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- Comment on How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results? 13 hours ago:
Go away, Robert.
- Comment on How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results? 18 hours ago:
Same. My old doctor recommended daily vit D supplements in months that end with R.
Source: 65 degrees latitude.
- Comment on What's the coolest organic compound, chat? 2 days ago:
All of these look like glasses Elton John wore in the 70s
- Comment on What is the difference between a managed switch and an unmanaged switch? 5 days ago:
I wouldn’t, as managed switching is only a small subset of the managerial tasks I attend. I don’t manage individual switches as much as I manage production systems where managed switch management is only a minor component.
On that note, we actually use hubs in one particular place in these systems, and since I manage their installation and asset tracking, does this make them managed Ethernet hubs?
- Comment on What is the difference between a managed switch and an unmanaged switch? 5 days ago:
Unmanaged switches don’t care about VLAN tags, spanning trees, management interfaces, or LACP.
Managed switches ulcare about at least some of those features and as a child will have a management interface to configure them m, as well as firmware supporting them.
A dumb/unmanaged switch will look up the MAC address of the intended recipient and map that to a port before forwarding a packet. And a managed switch might do a lot more.
- Comment on Oechslegrad 6 days ago:
45 degrees in Czech Republic: Probably the strongest beer you’ve ever tasted.
- Comment on Running GoToSocial on an old wifi router 1 week ago:
Stupid indeed, but of utmost importance.
- Comment on what do you use to add weight? 1 week ago:
I don’t know a general approach, but in one particular print with low infill I paused the print to pour in some sand just to make it more bottom heavy. While it worked great in that case, I don’t know how well it’d work in other circumstances. Great cost/weight ratio, though.
- Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations? 1 week ago:
I’m just gonna leave this here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Confirmed visible from Lemmy instance sh.itjust.works
I’d offer you an animal as symbol of your success, but I presently have none in store.
- Comment on xkcd #3169: EPIRBs 1 week ago:
Any chance what you have is not an EPIRB, but a SART? SARTS are only registered with beacon ID and doesn’t require programming. Shows up on radar and sometimes AIS also. Not sat comms involved.
- Comment on xkcd #3169: EPIRBs 1 week ago:
Yes, except no plugging involved: It’s some sort of inductive way of programming it via a USB dongle. The info is written into this “programming program” which can read and write data to the unit, it’s written, and then you read it to make sure all the info was applied.
Then you label the unit physically with ship name, callsign, and MMSI. In addition to this there are two stickers that come with the unit, denoting the expiry date of the battery and the hydrostatic release. These go on the unit so that’s it easy to check if it’s time to replace them.
- Comment on xkcd #3169: EPIRBs 1 week ago:
It’s been a while, but off the top of my head: MMSI (which is basically the radio installation identifier. Same number is used for AIS), and an ID digit (0 in wheelhouse, 1 on starboard bridge wing, 2 on port, etc)
- Comment on xkcd #3169: EPIRBs 1 week ago:
For those who didn’t know: EPIRB = Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. Send an emergency signal via satellite and terrestrial RF. They can be triggered manually, but they also trigger automatically if salt water shorts two exposed pads for a certain amount of time (a minute, I think).
Once triggered it will get a GPS fix and transmit a distress signal via satellite and VHF. It is programmed with the MMSI of the ship it belongs to.Source: I have a GOC, and I also used to work with marine electronics. I’ve programmed hundreds of these. Mainly Jordan TR60.
Fun fact: A coworker did have to make the phonecall of shame to the coastal radio after accidentally dropping one overboard.
- Comment on Portable KVM for console access 2 weeks ago:
I’ve used this a lot in the past at work. I see how that it’s discontinued, but I’m sure they have a new thing in its place. tiny, easy to use, and a huge time saver.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 2 weeks ago:
Been doing it for almost 30 years. I still have better and more precise hearing than most.
However
Most people in the “headphones bad”-crowd fail to understand that it’s the volume and not the medium at fault. I’ve always been very afraid of permanent damage to my senses, ears and eyes in particular, so as much as I love head ranging to loud music, I ensure it’s not too loud. I’m the kind of person who brings earplugs to a concert (the type that dampens the audio without distorting it). I rarely need them, but I keep them with me just in case.
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- Comment on ‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately 2 weeks ago:
Cheers. I’ve set up a download mirror, details posted in my root-level comment to this post.
- Comment on ‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on ‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately 2 weeks ago:
I can try to set up a mirror. Can you provide a link to the official site?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Choose a side, and be sure to evaluate whether that side is based on culture, ideology, torso etching else, because those three may not necessarily be the same.
For example, imagine a scenario where the US ended up in a war against russia over a conflict against NATO allies. One could easily imagine that Russians in Europe or the US landing on both sides of the conflict, depending on whether they are pro Putin or not.
As for china, I can imagine a similar scenario where ethnically Chinese people may be on the US side on the basis that they’re against CCP and/or Xi. Sadly, due to how the US treated people who looked foreign during past conflicts, choosing the US side may not necessarily mean that you’re safe.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not hate, it is complete and utter bullshit difference beyond whatever they need to win the next election. After that it’s simply a priority of lining the pockets if themselves and their donors
- Comment on Where can I see all the websites censored in China? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I figure such a list would only serve as advertising reasons for VPNing past the firewall.
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 2 weeks ago:
This is just phrenology with extra steps
- Comment on Rate my printer gore 2 weeks ago:
Needs more fan tangle
- Comment on Rate my printer gore 2 weeks ago:
True. I’ve had two spectacular ones myself:
- I was printing some minis, and one of them came loose and knocked all the other ones loose as well. It took a long while before The noticed and the spaghetti buildup got to the point where the cooling fan for the hotend got tangled. The printer noticed and shut itself down, so no harm done.
- I don’t remember what happened, but the nozzle picked up a lot of snot that didn’t come off, and it only kept accumulating to the point where any extruded filament just kept adding to the booger. Luckily it was easy to remove as it was still pretty warm. And praise the gods for nozzle socks.
- Comment on Rate my printer gore 2 weeks ago:
It’s a filthy print sheet, actually. Filament is dry and good, but it’s been a long while since I cleaned the print surface.
- Comment on Rate my printer gore 2 weeks ago:
Only 2.5? Someone gave me bonus points for the “Squid in the seaweed”.
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- Comment on How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"? 2 weeks ago:
12ish or so, when we learned about Mussolini. It wasn’t that substantive, though, since it took quite a lot longer to learn to differentiate between fascism and Nazism.