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- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 1 week ago:
Add Dryden as the start point. :)
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 1 week ago:
I was in my mid twenties and had a supply of caffeine. Was well rested before starting. What nearly got me each of those 3 times was moose, once during sunset/twilight and twice in the night. Especially at night there is not enough time to react to moose that run out onto the road; I’ll be the first to admit I got very lucky on my run.
On my return I scheduled my trip such that I could do all my driving in daylight hours and stopped at a (iirc) provincial park for the night and slept in my car. The following morning just an hour or so after sunrise I saw the result of an Escalade hitting a moose, and it reinforced just how lucky I was on my trip south.
Further to the timing, I was occasionally speeding a bit, (during daylight) but for the most part stuck to my vehicle’s optimal fuel efficiency speed of 87km/h. I stopped once for petrol (and coffee) in Sault Ste Marie. - Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 1 week ago:
I did it once in 15 hours. I only nearly died 3 times.
- Comment on Key UK Nuclear Deterrent Link Destroyed Over Yorkshire 1 month ago:
It’s not. In theory they should be able to quickly deploy a replacement - towers can be easily and quickly destroyed but not quickly replaced. Aerostats can be replaced as quickly as they can inflate replacements & deploy (if needed) new ground equipment.
They can also be deployed from a ship, not as easily done as putting a tower on a ship.
There are a ton of good reasons to use an aerostat instead of a tower.
- Comment on An Airbus A320 recently lost all 3 hydraulic systems at the same time. They are supposed to be redundant. How come Airbus hasn't grounded the A320? 2 months ago:
Abruptly pushing the stick forward
- Comment on An Airbus A320 recently lost all 3 hydraulic systems at the same time. They are supposed to be redundant. How come Airbus hasn't grounded the A320? 2 months ago:
It wasn’t in cruise. It was in a -1G manoeuvre as part of stall recovery, and recovered the systems within 4s. Definitely not a normal flight.
- Comment on Meme check point. 2 months ago:
Missed opportunity. Gynormous envy.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 2 months ago:
I love the ones that won’t hold a pencil under them.
- Comment on Honestly...How She Do It?!? 2 months ago:
The title is real(ish) but the lady was middle aged and I don’t believe mugshots were published.
- Comment on GinkNo. 3 months ago:
So it’s tree…pre…cum? Wait, no, the tree is throwing his balls into the air, but he also grows more balls…?
Why did I even start typing today?
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 4 months ago:
Yeah, they offer workers some union-like protections, but they wildly vary from employer to employer as to how much power they wield.
A proper union will include things like wage negotiations (group bargaining), worker complaints, worker safety, legal representation, and the ability to strike. - Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 4 months ago:
Are you talking about the workers’ council? That’s not a union.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 4 months ago:
8Bitdo dongles are the way regardless.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 4 months ago:
I think the reason the big 3 get more shit for is is because they did it in the past without the excuse of A.I. - mind you, exclusive titles and paid online services were the main game for them and many console manufacturers sold their consoles at a loss. I guess that the margins on games are too slim now for the gaming system vendors to continue with that model?
- Comment on Lifeguards 4 months ago:
I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but the world is a sphere, Lemmy is a global network of instances, and without location context this comment makes no sense.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 4 months ago:
Until recently, I had a job where I could leave whenever I wanted so long as there was nothing urgent in motion and I didn’t have anything due/overdue.
My office was closed because the CEO thinks that my office’s workload can be handled by a team in Philippines using AI translation tools. - Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 5 months ago:
Get revanced. Works on stock devices, no root needed.
- Comment on This is the dark souls of games journalism 5 months ago:
Interesting. I think I will, thanks!
- Comment on Memories of defragging your computer 5 months ago:
I’m guessing dummy.bin is a zerofile?
- Comment on Memories of defragging your computer 5 months ago:
Ugh. MS-DOS 2.0-5.0 inclusive didn’t have a defrag tool. It was introduced with dos 6. While it could be helpful, the fact that we went more than a decade without a defrag tool as part of DOS reinforces just how optional it was/is. The benefit of defragging was that it would be marginally faster to read a file that was stored contiguously instead of in pieces. There was the side benefit as well that it was easier to recover data that wasn’t fragmented.
I’m not aware of any legitimate ‘Problems’ caused by simple fragmentation itself. That tech guy was not just wrong in his behaviour, but also in his technical knowledge. What an ass. - Comment on This is the dark souls of games journalism 5 months ago:
Why would you think Ape would not release it as he’s planned? He went many years of development into his first game before publishing.
- Comment on what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment? 5 months ago:
Test failed successfully.
- Comment on NASA over engineers everything... even the shit stick they use to shove poop bags down the toilet 6 months ago:
Facts, whom needs 'em?
- Comment on Annon is confronted with the pasing of time and the inevitablity of his incoming death 6 months ago:
The dawning realization of how little time we have on this earth hits really hard for some people, harder still for those that aren’t making the best out of their time.
- Comment on I know it's illegal but that's a bit drastic 6 months ago:
This is why safe consumption sites are important
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 7 months ago:
Sorry, what?!
- Comment on What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company? 7 months ago:
I think that mergers like this only ever benefit those who are responsible for taking the money out of the companies beforehand.
I believe that there has never been a merger of two near equally terrible companies that has ever benefited the consumers or the general public. It is almost always geared to getting a small number of investors paid. - Comment on Tune a fish 8 months ago:
Honestly, I try to avoid knowing any more about him than I can. I know a bunch of meta details, but didn’t dig that far into it.
- Comment on Tune a fish 8 months ago:
I thought it was Mr. Hands, the aerospace engineer, that made us require that distinction.
- Comment on A heart-warming story 8 months ago:
Good points well made.