herrcaptain
@herrcaptain@lemmy.ca
- Comment on hotwheels sisyphus 1 day ago:
Believe it or not, they’re all about Hot Wheels.
- Comment on hotwheels sisyphus 1 day ago:
The rest of the wikipedia article:
The genus name is derived from Hot Wheels, an American brand of scale model cars. The long coiled embolus of the palpal bulb of this new genus reminded the authors of a looping Hot Wheels track.
The species is named for Sisyphus, a king featured in the Iliad, who is punished by the gods for cheating death. For this, the gods sentenced him to an eternity of rolling a boulder up a hill, only for it to roll back down. The cyclical nature of his punishment reminded the authors of the circular copulatory tube of the spider.
These dudes are on a whole different level when it comes to naming spiders.
- Comment on Girl power 2 days ago:
This is cool and all but I feel like “Woman of Science” was the obvious workaround to their problem.
- Comment on When you have to use multiple browsers because one place doesn't work 2 days ago:
Yeah, and this isn’t just a Firefox thing - caching issues happen in every browser now and then. It seems like every other month I have to help a co-worker clear their Chrome cache to be able to log into QuickBooks again. Weirdly, the problem seems to happen to me less in Firefox despite so many big sites not being optimized for it anymore.
- Comment on How would you decorate this room? 3 days ago:
Very carefully.
- Comment on What a nerve 1 week ago:
Ah, yes, the internal ghillie suit.
- Comment on Checkmate, science 1 week ago:
Finally, an answer that makes sense.
- Comment on It definitely *was* a good idea though 2 weeks ago:
Just develop a heart condition and they’ll straight up give it to you. Easy peasy.
- Comment on molten surprise 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, I saw a documentary called “The Core” and I don’t remember them ever drilling through the nougat layer.
- Comment on Manor Lords is off to a flying start on Steam, just hours after its early access release 3 weeks ago:
I bought it last night and only have a few hours in. So far it’s pretty great though. I look forward to seeing it continue to develop, and according to reviews posted by pre-release testers the developer is very open to community feedback.
It’s definitely not a fully complete game yet, but I expect I’ll get at least a couple weekend binges out of it before I shelve it and wait for more content.
Also, it’s working perfectly in Linux (through Proton) so extra points there.
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 3 weeks ago:
I’d probably do two things:
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Properly learn to code and spend much of that time developing open source software.
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Immediately move out to the woods to start a wildlife sanctuary.
That said, while I’m a huge proponent of UBI, I definitely don’t think it could ever work this way (though I get that this was just a fun thought experiment).
In actuality I see the outcome of a UBI as working class people having a little more time and energy to properly invest in themselves, either through education, self care, etc. Studies have shown that largely people continue to work (or better yet, start their own small business), albeit not necessarily at the backbreaking and emotionally-draining pace they currently do.
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- Comment on It's time to let go 3 weeks ago:
Good call. For what it’s worth, when I store a desktop in my car it’s typically because it’s old and I haven’t gotten around to stripping it for parts or dropping it off at the recycler.
- Comment on It's time to let go 3 weeks ago:
Don’t let them pressure you! My wife often nags me about my cable drawer, but my tendency to hoard old tech has saved the day more than once.
We once drove halfway across Canada to a wedding, which was at a campground outside of Montreal. As they were setting up for the reception someone in the wedding party asked if I knew where they could get a particular video adapter. I was like, “Oh, I’ve got one in my bag.” I hadn’t brought that adapter across two provinces for any real reason, but it sure came in handy.
Another time we were visiting a friend about an hour away. He mentioned needing a power cable for a desktop computer. I was like, “Oh, I’ve got a whole desktop in the trunk of my car. You want the whole thing or just the power cable?”
- Comment on Always CYA 3 weeks ago:
Ok, I should have guessed that mods would make things weird.
- Comment on Always CYA 3 weeks ago:
I feel like CK3 or Rimworld are better used for this cover.
A legitimate question one might ask in CK3 is “How do I kill the pope?”
In Rimworld you might ask, “How do I make hats out of human leather?”
Unless modding has gotten out of control, I don’t think either of those are possible in Minecraft.
- Comment on Anon's brother hates concrete 4 weeks ago:
I actually just tried looking that up, to see if such a word actually exists in English. I found a stack exchange thread asking this same question but no one had a suitable answer. Do, yeah, I guess it’s up to you to contribute to society by inventing and popularizing this new word. Enjoy your new destiny.
- Comment on Anon's brother hates concrete 4 weeks ago:
I dunno, I think they’re kinda … neat, I guess? Like, yeah, they’re technically pretty ugly, but somehow in a way that makes them interesting.
- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 4 weeks ago:
Sounds about right for these folks. Anytime you see an email like this it’s always FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: the Illuminati KILLED MY DOG with COVID masks!
- Comment on How's my favorite noise machine today? 4 weeks ago:
If my dream of living out in the woods ever comes true, I’ll legit do this. Until then, I figure I wouldn’t last a week being so close to a major city so it’s a moot point.
- Comment on How's my favorite noise machine today? 4 weeks ago:
Oh, I know it. Thankfully the noise is only bad during initial boot (which seldom happens) or if they’re really kicked into high gear.
- Comment on How's my favorite noise machine today? 4 weeks ago:
Ahhhh. Okay, I thought you meant a single unit was creating all that noise.
We store several hundred terabyte of data for “personal” (i won’t go into the contents as its not for public, nothing illigal either) usage.
Got it - it’s all Linux ISOs.
- Comment on How's my favorite noise machine today? 4 weeks ago:
I actually like that my gaming computer makes a bit of noise. I can tab out while it’s loading a game with tons of mods and know by the sound exactly when it’s ready to play.
- Comment on How's my favorite noise machine today? 4 weeks ago:
Jesus! What are you running that makes that much noise? I have two HP DL360p gen8’s (older 1u units with LOUD fans when they get going) and a custom built gaming server in a rack at the end of my bed. Together they’re sometimes a bit annoyingly loud when they’re hard at work, but with the door closed you can barely hear them. I can’t imagine a single server so loud that neighbors could hear it from a basement. You got a supercomputer in there or something?
- Comment on DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers 5 weeks ago:
If so, I wonder if that timeline lines up with when I was trying SearX. For the first few days I was blown away by the results, and then suddenly they became absolute garbage. I ended up switching back to DDG.
- Comment on He's got a point 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for the tip (genuinely). Unfortunately in this case I actually don’t have arm wrests at all - I literally removed them from my chair years ago. There’s just something about this game in particular that really messes up my left elbow. No other game does that (normally it’d be just my wrists, if anything).
- Comment on He's got a point 5 weeks ago:
I’m down with the sentiment of the comment, but I legit find I get way more arm/wrist pain from gaming than from spreadsheets. I think there’s much more prolonged button-pressing involved in the former. Some games are worse than others.
Right now my elbow is killing me from too much Project Zomboid over the last few weeks. A day of spreadsheets and QuickBooks today was almost a break from it (not that I didn’t go right back to PZ after work).
- Comment on At least they're not yeeting a baby at it 5 weeks ago:
Florida
- Comment on At least they're not yeeting a baby at it 5 weeks ago:
Florida
- Comment on imagine it!! 5 weeks ago:
Upvoted due to being weird and neat, but I’m not sure I trust the data source of two “cleanroom consultants.” They’re obviously in the pocket of Big Skin.
- Comment on Staying for the week at an AirBnB in Rochester, MN. This is what I just found out I'm stuck with. 1 month ago:
Or carrier pigeon.