jqubed

@jqubed@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t some cultures do that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is a stickup⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  !stick@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on if you’re going back to school for career reasons or personal enrichment. For the latter it really is never too late. For your career, though, too late will depend on when you’re hoping to retire, when you’ll complete the extra schooling, how much the school will cost, and how much more money you’ll expect to make with your new degree.

  Without any info, assuming you want to retire around 65, I would think it would be normal to want to use your new degree for at least ten years, so whatever schooling you’d want to do you would want to be finishing by the time you’re 55. But those other variables come into play. If you’re borrowing $100,000 to pay for med school, your cutoff date will probably be earlier because it will take a longer time to pay off the student loans. On the flip side, if you’re paying $5-10,000 for a 6-month programming boot camp that will boost your income by $10-20,000/year then you might even consider doing that at age 60, especially if you’re already bringing a computer science background where your experience and new skills will keep you in high demand.

  There’s not really a one-size-fits-all answer to this question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Jurassic Park looks lit!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like Rat Race was an underappreciated movie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i told you so⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Handyman thinks lack of use in the basement lead to a clog that built up over the years. Years before Airbnb they were renting out the apartment through the local tourism department because there aren’t a lot of hotels here but it’s a scenic area. But they stopped as they got older so now it only sees use for a couple weeks twice a year when we come. But when we come with 3 people it puts more pressure on the waste line and starts backing up, and finally became a problem tonight.

  He thinks there’s a drain in the floor of our bedroom and somebody just put down laminate flooring overtop of it. There should be a drain somewhere but he doesn’t see one, and given the water intrusion there as the other drains were backing up that’s his best guess. Won’t know for sure until he pulls up the floor this week, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i told you so⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We rushed up to my in-laws about a week-and-a-half ago because my mother-in-law seemed to be dying (it seems like she turned the corner this week and I think she will recover). Tonight, though, I ran to the bathroom in the basement apartment we use at their house with an upset stomach. At the bottom of the toilet was paper, a telltale sign of a toilet that was clogged but has since drained without flushing. Feeling like there was no time, I went ahead and used it, figuring I’d use the plunger after.

  While I was there I could hear my wife in the kitchen on the other side of the wall. When she ran the sink the water in the toilet started gurgling, which is not something I’ve experienced before. Before adding any paper I figured I should try a “courtesy flush” to see what happened. It was clogged. Fortunately I didn’t end up needing much paper, but I was still surprised to find the toilet had already drained by the time I had finished.

  I decided I should try to keep running the water into the toilet, figuring that maybe it was draining too fast but if I could keep the water pressure up it might clear itself and I wouldn’t need the plunger. I tried it for a couple minutes but then heard a sound and noticed that water was filling through the drain into the bathtub. At that point I figured this was probably not a plunger problem and instead time to call a plumber.

  I told my wife but she still thought it was worth trying the plunger first, so I went to go through our room to head upstairs and get it. As I entered the room, I had the sensation that the laminate floor was floating, before it sank down into a puddle. I was wearing socks. I told my wife, so she went upstairs to tell her dad. When she came back down she came back through our room, also wearing socks. It was while waiting for the emergency plumber that I saw this post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get junk mail from T-Mobile & Verizon offering services that when I call them they say my address is not available for service. Both offer those services to my neighbors. How do I deal with this ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not a blacklist, but I know a house I lived at previously (back in the era when landline telephone was fading out but still common) one phone company didn’t offer residential service at my address but did for neighbors’ addresses and kept telling me I could only get business service. I assume a previous resident had used business service and the address was then in their system as the location of a business. Perhaps something similar is happening to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is he still on TV? Twenty years ago I worked a part-time job doing data entry at a small local brokerage. One of the assistant brokers used to complain because they had a client who would call in almost daily wanting to buy a stock he had a hot tip on, which was invariably whatever Cramer had featured on his show the night before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to be really sentimental/upset over a bowl I accidentally smashed? I had it since I was 17 (am 30 now) and my boyfriend was alive back then too.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if this is something available where you live, but Replacements, Ltd. may be able to help you. That’s basically why they exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably depends if you’re getting enough. The best way would be if your doctor tests your levels. My doctor initially prescribed me to take like a 50,000 IU dose once a week with dinner or something like that, but I found it hard to remember. I asked about switching to something daily and took an over-the-counter pill every day, which became a routine and harder to miss. After another test we doubled it so I take two pills every day and now an in a better range. But there were months in between the tests, so I think it takes time to really have an impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parking police⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Taping to the camera as shown on the left would be challenging to make work at least. The cameras don’t put out light so whatever image you use would have to be on paper thin and light enough for backlighting to work. The distortion that close would also be extreme, so you’d want to keep the main part of your image in the center and small. And yeah, it’d probably be blurry, but the resolution on most of those cameras was already pretty bad up until a few years ago so you might not notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parking police⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The manufacturers were opposed to them being required. I think they claimed it would cost an extra $200-250 per car. But they sure won’t pass up on the ads if they think they can get away with it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another angle of this modern art installation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m very curious about who screwed up first

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Read it in a southern accent, it'll makes sense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they can’t sell fountain drinks because they don’t have water they shouldn’t be open at all because they also don’t have water in their hand wash sinks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨il boohoo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I moved away after high school my parents sold the old Volvo station wagon I was driving, decided the newer Volvo wagon my mom had been driving would be what my younger siblings would drive, and with strong encouragement from my younger brother, my mom picked up a used Boxster thinking that she’d never have to do the carpool line again. This was after the dot-com bubble burst and there was a surplus of used Porsches for relatively cheap. Somehow they found one as an automatic transmission back then, but it was still the best car I’ve ever driven as far as the handling goes. I loved the GTI I bought later, but that Boxster was a different level. At the speed limit it was almost like the car was steering itself because it was so effortless, and it was easy to go double the posted speed limit without realizing it if there weren’t other cars around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨il boohoo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel confident that plenty of Ferraris have caused their owners a great deal of sadness, along with joy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling all Dickheads!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one of the very small number of books to defeat me. The narrative part was okay but every other chapter was full of wildly inaccurate “natural history” descriptions of whales and their lives and I just couldn’t take it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GameStop workers say its trade anything day will be a huge mess⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t work there and I also say it will be a huge mess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The article on The Verge has a quote from someone at Valve saying they expect that will be among the first ones the community creates for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As much work as the Verge article says they put into cooling, I’m not too worried about heat issues

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never written a game FAQ but when I’ve done documentation for other things on a computer I’ve found that I prefer recording myself doing the task and then writing the guide while going back through the video. It’s too easy to skip steps otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nanananana⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Top right looks a little like Godzilla

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely spongeworthy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a strong preference for Dobie Pads, and found their version inferior

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely spongeworthy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How well did they work if she still became a mom, though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely spongeworthy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the birth control sponge still available?

  Yes. Though the birth control sponge was taken off the market in 1994 – and again in 2008 – it was reintroduced for a second time in 2009.

  Why was the birth control sponge discontinued?

  The birth control sponge was introduced in 1983, but was discontinued in 1994 after FDA inspectors discovered bacterial contamination at its manufacturing plant. The sponge reemerged in 2005 under new ownership. The new owners promoted the product and then sold it to another company – a business that went bankrupt in 2007. A new distributor picked up the birth control sponge in 2009, and the product has been sold nationwide since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Username relevant?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A hypothesis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically started on Apple II at school, at home we first got a 286 PC compatible running Windows 3.1 and some version of DOS, then in 5th/6th grade had a little exposure to Macs at school before switching to schools where everything was Windows. Didn’t touch a Mac again until college and it was another 8 years or so before I got comfortable with them. Now I barely touch Windows and am starting to get into Linux and have my eye on potentially trying some variants of BSD also.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Powered My House Using 500 Disposable vapes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is commercial/industrial service is normally 3-phase but residential service is typically only single-phase. Wikipedia says that gets supplied as two 120V AC lines that are 180° out of phase with each other along with a shared neutral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are computer chips designed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What was the book and would you recommend it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you even old enough to remember number 1?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a toy version of number 1. My first was number 4 or a similar model, a hand-me-down from my dad when I started driving and he upgraded to number 5. We actually found number 4 while clearing out the house when moving my parents a couple years ago. Not sure why they still had it; it had been years since anyone used it when they moved in almost 20 years earlier.