FuglyDuck
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- Comment on What are some actual good *sour* sour candy? 14 hours ago:
They’re hard candies and not gummies, though.
- Comment on Is there an equivalent of solar panels for radio waves? 2 days ago:
You mean like…. Inductive power transmission? Like every modern cell phone uses?
It’s been around for quite a while, actually, and chances are solid, you use it every day without realizing it.
Nikola Tesla worked on it because he wanted to create a sort of electromagnetic shield that would prevent any sort of attack. The problem with the shield was it would- theoretically-prevent all the -modern attacks. (It sort of worked. The problem was it required horrible amounts of power, just for a single tower, would require a massive power grid and still had the problem of frying any bit of metal. Details.)
The inductive power transmission actually worked quite well, besides the efficiency involved in the inverse square law.
Which, brings us to the new-modern era, with inductive charging for devices- electric toothbrushes were the first since it let you seal the toothbrush and still charge it- then we see it in RFID type things
the RF powers a chip that modulates the carrier wave and rebroadcasts something different. This is used for access control, mostly, but it was basically the same thing as The Thing- a Soviet era bug in the US’s embassy in Moscow. Located in the seal they gifted. This is also used when you “tap” credit or debit cards.
We also see it while charging phones, or apple watches or anything like that.
The reason it’s all relatively low-power is that as you increase in power, it becomes increasingly inefficient. Horribly so.
- Comment on If a criminal says a cop planted drugs or whatever on them why don't they ask for a finger print test? And vice versa a cop could also request it to clear up everything? 3 days ago:
Uhm, cops are already fingerprinted. It’s on file as part of the background check. Any defense attorney would be able to file the necessary subpoena for that record. (It’s kept for all sorts of reasons.)
Further, fingerprints are considered “evidence”, and can just be collected, even if they weren’t on file, a simple subpoena would compel it- and again, any defense attorney can file and get it.
The cop-legally- enjoys exactly the same protections of due process you do. And that includes access to any potentially exculpatory evidence.
It’s going to be much harder to prove that the cop planted it, though, for one thing fingerprints on the outside are easily explained away, even if they exist or aren’t so damaged as to be useless. And cops normally aren’t stupid enough to live prints in hard to explain places.
For another, the deck is stacked in the cop’s favor- the court trusts them. Frequently, in the face of overwhelming evidence they can’t be trusted.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 3 days ago:
Open-plan office spaces are pure torture.
Get him some cheap 90’s era headphones (you know with the ribbon head band, and the shitty foam pads,) and leave a passive-aggressive note informing him his listening happens suck.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 3 days ago:
(totally not profanity 😉)
I don’t believe you. <checks> eh. coulda been worse.
- Comment on Will getting my drivers liscense renewed mess with my employer checking my driving record? 3 days ago:
No, it won’t.
At worst, your record will show that you’re about to go expired. Once the renewal processes, they’ll see when you renewed and all that.
- Comment on The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore 6 days ago:
that’s so they can say they tried for the H1B visas
- Comment on Are Asian Americans in the US more likely or less likely to get harassed by law enforcement compared to other racial groups? 1 week ago:
She was a pretty woman and even if it’s cliche, I’m pretty sure it makes things a little easier some times.
Known fact, yes.
- Comment on Can someone explain to me how a ventilation fan can suck LESS when on high compared to low? 1 week ago:
that’s a great addon, thank you.
Side note; that’s why they get noisier, too.
- Comment on Can someone explain to me how a ventilation fan can suck LESS when on high compared to low? 1 week ago:
Fan blades are basically spinning wings or airfoils.
Depending on their design or how expensive they are, they may rely on pushing air rather than aerodynamic effects at low speeds, and they’re always optimized for a specific rpm.
As it speeds up, the aerodynamic flow takes over, with the rotors creating a pressure differential that pulls air through.
As it gets faster and faster, eventually, that pressure differential reaches the next rotor and the entire thing stops being as effective because now the the second rotor is stalled out. (Only they’re all stalled out because any given rotor is both leading and trailing.)
- Comment on Reason for Walmart online product reviews frequently being service related? 1 week ago:
And three, the stupid reviews obfuscate the other negative reviews that aren’t stupid.
- Comment on Don't worry if you don't get this. It doesn't even matter. 1 week ago:
you’ve reminded me of an old joke that is only tangentially- and quite ephemerally- relevant.
Do you know why, in the Business Professionals Baseball League, the Accountants always win?
because the last time they lost, they started chanting " 2, 4, 5, 8, Who do we Depreciate!"
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
All the time.
I’m there at least once a week and I usually chat with the librarians for recommendations and to catch up with a few staff I’ve gotten to know.
They also have around 30 different clubs going on weekly, one of which I occasionally lead (teaching people the basics of 3d printing and design,) and that’s not including the dozens of book clubs they got, or the movie clubs.
And then there’s the larger events like “art days” or visiting cultural groups. The drag story hour, the princess story hour; the story hour for adults.
The major alternatives to prom and homecoming dances.
The tabletop gaming sessions.
Bingo night. Gin, hearts, spades and bridge night.
Most libraries will have something for everyone, even the poorly funded Hicksville ones where the churches likes to sell itself as an alternative 3rd space.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
Church is not a great place for third places- unless you happen to be like all the others at that particular church.
No church will actually accept you unless you’re the same as them. The “sameness” doesn’t have to be about race or orientation or accepting that.
They might be totally willing to let you in the front door, but unless you conform, that won’t be for long.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
like I said. the squeaky wheel gets the grease because it’s annoying as fuck. Keep doing it. Keep documenting it. Keep filing civilian complaints naming the officer explaining how difficult it was just to get them to do the report and they won’t do anything else.
it sucks. It’s awful. it certainly shouldn’t be this way.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
its apple to apple or android to android, I think.
I know IOS does it, though.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You know, that’s a good point.
I just checked. Victims are also entitled to speak to a public defender- or anyone interacting with the court or the justice system- including cops. (a private lawyer will be way more effective, PD’s are… stretched thin and overworked. yet another thing that needs to be changed.)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I wonder why somebody thought it was a good idea to make cell phones nark by default. read receipts was a dumb idea crafted by some middle manager from hell.
another option is to block unknown contacts from sending messages. IOS, the android/google messages and most messaging apps have a way to filter messages and just block anyone not in your contact list.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Just a word of warning… don’t lie to cops…
That’s actually a crime and they love dinging people for whatever they can.
in any case, it’s not untraceable. it’s probably pretty easily traced. but it’s a matter of filling out some paperwork to get started and cops hate paperwork. (I hate this I hope OP stays safe.)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Go to the police. File a report.
They’ll probably bs you saying they can’t do anything and to come back when something happens. and try to weasel out of a report.
But they’re legally obligated to take a report. start documenting this everytime it happens and get the courts involved.
This- I assume it’s a dude- Is not safe and he can’t take a hint.
- Comment on Why is it considered sexist to ask women to smile? 2 weeks ago:
apparently everything. Why do women need to “look better”?
- Comment on If it would solve world hunger, what would be the largest item you could fit in your ass? 2 weeks ago:
it’s reddit, so it could have been any of a hundred that are now banned, and dozens more that aren’t.
- Comment on MS new captcha: Why did it have to be that hard!?!? 2 weeks ago:
well, there’s that too.
Kind of a “we need to put this out there anyway” kind of thing…
The way they verify you’re human is how you respond, but they’re also getting you to train AI’s while they do it.
- Comment on MS new captcha: Why did it have to be that hard!?!? 2 weeks ago:
it’s not meant to deter hackers, but spam bots and web cralwers, and such like. Possibly also meant to stop people hitting the service as a way of breaking the service.
but mostly they want to know the person looking at it is a human so they can feed it advertisements.
- Comment on MS new captcha: Why did it have to be that hard!?!? 2 weeks ago:
and if you fail too many times and they collide then you’ll initiate a cascading reaction of ever-more-destroyed chess pieces, invalidating entire orbits, and rendering every possible orbit uninhabitable.
- Comment on MS new captcha: Why did it have to be that hard!?!? 2 weeks ago:
So, it’s a little known fact that captchas and such like no longer test to see if you can solve something, because the bots have evolved to pass those kinds of tests.
They also tried to set them up to succeed where humans failed, but then bots evolved to pass those, too.
So now they look at how you fail or pass, or how you keep trying. Basically, they’re checking if you’re human by seeing how you respond to frustration.
- Comment on What makes a video game triple A (AAA)? 3 weeks ago:
yep. that’s certainly part of it. But also look at Starfield. 25 years in the making and… I regretted that buy so hard. There were lots of just stupid oversights (Like shipbuilding ladders/hatches being random. Could they not create a mid-module part that creates the hatches? like equipment plates?)
“you can be what you wan’t, but we’re going to nag you about it nonstop.”
- Comment on What makes a video game triple A (AAA)? 3 weeks ago:
eh. I wouldn’t say that. Sure there’s some awful games. But by proportion, there’s only a few AAA titles each year, and the vast majority of them are at best meh. The plot is trite, the mechanics pro forma.
The real creativity is in the indie world. if you consider it by dollars, indie games tend to win out. (lets exclude all the cheap mobile games that… basically are there to sucker you into micro transactions…)
- Comment on What makes a video game triple A (AAA)? 3 weeks ago:
It’s really sad that AAA games suck as hard as they do, considering their budget, compared to indie games.
I mean, really. Indie games are awesome.
- Comment on What makes a video game triple A (AAA)? 3 weeks ago:
well, technically not ‘food’, but water is pretty much a superfood in that drinking sufficient amounts will improve virtually every aspect of people’s lives. (unless you happen to live somewhere with Republicanite Pipes™️)
But yeah. It always cracked me up when people point to berries (those Acai stuff, for example) saying “super food” because they’re “high in good stuff”. Like. Every other damn berry.) (and those greenhouse strawberries we get in winter? Much lower carbon emissions.)