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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL, thanks. I use namecheap and haven’t had any problems (mikrorik router).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have your own domain name+control over the DNS entries, a cute trick you can use for Jellyfin is to set up a fully qualified DNS entry to point to your local (private) IP address.

  So, you can have jellyfin.example.com point to 192.168.0.100 or similar. Inaccessible to the outside world (assuming you have your servers set up securely, no port forwarding), but local devices can access.

  This is useful if you want to play on e.g. Chromecast/Google TV dongle but don’t want your traffic going over the Internet.

  It’s a silly trick to work around the fact that these devices don’t always query the local DNS server (e.g., your router), so you need something fully qualified — but a private IP on a public DNS record works just fine!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guerrilla Women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  …which implies the existence of integer women, real women, complex women, imaginary women, rational & irrational women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What your coffee preparation method says about you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Debian (i3 on laptop, headless on homelab).

  But apparently my coffee is Arch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Withdrawal is going to make people go mad⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How do we get everyone angry.

  This is the problem — taking away my coffee makes me angry, but I’ll be too tired to do anything about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't ask if its level⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Come see the vise grips inherent in the system! Help! Help! I’m being drill pressed!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lab toys⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever you do, do not touch that one BNC cable. Just trust me on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the minimum wage was a comfortable living wage — like it should be, in my and many other folks’ opinion — then it wouldn’t matter. One person’s excess isn’t a problem, unless it’s at the expense of someone else (which, you know, is kinda the case…).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome bandwidth to be sure, but I do think there is a difference between data transfer to RAM (such as network traffic) vs. traffic purely from one location to another (station wagon with tapes/747 with SD cards/etc.).

  For the latter, actually using the data in any meaningful way is probably limited to read time of the media, which is likely slow.

  But yeah, my go-to would be micro SD cards on a plane :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bitey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact, the (rough) conversion efficiency of calories to mechanical joules in the human body (separate from the mechanical to electrical you’re referring to) is about 25% — but this is about the same factor as going from calories to joules! So, for a human to put out 13.5 kJ of energy would require about 13.5 food calories (kilocalories).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same argument against vegetarianism/veganism — we have teeth “designed” or evolved for eating meat, thus we should eat meat.

  …we also have brains capable of abstract reasoning, but nevermind that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just stick to elements lighter than iron and you’ll be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, a nickel...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Handy back-of-the-envelope is that a year is about pi*10^7 seconds.

  Also…hate to be the guy to mention leap years but…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaned about Bias Tee today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Picosecond Pulse Labs bias tees hold a special place in my heart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on true events⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For a while I thought the Google AI result had a pretty logical, well thought out, practical solution — use glue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Empires fall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, no hard feelings towards the retail folks, they’re doing what they’re supposed to. It’s just that I wish the corporate incentives were different so it felt more like the staff were trying to help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Empires fall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My only complaint with microcenter is that the commission in incentives come of as extreme. Like I will be walking around with something in my hand and a rando will come up to me, say “hey there boss, lemme just slap this on that for you,” and proceed to put a sticker on it with their ID. Not a big deal, but palpable, and makes it harder to just browse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women in STEM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When I took some astronomy classes in the early 2000s, Jocelyn Bell was absolutely credited. In her own words:

  It has been suggested that I should have had a part in the Nobel Prize awarded to Tony Hewish for the discovery of pulsars. There are several comments that I would like to make on this: First, demarcation disputes between supervisor and student are always difficult, probably impossible to resolve. Secondly, it is the supervisor who has the final responsibility for the success or failure of the project. We hear of cases where a supervisor blames his student for a failure, but we know that it is largely the fault of the supervisor. It seems only fair to me that he should benefit from the successes, too. Thirdly, I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases, and I do not believe this is one of them. Finally, I am not myself upset about it - after all, I am in good company, am I not!

  That said, yeah, I think she absolutely should have been awarded the Nobel prize. But while she did not, she has the admiration — rightly so — of many a budding astronomer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lingering damage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I get that people feel like they have so little control over their lives that they feel the need to generally be passive aggressive assholes to people they deem unworthy, but this is just an overall dick move. Having working public/municipal plumbing is a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon browses r/AmITheAsshole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  An incidental exchange of earwax with your (romantic/sexual/life) partner is — how do I put this? — not particularly noteworthy for a lot of folks…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do all there former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …and I don’t see it motivating people to go vote.

  But it can do the opposite perhaps — “motivate” people to stay home who would otherwise vote R. Not that, in general, we should be celebrating voter apathy, but I think that some of these endorsements could dishearten folks enough that they end up abstaining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon starts asking questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Track stands! Not a contradiction to your statement at all though: you need to be moving just ever so slightly.

  With a fixie it’s easy, because you can pedal forwards and backwards in tiny amounts. With a freewheel, it’s trickier but you get the hang of it with practice. Ideally you’ll have an incline, so you pedal forward to go forward, and ease up to slide back. After some practice I can use the raised reflective paint from e.g. crosswalks as the “incline.” This miniscule motion is enough to balance — and like you said, it ain’t the angular momentum that does it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to bottle a fart while maintaining its freshness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So we need to freeze our farts and thaw them out when we need them. Got it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seconds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easy to remember c and ℏ if they’re both 1…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always prefer it without the dashes. And just add on HHMMSS while we’re at it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be an influencer. 💅⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m usually against large institutions colluding together to kill off other institutions…

  …but if the major research universities and labs all agreed to stop publishing in backwards for-profit journals, well I wouldn’t exactly cry about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you like a receipt?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I traveling with a fixed per diem, or do I need to submit receipts/costs for reimbursements?

  Totally unscientific observation, but it seems that at airports they rarely ask if you want a receipt, and just assume that you do — which makes sense in the context of business travel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uncle Rico⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No doubt in my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gabby Thomas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean Dexter Holland has a PhD in molecular biology, but if you’re dropping into a half pipe you’re probably more likely to be listening to Smash than to his dissertation on tape…

  Different contexts. She can run like stink (as in, fastest in the world), and I don’t see how that takes away from her academic achievements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gabby Thomas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …I think she’s track and field, not swimming, but I honestly can’t tell if that’s part of the MAGA impersonation.