JasonDJ
@JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Anyway I started blastin 1 day ago:
Yeah but at the point of the explosion, 30 seconds is essentially an eternity.
- Comment on It's honestly fine, you're overthinking it! 1 day ago:
Ime dishes get precleaned more before they go into the industrial dishwasher.
You scrape in the trash, scrub in the sink, and rinse/sanitize in the dishwasher. At least that’s how my kitchen was, like a quarter-century ago.
- Comment on We Put A Man On The Moon. We Did It. 2 days ago:
I want to get off this timeline.
- Comment on Engine auto-off 3 days ago:
I was thinking about this while driving my hybrid (Hyundai Santa Fe) after watching Technology Connections (and/or Connextras) video about hybrid powertrains.
My car stops its engine when it’s not needed. But then it starts back up so smoothly? How? There’s no cranking. It just goes, already at matching revs.
But then I realized that an electric motor is a starter. Duh.
Really recommend the videos (and channels) for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.
The hybrid power train really is an amazingly simple thing.
Oh, regen braking? Just as I had thought, it’s basically engine braking. Except when you’re engine braking in an ice car, that energy is all wasted as heat and noise…in electric/hybrid, your motor turns into an Eaton Crank Radio, powered by the momentum of the wheels.
I used to drive ever-so-gently trying to minimize using the gas engine. But he made it so obvious that that’s the wrong way to do it. All the energy that the car uses comes from gas, and it either gets used to push the car forward, or to recharge the batteries…and charging the batteries is a conversion step with its own implicit losses.
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 5 days ago:
Your fault for using object-oriented programming, also known as OOP.
You should try God-oriented Programming, or GOP for short.
- Comment on How do I invest in this? 5 days ago:
Polymarket?
- Comment on Nobody tell him 6 days ago:
Whole things gonna blow over by Easter. You’ll see.
- Comment on No freaking way 6 days ago:
Little kids get excited when they here “six seven”.
It’s a damn good thing it fell on a Sunday or teachers would be going more insane than normal.
In a few years they find a new number to be obsessed with, and 68 gets serious FOMO.
- Comment on It's not that bad quit whining 6 days ago:
This is textbook hysteria. This woman needs a lobotomy, stat, before the damage spreads to her vagina. Without that, she’s worthless.
- Comment on What was your question again? 1 week ago:
What’s in your wallet?
- Comment on What was your question again? 1 week ago:
I do this at work. Too much.
My favorite to pull out whenever talking about infosec is the SpongeBob rainbow meme with just the word “security”. Sometimes I use is this a pigeon.
- Comment on An Eye-Opening Experience 1 week ago:
My kid (almost 10) takes guitar lessons.
His teacher is cool. He lets me bring my guitar and learn alongside him.
All three of us, I should add, have wicked ADD.
Most classes start out like this…we both tune up, my kid takes longer…I start playing whatever 3-4 chord song I’ve been working on that week. Teacher doesn’t know what song it is.
But within a couple of bars he knows exactly what song I’m playing and continues the song and we’re just a couple middle-aged ADD guys rocking out.
- Comment on Differences of Opinion by Wendy Cope 1 week ago:
What are the stars? They are bits of fire a few kilometres away.
We could reach them if we wanted to. Or we could blot them out.
The earth is the centre of the universe. The sun and the stars go round it.
For certain purposes, of course, that is not true. When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away.
But what of it?
Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy?
The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them.
Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that?
Have you forgotten doublethink?
- Comment on In Hollywood why do all actors and such have fake names besides their own? How do they come up with them? If I went to hollywood could i make up something like Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler? 1 week ago:
Oh yeah…they were the politicians.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
From an efficiencies perspective, I really like the idea of high-performance compute being centralized and low-power devices at the edge.
Essentially going back to the dumb terminal method. Or like BBS’s. Local-ish but consolidated.
But the idea of pooling all that compute into the hands of a few giant corporations is horrifying.
I’d much rather have, say, a competitive marketplace of service providers in local datacenters selling a specific service. I.e., I could subscribe to a Moonlight service that some dude sells on a pool of high-performance gaming servers.
Essentially the same idea as, say, Xbox Cloud Gaming, or even Google Stadia (it was ahead of its time and honestly shouldn’t have even allowed wireless)…but less closed.
- Comment on In Hollywood why do all actors and such have fake names besides their own? How do they come up with them? If I went to hollywood could i make up something like Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler? 1 week ago:
You don’t have to go to Hollywood to start calling yourself Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler. You can just do that now, without even leaving your room.
Hell I can be Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler, his name is Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler, her name is Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler…we all are. One big Pickle Wiggler family.
It don’t matter. Somewhere back on your lineage someone just decided their last name is now Smith, or whatever. They just said it, and set your surname, hundreds of years ago.
Or some dude at immigration misheard your name so just gave you a new one.
Even your first name…your mom just decided that for you one day. She said “you’re gonna be called Pat and I’m gonna have your foreskin cut off” and you just said “waaa” and accepted it.
Either way. Names don’t matter. It’s all made up by someone. You can change your name anytime you want, but you can’t get your original foreskin back.
- Comment on There was a time when people had to deal with all of these being separate 1 week ago:
Idk Technology Connections said that minivans are the swiss-army knife of cars and I wouldn’t disagree…and that many car buyers don’t really evaluate their needs when car shopping, it’s largely emotion-driven.
I miss my minivan.
- Comment on There was a time when people had to deal with all of these being separate 1 week ago:
Well, yeah, if you do one thing good, that’s gonna be better than doing a million things halfass.
It’s almost like “a cheap, right tool is better than an expensive, wrong tool”.
I don’t think we’ll see phones that are as good of a camera as an actual (read: not toy-tier) digital camera. A lot just has to do with the quality of the optics you can pack into a small lens, and how much to expect out of that lens when it’s being touched and shoved into and out of a pocket all the time.
Portable audio players…the only leg up they really have are tactile interfaces and usually expandable storage…both of which increasingly uncommon on phones. But that’s largely because the phones have nailed that job, and physical media is pretty much dead (albeit at the hands of phones).
Watch? It depends what you want out of it… As a fashion item/jewelery, point goes to legacy tech. As a utilitarian gizmo? Unless your needs are solely limited to time and possibly a calculator, point goes to modern.
- Comment on no chances for life around red dwarfs 1 week ago:
Useless red circle.
- Comment on Tune In 1 week ago:
Hey girl! Ya hungry?
- Comment on He's an arborist 1 week ago:
🎵Detachable tree branch🎵
- Comment on Cuba Libre 🇨🇺 1 week ago:
Cool, my brother in law has like stage v lung cancer. He’s a piece of shit magat though, and I never liked him. Always gave me bad vibes.
- Comment on Its simple 1 week ago:
I’d rather get wrist control.
- Comment on Have a Tootsie Roll, Fatso! 1 week ago:
Found a new nickname for my youngest. Thanks.
- Comment on If you screw up, they can fuck you over instantly. If they screw up, you get to go through customer service hell for a hour to get them to fix it. 1 week ago:
Dude…I opened a Lowes Consumer Credit Card recently. This is operated by Synchrony Bank.
I didn’t need the credit, I just wanted the discount. And being able to spread it out for no interest is nice too. I’ll take free money…sure…with how inflation is?
I had like $1000 worth of tools and materials to buy for a project. Realized that the discount promo was only on first $500. Split the cart almost perfectly and ran the first half through, no problem.
Second cart comes through and it’s declined…fraud alert.
I call and I’m told there was an “excessive amount of pre-authorizations”, which I can only assume comes from Lowes’ incredibly shitty website sending out preauth every time I modified the cart.
Anyways get that settled and I check out. Cool…now I can just wait for stuff to come in, right?
Wrong. Next morning I’m getting emails like every 30 seconds saying there’s something wrong with my account, a transaction was declined, we need another card, my order has changed, etc.
Come to find out, the store kept modifying the order when they were scanning it, to fit what they actually had in stock vs. what needed to be shipped. All of this registered as activity on the card, which got me locked for fraud again.
This time, I call them, and they tell me that they can’t do anything, the account is locked until I do their identity verification process where they have me go to an app and upload a video of my face and drivers license.
Like, fuck you, I don’t want your credit card enough to do that. And I tell them such. So alternatively they can (snail) mail me a letter with a code and I call back with it. Takes like a week.
Except I never got that letter. As soon as I got off the phone with them I started cancelling everything I could that hadn’t been delivered or shipped yet and left for HD.
Eventually I got the bill for that credit card…about half the stuff went through it.
I’ve got massive ADHD and it’s not in my regular bills yet, so naturally I wait till the due date to actually pay it.
Go to create an account and…“your account is locked, please call customer support”.
Alright…here we go again. Call in, agent can’t help. Transfers me to security. I give him the whole story. He sends me a code by email. I give it to him. Account is fully unlocked.
Awesome now I can get into the account. Aaaaand only like $12 of the balance got the 0% offer. The other $600 or so went on regular rotating.
Fuck it. I paid off the balance and shredded the card. I’m not dealing with that crap again.
Literally spent almost an entire day on the phone between Syf, Lowes.com, and the two different stores that ended up fulfilling my order.
Total clusterfuck.
- Comment on buttery males 2 weeks ago:
We can just have double the circus, instead.
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- Comment on GTA 6 Developers Announce Rockstar Games Union 2 weeks ago:
Please most of these fuckers were playing tomb raider to jerk off to laras pyramid titties on the psx.
- Comment on Fuq 2 weeks ago:
Scrapin’ fellatin’.
- Comment on 🗿 2 weeks ago:
Pharohs were literally god kings. That ranks way higher than Hegseth. You don’t question that.
