Hoimo

@Hoimo@ani.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd 2682 for linguists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Now the next unsolved question is: when a person is multilingual, should that count as multiple languages or are they all facets of the same idiolect? Is code-switching between formal and informal English the same as code-switching between English and French? Can a person even have multiple idiolects?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I also have to laugh when someone takes a very rough estimate (around a hundred miles) and converts it to metric with 4 significant figures (160.9 km). Even 160 is too precise when talking about a distance of 80-120 miles. If the original number has 1 sigfig, the conversion should too, even if that feels way off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cookie combs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Should the target area be square or should it also be a hexagon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cookie combs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The bee doesn’t have to know anything about numbers to make the honeycomb. All it needs to know is how big to make the circle (bee-sized) and where the circle should be (touching two other circles). From there, the hexagons form naturally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UwU brat mathematician behavior⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How do we know it’s gay though? OP could be a girl (male)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The hard part is getting the 10 IQ points to follow the specs properly when designing the components.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Gacha Game ever created⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s ignoring the Uma Musume manga releasing earlier and My Little Pony: Make Your Mark enjoying modest popularity. And of course the simple fact that people can still be quite fond of cartoon horses who no longer get any new episodes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Gacha Game ever created⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season 9 Episode 26: 2019-10-12

  Uma Musume Pretty Derby Season 1 Episode 1: 2018-04-02

  There was an 18 month overlap where you could watch two sets of animated cartoon horses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll & Now Netflix Both Confirm Anime Sub Watchers Are the Minority on Their Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For the English dub, yes. I even found Italian, French, German, Spanish and Russian. But none of the pirates set their VPN to Netherlands to get the Dutch dub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll & Now Netflix Both Confirm Anime Sub Watchers Are the Minority on Their Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And then you have me, who’s so hardcore I was forced to sign up for Netflix so I could watch the Dutch dub of Tonari no Totoro . If I was any more hardcore, I’d figure out how to rip it from there, because it’s the only home release it ever got, as far as I can tell. Can’t even find a second-hand VHS (wouldn’t be acceptable quality anyway).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Project Diva⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The girl from Fortnite. Here’s a video that explains nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suzumiya Haruhi "Mutekiteki Happiness!" MV Short ver.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, how strange to hear Gotou Yuuko use her Mikuru voice again. I recently heard her in a minor role in HanaShura and she used this old lady voice that immediately made me feel ancient, but now I realize she can do whatever she wants with her voice and it wasn’t a sign of her (or my) age. I’m still young! 2006 wasn’t 19 years ago!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Justwatch reliably tells me “this isn’t available for streaming in your region”. Sonarr tells me it’s an AMZN Webrip and I can Just Watch™

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m impressed by the soundtrack and sound design. For most things they had a great manga to copy from, but the sounds are all brand new. It fits the animation and style very well though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad Girl - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s trash and I love it. I hope we’ll get some yuri love triangle plot, I spotted what looked like a Yuu daki in Suzu’s bed? She’s also clearly tsundere for Yuu.

  The cast reminds me a bit of ::: spoiler Hitoribocchi Image ::: but this episode didn’t immediately show the quality of jokes and pacing that made Hitori such a memorable show (that we didn’t forget about, right? It’s Hitori Bocchi, she’s the girl who sits in the corner seat. We were friends!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨413524 Gang, rise up!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tsk, true left-to-right writing would do the crossbar second.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know which voice to use. We all know which voice to use.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kimura-sensei did nothing wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you keep Gemini installed? Does it even work offline?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's all armin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What the hell happened to Edward’s face?

  Image

  AI upscaling is the newest vector of digital rot. We already had forced compression, watermarks, people making screenshots instead of saving the picture and now there’s AI upscaling guessing at details that never existed.

  Here’s the original picture. Yeah, the resolution is shit, but at least the data isn’t stinking of decAI.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once it's on the Internet, it stays forever, but only for the things you DON'T want. For the things you DO want, it will be wiped off the face of the Earth by tomorrow.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also looks like that 1973 picture of Nixon’s bedroom is newer than the website design, so I’m not surprised it isn’t using https.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once it's on the Internet, it stays forever, but only for the things you DON'T want. For the things you DO want, it will be wiped off the face of the Earth by tomorrow.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, you’d think it wouldn’t be this hard. There’s White House archives online, but they all seem to be text only. Articles about the rose garden, but never any pictures. And when it’s an article with pictures from 2000-2016, it’s only historical pictures, as if showing a contemporary picture would be the most redundant thing to do in an article about a rose garden.

  Is tysto someone’s personal archive of whitehousemuseum.org? I don’t get the domain name, the home page mentions the other domain (which is for sale). Wikipedia lists whitehousemuseum.org under “External links” for a collection of photos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Summer Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 26]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely watching City and Dandadan. And Yofukashi no Uta S2 snuck up on me, have to watch that too.

  As for originals/newcomers, I put Bad Girl on my PTW ages ago and it’s finally time! Just some silly yuri shenanigans, I don’t expect too much of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not racist to say that a theocracy scares a lot of smart people away. I know multiple Iranian families who all fled Iran after 1979 and came to Europe. All highly educated, all very opposed to the Islamic Republic that ruined their country.

  Here, the effect is notable enough to have its own Wiki article: en.wikipedia.org/…/Human_capital_flight_from_Iran

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 2nd Birthday Ani.Social! (+ PieFed announcement)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So can I subscribe to !nyaa@pt.nyaa.social from here? Because I know mastodon-lemmy is mostly one way, can’t really subscribe to a masto tag or user from here, but if Piefed is structured similarly…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A woman tried to call her mom in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The more obvious choice would be to make everyone go dark, instead of setting up nationwide voice mail to pretend everyone is alive. But maybe this way they can keep everyone’s communications open while also fooling most of these intelligence gathering methods (someone answered, in the right language, mark it as active).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cuppa Jill⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really early Germanic though, because every other Germanic language kept the meaning of “animal”. It’s only modern English (since the 1500s) that narrowed it all the way to one specific species (or family of Cervidae).

  My guess would be that the language gained the word “animal” from French and “deer” was pushed from its niche and forced to specialize?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How strong is that spider that it can lift a turtle? Will one nuke be enough?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok smartass⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reverse image search spotted it well, but it isn’t the same image. It’s very likely the source where the image generator got its ideas from though: lemmy.world/post/31578519/17746077

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why you’d ever need to know this. What is a phylum anyway? Which animals share a phylum? Are bonobos and chimpanzees in a phylum, a family, a class? And what does that tell us about their relation that we couldn’t already tell from their characteristics?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3101: Good Science⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thought I was looking at Factorio chemical science pack