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- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 day ago:
Watching people repair old electronics on Youtube has opened my eyes to the realities of real-world electrical engineering. In short: it’s all about tolerances.
A power supply may have a nominal voltage of 5V, but anything from 4.8 to 5.2 is a-okay. Why? Because your TTL components downstream of that can tolerate that. Components that do 5V logic can define logic zero as anything between 0 and 0.8 volts, and logic one as low as 2 volts. That’s important since the whole voltage rail can fluctuate a lot when devices use more power, or draw power simultaneously. While you can slap capacitors all over the place to smooth that out, there’s still peaks and dips over time.
Meanwhile, some assembly lines have figured out how to aggressively cost-reduce goods by removing whole components from some circuits. Just watch some Big Clive videos. Here, the tendency is to lean heavily into those tolerances and just run parts hot, under/over powered, or just completely outside the published spec because the real-deal can take it (for a while). After all, everything is a resistor if you give it enough voltage, an inductor if the wire’s long enough, a capacitor if the board layout is a mess, and a heatsink if it’s touching the case.
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 6 days ago:
As far as labors of love go, Stardew Valley is probably the most current example. People paid for this thing years ago, but Concerned Ape keeps adding new features anyway. The retro graphics give this thing a timeless quality out of the box, so it already looks “dated” - this hasn’t stopped the robust player community around it. We’ll probably see this game stay relevant for a long time.
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 6 days ago:
Unusually long development time
No joke, I installed the open-beta/pre-release years ago, played for a bit, and uninstalled it. When the actual release dropped, I had the most intense déjà vu about it all because I forgot that had even happened. I had to go back to my Steam library to puzzle it all back together.
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 1 week ago:
If only there was a better way…
- Comment on Anon watches The Whale 1 week ago:
RoboCop and Starship Troopers (by the same director, no less) are other examples of people completely missing the point, and taking the film at face value.
- Comment on Anon watches The Whale 1 week ago:
I know it’s violent, campy, and corny, but it’s a damn good lesson in what Narcissistic Personality Disorder is and what it does to people. It helped me frame my own abuse and trauma at the hands of abusers NPD, in ways that helped me break free from those people later on. Moreover, once you’ve been victimized this way, one has a tendency to fall back into bad habits with abusers. The film just gave me something profound to recall when exercising mindfulness around this cycle, and how to exit quickly.
- Comment on Moon Dust 1 week ago:
IMO (not a scientist), moon dust is basically pulverized glass, only without the benefits of weathering and erosion. So think of lots of microscopic sharp, abrasive, shards of finely pulverized volcanic rock and obsidian. Get that stuff anywhere near a mucous membrane - eyes, nose, mouth, throat - and it’s going to irritate you. At the same time, it’s pretty much intert; well, at least the parts that don’t instantly react to oxygen or humidity that is. My guess is that Schmidt is just a little more sensitive to it, or perhaps he rubbed his eyes with a glove by accident.
And for the uninitiated, it’s well documented that everyone in the lander was physically exposed to moon dust. There was no airlock on the lander, so every excursion resulted in bringing whatever was on the suits right into the cabin. They reported that it “smelled” like burned gunpowder, so they were at least all inhaling the stuff.
- Comment on spicy one 1 week ago:
I was gonna say. With a crater that large, we all lose.
- Comment on The future is amazing 1 week ago:
“AI e-girl” you say? I know a contractor that might have what you’re looking for.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 2 weeks ago:
Yup. They’re called “Whole Paycheck” for a reason.
- Comment on Midweek feels 2 weeks ago:
This moment calls for more beans. Image
- Comment on Good job 3 weeks ago:
What we want: OS updates that make the system more performant, more accessible, easier to use, smarter at using battery power, and more secure.
Apple: Let’s make everything an unreadable mess and tax the GPU to shit just for fucking UI elements, because we’re out of ideas.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 3 weeks ago:
It was uncanny and disturbing back then. It’s uncanny, disturbing, and hilarious now.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 3 weeks ago:
… a new set of knives, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, lisa needs braces, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, dental plan, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, lisa needs braces, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, dental plan, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, a new set of knives…
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 4 weeks ago:
Don’t forget SCSI termination. There was always some extra piece of junk you needed to make it all work. No wonder we all have “the box” in the basement/attic with all the extra cables squirreled away.
Now you take a tiny board a little bigger than a stick of gum, and press it onto the motherboard. Smaller footprint than a DIMM, mind-blowing amounts of solid-state storage. Drives? Naw, we just have chips where the "1"s stick around after you turn it off.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 4 weeks ago:
They’ve been trying to bring back online walled-garden systems ever since. Just look at Facebook, or Twitter.
- Comment on Innövative sölutiön 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t even be mad. As long as they could explain what a Mobius Strip is, they can use it.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 4 weeks ago:
You missed the part where not all LASIK procedures are “bladeless”. As in: there is an eye knife.
- Comment on Anon goes camping 4 weeks ago:
It’s a common error. You have to spell it like daemon:
$ sudo paegan ritual - Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Hardly. I added some clarification to my argument.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for clarifying. I’m actually trying to argue the exact opposite of something like “all lives matter”.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Technically, everyone that doesn’t identify as “men”. But it’s done in the abstract, negative space of the message by not saying it. Subtle, but without clarifying things, it’s left open to this interpretation.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It could be an innocent mistake, or if we put our tinfoil hats on for a second, deliberate counter-propaganda aimed at sowing division and dissent by baiting people with otherwise good intent.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I agree. It’s kind of a tightrope these days. As a white, cis, hereto, middle-aged, male, I pretty much clock as the poster-child for privilege. I am palpably aware that crying loudly for any support might just come off as tasteless, or even insensitive in the wrong group.
Yet, a lot of our social ills these days look an awful lot like mental illness, which is poorly compensated for through evil, perpetrated by people that resemble this description. Zero social support means you just listen to Joe Rogan instead, while projecting trauma as hate.
This poster/meme might work better if it aimed for equality and that it doesn’t exclude anyone. Or maybe if it had a quote from research or some person of note about the silent epidemic that is men’s mental/social health issues.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 4 weeks ago:
break a public pay phone
At the zenith of that technology, the phone company(ies) had already battle tested countless other designs. The newest relics you find are hardened enough to be left unattended in the most vandalism prone areas imaginable. Each one, a little fortress perfectly protecting delicate electronics and a coin-box. Slam it all you want: they’re nigh-on indestructible.
- Comment on Stats boost 5 weeks ago:
health is under 10%
Consider something like Elden Ring, where level-scaled bosses can basically end you in 1-3 hits. 9% or less means you have to be able to endure something like 10 attacks, prior to this kicking in. IMO, that means your foe is probably not at your level in the first place.
Then again, is anyone playing with a “blood night” style build in games like this? Like, deliberately running around with 5% health, or just burning HP to get stat boosts? Just curious - that’s not my style at all.
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 5 weeks ago:
TL;DR: Show me someone with any hard-to-quit habit, and I’ll show you someone that’s self-medicating for something.
This is tragically under-appreciated in our society. Especially when it seems everyone is converging on some kind of self-diagnosis, and collectively coming to a “hey nobody’s normal” conclusion. We’re so very close to framing help as “harm reduction for nicotine” and “maybe it’s also neurodiversity and/or trauma”, but we keep missing the mark and argue about vapes instead.
Also, as the greentext suggests, I personally think we’re way past the point where people that can avoid starting or can quit easy, have already done so. What you see these days is a rather hard-core use cohort that has complex addiction to work through.
So… yeah. Helping a friend quit? Please work with them to consider the jenga-tower of adverse psychology that a-pack-a-day might be holding up. It could be way harder to pull off than either of you think.
- Comment on Every NPC sidequest 5 weeks ago:
Nothing in these games makes any goddamned sense, and one sounds like a raving lunatic trying to explain any of it out loud.
- Comment on work is easy 5 weeks ago:
I once had a micromanager that made it impossible to get anything done during a workday. So I started coming in on Saturday to catch up on all the work that kept getting interrupted. MFW he noticed the logs and my activity on the weekend and thanked me for putting in all the extra effort.
