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- Comment on 'I found a cool GPS alternative nobody knows about' - Level 2 Jeff 2 days ago:
BPS transmits over ATSC television towers, but it’s only on in a handful of places.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_3.0
Not a lot of into yet, but hopefully Jeff will have some neat videos coming.
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 2 days ago:
I guess the discussion is over, cause I find no fault with these selections.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
By not filming back to back.
It could be that each round is a different day.
- Comment on Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re behind $1000 in taxes for a $250000 house doesn’t mean the government takes your whole house and you get nothing.
They typically sell it at auction and you get the leftovers.
www.michigan.gov/taxes/…/forfeiture-foreclosureIf you’ve lived in the house after a lifetime, you’d either have to be extremely behind in taxes, have not maintained the house, or both, for it to be a complete loss.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 3 weeks ago:
I write an average of about 3 checks per month, even now.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 3 weeks ago:
Easy, be me.
- Comment on Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway? 4 weeks ago:
PH purge was more about being unable to validate that the content was consensual/legal.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 4 weeks ago:
He’s talking about how Jeff said he needs a dishwasher because hand washing dishes takes 1.5 hours a day otherwise (and is a waste of water and energy)
- Comment on You really missed out if you are too young to remember this 5 weeks ago:
You want to listen to some Cake today? Sure you do.
- Comment on woolly mice on rice all nice 1 month ago:
But why is there a… rock? donut hole? geode? Next to the wooly mouse? I feel like it’s a pun I’m missing.
- Comment on does someone who lives very far away from me (for example 1900 miles) see the same night sky as me? (as in moon, stars, etc) 1 month ago:
If you lived 1900 miles West or East, you would see the same sky, just at different times. In this case, the difference in timezones would approximately be the difference in the sky you see. So if your husband is 3 hours ahead, he’d see the same sky about 3 hours before you.
If you lived 1900 miles north or south of each other, your horizon could be pretty different. But the stars directly overhead would be pretty similar.
If you lived on opposite sides of the equator, you might start to see different angles of the sky such that things directly overhead look flipped upside down. People in the southern hemesphere see the moon as upside down to people in the northern hemesphere.
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 1 month ago:
Amazon doesn’t make anything. There’s very little on Amazon that can’t be purchased somewhere else.
- Comment on The landlord special 1 month ago:
This is 100% a painter who’s worked with this person/company before. In the contract I’m betting it says “before we paint, remove all utilities and covers from the wall, anything left will be painted”
The first six times they did the work, stuff was left up, and they spent an hour removing everything before they started. This time, they said fuck it. We told you to take it down, this is what you’re getting now.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 1 month ago:
If the bees die off, you’re going to have a much bigger problem than lack of honey.
- Comment on Who gets all the tariff money about to be collected from US citizens buying products from Canada? 1 month ago:
The referee assigns points to teams, but doesn’t need to collect those points from another team or earn them to assign them out.
It’s a decent metaphor.
- Comment on How does one go about curing a pill hangover? Never had one but a patient of me asked me this and I had no answer. I know how to get over alcohol hangover but not a pill hangover? 1 month ago:
Patient?
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 1 month ago:
Fallout source is gone too. There was just no reliable way to store source code back then, a lot of times it was just one of the developers that had it sitting in a desk drawer.
If it’s new enough, maybe a burnt CD.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 1 month ago:
Sometimes licenses get in the way, it’s possible they bought em engine or tech from a 3rd party and don’t have the legal standing (or don’t know if they do or not) to release the source.
- Comment on I always suspected that these never actually cleaned anything 1 month ago:
Not all cd players had an accessible lens. A car deck had a slot insert and there was no way to get at the lens without disassembling the whole thing.
Computer CD players also had a tray that extended so the lens was mostly hidden.
Boomboxes and portable CD players had pop up lids where you could see the lens, but there were probably an equal number of players where you couldn’t access it.