Onomatopoeia
@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on What's the science behind erratic driving? 2 days ago:
Haha, and here I thought my rationalizations for driving like an ass were pretty bad, but you sir make me look like an amateur sophist!
I how down to the bigger asshole driver, and that’s saying something.
- Comment on The Unexpected History of CLUE: THE MOVIE (1985) & It's 4 Different Endings [21:17] 4 days ago:
The DVD today comes with the endings.
Love it.
- Comment on What's the best way to still something expensive that can't be shipped? 2 weeks ago:
Sad but true.
- Comment on Rich french high-schoolers drive tiny electric cars 2 weeks ago:
Gulf carts…
- Comment on Battery-Powered Attachment Turns Diesel Semis Into Hybrid EVs 2 weeks ago:
I could swear Eaton produced such assist devices 20 years ago.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Are you going to pay to change the entire electrical grid, rewire every house, replace every appliance, etc.
It would be an unimaginably massive undertaking for very little gain.
The US electrical system was well-established when Europe had to rebuild post-WWII.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Not in the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Not in the US.
US dishwashers run on a 15 Amp circuit so don’t have a preheat for the first wash. The heater is too slow.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s because I have never seen a dishwasher in the US designed for a high current circuit.
The standard is a single dedicated 15amp circuit for the dishwasher, because the standard dishwasher is designed to use the house hot water, so doesn’t need a larger circuit.
It has fuck all to do with the water supply,
- Comment on If I only have space/money for one exercise machine, what should I get? 3 weeks ago:
Yep.
I have a handful of ancient, beatup dumbbells. So much you can do with even that.
- Comment on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users 3 weeks ago:
Whats a “Discord”?
Yes, that’s sarcasm, because I refused to use that garbage years ago.
Keep on enshittifying your shitty product, hopefully that will help end it.
- Comment on Can cartilage be replaced? And if not, Why can't they just inject something like silicone into a joint? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve talked to a number of people (and have family) with both single and dual knee/hip replacements - some in their 40’s.
It’s shocking how effective it is, and how much function they have - pretty much back to normal in weeks. All of them were outpatient surgeries - where they’re expected to walk immediately after surgery (it’s part of their rehab to move the joint immediately).
I had no idea until very recently this is how it works today. I was stunned at the progress that’s been made.
- Comment on Why do we assume paper towels are sterile, or at least clean? 3 weeks ago:
Hahaha, I think someone didn’t get your humor
- Comment on How does a game server differentiate between multiple clients on the same network? Do they even? 4 weeks ago:
Mac never leaves the LAN.
The switch in your router knows what to do with your MAC - because that’s hardware level communication.
Even your machine’s IP doesn’t leave your network, your router tracks which interface your IP is on, and keeps a table of local IP:Port mapped to Destination IP:Port on the external interface.
And when you really dig into IP routing, I think the router system actually maps IP to interface, and doesn’t even know about MAC addresses because that’s a layer 2 functionality and routing is layer 3 - so it merely hands a routed packet to the appropriate interface and the switch then maps IP:MAC. But it’s been a long time since I dove into router programming internals.
- Comment on Walmart Shopping Carts Left Feet Away from the Cart Corral. 4 weeks ago:
Really depends where you are.
I’ve lived/worked all over the US. Since Walmart is everywhere, you get to see how different regions behave, or even different areas of a city.
I have 2 Walmarts nearby, one is like this, the other isn’t.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Blocking JS will increase fingerprint accuracy, but…
I can’t imagine browsing with all js allowed by default anymore. It’s painful.
With NoScript and Ublock my browsing experience is just so much better - stupid videos don’t autoplay, the screen doesn’t do weird reflow once it fully loads, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
That would be meaningless for translating to anything else, such as the time zone where any participants are.
Which is why everything uses UTC/GMT and offsets for local time
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 4 weeks ago:
You mean OP’s?.
Because it is. Right out of the gate he doesn’t define what he means.
Are we saying defend in the legal sense when accused of a crime? Because damn right I want that person properly defended against government accusations. Otherwise we’re just behaving like a mob, and that goes nowhere anyone wants to be.
- Comment on Air or electric powered? 4 weeks ago:
Battery, all day these days baby!
The improvement in battery tech became a game changer for impact tools about 15 years ago. Crazy.
- Comment on Paywalls on local news sites 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think new stuff goes to microfiche, and the old stuff has probably mostly been scanned by how and just sits in an archive somewhere.
Of course I’m sure that depends on the size of the library.
- Comment on Microsoft Paint and Photos Embed Server-Issued GUIDs as Invisible Watermarks in Locally-Generated Images 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t used either of these since forever.
And here MS is working diublr-time to push people to Linux
- Comment on Helping an "Angry Little Fella" cross the road 5 weeks ago:
Hahahaha, omg at one point there’s a “No mom I don’t wanna!”
- Comment on Hiccups just fucking suck 5 weeks ago:
Never worked for me, which explains your confusion.
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 5 weeks ago:
Best part is all these payment methods, including checks incur the same processing fees since 2006 with the Check21 regulations.
This made all transactions - debit card, check, transfer, function the same way through the same processing.
So a check genuinely costs them more - from not charging thebfee, to requiring at least some manual oversight.
- Comment on What would be a biological equivalent to an EMP? 5 weeks ago:
Do you really think no one else was working on such things?
Keep in mind the US had a demonstrated monopoly on atomic weapons for 4 years. They could’ve easily threatened the entire world to capitulate to them.
- Comment on $29 in San Francisco 5 weeks ago:
Surprisingly low for SF - that’s a common price all over the place these days.
Which is why I don’t go to such places anymore.
- Comment on How do you defy an immersive sim? 5 weeks ago:
I just say “no”
- Comment on U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk 5 weeks ago:
I want to see the agent’s proof that he entered the pin correctly
- Comment on U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk 5 weeks ago:
This started long before the current admin.
This was in place under Obama, and I’m pretty sure it started with 9/11.
- Comment on This drip coffee is now $5 dollars, up from $2.50 3 years ago 5 weeks ago:
4.99