Randelung
@Randelung@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't? 2 days ago:
I can see weeped.
- Comment on Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't? 2 days ago:
Dreamed and smelled are clear, but… sleeped? sleped? Utter madness.
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 1 week ago:
I’d have an orgy with her any time.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 weeks ago:
A democracy requires free elections, so no to both.
I don’t think the US is that far gone, though. Some states do care about the democratic process, as the graphic indicates. I don’t think the US has left flawed democracy territory yet, at least not everywhere.
The US’ democracy index is falling, but it’s still comparably high, between France and Italy.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 weeks ago:
I get you’re referring to a plutocracy. The question is if the US is so far gone that it’s out of flawed democracy territory - the lines are definitely blurred and I’d argue it depends on the state.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, there’s tons of things that make the process unfair, but does that make the system not be a democracy? It’s a flawed one, one that basically only allows white dudes to vote, but the system is still a democracy.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 weeks ago:
All that to say it is a democracy after all, just even more condescendingly. Wonderful.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 weeks ago:
No, this is just the first time anyone actually invested more than the one sentence into an explanation. Can you give me a little more to look into? I genuinely have no idea what you’re referring to.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 weeks ago:
People keep commenting this without context and it’s driving me mad. It’s factually wrong, so at least tell us what you mean in the figurative sense.
- Comment on Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies use to harm people in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
Like fucking iTunes forbidding its use for terrorism. Grow up.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 weeks ago:
🥺 pwease money?
- Comment on Beans. 2 weeks ago:
Human beans?
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 3 weeks ago:
And don’t call me Shirley.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 4 weeks ago:
What ever happened to that other OS that was named after a color
- Comment on Just a pic of two besties 4 weeks ago:
Best roommates.
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like a 4chan prank, but… 🪦
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 month ago:
It comes down to the question “Is YOUR C++ code faster than Python?” (and of course the reverse).
I’ve built a SCADA from scratch and performance requirements are low to begin with, seeing as it’s all network bound and real world objects take time to react, but I’m finding everything is very timely.
A colleague used SQLAlchemy for a similar task and got abysmal performance. No wonder, it’s constantly querying the DB for single results.
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 month ago:
Maybe they mean up to?
- Comment on 2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club 1 month ago:
That’s what I’m afraid of. Once some bad actors realize Lemmy is as defenseless as it is, it’ll be carnage for a while. The only tool we have is defederation and it’s slow and borderline useless against spam or worse.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
If it only was just moving things around. The control panel has been further castrated while the settings app is just bad. Something about their CPU scheduler changes straight up broke VMware, and obviously MS is in no hurry to fix it resp. cooperate with VMware, being a competitor.
Rounded corners? I couldn’t care less. It’s a functional downgrade, though.
- Comment on I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists? 2 months ago:
This is forever burned into my head. I’ve not really watched that series and I remember nothing else. Just PRNDL.
- Comment on Minecraft is getting a visual overhaul you probably don't need because of all of those mods you've got installed 2 months ago:
Everything is rage bait nowadays. It’s exhausting.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 2 months ago:
Couldn’t reply to comments on my post a few days ago. “Server error”. Deleted my account.
- Comment on Idioms 2 months ago:
Shit hits the fan
- Comment on I've done it again... 2 months ago:
How to get the correct amount of pasta:
- Get as much as you think is right.
- Wrong.
- Comment on JD Vance. DOES. NOT. FUCK. COUCHES. 2 months ago:
Not even angery, just disappoint.
- Comment on Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing? 3 months ago:
That was dope! 363/365 points 😎
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 3 months ago:
No, my Blue Eyes White Aryan!
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 3 months ago:
I’m sure backups and redundancies are “inefficient” since “everything is in the cloud, anyway”.
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 3 months ago:
We can’t afford to wait at every sop, yeld, or one vay sign!