dankm
@dankm@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I dunno 5 days ago:
Warning: my music nerd’s about to come out.
I’m in my 40s, and have been playing music since single digits. I still remember the order of lines in the staffs with “Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge”, “FACE”, “Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always”, and “All Cows Eat Grass”. I did teach my kids “Good Burritos Don’t Fall Apart”, though, since they seem to like burritos.
My internal math nerd agrees with the grandparent though, for some reason I just remembered the order of operations and was confused when my kids came home with PEDMAS. But to be fair, I use the order of operations every day at work, so 🤷. I’m also one of those people who will insist on using parentheses everywhere there’s more than two terms, though, so take from that what you will.
- Comment on In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
1982 was 43 years ago…
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
Yup. Nunavut in 1999.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
I was taught that Canada has 10 provinces and two territories. That was proven false before I even graduated high school!
- Comment on Rust 2 months ago:
It’s well over a third by mass…
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 3 months ago:
You mean Star Trek? But where are the suffering people?
On the planets in the Cardassian/Federation neutral zone…
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 3 months ago:
Split the repository? It’s not an unreasonable thing to do.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 3 months ago:
I thought it was named after Lieutenant Broccoli of Star Trek fame.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 3 months ago:
Better than Brussels sprouts. Anything is better than that hell.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 3 months ago:
Mine will tell me the measured pressures of all tires. But only if at least one is low. I haven’t found a way to get it to just tell me the pressure in any tire if it’s not throwing an error at me.
Dear Mazda, you have a full user interface in your vehicle. Why can’t you let me see the tire pressure from just a menu option?
- Comment on egg 4 months ago:
I am now saving this picture, and spreading it as far and wide as I can.
And I will never, never, never translate it into English.
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 4 months ago:
Sometimes you get article transfer as well. The English word “apron” comes from the obsolete “napron”, in turn from Old French “napperon”.
People heard “a napron”, which became “an apron”, which eventually led to the main word being “apron”.
- Comment on Chemistry is weird 5 months ago:
That sounds expensive.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 6 months ago:
I’m tall enough I can’t stand up on any plane I’ve been on in the last several years…
- Comment on Danny DeVito is an absolute unit. 1 year ago:
Wr already have the Smoot.