joel_feila
@joel_feila@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. 5 weeks ago:
Well there is truth in that. Look at politics. Lots of people what a better workd and know what the end result us , but they don’t know how to get that. Or for a simple example. People will reply to survives saying they want dark roasted coffee, but they mostly buy medium roast i the usa.
- Comment on As TikTok ban threatens stability in social media ecosystem, some brands settle into the fediverse 1 month ago:
I don’t quite follow this give Nintendo more power to do that.
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 2 months ago:
To eat, is a verb but taking in the role of a noun.
- Comment on Progress! 2 months ago:
Many peopke do believe the goal of criminal justice system is punishment. So this is great for them, it stream lines the process
- Comment on acceptable screws 2 months ago:
where are they called slotted, I have only ever heard them called flat.
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 3 months ago:
Yeah i have made that argument before. By pushing content via user recommended lists and auto play YouTube becomes a publisher and meeds to be held accountable
- Comment on The later books are really something 3 months ago:
oh same with my dad. He remembered it has paul turned into the worm but no it was his child
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 3 months ago:
shouldn’t emergency switch and latched be colored different.
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 3 months ago:
yes
- Comment on why don't people say mega meters 3 months ago:
Here i learn mega, giga, tera. But show up in computer which is like place you most commonly see them.
- Comment on why don't people say mega meters 3 months ago:
yeah but sadly not enough people know how to read that. sadface.
- Comment on I notice Indians speaking English tend to speak very fast. Are the Indian languages simply spoken faster? 3 months ago:
well correction English has 20 vowels, depending on dialect
- Comment on why don't people say mega meters 3 months ago:
yeah humans do really need a small, inch and cm, a medium, meter and feet, and a big, mile and km.
- Comment on why don't people say mega meters 3 months ago:
that’s a whole 12 Mft
- Comment on why don't people say mega meters 3 months ago:
and the old gauge system for shotguns.
- Comment on why don't people say mega meters 3 months ago:
we do list volcanic eruptions in megatons of TNT. The makers of the first a bomb pick it since the largest explosion ever made by then was a ship full explosives and some had calculated how many tons of TNT that ship was carrying
- Comment on why don't people say mega meters 3 months ago:
oh I’ll have to do that at some time
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- Comment on I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace. 3 months ago:
so would just saying am pm all the time.
- Comment on I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace. 3 months ago:
I’m curious why it got the name digital time.
- Comment on I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace. 3 months ago:
I have almost never heard people use quarter or half to tell time.
- Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense 4 months ago:
on borrowing we can look at nouns borrowed into Spanish. They take the word change any sounds in native language to match Spanish sounds. Then they just slap on a gender ending. Yes it just what ever catches on. Which means we could have lived in world with potata.
- Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense 4 months ago:
Technically so does English, we just stopped using the male gendered pronoun sometime in the Renaissance, Early Modern Period, or Victorian Period, I don’t know when.
around 900 ad.
- Comment on Microsoft's Pricey AI Assistant Copilot Leaves Early Adopters Feeling Cheated 4 months ago:
It will if employeers only want ai code
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 4 months ago:
Possibly but they would have to take chromium and fork it
- Comment on Why do some languages use gendered nouns? 4 months ago:
Side note. The evolves out of this and that. Over time the romance languages just cut the old Latin words up. Most of the time you can sub this or that for the. The other times we use is kund of as a topic marker.
- Comment on Why do some languages use gendered nouns? 4 months ago:
Ok it strange thing that we call them gender. It goes back ancient greek.
Really what Spanish does is put all nouns into 2 groups, the A group and the O group. Then you have rules like el goes on o nouns and la goes on a nouns.
these evolve out of more complex classifier sysyems with many more categories. There is a podcast called lexicon vally that goes over this more details.
- Comment on Bro went wild 4 months ago:
Well that beat any of my school mates.
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 4 months ago:
Yes that was it
- Comment on Get ready — your Google Workspace subscription is about to see an unwelcome price hike 4 months ago:
You can also self host libre or only office via next cloud