DomeGuy
@DomeGuy@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 1 week ago:
I wonder how many lives would be saved if this was repeated enough to be made common knowledge.
Considering all of the times a child has accidentally discharged a firearm and killed someone, I don’t think it’s as many as the other rules.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"? 1 week ago:
OneDrive is absurdly easy to not use. I feel confident saying that if you can’t figure out how to save an MS word file to a non-onedrive folder you should definitely leave it on. A single backup on a cloud service with a local cache is better than a single backup on one physical drive that will eventually fail.
If it’s important, you want at least three backups in two different formats with one physically removed from the others. A copy you save to a thumb stick, a copy you save to OneDrive, and one you print out. (Or, conversely, the physical copy you bought, one electronic copy local, and one copy of that electronic version saved to iCloud or what have you.)
- Comment on How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style? 1 week ago:
Not a physicist – they know the math.
Just a sci-fi enthusiast who got really annoyed by a trilogy that didn’t understand what the “delta” in “delta-v” meant and so the space ships spent a lot of time getting to a very high orbital speed before each fight.
- Comment on How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style? 1 week ago:
Time dilation is your subjective acceleration veering into more “time” than “space”.
If you somehow were in a flat universe with parallel velocity to an object several light-years away, and somehow managed to accelerate towards it at 1 g, you’d impact at the time on your watch that pure Newtonian physics says you would.
The subjective clocks of the place you’re hitting would measure your travel time as a lot longer, however. But it wouldnt be infinite at all – a relatively small multiple of “several” years, in fact.
(Before the relativistic impact recused both you and them to an energetic plasma, that is.)
- Comment on Can someone please ELI5 the legal issue with genericized trademarks? 1 week ago:
A trademark is a distinct way to refer to a business. The whole set of legal rights and privileges that this weird form of intellectual property gets are to make sure that when somebody talks about " dome guys tacos" they’re definitely talking about my tacos and not yours or some other persons.
If I let dumb guys tacos become a generic term that I don’t say hey, that’s not talking about my tacos anymore. Don’t do that then I’ve let my trademark become generic. This is unlikely to happen to actual tacos but if I had come up with a brand new pseudo taco dish and I called it the DCT, and then every Mexican restaurant in the country copied it and also called it the DCT, then the idea has become genericized and I can’t. Then at the end of it start trying to collect money from other people for calling the thing I invented and failed to produce by the name that has been attached to it.
This is of course entirely apart from the menu of how to create a DCT, we should be covered by copyright, or the specific set of instructions on how to create a DCT, which hypothetically I could get a patent on. (Although I don’t think they award patents for food.)
- Comment on The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing 1 week ago:
Since both clauses are interdependent and incorrect on their own, the join here with merely a comma is entirely proper and not a comma slice
- Comment on Microsoft warns that China is winning AI race outside the west 1 week ago:
China is definitely stupid about something, but “let’s.join the current USA bubble” doesn’t seem to be it.
- Comment on Haste/Impatience should have been one of the deadly sins. 2 weeks ago:
The Christians who live by their principles generally are fairly discreet in doing so, both because that’s one of their principles and because they’re embarrassed by the ones who don’t.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 2 weeks ago:
Stackexchange sites aren’t intended as forums, they’re supposed to be “places to find answers to questions”.
The more you get away from stack overflow itself the worse they get, though, because anything beyond “how can I fix this tech problem” doesn’t necessarily have an answer at all, much less a single best one
- Comment on If social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse. 2 weeks ago:
How is “significantly worse” not different?
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 2 weeks ago:
Nazisim wasn’t existentially anti-jewish. It was just an evil philosophy looking for an enemy to attack, and would have as happily focused on Romani, Apache, or Poles if they were more present in Germany.
Zionism is that same evil philosophy, spreading among Jews instead of Germans.
Ethnic nationalism is just bigotry enshrined into law.
- Comment on The only science fiction in 1984 by Orwell is that there is a drug that could make you "Happy" 2 weeks ago:
FWIW, the biggest sci-fi in 1984 wasn’t big brother or the proto-internet. It was a predictive model of human behavior that could perfectly predict individual behavior.
That, and a competent tyrannical regime.
(My personal headcannon is that “Airstrip one” or whatever they called Britain is the North Korea of its world, and everyone else just ignores them.)
- Comment on That time Apple sent everyone a U2 album: 'I DONT WANT YOU.' 2 weeks ago:
“if we just made this opt-in” has become the bleakest nonsense in IT.
Be it LLMs or ads or “free” albums, tech companies just can’t accept that “make me say yes” should always be the default.
- Comment on Parents who knowingly send their kid to a place where they get bullied and do nothing about it are at fault and are the worst types of people. 3 weeks ago:
“Being bullied can be good; I was bullied and ended it by engaging in violence!” is like “I grew my business from nothing with a small loan of 10 million from my parents”
Yes, teaching kids how to stand up for themselves and interact with unfriendly peers is a good thing. But sending a child into an abusive situation and saying “you figure it out” is still bad parenting.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 3 weeks ago:
Your analogy is more telling than you think it is, and argues rather strongly against the idea that right wing transphobia has worthwhile points.
Yes, the (non) existence of God Almighty is both philosophically and scientifically unfalsifiable. But we don’t as societies use this to assert that every last person who proclaims a faith is telling an intentional lie about belonging to a religion
Gender is not like whether or not God exists, but is instead like what church you attend.
- Comment on Why do Interstate highways exits post the nearby jail/prison/detention center? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, because you despite not being OP proclaimed that warning off hitchhikers was the “right answer”
- Comment on Croutons are just stale, dry bread with good PR. 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t tease if I didn’t love. :)
Americans think the French mock our food culture in the way that we mock their military resolve – only in jest, or on the lips of the dumbest citizens of our respective countries.
America’s far too obese to not have amazing food, and we would still be part of the British empire (or speaking German!) if the French did not know how to fight.
- Comment on Croutons are just stale, dry bread with good PR. 3 weeks ago:
Well, good PR and a bunch of recipes that call for them
That we buy croutons in stores is why the French don’t believe Americans can cook
- Comment on Why do Interstate highways exits post the nearby jail/prison/detention center? 3 weeks ago:
Not a bot, just a guy whose been on the internet for years. Which means that, yes, I presume some people are ignorant of facts. (And that others are fucking stupid.)
@OP posted about “exit signs”, which is not what your sign shows. Which is why I described the ones I did.
Why did you assume that the black-on-white public safety signs like what you posted were what they meant by “exit sign”?
- Comment on Why do Interstate highways exits post the nearby jail/prison/detention center? 3 weeks ago:
Road signs are like zip codes : they aren’t assigned based on desirability but volume of need.
While more Americans visit a library or courthouse than visit a prison, such places are almost always highly local. If you or your loved ones are sent to prison, it’s probably going to be somewhere you aren’t familiar with.
And don’t discount that a lot of prisons were built as "job providers* in rural communities, so there are a considerable amount of employees that have to locate the place.
(If you want to be depressed about the American prison industrial complex, look up the statewide budgets for the departments of incarceration and contrast them with highway construction or education )
- Comment on Why do Interstate highways exits post the nearby jail/prison/detention center? 3 weeks ago:
The typically white-on-green signs shown near US interstate exits are navigational aids, not public safety messages.
If the local prison is on the exit, it’s just the single most notable landmark.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 5 weeks ago:
It’s cute that you think anyone who would co-opt a beloved brand like Firefox to make an “AI browser” would be at all stopped by past habits.
Screen shots are not developed by massive art theft, nor does the creation of such a feature burn so many megawatts of data center energy that it makes Bitcoin farming look efficient.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 5 weeks ago:
“Opt-out” means on by default. Installed alongside the parts that you use, and quite possibly embedded into the thing so thoroughly that the next automatic update or feature iteration will either switch it back on or remove the option entirely.
LLMs are controversial to say the least, and accomodation to those who are repulsed by their inclusion should not take the form of an option they need to jump through hoops to turn off.
Leaving them in but saying they can be turned off is like shipping pornography in your video game with a filter someone in the options you can enable. It’s a pain in the ass at the least, and means that anyone making a moral or ethical stand against its inclusion has no choice but to go elsewhere.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 5 weeks ago:
“fake” diversity with an obviously proprietary option is substantially better than a fake “open” environment where the only web browser options are either made by a single for-profit company, a reskinned derivative of that for-profit company’s work, or a semi-not-for-profit whose main funding source is that same for-profit company.
In a very real way, web standards beyond “whatever chrome does” died when Microsoft tossed edge’s HTML engine for chromium.
- Comment on What are some cool infections? 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, WoT balefire scarring would be epic as fuck. You had a foot replaced when you were young by a wizard,.and in the future the jerk gets balefire’d so hard that his entire lifespan back to when you got your foot replaced is undone.
The charactes’s foot appears as a ghostly flicking outline, like the false light if you stare at something too bright for too long. It can make a few marks, but is not solid enough to support the character.
This could just be a clever detail, or it could be a setup for an epic campaign.
- Comment on What unique thing bothers you about politics in general? 5 weeks ago:
This is a consequence of America wanting to pretend that the rest of the government has to be funded in accordance with the constitutional guard against a standing army.
The only thing that Congress does that has a constituonal time limit is fund the army.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Why should abelsim be given latitude that we wouldn’t extend to racism, sexism, or anti-Semitism?
My opinion is that embarrassed bigotry in private is still bigotry. It’s good that those with such feelings recognize the harm that they bring (or at least the public shaming that they can suffer), but it makes for a simpler life to just excise such hatreds whenever you can.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
The same folks sending “the left are subhuman!” to the right aren’t also sending “the right are Nazis!” to the left. That would be a duplicate signal and inefficient.
Instead, they’re sending “both sides suck” to the middle.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
Because right-wing propaganda is “become Nazis, the left are all sub-humans” and the left wing propaganda is “what the fuck, the right are all Nazis!?”
It’s hard to spot propaganda when it’s just the truth spoken loudly.
- Comment on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman 1 month ago:
A mere casual endorsement is not an appeal to authority. If you don’t like the guy that’s fine, but it’s not a logical fallacy to, for example, describe a late night comedian as “a kinda funny guy.”. (A logical fallacy would require that someone assume Krugman is RIGHT because of his record, not that he’s merely worth reading )
How is dismissing someone because of where they worked NOT an ad hominem attack?
How is splitting hairs over which awards given by the swedish government are and aren’t “nobel prizes” NOT a distinction without a difference?