Rhaedas

joined 1 year ago
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 2 hours ago

Looks like just posts from Lemmy instances. Now, are replies posts? I don't think so, I think it's original topics. But many replies from Lemmy users are going to be to outside sources, so there's a lot going on!

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 13 hours ago

Using it to share data can be a nightmare, especially since different departments might look at that data in various ways and want their own formats. I work for a Fortune 500 company that, at least at my level of management, emailing around attached full spreadsheets of daily data rather than have a centralized database. I've fought it for years, but it's what the higher ups want...stupid.

Even better when Microsoft puts out improvements like 365 and OneDrive that break certain functions, then depreciates Excel itself. God I hate the cloud.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 35 points 1 day ago

I never considered this, and I hope it's not true.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

There could be some maximum threshold or critical number where people's discussions goes downhill, regardless of the infrastructure. So while the idea of splintering into new communities that share names and topics was initially a big concern with the Reddit migration, calling for a way to imitate a Reddit sole source, perhaps it's better to allow diversification even if some things aren't directly and timely shared.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

James Horner nailed the starship motif. I enjoy the various other composers' works as well, but Horner is my top for Trek.

Howard Shore for all the Tolkien work. His music alone will paint the image of Middle Earth in my head.

And Hans Zimmer has some stuff I love, like Time, but he did his best job imo for Dune.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago

How about 3/8 and just don't come back?

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This could have potentially happened to Apollo 11, had Armstrong not taken over manually to steer clear of the targeted landing site with some rough areas. Maybe it would have been just leaning and not a big deal, but at the time we had no clear idea what a real landing would end up like. And I would hazard a guess that even though we've done a lot over the decades, the polar regions of the Moon are still pretty unknown.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

I got around to cleaning our outside unit last year, and didn't think it would be a big deal as it looked pretty clean at a glance. Once I got the sheet metal off and started looking and spraying, good lord it was filthy. Now that it is near new again inside, I plan to just take the top off every year and do a regular rinse to keep that buildup down. I can't say how much better it works now from numbers, but it has to exchange heat far more now than before from the sheer gunk I took off.