Arrath

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by Arrath 3y ago
I imagine its regional, but where I'm at those are long gone. Now you gotta bring your own bags or pay for each of the ultra flimsy 'reusable' store brand bags.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Let me take a breath and not get salty about the internet service options available to my parents.
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by Arrath 3y ago
I just pile my junk on the scale and bag it up after I'm done with the transaction.
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by Arrath 3y ago
My bane back when I was a cashier and to this day thanks to self checkouts: weird shaped items that, while having a barcode, mean they'll never ever scan correctly. Powerade bottles were the worst for this, with the label going over a
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by Arrath 3y ago
Helpful to layout my living room without busting out the measuring tape and making a scaled model complete with furniture footprints to move around.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Impressively there's no ancient interface panel with butt ugly OG Olive Drab hiding deep in there somewhere. squints at a windows XP dialog in Windows 11
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by Arrath 3y ago
My pleasure! Enjoy!
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by Arrath 3y ago
There's also a goodly quantity of wind generation capacity in/along the Columbia gorge.
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by Arrath 3y ago
> My guess is dynamite blasting Exactly right! I was involved in a 'lake tap' project in Oregon where the concrete plug in the diversion tunnel was mechanically demolished down to the minimum safe thickness, then we came in and
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by Arrath 3y ago
> All dams have spillways. That's a broad statement that doesn't apply as generally as you suggest. For example, low-head dams generally don't have spillways though in essence function as a spillway. They're entirel
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by Arrath 3y ago
Seconding that recommendation!
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by Arrath 3y ago
I cut my teeth tweaking unit settings and then adding new units and buildings to Command & Conquer games with easy .ini tweaks. I've long applauded the efforts of the JA2 1.13 devs and their drive to externalize basically every gam
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by Arrath 3y ago
> Rimworld ... fortunately lightweight. That depends entirely upon how deep into the modding rabbit hole you go. <Typed on my iPhone while Rimworld loads through a couple hundred mods>
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by Arrath 3y ago
My man
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by Arrath 3y ago
> SteamOS doesn't do anything besides play games distributed on Steam. Handling input from the gamepad and having a massive library of community contributed controller configs is a massively underrated selling point, imo.
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by Arrath 3y ago
My typical phone upgrade schedule doesn't have me buying a new one until... eh, probably 2027 or so. By then I imagine I'll have a wifi7 router at home.
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by Arrath 3y ago
I played healer so I could just point my camera at the floor zoomed in as far as possible and suffer the least bad performance possible. And scramble to get back in-game after guaranteed disconnects on big events e.g. every time Nefarion sp
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by Arrath 3y ago
And since then has an Intel socket supported more than one revolution of a tick-tock CPU generation? Genuine question because I've now built several desktops in the Intel 'Core iX' era and have never truly had on opportunity
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by Arrath 3y ago
Yo! I tolerate relatively poor performance out of my laptop (a several year old model with a Ryzen and iGPU) while having a fairly kickass home desktop[0]. So chalk me in that group. [0]Which currently sees me playing a whole bunch of Rule
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by Arrath 3y ago
Petrochem is an economical hydra, with heads in just about every industry imaginable from agricultural to pharmaceutical to packaging. It will be one hell of an endeavor to wean ourselves off of oil, but it needs to be done.
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by Arrath 3y ago
A family friend who worked at Boeing with a tenure that spanned the merger reported that the management completely went to shit and the engineering culture followed, so it does seem plausible.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Not to mention how often things will effectively be set in stone once installed in the plant. How many utterly mission critical e.g. CNC machines are run by a miraculously still functional Gateway desktop running Windows 98 Plus, camouflage
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by Arrath 3y ago
> I think it should be up to the wrench owner to make this decision, and not the wrench seller (who collects money for calibrating wrenches). That would depend on the accreditations involved, yeah? One would certainly hope that the man
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by Arrath 3y ago
So that's why this one bolt was put somewhere with only enough clearance to get 1/32nd of a turn, to burn through my wrench subscription.
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by Arrath 3y ago
> What platform does a cutting edge fighter even use? Generally speaking, something older than you might suspect. For instance, while the F-35 officially entered service with various branches of the US armed forces as early as 2015, its
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by Arrath 3y ago
Well, the device can't make heat if the device no longer exists I guess...
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by Arrath 3y ago
To be fair this appears to be a power supply that feeds a multitude of USB devices at once, instead of pushing that full amount down a single amazon basics cable. Still having trouble imagining a use case for a supply that can fast charge a
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by Arrath 3y ago
Reminds me of when one of my subordinates applied for an apartment and as part of the process the property management people reached out to me to verify his employment. How? By forwarding me his unredacted application chock full of PII. Whe
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by Arrath 3y ago
Oh hey that's why my power went out!
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by Arrath 3y ago
Fitting venue for the "two astronauts, always has been" genre of meme.

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