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- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 3 days ago:
That would be the responsible thing to do if you want to make sure you can find an acceptable mate.
But then there’s ADHD and depression to deal with. Video games and anime are a lot more approachable if you don’t have the psychological fortitude to take yourself out of the morning fun pit and go touch grass.
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 3 days ago:
“Taylor swift and watching reality TV” how would he have reacted?
Can’t speak for anon, but TS is more enjoyable than one would expect. I downloaded Eras for my wife, expecting it to be long and boring, and watched the whole damn thing and recommended it to my friends that would not have considered watching it.
Reality TV is fine, get a steam deck and game while they watch it. It’s so scripted you can stay caught up and gasp at the right moments without looking up.
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 3 days ago:
The trick to being into anime, gaming, and being able to date is to find partners who enjoy the same things.
- Comment on S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏ 5 days ago:
The problem I have with it is that it gives a false sense of security and how the world works. Most people think lightning rods attract the lightning and direct it into the ground because of this. 1/3 of the world has 220v and 110v connected directly into their showerhead without any idea why they don’t die from it.
- Comment on Time travel is easy, it's just lame 5 days ago:
I’d like to return to about 12 hours ago so I can sleep
- Comment on S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏ 5 days ago:
Pshaw, even at LV, it’s a lay theory that is, at best, vastly incomplete and, at worst, demonstrably false.
Electricity will flow through all paths, the most electricity will flow down the path of the least resistance.
That arc is going up because the plasma is hot and the air is turbulent.
- Comment on Dylan is my new soulmate. 1 week ago:
Under those circumstances, Dylan’s message reads VERY differently :)
- Comment on Resume help 1 week ago:
ohh give Facebook a week or two.
- Comment on Resume help 1 week ago:
I’ll take a double #1 with a side of #2, and a couple shakes of #5 please.
- Comment on Funded in 5 minutes - the open source modular mini computer 'Pilet' is on Kickstarter 1 week ago:
Every time I see a physical keyboard on a portable device I have this nostalgia for my old Motorola Droid.
Then the lizard brain tags out for monkey brain, and I remember how unpleasant the thing was to type on. The only reason it was cool was because the onscreen was so small that that it was pleasant by comparison.
- Comment on Funded in 5 minutes - the open source modular mini computer 'Pilet' is on Kickstarter 1 week ago:
The device is enormous. The renderings at the top make it look like this cute little retro thing, It’s an inch+ thick and has the footprint of an iPad mini. I hate linear keyboards, and the keys look uncomfortable as hell to type on, but you should be able to hit each one easily with your finger. I’m worried it’s just a bunch of micro switches on top of PCB.
It is unclear if it actually comes with the pie.
The indeterminate shipping fee is separate after the campaign ends.
It’s in this weird spot, If it were a standard consumer product the price would be way too high. But I worry that for a Kickstarter the price is actually too low.
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 1 week ago:
All I see is a 4000 piece jigsaw puzzle :)
Actually, this one is less fun, just corrosion. good thing there’s enough slack to do it all again!
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 1 week ago:
Those are truly amazing. Even the giant honking old stuff on the poles is kinda neat.
could you imagine splicing stuff like this?
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 1 week ago:
By the time I was doing the work the tech was already starting to get old. That particular job was kind of amazing. It was a giant distribution center with something like 3 miles of conveyor belts and the distributed Linux operating system worth one OS ran across 20 nodes.
We hired a contractor to come in and put fiber. But it was back when fiber was very unforgiving the project took forever to get turned up. They broke about as much as they ran. To be honest I’m not really sure why they bothered with the fiber, All the long distance runs in the warehouse we’re already overkill at 10 megabit.
For the most part they were just talking to an HP 3000 at serial speeds. All the office PCs and printers that needed better than 100 meg work condensed up in the front and could easily run on Ethernet.
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 1 week ago:
Heh, It was a piece of coax cable but it was really thick and bright yellow. I was about the same thickness as an average sized thumb. The whole thing ran at ten megabit.
It had a crap ton of shielding in it. It wasn’t the kind of cable you could just bend around a corner you had to give it room to bend. Because of the shielding and relatively low speed, it could run a very long distance (500 meters)
The vampire taps were these beige metal boxes with a stainless steel cradle on top that locked the cable in.
You used a tool to cut the hole in the cable, it was this screwdriver looking thing with a tiny little nub of a drill bit in the end. The nub of drill bit was the exact right length to drill down to the core of the cable and expose the center conductor. All you had to do was make sure that the hole was clear and then none of the ground mesh touched the center conductor or the pin that would have to slide into the hole.
After you drilled the hole you put the coax down into the cradle and turned a screw on the top, It would bite into the ground on one side and a little metal needle would touch the center conductor and the other side.
The coolest part was, shit was coming out all the time, and every time it was something amazing and futuristic. When the technology could barely do anything and all of a sudden you could do something new It was just magical. The advance is all seem kind of boring these days in comparison.
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 1 week ago:
I used to absolutely love putting vampire taps on thicknet.
Okay, now we’re going to put an AUI connector right here. First you’re going to need this drill, to drill a hole into the cable… Wait what?
- Comment on Time to make your decesion 1 week ago:
You start to lose endurance. Your body becomes less efficient at recovery, and while you’re not pushing as hard and you don’t need as much sleep, you find that kicking it off earlier is advantageous. Your eyesight starts to deteriorate, you start finding that doing work in bright light affords you better focus through the pinhole effect.
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 1 week ago:
Ak, can’t seem to find them on my phone, there’s still on my computer but I can’t get back to that right now. I went to eBay and search for fiber optic cable and they showed up with giant spools of large cable with $1-$2. In the description below it clarified that they were just samples of the cable for that price and after you ordered the samples you could order more from them.
If you can’t find it I’ll take them back up in the morning and post them here.
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 1 week ago:
We were Americans driving through Europe and the late '90s.
It was before Google translate and before Google maps. I had an HP PDA with translation app on it. I had purchased language packs for the countries we were visiting.
Down the highway we go. This beautiful black and white sign appears in the side of the road. It was 10-12 ft square with a skull and crossbones. Below the skull was a VERY long word.
We laugh nervously. What the hell was that? Yeah right?
After driving for a little while another one. Fuck. I don’t know is the serious?
Another one. Now I’m breaking out the PDA and trying to remember the alphabet soup underneath the Grimm imagery. It doesn’t have any idea what I’m talking about. We’ll see another one coming up and we debate sitting in front of it until I get a chance to get it into the translator.
It was probably the longest compound word ever created to express the term drunk driving.
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 1 week ago:
ROFL, I’m certain of it!
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 1 week ago:
kingly say hey you should give me some of that copper line.
Haa! that’s great. Imagine trying to harvest those 22g strande from the TP :)
I hit an auction for an electrician that went out of business, I got a bunch of remnant boxes for different coax for around $10. They all had between 100 and 500ft left. Most of it’s just RG8 but there’s some strange dual cable sat line in there that’s almost decent. I do a little home networking so I have a few hundred feet of cat 6. on hand and prob a half spool of cat5 that I’ll never use. And I have.
Mostly I want the big stuff because I see it but never actually get to touch it. It’s like I’d probably want a mainframe if I hadn’t spent plenty of time screwing with one.
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 1 week ago:
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Aww, that’s awesome—you’re awesome! And that’s a wicked-looking cable. Sadly, I’m in the US.
It made me ponder, though. It looks like several different product manufacturers sell affordable samples of some of the larger cables.
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 1 week ago:
those are boring, i want hunks of cable, undersea cable, backbone cable, local telco.
what can I say, I probably have issues :)
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 1 week ago:
there’s a lot of construction near me, it was all wilderness, now they’re putting in housing developments.
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 1 week ago:
I want like 1 ft of carrier bundle fiber optic, because I think it’s cool as shit.
Every time I see one of the spools I want to go up and hack a foot off of it but I wouldn’t want to come off as a tweaker.
- Comment on Time to make your decesion 1 week ago:
I’ll take Hannah, Shiloh, Caleb or Wallace, and some noise canceling headphones.
- Comment on typical future ER visitor 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure it’ll all work out in the end.
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 2 weeks ago:
ke it thoroughly and don’t contaminate any surface with its juices.
I splurged on my garbage disposal.
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 2 weeks ago:
Wash it, it’s disgusting. Also clean off the gross white stuff and as much fat as you can. I leave the skin though.
If you bump up your hot water heater, it’ll cook it there too.
- Comment on Mildly McInfuriating 2 weeks ago:
Single establishment commercial space may be pretty expensive still but there’s an awful lot of bigger buildings starting to feel the burn from work from home. I wonder how many of the big buildings would have to fall before the commercial real estate industry takes a serious dive and they lose a crap ton of bank?
