lemmyng
@lemmyng@lemmy.ca
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 days ago:
There’s a novella that toys with the concept of an endless, flat world app.thestorygraph.com/…/a6f9dcca-1b82-45dd-ba41-7…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“It is [verb]ing” (as in “it is raining”) can be reinterpreted as “[noun] is happening” (“rain is happening”).
- Comment on Lotions, perfumes curb potentially harmful effects of human oxidation field, study finds 3 weeks ago:
This feels like a thinly veiled skincare ad…
- Comment on HDDs: How loud is *too* loud? 4 weeks ago:
Knocking is usually reads (from the header seeking), brrr is heavy writes.
- Comment on Funny how we see the world in landscape, but live it mostly in portrait. 4 weeks ago:
Open a picture on your cell phone. Any portrait picture. Now look at it. Do your eyes focus on the whole picture? No, you focus on a portion of it at a time. It doesn’t matter that the orientation is vertical, the frame of your focus is the same no matter what you look at.
- Comment on Don't do Caffeine and Complex Analysis, kids 4 weeks ago:
For the uninitiated: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
They’re a forum where members participate in group trolling, stalking, doxxing, and harassment of their targets.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 1 month ago:
Do you know the main function of freshmen courses? It’s to make sure that every student has the same base knowledge before going into sophomore level courses. It’s giving the students from shitty high school backgrounds an opportunity to catch up with those from private schooling and those from school boards that didn’t provide sufficient challenges. These courses don’t need a higher teacher to student ratio, they just need students to pay attention to the lectures and talk to the TA if they’re stuck.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 1 month ago:
I don’t know how you extrapolate “no emphasis on learning” from “large classes”. The classes are large because they can afford to be large. They teach introductory courses, and their goal is to even out the baseline before the students go into sophomore courses. Freshmen come from many different education systems - private vs public, local vs out of state/province/country, fresh out of school vs returning to education after working, etc. This is also why these courses can be graded with standardized testing, because they set the standard themselves.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 1 month ago:
That may work in senior courses, but a freshman class with hundreds of students needs standardized tests.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 1 month ago:
Lego Star Wars are quite bad for motion sickness, I find.
- Comment on 15 Vintage Sandwiches That Nobody Remembers Anymore 2 months ago:
beans sandwich
Lemmy is definitely not forgetting that one…
- Comment on 15 Vintage Sandwiches That Nobody Remembers Anymore 2 months ago:
Find a deli that carries blood and tongue sausage. Get them to slice it thin, it’s delicious in sandwiches.
- Comment on Maybe a young Margaret Atwood witnessed the unveiling of her time capsule book in 2114 and then travelled by in time to complete the paradox loop by arranging the time capsule book in the first place. 2 months ago:
Unless the bad guys got to time travel first… then every timeline becomes the bad timeline.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 2 months ago:
I’ve always experienced the opposite - native English speakers are horrible at spelling because they don’t have to put any effort into comprehending the language, vs non-native speakers who frequently have to take ESL tests for either academia, work, or immigration, and therefore had more exposure to spelling practice.
- Comment on Airport face scans could replace boarding passes and check-in as soon as 2028 2 months ago:
And get rid of the pornoscanners.
- Comment on Last Epoch Season 2 | Patch Overview 2 months ago:
That’s a lot of QoL improvements, specially for endgame crafting!
- Comment on Data centers contain 90% crap data 2 months ago:
You’re missing the first for the tree here.
Given identical client setups, two clones of a git repo are identical. That’s duplication, and it’s an intentional feature to allow concurrent development.
A CDN works by replicating content in various locations. Anycast is then used to deliver the content from any one of those locations, which couldn’t be done reliably without content duplication.
Blockchains work by checking new blocks against previous blocks. In order to fully guarantee the validity of a block you need to guarantee every block, going back to the beginning of the chain. This is why each root node on a chain needs a full local copy of it. Duplication.
My point is that we have a lot of processes that rely on full or partial duplication of data, for several purposes: concurrency, faster content delivery, verification, etc. Duplicated data is a feature, not a bug.
- Comment on Data centers contain 90% crap data 2 months ago:
I would argue that duplication of content is a feature, not a bug. It adds resilience, and is explicitly built into systems like CDNs, git, and blockchain (yes I know, blockchains suck at being useful, but nevertheless the point is that duplication of data is intentional and serves a purpose).
- Comment on Does a tiny motion tracking mouse thing exist at all? 2 months ago:
Most scroll wheels use an optical sensor inside the housing to monitor the motion of the wheel. If you got paint inside the housing then it can confuse the sensor.
Question: did you take off the top of the mouse to paint it, or at least tape off any areas that needed to be protected like the scroll wheel and the bottom sensor?
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 2 months ago:
I remember that post from slazer2au… lemmy.world/post/19338754
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 2 months ago:
When we talk about 2.4, 5, or 6 GHz the devices don’t operate at exactly that frequency, but within a band more or less on that number. For example 5 GHz is actually a set of channels between 5150 and 5895 MHz.
Why isn’t there a 3Ghz, 3.5Ghz, 4Ghz, etc?
Technically there’s 802.11y (3.65 GHz), 802.11j (4.9-5.0 GHz), etc. It’s just that several of these bands cannot be used universally across the globe, because they may be reserved for other purposes. By and the bands that end up being used are ones that don’t require licensing to operate.
Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels
- Comment on How do you not feel overwhelmed using Mastodon? 2 months ago:
This so much. Lists make content filtering so much easier, both foot organizing as well as for filtering.
- Comment on Microsoft wouldn't look at a bug report without a video. Researcher maliciously complied. 3 months ago:
The most likely explanation for requesting a video is to weed out low quality AI-generated “vulnerability” submissions that hallucinate code that doesn’t compile or APIs that don’t exist. In that context a 1 minute video showing that the report is viable is not much to ask for.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 4 months ago:
Just because a game is old doesn’t mean it’s not fun. How old are the board and card games again?
- Comment on Why are tornado sirens only for tornadoes and not other severe storm events? 4 months ago:
Other kinds of severe weather are predictable, whereas there’s a big difference between “this pattern could develop into a tornado over the next half hour, batten down the hatches” and “A TORNADO HAS TOUCHED DOWN NEAR YOU, GET TO A SHELTER WITHIN THE NEXT MINUTE OR YOU’LL DIE!”
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 4 months ago:
Icewind Dale did the same with Baldur’s Gate. Not just the UI, they blatantly reused a lot of the assets too!
- Comment on The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters? 4 months ago:
- Comment on Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank? 4 months ago:
Keychron keyboards are solid and maintainable, and available in Canada. Pick a model that supports swapping switches, and start with brown switches perhaps - they’re on the more quiet end of the spectrum, but common so you won’t break the bank. Then over time you can customize it as your budget allows - different switches if browns are not the right fit for you, keycaps of your preferred colour, etc.
