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Ep 45 & 46: Xbox Underground

Ep 92: The Pirate Bay

Both are fantastic.

Steven Seagal fatly going around corners.

Noted!

Aaaand thats going on my To Listen list.

Kind of hungering for new podcasts right now, and this sounds like one I didn’t know I needed.

Thanks!

Well written.

I think an important concept to introduce is Pulse Width Modulation, or PWM for short.

Normal AC Power coming out of wall looks like a sine wave, in that it smoothly cycles between +110/240V and -110/240V. This means that 50% of the time the voltage is positive and 50% of the time the voltage is negative.

PWM usually deals with signals which are either entirely on or off, with no transiton between them. This way, you can vary the amount of “power” delivered by varying how much of the time the signal is on and how much of the time it’s off.

Dimmers usually modify the sine way in a way that tries to accomplish the same thing, by chopping up the signal to make the effective “on” time be shorter than 50%.

With non-dimmable LEDs, this messes with the AC to DC circuitry in the lamp in the way slazer2au says, because the lamp doesn’t retain enough power between two on-cycles to stay on.

It is. I still wish it “Politics” would default to WorldPolitics" and USPolitics was it’s own thing, instead of the other version where Politics and News is US stuff and the general topics need the “World” prefix.

What’s left ain’t right.

OP asked for uses other than gsming.

This is the right answer, in my opinion.

If you are of the pants with pockets wearing disposition, then whichever side of the phone faces down will inevitably end up filled with dust and lint. Having both ports on the same side makes this a trivial problem.

I get you, but don’t worry. There is plenty of thing happening before the end.

I highly recommend the series!

The first book, Hyperion, is written in the same style as The Canterbury Tales, featuring an ensemble of protagonists on a pilgrimage to a holy site known as the Time Tombs. On the journey, they each take turns telling the tale of why they were chosen for the pilgrimage.

Interesting! That sounds like it could have inspired The Shrike from Dan Simmons Hyperion series.

Eggs.

We can do better than that. What about dual wielding guitars?

As is Denmark, but with even fewer rifles, owing to a noticeable lack of big game.

I think it’s important to mention that, like with medical products, we don’t generally get adverts for firearms. I want to say it’s illegal, but I’m not actually sure. Regardless, the lack of advertising for weapons contributes to the absence of firearms and related items in the public consciousness. You don’t really get people over here standing around talking about guns the same way they’d talk about sports cars or tools. Guns are very much a serious topic reserved for law enforcement and military matters.

Wow, thanks for the reply!

That makes a lot of sense. I was trying to work out why a sink immediately next to a corner was bad, but now I know what you mean.

I guess it’s a bad solution to trying to work around the problem of kitchen real estate, the same way trying to use for cabinet in the corner unit for anything is almost always a bad time.

Ok, I’m super curious. By “In the corner” do you mean putting a sink on the actual corner unit? Or by the tablespace immediately next to it?

In the case of the first one I totally get it. The corner unit is a cursed part of the kitchen anyway. If you mean immediately next to it, why not? Not disagreeing, just curious what a professional says.

Genetics, or generics?

Generic Bulk Fiber night be fine, Genetic Bulk Fiber sounds scary.

Awkward stock photo panning shot

The Room is fantastic, but it’s so bad.

I fell into a rabbit hole of watching bad movies some years ago, starting with the room. I sat through The Room, Sharknado, Rubber, Attack of the Killer Tomato, Birdemic, and then found all of Syfy’s weird “Giant X vs. Mega Y” movies.

The Room is fantastic at being a terrible movie. It’s bad, but it’s also immensely enjoyable. It has terrible humor that doesn’t work, no acting of any kind, weird pictures of spoons, actors getting swapped out half way through. It shouldn’t work, but somehow it does.

I quickly realised that while The Room is terrible, there are far worse films out there. Some are hilariously bad, some are cringely bad, and some are just straight up bad.