curiousaur
@curiousaur@reddthat.com
- Comment on I can still smell them 6 days ago:
Usually what would happen is the residue builds up on the parts that feed the tape up so it would stick, and lose index. The hammer would land between caps because the tape wasn’t advanced the distance it needed to be.
If you clean all that off so the tape consistently advanced the correct amount you wouldn’t have issues.
- Comment on I can still smell them 6 days ago:
I wasn’t that into noir when I was a child.
- Comment on I can still smell them 6 days ago:
The paper cap guns just need to be maintained. You have to clean out the residue that builds up or the paper won’t cycle smoothly through it.
- Comment on Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon. 6 days ago:
I watched that exact video. I still don’t think it’s ever more efficient to have a hubless wheel vs a good central bearing.
- Comment on Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon. 6 days ago:
Well thanks for correcting me, that is wild. I can’t imagine it’s actually pragmatic.
- Comment on Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon. 1 week ago:
The rear wheel of the bike in the picture tells me all of this is completely fantasy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
We’re Gundams.
- Comment on Bicycles should be allowed on the road with the full rights and requirements (tags, inspections, and insurance) as motor vehicles. 1 week ago:
Turn the car lanes into bike lanes, no need for a car in a city.
- Comment on 'It's not a clone of D:OS2': 6 big takeaways from our interview with Larian after the reveal of Divinity 4 weeks ago:
Oh, I hated divinity, but BG3 is one of the best games there is. I hope you can trust my review, because I’m sad thinking of you missing it.
- Comment on 'It's not a clone of D:OS2': 6 big takeaways from our interview with Larian after the reveal of Divinity 4 weeks ago:
I just hate the terrain effects of 2. Oops, the ground is all cursed, electrified water. I hope they do away with that.
- Comment on Waymo Just Reprogrammed Its Robotaxis to Drive Less Safely 5 weeks ago:
Yikes. I was just in SF for work. One of the things I liked best about wayno as a pedestrian is that you could confidently step out into the road in front of them and they would always slam their breaks so hard it never hit you, and the occupants would be all pissed about it
- Comment on Stretch marks 1 month ago:
I think stretch marks are cute.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 month ago:
Fourier transformation.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That’s a bad take. Look at PC prices. What equivalent PC could you build for $1000? This is going to be 800+ and still the best value in the PC market. Until they get steam OS on arm and you can put it in a 600 Mac mini.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
This is absolutely where it’s going to be.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption Coming to Netflix, iOS, Android, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2 1 month ago:
Who the fuck cares about PS5 and XSX gamers?
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 2 months ago:
Oh shit you’re right. I’m more lucid that I was when I wrote that and see how dumb it sounds.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 2 months ago:
If the mirrors are reflecting light into a dark part of earth, they are taking it away from a place that’s experiencing daylight.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 months ago:
False
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 months ago:
What do you mean by that first sentence?
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 months ago:
This is just logically wrong.
If birth control was only made for men, and 90% of men were on birth control, you could end up with far more pregnancies than if it’s for women and 90% of women were on it.
The conclusion is exactly the opposite of the argument.
- Comment on Feel like I'm missing out on something 2 months ago:
Crunchwrap
- Comment on Banana 2 months ago:
Its almost as good as potato!
- Comment on Condiment udders 2 months ago:
Evolution would arrive at the most efficient without external motives.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 months ago:
I think that’s the point of all this. It’s currently way too cheap for the consumers. Adjusted for inflation from the 80s, an album would cost over $30 today. Each album. To get infinite music for $10 a month, yeah the artists are getting screwed.
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 2 months ago:
It’s the one right after the disorder that is allowing yourself to be advertised to. Chumpism I think it’s called.
- Comment on Electron apps are causing system-wide lag on MacOs Tahoe 3 months ago:
Why would you post this three days after the fix went out?
- Comment on What even is money at this point 3 months ago:
Amazon is far more efficient. The store has to move the thing there, put it on a shelf. Keep the lights on. Keep the store clean and staffed.
Amazon uses algorithms to distribute a few of those items to some mega wearhouse near you. It gets picked up by someone also picking up a dozen other things. And the cost of delivery is not the whole distance, your cost is just the last delivery location to yours, and those routes are plotted algorithmically to be as effecient as possible.
You driving to the store burning that much gas and wearing your tires the whole round trip, just for the one thing makes it further inefficient.
Stores literally only make sense if you want to try the thing out, for fresh local food, or for a bulk trip like Costco, where its more of a wearhouse than a store, and you pack you car so full you’re basically acting as the Amazon delivery driver. That’s why stores like CVS and Walgreens are closing all over, it simply makes no economic sense anymore.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 months ago:
Same with all of Europe and Asia. “You can only eat food from the original neolithic people”. See how stupid you sound.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 months ago:
I’m not sure that’s the rules, in that case you can get anything from America.