bleistift2
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- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 1 day ago:
God, I hated that terminology when I needed to talk with people about discord.
- Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities 3 days ago:
I would like to go back to the times when I could easily tell a joke from reality. To go, please.
- Comment on VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files 1 week ago:
They do provide a *.deb.
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 1 week ago:
Let’s consult Wikipedia (emphasis mine) [1].
Works of encyclopedic scope aim to convey the important accumulated knowledge for their subject domain, such as an encyclopedia of medicine, philosophy or law. Works vary in the breadth of material and the depth of discussion, depending on the target audience.
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 1 week ago:
Simple English is for people who would like a simpler language. I’m advocating for reduced scope – or at least better organization of detail. Move stuff that’s irrelevant in the great scheme of things to subpages or pages with narrower scope, instead of writing one single compendium on a topic.
I feel like the English Wikipedia is already better at this. In the German, on the other hand, the first sentence sometimes contains multiple lines of etymological derivations of the article’s title before it even mentions what it’s about (as soon as I stumble upon one of these monstrosities again, I’ll report the example here).
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 1 week ago:
Which isn’t a bad thing. Wikipedia has for the last 25 years aimed at providing you with every bit of knowledge there is on a topic. That simply is not what people want when they look for information. No-one wants to read a full library’s worth of text when they want to figure out what happened in WWII. But Wikipedia lists all the minutae of every battle on every part of land, sea and air, including all the acting people from generals down to the lowliest private.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 1 week ago:
Commas are a premium feature now.
- Comment on My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math 1 week ago:
I wish you better luck the next time you try to read.
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- Comment on 5/7 with rice 2 weeks ago:
Chinese restaurant? If Youtube comedians have taught be right then every portion larger than a spoonful is ‘idiot’ size.
- Comment on On Monoculture 2 weeks ago:
Adding to this: The German word for the English monoculture (i.e., only one crop per field, but changing every growing season) is Reinkultur, or pure culture.
- Comment on On Monoculture 2 weeks ago:
I believe there may be a language barrier at play here.
“In agriculture, monoculture is the practice of growing one crop species in a field at a time.”, says the English Wikipedia [1].
German Wikipedia, on the other hand, says
Als Monokultur […] werden […] Flächen bezeichnet, auf denen ausschließlich eine einzige Nutzpflanzenart über mehrere Jahre hintereinander angepflanzt wird […] Wenn auf einem Feld in einer Anbauperiode ausschließlich Nutzpflanzen einer Art angepflanzt werden, handelt es sich um eine Reinkultur, nicht um eine Monokultur.
Monoculture are fields on which a single crop is planted for multiple years at a time […] If a field contains a single type of crop in a single growing season, it is called a pure culture, not a monoculture.
- Comment on They don't pay me enough for this 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Psychedelic Exoskeletons 2 weeks ago:
That’s also why deer hunters are fine wearing high-visibility vests. Deer can’t see them.
- Comment on You don't have to use gyroelongation 3 weeks ago:
Gyroelongation sounds like a disease of a body part I don’t even have.
- Comment on And my fasciation! 1 month ago:
When Spongebob decided to become a landlord.
- Comment on ˚₊‧꒰ა 𓂋 ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ 2 months ago:
“Pulcherrima” translates to “the prettiest”.
- Comment on the devil you know 2 months ago:
If one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, is one man’s hell also another man’s heaven?
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 2 months ago:
Akshually they do. They’re just hidden.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 2 months ago:
Indeed. I never said I liked it :D
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 2 months ago:
Much obliged.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 2 months ago:
Is “Can’t do the steam day.” slang I don’t know or a typo I can’t decipher?
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 2 months ago:
If you like stories: I recently fell in love with Oxenfree, and you should, too.
If you like RimWorld, you could give Oxygen Not Included a go.
- Comment on mercy merci 3 months ago:
Second, find a take-away container, scoop the spider into the container
What, like an excavator?
- Comment on mercy merci 3 months ago:
That guy is the reason why all spiders get the impediment of the doubt from me.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 months ago:
How did the seconds end up with three digits?
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 months ago:
Figuring things out yourself is always hit or miss. Either the specific neurons required for you to understand something fire or they don’t.
Relying children to figure something out for themselves is doubly stupid. Because for that to work, the child must want to learn the thing and then be able to understand it. If reading an analog clock isn’t something you need (and maybe you’re not even around analog clocks), then you won’t learn.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 months ago:
I don’t have a horse in this race, but your argument doesn’t hold up. If you want a way to tell the time during a power outage, you don’t need an analogue clock, you need one that runs on batteries.
- Comment on Why are these the 2 fingers that we always use? 3 months ago:
That took a while, but it was worth it.
