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- Comment on I miss myspace 2 days ago:
You know how lemmy or xyz social media is people posting their thoughts directly so you kinda get a look into their brains? And maybe there’s a pic or vid or some other link to accompany it to support the topic of their post. Imagine that but it’s entire websites basically built from the ground up with what one lone person believed was aesthetically appropriate to communicate their ideas or passions.
And nothing was centralized so there might’ve been a hundred time cube variations but no one ever found them because they weren’t linked on anyone’s webrings. It was all beautiful terrible madness.
- Comment on Little know fact 2 days ago:
wonder if he had that dog dong that inflates
- Comment on Inspirational 3 days ago:
Didn’t he give someone a horse after sexually harassing them?
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 3 days ago:
Make the junior put it to the test John Henry style. You code something while they use gpt and see who comes up with a working version first
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 4 days ago:
Or if OP is concerned about being too frivolous with money and is under 40 (more ideally under 30) with a college degree, it’s really damn easy to get a job teaching English in Japan. These days most of those positions pay peanuts but it’s enough to live on and you generally have enough free time to go around and see some things in a new place.
- Comment on Just Finished Lower Decks 5 days ago:
Wasn’t this the highest rated nu trek? Smart move by paramount to kill something so popular.
We demand 7 seasons!
- Comment on yeah get you some of that beard girl 6 days ago:
Figured I’d err on the side of caution. If you work with art it’s probably fine. Otherwise if someone sees random sideboob (art or not) walking by your computer at the office, they might complain about it.
Like a bikini isn’t illegal or amoral in the states either, but if you put up a bikini poster in your cube I bet someone would have something to say.
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- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
I hope that along with the next president’s EO (assuming we don’t have a dictator) to change the name back, it also changes the name of a tiny garbage parcel of land that’s uninhabitable due to lead or an old chemical spill to something like “greasy orange fief”.
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 1 week ago:
I’m sure this is a good thing, but considering the vast majority of Germans haven’t figured out screens on windows I’m not sure the appeal to authority in the title has the desired effect.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
A large part of it is our broken medical system. If you slip on something at a store and break a bone, you could be out 10s of thousands if uninsured. The only way you don’t lose everything you own is to sue the store where you slipped.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 week ago:
I agree with that to a certain extent, but computer classes (at least where I grew up) weren’t very comprehensive or germane to the skills people are talking about in this thread. If I think back, in elementary school we mostly had a few educational programs (typing, spelling, oregon trail, etc), and in middle school we did some stuff with excel and I’m sure some other things I’m forgetting, but we definitely didn’t have anything about how computers fundamentally worked. Maybe there was some very simple coding in basic, but it would’ve been very limited.
The reason I learned how to mess around with files and things was because computers simply weren’t very easy to use. Trying to get games running when they didn’t work just out of the box was a great teaching tool. Early on you had to learn the DOS commands (which by necessity meant learning file menus), and in windows (I can’t speak to anything Mac related) before plug and play worked well there was still endless tinkering you had to do with config files. Like you get the game installed but the sound doesn’t work, so you have to edit the config files to try different channels for your soundblaster. Or maybe your new printer won’t print, so you have to search online for the dll files you need.
There just stopped being a need to learn how to do anything like that, so the functioning of computers became that much less understood. I agree that the whole digital native narrative was dumb and hurt children’s learning (if anything the generation who dealt with the problems outline above are much closer to digital “natives”), and there’s a ton of stuff computer classes should be teaching these days. But classes will always only be effective in a limited capacity compared to learning about something because you need or want it to work for you in your life outside of school.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 week ago:
Damn, I never even thought of the implications for compsci. That’s gotta be an interesting challenge for profs these days.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 week ago:
Current students generally have horrendous computer literacy. There was only about a 20ish year window where using a computer meant you were forced to become vaguely proficient in how it worked. Toward the end of the 90s into the 2000s plug and play began to work more reliably, then 10 years after that smartphone popularity took off and it’s been apps ever since.
Students in high school this year were born from ~2007-2011. Most of them probably had a smartphone before a computer, if they even had the latter at all.
- Comment on Warp Five: The Lower Decks Cast on the Cerritos' Future 1 week ago:
“I am personally so excited to talk to you about the finale of Lower Decks because my wife [Rebecca Romijn] is Number One in Strange New Worlds,” says O’Connell. “I now outrank my wife in Starfleet. I’m a captain. I want to say to my wife, because when the finale comes out of Lower Decks, I’m going to sit down, I’m going to watch it with her.”
I wonder when these interviews were done-- the article date says Feb 8 but the finale was in mid-december.
Wish we got the classic 7 seasons, even if they’re shorter than old TV seasons used to be. Feels like they rushed a couple things in the final season that could’ve been explored more.
- Comment on No beans, only dogs 2 weeks ago:
I had a plate of them at an izakaya once
- Comment on No beans, only dogs 2 weeks ago:
I thought oyster crackers were an American thing
- Comment on Makes your jaw drop in amazement 2 weeks ago:
You don’t have to bend over in the morning
- Comment on Twinkle Tush 2 weeks ago:
You mean the synonymicon?
- Comment on "But when the phone inside her ribcage rings, it's not for me." 2 weeks ago:
Moogie leans down and says “My sentiments exactly.”
- Comment on How to access a non .zip link through the .zip instance? 2 weeks ago:
Ah, that worked, or at least it worked through lemmy.zip but not old.lemmy.zip for some reason. I did need the entire URL as you said-- dropping the https:// turned up results with this thread and another one where the URL is linked, but not the original URL itself.
- Comment on How to access a non .zip link through the .zip instance? 2 weeks ago:
Also as a side note, is there a way to link specific posts with the ! markdown so they open for everyone in their home instance? I know how to link comms with that formatting, like !theonion@midwest.social, but not how to do it for specific posts.
- Comment on How to access a non .zip link through the .zip instance? 2 weeks ago:
For example, someone posted this link (sh.itjust.works/post/31943808), and it was recent enough that I went to the comm homepage and changed it to .zip from there, but when I opened the thread through .zip it had a different post number (lemmy.zip/post/31038821) (actually I usually use old.lemmy.zip but it’s the same post number either way).
If it’d been an older thread I couldn’t find on the homepage, I’m not sure how to go about accessing it through .zip. Any ideas?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to home@lemmy.zip | 7 comments
- Comment on "But when the phone inside her ribcage rings, it's not for me." 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Way to learn a language 1 month ago:
- Comment on Way to learn a language 1 month ago:
That certificate is for N2 of the JLPT, whereas the top level is N1. A lot of native Chinese speakers can pass test levels beyond their actual Japanese ability just because they’re familiar with the kanji, which is a big part of the test.
- Comment on Magnus Carlsen: Chess champion quits FIDE tournament after being told to change jeans 1 month ago:
if it was seen by the opponent during the match, then a choice of color or style could be done to mess with the opponent
Somehow I doubt a loud tie is banned. This is just arbitrary shit made up by petty tyrants.
- Comment on Magnus Carlsen: Chess champion quits FIDE tournament after being told to change jeans 1 month ago:
Maintaining fashion standards (nb: hygiene is a separate issue) in an intellectual contest is so fucking stupid. Who decided jeans were less formal than khakis anyway?
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations? 1 month ago:
I played through it again a couple months ago but when I went to check the DLC it looks like they haven’t ever done more than 35% discount even though they came out in 2017 and 2019. Meanwhile the base game has done 90% off in the past (also the current price). Guess they figure if you like it enough to go looking for DLC you’ll probably pay more.
yeah get you some of that beard girl
