TranquilTurbulence
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- Comment on what is the actual name of this type of „logic”? 23 hours ago:
Even within a single language, you can have several different options like these
“curly double quotes” look like 66 and 99, so they are asymmetric.
“vertical double quotes” are identical.
‘curly single quotes’ are asymmetric.
‘vertical single quotes’ are identical.
- Comment on We get more month per day in February than any other time of the year. 1 day ago:
Eventually, there’s going to be a February when they don’t send a bill at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
You know what’s infuriating about multiple choice tests? When you know enough to notice a mistake. You can tell the teacher screwed up, and now you know none of the answers are correct or more than one is. Next, you’ll just have to telepathically figure out what the teacher was thinking of when designing the exam, and pick the answer that was originally supposed to be the right one.
If you’ve mastered the art of exam telepathy, you also unlock the ability to pass any multiple choice exam.
- Comment on Anyone ever look at pictures of themselves as a child and feel no connection to them? 2 days ago:
Yes, and that’s why I don’t like looking at old pictures of me. I feel like old me isn’t the same thing as current me. It also sparks lots of Ship of Theseus type thoughts.
The atoms and cells the old me was built out of are mostly gone now. The emergent properties of that collection of brain cells is also different. Thoughts, beliefs, emotions, habits and attitudes have changed. The old me and new me are different parts of the same continuum. If we lived in the same time, everyone would consider us two different people.
- Comment on Do rhymes make sense to deaf people? 4 weeks ago:
I was unable to find anything better than The Chaos. Not really written by a deaf person, but the idea is still similar. Some parts of the poem look like they should rhyme, but when Lindy actually pronounces the words, you’ll be disappointed to find that they don’t.
- Comment on If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal? 4 weeks ago:
Typing too fast again, LOL. I really need to slow down.
- Comment on If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal? 4 weeks ago:
God can see you, do you better not be commenting any sins out there.
- Comment on Do rhymes make sense to deaf people? 4 weeks ago:
if you’re talking about text, then deaf rhymes are going to in a very special category. If you ignore the pronunciation, you’re going to find all sorts of interesting rhymes here and there, but they will only work on paper. Also, a deaf poet would miss countless genuine rhymes that just happen to have messy spelling.
In other languages with a more sensible spelling system even deaf people can write poetry that could potentially be appreciated by everyone. English is such a train wreck, that deaf poetry becomes a very special case.
See also: The Chaos, by Gerard Nolst Trenité
- Comment on The best “I told you so”s are the ones where you never have to say “I told you so” because the other person clearly knows you told them so 4 weeks ago:
Wait, what? People wait at the border?
Normally, you just drive through without thinking about it. Later, you realize from the traffic signs that you must already be in the other country, and you missed the border again.
- Comment on Is consciousness dependent on input to the brain? 4 weeks ago:
We haven’t even figured out what qualifies as consciousness and what doesn’t. Studying something that’s not clearly defined won’t be easy. Also, we might be thinking about it in the wrong way, asking the wrong questions and using the wrong words.
- Comment on We like music because our brains crave pattern recognition. 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s also about the surprise of something violating the pattern. That’s why jokes are entertaining too. When crafting a joke, you need to build some expectations and then break them all of a sudden. Music has patterns and moments that break those patterns to an extent, so why wouldn’t the same thing apply here?
- Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 5 weeks ago:
Suddenly, printing stuff has declined in popularity when you could just have all the data with you in your phone. Don’t even have to be stored locally when you can access the cloud instead.
- Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 5 weeks ago:
For me, it was notes, calculations, and having access to the necessary information for making the two.
I might be sitting in the train, looking out the window, zoning out, and suddenly I start thinking about the melting point of tungsten. I begin to wonder how much power an arc furnace would draw while melting tungsten, and could you keep one running with just solar power. How many panels would you need at this location? I have so many questions, and most of them involve calculations.
You can imagine how glad I am that I don’t need to carry a calculator and a bunch of books with me.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 2 months ago:
Extra mittens and gloves. If you’re working otdoors, you’ll appreciate keeping your hands warm.
When I worked in circumstances like that, I used super large mittens, and they were worth it. You should pick up mittens that have a leather outer shell, removable soft inner mittens and enough space for you to also use extra gloves inside. In cold weather (-25 °C), I used all three layers. When it was warmer (-10 °C), I just used the outer two layers.
When the temperature begins to approach zero, sunshine can melt some of the snow during the day, which will make your mittens wet and your life miserable. For situations like that, you should make sure the outer layer of your leather mittens can deal with water. If that’s not an option, you should bring some spare mittens with you. When the mittens and gloves get wet, you need to try to dry them during breaks. After work, hang them to dry in a warm place, so that they will be ready for the next day.
- Comment on I'm honestly curious what the Spiderman Elsa youtube reboots will be like when Hollywood starts selling gen alpha their childhood. 2 months ago:
So, it’s going to be like Ready Player One, but with 2020s references.
- Comment on What good thing just happened in your life? 2 months ago:
I was just about to leave, put my shoes on, and that’s when I remembered that I needed to take out the trash. The good thing is, I remembered that before tying the laces.
Seems like I usually remember everything once the laces have been tied, but this time was different.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 months ago:
If you remember that it was written in 1984, the color is obviously black and white static. If you don’t think about the year, you might be lead to believe it is blue.
- Comment on Screenshots of texts from other social media are pretty boomer-ish 2 months ago:
This is the way.
- Comment on We should have elections with no candidates. 2 months ago:
Proportional representation is pretty close. You still vote a specific politician, but the vote benefits everyone in that party. Basically this means that you really need to read what the party is trying to accomplish and pick the one you like the most. Then you’ll pick your favorite candidate in that party, and cast your vote.
- Comment on How did Third World countries handle the Covid Pandemic? 2 months ago:
Having looked at this table, it would seem that western countries are at the top of the list when sorted by deaths per million.
However, I don’t think the poor countries even had the resources to collect realistic statistics nor the will to report them honestly. I would only use this table for comparing similar pairs of countries against each other. Comparing wealthy contents with poor ones doesn’t appear to make much sense.
My guess is that poor countries handled it badly, and these statistics don’t even begin to tell how bad it was. Then again, what can you expect when you don’t have many hospitals, nor the money for vaccinating everyone.
- Comment on Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement. 2 months ago:
Which is exactly what I’m looking for in a logo shirt. The longer you look, the more it hurts your eyes.
- Comment on Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement. 2 months ago:
LPT: Design your own generic company logo, and have it printed on t-shirt.
- Comment on Screenshots of texts from other social media are pretty boomer-ish 2 months ago:
Here’s the correct way:
- Take a photo of your screen using a camera.
- Print that photo on paper.
- Make necessary highlights using a pen.
- Scan the paper.
- Upload here.
- Comment on Couscous is the glitter of foods. 2 months ago:
You know that super flaky dough used in some salty or sweet pastries? Today someone brought a bag of those at work, and the break room was totally nuked as a result. No matter how careful you are, those flakes are going to get everywhere. [insert relevant prequel meme here]
- Comment on Is lemmy really any different from reddit? 3 months ago:
Yes and no. Depending on what kind of differences you care about. Want to clarify a bit?
In both, you have communities and voting sorts the posts. However, the number of communities and voters is much lower in Lemmy. Reddit has ads, so I guess that counts as a pretty clear difference too.
- Comment on My cat lives in a bigger house than I do. 3 months ago:
Imagine what it’s like for a microbial spore. It’s like landing on an alien planet ripe for exploration and exploitation.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 months ago:
Playing devil’s accountant here. A possibly legitimate reason ISPs put in data caps is shareholder profits.
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Charge more
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Provide less service
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Profit
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- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 months ago:
The first time I saw a mobile plan without any limits was somewhere around 2003-2004. Pretty soon after that, all the competitors started offering similar plans. So glad we got rid of those stupid limits.
- Comment on For states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream? 3 months ago:
You would also need to find a suitable location. If the reservoir is really far away, you’ll be losing too much energy. Think of transmission losses, but for water in a pipe. The reservoir would need to be pretty high as well, so a flat desert won’t work for an application like this.
Ideally, you would have a solar farm in the desert and use the excess energy to pump salt water to the top of a small mountain that sits right next to the ocean. With this setup, you would have a stable source of energy, which you could send to the grid. When the reservoir is full and energy demand is low, you could dump the remaining energy into desalination.
You could also use some of that energy to produce hydrogen and oxygen from water. During peak demand hours you could used a fuel cell to make electricity from the hydrogen.
You’ll also get oxygen as a byproduct, which could be used for a bunch of different chemical processes to get some additional revenue.
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 3 months ago:
When in doubt, see the emojipedia.
