bluGill

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

I would guess that the tattooer had no clue. That is incompetence better explains this than malice

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As my doctor said when she said I should get the vaccine: If this study is true, it's great it great, but even if this study turns out to be false, it doesn't matter because I should get the vaccine anyway.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago

How much noise can you take. Audio recordings Studios can get very good but that can get expensive too. Still it would be worth looking in those forums for people looking for help with street noise as those people know what works

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 7 points 4 days ago

The type of people who want a dog to bite are going to be getting something like the size of a pitbull. A much smaller dog and a human can easily fight it off, they can do some damage, but not as much as the people who want a dog to bite would like their dogs to give. A larger dog and the owners wouldn't be able to control if the dog would attack the owners, so they won't accept that.

That is why, in general, (understand there are exceptions). Big dogs tend to be very friendly. Because any big dog that's not friendly, the owner is going to put it down before it kills someone. Thus big dogs are bred to be friendly. A Pitbull is about the largest dog that you could breed to be unfriendly without risking harm to yourself.

Again, this does not say anything about any particular dog breed. It says something about the type of people who would have a mean dog.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago

Because it is a budget plan. They are buying 2,000,000 SMS messages per month because 25 years ago with g1 and g2 protocols it made sense to sell them that way, and then trying to divide that between their 10,000 customers without running out. Similar for voice and data, they buy so much and divide between all customers.

Contracts could be sold a different way. However nobody wants to because the big companies want an option for budget minded people to get a little money out of them, while still giving them bad enough service that they all but the cheapest will run to the "big boys" with the unlimited plans. The budget companies need something they can sell that is cheaper than the "big boys", realistically they have exactly the same product and so somebody needs to introduce some artificial limit someplace to make it work.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 8 points 5 days ago

Which is why I'm careful. That is why I always reject the "no payments or interest for 6 months" offers stores sometimes have - I "know" they won't remind me to pay it off in 6 months and then I'm paying more.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io -3 points 6 days ago

Keychron k6, and a separate phone stand. That is a full size (60%) mechanical keyboard connected with bluetooth. I have and use others (see the other replies) when I need max portability and a quick comment. However a real keyboard beats anything you can do on a touchscreen. I recommend you get one.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I used thumbkey for a couple months. I could use it, but it was never fast. YMMV

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not sure where you are, but in many places the correct thing to do is to burn your fields off. Fire does a lot of good for fields.

Check with someone who is knowledgeable what really happened in your area though. There are differences that are important that mean places only a mile apart may need very different treatment.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know where you went to school, but in my college I was allowed to use calculators on the math tests. I never did because I quickly realized the professors intentionally wrote problems such that doing math in my head would be easy. Those who used a calculator missed the important crutch of, 'oops, this math is getting hard - That must mean I'm making a mistake' and go back to fix the problem.

Physics and chemistry, dealing with real world constants that are often not particularly around easy numbers, you pretty much need a calculator in order to get anything close to a correct answer. But even then, the correct thing is to simplify without a calculator first before plugging the numbers in.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

A nail is common enough that I refuse that objection.

Barrels are 3d printed. They are single use because the heat and pressure will destroy them, but they work. They also can't get good rifling patterns so not accurate. This is why a 3D printed gun is always going to be a novelty that is useless, but it is enough to work.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People have 3d printed guns and fired them. They work. Not well, and last I heard they are one shot because plastic can take the heat. Still they do exist.

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