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▲ 5 r/boston

What karaoke bar should I go to next?

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u/bariumbitmap — 26 days ago
▲ 4 r/geoguessr

What are your favorite mnemonics for flags?

I especially have trouble with flags that look similar, so here are some of mine:

Bulgaria vs Hungary:

  • Bulgaria: green stripe in middle is like grass or hay, "bulging" like a well-fed horse

  • Hungary: white strip in middle is empty, so it's "hungry"

Norway vs Iceland:

  • Norway: blue cross is like the water of narrow fjords between the land

  • Iceland: blue background is like ocean surrounding the island

Slovakia vs. Slovenia:

  • Slovakia: Slavic cross looks like a key, "slow-vah-KEY-ah"

  • Slovenia: blue rivers across mountain are like veins, "slow-VEIN-ee-ah"

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u/bariumbitmap — 1 month ago
▲ 3.1k r/lordoftherings+2 crossposts

I made a graph of the adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring

This is a graph of direct connections between the book and movie adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring, including dialog and visual descriptions. To make it I went through the movie (extended version of course) and book together, looking for text or visuals that showed up in both. I also used an ebook version of the book to provide full-text search and some websites by LOTR fans that had transcribed the movie. This isn't a fully exhaustive list, but I tried to include at least one entry per page so there wouldn't be gaps in the graph. You can check out the GitHub repo for details. There's also an interactive version of the graph here:

<https://bariumbitmap.github.io/lotr-adaptation-graphs/>

The resulting graph shows what a remarkably faithful adaptation the movie is, and how it manages to distill a book with over 187,000 words into while still keeping the vast majority of the story. Yes, Tom Bombadil was cut and Glorfindel replaced with Arwen but these are relatively minor changes for a book of this length. For comparison, the audiobook version of Fellowship is 22.5 hours long (the longest in the trilogy), whereas the credits roll in the movie at less than 3.5 hours, which is nearly seven times shorter. And the movie contains most of "The Departure of Boromir", which is the first chapter of the book version of The Two Towers! It's a remarkable feat of adaptation for a book that was long considered impossible to make into a live-action film.

u/bariumbitmap — 1 month ago
▲ 2 r/fixit

Thank you! Successful repair follow-up

This is a follow-up to my post from last year about repairing a lamp with some broken specialized screws. I eventually decided to go to a local makerspace and take some machining classes. After some time with the lathe, a drill press, and tapping station I was able to make some stainless steel replacements re-use the old set set screws from the old broken parts. Special thanks to u/iKorzo for suggesting using M3 thread adapters from McMaster-Carr, this saved a ton of labor and expense.

A few of my takeaways:

  • Figuring out what existing parts can be adapted for a repair is a doggone superpower, if you are a mere mortal like me find someone like u/iKorzo who can advise you on this. My machine shop teachers at the makerspace were also super helpful.

  • Taking time to make and print out a good CAD drawing is incredibly helpful for getting advice from other people and keeping track of things in the machine shop.

  • Always use "tap magic" (cutting fluid) and a tapping station for tapping stainless steel, it's very easy to break a tap when free-handing. Thankfully this only happened to me once.

  • Tiny little pieces like set screws are very easy to lose, thankfully this did not happen but I had some close calls. Always put them back into the original part or somewhere they won't get lost.

  • Always double check the drill size for cutting threads, on my second go-round I forgot that M3 threads need a 2.5 mm hole not a 3.0 mm hole. I actually got it wrong again because I looked at the thread form tap size (~65% thread) and made a too-big hole a second time. I got it right the third time. The nice thing about the hex thread adapters is they have six sides so you get six tries.

u/bariumbitmap — 2 months ago
▲ 4 r/AnimeReccomendations

Looking for sincerity and interwoven stories

  • Anime I'm currently watching:

    • Mushishi
    • The Apothecary Diaries

  • Anime that's already on my list to watch:

    • Monster
    • Delicious Dungeon
    • Spice and Wolf

  • Anime I liked:

    • Silver Spoon
    • Fullmetal Alchemist
    • Cowboy Bebop
    • Ghost in the Shell
    • Fairy Tail (I watched up to episode 48 then stopped, I don't remember why)
    • Avatar: the Last Airbender (I guess this is anime?)

  • Anime I had mixed feelings about:

    • Deathnote (no spoilers but episode 26 wrecked me)
    • Code Geass (cool concept but I stopped watching after episode 22, I don't remember why)
    • Neon Genesis Evangelion (gloriously weird but also yikes a lot)
    • Sword Art Online (good plot and premise, beautiful artwork, not a fan of the Suguha/Kazuto thing)
    • Attack On Titan (I liked the plot and big reveal about titans but not a fan of the militarism or the animation style)
    • My Hero Academia (I like the concept but couldn't get into it)
    • Demon Slayer (Another one where I watched a few episodes but it didn't pull me in)

  • Anime I just straight up didn't like:

    • Cyberpunk Edgerunner

  • Anime I have avoided starting because of how terrifyingly long they are:

    • Dragon Ball / Dragon Ball Z (I did watch the first season of Dragon Ball because I wanted to understand at least some of the references)
    • Bleach (366 episodes)
    • Naruto (500 episodes)
    • One Piece (1,160 episodes)
    • Pokemon (1,370 episodes)

Some things I'm looking for (doesn't have to include all of these):

  • Sincerity (I love how sincere Silver Spoon is)

  • Interwoven stories with setup and payoff later in the series (I love this about Fullmetal Alchemist)

  • Non-violent problem-solving (one of the reasons I like Mushishi)

  • Outdoor settings and animation that shows the beauty of the natural world (doesn't have to be Studio Ghibli level animation though)

  • Great music (holy cow that intro song to Cowboy Bebop!)

  • A series that is relatively short and sweet or has a good stopping point

Things I want to avoid:

  • Abuse (all kinds). I liked how weird Neon Genesis Evangelion was but all the stuff that happened to Asuka was seriously messed up.

  • Unlikeable characters (I didn't like any of the characters in Cyberpunk Edgerunner but that's probably just a me thing)

  • Stories where a secret evil conspiracy is behind everything (this was my main issue with Attack on Titan)

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u/bariumbitmap — 2 months ago
▲ 8 r/Animesuggest

Looking for sincerity and interwoven stories

  • Anime I'm currently watching:

    • Mushishi
    • The Apothecary Diaries

  • Anime that's already on my list to watch:

    • Monster
    • Delicious Dungeon
    • Spice and Wolf

  • Anime I liked:

    • Silver Spoon
    • Fullmetal Alchemist
    • Cowboy Bebop
    • Ghost in the Shell
    • Fairy Tail (I watched up to episode 48 then stopped, I don't remember why)
    • Avatar: the Last Airbender (I guess this is anime?)

  • Anime I had mixed feelings about:

    • Deathnote (no spoilers but episode 26 wrecked me)
    • Code Geass (cool concept but I stopped watching after episode 22, I don't remember why)
    • Neon Genesis Evangelion (gloriously weird but also yikes a lot)
    • Sword Art Online (good plot and premise, beautiful artwork, not a fan of the Suguha/Kazuto thing)
    • Attack On Titan (I liked the plot and big reveal about titans but not a fan of the militarism or the animation style)
    • My Hero Academia (I like the concept but couldn't get into it)
    • Demon Slayer (Another one where I watched a few episodes but it didn't pull me in)

  • Anime I just straight up didn't like:

    • Cyberpunk Edgerunner

  • Anime I have avoided starting because of how terrifyingly long they are:

    • Dragon Ball / Dragon Ball Z (I did watch the first season of Dragon Ball because I wanted to understand at least some of the references)
    • Bleach (366 episodes)
    • Naruto (500 episodes)
    • One Piece (1,160 episodes)
    • Pokemon (1,370 episodes)

Some things I'm looking for (doesn't have to include all of these):

  • Sincerity (I love how sincere Silver Spoon is)

  • Interwoven stories with setup and payoff later in the series (I love this about Fullmetal Alchemist)

  • Non-violent problem-solving (one of the reasons I like Mushishi)

  • Outdoor settings and animation that shows the beauty of the natural world (doesn't have to be Studio Ghibli level animation though)

  • Great music (holy cow that intro song to Cowboy Bebop!)

  • A series that is relatively short and sweet or has a good stopping point

Things I want to avoid:

  • Abuse (all kinds). I liked how weird Neon Genesis Evangelion was but all the stuff that happened to Asuka was seriously messed up.

  • Unlikeable characters (I didn't like any of the characters in Cyberpunk Edgerunner but that's probably just a me thing)

  • Stories where a secret evil conspiracy is behind everything (this was my main issue with Attack on Titan)

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u/bariumbitmap — 2 months ago
▲ 97 r/dataisbeautiful

Data source is the Wikipedia page for each phone, e.g. iPhone 6. Plots were made with pandas, matplotlib, and adjustText, with additional raster images added using InkScape.

Github repo is here:

https://github.com/bariumbitmap/phone-mass-over-time

I included both a plot that doesn't start the y-axis at zero and one that does. More about this topic if you're curious:

Raw data

iPhone:

Name Generation Release date Weight [g]
0 iPhone (1st generation) 1 2007-06-29 135
1 iPhone 3G 2 2008-07-11 133
2 iPhone 3GS 3 2009-06-19 135
3 iPhone 4 4 2010-06-24 137
4 iPhone 4s 5 2011-10-14 140
5 iPhone 5 6 2012-09-21 112
6 iPhone 5s 7 2013-09-20 112
7 iPhone 6 8 2014-09-19 129
8 iPhone 6s 9 2015-09-25 143
9 iPhone 7 10 2016-09-16 138
10 iPhone 8 11 2017-09-22 148
11 iPhone XR 12 2018-10-26 194
12 iPhone 11 13 2019-09-20 194
13 iPhone 12 14 2020-10-23 162
14 iPhone 13 15 2021-09-24 173
15 iPhone 14 16 2022-09-16 172
16 iPhone 15 17 2023-09-22 171
17 iPhone 16 18 2024-09-20 170
18 iPhone 17 19 2025-09-19 177

iPhone Pro:

Name Generation Release date Weight [g]
0 iPhone X 11 2017-11-03 174.1
1 iPhone XS 12 2018-09-21 177
2 iPhone 11 Pro 13 2019-09-20 188
3 iPhone 12 Pro 14 2020-10-23 189
4 iPhone 13 Pro 15 2021-09-24 204
5 iPhone 14 Pro 16 2022-09-16 206
6 iPhone 15 Pro 17 2023-09-22 187
7 iPhone 16 Pro 18 2024-09-20 199
8 iPhone 17 Pro 19 2025-09-19 206

Google flagship:

Name Release date Weight [g]
0 Nexus One 2010-01-05 130
1 Nexus S (AMOLED) 2010-12-16 129
2 Nexus S (LCD) 2010-12-16 140
3 Galaxy Nexus 2011-11-17 135
4 Nexus 4 2012-11-13 139
5 Nexus 5 2013-10-31 130
6 Nexus 5X 2015-10-22 136
7 Pixel 2016-10-20 143
8 Pixel 2 2017-10-19 143
9 Pixel 3 2018-10-09 148
10 Pixel 4 2019-10-24 162
11 Pixel 5 2020-10-15 151
12 Pixel 6 2021-10-28 207
13 Pixel 7 2022-10-13 197
14 Pixel 8 2023-10-12 187
15 Pixel 9 2024-08-22 198
16 Pixel 10 2025-08-28 204

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