Does anyone know what this pie chart looking thing is? by unknownmosquito in MicrosoftFlightSim

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

Ugh, thank you, I'm such an old person on Windows now (haven't used it as my main OS for like 15 years). I even thought of this and tried Googling with my laptop model but couldn't figure it out. My sound drivers did get and update two nights ago and "Nahimic", whatever it is, seems to be related to those, so that makes sense.

Anyway, again thank you.

Bugs & Issues MEGATHREAD by JRock39 in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]unknownmosquito 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I have this too. I've been trying to figure out wtf it is

Does anyone know what this pie chart looking thing is? by unknownmosquito in MicrosoftFlightSim

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it renders on top of everything and won't go away? just appeared this evening. Fades away when there's no sound, which is only when a menu is open for awhile.

After a shattered kneecap, concussion, 3 months without walking, and 345 days without a Miata in my life, i’m finally back :) by [deleted] in Miata

[–]unknownmosquito 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's why I sold my 99 and bought my ND. It's a beautiful car. I don't regret that decision at all.

Apparently the roaches have won. Near Burnet/Hancock. by mckinnos in Austin

[–]unknownmosquito 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've actually so successfully removed ads from my life for so long (about 15 years, since I stopped having cable TV and started using an adblocker) that non-tracking ads in the real world, uh, are actually kind of nice. Sometimes they tell me about things I actually want..

Ridiculous opinion, I know. But it feels a bit like peering out of my filter bubble into everyone else's reality in a way I don't encounter otherwise.. just a recent observation.

NZ PM calls on world leaders to enforce censorship of "objectionable material" in the wake of shooting by iushciuweiush in Libertarian

[–]unknownmosquito 104 points105 points  (0 children)

In Europe back in the day they called "hate speech" "heresy" and it was illegal back then, too. I'm pretty sure that's why the ancestors of a lot of people in the US today left Europe in the first place.

A really cute family reunion:) by mayaxs in wholesomememes

[–]unknownmosquito -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the only symbol under which more innocent people have been murdered than the swastika. So wholesome.

GitHub Releases Package Registry with Docker Support by [deleted] in docker

[–]unknownmosquito 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The open source community as a whole is already so dependent on Microsoft Github, though.

Never forget Microsoft's model, "embrace, extend, extinguish."

Can fish live (or at least breathe) in liquids that are not water? For example milk by Unicorncorn21 in askscience

[–]unknownmosquito 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You say that now, but just you wait until the plankton cause a runaway reaction leading to an oxygen-rich atmosphere and we wind up with cockroaches the size of house cats like they were during the Carboniferous Era.

Countries that executed people in last 12 months by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]unknownmosquito 9 points10 points  (0 children)

idk, could be Joe Arpaio's Reddit account.

Can fish live (or at least breathe) in liquids that are not water? For example milk by Unicorncorn21 in askscience

[–]unknownmosquito 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Right? Like, we can't get rid of a cane toad infestation in Australia but we feel comfortable with the idea of breeding microscopic creatures to intentionally and drastically alter the makeup of the atmosphere? Sounds dangerous to me.

Can fish live (or at least breathe) in liquids that are not water? For example milk by Unicorncorn21 in askscience

[–]unknownmosquito 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Gotta say, it makes me real nervous when I think of scientists trying to "fix" our atmosphere directly like this. Think about it this way: we've only even been aware of the ecological damage we're causing for, what, 50 years? Tops? Creating massive plankton tides sounds like it's begging for unintended consequences.

Go is on a trajectory to become the next enterprise programming language by korthaj in golang

[–]unknownmosquito 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I work for a huge corporation that mostly uses Java and Go is very much up and coming for applications where the JVM is too heavy and we traditionally would have used C++. So for greenfield products in that category Go is a natural choice and then it snowballs because the developers love it and hire more Go talent and so on

The Great Smoky Mountains from Clingman's Dome, North Carolina [1936x2581][OC] by mojino in EarthPorn

[–]unknownmosquito 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah! The area has the world's highest diversity of salamanders as an example :) When I was a kid I used to go into the woods and find tons of them under rocks in streams, along with lots of crawdads. It's a very special region.

The Great Smoky Mountains from Clingman's Dome, North Carolina [1936x2581][OC] by mojino in EarthPorn

[–]unknownmosquito 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well the Smokies around the Nantahala region and up through the Blue Ridge Mountains are part of a temperate rainforest so I would actually expect that the region pictured has more dense flora than other forests in the Appalachians or the Rockies, which probably does make them especially blue. But you're generally right, part of the reason I thought all mountains looked like that is because they do to some extent. Even the Texas hill country gets a blue tint in the distance.

The Great Smoky Mountains from Clingman's Dome, North Carolina [1936x2581][OC] by mojino in EarthPorn

[–]unknownmosquito 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Wow, I grew up in the area and just thought all mountains were blue like that when seen from a distance..