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- Comment on What are the odds of getting salmonella when eating raw poultry products? 1 day ago:
Watched a thing on PBS that said basically 25% of poultry has salmonella contamination.
- Comment on General thread 4 days ago:
Bu….buffalo?
- Comment on crab lyfe 6 days ago:
Their Bluesky account has a lot more real content. I wonder if the memes are a way to say goodbye to Twitter.
- Comment on crab lyfe 6 days ago:
They’ve been dropping all kinds of memes lately x.com/montereyaq
- Comment on You're welcome for being reminded 1 week ago:
Good video on the topic youtu.be/khH_o9TfJyE?si=44YO2DE1UNtNrscV
- Comment on ScIence 1 week ago:
Damn, I was really holding out for Hella for 10^27
- Comment on Free Spot! 1 week ago:
- Comment on We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23 1 week ago:
I once closed my account with BoA in person and they paid me out in cash. This was 2009.
I got a letter a few months later stating that they overpaid me and I owed them 19 cents.
I told them I had an FDIC notice that I no longer had an account with them and they could fuck off. They said that they’d “let it slide.”
- Comment on Resistor/Capacitor broke off, anyone knows if it matters? 1 week ago:
Possibly. Might be marking some isolation or just a stylistic choice by the designer.
- Comment on Resistor/Capacitor broke off, anyone knows if it matters? 1 week ago:
My other running theory is that (due to relative proximity to audio chip), they’re muting FETs for muting audio channels when connecting headphones/speakers to prevent speaker pop.
- Comment on Resistor/Capacitor broke off, anyone knows if it matters? 1 week ago:
Here’s another idea. In that image, directly below these FETs you can see the little crab logo on the chip. That’s the audio driver. It’s possible these FETs are muting FETS for the analog audio channels. Basically they hold the audio lines down while you connect/disconnect your audio devices. If the motherboard supports 9.1 audio, that’d explain why there’s 10 of them. One per channel.
Like this: Image
- Comment on Resistor/Capacitor broke off, anyone knows if it matters? 1 week ago:
Can you link that note?
I think that’s usually the method in high power applications where heat dissipation is paramount. Each of these diodes is only rated for 210mA of drain current. From a BOM cost perspective, it’d be much cheaper to just buy one 5A FET rather than parallelizing a bunch of 0.21A FETs. That 5A FET would be in a package that could handle whatever heat it generates.
- Comment on Can astronauts jerk off or toss the troff in space? Would their heart monitors would show it to be elevated? Or can or has any two astronauts ever had sex in space? 1 week ago:
From the book “Packing for Mars” by Mary Roach:
In a memoir, astronaut Michael Collins relates a story of a physician back in the Apollo era who recommended regular masturbation on long missions, lest astronauts develop prostate infections. The flight surgeon for Collins’s moon mission “decided to ignore that advice,” and ignoring seems to have been the basic approach to the human sex drive ever since. It’s the same way at the Russian space agency. Cosmonaut Alexandr Laveikin told me he too had heard that lengthy abstinence could cause prostate infections, but that the space agency pretends the issue doesn’t exist. “It’s up to yourself how you will deal with it. But everybody is doing it, everybody understands. It’s nothing. My friends ask me, ‘how are you making sex in space?’ I say, ‘By hand!’” As for the logistics: “There are possibilities. And sometimes it happens automatically while you sleep. It’s natural.” John Charles told me he’d heard about the link between prostate health and “self-stim” --at NASA, there’s an abbreviation for everything-- but never heard any formal discussion, pro or con, of orbital masturbation.
- Comment on Resistor/Capacitor broke off, anyone knows if it matters? 1 week ago:
Are those near a connector (maybe on the other side?)
Could be a bunch of ESD protection diodes which only come in to play if you wear socks on carpet and touch the connector terminals.
Can you provide the numbers listed on the parts? Usually just 3 numbers/letters.
Also, looking at the circuit traces, does it look like all three terminals are connected? Is one connected to the ground plane? (The copper that covers most of the board surface around the circuit traces).
- Comment on typical future ER visitor 2 weeks ago:
spends less time in your body, less radiation.
- Comment on Behold, world class engineering from Tesla 2 weeks ago:
The car had fireworks in the back that caught fire. It being an EV or Tesla had nothing to do with it (except maybe it being hard to put out after the fireworks lit it on fire).
electrek.co/…/tesla-cybertruck-exploded-in-front-…
Still fucking weird.
- Comment on I saw Free Willy in theaters: AMA 3 weeks ago:
The only audio cassette I ever owned was the Free Willy soundtrack.
Also props to Keiko, the most dedicated method actor of all time. To prepare for his role as a captive orca in harsh living conditions, he actually became a captive orca in terrible living conditions.
- Comment on FRAG OUT! 3 weeks ago:
Good capslock discipline
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
30fps
- Comment on Do this in remembrance of me 4 weeks ago:
FYI, in the Catholic faith, the bread and wine don’t represent the body and blood, they literally are.
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 4 weeks ago:
That’s actually the model I’m using at the moment. I started out with LightPhone2, but I was frustrated not being able to get images, and I didn’t like the keyboard.
Sunbeam has been ok, but it definitely has problems. For some reason, T9 will always chose a name before any other word. So if I type “Any,” the first two suggestions are “Amy” and “Cox.” I reached out to the devs about this, and they said it’ll “learn” what your most used words are, but it hasn’t done that for me. Also, the keyboard seems to be a bit laggy and misses some keypresses.
It doesn’t help that I also spilled beer on it once which made the touch screen really wonky.
I was thinking about upgrading to a LightPhone3, but there are a few smartphone things I wouldn’t mind bringing back (like Ticketmaster for example). I preordered a Minimal phone, and I’m hoping to lock it down to just messaging, specific apps (like my car key), and no web browser.
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 4 weeks ago:
As someone who carries around a flip phone on purpose, it’s not impossible to live without a smartphone, but it’s getting more challenging.
Ticketmaster now requires a smartphone. You can’t print tickets. Which means I can no longer go to baseball games.
So far, that’s the only thing I’ve found that’s a hard block, but many other things are certainly not designed for the phone impaired.
- Comment on Four pianos. Four. 4 weeks ago:
OK Go working on a new video
- Comment on Good afternoon these are stairs. 5 weeks ago:
NSFW
Not Safe For Walking
- Comment on Do spam calls "I wanna buy your house" ever work? Has anyone ever sold their house like that? 5 weeks ago:
I usually just give them the address. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
- Comment on Do spam calls "I wanna buy your house" ever work? Has anyone ever sold their house like that? 5 weeks ago:
I’m not so sure this logic holds with how out of hand things have gotten. I’ve got automated spam calls that ask if I’m interested, I said yes, and they hung up on me.
It’s like the spam machine got left on over the weekend or something.
- Comment on TW: suicide 5 weeks ago:
Also to add, look up suicide stats in England after coal gas was replaced with natural gas. Suddenly, poison gas was less available. Not only did gas related suicides drop, all suicides drop.
No way to prove causation, but for a lot of people, the decision to kill yourself depends a lot on convenience. There isn’t a lot of planning involved.
- Comment on TW: suicide 5 weeks ago:
Shotgun physics get complicated. I remember hearing a case where the gas in front of the slug (or shot or whatever) propelled the shotgun out of the victim’s mouth, and the shot ended up skimming off their face.
Leaving them disfigured but very much alive.
In any case, suicide is largely an emotional thing rather than logical. Don’t read too much into it.
But if you’re up for a dark laugh on the topic of conscientious suicide, consider youtu.be/snjCj0ntG8E?si=8omBU_VZA_MqL-Lp
- Comment on Anon is a white hat hacker 5 weeks ago:
I’ve always wanted to start a ghost busting business.
Just explain that after I’m done, all the strange sounds they hear have a perfectly logical explanation.
- Comment on Ewww 5 weeks ago:
Wait until you pay for your meal
