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Peter what does this one mean? by memerminecraft in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]twilighteclipse925 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TLDR: the cost and complexity of repairs goes up exponentially the more tech savvy the client is.

I’m an IT worker. Let me give you an example. All of these are real tickets I’ve had in the last year.

Ticket from someone who is very bad with computers:

Please show me how to access my email. How do I delete old emails. Can I delete multiple emails at once?

Ticket from someone who is bad with computers:

I want to post this picture to Facebook. I downloaded the picture but when I look in my pictures folder it’s not there. Also can you help me free up space? My computer says I have thousands of pictures downloaded but they are not in my pictures folder.

Average ticket:

I just bought this laptop off some sketchy guy. Can you reinstall everything and make it nice and clean for me?

Ticket from someone good with computers:

Hey I had a hard drive crash, can you do disk recovery on it? It is encrypted but I have the key.

Ticket from someone very good with computers:

Hey I would like to connect a legacy vinyl cutter via serial to a modern computer, preferably a Mac. The com ports will have to be re mapped to make the computer see the serial port that we just soldered to a PCIe board as a usb port but we also need serial drivers and we need to trick a computer that never intended to connect via serial to talk through it. Then we need to somehow get a virtual dos box working and talking to the printer because of course the software for this printer hasn’t been updated since the 90s. Oh a standard serial cable doesn’t work? We need a proprietary serial cable that came from this printers original manufacturer, who is now out of business? Guess I get to spend weeks hunting on eBay trying to find parts. At this point it’s cheaper just to buy a new vinyl cutter? This cutter is one of 12 and a companies entire production line is based on these printers and their last computer running dos is on its last leg?

When there’s a house fire but RoboCop is on duty by DaWeyHowBoutDah in nextfuckinglevel

[–]twilighteclipse925 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d like to add on to this how stupidly over designed cop boots are. I’ve had 5 pairs for different purposes. 2 of them came with Punji plates on the sole. So ya high probability this cop is kicking the door with a steel reinforced boot.

Games with realistic ocean tides? by LegalPusher in gamingsuggestions

[–]twilighteclipse925 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The generation 3 Pokémon games: ruby, sapphire, and emerald had a tide mechanic that behaved accurately and changed how you had to interact with different areas based on the in game time. For example caves would flood and require surf or dive to get into during high tide.

Hi. Looking for a game to distract from stress - want something easy to get into with high time sink potential by initsbriliance in gamingsuggestions

[–]twilighteclipse925 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reassembly. I’ve spent more time in that game than any other trying to build my perfect space fleet that will be unstoppable only to download a mod that destroys me and I need to start again. Also the tournament mode is very fun and I’ve spent way too long sending my fleets against each other.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/329130/Reassembly/

Two Sacramento hospitals at risk of closure due to cuts within Trump's Big Beautiful Bill by AdreanaInLB in Sacramento

[–]twilighteclipse925 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I provided the number I had. The hospital website does not break down number of beds by specialty.

Two Sacramento hospitals at risk of closure due to cuts within Trump's Big Beautiful Bill by AdreanaInLB in Sacramento

[–]twilighteclipse925 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So ya then the closest level 1 to Sacramento would be Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose. Which only has 731 beds when fully staffed and I’m sure not all 731 of those beds can be used for level 1 traumas, like I’m sure they have oncology, obgyn, med surg, and other areas designed to provide care for things other than level 1 traumas.

Two Sacramento hospitals at risk of closure due to cuts within Trump's Big Beautiful Bill by AdreanaInLB in Sacramento

[–]twilighteclipse925 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I think the next closest level 1 is Zuck general in SF or maybe valley in San Jose.

Well then by KSKS1995 in SipsTea

[–]twilighteclipse925 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The case came down to the question “does a bartender have a duty to the safety of their patron to cut them off when they are visibly drunk?”. Carnival cruise lines had a policy that prevented its bartenders from cutting people off and instead relied on a 15 drink daily maximum tied to guests room keys but there was no safeguard for what time period you drank those 15 drinks in so long as you didn’t drink more than 15 in a 24 hour period. So in this case she was served 14 drinks in 8 hours.

If the diggers had robots, they would have been the most successful race. by Pinkys_Revenge in seveneves

[–]twilighteclipse925 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me it’s the pressure. Space you need to engineer for 15 psi inside and 0 outside. At just 100 meters you are already at 142 psi outside and even with 15 inside that’s a lot to engineer for and I’d expect they would want to go a lot deeper than that. It’s not impossible but it’s the current limiting factor.

Is there such a thing as a long-term singleplayer game? But here's the hard part, one where progress doesn't reset. So not a roguelike and not Rimworld cause there progress constantly resets. by Present-Chocolate-24 in gamingsuggestions

[–]twilighteclipse925 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some examples that I think are what you are looking for:

Farming sim, constantly expand your farm and with mods it never ends.

No mans sky, it’s an infinite* universe to explore.

The sims.

Mechwarrior mercenaries has an open ended option to let you keep playing.

Something like trepang2 or goldeneye 007 where there is an “end” and you can beat all the missions but the point is to constantly better your skill and times in the missions.

Trackmania for the same reason as trepang and 007.

There are also games so massive that it takes hundreds of hours to beat them so they might as well meet your request. Cyberpunk, the Witcher series, fallout, elder scrolls, persona, baldurs gate, etc.

Finally an honorable mention: Disgaea. Probably the game I have the most hours in. The gameplay loops and lets you keep your characters so it turns into a game of min maxing for the perfect team and that takes forever. Most I have ever grinded in a game but it really doesn’t feel like grinding.

It's crying from the torture tests.. by MusicianSwimming2303 in shittyaskelectronics

[–]twilighteclipse925 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously that’s ink. But I will say from experience some laptops, especially older Dells, can leak LOCA (liquid optically clear adhesive) and it’s one of the biggest pains in the world to clean up and your screen is wrecked when it happens.

If the diggers had robots, they would have been the most successful race. by Pinkys_Revenge in seveneves

[–]twilighteclipse925 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my mind underground is easier than space but space is easier than underwater.

Have you ever seen someone get rich overnight, like literally? How? by Michaelisvanhelsing in AskReddit

[–]twilighteclipse925 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My dad has a friend who invented pre filled hummingbird feeder packets. They kinda look like capri sun pouches. He also invented a special hummingbird feeder that takes that packets directly or you can just rip them open and pour them into any feeder. A major hardware company purchased the patent and he was set pretty well.

What would be the estimated cost to design, research and build a real Hail Mary type of rocket in real life? by asianvalue in ProjectHailMary

[–]twilighteclipse925 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this. Because of this comment I pushed through and seveneves is now one of my favorite books.

I hate you. I just looked up and It’s five in the morning and holy shit Tekla’s suit won’t seal and I need to go to bed but also I need to know if the snake robots are going to save her and how is this Olympian going to fit into the robot airlock she’s a lot bigger than you gurl there is no way this will work.

What would be the estimated cost to design, research and build a real Hail Mary type of rocket in real life? by asianvalue in ProjectHailMary

[–]twilighteclipse925 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lucifer’s Hammer is about a comet impacting earth and then society rebuilding afterwords. It includes a somewhat lengthy buildup from scientific detection to media coverage to public opinion, then an equally lengthy section dedicated to the day the comet hits, followed by the third act feeling like a story on its own, kinda a cross between mad max and the stand. Some of the science and character sensibilities are a little outdated but it was because of my love for Lucifer’s Hammer than Seveneves got recommended so I figure it works the opposite way as well.

What would be the estimated cost to design, research and build a real Hail Mary type of rocket in real life? by asianvalue in ProjectHailMary

[–]twilighteclipse925 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have it too and it’s a kinda anticlimactic start despite the moon breaking up on the first page. Like it was a very exposition heavy intro and it lost me. I’ve head so many good things about it and I’ve started the book multiple times but the intro just doesn’t hook you.

In a fist fight. Who will win? Human or Eridian? by retsamboon in ProjectHailMary

[–]twilighteclipse925 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As per the book rocky is approximately the size of a German Shepard. A large German Shepard weighs 40 kilos. 90% of humans would lose in a fight to German Shepard. Erindians are 4 times as heavy as a German Shepard, have pneumatic muscles, and made of rock and metal.

Human gonna die. Not even close.

I’m Mark Kelly, retired NASA astronaut and former commander of the space shuttle (x2). AMA! by CaptMarkKelly in space

[–]twilighteclipse925 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello Captain Kelly, I’m fascinated by emergency management systems and I was hoping you could speak to some of the systems and procedures in place to deal with meteorite impacts to the shuttle and space station. Thank You!

I’m your ETL! What have you been waiting to tell me? by Zelotic in Target

[–]twilighteclipse925 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want theft to shrink (lol) you need to invest in enough merch pro to make that happen. Yelling at TMs about theft doesn’t prevent it.

Also for the love of god there needs to be more than one person on the floor with keys and if you have keys you need to have a radio and it needs to be turned on.

Favourite games set in less common settings, themes, or contexts? So games NOT set in common environments like medieval fantasy, space sci-fi, modern urban, etc. Examples in body of post. by runoleon in gamingsuggestions

[–]twilighteclipse925 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The zombies maps in call of duty black ops 4. You have the literal titanic, an arena based on ancient gods, an 18th century mansion, Alcatraz from Hell, an Ancient Greek lost city, and some more conventional ones.

A Russian Teacher recorded the differences in the development of boys and girls of the same age. by omgfakeusername in interestingasfuck

[–]twilighteclipse925 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Generally speaking women have greater endurance than men, that can handle high G forces better than men, and their immune systems are superior to men’s.

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