rudyharrelson
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- Comment on Battle Bun 1 day ago:
Hit 'em with the Liu Kang Bicycle Kick
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 2 days ago:
I watched Game Grumps play this game a while back and found it very funny. Certainly a labor of love
- Comment on How to deploy a satellite and what are the costs? 1 week ago:
A license obtained in the USA (issued by the FCC) only permits transmission on regulated frequencies within the USA. Other nations will have different regulatory bodies you’ll need to comply with instead. You can probably just do a web search for “<your country here> amateur radio license” and go from there.
- Comment on How to deploy a satellite and what are the costs? 1 week ago:
Space RF communication protocols and best-use technologies - I need to read about it more
You can get a decent primer on this topic here and here. If you aren’t already a licensed ham, you can look into getting your Technician license (a lofty goal, given the exam comprises thirty whole multiple-choice questions) and get familiar with transmitting/receiving across long distances.
One fun experiment you can tackle early on before even getting licensed to transmit is to just receive signals from satellites that are already in orbit and can be reliably tracked. For example: you can easily track the International Space Station and know when it will be passing over your location and set up a receiver to listen on the right frequency. It’s not uncommon for them to be broadcasting some kind of signal on a regular basis. Sometimes they even broadcast SSTV signals that you can receive and decode. Once you’ve done this a couple of times, you oughta be pretty comfortable with at least receiving signals from satellites in orbit. Good preliminary proof of concept.
A couple of handy web apps I’ve used to track satellites before:
You used to be able to track the ISS through a NASA web app, but they recently retired it in favor of their first-party app 🙄. Admittedly, it’s a pretty great app in my experience. But I wish the old web app were still online. That said, the apps I linked above should also be able to track the ISS as well.
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 2 weeks ago:
😅😅🤡
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 2 weeks ago:
Professional boxing is corrupt in many, many ways. I never said otherwise.
That said, boxing being corrupt isn’t the reason that Tyson lost to Paul. Tyson lost to Paul because Tyson was 58 years old. Again, not rocket science. This was an exhibition. The corruption you speak of is more prevalent in the actual professional circuit, not fights between youtubers and influencers.
And perhaps take your own advice about not “contaminating other people’s thoughts” with your unsubstantiated nonsense. Tyson took the fight because the purse was enormous even if he lost, just like everyone who agrees to fight Paul. No one who actually watches boxing was surprised when Paul won.
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 2 weeks ago:
And yet you refuted no part of my argument and did nothing to lend credence to your own 🤔
The ignorant party here is you. But by all means continue laboring under the delusion that you understand boxing because you watched the highlights of one YouTuber fighting a geriatric in an exhibition.
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 2 weeks ago:
Tyson barely threw a punch because he’s ancient and knew Paul could counterpunch much faster than Tyson could react. Tyson knew he was fighting an uphill battle and chose to be very conservative with his approach. Which was a smart idea. He didn’t want to get knocked out like Tyron Woodley did.
Do you actually follow combat sports at all, or do you only show up when a YouTuber is on the fight card? If the latter, I could understand why you might think the way you do. If you actually follow combat sports or have any understanding of how they work, it’s obvious that the fight didn’t need to be fixed. There’s a reason 58-year-old boxers don’t fight 27-year-old boxers. It’s boring and one-sided.
Again, “I do not like Jake Paul” is not actual evidence that the fight was fixed. Please feel free to provide any actual evidence you might have supporting your position, though.
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 2 weeks ago:
You might’ve seen one too many movies if you think Tyson was going to win that fight. Vegas odds were Paul +249 to Tyson -190.
“I do not like Jake Paul and therefore Jake Paul could not have won the fight legitimately” isn’t evidence that the fight was fixed. Paul was fighting a man 31 years his senior and several inches shorter. It’s not rocket science. Everyone wanted Tyson to knock Paul out, but this isn’t Hollywood.
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 2 weeks ago:
In what way? You mean the way Paul didn’t completely massacre him in round 1 even though he could’ve? That’s how exhibitions work. Paul was showing restraint because they wanted to put on a show. Tyson had zero chance of winning that fight so Paul carried him for a few rounds. That isn’t a “fixed” fight. “Fixed” means the outcome was agreed upon before the fight, but that isn’t what happened.
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 2 weeks ago:
trying to prove that he setup, paid and that the fights were mostly scripted
There’s nothing scripted about the fights. He just only fights people he knows he can handily beat because of his size and youth. I don’t like Paul, but the whole “the fights are fixed” narrative is silly (and entirely devoid of evidence). He’s a hack who only fights people who are ancient, retired, or not even fighters to begin with like basketball player Nate Robinson. He doesn’t have to fix these fights; they’re just that overwhelmingly booked in his favor.
Also, this entire topic gives him exactly what he wants: attention for his rage-baiting clout-chasing career.
- Comment on We like to party 4 weeks ago:
This picture has been floating around the internet for ages. I dunno if it’s entirely accurate, but it suggests Nutella is primarily palm oil and sugar. With hazelnuts and cocoa making guest appearances
Don’t get me wrong, though. The stuff’s addictive.
- Comment on Goodnight sweet prince 5 weeks ago:
At least you’ll have an excuse to finally shoot the printer.
- Comment on I swear half the posts on here are just slop now 5 weeks ago:
Nobody talks like that. Nobody
How do you think LLMs learned to talk like that? Plenty of people talk exactly like that. It’s just now heavily associated with AI because AI has been specifically tuned to output sentences structured that way.
Yes, AI has a vibe to it that can be very predictable and easy to spot, but that doesn’t mean every single instance of someone knowing how to string a few paragraphs together with certain verbiage is a bot.
Idk maybe I’m being paranoid
Seems that way. Healthy skepticism is good and necessary. Paranoia not so much.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 month ago:
Can you define “god” in this context? Does “god” imply a creator of human existence, or merely a being with abilities not understood or quantified by humans (think Q from Star Trek).
The latter isn’t necessarily a belief system in and of itself. It’s just the acknowledgement that “higher”, ascendent beings can exist because humans are not, necesssarily, the be-all-end-all sapient beings of the universe.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 month ago:
If the brownouts don’t last long, you could maybe solve this issue with a moderately priced UPS to keep the AC unit from powering off during the brief moments when power goes out.
- Comment on Not promoting hate speech but what happened to all the slights/slurs/vulgarity from like the 20s and 40s. There were so many. Now it seems well I can only think of three? 1 month ago:
- Comment on AI is here 2 months ago:
Old machine learning joke I used to enjoy cracking at work:
When an algorithm randomly changes things and hopes it works better it’s “machine learning” but when I do it it’s “horribly inefficient”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Assuming this isn’t just a shitpost:
Yes, calling someone a useless piece of shit when they are trying hard, but failing, at doing something very difficult makes you an asshole. It is the opposite of constructive feedback; it’s just an insult. In case it hadn’t dawned on you, the guy wasn’t just having to solo parent, he was having to solo parent while presumably worried sick about his hospitalized spouse.
Do I blame you for being frustrated and snapping? No, but it doesn’t mean you weren’t a huge asshole in the moment. Own your mistake and apologize if you have the introspective wherewithal and didn’t just make this post seeking validation.
- Comment on Covers the bases 2 months ago:
as if Pyramid Head, Bowser, and Shadow the Hedgehog aren’t always topping the “God I wish they were real” lists for women.
How you gonna do my boy Shrek dirty like that, not even including him in the top 3?
- Comment on Does it feel like the PS5's library is *severely* lacking compared to the PS4's around the same time in its lifecycle? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I think I’ve only bought one or two PS5 exclusives since I got mine around October 2020. Demon Souls remake and Horizon Forbidden West (though the latter is now available on Steam).
That said, I still think I’ve gotten a good amount of value out of the console by reaping the Patient Gamer™ rewards by picking up many of the major PS3/PS4 titles during good sales. I didn’t play many video games during the PS3/PS4 era, so I missed out on quite a few major releases. I’ve accumulated a pretty great digital library with some fantastic games for a relatively small amount of money (which, like my Steam library, I’ve only actually played a fraction of).
As an aside, probably my favorite PS5 exclusive has just been the free Astro Bot game. The haptics in the DualSense controller are frankly cool as hell, and I hope more games utilize them going forward.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 2 months ago:
I know you asked for TV recommendations, but, if your friend is open to other ideas, they could also look into home theater projectors. I got a super cheap projector on sale a few years ago and being able to watch TV and movies on a 150 inch screen is absolutely bitchin’. I later upgraded to a higher quality projector cause the cheap one crapped out after about a year (and replacement bulbs were impossible to find due to the supply chain issues during early covid). Spent about the same amount on the high quality projector that I would have spent on a much smaller TV.
Though there’s obviously drawbacks to projectors:
- They generate a lot of heat. In the hottest months of the year, I don’t like turning it on
- You will initially blind yourself a lot by accidentally looking at it when it’s turned on. After blinding yourself a dozen or so times you’ll develop the muscle memory to avoid it.
- You gotta replace the bulbs periodically, but they last for thousands of hours. My current bulb has about 5000 hours on it and still doesn’t need to be replaced.
- Contrast is really weak compared to a TV. Need to close the curtains and not let sunlight into the room if you want to be able to see the picture clearly
- Need a big surface to project the picture onto, ideally a screen, but a blank wall works just fine.
When we moved into our house a few years ago, I saw there was an elevated alcove in the living room with a big, blank wall on the opposite side of the room. I knew right then that it would be perfect for a projector.
Movie night kicks ass. Every re-watch of Lord of the Rings is like watching it in the theater again. And Superbowl Sundays are epic on the big screen.
I have an Epson 2250 and it’s worked nicely these past few years.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Been playing Silksong a couple of hours each day since launch. It’s been a fantastic experience so far. Tough, but fair. Great pacing, which incentivizes getting good with the default moveset before expanding it with powerups.
Looking forward to putting some more time into this one over the next few weeks.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 3 months ago:
Damn, hoisted by my own petard.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 3 months ago:
Ah, good point; I’d forgotten that part.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 3 months ago:
Sounds to me like this is exactly what the OP meme is referencing.
Basic math: square root only of positive numbers and 0. Advanced math: square root of anything you want
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 3 months ago:
Wolfram tells me
sqrt(-1) = iand it hasn’t lied to me yet.In what meaningful way is
i^2 = -1different fromsqrt(-1) = i? - Comment on Haters BTFO 3 months ago:
- Comment on Haters BTFO 3 months ago:
A wojak image can’t really refute anything; it’s just depicting the original poster as being a seething dumbass. It’s just an ad hominem response.
- Comment on Why do people like the Punisher comics? 4 months ago:
Cause I was thinking of characters who use guns, which isn’t really Batman’s vibe (aside from his very early years)
