AEsheron

@AEsheron@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Đere’s no escaping us, broðer.

  Once upon a time, English both used thorn, the character you are replacing, and eth, the one I just used here. One was used for words like that, this, there, and the other was used for thin, thank, and throw. That didn’t last very long, linguistically speaking. The quickly became interchangeable, and thorn rapidly became the most popular one. But I think if people want to bring it back, we should bring them both back. And while we’re at it, we should bringing back the “four form system.” IE, we used to have two different ways to say yes or no, those two words were specifically used to answer a negative question. Current English leaves negative questions impossible to answer with a single word wothout ambiguity. “Will they not go?” cannot be answered with only yes or no in Modern English’s 2 form system. But with a 4 form system, we had yea and nay for general usage. “Will they go?” Yea means they will, nay means they won’t. But with the negative form of the question, “Will they not go?” Yes means they will, and no means they won’t. Over time yea and nay were both dropped and yes and no became universal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Was used all the way up to modern English. It was one of several characters that just got dropped because they wanted to use fewer when the printing press was adapted for English. Back then it was kind of the wild west for spelling, especially when printing words that used those characters. For example, sometimes they would just replace the character with a not often used one that was obviously a stand-in from context because it just didn’t fit naturally, in this case before “th” became the standard replacement, “y” was often used. One of the most commonly used examples that most people don’t realize is “ye,” as in “ye olde pub,” etc. While “ye,” pronounced as it is spelled, was used as a less formal “you,” “ye” in this context was understood to be pronounced as “the.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Black Holes...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC, the biggest uncertainty is about the singularity. I don’t know if it’s still true, but my understanding was that the consensus is that it isn’t really a true point of infinitely dense mass. That is how our current models say it must be, but many assumed our current models are incomplete and that more accurate ones will show that it must have some volume. And given the extreme nature of them, any updates to our models might have some significant repercussions in other aspects of them too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Black Holes...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Time is relarive to your frame of reference. You are always the source of your own frame of reference, so you can never feel the effect of time dilation on yourself. At worst, it would look like the universe outside the horizon started to accelerate to unimaginable speeds. But you would never feel trapped in an unending, at worst that is simply what it would look like to us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So is New York City, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought was to scan it to see if they at least got Boston in the NYC section. Only to realize NYC is not in NYC but is actually in Nomansland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uhh...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The original was on a patch with 4 figures, all a single color. This variant was floated for the MTG circle jerk subreddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I have rejected increased cost games for this very reason. But Nintendo is one of the few companies I believe would do it to cover their costs instead of just preying upon general apathy towards inflation since covid to jack up profit. They are too rich for my blood at the time, but if I had the income to splurge this would be one of a vanishingly small number of places I would be willing to put up with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People overestimate the fiduciary responsibility of public companies. It’s true they will often pursue aggressive short term gains to attract more investment in several forms, including higher stock prices. But as long as they are arguably trying to help the company they are considered to have fulfilled their obligation. You have to be able to prove in court they are trying to harm the shareholders to run afoul of that responsibility, which is a fair hurdle. And it isn’t really that difficult to avoid a forced IPO by keeping under the 500 shareholder threshold if one really wants to avoid it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That explains a lot⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure the whole point of this article is we have confirmed tiny black holes do rapidly evaporate. We’ve theoretically known that any black hole just about our sun’s mass or smaller will spew more Hawking Radiation than it can consume mass and will shrink. And this process should accelerate as the mass shrinks. This seems to be the first expiremental evidence to support the well established theory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They just don't write good fantasy like this anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be a bit more precise, people did sometimes carry swords on their back, but generally not into battle. It was more comfortable for travel, but impossible to draw, so when they were expecting trouble they would move it to the hip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The last thing the US wants is a civil war and mass instability in a nuclear nation. That has the capability to shatter MAD. At best, the US wants a regime change.