maryjayjay
@maryjayjay@lemmy.world
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a fun list: dailywritingtips.com/75-contronyms-words-with-con…
It literally includes literally 😉
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 2 weeks ago:
The dictionary is descriptive, not proscriptive. Language evolves
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 3 weeks ago:
Literally has been used as an intensifier for over 200 years. The Oxford English Dictionary includes the definition of figuratively. Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain all used it that way in their writing.
- Comment on When was the last time you made Jello? 4 months ago:
No, we call jam jam. Jelly is maybe purely of the juice of a fruit or berry, thickened with pectin and with added sugar. If you use the whole fruit smooshed up but with chunks we call it preserves. We also call marmalade marmalade. It’s made primarily of the skin of citrus fruit, but you probably know that
- Comment on Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen 4 months ago:
They got rid of the desktop app.
Also, with shouldn’t have your seeds. They’re encrypted before they are transmitted to their servers and only decrypted on the device.
- Comment on Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen 4 months ago:
You can, though. But not through their app. Someone reverse engineered their protocol and wrote a program that connects like a new client, which you then approve, and it dumps all your random seeds into a text file. I then put them all into Keepass.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 5 months ago:
My boss bought a mining claim west of Fort Collins. I can confirm you are correct.
- Comment on Self-hosted website for posting web novel/fiction 6 months ago:
Sorry, I didn’t find the self hosting option when I looked at the site. I see it now. Thanks!
- Comment on Self-hosted website for posting web novel/fiction 6 months ago:
I looked for that on their site but missed it and found the pricing instead. Thanks! I’m definitely going to check that out
- Comment on Self-hosted website for posting web novel/fiction 6 months ago:
What part of that is self hosted?
- Comment on Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply 7 months ago:
Maybe we can ask ai how to make more power so there can be more ai. But then, when it tells us, we just mine more crypto. Fuck ai. Crypto won’t murder us.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 7 months ago:
Language is meant to convey meaning. You clearly understood the meaning, so the language succeeded.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 7 months ago:
Lede has a very specific meaning and is seldom used outside of journalism, lead is perfectly acceptable in common vernacular
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
That’s such a straw man. You would have no trouble saying that if someone doesn’t have an axe they are less likely to be an axe murderer
- Comment on Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old 8 months ago:
When we discover someone we don’t understand we often make a simplistic metaphor to fit the data until we have better understanding. Like the Bohr model of the atom, or Newton’s theory of gravity. Dark matter plugs the hole right now and does it with a minimum of contrivance (Occam and whatnot)
- Comment on Do straight lines and flat planes exist in nature? 8 months ago:
Orient it vertically
- Comment on What can we do when something is too vast to provide representative examples for? 8 months ago:
If I told you that dogs exist and you didn’t believe me, what kind of evidence would you want to see?
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 8 months ago:
You state i5s can’t keep up with what you code. What do you code?
- Comment on EU to fine Apple about $500 million for anticompetitive App Store policy in music streaming market 8 months ago:
Yes. And they were allowed to pay that fine in the form of free copies of Windows to schools. Our justice system at work, people! 😔
- Comment on AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium 10 months ago:
It’s kind of like CPU power and software bloat.
- Comment on SR-72: US secret hypersonic jet to allegedly break sound barrier in 2025 | Believed to be a top-secret project of the US Air Force, the SR-72 is touted to reach over 4,000 mph (6,437 kph), making i... 10 months ago:
What vehicle?
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
No. Tons of prior art. The just built it into the OS
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
Does Threads show up as an instance I can block?
I think every instance should be able to federate with whomever they wish, I just don’t want to participate.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 11 months ago:
“Think of the average American and realize that 50% are dumber than that” - George Carlin
- Comment on Netflix Resumes Advertising on X After Elon Musk Controversy 11 months ago:
Should Elon be willing to pay high profile companies to advertise on Xitter to entice others back? Of just give them advertising for free? Or… Resume running ads from customers who cancelled just to change public perception?
I’m not saying Netflix isn’t a big enough bag of dicks to start advertising with them again, just strategizing
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
Civil suit. He’s already been proven guilty
- Comment on It's almost impossible to deny being an alcoholic without sounding like an alcoholic 11 months ago:
You don’t know about AA, do you?
- Comment on Most legible scottish person 11 months ago:
I had to read half of Trainspotting like that!
- Comment on Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence 11 months ago:
It wasn’t free. You paid for it
- Comment on Different social class different rules 11 months ago:
I remember reports of literal pallets of cash going missing during desert storm