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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

I'm WFH with a pretty chill work day except I'm on standby 24/7 in case of something stupid happens at work. So not much would change for me, honestly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

I learned a while back that his distinctive voice is not actually his voice. It's one he puts on as it works well for the characters he tends to play.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I was actually pretty late in watching Star Trek (but once I did, I fully committed. Started with the original series, then watched all episodes of every series), so I first noticed him in The 4400s. Seeing him in Star Trek again was so much fun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I used to around 20 years ago. Some, anyway.

But I was always picky about the ones I watched. I had a few friends who liked Naruto and other types I didn't like. I always found that these two types basically boil down to either:

  • Combat centric plot, where each episode revolves around some new antagonist that luckily can be defeated by this new trick the protagonist learned earlier in the episode. Example: Naruto, DBZ.

  • Awkward guy spends time with attractive girls. Example: Ichigo 100%, Love Hina.

I really liked Monster, GTO, Elfen Lied, and Chobits. And there was this one drama whose name I cannot remember. I kind of lost interest after having seen those, because it felt like there were too much low quality anime compared to the ones that actually were worthwhile.

EDIT: I remember the other one, Kimi Ga Nozomi Eien. Also, honorable mention: Nana. Great soundtrack by Olivia Lufkin and Anna Tsuchiya

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Dream Theater- Meteopolis pt 2: Scenes feom a Memory

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Price: Don't remember. I fired off a message to the guys in manufacturing, I'll let you know if they have a price. We go through quite a few of these annually, so we have a bulk discount when buying them.

How: Magic, I guess. Also, I found a link to the ones we use: https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/clock-and-timing/components/atomic-clocks/embedded-atomic-oscillators/csac

When we prepare for deployment, they're connected to a docking unit which provides a clock pulse derived from a GPS signal for high precision. Then the battery pack is attached, the subsea unit is assembled, and everything is deployed, usually via ROV. It's important that it's kept powered the entire time upon retrieval docking, as we can then calculate a linear drift value and correct for this in the recorded data.

UPDATE: We bought "Maaaaaaany thousands" of them in 2018, and we paid 1850 USD per chip. Come to think of it, I remember hearing claims back then that we'd bought 75% of the worlds supply.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

Some work related trivia I'd like to share with you: My job involves deploying sensors on the seabed to record data. These sensors are battery powered, and rely on highly precise timekeeping to be correct. These devices are synchronized before deployment, and upon retrieval ~2 months later we want none or as little clock drift as possible.

Tumbleweed sounds

I'm glad you asked: we achieve this by using CSACs - Chip Scale Atomic Clocks. They are pretty much what the name Implies, and after synchronization it is able to keep the time much better than anything else. Normal clock drift upon retrieval is usually less than a millisecond, and that drift is due to (uninteresting factors not directly related to the CSAC itself)

CSACs cost a small fortune, but they're the size of a matchbox and make it all possible. It's amazing how small atomic clocks can be.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

Related Kerbal Space Program trivia: The kerbals were originally supposed to be genderless, but the design ended up looking male anyway, so the first three kerbals ended up being named Jebediah, Bill and Bob. Then when the game reached version 1.0, the devs decided they might as well add female kerbals, so they added one to the veteran-crew: Valentina

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Each to their own I'd say, but I'm all for rule bending.

I've always been up front about modding based on what I consider reasonable interpretation of the spirit of the rules combined with common sense. This means that some things that technically should or shouldn't get deleted gets a treatment it wouldn't get by strict interpretation of the rules in their literal meaning.

That being said, my interpretation of the rules may not necessarily conform with those of other mods, so I rarely complain if someone else decides to overrule me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

I've been wearing jeans all my life, and the best jeans I ever bought was when I was in the US and I found myself in a Target for the first time. Granted, they were more than 15$, but not by an order of magnitude.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes, even more so than Trump, and that alone is enough to vote for her.

Source: Myself. I made it up.

On a more serious note, while I can't recall her ever mentioning or describing a venn diagram, I can easily imagine her doing so. Trump on the other hand, I'm not entirely convinced he knows what one is.

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