adarza
@adarza@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How come manufacturers use base 10 units when calculating the space of a hard drive? Giving you 931GB per TB Hard Drive. Why not advertise the number windows reads? 1 day ago:
iirc the early hdd did use binary units for specifications. marketing and greed got them to switch to the ‘larger’ decimal-based units… bigger numbers sell better or some bullshit.
there’s been lawsuits over it, which is why the retail boxes and manufacturer web sites have the disclaimer about them using decimal-based units.
- Comment on Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare 1 day ago:
before, actually. as soon as bioware execs started sniffing the asses of potential buyers. it wouldn’t have mattered which of the game giants sucked up the pieces, the outcome would have been the same. the corpo-culture would chase the talent away and the studio would fade away.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 3 days ago:
he put it on a plate instead of just eating the mac & cheese out of the pot, and the nuggs off the oven tray.
he’s a KEEPER!!!
- Comment on Why BioWare’s Neverwinter Nights still has thousands of active players 4 days ago:
back in its early days i used to download updates for people who were still stuck on dialup. had no idea it was still going.
- Comment on Banana for scale 5 days ago:
Spain adopted the metric system in 1852 and by the time, they weren’t the most advanced country
perhaps when the u.s. finally reaches the level of 1852 spain, americans will switch too.
- Comment on meal choice 1 week ago:
can’t do the rat pellets either, unless you and a bunch of your buddies, who also each have three bucks for lunch, are gonna share a bag.
- Comment on meal choice 1 week ago:
in the u.s. for common mass-market brands of each, that is also true. about the same price by weight.
dehydrators are not terribly expensive, and jerky isn’t difficult to make at home.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 1 week ago:
it’s the sneaky ‘update and …’ options that get added to the poweroff submenu that often get in the way to produce unexpected ‘updates’ during a boot.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 1 week ago:
the default for some distributions these days is to apply updates on restarts (which produced win-like update progress screens) instead of ‘immediately’ (and leaving a kernel update hanging and waiting for one).
- Comment on They all look like this 1 week ago:
those don’t go on “all” doorways, obviously. the house we had when i was a little kid had several of them but not as doors to bedrooms or bathrooms.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos claims AI could allow 3-day workweeks; man who won't give employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 1 week ago:
i read this as: nobody will be “allowed” a long enough work week to qualify for any benefits.
- Comment on They all look like this 1 week ago:
give me earth tones, stained hardwoods, shag carpets, swag lamps, and bead curtains on doorways (and real ones over windows) over this millennial shit.
- Comment on They all look like this 1 week ago:
rentals in the u.s. generally include stovetop and oven (or combined ‘range’) and refrigerator (with freezer), and microwave if it’s ‘built-in’.
- Comment on They all look like this 1 week ago:
i call that ‘zillow gray’
- Comment on They all look like this 1 week ago:
that shit has a layer that is literally printed onto a thin sheet of vinyl.
- Comment on As it lays off developers and closes studios, Xbox gets into the movie business 1 week ago:
won’t be able to afford the next-gen consoles anyway.
- Comment on They never even notice 1 week ago:
‘american cheese’ is fine. it’s what most fast food joints and many restaurants use.
it’s the individually-wrapped ‘singles’ that is the abomination.
they are two distinctly different products.
- Comment on Just coincidence 2 weeks ago:
for being a ‘department of war’, one would think they’d actually be good at it.
- Comment on No, you can't keep your 20 year old dictionary password 2 weeks ago:
hmm. that many letters. ok. 1…2…3… ah 16. cool.
here we go:
Sixteenpassword!
error: you must include a number
there is a number in it you stupid fuck.
- Comment on Finally here 2 weeks ago:
please and thank you! just in time to see the wild vs jets on tuesday. haven’t been up there since the first incarnation of the moose moved up there from the cities.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 2 weeks ago:
take all but 1.5mL out of that gallon jug of household bleach, then fill it back up with water. that’s roughly the concentration of chlorine in a swimming pool.
- Comment on 10 reasons why we should move Israel to Utah 2 weeks ago:
The actual holy land is Missouri
in fact, the merger of the two great religions has already happened there… in springfield.
cabela’s and bass pro shops.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 2 weeks ago:
older than
100full retirement age - Comment on the only thing that never trickles down is the money 2 weeks ago:
a lot of the nutcases on the right don’t even bother with the sales pitch anymore. they just take the money, cut the rich guy’s taxes, fuck over the little guy… just for fun and profits.
- Comment on life hack 2 weeks ago:
this is the ‘version’ more americans may be familiar with:
eddie albert and eva gabor (who play a husband and wife) from the titles of green acres which ran for 170 episodes over six years back in the early days of color broadcasts, and decades of syndication and streaming since.
- Comment on Hate when this happens 3 weeks ago:
less easy to mindlessly individually open 10 snack bags of chips.
but soooo fucking easy to go through a half-bag’s worth of mini candybars and other assorted goodies from a halloween stash without even realizing.
- Comment on Hate when this happens 3 weeks ago:
me. at aldi. and it’s an achievement i have yet to claim, not that i’ve really tried that hard not to take home a bounty from ‘snack food warehouse’
- Comment on GF loves Disney. Favorite character is Chip from Chip and Dale. Was thrilled to get this picture with him. 3 weeks ago:
so that’s why mom liked going to see them.
no, wait. sorry. that was chippendales.
- Comment on You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox. 3 weeks ago:
firefox is a spring garden filled with wildflowers and honeybees going about their business compared to the hellscape that is windows group policies.
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 3 weeks ago:
these were great, when the pound of ground beef or chuck was less than a buck. but at 6+ bucks? i’d be making burgers, or at least a meatloaf, not this. we don’t waste our venison on this stuff, either.
but this box in particular is called ‘desperation’, on the part of general mills to try halt what must be a massive sales slump due to the fucked-up beef markets.
