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- Comment on My reaction to learning that KingCobraJFS died a few days ago. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Where Roman coins have been found 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if it’s down to sea fairing and trade primarily.
- Comment on Little Pea Shooters 2 weeks ago:
Good point! A satellite is more likely to orbit a planet monitoring things I guess? It’s been a while since I’ve played Kerbal Space Program!
- Comment on Little Pea Shooters 2 weeks ago:
This is a sling. Bottom right corner is a catapult and uses stored energy (the elastic - sorry if wrong wording.) To me at least the idea of sling that pivots around the user’s hand is much closer to the action of using a planet’s gravitational pull to sling a satellite onwards.
- Comment on As a treat 3 weeks ago:
I often wonder this. Is it due to the garlic or something?
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 4 weeks ago:
Just think how much control he can have if he owns the medium which people access the internet.
And he’d only do good things with that power /s
- Comment on TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers 4 weeks ago:
Taco
- Comment on Is it everywhere? 5 weeks ago:
“Plain and sudway 1 28” at least that’s what it sounds like to me. I recognise it from SimCity and movies and TV.
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 5 weeks ago:
Yep, bastards.
- Comment on Culture literally changes how we see the world 2 months ago:
I’m completely failing to see any circles.
- Comment on Who remembers alt.fan.tonya.harding.whack.whack.whack ? 2 months ago:
I won’t make any claims as to accuracy but I did enjoy the movie - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Tonya
- Comment on Day 337 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
I hadn’t seen this game but the photos and description means I’ll be checking it out now.
Nice work on reaching day 337, almost a year now!
- Comment on Why is my GPU's "3D" usage spiking so wildly when I'm not even playing a game? It keeps throttling up and throttling down and the noise is extremely annoying 2 months ago:
Start the computer in safe mode and make sure there’s no apps running in systray or anywhere, hopefully fan will remain quiet.
Run msconfig and start the applications in the startup list one by one until you find the culprit.
- Comment on As ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Announces Plans to Incorporate It Into Children's Toys 2 months ago:
And children get very attached to toys … it seems like a powerful combination. I’m sure the companies won’t exploit it 😂🤣🥲
- Comment on Scientists Are Using Drones to Unleash Thousands of Mosquitoes in Hawaii in a Bid to Save Native Birds. Here's How It Works 2 months ago:
Has science gone too far!?
The lab-raised, male mosquitoes are meant to breed with the invasive ones on the islands and produce sterile eggs that will help suppress avian malaria
No.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 2 months ago:
Seems like a good idea. I wonder if there’s anything already similar.
- Comment on Israelis hold barbecue while firing artillery into Gaza 3 months ago:
Reminds me of this theguardian.com/…/the-house-next-door-rudolf-hoss… Image
- Comment on NOOOOOOO 3 months ago:
I also wash the toilet seat, flush handle and taps after using the bathroom. /s
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 3 months ago:
But musk paid for this when he supported trump’s election funds. Now he has to get his govt handouts… the system works /s
- Comment on The 5 stages of Charles Manson 3 months ago:
I hate to read the daily mail, and can only apologise for linking to it but the story is great.
They kept him in a motel for a week, before letting him visit a store where he contacted someone who contacted his mum, to come rescue him …
The victim was rescued only when his captors allowed him a brief trip to a nearby Speedway convenience store on March 21, as reported by FOX8. During the moment of freedom, he managed to make contact with someone who then alerted his mother. ‘When he was there, he made contact with an individual, who got in contact with the victim’s mother,’ Sprow explained. His mother immediately rushed to the Red Roof Inn to rescue her son, and police were called to the scene.
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 3 months ago:
Next up GPUs require always-on connections and Nvidia releases a monthly subscription to pay for that.
- Comment on Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers 3 months ago:
Stack Exchange is a business owned by investment company Prosus, and the Stack Exchange products include private versions of its site (Stack Overflow for Teams)
Private equity milking another product dry.
- Comment on A Useful Invention 3 months ago:
- Comment on I said gin. WTF is this shit. 4 months ago:
😂 perfect decoration for a pub.
- Comment on I said gin. WTF is this shit. 4 months ago:
Are those alcohol abstinence medals or coins on the table?
- Comment on Golfing with the moms 4 months ago:
When I’ve been to a driving range there’s someone employed with a golf cart who drives around collecting the balls.
I thought this was a personal ball gobbler and based on the original image it seemed rather impractical, but the big sticky arms makes it much more useful.
- Comment on Golfing with the moms 4 months ago:
Well that’ll teach me for only looking at the picture. That seems much more efficient.
- Comment on Golfing with the moms 4 months ago:
It looks like someone can just pull this along behind them and it’ll pick up the balls and deposit them in the basket.
On the one hand I’m pressed by the engineering, but the other part of me asks is it worth the effort of buying and carrying this device if only collecting a single person’s balls. Seems a lot of effort when one could just pick the 10 balls up by hand …
- Comment on I can't pay rent because devs just don't care 4 months ago:
I write tests and test my own code, but we also have UAT tests that are completed by others independently. Complex systems with lots of moving parts require lots of testing.
- Comment on I can't pay rent because devs just don't care 4 months ago:
I’m a dev and I hate releasing buggy code but I’m not in charge of testing or the amount of testing we do before release.
