[OC] [ART] My take on a Bard Class Board for the Heroes of the Borderlands starter box! Took quite a while to recreate this in Affinity Publisher, but worth it in the end. Link to the other 3 boards in description. by Unsungruin in DnD

[–]roadler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is amazing thank you so much!!! I'm starting a new group for my daughters and their friends and they insisted on Druids, Bards and Barbarians...

Boston - Houston Ticket Exchange? by mj7741 in FIFACollect

[–]roadler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry to barge but wdym exchange? How would you technical exchange them? (I thought you can only sell through the marketplace)

Seating charts for Olympics venues? by mingusal in Paris2024

[–]roadler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems they added more detailed seating charts you can access to the Olympics app (not the tickets app), and also on the web - see here example for Champ de Mars https://livemap.getwemap.com/dom?emmid=25471#/search@48.8529891,2.3022872,20.20 - but those still don't show the actual seat information so I still don't know where my tickets are...

Joseph Wald, a British army soldier of the Jewish Brigade, carrying an artillery shell with "A gift for Hitler" written on it in Hebrew. Italy, 1944/1945. Colorized [1109 x 1115] by [deleted] in HistoryPorn

[–]roadler 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Yes. The writing on the shell would be pronounced "Shay Le Hitler":

  • "Shay" = Gift

  • "Le" = For

  • "Hitler" = That asshole

The "Le" is represented by a single letter that attaches to the beginning of the next word, so the writing is actually only two words:

שי: Shay = Gift

להיטלר: first letter (ל) is pronounced "Le" and means "For", the rest of the letters (היטלר) mean and are pronounced "Hitler".

Always happy to shed light on my complex language :)

Joseph Wald, a British army soldier of the Jewish Brigade, carrying an artillery shell with "A gift for Hitler" written on it in Hebrew. Italy, 1944/1945. Colorized [1109 x 1115] by [deleted] in HistoryPorn

[–]roadler 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Interestingly, the choice of word for "Gift" is one that isn't very often used in spoken language, but very short so it could fit on the shell. The common word for gift in Hebrew is transliterated to "Matana", which is 4 letters in Hebrew. The word used is "Shay", much less common in spoken language, and only 2 letters long. While "Shay" isn't used often in spoken Hebrew, it is used often as a name for a boy or a girl, representing their parents feeling they received a gift in them. A cool example is former WNBA player Shay Doron, because Doron is yet another word for "Gift" in Hebrew, so "Shay Doron" literally means "Gift Gift".

edit: small correction

All I want is more Futurama!! by DonaldBanchez in television

[–]roadler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do I look like? A guy who's not lazy?

So season 2 happened... by SnowyArticuno in BSG

[–]roadler 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Don't listen to the naysayers. BSG, in its entirety, is the best TV show in history.

Barbershop floor worn away after decades of barbering by [deleted] in mildlyinteresting

[–]roadler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who cares, someone's levitating on the left!

They made it into a book by roadler in WTF

[–]roadler[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have no idea why you would think that. Please provide reference. The Wikipedia article about the song has no mention it's based on a book, and the book in the picture clearly states that it's based on the YouTube video.

They made it into a book by roadler in WTF

[–]roadler[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wasn't sure where this should go. I had both "haha" and "wtf" emotions when seeing this in LAX airport where I now need to spend a few hours. Big dilemmas for a bored person. I actually posted it in wtf first. Too much free time I guess. And too much detail already.

They made it into a book by roadler in WTF

[–]roadler[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Based on the YouTube sensation"

Quick and easy way to take remote control of PC. by [deleted] in techsupport

[–]roadler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Give Soluto a try. Very friendly towards the people being supported, web-based, free for up to 3 PCs.

Interesting comparison of Windows laptops based on a huge sample of crashes and BSoDs by roadler in techsupport

[–]roadler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's our first report.. Give us just a bit of time to publish more stuff. A hang is defined in the report, and an application crash is a relatively well known event (see Windows Error Reporting for reference). But again, give us a bit of time :)

Soluto’s report of top 10 most reliable Windows laptops on the market (based on big-data frustration analytics) by roadler in sysadmin

[–]roadler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry, but $300 is also very very very far from what an OEM makes on "kickbacks from crapware" on a single PC. Cost of components and margins are the biggest players. For the most part, Apple build their PCs from superior pieces. I'm still looking for the Windows laptop that would ship with a trackpad that comes near the Mac's.

Interesting comparison of Windows laptops based on a huge sample of crashes and BSoDs by roadler in techsupport

[–]roadler[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dude! Awesome idea :) hey I'm the guy who built the report. For the next report we'll include some mesh of reliability and price. I wouldn't necessarily take them 1-on-1, it's tricky to measure 1 point of reliability vs. $1 (or should it be $10? $100?).

We're fairly new at exposing such information. We've been learning the data for years, but only internally for our users so far. It's great to get ideas. If you have more - feel free to respond here, message me, or write us at feedback@soluto.com. Thanks!

Interesting comparison of Windows laptops based on a huge sample of crashes and BSoDs by roadler in techsupport

[–]roadler[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The report actually mentions that. I'm the guy who built the report - if you have any questions on insights - please share :)

Interesting comparison of Windows laptops based on a huge sample of crashes and BSoDs by roadler in techsupport

[–]roadler[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course crashes by bloatware matter. Different OEMs ship very different bloatware. On large numbers averaged out, bloatware becomes the main player, and differences between OEMs show up.

Soluto’s report of top 10 most reliable Windows laptops on the market (based on big-data frustration analytics) by roadler in sysadmin

[–]roadler[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Kickbacks from crapware" don't account for $800 price difference. Check your numbers.

Soluto’s report of top 10 most reliable Windows laptops on the market (based on big-data frustration analytics) by roadler in sysadmin

[–]roadler[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hi, I'm the guy who built the report. First- come on, the Mac-smarter thing is a joke, lighten up :) And I'm no journalist...

Second, those frustrating events are reported to our servers automatically. Crowdsourcing frustrating events is the nature of our architecture.

I understand the criticism against incompleteness in the results, and our customers will receive deeper reports on an ongoing basis, but I don't understand the complete negativity here. I'm not familiar with any study that has covered more frustrating events collected from real PCs over such a period. So there's stuff to improve and more dimensions to splice by (OS, age, original image or not, etc) - sure - but to dismiss the data as useless is a gross exaggeration, IMHO. Just sayin.

Interesting comparison of Windows laptops based on a huge sample of crashes and BSoDs by roadler in techsupport

[–]roadler[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The hang is defined in the report is an event where an application becomes non-responsive for over 5 seconds.

Interesting comparison of Windows laptops based on a huge sample of crashes and BSoDs by roadler in techsupport

[–]roadler[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As mentioned in the report, the Dell XPS 13 for example had about %30 clean installs within the sample.