JohnnyCanuck
@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 1 day ago:
Regulators were less friendly back then
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 1 day 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 1 day 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 days 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... 1 week 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? 1 week 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] 2 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] 2 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 2 weeks ago:
If vaccines were given in Pop-Tart form there wouldn’t be an antivax movement.
- Comment on Where is heart?! 2 weeks ago:
From XKCD: xkcd.com/2975
- Comment on [deleted] 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Fuck yeah, I’ll raise a glass of spider-venom-laced-pumpkin-juice to that!
- Comment on xkcd #3172: Fifteen Years 3 weeks ago:
Is this not loss?
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
But there’s only one 50. What if you pick 0?
- Comment on what is the best fruit to leave in a fridge? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
If and only if they’re ripe.
- Comment on Sometimes I think Back hole Sun by Soundgarden, just singing about anilingus 1 month ago:
Did you have “Back Hole Sun”?
- Comment on iCarly was a streamer before streaming was even really a thing. 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Oh this is perfect. Thank you. I was just gathering numbers and had discrepancies, but this shows it perfectly.
- 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 1 month ago:
I did it really quick, and just looked up the numbers from searches. There might be some difference from different sources, but it’s in the ballpark.
That said, I’ve been following up on a bit and (for example) I’m changing the 1980 housing price to 62k, but the 3x still shows the issue.
- 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 1 month ago:
I agree that buying your first home takes some sacrifices. But the sacrifices even 20 years ago were significantly less than they are now, let alone 40 or more years ago. I would hope that someone in her position would understand that it’s not about saving $5 or $10 a day on Starbucks, or even buying a cheaper phone. The disparity between income and home price is just completely different.
Median household income in the US in 1980: $21000
Median home price: $47000 (2x)Median household income in the US in 2000: $42000
Median home price: $163000 (4x)Median household income in the US in 2020: $67000
Median home price: $327000 (5x)It doesn’t take a genius to see the discrepancy here. That’s a lot of fucking Starbucks coffees to not buy to make up the difference.
Note: I’m using US numbers because of the context.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 1 month ago:
I like my coffee black, like a hole.
- Comment on Zombies!! 1 month ago:
Try again.
- Comment on Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover' 1 month ago:
I get what you’re saying (and saw your other comment) but I didn’t come away from OP’s write up thinking DHH was only a casual racist. So if they were attempting to defend DHH’s racism they did piss poor job. The language used was soft, but the quotes speak for themselves.
I was actually confused for a minute by your big comment, because I couldn’t figure out who you were saying was defending racists.
The article definitely glossed over the racism though. That might be why OP’s language was soft. They were responding to the article’s accusations - which were almost in passing - and in that context the language kind of matches. By pulling that out of the article and making it prominent in their write up, i think OP made it much more clear and couldn’t possibly be doing it to defend DHH.
- Comment on Zombies!! 1 month ago:
What’s with the number ordering!?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Communication is Paramount
Yeah, so you shouldn’t use a well-established term like “heat death” in your own way just because you feel it’s appropriate. Words have meanings. That’s how we communicate.
If I call you a nincompoop to say you’re really smart, just because I think there’s no clear etymology for the term, so it isn’t “linguistically relevant through uniqueness” (whatever the fuck that means) to say it means you’re foolish, you probably wouldn’t understand that’s what I meant. You might even take it as an insult. So our communication would have broken down through my misuse of a word with a well-established meaning.