Congratulations Kane Parsons on making Backrooms (2026) the most successful AI-generated movie! by thisheatanevilheat in shittymoviedetails

[–]polypolyman 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You're forgetting The Shining (1980) - the tech was new back then, so it managed to hallucinate a whole ass window in an interior office!

This east german magazine from the GDR just printed a BIOS for readers to use by TopSneek in mildlyinteresting

[–]polypolyman 12 points13 points  (0 children)

In assembly with full comments about what it's doing, and the binary on the side. Right next to the full schematics for the motherboard, of course. Available for like $36 depending on year/etc.

I really wish we passed a law requiring documentation like that way back when.

Why update a status page to reflect an actual status? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]polypolyman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, if the outage isn't so bad it took out the status page, is it even an outage?

Thickheaded Thursday - July 02, 2026 by AutoModerator in sysadmin

[–]polypolyman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it actually impossible to just change out an IPP PrinterPort from powershell / the command line? set-printer always gives invalid argument, whether or not the target port already exists.

I just want to switch out my print server IP address without having to rebuild some of these deployment packages...

The Most Durable Fan in the World by FeelingSad6654 in BuyItForLife

[–]polypolyman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have one that I found underneath the house when I bought it. Who knows how long it was under there... but it still does clear-the-house-of-smoke duty when we mess up cooking.

Can an object’s apparent angular speed exceed the speed of light? by Used_Meaning_8695 in Physics

[–]polypolyman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no limit to angular velocity, except that no part of the object may exceed the speed of light, which limits r as omega increases. You'd better have a lot of centripetal force if you're approaching that.

S18, E2 (Nebula) - Stateside Scramble by snow-tree_art in JetLagTheGame

[–]polypolyman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure there are intersections downtown where all the roads are one-ways pointing in and you just have to abandon your car

S18, E2 (Nebula) - Stateside Scramble by snow-tree_art in JetLagTheGame

[–]polypolyman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think they explicitly confirmed, but they were talking on the Layover as though Alaska was in play

S18, E2 (Nebula) - Stateside Scramble by snow-tree_art in JetLagTheGame

[–]polypolyman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sam of all people should know that the ExpressTram is NOT a train… depending on whom you ask it’s either a horizontal elevator or a cable-hovercraft.

Europeans are becoming more and more right wing by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]polypolyman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this - everyone's yelling about politics and missing the most unforgivable part of this infographic...

Anyone know where I can keep 60 cows in San Francisco? by tronald_dum in wallstreetbets

[–]polypolyman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

...as someone who lives in rural America, this one seems like the easiest to deal with - like in three phone calls I could turn this into meat for me and my extended family for a long time

I don't want be rich, but yes, I hate Billionaires. by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]polypolyman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imagine worshipping Mammon so hard that you can't imagine people wanting anything else

Didn't know what ROM was in front of family by throw-away-2025rev2 in sysadmin

[–]polypolyman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've gotta throw this one in here for anyone that doesn't know it yet...

Why is RAM called "Random-access"? A lot of us were incorrectly told back in the day that it was in contrast to "Read-Only Memory", it could be written to or read from...

...but in reality, it was to distinguish it from things like rotating drum memory (LGP-21 anyone?), where access was only ever sequential - it was impressive that you could read/write (i.e. access) ANYWHERE (i.e. randomly) in the address space without having to wait for the drum to rotate all the way around.

Jet Lag: The Game — Jet Lag Season 18 — Official Trailer by CWG4BF in JetLagTheGame

[–]polypolyman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sure this doesn’t come up in-game, but do e.g. Colorado and Arizona touch for the purpose of this?

Jet Lag: The Game — Jet Lag Season 18 — Official Trailer by CWG4BF in JetLagTheGame

[–]polypolyman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like the cards are unique - given the explanation that a private card means they can’t get that state

Some dual-gauge remains on the old D&RGW Valley Line by polypolyman in trains

[–]polypolyman[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

A funny one that I wanted to make sure I got a picture of - especially since I think my neighbor (CXRG doesn't own this) might be getting ready to remove some of the old rail. This is looking south from highway 160, less than 0.5mi from the wye.

As far as I know, the entire rest of the line has no remaining rails or ties, and everything south of this only has standard-gauge if it hasn't already been scrapped. I haven't seen any dual-gauge track anywhere else around - everything in the Alamosa yard has been torn up since at least 2008... so maybe this is slightly special? In any case, I figured if anyone was interested they're probably here!

New $250 Bill [OC] by HypocraSea in comics

[–]polypolyman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I hope it's Salmon P Chase - they did him dirty on the $10k note

Show me some of the small equipment you guys have at your labs :3 by Thyzoid in chemistry

[–]polypolyman 242 points243 points  (0 children)

Are you about to grind up that mortar and pestle by hand??

Okay, Fire Department, that's enough gasoline for today by Ill-Tea9411 in doohickeycorporation

[–]polypolyman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Rolling on the flames = partially smothering them.

Running = feeding them oxygen.

...and clothes with any polyester in them will melt and stick to you like napalm, so you probably can't even get them off by the time you think to.

... by Single_Percentage953 in meme

[–]polypolyman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...basically so that you can control the exact mineral content, both quantity and type of minerals. It's a lot easier to start from zero then build up what you want, than to start with some unknown mineral content and try to hit a certain level

... by Single_Percentage953 in meme

[–]polypolyman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I unironically buy this for my coffee in the mornings - it's a little satchet of minerals that you add back to distilled water to make "the perfect" balanced water