benjijay (u/benjijay)

benjijay commented on How Silica Gel Took Over the World scopeofwork.net/silica-ge... · Posted by u/Hooke

fellerts · 5 months ago

I'd be very scared of IPA in an ultrasonic cleaner. Sounds like a recipe for a fire. Or is your machine perhaps designed for safe IPA cleaning?

benjijay · 5 months ago

I'm scrolling before coffee and initially took your acronym as India Pale Ale, which would certainly be a different cleaning experience...

benjijay commented on Extend Extra Extreme: keyboard extend layer mappings dreymar.colemak.org/layer... · Posted by u/lnyan

mathfailure · 7 months ago

Do I get it right that they have 0 (zero, nada) visualization of what the keys of the current layout would do?

If so - then it sounds even worse than learning vim arcane spells / motions and bindings.

Or are there any h/w alternatives to Optimus Maximus [0]?

[0] - https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/

benjijay · 7 months ago

That's a throwback! I remember being excited about the Optimus Maximus back around '06! Never heard of any actually making it out into the wild...

benjijay commented on The Floppotron 3.0 (2022) silent.org.pl/home/2022/0... · Posted by u/pabs3

yvdriess · 7 months ago

If you love the sound of the Floppotron, chiptunes and metal, I can heartily recommend Master Boot Record. https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/album/hardwarez https://soundcloud.com/masterbootrecordmusic/doom

benjijay · 7 months ago

Managed to see them in London a few months back, can definitely echo the recommendation! (The warm up act could have done with a sound check but I was very impressed with his playing an OG GameBoy as a MIDI controller)

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culi · 8 months ago

if you don't, someone else will. Maybe you could've introduced a "bug" that makes it so it usually doesn't work except when a member of the QA team is looking at it :P

benjijay · 8 months ago

Volkswagen already had this idea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

benjijay commented on Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers collegetowns.substack.com... · Posted by u/raybb

floren · 8 months ago

That's old fashioned, the current "California roll" is to just continue at full speed through stop signs or red lights.

benjijay · 8 months ago

I am more familiar with (and more partial to) a California Roll consisting of 'crab' sticks, avocado, and cucumber, wrapped in seaweed and then rice.

benjijay commented on Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024) cbc.ca/sports/olympics/su... · Posted by u/TMWNN

WalterBright · 8 months ago

A few years ago, I remember when the Olympics was hosted in Vancouver, BC. The news reported that an insane amount of free condoms was distributed to the athletes. Some lower level athletes were interviewed, and they said they knew they had zero chance of a medal, but were having the time of their lives.

benjijay · 8 months ago

This always gets the pearl-clutchers out of the woodwork - you're gathering a few hundred of the world's fittest people in peak performance mode in the same place for a few weeks, giving most of them a huge amount of downtime, what do you THINK is going to happen? (This is the general 'you', not YOU)

Providing free access to make sure things are happening safely is not what's 'encouraging the behaviour' here :D

benjijay commented on VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles techcrunch.com/2025/01/09... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

benjijay · 8 months ago

Totally personally skewed perspective, but thinking about the number of systems I've installed VLC on, some multiple times through rebuilds etc, 6 billion feels like a huge underestimate!

benjijay commented on A middle schooler found a new compound in a piece of goose poop phys.org/news/2024-12-mid... · Posted by u/dxs

benjijay · 9 months ago

It's that old adage once again... throw enough goose shit at the wall and eventually you'll treat cancer.

benjijay commented on Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 winners rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astron... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

benjijay · 9 months ago

I went to this exhibit at the weekend! Some truly awesome pictures (and a handful of runners up that left me wondering how easy it is to do, really)

One of the most interesting comparisons was how some pictures were a single shot, maybe 10-15 second exposure, and others were stacks of 700 or more images with exposures ranging from 60-400 seconds, taken over the course of a month.

benjijay commented on Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking quantamagazine.org/mathem... · Posted by u/sonabinu

nolamark · 9 months ago

Since we are being pedantic, your statement may be true but it is unsupported by the data you presented. To make it simple, let's talk about the imaginary basketball league with four players, of unit less heights of 4, 4, 4, and 1. The average height is 3.25, yet 3/4 the players are taller than average.

A paid promotion of International Median is not Average Association.

benjijay · 9 months ago

Most people have an above-average number of legs.

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