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- Comment on Anon visits IHOP 3 days ago:
Well you mentioned her looking like a more senior employee in the first place :D
- Comment on Anon visits IHOP 4 days ago:
I would bet the senior employee was the one coming up with the name and is butt hurt that you don’t want to say it.
- Comment on Anon plays DnD 1 week ago:
I guess you could get away with blending a brownie if it’s fudgey enough in the center and add a bit of milk or other liquid.
- Comment on Anon plays DnD 1 week ago:
Yeah, I baked them from scratch at home and found them good. And knew I should only eat one or two pieces max or get sick from too much sugar and fat.
- Comment on Anon plays DnD 1 week ago:
Thanks for the explanation!
- Comment on Anon plays DnD 1 week ago:
Enlighten an European: are they raw brownies and you’re supposed to bake these before consumption or were they simply spoiled?
- Comment on How are wireless mice these days? 1 week ago:
Not a fan of wireless mice. Sure, the desk looks cleaner but you have to worry about batteries and the danger of losing the dongle. If you don’t need to travel with your stuff, a wired mouse is preferable.
- Comment on Does the military do regular STD tests? 2 months ago:
Because they (not OP) are in the military and are supposed to be clean due to testing. It is obviously impossible for them to catch something from OP die unknown reasons and thus the condom is obviously optional. Not even taking about risking conception.
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 2 months ago:
No, your controls are cursed! It stands for "Pretty Lame Computer"
Context
There is a YouTube channel called cursed controls which calls them that.
- Comment on Are modern electronic devices (i.e. cell phones) still susceptible to damage from magnets? 2 months ago:
Not the absolute answer you look for but my phone’s cover is held shut by a magnet.
- Comment on What is with America and the #9? For example stuff cost something like 9.99 or 3 payments of 39.99 or 9 out of 10 doctors or dentists or whomever agree? 2 months ago:
Jokes on them, I always round up to the next full dollar mentally.
- Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 3 months ago:
I can almost hear the grinding noise this will make when you step on it inside the house. Or the nasty feeling of salt in your socks.
- Comment on Is it possible to install a distro directly from online ? 4 months ago:
That is not the kind of Network boot I meant, they ride on the name for the standard IMHO
- Comment on Is it possible to install a distro directly from online ? 4 months ago:
Technically there would be network booting. I think it was intended to work over the local network but I don’t see why TFTP wouldn’t work over the Internet (when skimming the Wikipedia article). But be warned, TFTP (and thus netboot) has no security features, so you could receive a manipulated PXE (pre boot execution environment).
- Comment on What are the fun ways to learn and master the file management system in Linux ? 4 months ago:
Steam and humble bundle probably have it.
- Comment on What's the difference between the UK justice system and the U.S. justice system? 4 months ago:
Wow… this is not the form of freedom I expected.
- Comment on What's the difference between the UK justice system and the U.S. justice system? 4 months ago:
Wait what? US judges are elected without the law setting any requirements? So goat farmer John can run for county judge despite not having any legal education?
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 4 months ago:
Palia is also nice to play on and off if you don’t care about missing limited edition drops. If you’re prone to FOMO, then maybe pass.
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 4 months ago:
Did you perhaps mistake it for the other wotlds? That is a game which is definitely not chill. For wilds, I can’t say.
- Comment on Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal? 5 months ago:
[…] put pictures of bees in urinals and toilets. They served as a target, but also a joke about the pronunciation of the honeybee’s genus, Apis. Engineer and businessman Thomas Crapper […] in the toilets his company produced […]
Two puns for the price of one!
- Comment on What do you call this style of art? It is common in online articles 5 months ago:
Thanks, now I finally know the name of this style. (Not that I actually tried to find out though)
- Comment on why does almost nobody live here? 6 months ago:
Maybe too hilly or steep cliff coast ( = bad when you want fishing or an harbor)
- Comment on Has anyone tried making a free software, federated, advertising system? 6 months ago:
The tagging system is good on paper but will be gamed by the advertisers in no time. Basically bad SEO (adding random text without context just to push the site rank) all over again.
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 6 months ago:
Pathogens could easily spread this way since your collection bin would require to meet hygiene standards (i.e. cooling and rodent-free) and you would need to make sure the people treat the scraps they throw in right. And are not such with gastroenteritis or similar diseases.
If you had a magic wand which removes all pathogens, your approach becomes viable I guess.
- Comment on Why aren't there more mice with 360° scrolling? 8 months ago:
I’m not sure if that is an universal thing or just a Linux / X11 kinda thing but I can scroll horizontally with my mouse wheel. Just hold shift and then scroll the wheel.
- Comment on How are locks and keys mass produced? 8 months ago:
There are actually “rules” about which pins may go into which positions. For example, you don’t want a very short pin (resulting in a “thick part” on the key’s blade) in the first position (closest to the bow, the part you are gripping on a key) and then only longer pins the further you move towards the tip. If you had such key, you could remove it from the lock while the plug is turned as only deeper cuts (for longer pins) are encountered by the first pin. And a deeper cut can take a shorter pin without issues. That’s why you don’t see keys with a “staircase pattern”.
Another limitation is MACS (maximum adjacent cut specification), which governs which cut depths may be adjacent. When you insert a key, the pins ride up and down the cuts on the key. If you were to put a super deep cut next to a super shallow cut, the “slope” gets too steep and the key is hard to insert or remove. This means if you know the depth of one cut and the MACS for this model of lock, you can rule out certain cut depths for its direct neighbors. For example, you know that the key you want to forge has a very deep cut, let’s say depth 8, on a particular position. Since we know the model of the lock (the professionals recognize a lock just by looking at the keyhole), we know that MACS is 5 and the deepest possible cut is a 9. The direct neighbors of our 8 can be either a 9 or anything from 7 to 3. They cannot be 1 or 2 since that would violate the MACS and repeating the same depth is also very unusual, so we can rule out 8.
Now add manufacturing tolerances into the equation and the potential key space is getting even smaller.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 8 months ago:
Understandable :D
- Comment on why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right? 8 months ago:
Thanks for this wonderfully odd fun fact.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 8 months ago:
Wasted opportunity for a lemon speech.
- Comment on Should speakers hum when they're connected to a stereo, but the volume of is turned all the way down? 8 months ago:
So my great gold plated toslink cables are snake oil? :O /s