lunarul

@lunarul@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Basket stinkhorn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, smelled like a dead animal

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outsourcing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And to think he’s the same guy who was losing all the dad joke don’t laugh challenges for laughing at his own jokes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  maintenance and part replacement was a major issue

  That was my first thought: who’s going to be the underwater IT guy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outsourcing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And his name is Andrew Hamilton, if anyone is wondering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A lot of people make the mistake of thinking they have real life plot armour⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s clear by the end of Ender’s Game that Ender was never the main character. And Bean is not really the main character in that part of the story either, just someone much smarter who better understands what’s going on and who the real players are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flooring Pop⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The way it separates in clear lines between the tiles, it looks like it was applied to the tiles, not to the floor. So I think they didn’t use self-leveling compound at all and just put on ridiculously thick globs of mortar to raise the tiles to the desired level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This game is fantastic.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have both Epic and GOG copies from two different free offers and played it a bunch, but could never finish it. I enjoy the atmosphere and the story, but the fights got repetitive and difficult (not in a good way). I stopped at some boss fight, then later decided to pick it up again and eventually stopped at another artificial roadblock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨to hell I say⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, but the list of things in the ocean that taste good is much much longer than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what can I do at my workplace during downtime?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it’s got an e-ink screen, it’s already an upgrade vs reading on a phone or tablet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flooring Pop⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the correct answer. With all that mortar, the rest of the tiles are sure to come off too eventually. The whole thing needs to be redone. Take out all tiles and all mortar. Subfloor needs to be properly prepped and then you can lay the tiles back correctly. There’s enough information online to do it yourself or you can hire someone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same as it ever was⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  UET 6/2 261 and UET 6/2 262

  1. (cf. UET 6/2 339 + UET 6/3 235 Seg. B l. 3, 6.1.01.23, 4.14.1: l. 144) To be wealthy and demand more is an abomination to a god.

  These Sumerians were infected by the woke mind bug /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cinderella's Millennium Falcon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Renesmee?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I paid $3300 rent back in 2020. Got a mortgage at the low rates in 2021 and got a $2800 monthly rate. So it seems like it’s cheaper. But once I add the property tax (~$1000/mo), HOA ($500), home insurance (~$300), it’s at all not cheaper to own than to rent. Plus paying for maintenance on our own (had to replace both the fridge and the washing machine in the time since we moved) adds up too. Not saying it was better to rent, but it was definitely cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just for the “paid on time” section of your report. I helps a bit with your score, but it doesn’t change how banks determine your debt to income ratio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s used for surveying, aren’t those survey feet? (a survey foot is 1.000002 US customary feet)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, calling the yard a knockoff of the meter would be kind of funny, especially since it predates it by about a thousand years. And calling the cun a knockoff of the inch is similar, since it predates that by another thousand years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Except it’s not. It’s simply a completely different and unrelated unit of measurement, which was dubbed colloquially in the west “Chinese inch”. Calling it a “Cinese knockoff inch” is like calling the yard a “US knockoff meter”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a European, it took me a while to realize what’s wrong with that. Even though I’ve been living in the US for almost 14 years now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t really into metroidvanias, but I still loved Hollow Knight and put hundreds of hours into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I always keep at least a leg outside the covers, no matter how cold it is. I couldn’t bear to be completely covered, I get too hot. Under normal conditions I don’t use covers at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Which category do you place bucatini in?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Out of 10. Be specific!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s somehow worse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Title⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Explaining the missing capstone of the great pyramid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The girth one makes little sense. The holes are labeled, left from right:

  • small / no size
  • medium / regular size
  • large / royal size
  • largest / extra size
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Could I even formulate a coherent sentence?

  Do you speak Italian? Or maybe Latin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly what I was thinking. Plus he seemed to have a good sense of humor too. But on the other hand, it would take him much longer to respond to questions on the spot (usually he’d prepare answers ahead of time for interviews and such).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  States of matter and species are both cases where we drew the lines based on what we thought was obvious. Then we ran into cases that were not so obvious anymore and challenged how we define these lines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t know the language at all then you shouldn’t be involved in the translation at all… The current process requires both the translators and the proof-readers to know the language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as you can verify it is an accurate translation

  Unless the process has changed in the last decade, article translations are a multi-step process, which includes translators and proof-readers. It’s easier to get volunteer proof-readers than volunteer translators. Adding AI for the translation step, but keeping the proof-reading step should be a great help.

  But you could probably also have used Google translate and then just fine tune the output yourself. Anyone could have done that at any point in the last 10 years.

  Have you ever used Google translate? Putting an entire Wikipedia article through it and then “fine tuning” it would be more work than translating it from scratch. Absolutely no comparison between Google translate and AI translations.