captain_aggravated
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 5 hours ago:
Okay, so looking it up, it seems that the Beast was/is a prince, which in at least some traditions would mean his wife would be elevated to the rank of princess. I don’t know if that’s how it worked in the original French short story.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 15 hours ago:
Jane: Disney yes, Princess no.
Anastasia: Disney no, Princess yes.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 17 hours ago:
Who here forgot Disney even made Tarzan? ✋
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 17 hours ago:
Or Belle or Jane.
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 18 hours ago:
Funny thing is, their GPU division is making fine products especially in the bang-for-buck consumer category and their Wi-Fi modules are good. Weirdly enough, because driver and API support for the GTX-10 series cards is starting to age out, I’m considering putting an Intel GPU in a system with an AMD CPU for my HTPC.
The CPU side of the business is totally screwed though; they’ve been doomed since someone at AMD first said the word “Ryzen.”
- Comment on Kirkland strong 19 hours ago:
American components, Russian components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!
- Comment on project paperclip be like 1 day ago:
Wasn’t just Von Braun and the V2. Me-262s were built with forced labor. Then there’s the Comet, which was an amazingly bad idea. I’m surprised it wasn’t flown by slave labor, as little as they seemed to care for the pilot’s safety. The fuel was so corrosive that if it leaked the pilot would be dissolved alive.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 days ago:
Are you kidding? Microsoft has always been shit at math. According to Microsoft Excel, 2 + 2 = 12:04 AM Jan 1, 1900.
- Comment on Beyond Beef? Impossible Beef? I Can't Believe It's Not Beef? 2 days ago:
I’ve had a couple of Burger King’s ‘Impossible’ burgers. They’re not terrible. I’ve had actual beef burgers that were worse.
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 2 days ago:
Fear of the Flipper Zero is fear of people having direct control of consumer grade radio hardware. “You can’t let people have universal TV remotes, what if they push the buttons?!”
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 2 days ago:
I reckon it soon shall be, the way such things are trending.
The point you’re trying to make is, if I willingly carry around a battery powered security hole in my pocket all the time, why should I be concerned about another one installed in my vehicle?
Well, should I decide I wish to travel without being monitored, I can leave my phone behind and still travel rapidly.
My phone does not have access to my vehicle’s CAN bus; my phone cannot disable the vehicle from afar should it detect I performed my own repairs or that I am not christian or that my skin is browner than the dictator will tolerate or whatever else the police will decide to murder me for.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 2 days ago:
If the car has an RF transmitter of any kind installed, it is a HARD no.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 4 days ago:
How hard would it be to build a machine like this with modern tech available to the maker community? Knowing that that old style HP ink cartridge is readily available because it’s found its way into a lot of stuff over the years.
- Comment on only got basic... 4 days ago:
Or Tesla.
- Comment on only got basic... 4 days ago:
Actually no, I want to see which company can actually be persuaded to do this. Judging by how things are going I think we need to find a way to make an AI suggest it.
- Comment on Imagine there was a society in which blue eyed people are referred to with blee/bler pronouns, and green eyed people are referred to with glee/gler pronouns... 4 days ago:
In a similar vein, imagine if we were like cats, and there were skin colors/patterns that only women could get.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 6 days ago:
You’ve unlocked a weird memory. The Windows CD version of Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego did exactly that. It had that map screen where you’d pick where to chase the bad guy, and they used different map projections. I can find screenshots of the game showcasing a Mercator, Robinson and Goode Homolosine projections. And it’s not different editions of the game, it would change between missions.
- Comment on Have men really stopped reading? We take a deeper dive into the data 1 week ago:
I’m something of an audio book guy, so I can “read” while also doing mindless household chores like folding laundry or loading the dishwasher.
- Comment on Acquired a sliding mitre saw 1 week ago:
In my experience, what gets you bit with a miter saw is trying to cut a very small piece that isn’t properly constrained by the fence, the saw kicks back, sending the blade back/up, the work and the fingers trying to hold it down forward/in, badda bing badda boom you get a good look at your philanges.
If the work isn’t long enough to hold to the fence/table with your entire free hand clear of the blade action, you need to use an auxiliary fence and a hold down stick. If you do a lot of small stuff like that. Or, consider using a sled on a table saw. Or, get a miter box and cut it with a back saw.
- Comment on Honor student truth 1 week ago:
I manage to get my conspiracy theory fix out of History For Granite. I’d rate him maybe a 2.1 on the conspirometer, he’s not an “Ancient aliens built the pyramids as landing platforms for their spacecraft” guy, he’s more of a “Everybody says the bent pyramid was a failure, yet it has a completed temple complex, while the Red pyramid does not. Hmm. Why do they keep pushing this narrative?” kind of guy.
A few examples:
- One of his videos contains back to back shots of Zahi Hawas describing Scan Pyramids’ finding of the entrance corridor void “Not a discovery” or “The most important discovery of the 21st century” depending on if he was involved in announcing it.
- Possibly in the same video, he accuses the Egyptian ministry of antiquities of maintaining the monuments more as tourist traps; the oogie boogie weirdos bring in more tourism revenue than scientists so guess who gets prioritized?
- He’s got a whole video about how there are these outfits that will advertise advanced metrology of the pyramids, LIDAR scans or whatever, and then never publish the data.
- “Internal Ramp Theory.” Look at how they treated that guy.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 week ago:
Actually yes, you got any oreos?
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 week ago:
I mean, I don’t. Believe it or not it isn’t mandatory.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 1 week ago:
The one that instantly sprung to mind was Denise Richards as nuclear physicist Dr. Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough.
- Comment on HYDRAULIC PRESS TIME 1 week ago:
Today ve haff zis little horsey. Zis little horsey looks prutty dangerous, so ve must deal wif it.
dddrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
- Comment on At the end of Portal 2... 1 week ago:
spoiler
SPAAAAAACE!
- Comment on HELP HIM. 2 weeks ago:
I am going to hypothesize here: depends on how long rat’s in the tube.
I’m imagining a scenario where a vet has to X-ray a pet rat. Rat goes in the tube for 5 minutes while images are taken and then Rat can come back out of the tube. Rat’s probably going to be okay. A treat may be in order.
If he had to stay in there for a month, I don’t think he’ll ever be a normal rat again.
- Comment on HELP HIM. 2 weeks ago:
It ain’t easy being tapered.
- Comment on Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center 2 weeks ago:
I once saw a spa that was using a liquid cooled bank of computers to heat their pool water. It involves a liquid-to-liquid heat exchanger so they’re not pumping chlorinated pool water through their servers but…I wish we did more of that. Server farms are a source of heat, lots of other things need heat.
- Comment on Florida ounces 2 weeks ago:
Teaspoons and tablespoons do the same thing. A US customary teaspoon (found very often in cooking recipes, a set of measuring spoons is extremely basic kit in an American kitchen) is something like 4.98mL, a tablespoon is 3 teaspoons. So you’ll find a lot of products especially medicines and such diluted for dosing at 5 and 15mL, to be extremely close to a tea- or tablespoon. Because if you need to give your child a dose of dimetapp at 3 in the morning and don’t have the little measuring cup that those come with, you’ve got your kitchen measuring spoons.
A fluid ounce is two tablespoons.
- Comment on Florida ounces 2 weeks ago:
I read it as ullbs. leading shwa sound, like “bulbs” without the b.