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- Comment on anything but metric 1 day ago:
!anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 6 days ago:
And at those prices I’ve bought it at least twice
- Comment on Which one are you? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Which one are you? 1 week ago:
Yes, normally Neutral Good but will go Chaotic Good if the corral is empty or pretty much empty. I’m lawful good if I only have a free things or there is no corral, but in those cases I try to avoid bringing the cart back to the car.
- Comment on Which one are you? 1 week ago:
Spent the past couple weeks in France visiting my wife’s family, and was surprised that most of the stores had the coin locks but were not using them, as in they had all been disconnected so you didn’t need to use a coin to release them. I think the only store we needed coins at was E.Leclerc.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 2 weeks ago:
Spider-Ant
Spider-Ant
Does whatever a spider can - Comment on VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom 2 weeks ago:
I’d be surprised if this takes down Broadcom altogether, but could certainly kill the division. Oracle still exists, after all, even though they basically killed Sun and Java.
- Comment on Anon has fries 4 weeks ago:
Fries are usually not going to get you laid. But sharing a couple fries would’ve improved anon’s likability among that girl and maybe her friends, which is probably not a bad thing.
- Comment on Rate my routine 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t breaking something make the exercise more difficult?
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- Comment on Trending Communities for Tuesday 10th June 2025 5 weeks ago:
That would seem a little odd given the person behind it has listed their account as being on a PieFed instance.
@andrew_s@piefed.social do you know if your bot is/should be tracking PieFed communities?
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 5 weeks ago:
My school offered (from most popular to least popular):
- Spanish
- French
- Chinese (I think Mandarin)
- German
I think my child’s high school offers the same, although I don’t know the relative popularities. I’m confident Spanish is still most popular, and judging by the number of posters around the school from German classes trying to convince kids to take German, I’m thinking German is still not very popular.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 month ago:
TIL Zynga still exists
- Comment on How does HTML actually run on a computer? 1 month ago:
If it was pre-compiled that could also cause issues not just across operating systems but also the architectures, right? Like x86 on desktop versus the ARM architecture most mobile devices use?
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 month ago:
I always have a case. Basically every phone I’ve tried has felt too slippery without one to me, so I get one that’s a little more grippy
- Comment on No time to explain, grab a milk and look at the camera 1 month ago:
As it got dark they began the arduous procedure of aiming the laser and something very quickly dawned on everyone: While considerable attention had been made in the design and alignment of the laser’s optics and in achieving good sensitivity of the optical receiver, no-one had really thought too seriously about the practical difficulties of aiming a very narrow beam over a distance of 118+ miles! Using a number of improvised techniques, the laser crew managed to get the beam “close”, setting the elevation with various shims and other pieces onhand, but getting both azimuth (horizontal) and elevation (vertical) dialed in proved to be a hair-pulling task.
After a bit of fussing, the receive site crew was tantalized by the occasional brief, bright flash from the distant laser but it seemed as though the transmit site crew could never repeat the maneuver - plus the necessary corrections - to get the laser back and on-point! When the receive site crew queried the Grassy Hollow folks about this on the radio it turned out that they were using two primitive tools to adjust the aiming of the laser: A large rock tapped at the end of the metal channel in which the laser was mounted for coarse adjustments and a much smaller rock for fine-tuning!
- Comment on No time to explain, grab a milk and look at the camera 1 month ago:
I haven’t finished but this is a very interesting read
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 month ago:
The role of the county government can vary significantly from state to state too.
My understanding is that in Virginia the city/town that serves as the county seat is explicitly not a part of the county it’s located in!
- Comment on Why are American animations more expensive than Asian animations? 1 month ago:
It’s why a lot of American cartoons like The Simpsons or Futurama are animated in Asia, usually Japan or Korea. They might have American animators do the key frames and then pay Asian animators to do the tedious in-between frames, or just send it all to Asia.
This also puts a downward pressure on American wages, with the threat effectively being, “take a pay cut or lose the work entirely.” Seems to be what Hollywood is hoping to do with “AI” also.
- Comment on Shats 1 month ago:
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- Comment on It's just for testing, promise 🤞 1 month ago:
“Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.”
- Comment on It's just for testing, promise 🤞 1 month ago:
So you just had that laying around, or you bought it for that purpose?
- Comment on I’m very good at math and would like health insurance. What is the easiest option? 1 month ago:
Sorry for the slow reply; just remembered to ask her. For bookkeeping you don’t need anything. It could be valuable to get a certification in QuickBooks, but not required. It just seems to be the most common software.
- Comment on I’m very good at math and would like health insurance. What is the easiest option? 2 months ago:
Have you considered accounting/bookkeeping? My wife has done it before and it’s not necessarily the most exciting work but typically pays pretty decent. She says it can be interesting trying to track down what is preventing the books from balancing.
- Comment on What are some examples of some of the most well-known and watched TV series at the time that been forgotten culturally? 2 months ago:
Lost would be similar to that. It was huge when it was on, then it ended badly and everyone ignores it now, except for talking about how badly it ended
- Comment on Will all these multiplayer games being released without support for LAN or hosting our own servers will no longer be playable with others when the company shuts down the servers? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’ve never played Madden online. That’s very much a couch game to me still. Not that I’ve played it much in years. I picked up my first copy in over a decade a couple years ago when it was on sale at the end of the season.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
I haven’t seen it mentioned and feel like it should count, since it really just had a solo programmer working with a graphic designer and musician, but RollerCoaster Tycoon and RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 took a big chunk of my gaming time.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 2 months ago:
Copilot is Microsoft’s name for their AI service, like Google’s Gemini or Chat GPT. Recall is their service that will screenshot everything you do for
trainingimproving the results. - Comment on What do office workers actually do? 2 months ago:
Office work is largely paperwork, even if very little is on actual paper nowadays. Much of the work involves creating records or communicating with others to get things done. A salesperson will try to find clients for the product or service. They’ll typically create a record of customers or prospects with their contact information and notes about the negotiation. They’ll create a formal quotation or estimate for the customer and if the customer wants to move forward they’ll create an order confirmation. That document will trigger some other department to fulfill the order, either by providing a service or product to the customer. A work order might be provided to a service technician specifying what work is to be done and where. If a product needs to be delivered a picking slip might be created to tell someone in a warehouse where to get the product and how many to get. Once it’s been picked the product will go to the shipping department to be packed and shipped. An item fulfillment will be created saying what items were packed, how many, and what the tracking number is. Once the order is fulfilled an invoice will be created. If the customer paid in advance the payment will get applied to the invoice automatically or by someone in the accounting department. If the customer is on credit terms they’ll be sent the invoice with instructions on how to pay and when payment is due.
There are so many steps like this. The records help the business plan. They know how many parts and supplies to order. They can track if they’re selling more or less than forecast, if they need to place a rush order for more parts, ask people to work overtime or hire more employees. If something starts costing more they can look to see if they need to raise prices or redesign the product to use a different component, or find an alternate source. At the end of the day, it all comes down to accounting, making sure the company is generating enough income to pay the bills, suppliers, and employees, and hopefully make a profit.
