geekworking
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- Comment on Seems legit 1 week ago:
You mean Fxctory
- Comment on How does harddrive failure work when there's multiple partitions? 1 week ago:
It depends on the exact nature of the failure. Controller errors are usually a complete failure. Media failure (magnetic spots on the disk or failed cells in ssd) are often sporadic and only impact data stored in those spots.
Regardless, drives rarely give you any warning. Look at any warning as a gift and get everything off and replace it ASAP.
- Comment on I am the thing that goes *thump* 'Fuck!' in the night 3 weeks ago:
Bonus for the toilet right there in the bathroom with no door.
- Comment on People watching at a mall in 1996 4 weeks ago:
The kids in the strollers are about 30 now.
- Comment on Whoops 5 weeks ago:
I am old enough to remember when they only had manual screw drivers and thicker wood screws that needed to be pre-drilled and lubed with soap.
Go buy a modern “cheap” wood screw. Not a deck screw. An actual wood screw. Pre-drill the correct size hole, including the countersink, and use the correct size manual Phillips screwdriver. You will never strip out the screws.
Now take a 500 RPM impact driver that has almost enough torque to remove lug nuts, a worn or wrong size bit, and a thin shank screw that was only designed to hold down deck boards and the slightest slip or misalignment and have this photo.
We all do it because it is fast/easy. Just understand that you are doing things the convenient way instead of the right way, and you have to expect the stuff to sometimes not work aa advertised because of it.
- Comment on meow_irl 1 month ago:
Bring your cat to court day?
- Comment on Trump Spurned by 30 Companies as He Seeks Bond in $454 Million Judgment 1 month ago:
Don’t worry. The Russian Mob will give him bailout money just like they did for his failed casino and property business. They just need to figure out the best way to launder the money with a regulator watching the business.
- Comment on How do I "ls -R | cat | grep print" ? 3 months ago:
Use
find
instead. - Comment on It seems so simple 4 months ago:
Get a long swing out arm for the TV. Swing it 90 degrees. [LikeThis] (a.co/d/htnnZWA)
- Comment on I've No More F***s To Give! 4 months ago:
I love open mic night at Men’s Warehouse
- Comment on Let's play Spot the Cold Solder. 4 months ago:
Use a tool to push sideways on the joints and from the component side.
Bad looking joints can still have a connection even if they look bad. If the connection has truly come loose, there will be some movement in the joint.
When we were working on surface mount boards, we would use a sewing needle and run it down the pins, and listen to the sound. The needle crossing a solid pin will make a sharp sound. If solder joint is not good, the pin moves, and you will get a duller sound. Dink, dink, dink, dut.
- Comment on Let's play Spot the Cold Solder. 4 months ago:
Not sure if just glare, but a lot of these look like one side has too little solder like you didn’t use enough and/or it wasn’t flowing correctly.
- Comment on Merry ChristmaX 4 months ago:
Or he could go it operations where every day is “a bad day to stop sniffing glue” because you are the only thing keeping the house of cards up while dev and network squabble over who’s foot cannon broke shit this time.
- Comment on What is this monstrosity? 4 months ago:
Knock off version of the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile for guys with little weiners.
- Comment on Who makes those terrible sheet cake things that every Chinese buffet has? 5 months ago:
Chinese cakes, desserts, etc use less sugar and are generally more bland than western recipes. It is a matter of different cultures having different tastes.
- Comment on lol 6 months ago:
Lying in court is perjury, which is a criminal offense.
That being said, making a mistake on something like a date is a valid defense. Trump immediately recanting gives him a good way to claim mistake.
There’s more value to prosecution to make him seem deceptive and stupid than wasting more time with something like a super weak case for perjury. You also don’t want to give them more ways to draw out and delay the process.
- Comment on War Pigs 6 months ago:
Clearly, it was a false flag operation to justify a war with the opossums. The military swine complex stands make millions.
- Comment on The reason CEOs want workers to Return To Office is because they want you to quit 6 months ago:
Hybrid is only good if the employee has the choice.
Pre-pandemic I was in an office of people I liked about 10 min from home. I’d go back to that, no problem.
My prior job was 1-2 hours each way due to traffic, and I was in a room by myself. I wouldn’t go back to that.
- Comment on Watching ads while grandma is choking on a fish bone 7 months ago:
A fine fish bone is also not big enough to block the airway by itself. Heimlich can clear enough of whatever is stuck with the bone to at least partially open the airway.
- Comment on Watching ads while grandma is choking on a fish bone 7 months ago:
911 dispatchers are trained and certified to provide concise and accurate medically reviewed instructions over the phone so that you are not just standing there waiting for the ambulance.
- Comment on goodidea 7 months ago:
…And get naked first.
- Comment on But my WiFi is just fine! 7 months ago:
All of money and downtime I save from replacing broken RJ45 plugs more than covers the $10 tool and extra $2 that it costs for a keystone jack and wall mount box.
- Comment on But my WiFi is just fine! 7 months ago:
This is why Pro level is to terminate all of your permanent cabling with punch down jacks and patch panels, then use throw-away patch cables from jacks to devices.
- Comment on Does a food being like 'high in B6 vitamins' or whatever actually mean anything or make anyone feel tangibly different? 7 months ago:
You acting to defend vitamin claims actually proves my point.
The word “essential” is chosen to lead you subconscious through the path of if we know that humans need vitamins to survive, and this snake oil has vitamins, then humans must need this exact product to survive.
This is meant to implant a suggestion and not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
When product marketing calls out stuff like “essential vitamins” it is technically true, but it is generally a horrible and/or unnecessary source compared to just eating normal foods.
- Comment on Does a food being like 'high in B6 vitamins' or whatever actually mean anything or make anyone feel tangibly different? 7 months ago:
Marketing psychology.
Not really about whatever they are saying, it’s a way to drop the subliminal suggestion that there’s something “good for you” in there or that it has something competitors don’t. They often include the word “essential” when talking about vitamins to add the suggestion that you somehow have to have this thing.
Just like saying “all natural”. Dog shit and cyanide are all natural, but despite logic, most the people at some level absorb the suggestion that the product is somehow wholesome or healthy.
- Comment on 🛑,🔨⌚ 8 months ago:
At least they aren’t selling condoms
- Comment on Is has all the nutrients the body needs 8 months ago:
Can’t afford Brandow.