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- Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from? 1 year ago:
Yeah. I have no evidence that this system invented those shortcuts, they may predate it by quite a bit
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
When we allow aparthied states to comnit genocidal acts without protest, we signal that other countries should not interfere should our own state turn to aparthied and genocide.
Its either ok for no one or its ok for everyone
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 1 year ago:
Clicked expecting Noodle. It was Noodle.
- Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from? 1 year ago:
In the Speedwriting shorthand system, developed in 1924 for use with typewriter, / Is used to denote omitted sylables, so ‘with’ becomes w/ and ‘without’ becomes w/o. Here is a pretty deep guide on the precepts of Speedwriting:
- Comment on Roots of Mother Appalachia 1 year ago:
Hey! There’s other resources to extract!
But yeah, thats a big pressure away form it and a reason its still daydreams
- Comment on Cockney and Queen's English have all but disappeared among young people – here's what's replaced them 1 year ago:
This is just another study confirming what has been known for years. MLE is the multicultural expansion of cockney. Much of the accent survives, but has been modified by exposure to many cultures. Its been identified as the dominant native london accent foresomething like a decade.
- Comment on Roots of Mother Appalachia 1 year ago:
Mountain bases can support a lot. Everest is not terribly tall from its base, true, but Denali is 5500 meters from base to top and Mauna Kea rises to 10000 meters over base.
Its also a bit of an incorrect picure to think of the interior magma as a liquid. It can flow, but it can also sieze up or crack. Its an in-between, like corn starch and water.
- Comment on Roots of Mother Appalachia 1 year ago:
What we see now are the ancient roots. Before the continental colision, there was a sea and subduction zone. This gave us sandstones, diorite, and granite… All of which were crushed at incredible pressure and temperature by the continental collision. At the deep roots of the mountains, this transformed the rock into gneiss, marble, and other extremely hard rock. Additionally, the forces were so great that the very bottom melted and became fresh granite.
All of these stones are very hard and resistant to erosion, and are what we see todayas the Appalachians
- Comment on Roots of Mother Appalachia 1 year ago:
Its indirectly gravity. The taller the mountain, the more eroding force can be pleced on it. Water travels faster and therefore cuts deeper.
Everest is still uplifting fairly quickly at 1mm a year, but its also eroding at roughly the same pace and won’t get significantly taller than it is now. The same is true for the rest of the Himalaya as well, the whole range is eroding at a very high pace.
The Himalaya are home to some very spectacular canyons, including the largest canyon above water. The geology there is on full display and incredible.
- Comment on Roots of Mother Appalachia 1 year ago:
I have started daydreaming of a career change to geology. There are just so many unanswered questions and its not like space or physics were these questions are tinyor super far away. You can just walk upto a geologic puzzle and hit it with a hammer.
- Comment on Roots of Mother Appalachia 1 year ago:
Ok yeah this was good
- Comment on Roots of Mother Appalachia 1 year ago:
One nit, pangea wasn’t the first supercontinent, we know of at least two, maybe three before it. The stone of the Adirondak mountains was formed as part of the Grenville mountains, which were built by a suprecontinent 1.5 billion years ago (the adirondaks got tall be’ause of a much more recent, unrelated thing, but their stone is very old). The Grenville runs from Hudson Bay to Texas
- Comment on Roots of Mother Appalachia 1 year ago:
Completely unrelated. North and south america wern’t attached when the appalachians were tall. The Andes are formed by an ocean plate (the Nazca plate) dragging as it is sucked under south america. They are tall, and still growing taller.
- Comment on Roots of Mother Appalachia 1 year ago:
This is because thats basically the upper limit for how tall a mountain can be on this planet.
- Comment on Roots of Mother Appalachia 1 year ago:
Small? The Appalachians today are the resting skeleton of a mountain range so tall and enduring that the mud and sand that washed off them piled miles high and formed the Catskill mountains. The Appalachians were so mighty that their garbage formed mountains
- Comment on Google forced to reveal users' search histories in Colorado court ruling 1 year ago:
The entire exeption, and the broader exclusionary rule, is based around the self-evidently incorrect assumption that what happens in court will effect behaviour of investigators.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
I generally use ‘USican’, pronounced yoo-ess-ican. Every seemseto understand me.
- Comment on What non-IDE tekst editor do you use? 1 year ago:
exactly this. If I need to do development, i’ll use a jetbrains product. If i’m in a pure text editing situation, I want the most powerful thing for manipulating text, and I want it to be available.
- Comment on What non-IDE tekst editor do you use? 1 year ago:
Vim can have some IDE-like qualities, if you bolt enough plugins in to it, but by default it affords buttinx text in a file and manipulating it.
I woudn’t classify it as an ide though.
- Comment on What if the Gaza Strip declared independence? 1 year ago:
‘legitimate government’ isn’t really a thing. Many recognized countries are ruled by hereditary governments, or by autocrats who gained power in a coup. The legitimacy of such governments, andthe nationhood of the states, is recognized by other countries based on the foreign policy (mostly self interest) of those other countries. So, if you want to guess who would recognize a Gaza nation with Hamas as the ruling clique, ask yourself what governments would benifit from doing that.
- Comment on Bike Riders of lemmy, you okay with me riding my eScooter in the bike lane? 1 year ago:
Thingsthat go bicycle speed belong in the bike lane. Things that go faster go in the car lane. Things that go slower belong inthe people lane,
- Comment on Safe inside 1 year ago:
For those curious, this is a fireproofing wrap intended to help save the structure in the event of a forest fire.
- Comment on Steal What Is Stolen 1 year ago:
I see this meh-meh come up occasionally, and I’m always amused because designers are constantly looking at the competition and adjusting to suit. Why do you think all sebtites look the same?
- Comment on Advice needed, son wants to learn how to program 1 year ago:
Also, remember Human Resources Machine. Its a puzzle game thats actually a progamming language
- Comment on Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths 1 year ago:
The one wheel works by having the rider lean in a direction to go that way. The more you lean, the faster it goes. It balances by pushing the rider in that direction. The trick is when you are leaning and going very fast, but then the board loses power and can’t push you anymore. Then the board nose dives and ejects you. Its the physics of the board, so they can warn you it might happen, but not prevent it.
- Comment on So Much for ‘Learn to Code’ - In the age of AI, computer science is no longer the safe major. 1 year ago:
Scare pieces like this are created by people who have no actual understanding of software.
Software is the automation of conceptual tasks. Some of these, like taxes or text editing, were fairly procedural and automated early. Others, like identifying birds or deepfaking celebreties, are dificult and were done later.
Creating software is another conceptual task, and it might be possiple to automate it. But once we have automated creating software, automating any other task becomes trivial as well.
If this ever comes to pass, there are no safe majors.
- Comment on Linear code is more readable 1 year ago:
Both styles have advantages and disadvantages. Fully procedural code actually breaks down in readability after a certain length, some poeple suggest 100 or maybe 200 lines, depending on how much is going on in the function.
Blanket maxims tend to to have large spaces where they don’t apply.
Additionally, the place where the code on the left is more likely to cause bugs and maintainability issues is the mutation of the pizza argument in the functions. Argument mutation is important for execution time and memory importance, but is also a strong source of bugs, and should be considered carefully in each situation. We don’t know what the requirements for this code are, but in general we should recomend against universal use of argument mutation (and mutability in general).
- Comment on Good performance is not just big O 1 year ago:
The vast majority of wall time for most uses is io. You need someone on your team to care about big o, but for most teams, its not the problem
- Comment on The End of Airbnb in New York 1 year ago:
99% invisible just did an episode on skyscraper conversion. Its farily complicated.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
A wall of feathers and silk cloths hanging up