wjrii
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- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 1 day ago:
That fat PP looks a little on the short side.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 1 day ago:
Most likely, yes. I think most people do end up finding one or two smaller boards’ worth of “unicorn barf,” which is to say everything is the right shape and 95-99% have the right thing written on them, but the colors are totally random and visually jarring. I also have a few ideas that might benefit from some of the weirder caps, (like a big square that uses four keybaord switches… people seem to end up with some of those) and occasionally you’ll land on something that someone in the hobby actually does need and you can help them out. A lot of it is simply indulging a certain need to examine and categorize.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 1 day ago:
Despite the site screaming left and right that one should not count on a proper keyboard’s worth of keycaps at all, much LESS a matching set, and despite years of forum and reddit posts declaring their underwhelming nature, I still bought a 5-pound (2.27kg) sack of random keycaps from Signature Plastics in Washington state.
I just have to know, and I’m kind of unironically looking forward to sorting them like so many Lego bricks. I may even get a few that are useful for my projects.
- Comment on YSK that the current US Defense Secretary was previously a lobbyist hired by for-profit colleges. Many americans have no idea about that. 4 days ago:
You’re not wrong, yet this is still quite awful.
- Comment on Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say 1 week ago:
Yup. I also liked this, but I’m trying hard not to just quote the whole thing back, because it’s all good.
Their wealth insulates them from friction so effectively there’s no incentive or pressure for them to develop an imagination, or diversify their knowledge to the point where an imagination might emerge on its own. I can’t think of a better argument for a humanities requirement than a billionaire being asked “how do we know what is real?” and responding with “cryptographic signatures.”
- Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 1 week ago:
Thanks, Richard.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 1 week ago:
I learned to shoot at Boy Scout camp when I was about 13. We shot .22 long rifle and 20 gauge shotguns. Many of my friends hunted (never appealed to me) and learned even earlier.
- Comment on Where is this located? Asking for a friend... 1 week ago:
I haven’t looked it up, but having spent a lot of time in Northeast Georgia, I’m guessing the odds are pretty high that the stress on that town name is on the first syllable.
- Comment on Replacement PS/2 cable for IBM Model M keyboard? 1 week ago:
So unlike apparently everyone else on these threads, I actually have a Model M. Okay, technically I have three Model Ms, but still…
What kind of PS/2 cable is it? permanent or modular?
Is it still working, even if it looks rough?
Are you comfortable soldering?
If not, are you at least comfortable following a simple wiring diagram?
- Comment on tool to make an stl from 2D image? 1 week ago:
I would just about bet Meshy AI gave a “non-manifold” model. 3-D models that are intended to be digital assets can have that issue, and I would suspect it’s easier for an AI to produce them versus properly manifold objects ready to be made solid.
There are ways to fix them though, and Meshy even has their own suggestions (Blender and Meshlab).
- Comment on These used to popular 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but look at the switch! If God made you that way, you’d all be pissing in your faces!
- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 3 weeks ago:
Chip
- Comment on Language model 3 weeks ago:
And for every single one of them, the ‘gh’ at one point described a phlegmy hissing sound. Modern English spelling is sometimes closer to Chinese than we might think.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I made a custom arcade stick 3 weeks ago:
I’ve used adhesive steel wheel-balancing weights on a couple of my modded keyboards. They’re cheap, low-profile, and have to be lead-free. If you have room on your bottom plate, just slap a bunch on there. You can put down masking tape first if you want to avoid damaging the plate if you decide to remove them.
- Comment on An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology 3 weeks ago:
Also, an interesting idea, that provocateurs intentionally started rumors and pushed them hardest to areas where destroying a land register would cause the most issues for the local nobility.
- Comment on Uhm 3 weeks ago:
If you haven’t spent as much time refining the prompt as you would have to take an art class and do the medical research, have you really used the AI properly at all?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Law school can be eye-opening. Con law in particular was an interesting one. If you can make it through Marbury v Madison in your first semester of your first year and not realize that the entire American system is held together with chewing gum and baling wire and it’s a miracle it ever enabled a functional government at all, or get through Dred Scott v Sandford or Plessy v. Ferguson later on and not realize that the law should always seek justice in as far as said chewing gum and baling wire even halfway plausibly permit, then you’re either an idiot or an asshole, and probably both.
Slavish devotion to your generation’s “plain reading” of increasingly distant legalese written by – to put it euphemistically – deeply conflicted men who were indeed clever and motivated, but were also the half-educated elites of a cultural backwater, is how you end up with our current mess.
- Comment on Anyone else have computers by Digiview? 4 weeks ago:
It certainly doesn’t help that they shared a name with the Amiga digital camera/scanner perhipheral. I found a listing in the July 2000 issue of Computer Shopper where “Bay Micro Computers” out of Torrance California was selling the aforementioned “beige box” AMD PCs with Digiview keyboards. One of the keyboards was on eBay, and it seems like a bog standard rebadged OEM membrane keyboard of the era.
- Comment on Anyone know why this weird CD won't fit in my CD drive? 4 weeks ago:
Yup. Really nice bearings. I also have a few HDD magnets that work well as hold-downs for laser cutting.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yes, lots of emotional brinkmanship in this one. Grandparents can absolutely be toxic enough to warrant no- or low-contact, but I don’t see where OP has indicated they’re close to that point. This is a retrograde joke from the grandpas, but in the US it’s also utterly cliche and doesn’t necessarily imply much. Something along the lines of your suggestion could absolutely be a better option in the early going. You could even make it more casual at first: “Nah, this one’s going to be able to take care of herself. We’re making sure of it.”
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 5 weeks ago:
The biggest biggest technology change has been the AR wall… You can’t use the camera the same way, but when you see the see the opportunity, it literally captures what the a camera is watching.
When you do it right, you get “how did they do that on a TV budget!?” When you do it wrong, you get whatever the hell THIS was.
- Comment on A secret is something you keep, whilst a surprise is something you give. 5 weeks ago:
Yup! We called the good ones “happy secrets,” and they’re perfectly okay.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Please select from the following:
[ ] Sir, this is a Wendy's... [ ] i ain't reading all that. i'm happy for u tho. or sorry that happened. [ ] TL; DR [ ] <Homer returning to bushes>
Thank you for your consideration.
- Comment on DissolvPCB enables fully recyclable 3D-printed circuit boards with liquid metal conductors 1 month ago:
Very cool, though JFC there’s no way MY printer will be fine tuned enough to generate the channels. The whole process reminds me of the rednecks who pour molten aluminum down fire ant hills, in a good way. The sealing with glorified Elmer’s glue is also clever.
Now all that said, you wouldn’t want to make anything that’s going to have much contact with water, so a lot of typical applications are risky: “My PCB is leaking!” I do wonder if you could do the same thing, but less immediately recyclable, with PLA and a 3D pen.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 month ago:
Good point but for presidential elections, electrical districts don’t make any sense.
In 48 out of fifty states, they don’t matter for presidential elections. I think only Maine and Nebraska split their electoral college votes at all.
Also, if the districts are being manipulated to provide a skewed election result then are the districts really groups of people with similar needs?
The original purpose has indeed been corrupted in many places, and those where it hasn’t are tempted into a “race to the bottom” as states with modest but persistent majorities are gerrymandering their states to the hilt. Still, the original idea of electoral districts makes a lot of sense, and even moreso when communications and travel were much slower.
- Comment on Hong Kong beef balls and boiled hotdog with chilli sauce 1 month ago:
Maybe it tastes better than it looks. I certainly hope so.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 1 month ago:
Dennis Miller
- Comment on Sad but true 1 month ago:
I kinda like this as a way to market based on the potential for affirmative defenses.
- Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel? 1 month ago:
Choirs accompanying soul artists is not unheard of, but yeah, it does seem to be more of a tool that’s leveraged when the sound feels right for a track, rather than being a core part of the act. The linked song is verging pretty close to “regular” gospel, but the lyrics are a bit too modern and on the nose for church, I’d think.