noughtnaut

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[–] noughtnaut 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Really?? In Scandinavia such well equipped camp sites are all over the place.

[–] noughtnaut 3 points 1 day ago

It's been abused for so many decades im sure you can reliably use either spelling and not be misunderstood.

[–] noughtnaut 7 points 1 day ago

I went directly from a dot matrix (ImageWriter II ftw!) to a laser. Except for photo prints, I find it immensely practical to be able to print stuff at home.

[–] noughtnaut 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good for you! Seriously!

For the rest of us, a few notes on how you accomplished this would be sha-weet! I think sketch up is the most approachable 3d program, but all my "post Windows" attempts have resulted in crashes and freezes. 😥

[–] noughtnaut 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Plus, the 17th Poland was "made room for" by removing New Zealand, a mapping error so common there's a dedicated sub for it.

[–] noughtnaut 3 points 3 days ago

Emoji passwords made me think of the Lotus Notes password prompt with their little images that changed as I typed (which never really made sense to me).

Yes, I'm old...

[–] noughtnaut 8 points 4 days ago

It's been a while since I saw good old 4281 referenced. 👍

[–] noughtnaut 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As a recent divorcee: fuck this hurts.

[–] noughtnaut 0 points 5 days ago (4 children)

What on earth does this mean? I'm not a world-class expert in mathology but I've never seen this kind of relative comparison before.

[–] noughtnaut 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

More comedic than dramatic, and more "highly unlikely" than "dumb luck", but this one time I fell while skiing. It happens, I was a reckless kid as many are.

But this? This was on a flat, broad, almost level stretch connecting two pistes, and me and my dad were basically just cruising along. I don't know what, but something happened and I face planted, stopping instantly.

One ski out to the side, the other... vertical? Stuck into the piste at a right angle, all the way from the tip to the binding... without becoming detached from my boot. The mechanism worked fine, mind you, it just hadn't disengaged. There was no gash in the snow, no entry mark, just hard packed piste with half a ski sticking out of it like so much sword in a stone.

[–] noughtnaut 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This is terrible, and yet entirely predictable. 💔

In all honesty I cannot fathom that Texas still has anyone in it that might appear to be of the feminine persuasion. Why haven't you all moved already?

[–] noughtnaut 1 points 1 week ago

Not an alarm, but a timer app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.persapps.multitimer

MultiTimer is brilliant for having a dashboard of purpose made timers that I use all the time (weekly baking, laundry, tea timer, etc) and ad hoc timers.

 

This is likely a very niche request, but perhaps there's a genius here with the answer - or can point me to a better place to ask.

If I want it to look like a web page is loading an interlaced gif over an old modem connection, would there exist some tool to convert a given static image to an animated gif (preferably downsampled to 256 colours)?

You know, the one where it starts off as one giant coloured block which then gets progressively segmented into thinner lines with more detail as each interlaced line is received...

 

From my understanding, (a) the brain has no nerves, which is why you can talk to people while doing brain surgery on them; and (b) headache is caused by blood vessels constricting. Now, I am unsure whether migraines are also caused by blood vessels constricting, but in any case - what is it that is doing the sensing of this pain? Or is it a(nother) case of the brain just making shit up because it hates me?

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