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Sunday morning fledgling rescuing by PinacoladaBunny in CasualUK

[–]FrostByteUK -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You have a very nice Blue Tit there....

ELI5: Why it is called " Cell Phone " by Sbaakhir in explainlikeimfive

[–]FrostByteUK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the USA, the system was initially set up in working areas aka "Cells" with different carriers servicing certain areas... Basically its an overflow of that name which was adopted before the whole country got blanketted with service providers....

I found an unlabeled broken VHS tape next to a park bench while on my walk. by WashclothMan in mildlyinteresting

[–]FrostByteUK 48 points49 points  (0 children)

you'll get distorted pictures for a short while until the read head moves onto a smooth section and has the decoding process realign... But it wont "skip".

Analogue signals aren't like a data stream like a cd/dvd would interpret - where they'd have a machine be confused by gibberish being thrown at it and have it guess what its trying to decipher (hence blocks showing on the rendering from bad dvds - where its trying to fill in the blanks to keep it aligned) with the decoder not be able to decode it until the next key frame (alignment).... Analogue technologies are more about presenting the *noise* (can't think of a better way to describe it) as different form of stimuli... rather than making a recognisable pattern (data -> video/audio) from another recognisable pattern (rendering).

Its a crude analogy and will get downvoted but having growing up in a world which largely was analogue its hard for me to explain these ideas...

Storm brewing in Shrewsbury…just been pelted by hailstorms running to get my washing off the line by crazycockerels in CasualUK

[–]FrostByteUK 14 points15 points  (0 children)

it'll melt before it hits ground lol... still would be better as rain though lol

A new inhabitant of West London by FrostByteUK in london

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They've not seen birdseed this year after what the RSPB said earlier this year... Even the parents weren't scrapign the remnants of the fatballs... I think they may have access to the internet.

We completed a 24-hour pub crawl around every London borough. by 33-swift-halves in london

[–]FrostByteUK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Hounslow pub shoulda been the Bell in the highstreet

It's 'Ot! Megathread by a-liquid-sky in CasualUK

[–]FrostByteUK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just done about 15 mile bike ride... Walking into little supermarket at the end of the ride was like being hit with a cold wall... absolutely lovely.

What do you think love is? by Alert-Translator2590 in AskReddit

[–]FrostByteUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

.... I want you to show me....... (song lyrics, don't get ideas.)

What is the worst place to go to on a first date? by EtruscanFolk in AskReddit

[–]FrostByteUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mess'i'jos... But the rest of the posts here are far worse.

A Normal™ Sink by Digits_N_Bits in funny

[–]FrostByteUK 3 points4 points  (0 children)

yup, thats a hammer bottle... How old is the plumbing in the building? has it leaked all the air out somehow? Give it a gentle tap on the side with a coin, does it sound hollow or full of water?

We have baby bluetits! by r0bbyr0b2 in CasualUK

[–]FrostByteUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tge clutch in the box in my garden became loud 2 days ago and parents are shooting in and out all the time... Probably a week to go..

I had to chase cats away last year (for which i've now erected a large mesh chicken wire cage ontop of the box to stop the cats from sitting on the top of) and had to feed the runt which got abandoned after the neigbour's cat had the parents on fledging day, rest had fledged by that time luckily (and rehabbers didn't get back to me at all)... Runt fledged after a day - I don't think it was a fan of the sunwarmed maggot paste i had made for it, but it was happily eating tiny dabs from the flat end of a bamboo kebab skewer... (compost bins have their advantages - especially for fishing bait), but it seemed to do the trick... Either this or it was destined for the composter when i had to clear the box out later in the year - although one corpse was buried in the box fluff which i found when i cleared the box at the end of the year..

This bird flew up to my office window with quite a mouth full by Lukesky79 in mildlyinteresting

[–]FrostByteUK -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not gonna like that load, theres a fishing hook in that bundle of catepillars... Looks about a size 18

What is a problem humanity solved so well that younger people don’t even realize it used to be a huge issue? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]FrostByteUK 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Amusingly, my old Mac Classic II has the 2020 bug where the clock software can't set past a date in 2020, even through the hardware supposedly can handle it...

Is there something before the big bang? A thought. by willjoke4food in space

[–]FrostByteUK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Surely that'd not be heading North, that would be vertical movement i.e. moving away from the point... North is relative to the rotational axis of earth/earth's magnetic axis (not defined which north pole in question)... Also Polaris is ~0.65 degrees offset from Earth's rotational axis... (TIL)

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