aubeynarf
@aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on Thermometers reading different temperatures on cold printer? 2 days ago:
are these packaged thermometer devices, such as the DS18B20, or a bare thermistor bead?
If it’s just a bead, you probably need to calibrate them.
- Comment on what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one? 3 weeks ago:
LOL, yeah. Capitalism.
Like the great socialist countries are way ahead with modular, standardized mobile handsets.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 4 weeks ago:
Usenet or Fidonet would be a more apt comparison
- Comment on CBS Debate Moderator’s Immigration ‘Fact Check’ Against Vance Has More Holes Than Swiss Cheese, Experts Say 1 month ago:
Wait, I thought JD Vance was telling you not to listen to experts!
- Comment on Vance Follows Up Debate With Receipts On X: ‘As Promised’ 1 month ago:
guess who is going to be building the new housing stock? How are you gonna get that done if you kick out all the immigrants
- Comment on Simple connector for single conductor 0.75mm² (18 AWG) that will remain connected under tension while being spooled 1 month ago:
They are kind of like two hands making a handshake - they just twist/slide into each other and each is then looped around the back of the other. Very simple and effective
- Comment on Simple connector for single conductor 0.75mm² (18 AWG) that will remain connected under tension while being spooled 1 month ago:
Have you seen these knife connectors used in aviation? They are genderless and lock together. Of course your crimp better be solid - meaning proper connector for the wire size and proper crimping tool die.
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 1 month ago:
SPY returns an average 12%
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 1 month ago:
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pay off high interest debt
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top off your emergency fund so you don’t run into expensive short-on-money situations
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take care of deferred maintenance on your car or house that might turn into an expensive repair
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If you have an employer sponsored 401k, increase the contribution amount to get 10k more tax free into it before the end of the year and use the $10k cash in hand for expenses.
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Open a roth IRA and contribute the maximum amount you can (which may vary based on your income)
VT, VTI, and SPY are good broad-market funds with good historical growth.
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- Comment on [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I agree the tax needs to be visible in the price to be effective
- Comment on [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax? 1 month ago:
Good argument for the price inclusive of tax to be the price shown.
I think it’s fairly uncommon for sales taxes in the US to be intended to incentivize behavior - moreso, they are for funding local government and higher taxes are placed on things that are politically palatable in local elections - hotel rooms or restaurant/alcohol sales come to mind.
So I just don’t think we’re well practiced at mechanisms that make them work as a point-of-sale incentive, and changing the way a single class of items are priced would be complicated and surely receive pushback from retailers and the industry involved.
- Comment on The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'. 1 month ago:
- Comment on The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'. 1 month ago:
vinyls
FYI it’s called a “record”, or music could be “on vinyl”. They were never referred to as “vinyls”.
Also VCRs were never called “VHS’s”
- Comment on Why does trump try to alienate black voters than expect them to vote for the dickhead? And why use Kamala's race as even a talking point let alone even a thought? 2 months ago:
No, we don’t. Why would you make a statement like that?
- Comment on Through the Distorted Mirror: How the West Misrepresents Russia 2 months ago:
Hilarious
- Comment on Excretion-related thermodynamics 2 months ago:
What about relative energy (energy per mass) - if poop is less energy dense than the protein/fat of your tissues, excreting it should increase your energy density
- Comment on If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials. 3 months ago:
you have to go all the way down below the dirt to prep a site for residential units. With a toilet, shower, and sink per unit, the density of sewer and water plumbing is much higher than commercial. Fire codes also demand egress points (a.k.a. windows) for every bedroom - hard to do Inside a big box retail space.
- Comment on if the total fertility rate drops and stays below global replacement rate, will humans disappear? 3 months ago:
We are currently overtaxing natural resources, human population cannot grow unbounded without many unpleasant consequences. To me, it’s not a problem if we reach a steady state or even start a slow downward trend.
But, we must turn away from “line goes up” methods for measuring success, which are pretty deeply ingrained in most of our economies.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Right on. Ignore wedge-drivers.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Can you link to the original?
- Comment on Is 0.3 quarts extra too mich oil in a car? 4 months ago:
If you also do this for the container you drain old oil into, you will be able to see if your car is starting to shown signs of oil consumption issues.
E.g. if you know you fill with 3.7qt, and you drain less than 3.7qt, you know you need to start checking the oil level every few fillups.
- Comment on Is 0.3 quarts extra too mich oil in a car? 4 months ago:
This kind of neglect of proper maintenance is why it started burning oil at 100k.
If you want your engine to last, you change the oil every 5000 to 7500 miles.
- Comment on I just had an idea that people smarter than me have probably had long before I heard of Lemmy.....but I don't see it implemented, so I'm sharing it anyways!!! 4 months ago:
yeah, communities should have subject tag sets. I don’t care for anime or sports or video games - i should be able to turn off those tags. Not block 50 different game communities ad hoc
- Comment on Are you better off than you were four years ago? It can be a murky picture for many 4 months ago:
This isn’t true at all.
Just as quick examples, under Democrats, gay people got the right to marry. The Affordable Care Act was passed. And real pay has gone up under Biden.
That’s not mentioning the major climate and infrastructure legislation, dismissal of student debt, rights for DACA holders, etc.
- Comment on Electricians of fediverse, should I have my selfhosting box grounded? 4 months ago:
Surge suppressors do not drop extra voltage to ground. They selectively short out surges between whatever two conductors have a high potential between them.
No ground conductor means there cannot be a high potential between it and anything else!
- Comment on If TikTok in the US is spun off as a separate entity, how hard would it be for the current company to put in a back door to still access the data. 6 months ago:
Data access is just one issue. Executing CCP propaganda policy (shadowbanning topics critical of the CCP and amplifying topics that divide/destabilize western democracies) is at least as worrisome.
- Comment on Does Instagram or YouTube Shorts get you? 6 months ago:
TikTok is actively censoring any criticism of the CCP - a much larger global actor who is currently erasing the Uighur and Tibetan cultures.
- Comment on Is there a word for the phenomena where everyone benefits from design decisions made to help vulnerable populations? 8 months ago:
Probably did it to stop Republican congressmen from trolling for gay sex a la en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig_scandal
- Comment on Typescript 9 months ago:
Have you tried Scala.js ?
- Comment on YSK about the condensation pipe on your gas furnace 10 months ago:
along these lines, you should also know about the condensate drain from your air conditioner – since water drips out of it all summer, it has a tendency to grow some algae or mold, and if it plugs up your air conditioner may flood and ruin your ceiling/walls/floor.
it’s worth paying that AC guy to come by every couple of years even if you’re not on their service plan.