Silentiea
@Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 1 day ago:
How can the soldier knead anything if he’s made of lead?
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 1 day ago:
Mostly the “reasons” just boil down to etymology. We spell things the way the languages we stole them from spelled them.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 1 day ago:
So this is where I find cucumber?
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 1 day ago:
Close is way closer to clothes than it is to lose. And close is more like gross.
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
So that’s the etymology
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
Specifically the After the End variant
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
What’s the etymology?
- Comment on What GPU is inside Mall Cop Robots? 1 month ago:
Even just a hand grenade is probably plenty. Or a particularly expensive firework.
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 1 month ago:
The irony is that I do, in fact, like mudkips.
- Comment on Godot 3.6 finally released! 2 months ago:
I’ve been waiting for Godot for so long …
/ref
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
Ah. GL with your flight.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
That’s why you specify it there:
2A@5-15V or something.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
So do like they did for video and out 2A @ 5V. Now you have power.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
The part that isn’t reasonable is the misrepresentation. The Ethernet ports in the dorm aren’t allowed to be used with WiFi routers, contrary to what the student was told beforehand.
The rule might be fine, but not lying about it. If it was just a mistake, the dorm company should still attempt to make it up to the student. This was a deciding factor in choosing this dorm, by the sound of it.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 months ago:
Yay…
- Comment on Any observation can be turned into an interesting question. 2 months ago:
If you’re referring to the “empty set” and asking the question “why is it empty” you should probably step away from set theory for now.
- Comment on Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat 2 months ago:
Careful, I don’t think that mask is n95 or anything.
- Comment on E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space - Liliputing 2 months ago:
Thanks
- Comment on E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space - Liliputing 2 months ago:
What devices are these, in the video and photos?
- Comment on Apple stands by decision to terminate account belonging to WWDC student winner | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
an $150
a $1500
How do you pronounce these? An 'undred and fifty? I’m honestly curious, because I can’t feel like an fits on either. I wasn’t going to care enough to ask but then you put a on one thousand five hundred.
- Comment on Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites 2 months ago:
Personally I prefer when people keep their fucking inside, rather than outside where I might have to accidentally see it.
- Comment on Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites 2 months ago:
low throughput
That’s a very generous way to put it
- Comment on Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites 2 months ago:
Everything goes somewhere, and we go everywhere.
- Comment on Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites 2 months ago:
Or if there were 45 services, but they all basically had everything, rather than all of them having basically nothing
- Comment on What does dying from all causes mean? 2 months ago:
smoking is often statistically associated with substance abuse and bad health - which increases the likelihood of major trauma events, but on the other hand smokers die earlier,leaving more old people to walk in front of vehicles due to reduced cognitive abilities)
So what about if we control for age? Are old smokers more or less likely to get hit by a bus than old non-smokers?
Quick, someone do an RCT.
- Comment on What does dying from all causes mean? 2 months ago:
I’ve never survived being hit by a bus,and I don’t smoke. Checkmate, atheists.
- Comment on What does dying from all causes mean? 2 months ago:
Also you’re more likely to be milling around outside
- Comment on Do I need to store this in the fridge when opened? 2 months ago:
Ohhhh, now I get it! I thought that meant it would make my cupboard colder.
- Comment on Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat 2 months ago:
But, like, why is that listed then? Why would Kia and Nissan say they collect information on your “sex life” and “sexual activity” respectively of they’re not? What’s to gain from keeping the window open if you’re using it?
- Comment on Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat 2 months ago:
Obviously the main source of heat is what enters through the windows, and how much is reflected out again does have an influence.,
A lot of things seem obvious but turn out not to be, or not as much as I’ve first thought. Hence the usefulness of data and studies rather than mere reasoning.