Apepollo11
@Apepollo11@lemmy.world
- Comment on When baking, if your oven can't reach the temperature stated in the recipe, do you then just adjust for time? 1 day ago:
100%
“Cooking is art, baking is science”
With very simple recipes, e.g. white bread, you might get away with it.
The more ingredients you add, the more chance something won’t behave quite as it should.
- Comment on Does having to hold down a comment to open a downvote prompt make it less likely for you to downvote? 1 week ago:
Maybe
- Comment on Have you all not notice there are NO communist countries? 1 week ago:
I promise I’m not trying to wind you up, but I’m not sure what the first sentence means - sorry!
As for the second, there’re five countries that identify as communist right now - but I’m sure you’re aware of that, otherwise you wouldn’t have put that caveat in the original question.
- Comment on Have you all not notice there are NO communist countries? 1 week ago:
No it isn’t. There isn’t a difference.
You asked for an example of a “FULL COMMUNIST” country.
I’m saying that no-one can for exactly the reason you can’t name a fully democratic country or a fully capitalistic country.
The truth is people are messy and the world is messier still.
- Comment on Have you all not notice there are NO communist countries? 1 week ago:
There are no anything countries.
Show me a true democracy, a wholly capitalist country, an entirely anything country. There aren’t any.
This is the reality of living in a complicated world - nothing is black and white.
- Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 1 week ago:
That’s fair, but I’m not arguing that it’s a higher-level language. I was trying to illustrate that it’s just to help people code more easily - as all of the other steps were.
If you asked ten programmers to turn a given set of instructions into code, you’d end up with ten different blocks of code. That’s the nature of turning English into code.
The difference is that this is a tool that does it, not a person. You write things in English, it produces code.
FWIW, I enjoy using hex-editors to tinker around with Super Famicom ROMs in my free time - I’m certainly not anti-coding. As OP said, AI is now pretty good at generating code - it’s daft not to use it as a tool.
- Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 1 week ago:
It’s just a greater level of abstraction. First we talked to the computers on their own terms with punch cards.
Then Assembly came along to simplify the process, allowing humans to write readable code while compiling into Machine Code so the computers can run it.
Then we used higher-level languages like C to create the Assembly Code required.
Then we created languages like Python, that were even more human-readable, doing a lot more of the heavy lifting than C.
I understand the concern, but it’s just the latest step in a process that has been playing out since programming became a thing. At every step we give up some control, for the benefit of making our jobs easier.
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 1 week ago:
Maybe closer to the version of Gandhi from the Civilization games than the real one…
The views on him are mixed depending on exactly what lines you think can reasonably be crossed for the sake of protecting America’s interests.
In Kissinger’s tenure as Secretary of State, there were very few lines that he considered uncrossable - extending into tacit endorsement of actions that are accurately classed as war crimes.
The carpet-bombing of Cambodia, the peacetime kidnapping and murder of a Chilean general, actual military support for a genocide campaign in what is now Bangladesh - all this and more.
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 2 weeks ago:
GMT
We’ve done it before and we’ll do it again.
/s obv
- Comment on Am I cognitively performing less than I could've been if I hadn't drunk alcohol at that age? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if this helps at all, but …
It’s impossible to meaningfully compare the actual you to an imaginary version of yourself.
The only meaningful thing you can do is reflect on whether, with the resources available to you, you can be better at the things you want to be better at.
- Comment on To refer casually to briefs-style men's underwear, is it Tidy Whities or Tighty Whities? 4 weeks ago:
No, I can see why some Americans might confuse them, with a “baddle of wadder” accent.
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 1 month ago:
Bum science, specifically.
- Comment on Deportation? There's an app for that. 1 month ago:
100% trap. As soon as someone self-reports, ICE will be over there kicking their doors in.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 month ago:
Fun fact - I was 23 and studying for my MSc before I learned how to read analogue clocks.
If you’re after speed, all I can suggest is that you’ve got to embrace the old-people habit of using the nearest 5 minute mark and accept that level of accuracy.
- “Quarter past”
- “It’s just gone quarter-past”
- “It’s nearly twenty-past”
- “Twenty past”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Not weird at all! The fact that you both live together is even a bonus - you effectively halve the taxi fare on the way home :)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Happiness is literally the result of chemical reactions in the brain. If you’re feeling happy, it’s real.
You’re running into problems because you’re conflating the feeling of happiness with the things that make you feel happy.
There’s no such thing as “true happiness” or “false happiness”.
The things that make people happy rarely have objective value, and everything with some kind of cost, even if it’s just time.
The happiness drug users feel is real, but the cost (money/time/health) can be significant. The happiness that you feel from playing games or reading is real, and the cost (money/time) is less, but still there.
Happiness is always real - just be mindful of the cost!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sorry if you felt I was trying to put words in your mouth, that wasn’t what I meant. I mentioned Disneyland etc by way of contrast - to illustrate Neuschwanstein was built as real palace. It’s not very old compared to others, but it’s still real.
To provide some context, I’m British and as I’m sure you’ll know, there are castles, palaces and fortifications in abundance here. But despite that, we have nothing even nearly as pretty as Neuschwanstein.
You said it sucks and it doesn’t have much history. I think that, even despite the fact that it’s not very old, it’s beautiful in a way that very few other places are and well worth visiting.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
With all due respect, I think you’re being a little harsh on Neuschwanstein!
It was a real palace built for a real king to use. Admittedly he died before it was completed, so it never actually got used, but it’s not like the Disneyland castle which is just a fiberglass facade.
It looks amazing, both inside and out, and is the closest thing to a real life fairytale castle that exists - because, as you said, that’s specifically the look the king wanted. It wasn’t built as a cynical tourist trap, it was built as a dream palace for a king.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
FWIW, in fairy tales the mother is the bad parent more often than not.
- Comment on How does one join a terror group? Like example ISIS , do people go to a secret website sign up and get provided flags, bomb parts, or whatever? Or is it just a person saying what they did was for ISIS 2 months ago:
If the last few weeks in the UK are anything to go by, simply holding a sign is enough to be deemed part of a terrorist organisation.
(For clarification, this is in reference to the recent protests about the highly controversial proscription of Palestine Action, and the ridiculous position the police have been put in as a result)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Is The System Quietly Phasing You Out?
The Functional Melancholic
There - it was that simple. Literally the minimum you needed to provide.
Now people can make an informed decision.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
But what’s the title of the video? Who is it by?
Remember, you’re largely talking to strangers here - it’s not the same as sending a link to someone who knows you and saying “watch this, it’s interesting!”. You need to give people enough information to decide whether they’ll be interested before clicking on it.
For example, for all know it could be a video of that insufferable Kirk guy who’s been popping up in my feed recently. The last thing I want is the algorithm thinking I like clicking on links of him!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
YSK that you might get more bites if you actually tell people where the link goes - include the name of the video at the very least.
In this day and age, people are pretty well conditioned against clicking on random links.
- Comment on Is it worth selling on eBay in 2025? 2 months ago:
I’ve sold a fair few things on eBay. It’s much easier now than it used to be - and if you ship with Evri, you don’t even have to go through the faff of going to the post office.
There was a period, ten-fifteen years ago, when there were so many rules that it really wasn’t any fun to sell on there. It’s much more streamlined now.
My experience nowadays is mostly from selling Transformers toys. Can’t really fault it.
- Comment on Why is the colour of sunlight different in every country? 2 months ago:
In addition to the answers given, we also have the phenomenon of the “Mexican Filter”. Films and TV programmes featuring scenes in Central America and South East Asia often use extremely yellow / sepia colour grading.
While mostly employed as visual shorthand to show that the scenes are now somewhere other than Europe / North America, it’s so prevalent that people think the countries actually look like that.
- Comment on The UN demands censorship of the Internet, "we need to take global action" 2 months ago:
I’ve maintained for years that Web 2.0 has done more harm to humanity than any other single human invention.
- Comment on [Poll] What social media platforms do you know about? 2 months ago:
Lemmy
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts? 2 months ago:
There was a guy with an awfully similar name to you, asking awfully similar questions.
I’m not trying to out you if you’re actually the same guy trying to get around a ban, but if you are, why pick such a similar name? It’s bordering on suspicious - picking an explicitly religious name then posting about prostitutes.
If this is coincidence, and you’re a completely different guy with a similar name posting about a similar topic within the space of a week, I apologise - and I don’t want to freak you out too much, but you may have a doppelganger.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Very much this.
Remember, it’s an “ectomy” - they remove a beansprout-sized chunk of your vas deferens. You will be left missing a fairly big piece of the plumbing - it’s not just a simple connect/disconnect thing.
If you do choose to have it done and you’re the curious type, they’ll actually let you watch if you ask.
Also, stock up on ibuprofen!
- Comment on Texas Schools Add Attack Drones To Protect Students 2 months ago:
“The high-tech drones, which are piloted by a team of former military men and nationally ranked professional drone racers”
Given that these are being controlled from a remote site, I’m surprised there’s so little latency involved with that they can accurately fly at 100mph.
(I’m guessing they’re not straight-up using RF to control them given the need for the tiny drones to broadcast video over large distances - I assume they’re relying on internet + WiFi.)
Also this quote from the CEO:
“It costs about $1,000 per month for a school of 500 students, or roughly $4 per student”
Does not instill confidence.
“What’s $1000 / 500? … $4?”