bran_buckler
@bran_buckler@lemmy.world
- Comment on Cognitive Biases 4 weeks ago:
What’s the opposite of the False Consensus Effect, where you feel like no one probably agrees with you?
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 4 weeks ago:
God, I hate how often my CEO says this
- Comment on Peanuts - A community for posting about the Peanuts comic by Charles M. Schulz 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for doing this! I’ve really enjoyed the early comics so far!
- Comment on Maybe all this AI bullshit might finally push people to touch grass and interact face to face some more 4 weeks ago:
Not to mention, there’s also a lot of human slop.
- Comment on No further questions your honour 1 month ago:
Why is the changing her life part (losing weight and getting a divorce after seeing Bigfoot) relevant? Did she leave her husband to try to get with Bigfoot and is suing the state because they claim her new beau doesn’t exist? Wild!
- Comment on never 1 month ago:
- Comment on Bread 2 months ago:
In that case, does it become a weed box? Is a bread box still a “bread box” if it doesn’t contain bread?
- Comment on How did marking corrections with the astrisk originate? 2 months ago:
Noting a correction is part of a larger scope of annotating something. From Wikipedia:
There is also a two-thousand-year-old character used by Aristarchus of Samothrace called the asteriskos, ※, which he used when proofreading Homeric poetry to mark lines that were duplicated. Origen is known to have also used the asteriskos to mark missing Hebrew lines from his Hexapla. The asterisk evolved in shape over time, but its meaning as a symbol used to correct defects remained.
In the Middle Ages, the asterisk was used to emphasize a particular part of text, often linking those parts of the text to a marginal comment. However, an asterisk was not always used.
Aristarchus of Samothrace was from c. 220 – c. 143 BC, so it’s been used to notation since at least then!