mercano
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- Comment on Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration 1 week 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 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 months ago:
Made from vegetarian cows.
- Comment on Incident 3 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.
- Comment on Incident 3 months ago:
That’s not a very good job of redacting the names. The boxes aren’t fully opaque, I can read the names through them.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 3 months ago:
Because there’s a country between the Mainland and Alaska. Any bridge would need to be negotiated with Mexico.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 3 months ago:
Spider-Man: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
- Comment on The more things change, the more they stay the same. 4 months ago:
I think it’s also the episode where Riker goes mad and chases “Tracee” down the corridor.
- Comment on Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Elon Musk says 4 months ago:
I’m hoping it’s because cruise control needs to go through a lot more strenuous QA than an only-used-while-parked feature like a game, but at this point, who knows.
- Comment on Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states 4 months ago:
The reporter kind of dropped the ball when it’s a 99-1 vote and they don’t name the one holdout senator.
- Comment on Are there any Android controllers with split D-pads? 4 months ago:
I think the Switch would be the better example, where up, down, left, and right are four distinct buttons, to be used like ABXY when playing in single Joycon multiplayer mode.
- Comment on What is the canonical version of STVI? 4 months ago:
Of the TOS movies, the even ones are great, the odd ones are much weaker.
- Comment on Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand 5 months ago:
Won’t stop the red hats from buying it out of loyalty to the Emperor.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock. 5 months ago:
Sea otters exhibit this behavior. They keep their favorite rock in their pouches and use them to crack open shellfish.
- Comment on I got a feeling.. 5 months ago:
I’m sorry, I don’t speak Welsh.
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 5 months 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 5 months 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. 5 months ago:
I was just thinking more could go spectacular wrong with a pressurized cylinder of propane vs a bag of charcoal.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
It’s only in the last 150 years that information could travel any faster than a currier ship or rider. Before the telegraph and the radio, information traveled at roughly the same speed as goods or soldiers.
- Comment on Challenges accepted. 5 months 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.