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Is anyone speaking Chinese able to tell me what the guy in the first scene of the video is crying out? The one where the rocket falls horizontally. I mean, I have a general idea what is being said there conceptually, but I'd love to get an actual, accurate translation.

This is absolutely correct. Heck, you're free to deny that based on any reasoning, maybe the shoddy icon of the work app doesn't match your phone wallpaper.

The phone is your private property, if an employer requires an app to be installed to do your job, they can provide a phone.

I would also never let corporate IT manage a device, e. g. a laptop connected to my private network at home.

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No, have the company buy a laptop, and if necessary, also have them buy the hardware that allows for proper network separation, if not already available.

Just another thing to be aware of.

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Surely not. But also many employees won't even ask for it, and change will only happen if people care about it.

So first, raise awareness, and naturally, implement those things at any companies you manage or own.

I'm not saying quit your job and become homeless if your employer won't corporate with you on the issue. Everyone should think about how this could potentially affect them and what they can do within the constraints they operate in, though.

As someone else in this thread said, a separate (VLAN, guest) network for work devices, reasonable access rules etc. can go a long way. Eventually, I would like this to become unacceptable though.

I know it is somewhat of an accepted practice, and a lot of people lack the means or the knowledge to handle it any other way, but I'd still like to raise awareness that you're basically inviting a foreign actor into your network.

The days were people would trust corporations, including their employers, to be generally benevolent and to do the right thing are long over.

I am on my 4th personal TUXEDO laptop, never had any issues. I actually started giving them to the devs at my company, no complaints so far.

They don't offer my choice of OS, and I wouldn't use a preinstalled OS anyway, so I can't comment on that.

I don't know what you think you're seeing, but the airport is on the other side of the street.

I'll let you know what I was seeing:

That's an airport sign pointing the The Circle and they Hyatt airport hotels at Zurich airport. The whole complex is part of the Zurich airport, so I really have no idea what you are talking about. I mean, that's literally how The Circle advertises itself:

I don't doubt that there are also locals present, that's how an airport works, after all. Honestly, we might just have a different opinion what constitutes being part of the airport though.

Given how political punk was right from the start, I wouldn't call it "just a music movement".

Yeah, wanted to comment exactly that. You could literally watch him become crazier with every upload. At first I did overlook the odd comment, but he eventually went full nutjob and I had to unsubscribe.

Honestly, I often like a fadeout, e. g. keeping a slow bass beat around, fade everything else out slowly, sounds like a heart beating its last beats. Super cliché, but I like it.

by loosening the screws of the hinge.

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I can assure you that this won't work on any modern automotive paint.... well, maybe if Tesla comes up with paint next year it will start working.

Modern automotive paints are basically several layers of rather resistant plastic / metal flakes bonded to the metal body of the car, protected by several layers of different plastic (clear coat), no bologna will hurt them.

If you ever had to strip any modern 2K paint off of anything, you know what I'm talking about. Luckily, we live in the digital age and you don't have to believe me, so here's some random guy I have never seen before today testing the bologna myth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEOW_JYwPbA

This is correct and good advice. I'd like to add that it's also an option to glue in a threaded metal insert in case a self - tapping plastic screw was used and the original thread is stripped.

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Absolutely, if there is enough plastic left, melting is one of the best options. That also enables mending plastic by melting in metal pins or strips via a cheap plastic welder for 10 bucks (success can be great, but it's highly dependent on the geometry and how things broke).

Edit: no, as I said, that's absolutely fine if there is a chunk of sturdy plastic to accept the insert. I just wanted to present another plastic repair technique for the sake of completeness, if somebody stumbles into this comment section.

Yes, absolutely. Not all hinges are adjustable, unfortunately. In fact, I'd argue that most are not. Just have a look at the hinges at your place (doors, cabinets, toilet seat etc.), most will be very simple mechanisms with no inbuilt adjustment.

You can adjust the play mechanically, of course - that is, through application of a certain amount of force via deformation, which can be a destructive process if not done carefully.

There are hinges that expose an axial screw that allows for precise adjustment of hinge friction, but I have not seen those used for laptop display lids (nor did I personally encounter those in the small dimensions you would find on a laptop) . You'll find examples of those at Misumi or McMaster - Carr.

If your goal is to increase the friction in your laptop's display lid hinges, you might find that simply tightening all screws of and around the hinge often does the trick. Even though the main axial screw is not meant to be user accessible, it serves basically the same function and can tighten up the hinge. Tightening the screws used for mounting will ensure the lid doesn't wobble. You will have to (partially) take your laptop apart for that, naturally.

If your hinge doesn't have an axial screw at all and uses, let's say a pin, you might have to employ another method, but that would really depend on the actual mechanism being used.

thank mr skeltal

If it's right across the street, why are there signs pointing to the different terminals in the building?

Honestly, I was about to comment how it's kinda sad that people gather at a temple of capitalistic worship to watch a game (and an ugly one at that). I didn't do it because my next thought was: hey, what if that's their only option to experience a community for something they might enjoy and I left it at that. I mean come on, unless you're kid and it's the 80s or 90s, a mall is about the most soulless place on this earth.

Now I'm kinda glad it's mostly just a bunch of travelers waiting at an airport that would otherwise miss the game.

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Even if they paid the kid only, I dunno, $100 million, how many community mods could have been paid with the remaining $93 million?

How anyone can believe that it is possible for any single person to do something so meaningful in the same 24 hours we each share every day that they deserve payment so drastically disproportionate, so...disgustingly obscene, really, is beyond me.

I believe it doesn't really matter much whether you want to protect the environment from vibrations of the machine vs. protecting the machine from vibrations of the environment - in both cases, decoupling the systems is what you want to achieve.

Eventually, you want to build a TMD: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuned_mass_damper

I personally had to deal with the case of a large format CNC machine transferring stepper motor vibrations into an adjacent office via the wall-mounted brackets it was sitting on. People started to complain shortly after installation since the noise was very audible in the otherwise quiet working environment.

The solution involved placing the machine on a plate mounted via rubber decouplers (see https://www.dayco.com/en/product/decouplers) which in turn was mounted to a shop-built TMD using a rubber core sandwiched between two foam plates. The rubber core works as both mass and absorbs additional vibrations. It was built following a paper, but unfortunately, that was around 7 years ago and I'm not sure I'll be able to dig the publication out again.

You can in fact simulate the TMD and do the tuning (see for example https://www.mathworks.com/help/simscape/ug/mass-spring-damper-in-simulink-and-simscape.html , though dedicated software packages also exist) but in all honesty, that will probably be overkill for your case.

Having your NAS sit on a 1/2" board of baltic birch plywood resting on a foam sandwich is probably going to do the trick in your case. You can easily create such a sandwich using foam, a rubber mat and some spray glue. Different foam densities will give different results and yield different "tunings" - you may have to play around with this a bit. I could imagine you'll most likely even be able to skip the second decoupling step (rubber feet/decouplers), in the aforementioned case the second decoupling allowed for another set of frequencies to be dampened (via a different overall rubber hardness) but also brought overall amplitude down.

Don't use super soft foam, as this will yield a wobbly base, something you probably want to avoid for your NAS. Also, make sure not to attach the base board to anything else apart from the foam, or you'll transmit vibrations again. If you don't like the appearance of the foam, you can build a small fence around it that goes up to the top of the base plate.

All that being said, there are also ready-made solutions like speaker dampening feet available: https://www.amazon.com/Tertullus-Speaker-Isolation-Feet-Anti-Vibration/dp/B09QC2L7N3

Most of them are made to decouple subwoofers, so they might fit into the frequency spectrum you specified. Those couls certainly be an affordable and rather quick way to solve the problem.

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It's not as simple as that, which is why e. g. laws to control monopolies exist. Just look at the recent changes in rulings regarding essential services, right to repair etc.

This is really an outdated, "the market will regulate itself" perspective that has been shown time and again to not work - people just get fucked by corporations.

Yeah, why would you allow this to happen though?

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The tag does not say the glove is made of leather, that's simply the Franklin "leather series", a meaningless marketing term meant to trick people.

The Franklin page clearly states those gloves are made of "synthetic leather", e. g. Polyurethane, Vinyl etc.:

https://franklinsports.com/field-masterr-tan-series-baseball-fielding-glove#

Plus, the synthetic leather comes with a pre-formed pocket which is designed to break in exactly to your liking quickly and easily.

EASY BREAK IN: The soft synthetic leather material is lightweight and responsive [...]

You put a plastic glove in your oven at 350. By the way, depending on the material, in particular when talking about Vinyl, burning it may release incredibly toxic fumes, although that mostly applies to PVC. Depending on the details, I'd still considered that oven ruined though, at least for food.

I get that this sucks in more ways than one, but how the heck did you not actually check the complete material composition... almost all modern items are a mix of different materials anyway.

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How do you guys block thousands of communities? I have blocked around 10. I can exhaust my /all feed around twice a day, there isn't even enough content showing up for me to block 1000+ communities.

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It's actually a lot worse than ASM, there are far more ambiguities in C++. And yet here I am, still developing with it some 30+ years later.

Don't worry, I'm using Rust were it makes sense.

I assume you don't have a lot of experience with psychedelics, based on the fact that you believe these substances help you avoiding reality. Part of the recently re-discovered, therapeutical properties of psychedelics are due to the fact that they make you face your realities (and their general effect on the default mode network, of course).

Also, A. muscaria has been used for thousands of years, e. g. very likely as part of the Vedic Soma, or as ingredient in Haoma in Iran. The use of the mushroom has also been documented in Siberia, where, if your beliefs align with Alice Beck Kehoe, the only "real" shamans are located.

This is not a new development.

That being said, the effects of A. muscaria are probably not what people would think of when they think about psychedelics. As such, I don't believe the majority of users would believe they are "connecting with the cosmos" in the first place.

Edit: Marketing the product as psychedelic alternative under the guise of allowing consumers to "connect with the cosmos" is a completely different (and despicable) beast, sure.

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While elevated CO2 levels seem to be affecting certain cognitive abilities, I did not find definitive results indicating that this has become a general problem.

There is a meta review that indicates additional research might be worthwhile / required ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32557862/ ).

Do you have any sources worth looking into?

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I enjoyed reading that. Helldivers sounds like a fun game, and I'll be rooting to keep the mines locked forever now, too - no matter how much the children yearn for them.

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Yeah, that is about what happened. According to the BBC, he had purchased a keyboard, mouse and Fire TV stick to "connect to cloud services":

In a "flagrant disregard for his bail conditions", jurors were told that police found an Amazon Fire Stick in his hotel TV allowing him to connect to cloud computing services with a newly purchased smart phone, keyboard and mouse.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66549159

Naturally, almost all "news" sources cook up a headline like "hack carried out with only an Amazon Fire Stick". Ugh.

I switched to Kagi about 6 months back. It is overall better, but at least on par with Google, also as far as tech / programming - related questions go. Whenever I do not get a useful result from Kagi, it literally finds nothing - I then try Google for verification, which also lists absolutely no results. That happened approximately 4 times since I switched.

Kagi is worse than Google for: reviews, memes, porn, as well as "descriptive" searches, i. e. when trying to describe the desired result using natural language, e. g. "video game character that swallows everything" (I made that up just now for Kirby).

Kagi's ability to use lenses and assign weights to sites can make a big difference.

At first, they didn't have anonymous payments and an unattractive pricing model, but that has been fixed for a while, otherwise I wouldn't have switched.

Overall, I am very satisfied and have absolutely zero plans of ever using Google again.

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Dude, super happy that you find so much joy in that picture, it's great seeing someone enjoy their hobbies and interests.

I feel no one has pointed out what makes the armor work, i. e. the rough, heavy cloth, really makes it look medieval - at least it's the combination of that cloth and the leather that sells it for me.

May I ask what fabric you used? Some raw cotton or linen?

Just for the sake of completeness:

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

It's useful to be able to do this without additional tools (and there are more applications for the general command setup discussed in the video), but in practice, ease of use and performance often make a difference.

To add to OP's comment: reviews are not only a means to form an opinion on wether to buy an upcoming title.

Yeah, the game might be older, but there are still people out there who have not played it. But that's beside the point - I, for example, watch this channel because I'm interested in Mandalore's opinion, his take on a game. I have absolutely played A Machine for Pigs back in the day (and found it mediocre compared to the actual Frictional Games titles), so watching the video is akin to talking to a friend over a drink: "hey, remember xyz? that was a (great | crappy | forgettable) game..."

This kind of content might take me back to a game I haven't played in ages and makes me mentally engage with the title again - or it might put the spotlight on an obscure title few have ever heard of, or a rare forgotten gem that somehow was overlooked.

Many players do not have a desire to only play the latest and newest games, but actively look for older titles, maybe due to nostalgia, maybe due to the games having a different focus, structure etc. back then. Not saying that "everything was better" in the olden days, but different strokes for different folks, right.

The local parts of email addresses are standardized, and there is an RFC handling subadressing as well, see RFC 5233 - it's not like Gmail invented this behavior.

Also, RFC 5321 clearly states (2.3.11) that the local part of an email must only be interpreted by the receiving server, so that part should not be parsed, modified or mangled in any form - the assumptions poor web forms or validation libraries make these days are incredibly annoying and simply not compliant.

So no, non of your suggestions are good, let alone ideal. Ideally, people would simply implement the specs and stop making lazy and false assumptions. In the case you cited, it turns out email validation is simply not the proper tool to limit how often the form can be submitted. Similar websites use e. g. text messages.

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Hyperbole aside, I'd still be worried that any cable physically connected to my phone would break the port over time - mostly because that has happened to me in the past with multiple devices.

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Yeah, while I didn't want to make a joke, I'll have to let that sink in for a while.

I'd like to propose the theory that being naked with your partner in a hotel room, on shrooms, might not be exactly the environment / setting most conductive to personal growth and introspection.

As you said, it's fun, so you might have just marveled at the experience. The medical setting is a controlled environment, with clear goals, setup, protocol and licensed professionals on site. Also, the integration step after the experience is crucial for therapeutic success.

High-fiving your partner after having what can potentially be amazing shroom sex doesn't count as integration / therapy. Mind you, I don't mean to be offensive in any way, what you described is amazing and fun, but probably not therapy. It's okay to do every so often though.

Also, very experienced people can attain therapeutic effects tripping on their own, but that's generally not recommended at all. Shrooms have incredible potential, but it's not a cure-all medicine that mystically solves all mental issues simply by tripping - you still have to put in the work.

I'd like to dispel the notion that shrooms replace therapy - they assist it greatly.

You know what, this post is great for not only one, but two reasons: you decided to do something nice for another person, and you are getting to try a new skill in the process.

Both things make me happy for you. Have fun!

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