gazter
@gazter@aussie.zone
- Comment on The 50 best Australian songs of the 90s 1 week ago:
They still tour, and they bring the vibe!
- Comment on The country is done for 1 week ago:
I apologise for my attempt at a light-hearted joke, I didn’t mean to cause offence. Although I was, and remain, legitimately confused as to which camp you are in.
I’ll willingly admit I have minimal knowledge about football sports, but I always thought that broadly speaking American football was inspired by rugby, which essentially evolved from people cheating at soccer at a place called Rugby- I remember reading the little blue plaque there.
As for a ball, sure, if you’re about slang and the elasticity of the English language, a ball can be any shape really. But, pushes up glasses acksually, the word ball means a sphere.
- Comment on The country is done for 1 week ago:
I’m not sure if I understand which version you’d prefer- Do you want football to refer to the game where players use their hands to move an egg shaped object, or do you think football should refer to the game where players use their feet to move a ball shaped object?
- Comment on Lithium-ion batteries have ruled for decades. Now they have a challenger. | Sodium-ion batteries are emerging as a possible alternative. 2 weeks ago:
They’re lithium ion. It’s probably got more to do with good hardware design.
- Comment on BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale 3 weeks ago:
People are going to whine about the towing capacity, but can’t beat that price. I’m wary of being an early adopter, but I’m thinking of taking one for a test drive. Lightweight camper on the back, induction stove on board, should be tidy.
Pity it’s such a big vehicle, I’m not a fan of the chunky ute trend.
- Comment on The Force 4 weeks ago:
Study suggests children remotely move matter to extinguish birthday cake candles, to prevent wildfires.
- Comment on Mechanical engineering uni project 1 month ago:
I’ve been pondering a gear cutter setup. This is usually done with a mill and a rotary table, but I was thinking of something simpler.
The blank would sit on a rotating table, that spins about the Z axis. The shaft for the cutter sits parallel to the Y axis, and moves along the X axis to contact the blank.
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 1 month ago:
5 axis and 5 dimensions are essentially the same thing, right? A 2D graph has 2 axes, a 3D one has three, 4D graph can be shown with colour representing the 4th axis, etc.
- Comment on Sorry, grandma 2 months ago:
Neon Genesis Evangelion. The ‘angels’ are the baddies that arrive to fuck up humanity.
It’s an absolute classic. Go watch it.
- Comment on [discussion] DC (direct current) power network 2 months ago:
- USB PD can negotiate pushing up to 240W now at 48V, which is a fair bit.
So if I wanted to wire my home to take advantage of this, supposing I had a house battery on solar, would I have some kind of DC-DC converter from battery to 48V, then cable to outlets with some kind of USB PD adaptor? How much advantage do I get from this, vs using existing 240V outlets + wall wart?
- Comment on Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says 3 months ago:
It was more of a lighthearted, fun joke about how I think that humans dying out works be a good thing for biodiversity, on balance.
- Comment on That oscillated quickly. 3 months ago:
This isn’t Indian, it’s Thai- they are known for their insane ads.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
Is there a file size limit?
- Comment on Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says 3 months ago:
Ultimately good for the environment, though.
- Comment on How to revitalize this sub? 7 months ago:
I’ve got a whole library of upvotes that I haven’t even used yet.
- Comment on Moon Standard Time? Nasa to create lunar-centric time reference system 7 months ago:
Any particular spot on the moon does have a day-night cycle, and the length of that does vary throughout the lunar year. Lunar daylight savings here we come!
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 8 months ago:
I’ll need a source for that claim buddy
- Comment on Why is it dangerous to chain power dividers? 8 months ago:
In Australia, for example, the earth pin on a 15A plug is taller than a 10. This lets you plug 10A rated extensions and appliances into a 15A capable socket, but not vice versa.
Amperages above that have dedicated plugs, and any available adaptors only go downwards in amperage limit, not upwards.
This of course doesn’t stop people getting creative with a screwdriver, or from creating immense chains of small gauge extensions, but it certainly goes a long way to reducing risk.
- Comment on Why is it dangerous to chain power dividers? 8 months ago:
I’ve never heard of being able to plug a 15A into a 10A socket. Everywhere I’ve seen them, they are keyed to physically prevent this. What country are you in?
- Comment on Why is it dangerous to chain power dividers? 8 months ago:
How does RF attenuation affect power safety?
- Comment on sometimes you just need a tiny box 9 months ago:
My friend, if you think you want small boxes, what you actually want is Gridfinity.
You’re welcome.
- Comment on Conservatives on Facebook absolutely believe this. 9 months ago:
It’s ok. We all know you secretly want sweet little Taylor to beat you with jumper cables.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 9 months ago:
As a millennial, I agree with that.
- Comment on Regarding Avocado Toast 11 months ago:
I’ve paid anywhere from five bucks to get Madge at the corner shop to smear some vaguely avocado looking goop onto burnt white bread, to twenty bucks for gobs of perfectly ripe avo on artisanal sourdough with lemon myrtle dressing, garnished with some kind of deep fried flower and a bit of grass on top to look pretty.
- Comment on Regarding Avocado Toast 11 months ago:
Aussie reporting in. I can’t recall the last cafe that I went to that did not have avocado on toast, in some form, on the menu.
- Comment on Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth 11 months ago:
I don’t know if I would consider Voyager to be ‘dead’ if it stops transmitting.
If I put a message in a bottle, with a blinky light on it, then throw it into the ocean, the message is still there even if the blinky light goes out.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
Almost 24 hours and no one has commented on MMDDYY? I don’t know whether to be proud or disappointed.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
At least they aren’t trying to use Powerpoint for computation…
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
It probably makes sense to them. I’m sure they’re looking at your git workflow wondering how you function!
- Comment on Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables 11 months ago:
640KB of memory is enough for anybody.