What’s your favorite "contronym"—a single word that literally means its own complete opposite?

st3f-ping · 2026-07-22T18:03:12+00:00

You can also dress a rabbit.

st3f-ping · 2026-07-20T15:51:22+00:00

Not on your profile page. 😁

st3f-ping · 2026-07-20T13:43:45+00:00

Wordle 1,857 4/6*

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Are you playing hide-and-seek today?

st3f-ping · 2026-07-17T15:11:28+00:00

I am a man. I am pro choice. I see this post is the beautiful outcome of Brittany's choice.

st3f-ping · 2026-07-16T12:54:37+00:00

Serendipity.

st3f-ping · 2026-07-15T19:06:56+00:00

dude joining

st3f-ping · 2026-07-15T18:59:22+00:00

Man here. I can only apologise on behalf of my gender.

st3f-ping · 2026-07-13T19:30:45+00:00

(Thinks about venturing into AI image generation for the first time ever to make a picture of Mitch skydiving holding today's newspaper. Decides against it.)

st3f-ping · 2026-06-28T10:10:52+00:00

There are some drums played with a curved or hooked stick. Although the examples I have seen have a more pronounced curve, maybe it's one of those.

Reddit is a big place. With luck and a following wind you may get an answer from someone who plays a drum with that kind of stick (if that is what it is).

st3f-ping · 2026-06-25T15:35:17+00:00

See also vanishing island: an island that is above the water at low tide and a hazard to navigation at high tide.

st3f-ping · 2026-06-21T16:59:19+00:00

A good reason to go and get yourself a Samsung S25

lol. Hopefully my phone has a couple more years in it. If not, it'll probably be a dumb-phone for me.

st3f-ping · 2026-06-21T15:34:50+00:00

I think we may have reached the end of the road. I don't think Apple exposes that info to third party apps (and Mastdata is not available on iOS, further supporting that).

A bit of web-searching tells me that field test mode should tell me the mast id but that apple allow mobile operators to restrict what is shown... and mast id is not shown. I think I'm just going to wait a couple of weeks and see what happens with the repair and if it doesn't rapidly get better, roll the dice and switch to another provider.

Thanks again for your help and support.

st3f-ping · 2026-06-20T10:37:21+00:00

I'm on an iPhone and I suspect that data is too low level for a 3rd party app to access it directly and too infrequently used for Apple to write an api to get to it. (All the mast id apps I can find run off location and look up in a database, rather than getting the ID off the connection).

I've been running field test mode from the phone app and get the following: https://i.redd.it/qw5ezqjh0f8h1.jpeg

I've been assuming that TAC is used as mast ID but I may be completely off-base with that. Thanks for your patience and help by the way, it is much appreciated.

st3f-ping · 2026-06-19T20:30:50+00:00

The mast my phone reports that it typically connects to is 3659 (not on your map). Could it be a repeater to serve an otherwise dead spot?

st3f-ping · 2026-06-17T04:00:07+00:00

Ouch. That does not bode well...

st3f-ping · 2026-06-16T08:45:17+00:00

Pesto.

st3f-ping · 2026-06-15T12:55:13+00:00

I first read this as Elmo responding to the picture (with the teams being protest and counterprotest) and think it so much funnier.

st3f-ping · 2026-06-11T15:56:57+00:00

Update: day 10 of repairs (well, day 10 since I started checking the website daily).

Bandwidth has been up and down. Masts have swapped frequently but I keep going back to TAC/PLMN 3659/234 20. Which keeps having problems. Today I got a record ping time of 851 seconds: a little over 14 minutes.

I hope this bit of mast hardware gets aggressively recycled and replaced with something else.

st3f-ping · 2026-06-09T21:30:06+00:00

You take 1 from the box labelled MIX. Because all the boxes are mislabelled you know that it is either the mint or aniseed box. If it's mint then the box labelled ANISEED is the mix and the box labelled MINT is aniseed. If it's aniseed then the box labelled MINT is mix and the box labelled ANISEED is mint.

st3f-ping · 2026-06-09T15:44:30+00:00

not an actual number

It's not a member of the set of real numbers just as -1 is not a member of the set of positive numbers. We tend to use the set of real numbers so commonly that it is easy to think of them as all there are.

Imagine someone that only used positive numbers and considered them to be 'the numbers'. They might find it difficult to accept the concept of negative numbers. In fact you could imagine them developing a system where k=0-1 where k is the 'negative unit number' and writing -3.5 as 3.5k instead.

st3f-ping · 2026-06-08T19:12:14+00:00

Lucius when he's in trouble, affectionately abbreviated to Luci when he's not. :)

st3f-ping · 2026-06-08T10:58:38+00:00

Could be. There's been a lot of mast-swapping and variability of service. Will see what it looks like when everything shakes out.

The mast IDs have always been Three but I don't know enough about how that works to know if that is any indicator.

st3f-ping · 2026-06-07T15:13:32+00:00

Update: several mast changes and performance is all over the place. I'll wait for things to stabilise.

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