sheridan
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- Submitted 2 days ago to [deleted] | 2 comments
- Comment on We need an alternative to YouTube that's NOT destined to be shut down quickly unlike sites like Blip, Metacafe, VIdMe, Zippcast or Storyfire. And it's NOT PeerTube. 6 days ago:
I’m out of the loop. What’s wrong with PeerTube?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Based on the latest image, Ebenezer Scrooge.
- Comment on Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab 1 week ago:
It seems intuitive but also 2000 years ago people thought that for example the eye emitting some sort of substance that interacts with the surrounding environment to be an intuitive explanation for how vision works, so intuitions need to be tested.
- Comment on Take the L 🐟 1 week ago:
L is silent: youtube.com/watch?v=P9x0o-qOCcM
- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 12 comments
- Comment on rules of the pirate code 3 weeks ago:
Looks like he has some spare ribs.
- 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 weeks ago:
For similar reasons, I feel like Gameboy Advanced cartridges were the optimal size for handheld consoles. Switch cartridges are so tiny and fragile.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure. It was about the “turbo” button on 80s PCs, and how its function could be confusing to users depending on how it was wired. You look at the talk page and edit history there’s still a lot of arguments about this.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 4 weeks ago:
I once posted a Wikipedia article to r/TodayILearned, and my post went really popular. Someone a few hours later then edited the Wikipedia page to contradict my Reddit post title, reported my post to the subreddit mods, and my post got taken down.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen someone get so worked up about the 18th century opera composer Christoph Willibald Gluck.
- Comment on They look like little angels. But they really like biting the ankles of strangers 1 month ago:
As a kid, my family had up to 15 chihuahuas at one point. Watching them stampede as a herd across the backyard everyday was a quite majestic sight to behold.
- Submitted 1 month ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 186 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 115 comments
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 2 months ago:
hunter2
- Comment on It's all relative 2 months ago:
Walter White probably had the chemistry knowledge to make an amazing cheesecake.
- Comment on Energy drinks 2 months ago:
Why is it glowing? 😳
- Comment on Data hoarders and encryption enthusiasts are the digital equivalent to doomsday preppers 2 months ago:
Finally, I can ditch Encarta '97.
- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 2 months ago:
Until I was like 23 I didn’t know how to cut and peel an avocado. I would peel the skin off in chunks with my fingers like it was a giant boiled egg. It was a very laborious and frustrating process.
- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 2 months ago:
I don’t understand how drivers know if they have enough time to go through a yellow light. I don’t drive anymore but for the short time I did I dreaded yellow lights.
- Comment on Pow-- 2 months ago:
- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 2 months ago:
Thanks! I’ve been collecting old computer books from resell shops. I’ll look for it.
- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 2 months ago:
Thanks! I’ve heard of FPGAs in the retro gaming space. Cool stuff.
- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 2 months ago:
Ah sorry I was asleep. Just now reading all the responses.
- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 2 months ago:
See my reply to jcubed above
- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 2 months ago:
“But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone” by J Clark Scott. It’s a short self published book aimed at laypersons written in a very simple, sort of conversational style. Through the whole book he guides you to building a functioning computer that does some bitwise operations. I built most of the computer in a simulator program called Logism (cburch.com/logisim/).
I’d recommend it if you’re looking for an easy introduction to the topic. It was a fun read for me. Get the print version; some of the diagrams in the Kindle version are badly compressed.
- Submitted 2 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 24 comments
- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 2 months ago:
9
- Comment on The SJW squad has now ordered Hooters to hire men (not just women) 3 months ago:
“SJW”? Is this 2015?
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59] 3 months ago:
I really hate the collection cases some of the Blu-ray releases come in. I recently got the complete Blu-ray collection of Star Trek: Enterprise. All the discs are crammed in really tight in one single large plastic case; it feels like you’re going to risk breaking them just trying to get any of them out. The table of contents is printed on the inside of the case behind several discs so you have to take those discs out just to see the list.
