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  • Introverts will do anything but ask for help

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  • Sounds relatable. Last time I moved I even had several people offer in advance to help but I ended up doing almost everything by myself because I just wanted to be able to do things at my own pace and make sure I was happy with where everything went.

    I'd recommend having a furniture dolly and an upright trolley rather than relying on an office chair though, proper tools make the job much easier.

  • Where my iT’s A fEaTuRe homeys at?

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  • Best suggestion I have is to buy yourself a decent screwdriver or driver bits, then when it starts getting worn and slipping easily throw the bit/driver away and use a new one. You can get away with using a worn Phillips driver for a long time past it's prime but you're just making life hard for yourself by doing this.

    Also make sure you're using the correct size and type of bit, I've seen plenty of people struggling with Phillips heads because they're doing something like using a ph1 bit on a ph2 screw or using a pozidrive bit on a Phillips head.

  • Choose Your Weapon [Swords]

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  • Book sword seems an easy pick assuming the scaling of the power ups is remotely similar - if you're an educated adult you should already have a decent power level, its strength isn't going to vary wildly on you (lies would be particularly bad for this), you can have a strong sword without living in pain, and if you need extra power you can just smash through a bunch of childrens books in a few hours.

    In terms of the curse sword smells from the future seems the pick. Changing every third word would cause a lot of communication annoyances and seeing only through other people's eyes would make you blind a significant amount of the time.

  • Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss

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  • If you're rich enough to have a house where you can charge at home, sure. If you're in an apartment you're probably out of luck there.

  • Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss

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  • The Buzz is a van, it's meant to be big so you can put stuff in it. It's actually too small for my liking as it's too low to fit my dirt bike in without a struggle and too short for a 1200x2400 sheet of ply/metal/whatever (my Transporter fits both of these nicely though).

  • Uh well actually-

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  • I had one of these earlier tonight which was asking which of the pictured animals came from eggs. Only after clicking on the various birds and submitting (success) did I notice there was also a crocodile. I then really wanted to be able to redo it with the crocodile included and see if it knew crocodiles also come from eggs.

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  • I remember one time when I was a kid and had read something mentioning spark gap transmitters. I of course found a bit of wire (tie wire because that's what came to hand, not anything insulated) and a radio and was playing around with a 9v battery making little sparks by shorting it with the wire and hearing the radio crackle in response. What I then thought was that if the little battery was making a noticeable effect then a bigger battery would obviously be better.

    I got one of the drill batteries and shorted that out with my bit of wire to make a better spark and proceeded to discover that resistive heating is a thing and thin tie wire connected even briefly to a high discharge battery will get very hot very quickly. I ended up with a nice blister line across my fingers and a scar for a few years showing the position I'd been holding the wire...

  • "All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology

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  • Nowhere in the movie is that even hinted at.

    The opening scene tells the viewer the decline in intelligence in the future is due to the less educated/intelligent reproducing more, that's getting rather close to eugenics.

    I don't think this was intended as more than just a handwave argument as an explanation for the plot necessary premise of people being stupid in the future (i.e. it's not something to get offended over) but it is mentioned nonetheless.

  • Do you know any songs about trains?

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  • Protect women's bathrooms from creeps!

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  • It's particularly ironic as OP was the one making a song and dance about wanting all comics from bigoted artists banned the other day.

  • I like trains

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  • Perhaps this is why I particularly didn’t find the locomotive physics that strange

    The reason why you didn't think it strange is because you don't know how one works, because there's multiple things which don't make sense otherwise.

    The drive wheels are not the ones at the back but the ones with the connecting rods and piston rods (the pistons provide the drive force). The rods are placed in a way which would prevent the wheels turning if connected in those positions and would typically be placed on the largest wheels of the locomotive (i.e. that big wheel should be the drive wheel if it's going to be there).

    The smoke should be coming from the very front of the locomotive as the output from the firebox needs to run through the boiler (most of the front of the machine) in order to generate the steam needed to actually drive the locomotive. Having it come from the back makes no sense unless the whole boiler arrangement is also reversed and it isn't.

  • What bothers me...

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  • With an audio track I feel like a well timed bleep can actually make a scene funnier. Doesn't work as well if you're trying to play it serious though.

    When it comes to text censoring isn't worth it IMO, at least the type where you blank out part of the word or use a derivative. Everyone can still tell what word you meant so if it was important enough to include then use the actual word. If it wasn't that important then you don't need to write the word you're worried about in the first place - there are other words that can be used for insults or emphasis.

  • If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?

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  • I paid $12 (USD) for a .in and $32 for a .nu with Namecheap, $20 (AUD) for a .au and $59 for a .email with VentraIP.

    I can't really recommend Namecheap though because you can't count on getting support if you need it. A couple of years back I needed to change my account email with them due to Google being an arse and locking me out of my primary gmail account (namecheap required an email code to log in to the domain dashboard but I couldn't view the email), put a support ticket in while logged into the same account in their support portal and they ignored me for close on a month. At that point I managed to get back into the gmail account so didn't need their help anymore, I sent Namecheap back a message saying I was unhappy with their lack of help. About six months later they sent their one and only reply to my ticket, basically saying they were sorry I was unhappy but they didn't see a problem with the time they took.

    I must admit I still have domains with Namecheap because sometimes it's just hard to get around to changing things, but I was reminded of their lack of competence literally this morning. They sent me an email saying I needed to update my domain contact info so I logged in and went to change it only to find their contact update form is broken and won't submit...

    VentraIP hasn't given me any issues so far with either their domain or email hosting but I haven't had to rely on their support so I can't say how good they are with that.

  • I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings

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  • How does one even start to make a self-propelling machine that cuts wheat stalks at ground level?

    You look at a horse-drawn mowing machine like this and start thinking about how you could do something similar without the horse.

  • Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon.

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  • Adding a bunch of unsprung weight is a poor decision when it comes to handling though, and that's something pretty important in a motorbike that's trying to do more than just low speed commuting. Such a design will also be putting a lot of vibration through the motor components which is not good for longevity. It's more a case of going for the (admittedly distinctive) aesthetic rather than being sensible.

  • Does everyone have an opposite gender name they would use?

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  • No, I'd need to think about it. I don't have a pre-chosen opposite gendered name (it's not something I've thought I needed to consider) and my name is not one that can be easily adapted so the easy option is out.

  • Do you buy real Christmas trees or put up artificial ones?

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  • Not everyone - Christmas trees have always been real ones in my family. If you don't live near where pines grow you can get a nice Christmas tree from a she oak.

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  • The primary factor is that 120mm is not the actual focal length of the lens in the phone, that will be a considerably smaller focal length that happens to give the same field of view as a 120mm lens on a full frame camera (i.e. the same sensor size as a 35mm film frame). The phone uses a much smaller sensor than this hence the smaller focal length for the same FoV.

    Another thing that helps is using a telephoto lens design - including this lets you create a lens noticeably shorter than its focal length.

    When the lens would still make an overly wide phone despite all this that's where the periscope lens design as others have already mentioned comes in.

  • Gatekeeping

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  • Wouldn’t these all be, matching the theme of your definition, basic coordination exercises

    Correct. I would not expect people to know how to do these things but I would expect a competent person to be able to learn them.

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