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- Comment on Roman numerals could be based on what your hand looks like when you count. 2 days ago:
You do understand that the number 1987 could also represent the amount of inventory someone had?
Or have a lot of other uses?
- Comment on Roman numerals could be based on what your hand looks like when you count. 3 days ago:
Did you forget about L/C/M?
If I want to write my birth year, 1987, in roman numerals, I would need to write it like this:
MCMLXXXVII
To clarify:
1000+(-100+1000)+50+10+10+10+5+1+1
- Comment on Does not having a (mainstream) social media account make you look suspicious to the authorities? Is it a good idea to have an innocent looking social media account just to look "normal"? 3 days ago:
At this point, the feddiverse is growing fast, and demeta/degoogle/dex are not new concepts.
At this point, it isn’t about what service you use, but what you post.
- Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 5 days ago:
Dell Ultrasharp 27” 1440p 2024
Using that as a product name will introduce more risk of errors, and for the main consumer, businesses, it makes more sense to use a short product code.
Imagine an IT manager ordering new monitors, they can just call their supplier up and say:
Hey, I need some new monitors, can I order 8 new U2724D monitors and 8 new U2724DE?
Instead of saying
Hey, I need some new monitors, can I order 8 new Dell Ultrasharp 27” 1440p 2024 monitors, and 8 new Dell Ultrasharp 27” 1440p 2024 monitors with the built in dock with networking?
The first one is far easier to parse and make sure you get the stuff you want, the other is far more prone to errors.
This is not even getting into the issues with product databases and inventory management.
- Comment on Greenland visit cancelled after locals refuse to welcome Usha Vance 5 days ago:
Damn, I don’t know if this is better or worse.
On the one hand, you rob the dickheads from coming in the first place, on the other you don’t get show how unwelcome they are directly to them.
Eh, it is probably funnier to have them cancel the trip all together.
- Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 5 days ago:
Ok there are often resons for the madness.
Lets look at the naming standard of Dell monitors:
I have a Dell U2724D as my main monitor.
The syntax is [Series][Diagonal Size][Year][Ratio/Resolution][Features]
In my case the code for the Series is “U”
Since about 2010 their standard series has been:
E: Essential - Normally a TN anti glare panel, internal power, simple stand, 3 year warranty.
P: Professional - Normally an IPS anti glare panel, internal power, height/rotate adjustable stand, 3-year warranty.
S: Small Office/Home - Can be IPS, TN or VA panel, usually external power supply, slim stand, 1-year warranty.
U: Ultrasharp - IPS anti glare panel, internal power, height/rotate adjustable base, 3 year warranty.
UP: Ultrasharp with PrimerColor - additional color gamut.
AW: Alienware - High-end gaming
C: Commercial displays - Large format (50"+), for conference rooms and classrooms.
Ok so looking at my monitor, U2724D, we can see that it is from the Ultrasharp series.
The next section is the diagonal size, Dell uses two digits to represent the size, in my case it is 27, so I have a 27" monitor.
Then we come to the year section, this tells us the year the monitor was released, in my case it says 24, so my monitor was released in 2024.
Then we come to the resolution part:
S: standard ratio - 4:3 or 5:4.
no letter: computer widescreen - 16:10
H: HD widescreen - 16:9
W: Ultrawide - 21:9
D: QHD - 1440p
Q: 4K - 2160p
K: 8K - 4320p
In my case, the resolution letter is D, meaning my monitor is a QHD/1440p monitor.
Finally we have come to the Features section:
C: USB-C input - can accept DisplayPort over USB-C.
X: HDMI cable included, instead of standard DsiplayPort cable.
T: Touchscreen
G: nVidia G-sync
F: AMD Freesync
J: Wireless charging stand
Z: Videoconference camera
A: Monitor arm included, no stand
E: Ethernet networking, works like a proper dock.
S: Built in speakers.
My monitor does not have any extra features, but my dad has the U2721DE monitor which has a built in dock and networking.
The reason for the annoying names is to differentiate features, series, year releases and more.
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 1 week ago:
Thank you for clarifying the issue better than I did!
- Comment on Finally, FINALLY! SENPAI NOTICED ME! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 1 week ago:
There are several governments in Europe and abroad that have ordered DNS lookups for specific domains to be blocked.
They probably mean that we can’t trust the government to keep information free and need a way to restrict governments from blocking DNS lookups.
Unfortunately, you can’t really do DNS in a decentralized manner as the concept is based on a hirarchy.
Example:
If you want to go to www.coolsite.org your computer would make the following requests:
- Hey root server, who handles requests for .org?
- Hey .org DNS server, who handles requests for .coolsite.org?
- Hey .coolsite.org DNS server, who is www.coolsite.org?
I don’t really know how to decentralize this…
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 week ago:
Eh, it means that I won’t steal your pen, calm down
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 week ago:
Number 6, I like how the ink flows
- Comment on If you are ever feeling like what you are doing is meaningless, remember that there are American lawyers and judges who have spent many years studying US constitutional law. 1 week ago:
You need both.
You need people to fight now, and people to document the shit out of this to cut through as much propaganda as possible for the future.
The current regime has already started to rewrite history, documenting the truth is putting up a fight!
- Comment on How would you do this Technically? 2 weeks ago:
This can probably only be enforced legally, not technologically…
- Comment on Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns. 2 weeks ago:
The way I see stuff like this is that you don’t have to hand over your information on a silver platter directly to the agents.
Like when a trainload of east germans was allowed to migrate to the west through a separate country, they just had to hand their passports to the Stasi before being let go.
When the Stasi agents came to the train to collect the passports the east germans just threw them on the floor instead of handing them over, that is kinda how this should be viewed.
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 3 weeks ago:
I need to see the regulations before I make a prediction.
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 3 weeks ago:
And this is why the EU should have ignored the US when they whined that our Gallileo system used different frequencies from GPS.
As it stands now Gallileo was built to using frequencies that the US can jam using GPS.
- Comment on Crossbow killer Kyle Clifford was 'fuelled' by Andrew Tate videos before rape and murders, court told 3 weeks ago:
I’d be fine with smaller forums run by nerds on their own servers.
- Comment on Spotify says it's fixing the bug that caused Premium users to hear ads 3 weeks ago:
Ok, so they have taken four weeks to even acknowledge this issue, to me this signal that this was more of a test to see how receptive paying users would be to hear ads.
So they will set the $premium_ad_frequency variable to 0 in a day or two while they “fix” the issue.
- Comment on Why are entertainers paid so much? 4 weeks ago:
- The entertainment industry is not known to it’s job security, the earnings need to cover downtime as well.
- Agents, artists have agents who get them their jobs, from what I understand they are often paid a percentage of the fee that the artist charge, so not all money goes to the artists pocket. The agent also knows the industry and how much an artist is worth to the productions, if a movie has a famous actor, it can be a huge draw and vastly increase earnings, since the actor is a draw, they should be compensated well.
- When an artist gets well known in the industry, they have many more opportunities, so productions need to pay more to get the artist they want, this means booking a schedule way ahead in the future, blocking that time off from other projects.
- It can be VERY physically demanding to change their appearance from role to role, one role might require the actor to play an overweight character and shortly after that production wraps they may need to play a character in near physical prime.
Note that I am not an actor or artist, I am an IT guy who has little inside knowledge, though this should be a reasonable explanation of what is going on
- Comment on Elon Musk survives as fellow of Royal Society despite anger among scientists 4 weeks ago:
The Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden is one of our best schools for higher education, why should it be treated as irrelevant just because of it’s name?
- Comment on Elon Musk survives as fellow of Royal Society despite anger among scientists 4 weeks ago:
Nope, just because the name is archaic does not mean that the institution is irrelevant.
- Comment on How do people even function on a 9:00 to 5? 4 weeks ago:
I worked 12h day/night shifts on an irregular schedule for 4,5 years.
Working normal 08-17h was amazing after getting out of that job…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Is it a DNS block or are they actually blocking the IP?
- Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score 4 weeks ago:
I hope the standard makes it clear that touch buttons are about as bad as a touch screen is
- Comment on Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot+ PCs on Windows 10 users 5 weeks ago:
I actually worked as a Linux sysadmin at my past place of work, it was interesting, but my corrent place of work doesn’t run any Linux:
- Comment on How to secure your phone before attending a protest 5 weeks ago:
“But how will I livestream my protest against Elon on X with out my phone?”
- Comment on Anyone remember this? 5 weeks ago:
Apparently yes.
- Comment on wyd in this situation 5 weeks ago:
Clearly a spam call, ignore
- Comment on I still got it 5 weeks ago:
rips off mask, exposing horrible insect head
“How did you know?”
- Comment on I still got it 5 weeks ago:
Then you ask your friend for some sugar in water…
