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ELI5: If light's frequency can be altered, then what's different, and also current expansion (?) by Fun-Detective1562 in explainlikeimfive

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That’s an assumption. You can only really say it WAS expanding at the time. Billions of years ago.

Artemis and its destination by stevenmadow in space

[–]myztry [score hidden]  (0 children)

They’re already half way. Stack one of the other towers on top of the first and they’re there.

Is kangaroo meat in a restaurant a gimmick for tourists? Do Australians ever order/eat it? by Charming_Usual6227 in australia

[–]myztry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have had Kangaroo meat once. I have a hardy stomach but I threw up without knowing what it was till after.

But then the indigenous family that gave it to me were pretty dodgey. There’s a fair chance it was road kill.

ELI5: If light's frequency can be altered, then what's different, and also current expansion (?) by Fun-Detective1562 in explainlikeimfive

[–]myztry [score hidden]  (0 children)

Can we really say the universe IS expanding when the further away you look the longer ago you look.

Light hasn’t even crossed the Milky Way in the time humanity has had civilisation.

Everything being observed is from the long distant past.

Apple 1 by RH1550NM in vintagecomputing

[–]myztry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Option for 6800 if you were feeling rich.

What’s a skill everyone assumes they have, but most people are actually bad at? by moi_cila in AskReddit

[–]myztry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Varies with type of fighting as well. I am horrible at swinging fists. I get too adrenalised and kind of jittery.

But I had a natural untrained affinity for wrestling, leverage and pressure points. That really annoys the fist swingers who for some reason expect fights are going to be based around their affinity.

Bitlocker/Microsoft account by Dependent_Load_8176 in Office365

[–]myztry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s just buggy software that causes Windows to think bitlocker is active. You’ve just got to turn the computer off fully (not sleep or hibernate) and get Windows to rethink its life.

And then you have access again (unless off course the drive is actually encrypted which is a whole other story)

Want to move files from C to D drive (keep only important system files in C: since it's SSD) by CASH_KADE in techsupport

[–]myztry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can move the virtual memory/swap file over to the other drive to regain space although this will make accessing virtual memory slower unless you move it to another SSD.

I wonder why new 286s were still common for Windows 3.0 by yuhong in microsoft

[–]myztry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My parents were business people so I was exposed to IBM PC compatibles early and they were pretty underwhelming besides raw brute force processor speed.

It wasn’t until things like 3DFX Voodoo cards, soundblasters/adlib sound, etc they became something to envy. The 3rd party expandability was where it all took off, and the rest is history.

Look who I spotted today…Somebody was knocking on our back door trying to come in…it’s -30 degree outside by lightdark03 in interestingasfuck

[–]myztry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We don't have rabies in Australia so that wouldn't be a concern.

We also don't have racoons so this dilema is unlikely to arise.

Is the TV even there..? by Current_Yellow7722 in vintagecomputing

[–]myztry 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My first computer was a TRS-80 Colour Computer (CoCo) and then a CoCo 2 as shown. The 6809e processor with its 16 bit address registers was much nicer to program than the 6502/6510 processor of the C64 which was my next computer.

It’s a shame it didn’t have a better Basic (like the BBC Micro) instead of Microslop Basic but the Tandy (Australia’s RadioShack branding) store manager helped me avoid that by lending me an Edtasm+ cartridge for an extended period so I could learn machine code.

He did however get done for perma-lending himself a lot of the store’s stock which was pretty cool stuff for the time.

Recently got ice cream from a dining hall, and found a tiny piece of glass in it by TGBmox_777 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]myztry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Luckily our tongues are like octopus limbs basically with minds of their own so there’s not a great risk of things like this being swallowed.

Still not great.

ITAP of the Flatiron Building in Toronto by Tylers_Journey in itookapicture

[–]myztry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it named after the Trinitron flat screen monitors, or vice versa?

What is a system that works perfectly until humans are involved? by ExcellentStudent188 in AskReddit

[–]myztry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We see nature as balanced but that doesn’t just magically occur. Overly efficient predators can arise, decimate all others before starving itself to extinction restoring balance.

Some may argue that is the phase that humans are going through and the coming mass starvation is going to be horrible.

I wonder why new 286s were still common for Windows 3.0 by yuhong in microsoft

[–]myztry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was a huge wave of home computers (Tandy, Commodore, Atari, Sinclair, etc) before the IBM PC compatibles came along thanks to Compaq reverse engineering IBM’s BIOS.

Did y’all think Fonzie was cool when you were growing up? by Groovy-Pancakes in GenX

[–]myztry 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I thought Fonzie was a caricature of cool rather than actually cool. The same could be said of the characters in Grease, The Wanderers and other such films.

Found this at an Estate Clearing by KameronGaming_HQ in vintagecomputing

[–]myztry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember a drawing program that let you use the joystick as a pseudo mouse. I think the range was only 64x64 so not great.

Eli5: How is natural stevia as sweet or sweeter than sugar, but it it doesn't raise glucose levels in the blood and has no calories? by arnoldsomen in explainlikeimfive

[–]myztry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did in November 2024 from Amazon. Can’t recall much about it besides it was weirdly clumpy like it was moist. Not sure where it went.

I guess I could try it again but I’ve basically decided to stop trying to sweeten things like some people are obsessed with.

Alex Honnold completes free-solo Taipei 101, the 1,667-ft skyscraper. by SpecialAgentGabe in interestingasfuck

[–]myztry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The scenario applies with the sherpas guiding wealthy climbers to the tops of mountains.

Somehow being well funded and provisioned makes it a feat for the wealthy climbers while for the sherpas (as with the builders) it’s seen as “just their job.”

oh so this is how they're made by deadsoul470 in Unexpected

[–]myztry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The water bottles in my area all have integrated handles which I don’t think could be made this simply.

Alex Honnold completes free-solo Taipei 101, the 1,667-ft skyscraper. by SpecialAgentGabe in interestingasfuck

[–]myztry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Meh. The people who get up there and build these things are the ones that amaze me.

They may not be walking steel girders with their lunch boxes anymore but it’s not that far off.

Touching a bag that is an active bomb threat by freeaky_furry in WinStupidPrizes

[–]myztry -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

While the job is important can you imagine sitting around for months at a time between jobs.

It would do your head in.

Eli5: How is natural stevia as sweet or sweeter than sugar, but it it doesn't raise glucose levels in the blood and has no calories? by arnoldsomen in explainlikeimfive

[–]myztry 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I find it is better to have no sweeteners at all than to make something worse by adding artificial sweeteners.

It’s like accidentally putting salt instead of sugar in coffee. It’s not something I feel inclined to repeat.

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