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- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 19 hours ago:
Similar situation here. If all servers in my clusters suddenly showed a discrepancy that large, everyone would know, and I’d be scratching my head trying to troubleshoot the GPS timekeeper in the rack.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 1 day ago:
I may be an outlier, but I have 4 PCs that I use regularly:
- Daily driver laptop
- Work-ish laptop
- Storage server
- Utility server
These are the ones I am left with after getting rid of some hardware I didn’t need.
- Comment on What happens when I run two VPNs on my computer? 2 days ago:
Depends on your routing table, really.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Software compatibility for things such as Adobe products and other things that are built specifically for windows.
- Comment on How do I make a phone call to (not from) an elevator speaker, just like what a debt collector once did? 2 days ago:
And you shall get no answers, apart from this: we were into a lot of stupid shit, such as figuring our how to open the main junction box for the door bell/intercom. People could still ring to get in, but it was impossible to speak through it and be heard downstairs. Because we had an old leftover discman available and found a DC powersupply inside that we could jury rig. That way we could play Dimmu Borgir on repeat 24/7 for anyone on street level. The “Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia”, if I remember correctly.
- Comment on How do I make a phone call to (not from) an elevator speaker, just like what a debt collector once did? 2 days ago:
I’ve already been punished for tomfoolery/idiocy with that elevator. We noticed that the sensor that checked whether the door was properly closed carried 230V. I don’t remember why, but we used that to try and roast potatoes, and ended up blowing a fuse, putting the elevator out of commission. This was two days before moving out. Moving furniture down four floors via the stairs was not fun.
- Comment on How do I make a phone call to (not from) an elevator speaker, just like what a debt collector once did? 2 days ago:
Back in 2003 a friend and I noticed that the elevator where we lived had a GSM unit placed on top with the number dymo’ed on it, visible through the glass walls around the elevator shaft. So we started catfishing random on the internet and gave them that number to call around the time of day when people came home from work. Every time they complained that it was the wrong number because there were some random on the other end, we just replied “You’ve been elevated!” and logged off.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Well, the deodorant sticks look a little phallic
- Comment on Why there is no photos of earth from space? 3 days ago:
Same answer as previous time you asked this question: There are. Plenty of them too. And if you believe all of them to be fake, there’s no evidence of a round earth that you’ll be prepared to accept.
- Comment on Why are tornado sirens only for tornadoes and not other severe storm events? 5 days ago:
Where I live we do not have tornado sirens, we have air raid sirens (named as such during ww2, and the name stuck). They’re used for various emergencies such as floods, avalanche, etc.
I think the name is just down to the original purpose, and its use case is a lot less limited. It wouldn’t surprise me if our air raid siren sounded identical to your tornado siren.
- Comment on why do people say annoying/rude stuff and then tell you “it was a joke!” 5 days ago:
“In what way is that funny?” Is a simple way of countering the “it’s a joke”-cover for assholery.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Well, we picked up a hippie-looking hitchhiker the morning after a Satyricon concert during our 8 hour drive home once. It was nice. Corpse paint and everything.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
In my cars with my friends, the hitchhikers are usually among the least sketchy looking.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Half the fun of trips like that is the trip itself. See an interesting building along the way? Go check it out. Have an available seat? Pick up a hitchhiker.
- Comment on Editing Video The Good Ol' Way 1 week ago:
Wholeheartedly agree. He’s the one who finally caused me to start using patreon.
- Comment on Is it against the rules of most sites to expose a troll by mentioning an alias they use, even though it's been proven that said troll lies about everything about themselves? 1 week ago:
Yup. Some haven’t had their moms allegedly fucked by someone on the internet, and it shows.
- Comment on Is there a word for items that require both hands to use (e.g. game controller, steering wheel, handlebars)? 1 week ago:
Two-handed?
- Comment on people who drink, how long do your hangovers last? 1 week ago:
Preferably something salty. Drink loads of water too.
- Comment on Why are there silly license requirements? 1 week ago:
Much of license requirements is based on the fact that operating without proper knowledge can cause issues. You mentioned radio, which is a perfect example of this: emergency frequencies is one thing, but there are a lot of other frequencies that should be left alone. And learning which frequency ranges should and shouldn’t be used for certain activities is part of the process of obtaining a license.
Source: I have a GOC (unrestricted maritime radio certificate).
Real life example that I stumbled across as part of my job a few years ago.
- Customer calls in needing help with his VHF radio.
- It worked fine but his DSC calls were often traced to the wrong position.
- Turns out some little dinghy had an incorrectly programmed radio: The owner had bought it, and when faced with question about MMSI, he had just input numbers that vaguely resembled a valid MMSI, and started using it. 4. Oops, this “bogus” MMSI belonged to our customer.
- Comment on If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose? 1 week ago:
Plus multiplayer among like minded is fun.
- Comment on Czechs welcome 1 week ago:
I lived to Brno for close to two years. Didn’t see a single cheque/check while there. I think they’re mutually exclusive with Czechs.
- Comment on Why was Hitler so mean and hateful toward one group or another? I find it hard to believe he woke up one day and said you and you suck but these people over here are good. Taking it so far as killing? 2 weeks ago:
I can’t be arsed going into detail, but I’ll give you a half-answer to get you started: “Negative integration”. It basically means that ones identity is based on who you aren’t as opposed to who you are. Ramp this up to 11, and you further this negative integration into defining who ones enemies are, and that’s a core tenet of how fascism takes root.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
And yet windows errors will frequently suggest you contact your system administrator. At least older windows versions begavede this way.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s a Microsoft error. Nobody will ever know. Ask your system administrator for more info.
- Comment on 🎵 🎶 🎵 2 weeks ago:
Performance anxiety and stage fright is a bitch.
- Comment on moove on 2 weeks ago:
Ferist in Norwegian, at least. Translates roughly to “Cattle grid/rack”
- Comment on moove on 2 weeks ago:
We have them everywhere rural, even across regional highways here in Norway. Hell, there’s even one across the road to my local airport.
It’s an effective way of keeping cattle and sheep in an area even if said area is interjected by a road.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
I consider myself an anarcho-pragmatist. It would be nice not to have any rulers or an hierarchy. But I also know people well enough to know that unless we defer any decision making to a supercomputer everyone trusts, we’re going to need some form of societal structure.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I may be a cartoon character, but I think I’m doing reasonably well. At least we’ll enough not to be a villain. I think I’m pretty similar to Ferb’s dad in that respect.
- Comment on Is it possible to learn new things with no external stimuli at all? 2 weeks ago:
In theory, but that would be more in the realm of philosophy. You can think hard about something you already know and deduce knew knowledge from there, but you would have no way of confirming that knowledge through putting it to a test.
In short, you end up like the ancient Greeks who could come up with a bunch of hypothetical statements, and could only assume that they were correct.