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Squibbles@lemmy.cato No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Could you grind up a loaf of bread back into a flour and make a new loaf of bread?7·3 months agoBinging with babyish on YouTube tried this not long ago when trying to make cheeseburger pizza or something. It wasn’t great
Squibbles@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the lowest quality product you’ve ever purchased?5·3 months agoWeirdly though it wasn’t remotely close to the right answer so I don’t think it was floating point malarkey. I always assumed some defect but I guess we’ll never know.now I wish I had kept it so I could have sent it to Matt Parker for his calculator reviews
Squibbles@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the lowest quality product you’ve ever purchased?43·3 months agoI bought a cheap scientific calculator for math class. When I tried to multiply .5 by .5 it gave a long irrational number instead of .25. then I had to try to explain to the store clerk why that was wrong before they would accept the return
In an interview about silicon valley the creators said they interviewed a lot of people in the industry and had to actually cut out a bunch of stuff because it wouldn’t be believable by people outside the industry. One small example was the valuation. The VC people they talked to said pied piper would have gotten a lot more money than what ended up being in the show
I think the Pentagon Wars is about as close as it gets for now. Not about programming of course but all about company bureaucracy and feature creep
Squibbles@lemmy.cato Programming@programming.dev•Why aren't 60fps or more the standard for videos?2·7 months agoI also remember a behind the scenes thing about the Hobbit talking about specifically the cameras they were using added a colour hue that required them to make all the makeup much more red. So if you see on-set photos/video they all look really red/flushed in order to compensate for the high speed camera colour shifting
Squibbles@lemmy.cato Dull Men's Club@lemmy.world•I noticed that they cleaned the white area of the pool in this scene so that the actor wouldn't slip and fall.1·7 months agoMay also have been so you can’t see his footprints from walking around or doing multiple takes.
Squibbles@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•TV that doesn't require 'on-line activation' to set up.English10·9 months agoHow old are they? We bought an LG TV 1 or 2 years ago and it has a lot of online features and keeps prompting me to make an account and accept various terms and conditions for their advertising or to let them listen to the microphone and such. I think it’s mostly optional but they don’t make it easy to opt out
Squibbles@lemmy.cato Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Ublock origin + firefox is no longer working for blocking ads on youtube?17·10 months agoHmm haven’t seen that yet personally but I’m sure YouTube is always trying things to get around adblockers and probably A/B testing it on various accounts or countries. You could try making sure unlocks rules/definitions are up to date.
Unrelated but I also have been using sponsor block which skips over in-video sponsors which is nice. Though it’s community updated so very new videos might not have the sponsor segments marked yet.
Squibbles@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Best large TV (70+ inches) for under $1000?English4·10 months agoMe too, and I remember in the mid 2000’s before flat screens took off the biggest CRT you could get was 36", or there may have been a 40" but it was ultra expensive. One thing though is that the wider aspect ratio of modern tvs inflates the size number if you were to watch 3:4 aspect shows on a modern tv you are losing a bunch of viewing area on the sides.
Regardless, modern tvs are indeed insanely huge, and I’m loving it.
Squibbles@lemmy.cato Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can someone give me advice on vacuum cleaners?2·10 months agoThis was a few years ago but I was able to google something like “vacuum repair” to find this place where we got ours. They had lots of used repaired ones but we had to hunt around the shop a bit til we found the one we liked
Squibbles@lemmy.cato Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can someone give me advice on vacuum cleaners?9·10 months agoWe went to a little shop that repairs vacuums and such and found an old Electrolux cannister vacuum from the 70s or 80s for relatively cheap. Apparently they are quite popular with people who clean houses professionally as they last a long time and are repairable. It’s a bit of a pain to drag around the cannister but really not too bad over all and works very well.
Squibbles@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•what are the best and worst Halloween candy to receive?1·10 months agoI think they are actually molasses flavoured toffee if it’s the ones I’m thinking of. Always left to the very last, only to be consumed in the more dire of candy draughts
Squibbles@lemmy.cato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•what are the best and worst Halloween candy to receive?5·10 months agoIf the reaction of the kids who come to my door is any indication the best is ring pops. You can sometimes hear kids shouting to other ones down the street “hey, this place has ring pops!”
Worst: those molasses toffees with the orange/white/black wrapper
Squibbles@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Bing says Alpha Centauri is 13.6 kilometers from usEnglish14·11 months agoIt’s measuring the distance to your nearest copy of Sid Myers alpha centari
How did you find crowdstrikes test plan?
Squibbles@lemmy.cato [Migrated, see pinned post] Casual Conversation @lemm.ee•I miss the days just buying a TV in a shop without worriesEnglish4·11 months agoCheck with your credit card if you bought it that way. A lot of them offer warranty extensions that can double warranty length (up to an extra year). I’ve used it before once for a camera and it’s a bit convoluted but it works. I think the process for me was to call the credit card company to confirm it would be covered, then getting a repair estimate from an authorized repair place. Then they either approve it and pay for the repair or pay you the original value if the repair would cost too much.
I’ve seen some produce with a sticker showing PLU and a barcode. Is the barcode in that case just an encoding of the PLU or something grower specific?
Yes html is all parsed and rendered by the web browser. What the elements do and how they interact and are displayed is defined by a standards body like the w3 consortium https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-html5-20141028/
There’s traditionally been differences in the implementations of those standards between browser companies, thus causing browser compatibility issues where a site may say it doesn’t work in Firefox, or requires chrome or whatever. Though most major browsers use Chrome’s rendering engine now except for Firefox and its derivatives.
Yes I suppose it is less efficient than precompiling a webpage and serving it as a package that gets downloaded and “executed” though that then opens you up to cross operating system compatibility issues such as Linux and windows not being able to run binaries compiled for the other os. Html was conceived at least in part to be agnostic in that way I believe. As a “hypertext mark up language” it was a way of formatting text for easier reading