!!!

[–] Neato@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Is there a law saying there has to be an ad close button? Because I assume they are all fake.

Also the sun does move. But it's got so much mojo that everyone else just moves along with it.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not so real, there isn't a black cross to close the ad, it's normally a white cross of this size on a clear background, nearby the red download button.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With apps from F-Droid and InviZible Pro, there are no ads

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

get adaway on android, better if you are rooted

never deal with this bullshit again

[–] OpenStars@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The close button is never gonna give it up, never gonna tell the ad to say goodbye, never gonna turn around, and help you...

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I need a giant cosmic banana for scale