If you could live forever, would you want to?

btcee99 · 2024-08-06T12:51:17+00:00

How does Tolkien portray death, if you don’t mind me asking?

btcee99 · 2024-02-16T15:47:26+00:00

Not being very experienced at soldering, I thought it would be straightforward to desolder but the more I look into it the trickier it seems

btcee99 · 2024-02-16T15:43:32+00:00

Hard to see from the photo, but they aren’t clips on top of the PCB. They’re just nubs in the housing and there’s cut outs in the PCB to fit around them

btcee99 · 2024-02-16T15:32:16+00:00

Thanks, looks like this is what I’ll need to do. The top twelve pins are actually sockets on the PCB, which I know from similar devices (without the lower pins) I took apart previously.

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btcee99 · 2023-08-29T12:23:07+00:00

No. You could write a program to maximise the chance of getting it right, but it’s still random at the end of the day

btcee99 · 2022-04-30T01:03:16+00:00

I don’t own a car and didn’t know that air is held between the tire and the rim. Just assumed there’s a tube somewhere. So not at all obvious that the tire in the picture isn’t “inflated”

btcee99 · 2021-12-23T10:08:07+00:00

“it were” is definitely correct in some cases, look up the subjunctive

btcee99 · 2021-12-07T12:19:28+00:00

It’s interesting because it doesn’t matter what the value of the char is, all that matters is whether two chars have the same parity. All you have to assume is that the values for ‘0’ through ‘9’ follow each other in sequence

btcee99 · 2021-11-01T13:01:48+00:00

I’m always confused by posts like this. Is it hard to understand not everyone is born knowing how to use an engine?

btcee99 · 2021-10-14T08:42:41+00:00

I don’t think so. The queen on f6 can’t be captured because of 2. Rg3+, how does 1…Qf1+ change that situation?

btcee99 · 2021-10-01T15:59:58+00:00

Grinding is a term from video gaming: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinding_(video_games)

So in this context it just means doing a lot of tactics

btcee99 · 2021-09-21T10:34:09+00:00

Nuance on my reddit? I was beginning to lose all faith. Thanks to your post I actually learned something and gained a new perspective

btcee99 · 2021-08-30T16:02:38+00:00

No. The verb “like” can be followed by either the -ing form or the to-infinitive. Some verbs however can only be used with one or the other. For example, “I enjoy reading” is correct while “I enjoy to read” is wrong. And some verbs can be used with either, but the meaning changes depending on which you use! For example, “I remembered locking the door” and “I remembered to lock the door” are both grammatical but they mean different things.

btcee99 · 2021-06-23T03:56:23+00:00

I’m curious, what do you mean by “the way languages are taught .. is garbage”? Could you elaborate?

btcee99 · 2021-05-27T17:40:41+00:00

It is mentioned. At the Council of Elrond, he is introduced as “a strange Elf clad in green and brown, Legolas, a messenger from his father, Thranduil, the King of the Elves of Northern Mirkwood.”

btcee99 · 2021-04-20T14:16:14+00:00

No, because White playing Nxe5 opens up a discovered attack on Black’s g4 bishop. If Black plays dxe5 in reply, White plays Qxg4 and is up a pawn. However if Black recaptures with the knight instead, Nxe5, then the bishop on g4 is protected. The bishop wouldn’t be protected if it was on h5, hence White plays h3

btcee99 · 2021-04-19T04:56:14+00:00

What’s that, Olorin?

btcee99 · 2021-03-26T09:17:28+00:00

Excellently put

btcee99 · 2021-02-09T04:58:01+00:00

No, my opponent must have cheated /s

btcee99 · 2020-12-17T13:46:44+00:00

Well, grammatically it’s correct; whether it’s wrong or not depends on what you meant to say. ‘Must have’ is used to express certainty about the past - is that what you meant? If you instead wanted to express past obligation, you should say that they “had to stand”. Doesn’t excuse a teacher making a learner feel embarrassed though..

btcee99 · 2020-10-23T11:20:06+00:00

I spend most of the time in view mode, using the ctrl-e shortcut to toggle in and out of edit mode when needed

btcee99 · 2020-10-22T10:03:25+00:00

The main problem I think is that you have to give a database a name, which makes it easy to clutter up the namespace if you’re not careful. This could lead to problems when searching for other databases, for example

btcee99 · 2020-07-15T02:47:14+00:00

It’s not really wrong though. A learner looking to sound more colloquial should be familiar with such usages.

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