SomeoneSomewhere

@SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨never skip⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a good chunk of the world where you don’t ever have to water lawn, except when initially seeding it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World Conker Championships men's winner cleared of cheating | UK News⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "We are gentlemen at the World Conker Championships and we don’t cheat. I’ve been playing and practising for decades. That’s how I won.

  “I admit I had the steel conker in my pocket, but I didn’t play with it. I show it to people as a joke, but I won’t be bringing it again.”

  Mr Jakins won the men’s competition but lost in the overall final to women’s champion Kelci Banschbach, originally from the United States, who only took up the game last year when she moved to Suffolk.

  Hmm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did my bus driver want me to not pay the fare and instead just "TAKE A SEAT!!!"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If we knew what city/route/service and day, we might be able to get a better idea.

  • Sometimes operators declare a ‘fare holiday’ when everyone rides free, usually as compensation for some major fuckup previously, or for some other PR stunt. Metlink in Wellington doesn’t charge on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or New Year’s Eve.

  • Operators sometimes half-strike and refuse to collect fares.

  • The specific route, service, or time of day might be free.

  • It’s an express service that you can’t pay cash on (only fare cards) and it’s easier/nicer to tell you to ride for free than to tell you to get the next bus because they don’t take cash.

  • You might be part of some group (youth, students, elderly) that doesn’t have to pay.

  • Something is broken and they can’t collect fares.

  • They don’t want to deal with the big banknote you had.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mona’s ‘Ladies Lounge’ wins court battle to exclude men from art-filled space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that fundamentally the idea behind ‘separate but equal’, which has been pretty thoroughly smacked down in the US? It very quickly turned into (always was) separate and not equal.

  Doing it in an ironic, performative way for art is one thing, but I’m not sure it’s a great blueprint generally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mrrp mrrp meow :3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tumbleweed, at least per marketing spiel, is rapidly updated like a rolling release distro,(e.g. Arch) but has good testing and stability like a conventional fixed release distro.

  It’s not quite lived up to that fully for me, but I’m pretty sure the times it’s broken have mostly been my fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t normally need to specify that the sides are parallel if you specify four right angles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Natural Inspiration⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s certainly the answer.

  I wouldn’t have thought you’d want to put a building quite that close to the waterfront even in a Fjord, but apparently they did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Natural Inspiration⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the US/Canada usually does that style of power pole, with three phases on a crossarm and no neutral below.

  Barriers on what looks like a pretty low-traffic low-risk road too.

  I would think somewhere Scandinavia or central Europe. NZ wouldn’t put barriers like that up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My new m.2 ssd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  B key vs M key. Laptop likely needs a SATA M.2 using B or B+M keying, you have a PCIe x4 drive with M keying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon drives a bus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is telling the difference between a good bike (noting that even Samsung screwed that up with the Note 7…) and these: cyclingweekly.com/…/fire-brigade-calls-for-e-bike…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon drives a bus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aircraft typically have a limit of 100 or 160 watt-hours and require that the battery be separate or the whole device be small (think laptop sized) so that you can dump it in a fireproof bag.

  An e-bike has a ~1kWh battery that is probably strapped or zip-tied in place and there’s probably no serious firefighting equipment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon drives a bus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cabin crew on aircraft have fireproof bags and rather effective fire extinguishers. Dealing with a battery in the cargo hold isn’t possible.

  If you want to carry a battery on an aircraft it generally has to be less than 100 (sometimes 160) watt-hours, whereas e-bike and other batteries are often 10x that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon drives a bus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just that; it’s that a regulator signed off on the bus, the city has liability insurance on the bus, and the bus manufacturer will themselves be accredited and insured.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon drives a bus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Electric buses have a battery from a probably reputable supplier, with a decent BMS.

  Escooters often come from AliExpress.

  There is a difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ochem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More generally, -ate itself means ‘with oxygen’.

  Carbonate = carbon + oxygen

  Nitrate = nitrogen + oxygen

  Phosphate = phosphorus + oxygen

  There is apparently some nuance but it is a good rule to remember: …stackexchange.com/…/when-to-use-ate-and-ite-for-…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re better off putting the panel somewhere where it always gets sun, and isn’t extra weight you have to haul around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Leafs have battery packs with no active heating or cooling, which significantly impacts their performance in bad weather and when fast charging. Coupled with very small packs in the early models, and you have a recipe for a bad experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bear in mind also that the extra weight and possibly aerodynamic compromises actually reduce range. In some cases, particularly at night, in poor weather, and at high speed, the panels would be a net negative.

  They would only be useful if your car sat around in the sun for long periods without access to a charger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable or adapter?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  HDMI and DP do not carry their signals in the same way. HDMI/DVI use a pixel clock and one wire pair per colour, whereas DP is packet-based.

  “DisplayPort++” is the branding for a DP port that can pretend to an HDMI or DVI port, so an adapter or cable can convert between the two just by rearranging the pins.

  To go from pure DisplayPort to HDMI, or to go from an HDMI source to a DP monitor, you need an ‘active’ adapter, which decodes and re-encodes the signal. These are bigger and sometimes require external power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For security reasons⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty common to own a domain but not actually host the email server; doing on-premises email is a security PITA and most providers simply blacklist large swathes of residential and leasable (e.g. VPS) IPs.

  Unfortunately, if you get someone else to host your email, they often charge by the account, not by the domain. Setting up a new mailbox is therefore irritatingly expensive.

  A catch-all email works well, though, and is free from most of the hosting providers. Downside is you get spam…

  Jane@JaneDoe certainly seems more common than mail@JaneDoe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only 15mL and into a syringe, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed, the US has a major lack of fixed-line competition and lack of regulation. Starlink doesn’t really help with that, at least in urban areas.

  I’m not familiar with the wireless situation. You’re saying that there are significant coverage discrepancies to the point where many if not most consumers are choosing a carrier based on coverage, not pricing/plans? There’s always areas with unequal coverage but I didn’t think they were that common.

  Here in NZ, the state funding for very rural 4G broadband (Rural Broadband Initiative 2 / RBI-2) went to the Rural Connectivity Group, setting up sites used and owned equally by all three providers, to reduce costs where capacity isn’t the constraint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Starlink plugs the rural coverage gaps, but in urban areas it’s still more expensive than either conventional fixed-line connections or wireless (4G/5G) broadband. Even in rural areas, while it’s the best option, it’s rarely the cheapest, at least in the NZ market I’m familiar with.

  It also doesn’t have the bandwidth per square kilometre/mile to serve urban areas well, and it’s probably never going to work in apartment buildings.

  This is a funding/subsidisation issue, not so much a technical one. I imagine Starlink connections are eligible for the current subsidy, but in most cases it’s probably going to conventional DSL/cable/fibre/4G connections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to open a textbook⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently still alive at 85: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Goodstein

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CFCs⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Has it occurred to you that sometimes there’s actual evidence backing up the things you ridicule?

  You can go measure the acidity of rain in your back yard if you want.

  The sunlight in NZ is far, far harsher than if you go a few thousand kilometres towards the equator, where it should be hotter. We have some of the world’s highest rates of skin cancer. Are you implying that crisis actors are faking having skin cancer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aggregate bandwidth now rivals or slightly exceeds gigabit wired connections.

  Where that aggregate bandwidth is shared amongst large numbers of users, bandwidth per user can suffer dramatically.

  Low density areas may be fine, but cube farms are an issue especially when staff are doing data intensive or latency sensitive tasks.

  If you’re giving employees docking stations for their laptops, running ethernet to those docking stations is a no-brainer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wage theft exactly?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It can also include situations where the worker isn’t paid what was agreed.

  For example, if you were going to have a 10% commission but the employer lowers this to 2% or nothing, or where a $30/hour rate magically becomes $15/hour after hiring.

  They might legally be able to cut your pay by giving notice - this will depend on the jurisdiction. In other regimes, they essentially have to go through the full legal process to fire you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play Spot the Cold Solder.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s most likely that it’s related to the original manufacturing. These will be machine wave-soldered, not hand soldered, and having quality vary across the board isn’t impossible if the setup/operators were less than ideal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube: 5 ads the norm now?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Local AdBlock (UBlock Origin) should be fine for anything browser based. It’s really only consoles and smart TVs, where you ‘own’ the hardware but have no control over the software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube: 5 ads the norm now?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They should for most purposes. YT has started to try and make it much harder to block their ads, which I think has made Pihole ineffective for that.

  Connecting the Pi up to the TV and using it as the player should be an option.