It should be around here:

It might be underneath some hoses or similar due to PDO. If push comes to shove, you could always use a skinny funnel and pour it down the dipstick tube…

The WTF here is not necessarily that some component on the circuit board failed, but that the manufacturer charges $400-$1000 for it with a straight face and gets away with it when they undoubtedly have that board made in China for about $4 per unit.

In terms of raw horsepower as well as storage, probably. People were already doing audio fingerprinting in the early '90s on, like, 386 hardware. It ought to be trivial for anything even vaguely modern. The entire fingerprint data for a 2 minute chunk of audio is 3-4 kB or something. I don’t even think the size of the database will be hugely onerous.

Patrick Stewart’s one man performance of A Christmas Carol, in 1994.

A) This is indeed a thing that happened and absolutely was not some kind of hallucination, and B) obviously I don’t go to shows very often, do I?

The users who downvoted you were iconoclast@feddit.uk and FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world. I’m sure it would make their respective day(s) if you asked them.

I’ve given up trying to make heads or tails of downvoters’ behavior. I am convinced that some people here either think there is some “algorithm” that will magically stop showing them some type of content if they downvote it (I can’t imagine I’ve pissed in that many people’s cornflakes, so that’s my theory anyhow) and others who don’t quite understand that there’s no such thing here as reddit style karma.

I dunno. It is what it is. I think fewer people realize than they should that votes are publicly accessible on Lemmy, though.

(Don’t look at me. I haven’t downvoted anyone in four months.)

Nice try. I have the video ID memorized.

I meant to reply to this earlier but I forgot. If you’re getting at what you think you’re getting at, I in fact did not create !pocketknife@lemmy.world. Surprising, right? I simply tripped over it in my feed one day, make a couple of comments, and subsequently insinuated myself and took over the joint. The user who created it has been inactive for something like two years at the time of writing.

As he told it, Paul hated Christians and then had a vision of Jesus who told him off about it, and then he had a big change of heart and invented (modern) Christianity.

I think the main impact here is that there are plenty of embedded system-on-a-chip sort of things specifically designed for industrial applications not only still out there in the world, but still being actively manufactured that are based on the 486 architecture.

For retro gaming nerds, their 486 machines would all be running some variant of DOS anyway.

Arguably they didn’t. The modern trappings of Christianity were invented out of the whole cloth from Paul of Tarsus, when he had a “vision” of Jesus conveniently not seen by anyone else purportedly while he was traveling on the road to Damascus. Notably, all of this went down some decades after big J’s death.

It was Paul who discarded the bulk of the Jewish stuff, either out of desire to make it more palatable to his Roman peers or, possibly, simply because he was a raving nut. Paul was a self-described persecutor of the existing Christians, so he would have been in a pretty good position to know what their beliefs were to use as a starting point.

Ctrl + F. “Knife.” Only 5 results.

I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed.

I’m a trout, stupid!

An old joke, possibly originating from somewhere in the basement of a DuPont facility:

How can you tell a chemist apart from an engineer?

…

The chemist washes his hands before he takes a leak.

College is not a test of intelligence. It’s a test of your parents’ finances, perhaps, and your ability to conform and play the game, and in some cases one’s willingness to cheat as well. In my experience very few people come out of college any smarter than they went in, and given the preponderance of people who seem to major in beer the opposite may in fact be true.

What worries me is not the number of people who manage to stumble through college and still some out the other side stupid. Based on my personal experience with my client base, what keeps me up at night is the sheer majority of people who apparently cannot read and possess no critical thinking skills whatsoever and probably shouldn’t be trusted to tie their own shoelaces, but some asshole still saw fit to issue these people drivers’ licenses, insurance policies, mortgages, and allow them to buy giant SUVs and guns.

Who the hell knows, other than the fact that the original retailed for $400 and you can’t get one anymore. When there’s demand, someone will step up.

“You must really love fish.”

“Actually, I’m deathly allergic to them.”

“Then why do you still work here?”

“Because I’m even more allergic to poverty.”

I have successfully used this line, altered appropriately, in interviews multiple times. And they say video games never teach you anything.

This roller coaster ride is basically the story of my life. “Look at this screwball knife in Aliexpress, how did they come up with that?” Then what ensues is a multi-hour dive into the rabbit hole to discover whose design they ripped it off from.

For instance you can’t buy a HOM Chimera for love nor money nowadays, but the Chinese will sell you one or at least something shaped just like it for $60…

That’s… not 2FA anymore. It’s reverted to 1FA, now with sprinkles on it.

Yes, because among other things this annoys users into just writing down their password on a Post-It and sticking it to the bottom of their keyboard or monitor ripe for any passerby to take.

I have explained this to various management types repeatedly over the decades and nobody seems to get it.

That one is okay-ish. The one that is going to have me getting in the elevator with my samurai sword to go and have a chat with somebody is “Your password cannot contain any sequence of characters from previous passwords,” or “password cannot be your old password backwards.”

Sure, just admit to me that you’re storing passwords in plain text as carefree as you like.