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- Comment on U.S. Has Spent $40 Million to Jail About 400 Migrants at Guantánamo 3 days ago:
Just give the migrants $100k each?
Where DOGE on all this? I presume rescheduling NASAs priorities to mars, Department of Transports priorities to Teslas, and making sure the FCC is pushing starlink… no doubt - Comment on World travelers 1 week ago:
What’s not funny is how old I feel now
- Comment on Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? 1 week ago:
I think improved road safety is a great idea. 20mph lowers emissions and wear on both roads and cars.
I just wish they made it 20mph in other areas, rather than where I drive.
I think it’s a great idea, and support it. Just… Not in my back yard. - Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure that and the White House advert halted the dip the last few days.
Except fElon hasn’t changed, so down it goes! - Comment on modern psychiatry be like 4 weeks ago:
Alcoholics, probably
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 5 weeks ago:
You have my sympathy, but not my compassion.
My compassion ran out when America continued to embrace - even celebrate - right wing rule
- Comment on Anon pumps up the crowd 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure there are plenty of psycs that study 4chan.
But the prime directive means they can’t interfere and offer help - Comment on ‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump 1 month ago:
Yes, both sides are the same.
You have convinced me. Huzzah - Comment on Romance scammers are now in the fediverse 1 month ago:
Ayyy, I got one too!
A spam message that is. - Comment on It’s not like we put letters in some sort of “alphabetical” order. 2 months ago:
Nah, the numbers are a grouping, the letters are a separate grouping, and there is a clear button.
The order is the same on both, in columns from top left to bottom right.
And the clear button is bottom right. - Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 2 months ago:
No, mainstream media is part of capitalism.
Specifically shitty mainstream media (I’m sure there are some mainstream media providers that aren’t shitty).This is a shitty product.
This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism.
This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism which happens to show mainstream media.But this isn’t mainstream media.
Mainstream media would want in on the ad revenue. Mainstream media would facilitate & encourage this.
This is just a shitty product from a shitty company capitalising on shitty practices.
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 2 months ago:
This isn’t mainstream media.
This is capitalism.This is a company making a product, selling it for a given price, then making additional money from embedded ads.
Whether that ad revenue is additional profit, or to offset the actual cost of the item - because the sold it at a loss to beat their competitors - doesn’t really matter.
This is the consumer paying for something, and not getting a full and complete product - Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 2 months ago:
If it’s a break in the middle of the fibre, then they will use an epoxy housing for the splice.
I don’t know the specifics, but something like this:
Cut/clean up the break, put through an epoxy housing and tighten the cable grips. Strip back the protective layers, clean cut the fibres and splice them all appropriately. Carefully stuff it inside the epoxy housing, fill with epoxy and let it set. Then burry/rig it again.
Those are what the large plastic cylinder things you see on cables are.
Similar housings are used for splicing copper (both data and high voltage) cables that have to withstand elements/burying, just the size (and possibly internals, epoxy type etc) change.
Black plastic cylinder that’s larger than the cable, with a couple cables coming out? Probably a splice point - Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 2 months ago:
They just cut it roughly, strip back the protective layers, then do a very precise and clean cut on the actual fibre and polish the end.
Most of the time it will get spliced into a patch panel (instead of being installed into the patch panel). At which point the cleanly cut fibre is precisely aligned with the fibre from the patch panel, then melted together.
It’s very precise. Splicing tools often use extremely high magnification, and very precise actuators to align the 2 fibre ends before they are fused - Comment on Pete Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Mistreating Women for Years 3 months ago:
The article mentions the dudes 2nd wife. Christians & conservatives should drop his ass.
Divorce is a left wing policy and shouldn’t be endorsed by anyone with Christian values. Most conservatives would likely object… Unless it’s THEIR divorce, of course. Cause only THEIR divorce valid.As for the actual article & accusations, there is a rape claim which was defended as consentual and settled privately.
Both the rape claim and the fact it was defended/settled are unfortunate.And a mixed copies of emails from the mother of ‘he is a great son, and a hero’ and ‘lies, cheats and disrespects women’ (single quotes, cause it’s not an actual quote but a gist).
Seems like a swamp of non-conservative-values non-christian-values “alpha male” type scumbag.
My feeling is the mother is right. Moms know.Get used to it. 4 years if this.
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 4 months ago:
I’d vote for the EU in a heartbeat.
I’d be fine with the euro, actually going full metric. - Comment on When people say the AI bubble will burst, what exactly does that mean? 4 months ago:
Back when Blockchain was first a huge hype bubble, there were companies that added “Blockchain” to their name, or announced a pivot into Blockchain tech, and watched their stock value soar by a few hundred percent (with market value being many times their revenue).
I had googled a list of news articles, until I found this:
www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0165176519301703A noteworthy example: cnbc.com/…/long-island-iced-tea-micro-cap-adds-bl…
Anyway.
That’s the bubble.
Over-valuation. People taking advantage of the hype. People jumping on any opportunity to “not be left out” or to “get in early”.AI has uses.
Everyone is throwing things at the wall to seeing what sticks. Not much of it will.
Marketing are capitalising on the hype. - Comment on Subnautica 2 - Official Teaser Trailer 5 months ago:
There was something nice about navigating the Cyclops through some narrow area.
I never felt the need to excel at driving the sea truck. - Comment on dream job 5 months ago:
That’s fascinating! You should update the Wiki on trebuchets.
Clearly someone has pulled a Scots Language Wiki and has been writing bullshit on that article for years
- Comment on Keir Starmer pins economic growth hopes on British Hollywood with new tax relief 5 months ago:
Brollywood is an excellent pun.
British Hollywood - a portmanteau.
Brolly Wood - brolly is an umbrella in British slang.Sorry for dissecting this frog. I just want to make sure everyone can appreciate how delicious the pun is.
- Comment on Why do phone apps update all the time but nothing seems to change? 5 months ago:
As a hobby developer, I feel like I’m just gluing libraries together to get what I want.
- Comment on When somebody backs up their argument with a 90-minute video 5 months ago:
Just point to the dictionary. “Draw your own conclusions, bro”
- Comment on From a cyber security aspect how hazardous are random mini PCs from Ali Express/Amazon if you are starting with a fresh OS install? 5 months ago:
Server hardware does.
I think dell Rx30 are only just getting to EOL, and it was released in 2015.Although, buying an Rx30 before 5 years ago would be in the 10s of thousands.
Refurbished Rx40 and Rx50 are somewhat affordable. - Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 6 months ago:
That’s like any FPS game ripping off any other FPS game.
Fight, capture, tame, train, breed animals.
Base building, research tree, enemy raids.
Exploration, resource gathering, survival.I don’t think Nintendo has a monopoly on enslaving animals.
I know what you mean, tho. It’s always described as “Pokémon with guns and 3xE gameplay”.
But does Nintendo actually have a case that will hold up in courts?
Pocketpair seems confident they can defend against it. So either they have done their research and are up for a fight. Or they (think they) are calling Nintendo’s bluff.
But Nintendo has a whole pack of lawyers.Unfortunately there are no details on what the patents being infringemed upon are, just that they relate to “Pocket Monster”.
- Comment on What interesting things can I do with my home WiFi network? 6 months ago:
You can set a static IP on the router, disable it’s DHCP, and have pihole manage DHCP with the routers static IP as the gateway
- Comment on Every show with a suicide now has a disclaimer with a suicide hotline at the beginning. Is there any evidence that these warnings make a positive difference? 6 months ago:
I can say I’ve never glorified suicide. When I’ve been suicidal, suicide is literally the only logical solution my brain can arrive at. It’s completely irrational in hindsight, but it makes so much sense at the time.
I don’t think I have ever not-watched something due to content warnings alone. But it has alerted me that there may be issues, so it doesn’t surprise me when it comes up.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 6 months ago:
A technical reason is because he has been a president before
- Comment on American tourists visiting the EU, what do you think of it? 6 months ago:
In France, no one spoke English even though I spoke loudly and slowly
Haha, reminds me of a holiday ages ago in France.
Someone left their handbag behind or something, and my friend said “I’ll sort it out, I know French”. To be fair, he did. But when I went back to tell him where we ended up, he was speaking slowly and loudly to the poor french person.Which reminds me of another time in France, having breakfast. I ordered “orange juice” and the waiter looked confused. So I said it again slower, and his face lit up and said “ah, jus d’orange”.
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 6 months ago:
Yeh, seems not
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 6 months ago:
I felt like adding something about the specific case of 180° between edges and a vertice.
Makes sense.
And I guess too many vertices means an open set of edges (ie not close, this not a shape).
I was kinda hoping for a strange edge case, like a mobius strip or Klein bottle.I guess a mobius strip is a 2d representation of a 1d paradigm. And a klein bottle is a 3d representation of a 2d paradigm.
It would be too much to ask of a 1d representation of a ??d paradigm.