SlurpingPus

@SlurpingPus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Status code 418 is the "sir this is wendy's" meme for tech people.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’ve read about these too — there’s been a period when I consumed old lore aplenty. Like reading all or at least most of the Jargon File (I’ve had it in the non-linear format of being plugged into actual dictionary software).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Status code 418 is the "sir this is wendy's" meme for tech people.⁩ ⁨⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  this was before the era of IoT

  TBF remotely-controlled coffeemakers were a dream of nerds since the eighties if not earlier. I remember reading a fascinated account of some dude who kludged up such remote control in the office kitchen, such that the couple minutes it took him to walk there from his office was the exact time it took the coffee to brew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Status code 418 is the "sir this is wendy's" meme for tech people.⁩ ⁨⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  You have your sense of time a bit out of whack.

  Development of HTTP was initiated in 1989.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah. I'm on the spectrum alright⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The left side should be one of them European house spiders, which look like this, are a couple centimeters in size, and are completely harmless. I might have some in my apartment, at least I see them from time to time. I know they put up a little web in the upper corners of the room, but that doesn’t seem effective.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How/why does Microsoft teams exist?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, well, ps is one program that is Unixes’ analog to the task manager. htop shows the same info dynamically and with pretty colors.

  I won’t explain their output here, there are plenty of tutorials and explainers on the web. Just gonna say that in Unixes, background services, including system ones, run under their own names instead of anything like svchost — i.e. a proper separate program starts and keeps in the background, so you can see it in ps or another system monitor. (Although in theory nothing prevents there being an svchost with the same approach as in Windows, but Linux distros don’t provide one for lack of necessity.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How/why does Microsoft teams exist?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you mean PowerShell, it’s just text scripts that run sorta like programs. I don’t think many scripts are used in Windows or in apps, outside of sysadmin stuff and sometimes app installers, so idk where you’re seeing them.

  However, PowerShell uses the extension ‘ps1’. ‘ps’ is PostScript, which is a page layout format similar to PDF and in fact the precursor to it.

  Neither of these are related to svchost. PowerShell scripts typically run start to end in one go and don’t hang out in the background (tough in theory they can).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How/why does Microsoft teams exist?⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s nothing, Google had almost a dozen different chat apps at different times, some of them simultaneously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Topical: ‘Celebrating Australia Day in 2026’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denominator, go Mercator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you seriously think that the geometrical properties of the projection change below the equator? You need to learn this thing called geometry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denominator, go Mercator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now guess where China builds railroads for exports to Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From light pollution. Or it’s just early morning in there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The number of conjugations is impressive, mostly because of the genders and the plural forms. But regarding the tenses themselves, half of them are formed by adding ‘stato’ to the other kind. Meanwhile English has twelve basic tenses without getting into the subjunctive, conditional and imperative moods (congiuntivo, condizionale and imperativo). The full tense–aspect–mood system greatly complicates things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  has way less verb tenses

  Wouldst I have been having an origin and thus a learning experience that might have been comparable to yours, I expect I should will agree with you. But having not had had my way into English from the same vantage point, I am going to have to go ahead and will have disagreed with you, in that in my view tenses in English are son of a fucking bitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you think it’s basically the world’s lingua franca?

  Afaik until WW2 German still was the lingua franca for academia. What, it became harder after the war? Oh wait, perhaps it’s just fallen out of favor while the US, having not been bombed to rubble and having had an influx of educated immigrants, enjoyed a huge economic boom and resulting political and cultural dominance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m of the view that a bunch of digraphs would be reduced to single letters if Polish used the Cyrillic script. But some commenters noted that other letters don’t map that nicely. However, then again, variations of Cyrillic across Eastern Europe and Central Asia include a range of letters that aren’t in Russian, for example, so idk why Polish couldn’t use those or add a few letters of its own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pls no⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ve seen posts on Reddit that went like “I thought surely datura can’t be that bad… I can now report that it’s absolute garbage of a drug and the worst experience I’ve had in my life”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that you’re screaming a lot but not offering actual solutions except a general idea of “Fight!”. That’s not helpful, and it sounds a lot like condescension.

  None of this stopped USians from endlessly writing on Reddit for the past four years that Russians should’ve overthrown Putin, and I didn’t see them helping plan a revolution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You presumably mean that Hugo Boss ‘designed the SS uniform’ — which he didn’t, as he wasn’t a designer and the company wasn’t in fashion design until after his death. The uniform was designed by two dudes in the SS, and Hugo Boss’ company was one of many manufacturers contracted for production.

  Hugo Boss was a member of the Nazi party, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bomberman has a lore?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This video probably illustrates well what game writing was like back in the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One source of entertainment for the past three or so years was seeing on social media how terrified USians are of the prospect of living like people in other countries do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Operators of pirate sites don’t tend to publicize their identities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit has at least one sub where the posts and the comments are generated by Markov-chain bots. More than a few times I’ve gotten a post from there in my feed, and read through it confusedly for several minutes before realizing. Iirc it’s called subreddit_simulator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Second Life never took off

  “In 2013, it had approximately one million regular users.”

  ‘Second Life’ has been chugging along for twenty-two years, with an actual in-game economy and a GDP of 500 million bucks. But clutchtwopointzero here thinks it ‘never took off’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pro choice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Another comment in the thread says that “isn’t pro-choice” is exactly about the rejection of the axiom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who's gonna tell him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the day I’ve listened to him at some panel gathering, about AI. And heard nothing that wasn’t already said by sci-fi writers and tech thinkers. So his ‘genius’ anyways eluded me, while him being the moneybag raised suspicions.

  Hearing that he was in PayPal immediately put everything in place, because that company was known for decades for freezing people’s accounts on random pretext and keeping the money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3194: 16 Part Epoxy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in permanent awe that people manage to glue stuff together in ways that are good enough to be sold and used for years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[meme] choochoo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, another US-centric post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[meme] choochoo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Things exist only theoretically if they’re outside the only real country, the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just saying that many posts don’t have a language specified. So if you disable ‘undetermined’, all those posts disappear from your feed. It’s best to select ‘undetermined’ and whatever languages you read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do I have to read ten reposts of everything happening in the US if it changes nothing and the comments are always the same?