mercano
@mercano@lemmy.world
- Comment on "I Took Every American Airlines “Flight” That’s Actually a Bus" 1 day 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.. 3 days ago:
I’m sorry, I don’t speak Welsh.
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 3 days 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 3 days 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. 1 week 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. 1 week 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 4 weeks 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” 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 2 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? 3 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 4 months ago:
Wow, a DEC AlphaStation computer. That couldn’t have been cheap.
- Comment on Caption this. 5 months ago:
The Presidential Medal of Freedom OF SCIENCE!
- Comment on Canon Connections: LDS 5x09 - Fissure Quest 5 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 6 months ago:
Well, how’s his wife holding up?
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 6 months ago:
Yeah, but it reminded me of the other quote.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 6 months ago:
“Join the army, they said.”
“See the world, they said.”
“I’d rather be sailing!”
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 6 months ago:
- Comment on Apple Explains Why 256GB Storage Is Better 6 months ago:
And that’s the small keyboard, too. An extended keyboard, with a number pad and the extra cursor movement keys, is $129.
- Comment on Yakuza creator Nagoshi says the era of game size being most important is coming to an end 6 months ago:
Yakuza maps have never been particularly huge. Even in the most recent game, the new map is maybe on the scale of GTA III or Vice City. Still, they manage to pack 15-20 minigames into each game’s word map, some of which involve driving or riding around the map, plus the inevitable scavenger hunts and hidden collectibles.
- Comment on Of course someone has Doom running on Nintendo Alarmo now 7 months ago:
Next up: Skyrim. “Hey, you. You’re finally awake.”
- Comment on Confusion on Trek Eras 7 months ago:
It’s super annoying, but even though they’re all airing at the same time, Picard, Lower Decks, and Prodigy all take place at slightly different times. At least they’re consistent with TNG stardates, where 41000 is 2364, and each 1000 stardates equals one Earth year, so you can get a year from a captain’s log entry. From Memory Alpha:
Lower Decks: 2380-2382
Prodigy: 2383–2385
Picard: 2399-2341 (Ignoring flashbacks)
I miss the TNG / DS9 / VOY era, when shows airing concurrently all take place at the same time.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas release 20 years ago today. 7 months ago:
Such an upgrade over the previous two. Three whole cities to explore, plus the countryside. They managed to stream the world data from the disc as you moved about, so no more loading screens between islands like III and VC had. This was the first GTA where you could swim, so water was no longer a death trap, and the first to introduce skills, so you could swim further and faster as you got better.
- Comment on James Darren, Teen Idol Actor in ‘Gidget,’ Singer and Director, Dies at 88 9 months ago:
Computer, end program. 🫡
- Comment on John Stewart's DNC Recap: 9 months ago:
Colbert is not a conservative, he just played one on TV.
- Comment on Factorio: Space Age Expansion Releases October 21 11 months ago:
Setting the release schedule around vacations and holidays. Sounds like the devs have a respectable work / life balance.
- Comment on After 10 years in early access, 7 Days To Die finally has a release date for version 1.0 11 months ago:
The big thing to differentiate 7D2D is every seventh night you’ll be besieged by a zombie horde. You spend the week reinforcing your defenses, stockpiling ammo, and upgrading your gear, then you’re tested. If you’re interested in this kind of game loop, it’s worth a in-game week or two. Like many of these games, they’re more fun with friends.
- Comment on Jeff Daniels Shocks Kelly Clarkson With Moving Original Song Performance 1 year ago:
“That’s right, you play guitar on the side.”
“I’m a -news anchor- actor on the side.”
- Comment on Star dates – is one day equal to 0,07 SD in TNG? 1 year ago:
It also removes an emphasis on any one particular planet’s day or year.