MrMusAddict

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[–] MrMusAddict 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

My understanding of MTG rules is a bit rusty. Does "sacrifice" only apply to the player's creatures in play? Or, could you target an opponent's creature?

[–] MrMusAddict 4 points 5 months ago

Plus, you can set the speed to 1.5x and catch up to live, if you want.

[–] MrMusAddict 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I guess with all things, depends on the financial position of the customer.

If you're stretching yourself to get any phone, then yeah, diminishing returns for forking out $800+ for a flagship.

That being said I've owned multiple phones in each price category, and can say that the best phones are unfortunately among the most expensive.

[–] MrMusAddict 49 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Speaking of "paying 10% for the privilege", one of the things irked me was my dad's insistence that tithes had to be monetary. Per him, volunteer work didn't count.

I was roped into running the computer, or doing the sound, for all 5 services Saturday + Sunday, plus practice before hand. 16 hour commitment twice a month.

My day job was only 20 hours/wk back then, so in terms of time, my volunteer work was ~30% of all my work. Yet my dad still insisted I payed 10% of the taxed cash I received...

That was one of many "cuts" in my "death by 1000" for being religious.

[–] MrMusAddict 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Two things:

  1. see if your power provider offers an "equal pay" plan, where your payments are normalized over 12 months. This provides consistency.

  2. Budget Budget Budget! Keep track of your monthly income and expenses, and plug this equal pay into it.


Often times your power company will let you do equal pay before having 12 months of usage history.

The one thing is that if you use more than you're paying for, you have to pay the overage at the end of the 12-month cycle, AND your payments increase. So, don't get used to leaving all the lights on!

On the flip side, if you use less, you'll either get a refund or accumulate credits which will lower your next year's payments.

[–] MrMusAddict 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Actually, in 2022 there were 94m barrels produced globally per day. So this is 2%. Statistically, not insignificant. Hopefully it'll continue to grow rapidly.

[–] MrMusAddict 12 points 7 months ago

This might be this earliest IASIP intro gag I've ever seen.

[–] MrMusAddict 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The problem I'm going to assume applies here is the same as why we can't train self-driving cars with a simulation. It's a paradox; if the simulation was robust enough to train cars for the real world, then creation of the simulation itself WOULD be the solution since it already knows all the rules and correct reactions.

In other words, I'm sure they got their simulation to work, within the confines of a limited, non-paradoxical, error-prone programming.

[–] MrMusAddict 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It's the an extension for Google Passwords? It's my password manager for all my devices.

I would love to switch to Firefox, but I don't want to open chrome every time I need a to retrieve/save a password.

[–] MrMusAddict 4 points 8 months ago

My dad had the T-Mobile G1; if I recall, first ever commercial available Android phone!

That was handed down to me after a couple years. It has as much chill factor as it did nerd factor. People laughed and were amazed at the same time. I loved it, lol

[–] MrMusAddict 2 points 8 months ago

No, but I've updated the title and added the source to the post body. Thanks for pointing that out.

[–] MrMusAddict 6 points 8 months ago

I might be mistaken then, but doesn't part of Net Neutrality mean that telecommunication companies can't throttle unlimited plans?

 

Update (2023-10-20 @ 3:22 PST) - Wassym has announced they are now adding the feature to Dual Motor vehicles: https://old.reddit.com/r/Rivian/comments/17bpwpg/according_to_at_least_one_user_standard_dual/k5pdgee/

 
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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by MrMusAddict to c/[email protected]
 

Hey guys.

There's a highway that connect the coast to inland, and without it drivers have a 4-hour detour. It has been closed for the past month while a forest fire has been fought by lots of fire crews. It's been burning since August 15th, so over a month now actually.

They've finally mitigated the fire enough that they are temporarily re-opening the highway, however it's remaining closed 8am - 4pm Mon-Fri so that the firemen are not blocked by congestion. When it's not closed between those hours, only 1 lane is open and traffic is led by patrol cars. There is no ETA for a full re-opening.

I went to go apply a condition, when I realized that no one had actually closed the road in the first place. So I added something like "conditional=no @ (Mon-Fri 8:00-16:00)" (I forget the exact syntax).

A day later, someone came in and reverted the change saying "the consensus is that only changes lasting 3 or more months should be made. There are people who download these maps for offline use. So no temporary closures."

But, the DOT of both states this fire is affecting are begging drivers to stop using GPS to the coast on this route - people are driving into active fire zones.

Does concession for offline users actually supersede safety?

 
 

I bought my son a Mindstorms Inventor set back in like February 2021 thinking we'd be able to buy cool expansions for like at least a decade. But, he was a little too young both to build and program, so it's collected dust since then.

He recently expressed interest in it again, and so we built one of the 5 robots. But, he doesn't want to disassemble it to make anything else. So I was just going to buy an expansion set.

Well... I just saw that the whole IP was discontinued like a year ago... So I'm trying to find parts that are compatible with the hub, so I can see about getting them individually.

When I look on lego.com and open listings for individual parts, I see "Connect to the 88016", but I'm wondering if other parts will work (such as Color and Distance Sensor 88007, which says it's compatible with the 88009 Hub, but not explicitly the 88016 large hub).

So I guess two questions:

  1. Are every motor/sensor with male plugs that physically fit into 88016 compatible with it (and with the Scratch software)
  2. Is there a master list of compatible motors/sensors for 88016

Edit / Follow-Up: are the Spike parts compatible? (45678)

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by MrMusAddict to c/rivian
 

I already have a Harmony M. I bought it over a decade ago; it's my first and only pedal. I was interested to see if they revised it and gave it some modern features, but it looks like they've fully discontinued it. I'm not well educated on what to look for.

I wad curious if you guys have any knowledge/recommendations of modern MIDI controlled pedals (or perhaps any non-foot-interacted musical equipment) that offers vocal harmonies, and maybe other niceties like looping and whatnot.

 

So first off, here's my lane balancer. As far as I know this allows 100% throughput (just a bit big).

And here's what I'm calling a 2-Belt Overflow Balancer. It will keep the inputs on their output belt (top stays on top, bottom stays on bottom), and will only actually balance between the two if either are backed up.

And lastly, here's two lane balancers, followed by the overflow balancer:

 

To clarify; I have not yet sprayed anything into the dial mechanism.

This used to be a light switch, but my son kept leaving it on. So I swapped it out for one of these dials about 2 years ago. Now it seems to be getting stuck around the 10-min mark and being left on all day.

I'd prefer not to replace this dial again; the house is old and the wiring in that receptacle was already pretty hard to work with. But I mean I'm not going to burn my house down in an effort to save myself 10 minutes and $10.

Is it safe to use a silicone based spray on it?

 

Funny that the first post on this Microsoft community is an emoji request, lol. But hey... gotta start somewhere.

I would genuinely use this all the time.

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