RegalPotoo
@RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Not the worst sales technique. 1 day ago:
This is a weirdly body-positive message for a gym; you can be fat and beautiful or skinny and ugly
- Comment on Can't sleep, he's watching 1 week ago:
28 megawatts at peak. Enough power for 21,000 homes.
bUt iTS soLaR!
- Comment on I have a very strange question about washers, dryers and the Middle East. 1 week ago:
Not in the US; in NZ most houses will have a “wash tub” - essentially a sink in a metal cabinet specifically for doing “dirty” jobs like laundry. That will have water hookups for the washer, so that goes next to it where there is space, then the dryer will do next to that or on top of the washer.
The last few places I’ve lived in have all had the tub in a corner with space on its left, so it’s been dryer, washer, tub. Annoying, my dryer door opens to the right and the washer to the left, so it’s harder than it should be to move clothes between them
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 1 week ago:
If you follow it, you quickly end up with the Infinite Improbability Drive from The Hitchhikers Guide - if you have an infinite number of typewriters, an infinite number of them will be loaded with paper that already has the complete works of Shakespeare written on it
- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 3 weeks ago:
“Doctor” is a title you become entitled to use by virtue of holding a PhD - you have the option to use it, but nothing compels you to do so if you don’t want to.
Note that the reverse isn’t true - representing yourself as holding a doctorate when you don’t can be a fairly serious crime - if you did for the purposes of getting money from some, then it’s probably some kind of fraud
- Comment on Anon questions physics 4 weeks ago:
This game has far too many mechanics. The dev team should prune it back to the essentials and focus on polish rather than getting over ambitious and not executing anything well
- Comment on Anon questions physics 4 weeks ago:
Also diffusion and vapor pressure and latent heat - reality is messy
- Comment on What happens when the US runs out of SSNs? 5 weeks ago:
I want to see the high-octane action thriller where the grizzled old hand and the renegade upstart trek to the remote compound in the woods of Montana to find Bob, the last man alive who understands how some obscure part of the IRSs core systems works and bring him back in from the cold for one last job… to save America(s neglected computer systems from decades of under investment)
- Comment on Congratulations to Tom! 5 weeks ago:
Imagine the most stereotypical Australian you can. Now imagine he has a PhD in chemistry but no money for a lab, so does all his work out of a literal tin shed full of spiders using stuff he found at the hardware store
- Comment on I'm radicalised by this photo 5 weeks ago:
Personally, if I’d paid $1500 for 1000 of something and got any less than 1000 units I’d be kinda pissed
- Comment on I'm radicalised by this photo 5 weeks ago:
In highschool I worked a shitty job at a butchery, and one day the boss decided to “test how smart” I was or something by asking me to get him 1000 wooden skewers out of the box.
Being an attention to detail kind of person, I spent a few minutes counting out 1000 cos I wanted to make sure I gave him exactly what he asked for - wouldn’t want a customer to order 1000 and get 995 or something cos I miscounted right?
Apparently not, cos that was the dumb way to do it - boss slapped 10 skewers on the scale then weighed out 100x that and was really proud until I pointed out that the certificate of accuracy only guaranteed the scale to +/- 2 skewers, then apparently I’m a “smart ass”. Can’t win with some people
- Comment on Anon has a plan 5 weeks ago:
I’d say that if all you want to do is scare the shit out of some scientists in Antarctica you probably only need 1 polar bear
- Comment on Having fun with text scams 5 weeks ago:
Pig butchering
- Comment on If I was a secret immortal how long could I keep the same US ID for before I get taken away for study. I'm thinking 150 years. 1 month ago:
Transposition error
- Comment on If I was a secret immortal how long could I keep the same US ID for before I get taken away for study. I'm thinking 150 years. 1 month ago:
…
So awhile ago I worked on a system that moved education records between 2 different systems at a university. It kept choking on one particular record; turns out the date of birth was in 1499, and MSSQL won’t store dates from before the start of the Gregorian calendar unless you specifically configure it to do so.
We sent a request through to have the record corrected - clearly someone has just typoed 1949 - and moved on, but maybe…
- Comment on The HELLDIVERS™^©®^³ 2 EULA is a URL 1 month ago:
Language specifiers include country level variants - de-DE, de-AT, de-CH
- Comment on A match made in heaven! 😍 1 month ago:
Tingly
- Comment on Donors 1 month ago:
They seem to be pretty good at making sure the military has all the finding they need
- Comment on Donors 1 month ago:
I’d be ok with anonymous donations if they were truly anonymous both publicly and to the management of the institution receiving the money.
Maybe this is something that the government could facilitate - pool these resources, then help distribute them where they are needed. Almost like how taxes work.
Maintains uncomfortable eye contact with the camera
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 1 month ago:
blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/…/creating-autonomous-s…
It’s doable, just needs a fair bit of hardware, time and money
- Comment on I have no idea how to react to this. 1 month ago:
They are in it for the vibes more than the anything
- Comment on Oh Elon 1 month ago:
What is the constitution if not a law?
- Comment on Oh Elon 1 month ago:
Since when has a trivial thing like “the law” stopped him from trying to do something he wants?
- Comment on Oh Elon 1 month ago:
Oh shit it hadn’t occurred to me that the logical end state for Elon is running for president
- Comment on Choosing violence 1 month ago:
In the immortal words of Monzy:
I pull out my keyboard / and I pull out my gloc / and I dismount your girl / and I mount slash proc / cos I’ve got your pid / and the bottom line / is you best not front / or its kill dash nine
- Comment on Choosing violence 1 month ago:
Meanwhile, a Linux user wipes blood off a sledgehammer with “SIGKILL” written on the handle
- Comment on #goals 2 months ago:
I’m going to use that next time I need to bail out of a story I shouldn’t have started telling
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 months ago:
In Germany (and other parts.od Europe as well to be fair) carts need you to put a coin in them to unchain them from their bay, which you get back when you chain them back up - so yeah, kinda, if you don’t put it back you loose your euro
- Comment on What started “weirdo” as a slur just recently? 2 months ago:
As an additional point; “weird” isn’t a slur. A slur is an expression where the very words themselves are considered obscene - a slur is offensive, even when it is used to describe someone or something according to its strict definition.
There is no context where describing someone as a “removed” or a “retard” isn’t offensive. “Weird” isn’t like that, as you’ve pointed out - it’s being used as a simple insult, and it’s persistent because it seems to really annoy the people it is directed at
- Comment on dch82 browses Lemmy 2 months ago:
sigh I thought we’d learnt this by now.
Repeat after me:
Upvoting a post is a signal that the post is good content, not that you endorse the content
Downvoting a post is a signal that the post is abusive, spammy, trolling, or otherwise bad, not that you personally disapprove