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- Comment on xkcd #2931: Chasing 1 week ago:
"The International Date Line" makes this one worthwhile.
- Comment on An Interview With Jack Dorsey 1 week ago:
Is there a c/lostlemmites somewhere?
- Comment on "Yeah, yeah, I totally know what a lion looks like, just give me the brush" 1 week ago:
I like the way he captured my eyes.
- Comment on Would lemmy benefit of implementing Polls? 1 week ago:
There's a very long history of calling things like lemmy communities "groups". In my case I'm old and the habit comes from Usenet.
- Comment on Would lemmy benefit of implementing Polls? 1 week ago:
Most of the fediverse already has polls, and can post things to lemmy groups. So yeah it would be nice to be able to see them properly.
- Comment on Chuck Todd: The race to build a better internet — before it's too late 2 weeks ago:
Wow, cool, even NBC is catching on to the Fediverse now?
... nope, it's just another blockchain fueled social media system, the main use of which so far seems to be as a haven for QAnon types (according to Wikipedia,) rapidly burning up venture capital. Good luck to them, I guess.
- Comment on The Force should be plural 2 weeks ago:
What this galaxy's physicists don't yet understand is that if you want to combine all those other forces into one grand unified theory, what you need to do is get in touch with your feelings and become a space wizard.
- Comment on It's time for a hard fork of Mastodon (DRAFT, REVISION IN PROGRESS) 3 weeks ago:
I don't think pleroma or misskey were ever mastodon forks. They're just better alternatives that do something approximately similar.
- Comment on Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
If you're thinking of it in market terms, then it being a "solved problem" should mean that it's effectively a commodity and nothing radical or game-changing is needed at all to eventually break the monopolies and win all the market share. All that's needed is to offer the same old thing at a slightly lower price, and wait for people to catch on.
But I disagree; there are plenty of unsolved problems.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 3 weeks ago:
Stay strong. A dwarf planet is a perfectly valid kind of planet, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
- Comment on Why did they put eyeliner on evil Kirk 😳 (I'm watching TOS for the first time) 4 weeks ago:
... because they had to make him distinguishable from normal Kirk but hadn't yet settled on the convention of just giving him a goatee?
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Teaching the beavers to use a microwave oven had less benefit to the regional ecology than had been hoped for.
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 2 months ago:
Tankies say all kinds of stupid things, but even if we grant the thus-far unproven assumption that the person being addressed there is among them, when they're telling nazis to fuck off that is not an appropriate moment to try and start a pointless fight by asserting that they're wrong about every single thing.
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 2 months ago:
While I agree that hexbear generally sucks, they and I do at least have an enemy in common. That ban is not so undeserved as I was led to expect.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Of course it is not that it's somehow a "stand in for he or she" inherently in current usage. It's just that it has recently replaced those other pronouns in places where for some time they had held near-universal prevalence among most users of this language.
Just as some people who've never known the old ways think those people who still aren't accustomed to it are putting on an act when they say it's weird and confusing, I suppose it would be easy for those who've lived through the change to mistakenly assume that young people are being disingenuous when they act as if there's been no change for hundreds of years and there's nothing to remark on here. If you're old enough to have seen it happen, the change in usage seems very obvious. If not, perhaps it isn't.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I don't really have a preference myself, but Richard Stallman's continued insistence that "per" is the right answer is the example that comes to mind.
As he puts it, "most languages have genderless singular third-person pronouns which are distinct from the plural pronouns. English deserves to have them too."
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Obviously it's been used in some grammatical situations as a singular third-person pronoun since forever. It's just as easy to come up with example phrases that would not sound in any way odd to a 20th-century person as it is to come up with examples from the 17th century. But its recent popularity as an all-purpose stand-in for "he" and "she" is indeed unprecedented, and even if it weren't it'd be a notable change.
- Comment on Chart to determine risk of bear attack 2 months ago:
The dangers of the bear zone aren't nearly as bad as they're made out to be. I haven't been attacked by a bear in weeks.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Nah. Maybe twenty years tops. That so many people fell for the fallacious line of argument you're thinking of was part of the difficulty in trying to push for any of the various theoretically "better" choices that are still available should humanity unexpectedly swerve in the direction of caring about such things.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Unfortunately you're at least ten years too late in trying to get people to ask themselves this question
- Comment on xkcd #217: e to the pi Minus pi (31 Jan 2007) 3 months ago:
It seems plausible enough to me. Many comp sci undergrads would be dimly aware that floating point arithmetic is notoriously difficult to get right and can often lead to surprising errors if you get it slightly wrong, and also dumb enough to believe that e^π^−π is exactly 20.
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- Comment on Twitch lay off 500 people as CEO concedes that staffing strategy has been "optimistic" 4 months ago:
Hmm, did the strategy of constantly making the experience of using Twitch worse for everyone, e.g. by trying to force more and more ads on viewers and streamers alike, somehow not work out the way they thought it should? I'm sure nobody couldn't seen that coming.
- Comment on Stephen Fry wants King's Guard to ditch bear fur 4 months ago:
Come on King Charles, get with it. Bear fur is passé. It took me like 5 seconds of searching the web to find a perfectly suitable replacement: https://www.etsy.com/listing/914324031/mallard-duck-hat
- Comment on Six months after the initial reddit surge (graphs) 4 months ago:
chart doesn't seem to show up on lemmy, strangely. Not sure what I did wrong there, but it's the first time I tried an image in a comment.
- Comment on Six months after the initial reddit surge (graphs) 4 months ago:
Meanwhile if you're curious how reddit has been doing, just look at this chart
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 4 months ago:
Yeah yeah, Mozilla pays its clueless CEO and other execs way too much, mismanages its finances in general, fired the wrong people, fell for the hype about AI, has a board full of former Facebook and Twitter execs, relies excessively on telemetry to justify their worst UI design decisions, and occasionally has delusions about someday becoming an ad platform.
If it weren't for all that we'd all be better off. But sometimes you gotta vote for the lesser evil, and at least they don't do all this shit.
- Comment on Check mate atheists 4 months ago:
That's not an atheist thing, you're thinking of asantanists.
- Comment on TIL - Linux supports tilted monitors... apparently 22° is best 4 months ago:
- for some very specific version of "best"
- Comment on Why the Fediverse is not (yet) Billionaire-Proof, or: The 51% Attack for the Fediverse 4 months ago:
It seems unlikely that a 51% attack will do anything worse than the ~30000% attackers we currently deal with.