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- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 1 day ago:
“The loser in an argument about the meaning of the word ‘hoverboard’ is anyone who leaves that argument on foot.”
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 2 days ago:
beyond trivial issues
I’d argue that 10-15% of issues are trivial issues and are worth investigating even without a schematic if the alternative is just throwing something away.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 2 days ago:
I can top that. I got a broken $100 BlueYeti microphone for $10 on eBay. The USB cable they shipped it with was bad.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 2 days ago:
You don’t have to fix everything, but just doing stuff like replacing connectors and capacitors could probably save 10% of the shit that we throw away, and it’s not that hard to try.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 2 days ago:
pay to have the unit returned, spend valuable technician time diagnosing and fixing an issue and then pay to ship the repaired unit back.
My point is that in a better world, people could fix this kind of thing themselves. Like offer a discount for their trouble and have them or their mechanic aunt come by and fix it.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 2 days ago:
Meanwhile, my Wi-Fi router requires a PhD in reverse engineering just to figure out why it won’t connect to the internet.
I do think people in general could benefit from maybe $100 in tools and a healthy dose of Youtube when it comes to this point. My PC of 10 years wouldn’t boot one morning because my SSD died. There wasn’t anything too important on it that I hadn’t backed up, but it was still a bummer. I took it apart, and started poking around. Found a short across a capacitor, so I started cycling capacitors. Sure enough, one was bad. Replaced it. Boots just fine. (Moved everything to a new SSD just in case).
All I needed for this job was a multimeter and a soldering iron (though hot air gun made it slightly easier).
I think the “black box” nature of electronics is mostly illusory due to how we treat our devices. A friend bought a walking treadmill that wouldn’t turn on out of the box. She contacted the company, they told her to trash it and just shipped her a new one.
She gave it to me, I took it apart. One of the headers that connects the power switch to the mainboard was just unplugged. It took literally 10 minutes to “fix” including disassembly and assembly, and all I needed was a screwdriver.
Yet there’s zero expectation of user maintenance. If it doesn’t work, trash it.
- Comment on GET BRUSHIED IDIOT 5 days ago:
In the original, you pulled them out, but parents probably got sick of losing the teeth.
- Comment on GET BRUSHIED IDIOT 5 days ago:
The children yearn for crocodile dentistry.
- Comment on I wonder if the spice girls still get along or if that "friendship never ends" thing was just a lie. 5 days ago:
The best smelling one.
- Comment on I wonder if the spice girls still get along or if that "friendship never ends" thing was just a lie. 5 days ago:
Old Spice was not long for this woeld.
- Comment on Hedgehog X-ray 1 week ago:
- Comment on Lick it. 1 week ago:
I also suggest putting ketchup in the soap pump dispenser. Really throws them for a loop.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Also from this fine media establishment:
- Warning: 73% of garden soil contains hidden drain chemicals affecting families for 18 months
- I tried this 2-ingredient summer mask at 53 and my dark spots faded 70% in 3 weeks (dermatologists explain why)
- Cold plunge warning: this 15-second exposure raises senior blood pressure by 40 mmHg
Also, for a writer named “John,” he seems to really like wearing women’s clothing
- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 1 week ago:
If I remember from my USB product design days, as long as they don’t include any of the official markings on the product or packaging, they’re in the clear.
- Comment on A Scanner For Arduino-Powered Book Archiving 2 weeks ago:
many book scanners use a wedge shape and two angled cameras to scan the pages when the book is held open at about a 5 degree angle
- Comment on That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose. 2 weeks ago:
That’s me with United Healthcare. They charged me $80 for an annual checkup that was supposed to be free. Part of that checkup was a $14 cholesterol screening that was literally listed among the free things that came with my plan.
I contested it, they said that they reviewed my case and found nothing wrong. I escalated, which involved writing and physically mailing an appeal. They sent me the same response back that they reviewed the case and found nothing wrong.
So yes. “Fuck it” as the article says. $80 is not worth it.
- Comment on The name "seagull" implies the existence of landgulls, airgulls, and firegulls. 2 weeks ago:
A birdwatching friend of mine has decided that if he ever discovers a new species, he’s naming it “seagull” regardless of where he finds it or what it looks like just to pill off all the ornithologists.
- Comment on A Scanner For Arduino-Powered Book Archiving 2 weeks ago:
Very well executed, though not sure how I feel about the glass plate squishing the pages down like that.
- Comment on Who turned on friendly fire? 2 weeks ago:
Zoomers are prime draft age for WWIII and it’s a popular haircut among them.
- Comment on Who turned on friendly fire? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
McDonald’s specifically is famously a real estate company that happens to serve burgers on the side. The corporation owns all of the land that its franchises are sitting on, so they can park a restaurant on it and sell it for a profit after the land appreciates in value.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
In addition to moving away from marketing directly to children, the reason a lot of fast foot restaurants are rebranding to look like grey cubes is to make the buildings more generic and therefore more valuable as commercial real estate.
We’ve all seen the local Mexican restaurant that definitely used to be a Pizza Hut. This is to avoid that.
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 3 weeks ago:
I used to teach AP physics to kids on the weekends. One asked me why Farads were so big. I had to explain that there’s a fixed ratio between Farads, Volts, and Joules. One of them had to be crazy big or crazy small.
See also Coulombs.
Caps are especially scary because they can develop their own charge through static electricity, so large value caps are often shipped with their terminals tied together.
- Comment on 2017 called 4 weeks ago:
MJ Should be way more bloodshot/glossy
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 4 weeks ago:
The issue is not going up, it’s going over. If we only cared about the private sector getting people into space, that happened on a fully reusable vehicle twenty years ago.
The problem is getting things to stay in space. Not trying to Elon-stan here, but getting a rocket into orbit is many fold more difficult than just getting into space.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 4 weeks ago:
cosmetically tweaked
It would have to be super tweaked considering the phone you referenced has four cameras, and a notch style front camera.
My bet is that this is a 10 second photoshop job and the actual phone will look nothing like that.
I mean if you do a difference blend of two of the cameras, you get a perfectly black circle (minus some blending at the edges): Image This means that the cameras are exact pixel-perfect copies of each other arranged in that order by photoshop. They don’t exist on any phone.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 4 weeks ago:
There were so many issues
- Final boss was lame and level leading to it was slow and tedious completely killing the momentum
- Camera system was wonky
- Rocket nozzle barely got any play
- Jet nozzle was too difficult to control to be useful outside of specific racing segments
- Pachinko machine physics were fucked
- The lily pad level was unfairly difficult
- There was no way to track which blue coins you found. Like even a grey coin marker for already collected coins would have been super helpful.
- The reward for getting blue coins was pathetic
- Yoshi was criminally underutilized. The whole juice mechanic was used like twice.
The whole thing just felt rushed. Like there was another third of the game that they didn’t get to make.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 4 weeks ago:
Super Mario Sunshine. I thought it was just hard as a kid. Come to learn it’s fucking broken.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Not so much overheating as dropout. Batteries lose both energy capacity and power capacity over time. If you draw too much current from an older battery, its voltage will drop significantly and possibly prematurely shut down the phone.
Lowering peak current (by slowing down the phone), can prevent your phone from shutting off while it still has like 20% capacity left.
Considering Apple was doing battery replacements for like $60 (before bumping to $100), and this was a setting that could be turned off, I think the only real crime was enabling it by default and not properly informing users.
- Comment on Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter? 4 weeks ago:
This is the kind of equipment you need to fix your problem.
A lighter does not have the precision to do it unless you are insanely lucky.
