elDalvini

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"I will give you money if you vote for me"

Is different from

"I will give everyone money if I win"

The first is paying someone to vote and is outlawed by the law you cited. The second has a disconnect between the money and the vote. Everyone gets the money, even those that voted for the other guy. Thus it might be legal.

That's new information for me, and a quick web search doesn't bring up anything to that end (other than him being Christian, and I don't find that problematic on its own). What did I miss?

Edit: Nevermind, I just found his blog. I mean, everything related to politics and religion is from more than 10 years ago, but... yikes. That's a shame, I really like his videos.

A round sing with a red circle around a symbol typically means the thing in the circle is prohibited. The red circle around a car icon means "no motor vehicles". Speed limit signs are the exception.

on Carenheit · c/memes · 1 pts · 52d

I've always seen Kelvin used to describe differences in temperature, since Kelvin has a real zero point and the steps are the same as Celsius. Or people just use °C because they don't know or care that it's technically wrong.

The dot commonly marks pin 1 of a part, whatever that means for a capacitor. I have never seen a polarised capacitor that is smaller than a microfarad. When choosing a replacement, I would go with an unpolarized capacitor. Even if the original was polarized, an unpolarized one will work.

I can't tell you what's wrong, but these shorted pads aren't it. They are added to the traces for extra thermal mass, a bit more or less solder doesn't hurt. If you look closely, all of the shorted pads are on the same trace of the PCB, so they would be connected anyways.

on A wish · c/comicstrips · 45 pts · 272d

A guy walk into a bar and pulls out a scale model of a grand piano, as well as a wooden puppet. The puppet immediately animates and starts playing the piano.

After a perfect performance of Mozart's piano sonata No.11, the puppet gets up, bows to the audience and falls lifeless to the ground. Everyone is astounded.

The bartender asks the guy: "That was great! If you don't mind me asking, where did you get a puppet like this?"

The guy hands him an old golden oil lamp. "You see, I found this lamp. If you rub it and say what you want, a genie pops out and grants the wish. Give it a try, if you want!"

The bartender is sceptical, but tries anyway. "I wish for a million bucks!" Immediately the bar is filled with a giant flock of ducks. On the tables, on the bar, on the ground, ducks are everywhere.

"What the fuck?! That's not what I asked for!"

The guy chuckles. "O yeah, the genie is hard of hearing. Did you really think I asked for an eight inch pianist?"

Windows has that button, but only if you right-click the drive in file explorer and select "eject". The dialog is very similar, but has the option to continue anyways. That option doesn't appear when ejecting from the taskbar.

Which is weird, because it means that Microsoft went out of their way to make two different, almost identical dialogs. And they made the better one harder to reach.

on Autograding tool · c/selfhosted · 5 pts · 326d

My university used Artemis to do basically what you're describing. Files are uploaded via git. But it seems like selfhosting would be a lot of work.

Hard to tell, a couple of the other components also look dirty. Are they just dusty, or is there some residue from a blown-up part?

What device are we looking at? I'm guessing some kind of power supply? What is the failure mode You're trying to fix?

I've been very happy with my Feedback Sports Pro Mechanic repair stand. It's not the cheapest, but we'll worth it. Very stable and the ratcheting clamp makes adjusting for different tube sizes very easy.