notnotmike

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[–] notnotmike 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nah, I'm in the U.S. and also have minimal interest in betting. I have more interest in how people bet because it's so interesting

[–] notnotmike 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

My boss asked me what the odds were on the Tyson v Paul fight were and this is the best way I knew how to look

 

https://polymarket.com/event/taylor-swift-pregnant-in-2024?tid=1731713186818

I thought there was a fascinating spike in odds on July 3rd so I naturally had to investigate why they would shoot up like that.

I believe I narrowed it down to an interview Kelce did with Jason Sudekis on a skit show around that time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19t6ZHlNXW0

Just wanted to share a fascinating insight into how people pick odds on these sites

There's also a pool for whether Mike Tyson will bite off Logan Paul's ear, so they go wild there

[–] notnotmike 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Update: told my wife and she said "oh I already watched the trailer" before I could even finish describing the movie. So we're all in

[–] notnotmike 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, for me part of the fun of Yu-Gi-Oh was having really cool cards in your deck that was a big moment when you summoned them (I was a kid, times were simple)

But now newer decks summon and tribute like 8 monsters in a single turn, it's outrageous, and if you don't know every card by heart you'll just be stun locked trying to figure out why you got destroyed

That's why I prefer to play legacy decks if at all

[–] notnotmike 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://youtu.be/u15HmEMp2Qc?si=XOrVXy0Qu8Jn9ghA (Piped)

I guess there are trucks in World of Warcraft

[–] notnotmike 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My wife and I have a winter tradition to watch a Christmas movie every weekend morning, so we may have to add this to the list

Although I have no idea where one even watches a Hallmark movie specifically... We usually just look in the "free" section of our smart TV or my Plex server

[–] notnotmike 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Article mentions the Bill of Rights, and I haven't really looked at that since middle school, so I wanted to brush up.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Emphasis mine.

Definitely a very short passage and I'm no lawyer. I could see arguments for how this does not disallow a state to mandate a religious text be included somewhere.

However, I'm a staunch believer in the separation of Church and state so I'm leaning more towards the spirit of the law rather than the letter here - seems clear that religion of any kind should never be mandated

Also I cannot believe any state congressional time was wasted on such a pointless rule. I would be astounded if this had any measurable effects on any child beyond them remembering a few more of the commandments than their peers. But morally I imagine there will be no difference

[–] notnotmike 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How is Borderlands selling so well? I got the impression it was a flop

[–] notnotmike 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh nice! I've kept the Xbox game bar running so that I can make these clips so it will be nice to ditch that bloated mess - no need for two overlays

[–] notnotmike 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh neat - I've been waiting for this UI for a while so I'm excited to try it out. I don't think it will impact me much beyond the entry swapper though.

[–] notnotmike 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I was thinking the ghost tower or cave music from R/B/Y

[–] notnotmike 1 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed. We need to know what the backend looks like and we need to know what the Network tab is saying

 

Pre-1.0 I had aluminum factories that took the waste water from aluminum scrap and fed it back to the alumina solution refineries. However, in my new 1.0 world I can't seem to get it to flow correctly.

I've tried several solutions, including:

  • putting the waste water lower in the junction than the fresh water
  • adding a valve to the waste water to prevent backflow
  • adding a valve to the waste water to only supply the amount not provided by the fresh water

The only think I have not done yet is decrease the water extractor rates, mostly because I don't recall having to do that before when I used a valve.

Any tips? Anyone else had success in 1.0

 
 

My friend and I routinely have conversations about factory design.

His ideal factory ships every ore in its raw state to a single building, which can then move the ore to different floors/sections for processing. He goes further than most and separates each product into its own "room", so all steel bars are made in one room then shipped to the steel beam and steel pipe rooms. Importantly the factory should be designed so that you can "infinitely" expand a room if you need more of that resource.

I prefer what I call "microfactories", where each component is created in a small, independent factory and the result is shipped to a main repository for builder use and for the space elevator construction. If you need modular frames, for example, you would find a group of ores and build a small factory on it and build every sub-component you can in it. Ideally, it would not rely on any other microfactory's outputs, but sometimes that's easier said than done. Often I will have a small cluster of microfactories all dedicated to shipping their output to a final microfactory for processing.

So what do you all use?

Note: He claims his design is more analogous to microservices (from software architecture) than mine, and that mine is something apparently called "pirate architecture". I think he's out of his mind on that one.

 

For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by notnotmike to c/[email protected]
 

I love the idea of supporting small business and quality, handcrafted items. But Etsy seems to be more focused on drop shipping and it becomes a hassle to investigate every item I purchase to determine whether it ships from China or not.

Does anyone know of any alternatives with a good reputation?

 
 
 

I've recently started digitizing my mother-in-law's collection of home movies. What I would love is some recommendations or tweaks I can do to improve the quality and remove any combing or minimize static. I am not particularly concerned with audio quality, but I'll list it below as well.

And so far I'm enjoying the processes. It's really fun to see old videos and to learn a bit about video formats and encoding. I'm an amateur when it comes to these kinds of things so I'm learning as I go along. Each tape I make the picture clearer and the file size smaller!

Recording

  • Sony Handycam (DCR-TRV27)
  • Various DV 60/90 cassette tapes
  • Seemingly ran in standard recording mode (tapes are 60 minutes)

VCR

* I have ordered a A/V to RCA cable which is the manufacturer's recommended connection, but unsure about the effects on quality

Software

  • OBS for recording the VCR feed
    • Downscale Filter: Bicubic (Sharpened scaling, 16 samples)
    • Deinterlace - Linear 2x
    • 720x540 @ 29.97 FPS (NTSC) (upscaled from 720x480)
    • "Indistinguishable Quality, Large File Size"
      • .mkv format with H.264 encoder
    • Audio Encoder AAC
    • Audio 48khz steroe
  • Handbrake for re-encoding
    • 720x480 @ 29.97 FPS
    • H.264 (x264) MKV format
    • No additional deinterlacing
    • "Constant Quality" set to 20
    • Audio Encoder AAC
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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by notnotmike to c/[email protected]
 

I got an Elgato capture card and a VCR off of EBay and have already digitized three tapes I've found at garage sales.

Any advice for cleaning up the image and audio? I recall there were VCR cleaners but never was confident of their efficacy.

 
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