mercano

@mercano@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes | Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  20 years on (yes, 20), that opening theme still gets me hyped up. I was really expecting the Battlestar to jump away from the missile in the last shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100% vegetarian⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Made from vegetarian cows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Incident⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you took the highlighter tool and changed the color to black, it may default to semitransparent. It’s useful if you’re trying to highlight something in fluorescent yellow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Incident⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not a very good job of redacting the names. The boxes aren’t fully opaque, I can read the names through them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because there’s a country between the Mainland and Alaska. Any bridge would need to be negotiated with Mexico.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spider-Man: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Line 3 used different rolling stock than the other three lines, unusual linear induction motor powered equipment, which was reaching the end of its service life. The plan was to shut it down in November 2023 and temporarily replace it with bus service while they built a Line 2 extension to serve the neighborhoods Line 3 used to. Unfortunately, a train derailed in July 2023, which resulted in the system shutting down four months sooner than expected.

  The Line 2 extension is going to take a different route to eventually arrive at Line 3’s old terminus. I think there’s plans to covert the old line 3 viaduct into a Bus Rapid Transit guideway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Security vulnerability on U.S. trains that let anyone activate the brakes on the rear car, was known for 13 years — operators refused to fix the issue until now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The big railroads are laser focused on short term profits these days, to the detriment of long-term investment and public safety. A fix would probably require updating or replacing the Head of Train transceiver on every locomotive, and that’s not good for quarterly dividends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As if increasing bicycle throughput isn’t increasing vehicle throughput. They’re vehicles, and can probably achieve a higher passenger density than individual cars can on a city street.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Project Hail Mary - Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also Artemis, a thriller set on a lunar colony. A little less science than The Martian or Hail Mary, but still fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Android controllers with split D-pads?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the Switch would be the better example, where up, down, left, and right are four distinct buttons, to be used like ABXY when playing in single Joycon multiplayer mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the canonical version of STVI?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of the TOS movies, the even ones are great, the odd ones are much weaker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 11foot8 bridge opens another big can⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s better, but 12’ 4” is still lower than usual, so it still snags some trucks that blow through the warning lights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I Took Every American Airlines “Flight” That’s Actually a Bus"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a requirement, as you board / unload on the airside. The one upside is you can do security at a smaller airport like Allentown, bus to a bigger airport like Philly, and unload airside to transfer to a jet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got a feeling..⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, I don’t speak Welsh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy PrIDE Month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could also be thinking of Integrated Development Environment, the program software developers spend most of their days using. (Combining a text editor, file manager, compiler, and debugger.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy PrIDE Month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The IDE standard was used to connect hard drives and optical drives in from the late 80’s to the mid 00’s. Also known as ATA, it was renamed Parallel ATA when its successor, Serial ATA (SATA) came onto the scene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Challenges accepted.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just thinking more could go spectacular wrong with a pressurized cylinder of propane vs a bag of charcoal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Challenges accepted.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming this is a gas grill, and the lawyers made them include this after some drunks blew themselves up or burned the deck down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Specifically, this is on the Fredric Douglas Tunnel project in Baltimore, an attempt to replace an 150 year old tunnel that’s become a major bottleneck on the Northeast Corridor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Bridgerton’ Nicola Coughlan Slams HBO ‘Harry Potter’ Project: “Wouldn’t Touch It With A Pole”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bridgerton? She’ll always be a Derry Girl to me.

  Rowling’s tweet makes me if she’s authorizing a remake to try to spite movie trio’s actors, who have gone against her on trans rights issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important information about compatibility of Nintendo Switch games with Nintendo Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also makes upgrading cheaper, though your little brother playing as Player 2 will have to suffer through having an inferior controller. (As is tradition.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first 1 star review⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This page has a good translation; I’d paste directly, but it wasn’t pasting in cleanly on mobile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CherryTree Introduces Star Trek: Deep Space Nine-Inspired "IYKYK" Raktajino Mug⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DS9 had at least two different kinds of flared mugs: the HotJo, which is still sold for $30, and the Feltman Langer, which is no longer sold, but this CherryTree is recreating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im watching an episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, filmed in black and white. In this scene a guest is showing glass making. What is going on with the film to make these black areas by the flame?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if Mr Rodger’s was shot on film or video, but either way, the flame was glowing in a wavelength the camera couldn’t pick up. Either it was a color that the chemicals in the film don’t react too or it’s not something the electronic sensors were sensitive too. Probably a high frequency violet bordering on ultraviolet. TV cameras are optimized to record the frequencies of light the human eye can see, making allowances for cost & technological capabilities. They may not work the way you’d expect as red fades to infrared or violet goes towards ultraviolet, especially when using 70’s or 80’s TV cameras in the price range of PBS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll show them⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, a DEC AlphaStation computer. That couldn’t have been cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Presidential Medal of Freedom OF SCIENCE!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canon Connections: LDS 5x09 - Fissure Quest⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lt. Kim says, “Everybody gets promoted before OPS.” In addition to Harry never getting promoted on Voyager, Enterprise D / E operations officer Data was a Lieutenant Commander from his first appearance in “Encounter at Farpoint” all the way through his final appearance in “Star Trek Nemesis,” a period of 15 years both in-universe and real world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooking advice⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, how’s his wife holding up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but it reminded me of the other quote.