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- Comment on The metric counterpart to mouse DPI would likely be cm⁻¹. 5 days ago:
You don’t have to keep the measurement that way up - for example car fuel economy in europe is measured in litres/100km which is flipped compared to miles/gallon, and arguably easier to compare.
So 400 dpi = pixel size 63 micrometre for example.
- Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico 2 weeks ago:
The name itself can’t really change in OSM because it’s based on what someone “on the ground” would see, i.e. street signs, etc.
Previous OSM naming conflicts have usually been areas of disputed land where some group de-facto controls the land and therefore the street signs, and their name is used.
That’s not going to work very well for a region of mostly international waters with several countries putting up their own signs to it.
- Comment on You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 3 weeks ago:
“I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet”, allegedly - Andreessen
- Comment on FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat 2 months ago:
Is 🍌 also the safeword, or do I have to remember two words?
- Comment on Is the UK shut down during easter? 2 months ago:
Watch out that shops (e.g. supermarkets) who run limited hours on other bank holidays will actually be shut on Easter Sunday.
- Comment on circuits 2 months ago:
“Now we just need you to calculate equivalent resistance between the points a “knight’s move” apart on an infinite grid of 1Ω resistors…”
- Comment on Even better than a cart of apples 3 months ago:
And the weights are like a bigger version of the weight-hangers from science classes.
- Comment on On bugs... 3 months ago:
Project managers // ER doctors: “Looking at a room full of people coding”
- Comment on Know thy enemy 3 months ago:
hyphen became a plus? Dalí didn’t have a spare engine because their working spare engine wasn’t purged of fuel that wouldn’t be legal to burn in US coastal waters.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 3 months ago:
And destroyed the Baltimore bridge because their backup engines were split between legal fuel and international+waters fuel.
- Comment on What websites still feel like the old internet? 4 months ago:
jwz.org/blog, for obvious reasons.
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 5 months ago:
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 5 months ago:
Don’t you need at least BGP and AS numbers (or equivalent) for it to be an "inter"net?
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 5 months ago:
re #7, I hope they are also saying no ‘secret questions’ to reset the password?
- Comment on Smh 5 months ago:
Firefighter, cook, medic, manager, air traffic controller, pilot, driver, heavy equipment operator…
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 5 months ago:
Make sure to choose lamp fittings that don’t trap the heat.
- Comment on When lemmy.zip was announced, a few people were concerned about the .zip, as it could create security issues. Has it been the case so far? Has anyone ever been blocked by a work firewall due to .zip? 5 months ago:
Software that creates hyperlinks whenever it finds text that might be a URL, combined with ubiquitous use of .zip extension for compressed files.
- Comment on Polar Bear Dens 5 months ago:
In human igloos, the low spots would be for collecting the coldest air.
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- Comment on When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work? 5 months ago:
That’s not an EV issue that’s a modern car issue. One of the worst privacy risks was Buick which didn’t even make EVs.
- Comment on I'll have a Number 9, a Number 9 large, a Number 6 with extra dip, two Number 45's, one with cheese, and a large soda. 6 months ago:
Might be in an American suburb - their roads can be ridiculously oversized for the posted speed limit.
- Comment on Somewhere, in the contiguous US, a woman in her mid 30s loses her fucking mind 6 months ago:
Shapez2 just released?
- Comment on Private voting has been added to PieFed 6 months ago:
Wouldn’t banning the voting half of the pseudonymous account not fix the immediate issue, or is it necessary to ban the associated commenting account without assistance from their instance admin?
- Comment on Appropriate 6 months ago:
But there will be more heatwaves than oil companies?
- Comment on Colorblindness check! 6 months ago:
that was used exactly once
Similar to how it had every Japanese village name, including some which never existed
- Comment on Guess I'll km/s 6 months ago:
Saw a video using mHz recently and it took way too long to realise the readout was correct and nort a misspelling of MHz …
- Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ 6 months ago:
unfortunately their style guide results in this headline.
- Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ 6 months ago:
Yeah, not sure the UK Labour party are going to be receptive to a free speech argument after his comments inciting the recent riots.
- Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ 6 months ago:
Also in the news today, Politicians and public should consider quitting X, says Liverpool mayor
“The time is approaching where we’ve got to all examine whether we should, en masse, withdraw from it and for there to be a different platform”
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