buck746

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by buck746 9d ago
I stopped having that problem when I started taking a single square of toilet paper, folding it into a quarter square and using it to dab the tip a few times to get the last bit of liquid out. There's enough space to dab a few times wi
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by buck746 3mo ago
Luna is abrasive, essentially like shards of non safety glass. The dust on mars is soft, it's been blowing around since before the dinosaurs died off. The main issue with martian dust is electrostatic charge, but that's easier to
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by buck746 3mo ago
Semaglutide has been used for diabetics for roughly 20 years. The FUD angle is just people rambling against something that doesn't affect them personally. Everyone knows the only things that matter are what effects "you", eve
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by buck746 3mo ago
There's anecdotal accounts of GLP meds helping with a range of addictions. Of course in science anecdotal accounts are the lowest tier of evidence, that's only top shelf in law.
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by buck746 3mo ago
More importantly we have decades of irrefutable evidence that diet and exercise alone are about as effective as abstinence only sex education. It's great there are people that can just decide to eat less, but it's foolish to assum
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by buck746 3mo ago
Terzepitide took me from always wanting food to actually being able to focus on other things fully. I was concerned with being able to inject myself weekly, but it's easy and worth the 1-2 minutes a week. If you start, the dosage sched
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by buck746 3mo ago
One could even argue food is a lifetime chemical dependance. An assortment of chemicals really with the amino acids, lipids and sugars involved. People who are against these medications typically draw arbitrary lines for what treatments are
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by buck746 2y ago
Vantablack is carbon nanotubes grown on a surface. Black 3.0 or 4.0 and Mosou black are paints that perform significantly better than regular black but are still measurably less than Vantablack. Visually the difference is small, but durabil
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by buck746 2y ago
essentially none of the videos have sound on the iOS client. It's rare I ever come across a video with sound. Very frustrating to use.
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by buck746 2y ago
Not directly, bu whatever they are eating ultimately gets energy from the sun. It's really just about how pedantic you are on redirection of energy.
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by buck746 2y ago
That's where a larger group helps versus the 3 men on Apollo, or 4 people for Artemis. Having a larger pool of personal will ease a lot of social friction. It's also likely that a laser comms connection will be readily available,
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by buck746 2y ago
The reduced air pressure on mars also means keeping warm will be significantly easier than in Antarctica. Convective heat transfer is much slower. Protecting against conduction isn't too challenging. Seeing how a spacesuit is necessary
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by buck746 2y ago
Mars not having a magnetosphere isn't as short term a need. The atmosphere stripping away is on geologic timescales, not human ones. Even then, we could put a superconducting ring between Sol and Mars and get the same effect as far as
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by buck746 2y ago
I have an automation that turns it on whenever I take the phone off the charger. You can also set it up with locations. So I have an automation that tweaks a few settings when I get to one of the disney parks here in FL. It's usually k
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by buck746 2y ago
I have an M2 Max with 64Gb of ram. It handles everything I throw at it. Runs the 30ish gigabyte deepseek model fine. I will admit for gaming I pretty much just stick to Cyberpunk 2077, Minecraft, Stray, Viscera Cleanup Simulator and old gam
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by buck746 2y ago
The Hobbit films were shot in native 3D, and 48hz. It's a shame we can't get the high frame rate version at home, more of a shame we can't get Avatar The Way of Water at 48. The hobbit could've worked as 2 films, but 3 w
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by buck746 2y ago
If you take stereo photos and want a way to view them. Go to an Antique store and get a stereoscope. They can be purchased inexpensively. Have your photos printed on 5x7 with the images arranged like a stereo card. Perfect color, prints are
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by buck746 2y ago
The lenses you can get for an SLR tho are much better than what rPi cameras usually come with. If you use film era fully manual lenses you can get amazing quality for next to nothing. If your shooting objects that are still, taking longer e
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by buck746 2y ago
The catch is that if you charge less than a small difference to your next closest competitor people will think something is wrong with it. Saw it happen many times working at an antique store for years. It was amazing how often raising pric
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by buck746 2y ago
That makes sense unless you are in an area with hurricanes. In places with a high probability of a hurricane hit they have started doing framing with the zip sheathing so it looks like a monopoly house, then they add overhangs that can brea
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by buck746 2y ago
I'm a FL resident (firmly NOT republican), Goto Disney Parks once or twice a month. It's amazing how people there will walk just inside a doorway and stop, or be in the center of a walkway with a group of half a dozen while oblivi
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by buck746 2y ago
Have you looked at DietPi as a low resource OS? It's my default choice for a SBC like the Pi. They have versions for x86 too.
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by buck746 2y ago
The people making content generally have no idea about video compression. Or they only understand it at a cursory level. It's a safe bet that set designers and decorators have no idea about video compression. Early productions seemed t
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by buck746 2y ago
I found the easiest way was vacuum sealing some chocolate and sticking it in a souvee at 92f overnight. Agitate a bit after it's melted and a while before removing it from the warm water. I use the method for making tempered cocoa butt
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by buck746 2y ago
I had an original iPhone the day it was released. Lots of people viewed it as too expensive and "why would I need that". When iPad came out plenty of people had the notion that "no one really needs that, it's just a toy&
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by buck746 2y ago
I lost my mom to cancer when I was 17. She fought with it for 6.5 years prior. Even knowing it was coming it was devastating. 24 years later I still miss her, I'm sure I always will. It hurts knowing that I'm now older than she wa
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by buck746 2y ago
It lost because there were only 3 prisms made. It also required a lot more lot as running thru an optical splitter means at least half of your light was lost, it's not a big issue today. Modern cameras are insanely more sensitive than