[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago

To answer the question about it being in a movie, it’s because the director needed you to know the air was moving through a visual means.

[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, doesn’t the dude consider Batman his true identity and Bruce Wayne the costume?

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What’s the play here? Does she not know that people upload highly inaccurate or blatantly fake photos to dating sites all the time?

What problem does this solve?

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28specific+heat+of+water%2912.8K%281+gallon+*+water+density%29

200kjoules of heat must be removed from a gallon of water to cool from 55F to 32F (out of the ground down to pleasant drinking temperature).

Assuming a COP of 2 for your compressor (conservative), that's 100kjoules or 1/36 of a kWh.

High price for a kWh of electricity is $0.25 in the US. So for your $2 subscription, you can pay for 8kWh per month or enough to cool 288 gallons of water or roughly 9 gallons per day. More than anybody would rightly use.

What a fucking ripoff.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago

I worked in wearable electronics back in 2013. At the time, everyone was trying to crack wristworn heart rate monitors. It’s a challenging problem to solve: having to detect a faint color change in human skin while ignoring the massive shifts in ambient light from sunlight to shade all while bouncing around on a wrist.

Different vendors had different solutions and couldn’t even agree on what color LED was best for illuminating the skin.

Anyway, when the next generation of Nike Fuelband came out and didn’t include heart rate monitoring, I’ll never forget one of the comments I saw on a review.

“Come on Nike, it’s not hard to add a heart rate monitor. Just use pulse tracking.”

[-] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago

It’s possible that these vehicles are already built and Tesla needs a way to entice budget conscious buyers to clear out their inventory.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago

I remember some kid at a job fair in college handing out his resume on flash drives. I remember one of the booths saying “yeah, that’s not getting read.”

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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/networking

So I need to move my server closet out of the guest room closet and into the basement so the closet can be used as a closet again.

I’ve got like 15 shielded cat6 with insulated risers patched into the back of a rack mount patch panel.

My goal is to end up with all of the existing cable extended 15’ or so to the new patch panel location, with maybe some kind of small door in the wall of the original closet so I can access the splices if anything goes wrong.

I invested in shielded cat6 when networking the house to future proof everything, and I have solid home runs to every location. I’m currently only running gigabit speeds, but I’d like to preserve the integrity of the original cables as much as possible.

With that in mind, what’s the best method for this extension? I’ve seen shielded punchdown junction boxes as well as female/female inline couplers. Keep in mind that there will be a bunch of them, so any advice on keeping things organized is appreciated.

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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I picked up a low pressure sodium lamp and am working on a Halloween demonstration. I’m hoping to make a display that appears one way under normal light, but looks totally different under the monochromatic 589nm sodium vapor light.

So basically, I’m looking to generate a color wheel where I pick a shade of gray and get a list of colors that would look that gray under sodium vapor light.

…I feel like there must be a Python library for thing or something…

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Update: thanks all for the very helpful advice! I think it’s really special that not one of you dunked on my DM. You all seem very supportive of a broad range of play styles and that’s a sign of a very healthy community.

I reached out to one of the more experienced players in our party, and I’ll be pinging our DM at some point over the next week. I’ll see if we can switch gears or if not leave peaceably. Thanks again.

Recently got into DND. Watched two seasons of Dimension 20 and loved them. A friend of mine offered to try DMing for our friend group. We meet every two weeks for 3-4 hours. We're playing Pathfinder using the Foundry online interface so we can play remotely.

Apologize if I mess up any terminology, I'm new.

I am two hours into this week's game right now (in another tab), and I'm so fucking bored. We're in some underground tunnel system, and just getting bombarded by completely arbitrary enemies.

Last round we spent three hours fighting a mimic and a gelatinous cube, and there was no explanation for why they were even in the cave in the first place. We haven't had a conversation with an NPC in three sessions. End of the round we come across some weird tunnel system with giant moths on one side and giant larvae on the other. No explanation for why they're there. We start coming up with a plan on how to kill them so we can get the loot they're guarding, but it was the end of the session.

This week, right when we start and try to do something about the moths, we get attacked by morlocks that came up the tunnel behind us, fight them for an hour and a half, and the remaining ones just run off. So now we're finally dealing with the moths.

Anyway, we're doing this on a giant map in Foundry. Nothing is theater of the mind. It's all very literal, and it feels like I'm playing an incredibly slow PC game just sliding my token down tunnels. Nobody is really roleplaying. We rarely get any details during our battles beyond "they look really hurt."

I don't expect anybody I know to be at the level of Brennan or whatever at DMing, but there is just no entertainment value for what we're doing here, we're constantly in combat, none of my skills are useful (because we're just fighting mindless monsters), and it's like a solid 10 minutes between my turns.

Like end of last round, I floated the idea of trying to mount and tame one of the moths (I'm a halfling, and they're big), and my DM just said "I mean, that's pretty dangerous. If you're ok rolling a new character, you can try it." Like geez, sorry for trying to make it interesting. At least give me an in-game reason for why I shouldn't do it.

I really want to quit. Any advice?

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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

In the original Sims, I was 11, and didn’t realize skills improvement would get your sims better jobs.

My sims were all top ranked in the military because that was the best job that required no skills.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago

Your camera lens is made of several pieces of glass. The glass is designed to admit as much light as possible on to the sensor, but at each layer, a small amount is reflected.

If the source light is bright enough, especially in comparison to the background, these reflections bounce around a bunch and eventually hit the sensor. Normally, any reflections are very faint and get washed out by the rest of the image, but the sun is like 1000x brighter than the sky, so even a weak reflection shows up.

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[-] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago

Buying a new car is worse than keeping an old one

Also, what do you think happens to your car when you replace it with an electric car? Do most people just drive their old cars into the ocean when they upgrade?

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The main gag is that she finds it somewhere he claims he already looked (typical), but he interprets her “magically” finding it as witchcraft.

4 panels. She looks very annoyed in the last panel.

I saw it originally on Reddit, but I can’t find it anywhere now.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Electronic product development. Apple releases a iPhone every year, so people think you can start developing a new phone in September and ship 100M of them the following September.

Really became a problem with Kickstarter reporting where some bullshit project would ask for a puny $50k to develop and ship a tiny wrist mounted supercomputer phone and promise to ship in six months, and tech blogs would eat that shit up without an ounce of skepticism.

I even wrote a blog about it

[-] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago

I remember asking my dad if the Earth ever got heavier besides when meteors landed and babies were born.

I couldn’t comprehend that babies were made out of food. I thought they just came from nothing.

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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I've got a 2018 Model 3 that I've upgraded with the new charge port ECU to support CCS. The adapter works fine in EA, but I recently tried it on a Chargepoint station and while the station recognized the car, it wouldn't start charging. Said there was some kind of problem.

Station worked fine with the CHAdeMO cable and adapter though.

Is there a thing with Chargepoint and the CCS adapter? Or could there be something with my ECU upgrade?

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Recently started using a LightPhone II when out of the house, and I found the article captured my current experience pretty well. It’s not so bad to be bored sometimes.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Just learned this yesterday while watching this post's author's youtube series where he's decompiling the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MToTEqoVv3I

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Great way to kickstart original content (and give us something else to talk about besides the Reddit apocalypse)

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

It’s actually a super saturated solution of copper sulfate.

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