Huh, I didn't even know carbon fiber had a shelf life, I figured it'd be pretty stable over time.

Here's the reason why, in case anyone's curious (I know I was):

Fabrics and prepregs also degrade gradually over time. In composite laminates it is not the fiberglass, carbon fiber or Kevlar fibers themselves that initially degrade. It is the sizing or fiber primer however that degrades over time. Sizings are placed upon the fibers to make them more compatible with a given resin system during cure. As time goes on fiber sizings diminish, weakening the future link between the fabric and the resin, thus yielding a possibly weaker composite laminate.

The exact storage life of most sized fabrics is not always listed on a technical data sheet. Often one may need to research further into a manufacturer’s technical manuals for an expected shelf life of a fabric sizing. Fiber sizing life can range from a year to beyond five when stored under favorable conditions. For prepreg materials a general shelf life is first a year. After a year or after initial expiration some fabrics and prepregs may be re-tested for performance against its original stated performance specifications and bonding characteristics. In the case of a DIY project possibly using expired fabrics it is important to test a laminated section of the expired fabric to ensure its quality is up to par for its intended use.

You don't have to write a short essay, I didn't write much more than "I heard about you on reddit and I wanna check it out" and I got accepted

I assume they were all ran by the same group of people

Yup, that's correct. Beehaw's 4 admins run every communty on there

Reflective surfaces inside cars are the bane of my existence

Make sure to include a description of it in the square brackets for our visually-impaired friends!

I don't know too much about PHP (aside from it getting memed on constantly), but kbin is built using the Symfony framework, which is really performant and mature based on what I've heard from others. Also, apparently ~80% of all websites (that W3techs knows about) rely on PHP in some way

I'm glad to see you've been enjoying /m/kbinStyles! It's been really cool seeing all of the cool enhancements people have made over the past couple weeks since I created it. @shazbot and I (mostly shazbot) have been working on something that'll make all of this customization a whole lot simpler. It's still very much a work in progress, but I think it's turning out great, so make sure you keep an eye out for that!

Here's a link to the emoticon shortcut script in case anyone else is interested

It'll be fun to see all of the ports of it to random systems in the next few years

It is one now

Yeah I'm seriously not seeing any issue here (at least for the image generation part), when you ask it for 'pro-anorexia' stuff, it's gonna give you exactly what you asked for

That's because I put that in a code block with backticks (`), here's what it looks like normally testing

@TerrorBite Please let me out of your phone, it's been 11 years

/r/mapporn is another one that has gone down the spiral, it has a lot of the same problems as /r/dataisbeautiful.

I think the one that frustrated me the most was /r/data_irl, where about half the people in there take the sub's name literally for some reason and think it's for actual data in real life, and not a data version of /r/me_irl

I'm using kbin.social on desktop and it shows up fine for me, not sure what's going on on your instance

That's not true, /r/worldnews and /r/news were created on the same day, and /r/worldnews is actually 3 hours older than /r/news

I hope it stays this way, over the years my feed on reddit has slowly been overcome by ragebait (I'm looking at you /r/gamingcirclejerk), and I've gotten sick and tired of seeing screenshots of hateful comments get posted and massively upvoted. Seems like everyone over here is pretty positive though, so I'm hopeful!

You've gotta start turning kinda early to avoid running into walls, and the c and v keys (brake right and brake left) will help you on really tight corners

The term has actually been rolling around for a few weeks, it's just used to describe Lemmy and Kbin, since they're based around threads instead of twitter-like posts. Nothing to do with Threads by Meta

All I had to do was look away and close the picture, and yet I still lost

I made a userscript that allows you to collapse comments, that should help you out until it's added to the site officially

Wow this is nuts

3 or 5 imo

It's an old format where you'd post a picture of a thing masquerading as another thing with a caption like this, this one is a suspicious van hiding among the buses

I started messing around with gemini a while back, it's a little involved to set up, and intentionally-limited feature-wise (it's heavily inspired by Gopher). Very fun messing around with it though, and customizing my HTTP proxy was pretty satisfying. You could access my site either through a gemini browser or a normal one, and the normal site had a few extra bells and whistles that made browsing it a little better

these pieces of hardware are generally analyzed and reimplemented rather than copied

This process is known as clean room design if anyone wants to do more reading about this

kbin has an API (docs here), but it isn't working right now

Someone once bought a pizza with them, but since that time their transactions have become too slow and their value too volatile to exchange them for anything so concrete.

I wish we could go back to the time when bitcoin was this crazy new currency and not a vessel for pump-and-dump schemes. It seems like such a cool idea, and I'd totally be on board with it due to the decentralization aspect (like I am with the fediverse) if it actually managed to be what it set out to be

You can do strikethrough text ~~like this~~

You've learned well, now go on with this knowledge and change the world

I'll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.

Thank you! I've made a comment about it on the codeberg repository, I hope @ernest likes it

As much as it looks tacky, I kinda dig it

I use kbin so I might be wrong, but you do !community@instance.whatever, so !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world, becomes !nostupidquestions

I'm not sure if it works on Lemmy, but on kbin @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world also works, it becomes @nostupidquestions

Thanks, I'm glad to hear you like it!

Good call about the padding, I'll add that back in the next update. For now, you can edit the script, and add this to line 150, after styles.innerHTML =

.comments div {
    border-left: none !important;
}
.entry-comment .children {
    gap: 8px;
}
.comment-level--1 {
    margin-bottom: 8px;
}

Win+V opens up your clipboard history so you don't have to switch tabs in the emoji picker

Try updating it, I think I fixed the issue! Turns out Firefox doesn't support the :has() selector by default

Ooh, sweet, sounds like fun! I loved Supreme Commander, definitely trying this out

So we can already boost meaningful content, and report irrelevant content! Nice! And then for personal takes, we could continue using up/downvotes.

I think that's a great way to think about it, it almost makes me think the comments should stay sorted by the number of boosts

Boosting is like retweeting, it doesn't make sense for it to be private.

There's a userscript that you can install using Tampermonkey that lets you collapse comments. There are a few others at /m/kbinStyles that also let you do that, and add other enhancements