darkmarx
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- Comment on "Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day 4 weeks ago:
As an old person today, I have no clue what these words mean. Assuming cooking has nothing to do with food. I’ve never heard rizz. I’ve at least heard people use based, though I don’t know its use.
- 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... 1 month ago:
In the Stormlight books by Sanderson, society is split based on eye color; bright eyed vs dark eyed. Bright eyed people are called Brightness or Brightlord. Not exaclty the same as what you said, but it is an interesting society based on eye color.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 1 month ago:
And that somehow makes it better?
- Comment on Can someone please tell me what the hell this is? 3 months ago:
My guess, and it is just a guess… it’s a storm water control system, possibly cut into the sewer line.
I’ve seen older houses where someone cut into the basmeny floor directly into a sewer line to put in a basement drain.
Based on you saying water was in there when it was raining, someone might have cut into the storm water mitigation line for a basement drain. Then someone tiled the floor and put a vent over the hole because that’s what they found that fits.
With older houses, a lot of times, the storm water system was tied directly into the main sewer. If that’s what this is, I’d be concerned about sewer gasses coming up from it.
Again, with only seeing one picture, it’s just a guess.
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 4 months ago:
Continue reading.
Sodium Hydroxide, when exposed to Carbon Dioxide (already in the air), combines to become Sodium Carbinate.
NaOH + CO2 → Na2CO3 + H2O
Sodium Carbinate then reacts with water and more Carbon Dioxide to become Dodium Bicarbinate, which is baking soda.
Na2CO3 + CO2 + H2O → 2 NaHCO3
Not only does a Sodium Oxyde fuel cell produce electricity, it takes CO2 out of the atmosphere.
From a physics and chemistry point of view, it’s pretty cool. I’m curious how well it scales though.
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered - Bugs, Glitches, and Fixes 5 months ago:
Ran into a bug on xbox. When making a potion the game crashed. After repeating it multiple times, I figured out that it only happened when mixing a stolen and non stollen ingredient. I have not retested since the last update.
Prior to the update, I could not create an enchanted item with a static effect at frostcrag spire. For example, a ring with nighteye. I could create one with detect life because it was a magnitude selector. This bug went away after the update.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 7 months ago:
“The government” is multiple agencies and departments. There is no single computer system, database, mainframe, or file store that the entire US goverment uses. There is no standard programming language used. There is no standard server configuration. Each agency is different. Each software project is different.
When someone says the government doesn’t use sql, they don’t know what they are talking about. It could be refering to the fact that many government systems are ancient mainframe applications that store everything in vsam. But it is patently false that the government doesn’t use sql. I’ve been on a number of government contracts over the years, spanning multiple agencies. MsSQL was used in all but one.
Furthermore, some people share SSNs, they are not unique. It’s a common misconception that they are, but anyone working on a government software learns this pretty quickly. The fact that it seems to be a big shock goes to show that he doesn’t know what he is doing and neither do the people reporting to him.
Not only is he failing to understand the technology, he is failing to understand the underlying data he is looking at.