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- Submitted 5 hours ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 27 comments
- Comment on If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers. 10 hours ago:
I didn’t think that through; what I really meant: replace ALL numbers and letters with nothing. Even if you had years to memorize everything before that change, I don’t think you’d fare well. As you seem to have pointed out in your second-to-last paragraph.
BTW the metro in Mexico City uses (Aztec, Mayan?) symbols for their routes (in addition to numbers iirc) because many people can’t read. Same with many preschool games: instead of trying to teach numbers/letters/counting prematurely, they just use colors or animals instead.
And when you think that through, letters and numbers aren’t all that different from “take a left at that big oak”.
- Comment on If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers. 11 hours ago:
Thought experiment: take that whole situation you just described and replace all letters and numbers with meaningless alien symbols. Does it still work?
- Comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading 12 hours ago:
I’m just glad people are waking up to how fiercely controlling Google is even in its “free” and “open” source endeavors.
- Comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading 1 day ago:
Ask Cory Doctorow, he has good answers well beyond that one term he coined.
- Comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading 2 days ago:
It’s really a pet peeve of mine, that term. So typical for what Google/Alphabet is doing to control the narrative around what’s “secure” and what isn’t.
- Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 2 days ago:
Yes, it’s normal.
Seriously, books have been written about this. Stories I mean, but probably also some sort of analysis.
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 2 days ago:
Just listened to someone attempt a Freudian analysis on the X that he seems so obsessed with. It was trite.
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 2 days ago:
‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’
Or ever create anything (he’s just stealing other people’s creations)
- Comment on EU AI Act Demands Informed, Disclosure-Aware Patent Strategies 3 days ago:
G O O D
AI simply needs regulation. Not sure this is the best there is, but just acknowledging that is a step forward.
I also read today that some leaders are pushing for sovereignty, i.e. being independent of US tech and developing their own.
On the downside, they want to fully embrace that shit for “preemptive data storage”. Also many go with Palantir regardless, I don’t understand how that goes together with the call for sovereignty.
- Comment on Poland Signs Palantir, Anduril Deals Amid Record Army Spending 3 days ago:
Question:
Does buying arms from the USA essentially necessitate using Palantir or related products?
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 4 days ago:
There’s an animated and a live action series. Which would you recommend more?
- Comment on The handhold opening of a kitchen cutting board allows you to turn it into a melee weapon. 6 days ago:
In winter, mostly preschool aged kids use these to slide down a snowy hill:
liukuri
Used as you describe they’re just as dangerous. - Comment on The handhold opening of a kitchen cutting board allows you to turn it into a melee weapon. 6 days ago:
My board is wider than the can. But I’m not sure about “that’s what the whole is for”. My board has a round hole like for a thumb. I find it useful for hanging it up to dry, after cleaning.
- Comment on How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral 1 week ago:
“Basically invented” here meant the last huge leap
That is not what “basically invented” means.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
German facts.
The ß or “esset” (also known as “scharfes s” or “sharp s”) is actually the combination of the old long s (ſ) and a regular s.
ſ + s = ſs = ß
In German it usually goes back to a combo of ſ + z, aka “ess-zett”.
- Comment on How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral 1 week ago:
Sorry, but English-speaking countries have basically invented “narrative manipulation”.
You have no idea how wrong you are. I could claim it was the roman catholic church and there’d probably still be older examples.
Nothing against you personally, but this is not the edgy take you think it is.
Oh, I forgot. The point is that it’s actually nice sometimes to have alternative pages in smaller languages on niche subjects, explained better to my own taste.
No, the point is that there are countries where people speak these languages and they want to read things in their own language. Sheesh.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Yeah I haven’t seen anybody else. I truly hope this is not catching on.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Is compressed air the best way to clean my pc that I consider dusting once every 2 years? 1 week ago:
I sometimes use a regular vacuum cleaner (anteater nozzle), and canned air for the tricky bits.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 1 week ago:
This image popped into my mind upon reading the headline; I hope my meaning comes across:
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 1 week ago:
Same when you try to deviate from the approved path of email providers or, dog forbid, even self-host email.
This is why I always switch off that “block potentially dangerous sites” setting in my browser - it always means Google’s blacklists. This is how Google influences the web beyond its own products.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
and the borders inside a borders?
What is that? You mean padding?
- Comment on Why does markdown treat linefeeds as spaces? 1 week ago:
Maybe markdown-friendly keyboard apps exist for your phone?
- Comment on How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral 1 week ago:
As soon as you leave the big languages, esp. English, Wikipedia can be very problematic for all sorts of reasons.
Mostly because of a lack of eyeballs.
But it doesn’t end with merely badly written/generated content but also with narrative manipulation that - unlike in the English version - remains unchallenged. - Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 1 week ago:
Yeah I agree with this. But you can’t separate the internet like this. OP didn’t think their Q through.
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 1 week ago:
Important point: it’s not so much about people going crazy (presumably because they have nothing to do?) but about infrastructure and services collapsing pretty much immediately.
It would be (almost) like switching off electricity itself.
- Comment on Why does markdown treat linefeeds as spaces? 1 week ago:
The idea of MD is that text remains human readable in both your code editor and converted to HTML.
In the code editor you’ll want to add line breaks because other wise you get horizontal overflow.
The final HTML does things differently because of the concept of pargaraphs.I find that neither “historical” nor irritating.
Some implementations of MD do exactly what you want btw.
- Comment on Scrapped by Trump, revived US climate-disaster database reveals record losses 1 week ago:
Congressional Democrats have also sought to restore the program within NOAA, introducing a bill last month that has yet to advance.
I’m not hopeful but at least they’re trying.
This year in a nutshell:
The new findings, he said, show that “the year started out with a bang”: the Los Angeles wildfires were likely the costliest in history, with insured losses reaching an estimated $60 billion.
That was followed by a barrage of spring storms across the central and southern United States, including several destructive tornadoes.
Altogether, 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters between January and June caused $101.4 billion in inflation-adjusted damages – though 2025 as a whole may fall short of a record, thanks to a milder-than-usual Atlantic hurricane season.
- Comment on How much more progressive are European views as compared to progressives in America? 1 week ago:
European views can be just as progressive or blinkered as anywhere else in the world I guess.
Different European countries have different parties.
Some of them might be “center left” or “center right” and usually both would comfortably fit under the umbrella that is “Democrats” in the US.
The things you want might already exist in your European State of choice. If not, some of it might be covered by any of the large parties. At least partially. Of course you can always vote further left if you want.
I don’t think unconditional UBI is a realistic ask atm, but otoh the social net is stronger or much stronger, compared to the US.
All your simple points are actually pretty complex if you look at it from within a country & its existing policies.
