WalrusDragonOnABike
@WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today
- Comment on Frog's Gift 2 days ago:
Studying fly development has led to cancer treatments targeting the sonic hedgehog pathway.
- Comment on topical 2 weeks ago:
It still would be a mistake and would prevent some people from voting for him, but Bernie would at least compensate for it by actually supporting popular policies instead of the opposite and have some energy.
- Comment on topical 2 weeks ago:
- Not 70+ years old.
- Comment on Is lemmy really any different from reddit? 3 weeks ago:
The basic idea seems to be that it should be pretty similar to reddit, but with federation. Definitely still seems to have its own separate character though. And different instances have their own unique cultures, some more differentiated than others.
- Comment on SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market 1 month ago:
Its already been 6 years since the first 100TB SSD released and I still don’t think anyone has bothered to dethrone it last I checked. Density and number of layers possible have both increased since then. I imagine part of it is just a performance issue though; 10 10TB SSDs are gonna be faster than 1 100TB SSD.
- Comment on They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot. 1 month ago:
Oh yeah… no clue how I forgot about that. Guess I was specifically thinking about Clinton/Bush because they’re the ones who’ve had multiple in the family on the ballot.
- Comment on They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot. 1 month ago:
Nixon, Ford, Carter were 70’s, not after the 70’s. Reagan’s VP was a Bush, wasn’t it? Maybe they’re also including the primary ballots to count Clinton in Obama’s elections? But I don’t think she ran in 2012…
- Comment on Preference 1 month ago:
M&Ms
- Comment on I miss Adam West... 1 month ago:
Usually 4%/x25 has been considered the rule-of-thumb (and that’s based on a study that considered dying broke okay; not based on capital preservation). x20 would usually be considered fairly aggressive (although that depends if you are including other things like SS benefits if you are in the US).
Given the super-high CAPE ratio currently, even 4% would be be aggressive if you want capital preservation. Something like 3%/x33 would be more geared towards that.
- Comment on xkcd #2983: Monocaster 2 months ago:
Also a gap in the high-wheel count, mid-sized market!
I think warehouses have things that would probably count, but we need consumer-facing options!
- Comment on Republicans suggest in 'private' that they would be better off if Trump loses: GOP insider 2 months ago:
Gerrymandering is generally an issue for house seats. Its not like states redraw the borders between neighboring states to make new states to effect statewide elections.
- Comment on Perspective 2 months ago:
Pretty sure I’ve had excel do something like change 1/2 into March 6th…
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 3 months ago:
You’re a friend to me.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 3 months ago:
Vivaldi is cool. I installed it (for those who wanted a chromium browser) and FF on all the work computers where I work. Eventually uninstalled it because people started playing Vivaldia. Disabled Edge, so now they are FF only.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 3 months ago:
Brave has built-in wallet support and such, but I don’t think it does any mining, does it? It just has its own opt-in ad system to pays out in crypto and is also owned by a turd.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 3 months ago:
FF still hasn’t brought back a tab group API for extensions or native tab groups. Extensions can only do so much given what they have to work with. I still use FF on the side, but it simply isn’t a practical as a primary browser for me currently.
But for casual users, many probably have never even touched their browser settings.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 3 months ago:
I just listened to a rugrats song yesterday though.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 3 months ago:
There’s also other chromium browsers with built-in ad-blocking that still work AFAIK. If all extensions and forked brower’s ad-blockers stopped working, I think there would probably be a surge in firefox usage (even if there’s not that much change in chromium usage).
- Comment on Colorblindness check! 3 months ago:
Shows as a png for me too.
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 3 months ago:
Cool. Being trans, not tolerating transphobia, and having emotes is comparable to being nazis?
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 3 months ago:
Games is the largest games com by far in terms of posts and comments (150k comments and 15k post vs 71k comments and 3k posts on lemmy world…
News has most posts than any other news and about as many comments as lemmyworld.
Politics has the most posts of any politics coms, but far less comments than lemmyworld’s.
History basically has no competitors (150k comments vs 7k for the next largest)
Movies also has no competitors (75k comments vs 9k for the next largest).
Videos has 56k comments vs lemmyworld’s 13k
Music has 45k comments vs lemmyworld’s 6k
Urbanism has 44k comments vs fuckcar’s 19k
Granted, given Hexbear has been around for 4 years, the number of comments/posts is largely a side effect of age. But it also means calling them duplicates is probably misleading. OTOH, the main trans community there has been very active recently, dwarfing all other trans communities combined.
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 3 months ago:
And is there any reason behind the name? A bear, but hexagon shaped, is their mascot.
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 3 months ago:
Isn’t your instance federated with hexbear? Seems like it hardly blocks any lemmy instances.
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 3 months ago:
I’m subscribed to pretty much all the trans coms I know of and traa is 90% of the trans content that shows up. Another 5% are other hexbear trans subs. Traa has as many comments in half a month as mtf@blajah has had in its entire existance and as many in a week as trans@blahaj has made in total (the two largest non-hexbear trans subs afaik).
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 3 months ago:
Not really surprising. 10 out of the 10 most commented posts in the past year are on hexbear (the top 2 being the weekly trans mega threads). Granted, a lot of that is just the hyper-active posting of a few users. Regardless, if you want a trans community, there’s basically no active alternative to hexbear’s traaa here.
- Comment on Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees 4 months ago:
And you don’t need to re:build green spaces to decarify. But you probably should.
- Comment on greatest amazon review 4 months ago:
But what leggings were they?
- Comment on Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ 5 months ago:
I think I had someone ask why I was necroing something because I had responded to something that had been posted earlier that or the night before. Maybe it was older than 24 hours, but regardless it was a weird experience.
- Comment on hotwheels sisyphus 5 months ago:
- Comment on The second matchup of the tournament 6 months ago:
Is there gonna be a loser’s bracket for this tournament?