rudyharrelson
@rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio
- Comment on fur sure 4 days ago:
As long as it’s not slathered in honey, it’s probably pretty tasty. I’ve had steak with a drizzle of sweet glaze before and the flavors can complement one another nicely
- Comment on [Question] Metal Sign on Railroad Says "790Hz" 1 week ago:
Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks for the assist!
- Submitted 1 week ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 9 comments
- Comment on Contributions for lemmy.radio (and more) 1 week ago:
I think it’s a fine idea to allow the community to crowdsource funds to maintain the instance. I’ve gotten quite a lot of mileage out of lemmy.radio since I joined a couple of years back and have been very happy with the experience
- Comment on Having to work during the apocalypse sucks 2 weeks ago:
We can acknowledge the myriad of trying circumstances that pervade modern life without resorting to thought-terminating cliches like, “There are starving kids in Africa” or “If you lived hundreds of years ago you might have died of a terrible disease”
Yeah, things could be worse. Of course it could be worse. But it could be a lot better, too. And a lot of people are justifiably angry about it.
- Comment on Truth 4 weeks ago:
I think Macklemore did us all a disservice by telling people $50 for a t-shirt means you’re getting swindled. $50 for a nice locally produced merino wool t-shirt is a bargain.
I imagine Macklemore’s point was that most people buying $50 shirts aren’t buying locally-produced clothes from a mom-and-pop shop; they’re buying overpriced, mass-produced shirts at department stores. I haven’t been to Kohl’s in a while, but I bet if I go to the men’s section at the one up the road from here, there will be an area with basic graphic t-shirts (mostly company logos like Coke) that are nearly $50.
Now that I’m on the topic, my most overpriced shirt is a Goo Goo Dolls shirt I picked up at a concert a few years ago. I really like the color of the shirt, but the cheap lettering on the front started coming off after a single wash. Very disappointing because it was a $45 shirt.
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 1 month ago:
As someone who has never read the Constantine comics, I enjoyed the movie with Keanu Reeves. I haven’t re-watched it in years though, so I wonder if it holds up.
- Comment on Cup cake 1 month ago:
I got a face mask with this design on it at the start of covid. One day I was talking out of a shop and a guy wearing a jacket with the same design walked past me. We both did the “Spider-Man pointing” meme
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 1 month ago:
I also figured this was just a “let’s screw with the youth”-type post. We used to eat pistachios all the time when I was a kid (I’m 35) and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a red one before today. They were always beige/greenish.
- Comment on Emotional processing 2 months ago:
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse: while Kratom isn’t an opioid, it can cause “opioid-like” and “stimulant-like” effects in the brain by activating “mu-opioid receptors”
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 3 months ago:
If you (or your parents) like to cook, you could get some choice steaks (or other high-end ingredients) and make a nice meal that the whole family can enjoy.
Could also get a nice game controller if you’re into video games. Most first-party controllers seem to cost about $70 these days.
I dunno what the “smart” thing to do with $75 would be; $75 isn’t a whole lot of money in the grand scheme of things so investing it wouldn’t exactly pay dividends any time soon. Maybe buy 1GB of DDR5 RAM and in a year it might be worth $75,000 if the market continues its current trend.
- Comment on Battle Bun 3 months 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? 3 months 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? 4 months 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? 4 months 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. 4 months ago:
😅😅🤡
- Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist. 4 months 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. 4 months 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. 4 months 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. 4 months 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. 4 months 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. 4 months 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 5 months 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 months 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 months 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? 5 months 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 5 months 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? 5 months ago:
- Comment on AI is here 5 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] 6 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.
