lunarul
@lunarul@lemmy.world
- Comment on The pipeline 1 day ago:
Like all Romance languages, number “one” has different masculine and feminine forms, depending on what you’re counting. Unlike other Romance languages, number “two” is also gendered.
- Comment on Sharp Internet ViewCam: the world's first MPEG-4 video camera, coming June or August 1999. This site is still up! 3 days ago:
That is one page on the Sharp website. The Sharp website still being up is not surprising. That product page still being there means that Sharp never deleted it and didn’t change whatever engine they use for their site.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Have they stopped airing Zeffirelli’s one on TV? I remember it was always on the schedule during Easter.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 week ago:
There’s also /r/WitchesVsPatriarchy which is also very strictly woman-centered.
- Comment on YSK: If the frontpage constantly looks like the same 5 - 8 posts, try sorting by "Hot". 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes it’s been a while since I last checked the feed and I go for Top 12 hours
- Comment on Embrace this Truth and enjoy life 3 weeks ago:
Yes, not all people are of the same opinion of what is better. Or even that we need to improve in the first place.
- Comment on Embrace this Truth and enjoy life 3 weeks ago:
could just find anything meaningful and it would be equally valid
From an evolutionary standpoint, sure. As long as the species keeps going, evolution doesn’t care how.
But from our own desire of self-improvement, some paths are better than others.
- Comment on Embrace this Truth and enjoy life 3 weeks ago:
Nothing we are or do has any meaning to the universe. But our lives and actions have meaning to ourselves. And science is important for humanity. The universe doesn’t care if we develop science or not, but we care. There’s no great universal narrative where we play any role, but we do write our own narrative for ourselves and those to come.
- Comment on Day 249 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 4 weeks ago:
It’s not about the screenshots, I’m just amazed with how you’re playing a different game every day. I can’t put down a game until I 100% it.
- Comment on Day 249 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 4 weeks ago:
I don’t get how people do this. I obsessively play a single game until I exhaust everything possible to do in that game. Only then I move on to the next game. In 243 days I would probably have screenshots of 2 games total.
- Comment on Be honest and tell us what you see 5 weeks ago:
First I saw jelly beans, then I noticed the arrangement and saw touching tips, then I looked for what else could be taken in that direction and noticed the clearly intentional double penetration.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 1 month ago:
that handbrake start is utterly useles
In my native country that was a requirement for the driving test.
- Comment on The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back 2 months ago:
I ignore any calls that are not from my contacts. If it’s important they’ll leave a message. I have DND on at night. Calls and messages from my wife have separate sounds and exception from DND.
- Comment on The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back 2 months ago:
Samsung galaxy has the same feature (at least on the S25, I don’t recall if I had it on the S10)
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
UX experience
We should shorten that to UXX
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
Or just go to vger.app, which defaults to lemm.ee but allows you to register and log in with a whole bunch of different instances.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 months ago:
Ok, that’s absurd. I thought it makes sense to change the name in the US if that’s the official name in the US (according to the USGS data, which has always been the official source for this info). But translating the US name into other languages that already have a name for it makes no sense.
- Comment on YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power. 2 months ago:
That was a culture shock for me when I moved to the US. I knew that back in the day, in rural areas of my country, the markets only opened once a week. I was shocked to find that happen in urban/suburban areas in the US. Back home I could just go to the closest market any day. Morning news would have a report comparing prices in different markets across the city, so you could pick the one that has the best price for what you need that day.
- Comment on Why? 5 months ago:
A computer that can manage the TNG holodeck will have no problem handling all the complexities of a transporter.
Plus it needs to identify what creepy crawlies are a part of you and which were just randomly wandering by.
It does do that. It’s canon that transporters take care of removing any foreign organisms.
And how does it know what clothes are? If I’m wearing shoes, does it know where the shoes end and the floor starts? What if I’m wearing skies? What if I’m barefoot on a carpet? What if it’s a leather carpet? What if I’m wearing shoes made by folding carpet around my feet?
It understands all those scenarios and relays them to the operator, who decides what to lock on.
- Comment on Say it again, Dexter 5 months ago:
But is this cub the first time in history those types of features have been studied? We’ve known about saber-toothed cats for decades.
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 5 months ago:
This article gives a good view from an average user’s perspective.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 5 months ago:
If surviving humans lost 50% of their gut bacteria, that means that those snapped away left 50% of their gut bacteria behind.
- Comment on critical latex mod 5 months ago:
Am I the only one bothered by the random double spaces scattered through that text?
- Comment on DING DONG 5 months ago:
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 5 months ago:
My games were all pirated. Covers had a handwritten list of all games on the cassette (and later CD). The first legit game I’ve ever seen was Mortal Kombat Trilogy and I remember being taken aback by the waste of using a full CD for a single game (iirc the game used just 30 MB of space on that CD).
- Comment on Menopause should be called menostop cause there is no menoresume? 5 months ago:
The board of directors decided that indefinite pause sounds better than stop
- Comment on YSK that Amazon has different prices for different people 5 months ago:
There are definitely different prices when I’m logged in vs when I’m not. My wife sends me a links to products, and I usually open any link in incognito windows. Several times I was not seeing the same price as her. Opening the same link on my account would show the same price.
- Comment on GRIZZLODILE 6 months ago:
Looks like they photoshopped a crocodile onto a bear
- Comment on Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public! 6 months ago:
Same for copyright law. The point was to give creators a few years to profit from their work before it goes into public domain.
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 6 months ago:
That’s my situation at a Silicon Valley tech company. Nobody ever mentioned unions one way or another but I honestly have no idea what I could ask for that I don’t already get. We have good benefits, good perks, everyone works frok home, unlimited PTO that nobody tries to limit or work around (all we are asked for is to give a rough estimate of time we’ll be taking off during each quarter so that it can be factored into planning), good work environment, good pay.