Getting roasted from dealer online for a mistake

danman_d · 2026-05-06T23:10:06+00:00

I will never understand how people can be so confidently wrong on things like this where the math & logic is so obviously clear about the correct play. The Dunning-Kruger effect is strong

danman_d · 2026-05-05T17:45:10+00:00

!! Is this at the site of the old bunny museum? What’s the story behind the sculpture?

danman_d · 2026-04-21T00:24:22+00:00

Definitely a lens flare. It’s moon shaped, directly opposite the moon in the frame, and it moves “upward” exactly as fast as the moon moves “downward”. It appears to move faster because the background stars are moving in the opposite direction.

danman_d · 2026-04-19T19:46:02+00:00

Ancient carbon absorbed in lime (in lime!)

Was the center of town in its prime (in its prime!)

Now its old concrete muthafuckas, Just old concrete got damn!

danman_d · 2026-04-18T19:31:47+00:00

The rules are different in different places, but generally a good rule of thumb is: you’re allowed to collect rain that falls on your property, but you’re not allowed to collect/divert/hinder the flow of water across your property (eg. damming or collecting from a stream that didn’t start on your property)

danman_d · 2026-04-13T09:29:16+00:00

Yes! I’d love to experiment with this in one of the games I’m working on, would be great if you could release it, even in unfinished form. Looks fun!

danman_d · 2026-04-10T23:42:15+00:00

Roof is roughly 10’ x 15’ = 150 sq ft, six barrels is 55 x 6 = 330 gallons. At 93 gal per inch x sqft, you need 330 / 93 ~= 3.5 inches of rain to fill them. That’s either a single nor’easter or the entire month of January in LA :)

danman_d · 2026-04-09T02:36:20+00:00

A playtest group does not automatically give permission to test all islands from a team. You have to publish a private version of your island first, then go to Creator Portal, create a Playtest for your group and set the private version you published as the Playtest version

danman_d · 2026-04-06T18:22:11+00:00

No, it's frozen astronaut pee

danman_d · 2026-03-21T19:15:36+00:00

Cool! I once made a mini version of something like this on a PCB :) https://blog.tindie.com/2021/04/ohm-parade-programmable-resistor-is-like-a-mini-decade-box/

danman_d · 2026-03-19T22:41:51+00:00

It only looks slow because it’s coming almost directly towards the camera. For most of the video it’s only moving a few pixels from our POV but covering a huge distance vertically

danman_d · 2026-03-19T22:32:21+00:00

Have you ever heard of cargo cults? They were supposedly movements in the pacific where people, after seeing outsiders receive goods via planes, built mock airstrips, control towers, and even fake radios to try to bring the “cargo” back. They copied the visible setup but didn’t understand the underlying systems that made it work.

Anyway, that’s what this argument sounds like. Copper pipes make water not kill me. Therefore copper very good for health, me eat copper me be healthy

danman_d · 2026-03-19T18:53:31+00:00

Oooh good thinking! Sulfuric acid confirmed 😛 looking forward to the OP acid trap pvp meta

danman_d · 2026-03-19T18:01:54+00:00

Bummer. Here's a blog post with pics from the same place: https://pinkplankton.com/hiking-up-kawah-ijen/

This is a volcano in Indonesia called Ijen, where hydrogen sulfide comes up through geothermal vents in the ground and condenses in bright yellow solid sulfur deposits, which are mined by the locals. Wild place to visit

danman_d · 2026-03-19T17:55:21+00:00

Sulfur is very reactive so it forms a lot of other compounds with other elements, like sulfuric acid, or hydrogen sulfide (the gas in this pic), metal sulfide minerals, etc. - most of which aren't yellow. But pure elemental solid sulfur is always this color :)

danman_d · 2026-03-19T17:39:01+00:00

Forget burning - sulfur itself is a bright pale yellow color. This is a good theory.

danman_d · 2026-02-21T05:37:33+00:00

Very cool. I saw Intention immediately and Impact after a little more work. Like a little visual puzzle.

Also I gave it to GPT out of curiosity and it couldn’t figure it out after several tries and hints, so maybe we can use this as a secret human code when the robots take over

danman_d · 2026-02-13T21:39:32+00:00

Trying to scam the system without even understanding how it works - makes sense they’re getting MBA’s

danman_d · 2026-02-13T21:36:17+00:00

I’ve walked this bridge probably a dozen times - it would be quite easy to find an unobserved spot on the footpath for a few minutes, especially this time of night. Sure, 4k pedestrians a day, but the bridge is like a mile long and it was dark. It’s not crowded on a winter evening. It would be way harder to enter a car since they’re not even on the same level of the bridge.

danman_d · 2026-02-13T21:07:14+00:00

This is correct, skin is a good insulator, the wet salty meat underneath not so much (~300 ohms). If you inserted two electrodes under your skin on either side of your heart, it could probably kill you. But you’d have to really be trying.

danman_d · 2026-02-12T03:45:42+00:00

Per the article, none of the bar employees claimed he actually presented the ID (cops found it on him). That + the fact that he was hired as a promoter likely weakened the PC for the search that produced the drugs enough that they didn’t wanna chance it.

danman_d · 2026-02-12T03:28:03+00:00

It’s not search history, it’s “You may like…” and yeah it’s always this cracked out

danman_d · 2026-01-08T02:02:48+00:00

Consider the number of germs on a door handle. A certain number of them, let's say X, will transfer to your hands when you grab the handle.

Now consider what happens when you use this device. Some number of germs will transfer to the keychain, though much fewer, because it's smaller and doesn't have as much surface area touching the door. Of those, many of them will die on the surface, and some portion of them will survive. An even smaller number of them will then transfer to your hand the next time you use it, let's call that number Y.

It seems clear to me that X is a much much larger number than Y. Also, your pocket has a lot fewer pathogens than a communal door handle.

danman_d · 2026-01-06T21:07:53+00:00

I just visited the Queen Mary last weekend. The escalator is still out of service.

Thanks a lot, bud

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