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by phaus 6y ago
I didn't say anything negative about Grant. I said Grant was great and the show in general was great. If anyone decides not to be a scientist or an engineer because of me saying that Myth Busters was a great show that was not always sc
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by phaus 6y ago
I remember being disappointed with their testing and results at the time but it was 14 years ago maybe I didn't get it right. I don't think they are overly rigorous with in general but its still a great show and I actually dont th
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by phaus 6y ago
If they really want to give people the experience of drinking water in the Desert they should do what the Army did and sit pallets of water bottles in the sun so all the Soldiers could get a nice, plastic-flavored, scalding hot drink of bot
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by phaus 6y ago
Fair enough, but IMO if they are holding themselves to that narrow and frankly completely useless condition then 90% of the episode was wasted effort talking to people about things that, by the definition of their own condition were complet
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by phaus 6y ago
I'm a security analyst specializing in incident response forensics, but not a great reverse engineer (although I'm trying to learn) or a software engineer, so I have some insight that might be valuable but I might sound ignorant i
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by phaus 6y ago
>Embrace the Scientific Method, and you just might solve any problem that comes your way. Mythbusters was a great and inspiring show, but they weren't always great at following the scientific method IMO. It was always more about coo
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by phaus 6y ago
Best - A freezer we bought a few years ago and didn't really use much until recently. It lets us limit trips to the grocery store to about once a month. Worst - $100 on Valorant skins. I knew I'd play this game a lot so I got some
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by phaus 6y ago
I don't really see the appeal of a $1500 ipad/mirror but I get a lot of value out of my fitbit. Tracking food, sleep, and my weight has been really helpful. It lets me know what I need to adjust to meet my goals. Tracking my walki
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by phaus 6y ago
Could be a flawed survey (Comment was based on stackoverflow's). I generally like a lot about each of the three big OSs and yet I hate certain aspects of each of them. I don't have a strong favorite myself.
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by phaus 6y ago
At least since the 90s, Windows has been THE platform for gaming. In 2020, the tools and drivers for Windows are better because its the primary platform. Linux has been getting slightly better support for several years now, but it has a lon
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by phaus 6y ago
As others have mentioned, steroids are frequently used to treat inflammation. Steroids' impact on whether a person lives or dies because of COVID is usually minimal. Unfortunately, this has led to a shortage of some steroids, including
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by phaus 6y ago
I don't recall saying its OK to use slurs against the mentally ill either.
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by phaus 6y ago
Its not that people are dumb, they usually target the elderly. Senility is a real thing that can happen to anyone no matter how smart they were when they were young.
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by phaus 6y ago
For about a hundred years it has also been pretty commonly used as a slur for mentally ill people.
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by phaus 6y ago
I bought a "Lenovo" USB hub that was a shitty knockoff, the manufacturer claimed they had licensed the Lenovo brand. The listing never mentioned that it wasn't an authentic Lenovo device, but the packaging did. The device was
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by phaus 6y ago
>Dragon fruit can be grown in California, Florida, and Hawaii and is not "bland mush with tiny seeds that can require floss to dislodge". The author must have had a bad one. They can be extremely sweet. The seeds are so small t
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by phaus 6y ago
For hundreds of years people have been describing it as smelling like various unpleasant things, like rotten onions, rotten meat, pig feces, socks, etc. In some countries where the fruit grows you aren't allowed to eat it in public in
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by phaus 6y ago
Yea its not going to be 40% as powerful as a 2080TI when t comes to real world performance. It might do OK in special cases. Going from the links he posted it runs PUBG @ 40FPS and a mobile racing game at 30 FPS. Those numbers don't ag
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by phaus 6y ago
>That computer mices are retarded and trackballs are the way to go. I really like mice and I find them to be much faster and much more precise. However, I recently switched to using a trackball for work and general use and I now only use
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by phaus 6y ago
I got out a couple of years ago. Their Cyber program is much better than most of their other technical training but it was heavily influenced by what other branches were doing. Maybe they changed it but another thing is that their cyber tra
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by phaus 6y ago
As a guy that spent a long time in the Army doing telecommunications we interacted with electronics techs in the Navy and they were almost always really really knowledgeable. We didn't have the same level of confidence when talking to
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by phaus 6y ago
>I assume the other branches are as well. I have got some rather sad news for you. Joking aside, I was in the Army for 16 years. Almost all of the technical training is complete garbage. In fact, the best part of my training in Satellite
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by phaus 6y ago
With a 4:3 ratio, probably a T60 or a T61.
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by phaus 6y ago
>We haven't gotten smarter about drug addiction in general, which is why we have the largest prison population in the world. Legalization and decriminalization of Marijuana is still a relatively recent phenomenon. It seems to me lik
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by phaus 6y ago
>Black Americans have watched a completely different and profoundly more compassionate response to the white people affected by the opioid epidemic than they experienced in the crack/cocaine epidemic https://www.theatlant
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by phaus 6y ago
You're clearly either not interested in or not capable of taking part in a conversation where you aren't needlessly condescending so tomorrow you can save yourself the effort.
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by phaus 6y ago
Unless you're on a laptop most people have a monitor large enough to put the PDF reader on one half, effectively putting it into portrait mode. I mostly read technical books, so I'll have a terminal or something open on the other
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by phaus 6y ago
He's talking about it from the perspective of a user of an ebook reading app. He might not know what the problem is. The point is he shouldn't have to know or care what the technical issue is. He's trying to read a paper and
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by phaus 6y ago
You put "extreme left" in quotes as if there isn't such a thing and its simply a way to malign mainstream liberals. Once again this is the kind of tribalism I'm talking about. All or nothing. Purity tests. There are left
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by phaus 6y ago
Did you grow up with 49% of the voters in this country, or are you generalizing them based on caricatured versions of your anecdotal experience? I haven't and don't plan on voting for Trump. However, you can't generalize a gr

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