JohnnyCanuck
@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Are they for real? 3 days ago:
Me too
- Comment on Pizza is a tomato pie. 6 days ago:
That’s Amore - Dean Martin 1953
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie…
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 1 week ago:
They didn’t say vegetative. They said “pretty much a vegetable” fun is a more colloquial term.
From paulriddfoundation.org/lessons/iq-table/#%3A~%3At….
People with a severe learning disability or profound and multiple learning disability (PMLD) will need more care and support with areas such as mobility, care and communication.
And from Wikipedia:
People with Severe ID (IQ 20–34), accounting for 3.5% of persons with ID, or Profound ID (IQ 19 or below), accounting for 1.5% of people with ID, need more intensive support and supervision for their entire lives. They may learn some [activities of daily living], but an intellectual disability is considered severe or profound when individuals are unable to independently care for themselves without ongoing significant assistance from a caregiver throughout adulthood.
I think that could qualify as “pretty much a vegetable”, if a bit crass.
- Comment on Why is sharpedo blocked in image searches on DuckDuckGo and Bing, but not Google? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 1 week ago:
IQ tests don’t define IQ, they’re a tool to measure IQ. Standard tests have a “floor” (say 70 or 50) below which they don’t give an accurate number, just a general “below the floor” indication. Similarly, they would have a ceiling.
A professionally administered test can maybe identify a more specific IQ at low levels, and would be used for someone who maybe can’t function at the level of taking a standard test.
- Comment on TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy in the Era of AI Assisted Reverse Engineering 2 weeks ago:
That sucks. From the article it looks like they are at least writing the firmware, but it’s hard to tell.
I’m curious because I just ordered a couple of C210s to tinker with.
- Comment on TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy in the Era of AI Assisted Reverse Engineering 2 weeks ago:
Is that true for TP-link? I always thought they were an OEM.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 3 weeks ago:
Regulators were less friendly back then
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 3 weeks ago:
They can do a lot of that now with Recall even if you use Chrome.
They also want you to use their browser because they want to direct you to bing/copilot and get ad revenue from all of your clicks.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 3 weeks ago:
They wanted to do that with internet explorer but regulators weren’t monopoly-friendly back then.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 3 weeks ago:
Learn Mandarin, Spanish, and maybe Hindi, if you’re planning for the future.
- Comment on I hope Lemmy gets big enough to make the mainstream news... 3 weeks ago:
Is this some Lemmy drama shit I don’t know about?
- Comment on Does anyone know of a plug-in or extension that will make your web browser convert all websites into what they would look like in 1999? 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes you see almost that when css hasn’t loaded. Maybe you can turn off css in browser settings, site settings, or dev tools in the browser.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Look I’m sorry, i wasn’t meaning to upset you with my original comment. But I also wasn’t the only person to call out the inaccuracies.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Oh I didn’t realize you had the dates of firework and firearm inventions memorized, I figured you had been looking something up.
In any case, you can consider my comment directed at anyone else who comes along and thinks that people didn’t use gunpowder for killing people for over a millenia after it was invented, based on reading your post.
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 5 weeks ago:
If vaccines were given in Pop-Tart form there wouldn’t be an antivax movement.
- Comment on Where is heart?! 5 weeks ago:
From XKCD: xkcd.com/2975
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
10th century starts at 900 CE, so you’re actually talking about 1100 years from 200 BCE.
However, you’re also using a very loose definition of fireworks. They (the Han dynasty) were throwing bamboo tubes into fire to make them go BANG in 200 BCE. Those weren’t even related (most likely) to the invention of gunpowder. The best theories suggest alchemist sets looking for the elixir of life when they stumbled on something pretty flammable.
Gunpowder in a reasonably effective form wasn’t invented until about 800 CE (9th century) by the Tang dynasty. That was refined for the next 100 years to be more effective and around 900CE they got close to what we have today. They (the Song dynasty) used it pretty much immediately to make weapons (fire arrows).
- Comment on Halloween is a more giving and fun holiday than Christmas 5 weeks ago:
Fuck yeah, I’ll raise a glass of spider-venom-laced-pumpkin-juice to that!
- Comment on xkcd #3172: Fifteen Years 1 month ago:
Is this not loss?
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 1 month ago:
Interesting, I can’t seem to find highsignal when I search in Voyager.
- Comment on Can I make a Bluetooth button to skip YouTube ads on the computer? 1 month ago:
Maybe look at Zigbee instead of Bluetooth. It’s meant for home automation stuff, but I think it might be easier to set up to perform an action on an input from a button.
Or you can look at Bluetooth remotes but I feel like you’d have to create custom software to take the input and perform an action.
That said, you can use ChatGPT or Claude to help you get started. It’s one of the things an LLM is good at. Tell it you’re a beginner and what you’re trying to do and it can help you through the steps of setting up and writing the basic app. Be warned, the LLM will eventually lose its way and stop making code that makes sense.
- Comment on Can I make a Bluetooth button to skip YouTube ads on the computer? 1 month ago:
You mentioned you were still interested in a button.
How are your programming skills, and what’s your current setup? Are you using a PC? Is there a specific reason you want a bluetooth button instead of, say, a USB one? Or even just using a keyboard shortcut?
- Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike 1 month ago:
My bad, I started downloading The Lord of the Rings movies - Extended Edition. Sorry!
- Comment on What's the main device to hammer in a nail? 1 month ago:
But there’s only one 50. What if you pick 0?
- Comment on what is the best fruit to leave in a fridge? 1 month ago:
Interesting, they never seem to ripen for me, but maybe I’m too impatient
- Comment on what is the best fruit to leave in a fridge? 1 month ago:
If and only if they’re ripe.
- Comment on Sometimes I think Back hole Sun by Soundgarden, just singing about anilingus 2 months ago:
Did you have “Back Hole Sun”?
- Comment on iCarly was a streamer before streaming was even really a thing. 2 months ago:
iCarly was just a follower of JenniCam and AmandaCam from the late 90’s and camgirls/camboys/cammers in the early 2000’s.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 2 months ago:
Oh this is perfect. Thank you. I was just gathering numbers and had discrepancies, but this shows it perfectly.
