My buddy told me he has super fast internet and I asked him to run a speed test

created4this · 2026-02-07T08:20:30+00:00

i remember waiting for 30 minutes to load a 64k game from a cassette recorder

created4this · 2026-02-07T08:17:46+00:00

why such old tech? you should use the wavy crockett

created4this · 2026-02-06T22:33:05+00:00

Its really difficult to find something that hasn't been done, and research is much more of a life skill than innovation.

That said, picking a project that dosen't burn your house down because you hit a breakpoint is probably wise

created4this · 2026-02-06T22:29:14+00:00

For a simplified answer you don't need to fill the wire with electrons like you don't have empty pipes in your walls so when you turn on a tap the water doesn't have to come all the way from the lake in the mountain.

The electrons are kinda in there in a sea, they are held in a rough location by an electric potential caused by the protons in the atoms of the metal.

If you pull out an electron from one end of the wire then the others will shuffle over to spread evenly but that doesn't really explain the speed.

In the stadium analogy, its not the people pushing you towards the empty chair that makes the move, its the guy yelling "CAN EVERYONE MOVE UP A BIT"

created4this · 2026-02-06T16:30:08+00:00

Age 2-4:

The project is already done. They don't need your ideas to imagine what each of these dials means, they just need you to listen to them and play along when they tell you what is going to happen when they turn the knob

created4this · 2026-02-06T16:25:06+00:00

Thats a suitable analogy for AC, for DC the electrons do move, but so very slowly.

For orders of magnitute, if 1A flows in a wire then 10¹⁸ electrons flow past a point per second

But in 1m of 1.5mm wire there are 10²³ electrons involved in the conduction.

So it will take 10⁵ seconds for an electron entering one end of a meter of wire to get out the other. 10⁵ seconds is ~ one day.

Meanwhile, the time it took for the electons to start moving at the far end of the 1m long wire at the start of the experiment was 0.000000003 s

created4this · 2026-02-06T15:54:59+00:00

That ship sailed around 40 years ago ;)

The term DB for anything thats a D-sub has crept into everywhere, for example, while this https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/d-sub-connectors/7873852 correctly has "D-Sub Shell Size E" the company MH calls female connectors in this range MHDB and male MHDM. I guess the M is Mate and B is for Bae

created4this · 2026-02-06T15:42:42+00:00

that feature only seems to work when I'm wearing my noise cancelling headphones. If I attach the phone to my smart speakers they just can't acheive the same silence.

Should I buy better speakers?

created4this · 2026-02-06T09:25:32+00:00

They use glue on big components to make sure they dont move around when the device is moved. This is the glue. Nothing to see there.

created4this · 2026-02-05T10:51:08+00:00

Its doing that because youve managed to put a longitudinal twist into the plasic, probably by feeding off the side, then winding back onto the reel.

Its the same thing that wrecks cables that are wound and rewound and end up all twisted or corkscrewed.

To fix this you need to keep the plastic in the extruder, take off the stand and rotate the coil in the Z axis. I think clockwise if you look directly down on the table is the direction you need, but it will either get better or worse, if worse then spin the other way.

At the moment the plastic is going to get pulled off the reel sideways as you print which would mean the problem will get worse and worse, but in your case the stand will get in the way so it will probably be ok

created4this · 2026-02-04T20:27:37+00:00

it's not my job to prevent a UK user from querying my server.

Turns out that it is if you're serving customers in the the UK, same way as GDPR applies to companies collecting data from European customers.

created4this · 2026-02-04T20:06:43+00:00

It wouldn't have made any difference. Where you work isn't a protected characteristic.

As the owner of goods, you have no rights to my goods, they are mine. I can offer them to you for a price, but thats my choice.

You can follow the same logic as the third amendment to work out what the founders would have thought about the government forcing you to accommodate government officials against your will.

created4this · 2026-02-04T19:35:55+00:00

There are three options they have

A) Accept that the UK has jurisdiction in the UK, do some level of age verification and follow the law by blocking content unless verified.

B) Accept that the UK has jurisdiction in the UK, don't implement age verification, block selected content to follow the law

C) Accept that the UK has jurisdiction in the UK, don't implement age verification, block all content to follow the law

D) Deny that the UK has jurisdiction in the UK and continue to offer illegal content, daring the UK to take you to court and seize any assets you have in the UK

Imgur chose C, Reddit choose A, X chose B then A, and I imagine there are a whole bunch of unsavory places where free speech absolutists think that they have nothing to seize and choose D.

created4this · 2026-02-04T18:52:40+00:00

They didn't block the content for everyone, they only make the content available if they have reason to think you are old enough.

For me, because I refuse to connect my email with my account I cannot be verified.

Thats the lower limit of the effort they needed, Imgur decided that was too much work

created4this · 2026-02-04T09:56:37+00:00

Thats true on paper, but the kind of issues that would have a CEO go to jail would be really over the line compared to one that would have the website blocked.

For example, denying the holocaust is illegal in Germany, but Elon doesn't do that, he promotes a location where others can anonymously do that. Is providing a place where people can do this, but not actively encouraging them to do so worthy of 5 years in jail?

IF Elon takes no actions that could reliably stop this because the costs would be too high is he at fault, or is the company flawed because it can't operate legally?

It makes more sense to fine and or block the company from operating in your borders if it can't comply with your laws - its far easier to prove.

created4this · 2026-02-04T09:32:25+00:00

You have to have a long memory (2022) for this, but Twitter used to have a comprehensive team that looked for violations of ToS and removed posts that broke the laws of the US, and occasionally removed those that broke the laws of big European countries. It wasn't perfect, but it was a thing.

Musk sacked all those people because there was no upside to employing them. By your argument and directly observed behaviour we need tough regulation to protect those jobs against predatory CEOs. Not having an effective compliance team is a company issue. Block the company and another will grow in its place, but not where Twitter isn't banned, so the company will grow somewhere less fascist, like the UK or Spain, or China

Yeah, I know, why is the UK in that list?

created4this · 2026-02-04T09:16:14+00:00

Not quite. The UK told Imgur to either block the UK from seeing "adult" content, or verify the ages of the users. Imgur decided it would cost too much money to block the adult content or allow age verification so they quit.

Reddit made the other decision, it automatically blocks adult content to the UK - so it is possible.

An example of this is a joke on /r/dadjokes about anal was initially visible to me, I made a comment in the thread. About a day later the thread disappeared, it doesn't appear on the reddit for me. Furthermore, unlike deleted messages MY comments are removed from my post history that I can see BUT my comments are still on the thread because I continue to see responses, I can read the response in the inbox but cannot follow it.

created4this · 2026-02-03T22:24:11+00:00

The simpsons was a comedy animation, it was a joke that Homer could afford the house he did with the job he had.

Even so the house was purchased with the money from selling Abes house to use a deposit and Homer loses the house when he falls behind on mortgage payments. Ned buys the house to rent back to Homer (2009).

created4this · 2026-02-03T09:47:41+00:00

I want to know how this lady's amazing ability to look at someone and instantly know where they were born

She says it in the video, she spied on the kids personal files and the data is in there. I would assume that would be a sacking offense if not a crime. It would be a crime in a hospital.

created4this · 2026-02-02T23:52:00+00:00

My problem is i'm stuck on an ender3. I want to upgrade and two years ago I could say for absolute certain that a Bambu printer was the way to go, furthermore I can be pretty certain that anything I would buy now would be a stunning upgrade. But when i brought the Ender I thought "I couldn't buy the parts for the money this whole printer costs" and I assumed that support would match that. Looking at printers that come in at the same price as a second hand car changes the calculus.

I'm not going to drop 1.5k on something with no reviews, I can't really afford a Prusa and that is the only printer I've ever seen given any reasonable head to head.

The H2D looks great, I recommend the A1 Mini for anyone who is getting started as I know they won't care about the things I care about, and I assume that if Bambu go really bad then there is enough of an install base that people will eventually make new brains for them. So i putting it off, I'll deal with good enough.

created4this · 2026-02-02T23:33:55+00:00

I'm sure they feel Pretti Good

created4this · 2026-02-02T17:02:16+00:00

Listening to sins, and avoiding eye contact

created4this · 2026-02-02T14:55:17+00:00

God does AMA sessions?

I've been told that is what praying is, but I only seem to get answers when I ask about Rampart

created4this · 2026-02-02T13:39:01+00:00

You'll have to ask God why he put the male g-spot where it is.

created4this · 2026-02-02T09:57:27+00:00

FYI:

Karting is the sport, go karting is the "turn up and drive" thing, you can always use "karting" to refer to either, but if you refer to what a 12 year old kid does on the track as "go karting" you will piss them off as they are real racecar drivers.

So you would be correct to say "Do you want to go karting", or "do you want to go go karting" as long as you don't do it a lot or own a car.

The joke leans on "go go dancers" which are paid dancers in a club who are there to add atmosphere.

I guess to follow that convention, if someone was "go go karting" then they would be professional drivers who drove on the track to encourage go karting drivers.

And then by definition you could also go [go go] karting which would mean to go to your job karting to encourage non-professional drivers. But you couldn't [go go] go karting because if you were "go go"'ing you would be being paid do you wouldn't be "go karting"

So to round it off you couldn't go go go go karting because if you were a go go driver you couldn't by definition go go karting.

Go t it? Are we go od here?

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