CombatWombatEsq
@CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you have to deal with this during your morning commute? 20 hours ago:
The old dude driving slow in the morning probably doesn’t want himself to be driving at rush hour, either. Maybe if we had some kind of system where professionals planned and implemented a ride sharing systems, perhaps with planned routes and really big cars that lots of people could sit in? Maybe we even put it on rails so it uses less energy while moving?
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 4 days ago:
Incorrect. 5.25” floppies are peak tactile. Giving them a little wooble before inserting into the A: drive was the best feeling in computing.
- Comment on Is ice heavier than water? 5 days ago:
It’s an old riddle that only works with imperial units. In traditional British fashion, the imperial weights and measures had two pounds in it, and you had to choose the right pound for the right thing you were weighing. The troy pound was used to measure metals and only has 12 ounces, whereas the pound used to measure feathers had 16, so a pound of feathers was 4 ounces heavier than a pound of lead or gold or whatever.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 6 days ago:
Pretending they’re well travelled by bragging about how many states they’ve visited.
- Comment on Bicycles should be allowed on the road with the full rights and requirements (tags, inspections, and insurance) as motor vehicles. 1 week ago:
You should take your bicycle down for a smog check sometime. I think you’ll find it’s less useful than you expect.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing? 1 week ago:
A lot of foss projects don’t make sense as a torrent download. For instance, most of my foss projects are libraries that people who write websites use to compile and bundle the JavaScript they ship for their website. It wouldn’t make a lot of sense to distribute this via torrent, since torrents don’t have a lot of the features you would want, like checking for new versions of the software. Because the majority of foss projects wouldn’t make sense to distribute via torrent, the developers on projects that would make sense to distribute via torrent are more likely to vend it via methods that there is more infrastructure for (like a package manager), or is easier to set up and maintain (like direct downloads). I think if you were interested in changing this part of foss culture, your best bet would be to create and publish a GitHub action that would package and upload a distributable to a torrent provider.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Honestly it rules and I love it. Crosspost from pixelfed and loops and mastodon and anything that interops via activitypub. My number one complaint about fedi is the lack of content, so c’mon in, the water’s fine.
- Comment on What are the currently confirmed features for Lemmy V1.0? 2 weeks ago:
Probably the best place to look is the v1 milestone for the project on GitHub: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/milestone/24
I didn’t really look very carefully so sorry if it’s all inscrutable technobabble.
- Comment on When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child 2 weeks ago:
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face with an outrageous credit card bill and a bunch of random crap.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s just one star past Kolob. Can’t miss it.
- Comment on relationship 3 months ago:
Once you get to an 88 person polycule, I start to wonder about upper limits. Could all of humanity just be one big polycule? That actually might… be awesome?
- Comment on Pet rent 3 months ago:
We need UBI for pets
- Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot) 3 months ago:
Oh, I guess ha ha you really owned me by pretending to care about sports so you can clown on me about etymology or whatever. I’m just super upset that I got to talk about my favorite sport in the context of its entrance into the English language and its place in 19th century British class structure on the internet.
- Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot) 3 months ago:
Right. You want to use the word football exclusively to refer to soccer because your goal is to be exclusionary. You don’t want those stupid Americans to talk about your favorite sport. But I really want to talk about soccer with y’all a lot, and it’s really frustrating that you are willing to discard this rich history and culture associated with the word soccer in favor of the word that British aristocrats used to distinguish themselves from working class soccer fans, and I find it very sad what you’re willing to sacrifice just to keep me out of the conversation.
- Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot) 3 months ago:
I have talked about the Sounders when I was supposed to be talking Seahawks and vice versa more times than I can count, so I’m not sure where you’re getting this “it’s not confusing” business from. It’s very confusing and I see it confuse people constantly.
- Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot) 3 months ago:
Maybe in terms of active vocabulary, but in terms of passive vocabulary ~100% of English speakers will recognize the ambiguity
- Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot) 3 months ago:
If football refers to a single, specific, concrete sport, why do we use it to refer to Canadian rules football AND Gaelic rules football AND American football AND association football?
- Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot) 3 months ago:
How certain are you about that? Looks to me like the term football is about 150 years old, and when it was introduced, gridiron and soccer were still the same sport: books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=football&ye…
- Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot) 3 months ago:
I feel like you’re starting to understand why saying soccer should be called football, a term denoting a game played on foot, is needlessly confusing and underspecified, whereas soccer, which is very specific and unambiguous, is the much superior term.
- Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot) 3 months ago:
I feel like you think that’s some kind of crazy own, but manifestly yes, that is correct. I don’t chat politics much, so that one doesn’t bother me as much, but I do talk a lot of soccer…
- Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot) 3 months ago:
But you could, and it would certainly be less confusing than insisting on using the overloaded term “football.” Soccer is a grand old European term.
- Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot) 3 months ago:
Great! Let’s just use “football” as an umbrella term for all games played on foot, like soccer, rugby, and gridiron. I’ll call “American football” and you’ll call “European football” soccer and no-one will be confused.
- Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot) 3 months ago:
If you called it soccer instead you wouldn’t have to clarify
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 3 months ago:
I don’t feel there are too many games, because I can simply buy fewer games, but I do miss the feeling that there are games that everyone is buying and we’re all playing at the same time. I felt like everyone I knew was playing BG3 and we were all talking about it all the time. I don’t want to only play those kinds of big, blockbuster games, but I do want a few of them per year.
- Comment on What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am? 3 months ago:
Plus you get to be one of the letters in the acronym! Lots of people disagree on which letters to use, but everyone puts a b for bisexual in there.
- Comment on Longest comment chain! 3 months ago:
Challenge
- Comment on Longest comment chain! 3 months ago:
R
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 1 year ago:
The thing I dislike the most is that my bot got banned. I made a bot to post carefully categorized articles into their proper communities, but it was banned without warning or explanation. All the communities I was modding dried up shortly thereafter because I didn’t manually post in them instead.