mercano
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- Comment on Floating turbine towers above — the S1500 hovers to harvest wind at 131 feet 1 week ago:
How come the 131 foot altitude in the headline is never mentioned in the article? These turbine operates at 4,921 feet, a number that makes a lot more sense when you convert it to metric, 1.5 km. The article is littered with these odd imperial measurements that should have just been left as nice round metric numbers, or least re-rounded after conversion. 130 feet would have read better, but the original number was 40 m.
- Comment on TIL there is a Super Mario Bros for C64 2 weeks ago:
Yes Great Giana Sisters was heavily influenced by Super Mario Brothers, but someone has semi-recently ported SMB1 itself to the C64, using code from the original NES ROMs. Modern Vintage Gamer did a video on it yesterday, which may have inspired OP.
- Comment on Interview: ‘Star Trek Voyager: Across the Universe’ Developer On Giving Players “The Weight Of Command” 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen in the trailers that the
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Scenario is in the game. I’m curious if the developers will have any way to generate statistics about which way players make that decision.
- Comment on To demonstrate that people will argue about anything, here's a picture of a ladybug. 3 weeks ago:
Did you just assume that bug’s gender?
- Comment on Some words of wisdom from Harry Kim on this Monday 3 weeks ago:
Admitting you have fire ants in your brain makes you ineligible for promotion. Yes, Starfleet needs to reform their mental health policies, but that’s how it’s written.
- Comment on Using the same abbreviation scheme as "internationalization" -> "i18n", the word "to" can be abreviated as "t0o". 3 weeks ago:
“To” becomes “t0o,” but “too” is “t1o.”
- Comment on Not that limit 3 weeks ago:
That’s a ChatGPT kind of answer. A pattern is recognized, but the meaning isn’t understood.
- Comment on Form over function 3 weeks ago:
You’ll need a lucite engine block to show off your shiny new pistons.
- Comment on Get that silicussy 3 weeks ago:
API call girl
- Comment on Kids would encourage parents to get gas here so they could see the dinosaurs 1 month ago:
The curvy Coke bottle with a screw top also dates this to the mid 90’s or later. Before then, Coke came in a straight sided plastic screw top bottle. The classic curved glass bottles had the pry-off metal bottle caps.
- Comment on genius 1 month ago:
This is called the Jesus nut. It holds the main rotor onto the helicopter. It doesn’t have any redundancy, so if it fails, you’re going to be meeting Jesus in moments.
- Comment on AGDQ 2026 Schedule 1 month ago:
The Mario 64 70 Star, 70 Person Relay doesn’t sound like a competitive category, but does sound like fun.
- Comment on T2 butter mold 1 month ago:
I know now why you fry.
- Comment on Spoiler alert 1 month ago:
And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.
- Comment on Mr. Worf Really Blew His Mind 2 months ago:
Then grab your bat’leth and bring in the targ.
- Comment on My son asked to watch a Christmas movie today 2 months ago:
Makes sense. They each came out a week or two before Christmas. I remember finishing my college finals each year and then going to see them with my friends before going home.
- Comment on Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration 3 months ago:
With an atomic number of 241, it’s hardly small.
- Comment on Colm looks so uncomfortable without a the console in Transporter Room Three 3 months ago:
He did get an updated uniform is season 3 while many of the non-main characters were still stuck in the original uniforms.
- Comment on Pow-- 3 months ago:
The footage of them in full face obscuring costumes, along with the mecha, is mostly straight from various Japanese shows, overdubbed into English. The US production company got Japan to shoot a little bit of extra content when Mighty Morphin Power Rangers became a smash hit, before they started rotating to other Japanese series to take footage from. You can make more money off of the toys, anyway, if you have new action figures and mechs every year.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 3 months ago:
It’s kind of like Java itself, Sun dropped the leading 1 after 1.4, following it up with Java 5.
- Comment on Bet you didn't know that before Excel, people used Lotus 1-2-3 4 months ago:
There’s a long-standing bug in Excel, dating back to the original release, where it thinks 1900 is a leap year. This isn’t a mistake, though, Microsoft coded it this way because Lotus 1-2-3 thought 1900 was a leap year, and they wanted to be compatible so they could import Lotus spread sheets. However, by doing this, they locked themselves in, and they need to continue to have this bug even today to be compatible with old Excel spreadsheets.
- Comment on Baseball 4 months ago:
There are also two other ways to see the MLB logo: you’re either looking at the front of a left handed hitter or the back of a right handed hitter.
- Comment on I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience. 4 months ago:
I’ve been playing My Time at Sandrock exclusively on my Steam Deck, so controller controls. It’s more focused on crafting instead of farming (you don’t unlock farming until you’re 2-3 in game weeks in), but it’s still very Stardew. I haven’t played the previous game in the series, My Time at Portia, but I understand it takes place in a more fertile area than Sandrock’s desert.
- Comment on Harsh 4 months ago:
Make sure to lead your shot. At Apollo velocities, you’ll need to aim where the moon will be at in three days, not where it is right now.
- Comment on With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent 5 months ago:
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 5 months ago:
Ah, well, it does have a desktop mode, but it’s Linux + KDE, not Windows. It can probably do what you want, but it would be some adjustment to the new environment.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 5 months ago:
+1 on the Steam Deck train. I’ve been in the hospital the last few days, it’s been a godsend, playing Silksong between doctor visits.
You can get a dock if you want a full sized monitor or a real mouse & keyboard. The deck also has two trackpads, which is sufficient for slower mouse games like city builders while in handheld mode.
Because Valve is selling a lot of Decks, game developers are starting to use it as a watermark for low-end performance when tuning their games.
I will admit the Deck’s CPU is a few years old, you can probably get a faster portable if you really want, but SteamOS makes things pretty easy. Technically I can drop the Deck into desktop mode with a Linux KDE environment, but I can’t remember the last time I had to. Maybe when I was trying Minecraft?
- Comment on Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes | Reveal Trailer 6 months 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 6 months ago:
Made from vegetarian cows.
- Comment on Incident 6 months 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.