[-] SuperNerd@programming.dev 11 points 1 month ago

I really liked their electric XC40's and tried to buy one last year, but ... I just can't figure out car dealerships. They had two on the lot, I had enough in my checking account, I go there on a Saturday morning, and ... It was just a mess. The sales guy first said electric cars are dumb and I don't want one, I actually want their biggest SUV, then he said he could only lease the electric cars (with horrible terms), not sell them. I gave up and went home to see if there is a way to buy a new Volvo online -- no. So I bought my second choice (a Tesla Y), with an app, in about 30 minutes.

[-] SuperNerd@programming.dev 23 points 3 months ago

They lose in every timeline. The US would have nuked them.

[-] SuperNerd@programming.dev 16 points 4 months ago

OMG it's so good to hear that this is changing. Twenty years ago, in college, I responded to flyers around campus about a support group forming. The therapist refused because obviously the support group was only for women. No mention on the flyers. She was surprised I tried to sign up and said I'd make everyone uncomfortable.

I know we have a ways to go but I'm glad there's even a thought that maaaaaybe men need and can benefit from support, too?

[-] SuperNerd@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

The film data is way over ambitious. I don't think blowing a 35mm negative up to 16x20 is "superb."

[-] SuperNerd@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

I have both. The way Bose handles bluetooth with multiple devices is so awful that I gave up on them and bought the Sony's. They would probably be fine if you only intend to ever pair them to one device. However, for me, I just never figured out what they were trying to do. I'd turn them on and they'd wake up a sleeping iPad in another room, or closed laptop, and then refuse to connect to my phone (using the phone's built in Bluetooth menu) until I opened the Bose App to reconfigure them. The last straw was on video calls for work-- they'd randomly re-connect with a random device.

The Sony's just don't do that. They don't wake up random sleeping or idle devices, and if they do connect to the wrong device I can use the OS Bluetooth menus to manually connect them to a given device -- rather than opening the app in my phone.

[-] SuperNerd@programming.dev 32 points 6 months ago

So cool, thanks. As a kid I spent so much time in DEBUG, stepping through DOS's executables, and especially the Interrupt handlers. It's so neat to see the actual source code-- way easier to read and follow. I didn't know it was all written in assembly, from within Debug it sometimes seemed so messy and convoluted that I just assumed more was written in C.

[-] SuperNerd@programming.dev 11 points 7 months ago

Hedwig. I thought it was such a beautiful movie and about half the people in the theater left.

[-] SuperNerd@programming.dev 12 points 7 months ago

+1-- I'm so impressed by the "reasonably large admin team"s' thoughtfulness and transparency.

[-] SuperNerd@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

You've reposted this six times...

[-] SuperNerd@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

It's not your fault. Tell someone. You'll survive.

[-] SuperNerd@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

NASA has a paper on how to not poop for days. It's on the Internet. Before space toilets there was only a space bag with finger scissor/scoop holes. It didn't work, poop got everywhere. The paper goes into detail about fecal matter being everywhere after early multi-day missions.

So they figured it out. Their system works -- I've also had my own reasons.

view more: next ›

SuperNerd

joined 1 year ago