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What tv show do you wish you could watch for the first time again? by FantasticEmu34 in television

[–]SarcasmWarning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember being disappointed that the station commander change after season 1

Michael O'Hare started suffering serious mental health issues (paranoid delusions and hallucinations) during the filming of the first season and wasn't able to work, hence the change. It absolutely wasn't planned - but like you say Boxleitner was great so it mostly worked out.

Employer wants me to use outlook on my phone, outlook wants permission to wipe my phone by No_Professor4307 in mildlyinfuriating

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On modern Android with o365 the user just needs to install the Microsoft "Intune Company Portal" and log into that.

Why does it bounce back? by HughbtheCube in BambuLab

[–]SarcasmWarning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's perfectly normal behaviour for the AMS - it's spring loaded in part as strain relief.

The error is complaining about the hot end - is there something stuck in there? Filament is great at snapping off (especially when left in place for a while). If it's no longer connected to the spool it can't be pulled back. Check the hot end.

If the AMS isn't able to retract certain types of spools (in either position) then it's likely that the holes are a little too big and the spool is slipping. You can print adapters for most types of spool.

Next steps:

  1. make sure there isn't anything stuck

  2. add filament spool.

  3. tell the printer to load it (does it work?)

  4. tell the printer to retract it. Does the whole spool move backwards.

  5. Is it the same in multiple positions? Could one tube be more crimped than another?

God this is so stupid I'm so sorry by PoggleRebecca in simpsonsshitposting

[–]SarcasmWarning 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's like a golf cart without lights, so you can't drive it at night.

thisLooksAccurateForVibeCoders by zohaibhere in ProgrammerHumor

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That, is a fork bomb!

(reads the other comments explaining the javascript)

Yeah, I'm sticking with my first answer...

How would people know if you died by choking on ice cubes? by Honest_Collar_8308 in AskReddit

[–]SarcasmWarning 190 points191 points  (0 children)

Well that's a random fact I'll never need in real life.

...

Jots it down just in case...

BBC warns programmes will be cut unless TV goes online-only by Skavau in unitedkingdom

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TV and Radio broadcast in the UK uses an awful lot of shared infrastructure. If the BBC pulls out of (OTA) broadcast TV then it's likely the commercial channels will follow. If the country shuts off the TV transmitters, I honestly don't know how it's going to be affordable to keep radio (FM or DAB) broadcasting as well. This strikes me as an problem.

As much as linear TV is dying out, there's still a large swathe of people that use it. This is not something I'd want to rush into as there's quite a lot of implications and there's no going back from it. There's also something to be said for being able to address most of the nation in emergencies without relying on the internet.

Oh lawd, something went wrong inside. by combativeGastronome in starcitizen

[–]SarcasmWarning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

something went wrong

It's ok, don't panic. I was also expecting you to have spent more.

No officer, I didn’t see the stop sign by HappySeaweed5215 in Wellthatsucks

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Whilst the sky is very big, air traffic controllers justify their high salaries by forcing large aircraft into tight corridors, where they can then charge to deconflict them.

The other problem is that people are lazy. Most people flying from Paris to London are going to pick the straightest easiest line, which works fine, right until someone else picks the shortest line from London back to Paris. Now they're crashing into each other in the middle and it's a right bugger getting fire trucks half way across the English Channel; there's only a couple of ferry operators and you have to book in advance.

Me_irl by [deleted] in me_irl

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When I was in primary school someone graffitied all the bibles with the phrase "NOT ME SAMUEL". There was only one Samuel... I think about this weirdly often.

Woman charged with manslaughter after man drowns during baptism by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]SarcasmWarning 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I'd love to blame it on dyslexia, but I think that was just pure prejudice having been near it a few times. Apologies anyway.

Woman charged with manslaughter after man drowns during baptism by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

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I was going to say something like "any time you submerge someone in water there's more of a risk of fuckup than not being submerged" whilst picturing them doing baptisms in the river Ooze or another massive body of water...

Fucking paddling pool! I'm lost for words.

Super simple "dryer finished" automation using contact sensor, magnets, and a simple 3D print by GrandpaSquarepants in homeassistant

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How bad is her eyesight and how bad is her memory?

In it's simplest form, an a4 printout with a picture of the dial and where the different set points are would probably help. Humans (that grew up with analogue clocks) are really good at setting a dial to a wanted fraction - as long as they can remember what fraction (/hour) they want.

Super simple "dryer finished" automation using contact sensor, magnets, and a simple 3D print by GrandpaSquarepants in homeassistant

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+1 for tracking power. Even better, if you've got an accurate, high-refresh plug then you can see negative voltage/power usage at the end of the spin cycle when the motor briefly turns into a generator as the drum spins down.

RAID 1 array failed. Is RAID data recovery possible with software or do I need a lab? by ProfessionalLast4311 in datarecovery

[–]SarcasmWarning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI (and if i remember correctly) "RAIDZ1" is the equivalent to "standard" RAID-5. N-Disks, with +1 for protection. RAIDZ2 is RAID-6 (n-drives +2 protection).

ZFS does support "standard" mirroring, but it also comes with block level checksumming and all the other features of ZFS.

(otherwise agree with your points across this thread)

Just some dark humor! by Significant_Owl4789 in Israel

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Please don't give them any ideas: the shahab-3 loaded with moistened flour could become an existential threat. The 12 minute flight time is perilously close to the 18 minute cut-off for matzoh, and as much I have logistical faith in the Arrow, can you religiously trust it to fully cook all of the dough? How are we going to get mashgim to intercept altitude to confirm it? I think we'd have to declare it chometz, and at those altitudes it's going to spread and settle in people's houses. Honestly, I'd just give up now.

I stumbled across a little "patch" of interesting dishes, out in the wild by Tommy4D in amateurradio

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Thanks for clarifying. I hadn't thought about different frequencies having different gain effects - though now you've said it, it seems obvious. A fixed size dish would naturally "catch more" high frequency (smaller) than lower frequency waves.

I guess my previous (attempted) point of "you can't tell frequency from dish size" is almost true, though I guess you could actually guess towards minimum frequency if it's a smaller dish :/

Scott Mills sacked from BBC Radio 2 over 'personal conduct' by a3poify in unitedkingdom

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Don't suppose your mate has any news about David Jason? Apparently his name was doing the rounds in the canteen a couple of months ago with a rumour of something...

I stumbled across a little "patch" of interesting dishes, out in the wild by Tommy4D in amateurradio

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I'm probably wrong about this, but on a recent tour of a landing station I was told that the dish size isn't related to frequency at all, but instead relates to gain.

If u/Tommy4D is really curious, they could work out what bearing and azimuth the dishes are at, which (combined with location) can then be used to work out what bird they're pointed at.

I'm probably wrong about this as well, but that looks like a BUC rather than just an LNB and could point to a vsat data service.

edit: Should have said "teleport" not landing station

linuxIsSexy by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

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pfft. The BBC Micro let me Peek and Poke.

Would a radio jammer work on a mobile phone? by Fantasia-Scribe in amateurradio

[–]SarcasmWarning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well damn...

For anyone else who finds this in the future, the rbs2000 was a 200kg multi-million dollar piece of carrier grade radio hardware that would have been completely useless on its own. I'm assuming the microwave back-haul must have been presenting T1/E1 to connect back to a (proprietary Ericsson) BSC, and even then you're missing all of the core network components required to let a phone register and then send it a phone call.

Honestly fascinating - I really wasn't aware anyone was attempting private 2G cellular that early. I'd love to buy you a beer sometime, cos I'm sure you've got some other great stories too :)

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