invertedspear
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- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
Good God, your utility company isn’t even using lube when they fuck you with a rusty shovel. Without solar, my time off use plan would make it $0.08/kWh. With solar I don’t even bother figuring out what my cost per mile is because it’s irrelevant till I need a fast charger. I don’t even pay $0.50/kWh at a fast charger usually. I’d be going with a full off-grid solar battery system if I were you. Charging my neighbors cars for free before selling a joule back to those assholes
- Comment on Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad 3 weeks ago:
WTF happened to Microsoft? What a fall. Is this a leadership thing?
- Comment on Fallout 4 4 weeks ago:
The need for crafting and settlement building really turned me off of 4. That and the super dense map. This is supposed to be a wasteland but it’s got people and settlements everywhere. The emptiness of 3 and NV made them feel like an apocalypse, I’m not sure what 4 feels like, but it’s really not the same.
- Comment on imagine it!! 5 weeks ago:
This is a great explanation of why I feel dirty just driving somewhere over the course of 8-10 hours. Sure I’m not getting dirty, but I’m not passively exfoliating either.
- Comment on Google now blocks spoofed emails for better phishing protection 5 weeks ago:
You have to send something like 5000 emails a day. They’re fine
- Comment on Google now blocks spoofed emails for better phishing protection 5 weeks ago:
Yahoo did it too and might have actually been competition to gmail.
- Comment on I just rewatched Discovery. Does anyone else think this jump in the timeline is too jarring? 1 month ago:
ROFL, upvote cause the good info on Enterprise, but OP said Discovery. My head was stuck on Enterprise for some reason. Probably so many comments with the theme song to Enterprise.
We really do go from the age of sailing to the shuttle with the Discovery name
- Comment on I just rewatched Discovery. Does anyone else think this jump in the timeline is too jarring? 1 month ago:
Historical ships named Enterprise. There are really only the two in your pic if your timeline doesn’t have a Star Trek show, which is weirdly paradoxical considering the shuttle was named after the TV show. So in the Star Trek timeline I guess the shuttle is named after the sailing ship for some reason.
- Comment on LEGO Reveals Massive Dungeons & Dragons Set 1 month ago:
I’m running a game for my kids and their friends. We’re already using medieval sets and mini figs for scenes and battle maps. This is great news in my opinion.
- Comment on "Third Places": That Place That Isn't Work or Home 1 month ago:
You might consider it a lack of utilization, but I think it’s more about suitability. Finding “your” third place is difficult. Libraries have limited hours, parks depend on good weather, cinema/theater are expensive and short term. Shops, bars, hookah lounges, pool halls and cafes depend on you spending or they ask you to leave. Gyms and makerspaces are specific activity based.
I think back to my late high school and early college days where a pack of geeks were just trying to find a place to play D&D. We all had school and part time jobs so needed places open late, relatively quiet, we didn’t drink. Despite being generous tippers to compensate for the time, Dennys eventually determined rolling dice was gambling and asked us to leave or they would call the cops. Parks, libraries and most retail are closed. There was no 3rd place for us on our schedule. Not until gaming stores started to crop up with table space open late.
I don’t think it’s a lack of utilization, I think it’s a cross section problem of affordability, schedule, and purpose. All of those need to be improved or expanded to really make “third places” a thing for everyone.
- Comment on I'm Heading to Phoenix Can Anyone Recommend Anything Cool To Check Out While I'm There? 1 month ago:
Rainbows is happening downtown next weekend. The art museum is pretty good IMO, so is the musical instrument museum. If you’re able to eat at ChinoBandido get yourself some Chinese Mexican food, highly recommend the Jade red chicken, Machaca in a quesadilla, and some pork fried rice. Take a hike, Piestewa peak is mid difficult, camelback echo canyon is pretty tough. Mill Ave for college night life. Medieval times for a fun dinner theater. Tempe beach park is a nice stroll or biking area.
Have fun in the self driving cabs, get the Waymo app while you’re here. They only work in central Phoenix.
- Comment on There is no point in trying to escape the simulation; Odds are, we don't exist outside it! 2 months ago:
I don’t want out, I want access to the console so I can enable cheats.
- Comment on Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge 2 months ago:
If there are reliable and fast chargers every 50 miles you’ll have several choices in that 300-400 mile range and we already have plenty of cars capable of that. The goal is not to have everyone stop at every charger. But to allow more people to drive how they are most comfortable and maybe even enable more cars to road trip.
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 2 months ago:
Battle without honor or humanity by hotei
- Comment on Why docker 3 months ago:
Also the ability to snapshot an image, goof around with changes, and if you don’t like them restore the snapshot makes it much easier to experiment than trying to unwind all the changes you make.
- Comment on This startup is bringing a 'voice frequency absorber' to CES 2024 | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
There are two groups of people worried snot being listened to in public. Conspiracy theorists wouldn’t trust the tech behind this, not probably even cell phones. Executives likely to use such a device aren’t using public transit.
Everyone else would be voluntarily using such a device to make things quieter for others, and the last time we tried to get people to wear a mask to benefit others was a huge failure and the consequences were far greater.
No one is going to buy this.
- Comment on Protecting HDDs from (external) train vibrations 4 months ago:
You probably don’t need anything. Laptops using disk have been in use in bumpier environments for decades prior to SSDs.
But let’s say you do. Bolt some eye hooks to the top of your case and suspend it with paracord. It’ll turn vibration into sway and your disks will happily keep on turning.
- Comment on Someone has registered www.bellriots.com it's counting down. 4 months ago:
- Comment on What are some neat things you carry around that come in handy? 6 months ago:
Multi tools are great for a a lot of purposes. A more oddball one that has gotten me many thanks is a high quality, 20a, 10ft extension cord with 3 outlets. Not a power strip or anything, just 3 outlets. Used it in airports many times to split the power at rare outlets. Helped friends running a stand at a a farmers market when there were literally 1 ft short of being able to plug in. It’s been useful enough times it just lives in my backpack.