empireOfLove2

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[–] empireOfLove2 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I would unironically kill for a printer with very large but short dimensions like that

99% of the time when I'm limited by my printer's footprint, it's in bed area not total volume.

[–] empireOfLove2 2 points 1 month ago

Yeahhhh about that.

LEO satellites have a lot stronger signal and their phased array terminals have a surprisingly good SNR. This isn't your grandpa's Hughesnet.

I never have more than a second or two of interruptions out there even though heavy rainstorms. Thunderstorms directly overhead sometimes knock it out for a few minutes if they're dropping hail and lightning but I usually unplug my computer during those anyway. Its all about maximizing its view of the sky so it can always pick the strongest satellite at that time.. M

I hate musk too but the engineering quality in starlink is insane.

[–] empireOfLove2 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've been travelling for work all week and I get to fly home to my girlfriend this afternoon!

[–] empireOfLove2 43 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Bold of you to assume that diseased mushroom head of his still works, at his age and health.

[–] empireOfLove2 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

but with Starlink what we get is the entire connection dropping every minute or so, and coming back up a short while later

I can almost guarantee that's because their terminal is in a shit location with too much of the sky obscured by trees or buildings. I had to set my parents up with it two years ago and if it can't see as much of the constellation as possible it's going to have periods of obstructed sattelite connectivity.

[–] empireOfLove2 8 points 1 month ago

Did the band a favor, stopping them from entering a shithole.

[–] empireOfLove2 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We do. The issue is at the college/university level, most courses require specific edition textbooks (they update them every 1-2 years) that the professors assign homework questions out of. You'll be lucky if the school library has a copy more recent than the last 8 years.
Then on top of that, many professors will also use digital 3rd party homework services that are tied to a textbook access code that you only get with a new copy. So unless you pay up you can't do homework and fail the class.

The whole system is fucking bullshit

[–] empireOfLove2 87 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Is it any surprise he denies help to a state that voted for kamala in 2024?

[–] empireOfLove2 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Their angle is not "haha your guy will lose!" but had already shifted to "well your guy does it too so it's ok you can't accuse us of anything otherwise you're a dirty hypocrite "

[–] empireOfLove2 8 points 1 month ago

The country is beautiful and I would honestly enjoy it there. Their economy and xenophobia (and, realistically, language too) definitely stops me from ever moving there.

Also there's always an infinite supply of weeaboos available.

[–] empireOfLove2 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

3rd parties can't win without electoral reform.

Electoral reform will never happen without a 3rd party to force it through.

Chicken or the egg, and the Fascists still win. Congrats!

[–] empireOfLove2 53 points 1 month ago

You should always be looking both ways, if not for vehicles, then at least for pedestrians who have no direction.

 

Potentially big changes are coming to ODOT's funding model in the next few years. There are holes that the state can't patch.

 

Sorely needed.

100% chance that they'll still need to toll traffic to cover the remaining few billion in costs but it is a good step forward.

 

Context: when creating drawings from parts/assemblies, you can use a foreshortening break on any derived views (section, detail, projected). However, by default, inventor will propagate that break to the parent base view... which usually completely blows up a different sheet in the document that I don't even realize -_-

Not once have I EVER wanted to propagate a break in a derived view to the parent base view...

 
 

1977 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, a recent addition to my collection.

221 inches bumper to bumper, 425ci Cadillac big block V8 fuelled by a standard Rochester Quadrajet and coupled to a TH400 3 speed auto. Floats like a cloud.

 

Get fucked, intuit!

 
 
 

The collapse of the state Republican Party continues.

 

I'm in the market for a new monitor. My 32" LCD is nice but now I have some spending money and really want to move up to an OLED display, as they seem to be maturing nicely and can give me an amazing bump in refresh rate.

Many OLED displays are curved, of course. All ultrawides are, some severely so (800r!!!)
I've always shied away from curved monitors because I feel like it could distort the appearance of some solid/2d geometry vs a flat panel. (I'm also not crazy about the desk space they occupy either, but I can work around that).

Do any of you use CAD packages (solidworks, inventor, autocad) on curved monitors, and if so how well does it appear? My target would be a 34" or 42" 4k display.

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