NorthWestWind
@NorthWestWind@lemmy.world
I code stuff. I draw stuff.
- Comment on Antz in my Pantz 1 day ago:
A competitor to crabs
- Comment on Find luigi 6 days ago:
Jokes on you I played this for 2 hours and reached level 1000
- Comment on In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand? 1 week ago:
There are a few ways we do it in Chinese.
In mainland, people would sometimes just type the initials of the pronunciation of the character. For example, hhhhh (哈哈哈哈哈, hahahahaha), sb (傻逼 sha bi, dumbass). It can get out of hand for people who are not super familiar with their vocabularies (like me, a Hong Kong Cantonese speaker)
Alternatively, one can just use a different dialect/version of Chinese. In Hong Kong, we can have both written Chinese and spoken Cantonese mixed in the same message. We simply pick which one of them gives a shorter version of the word. For example, 回家看看有無撞其餘活動 ([Written] Go home and see [Spoken] if it conflicts with other events). Sometimes we even mix in ancient Chinese.
- Comment on Why covering our shoulders with a mantle or blanket is so efficient at warming us? 1 week ago:
My mom always says warm you neck. Her explanation is that an artery runs through it and you can lose heat quite quickly there
- Comment on Even in space it's possible to get hit by a self-driving Tesla. 3 weeks ago:
Cargo space
- Comment on Please remember to spread the word about this :( 3 weeks ago:
Those damn electrons!
- Comment on Always there 3 weeks ago:
Can’t wait for World 7: Sky Land
- Comment on I have discovered chat IS cute and so are you <3 3 weeks ago:
Chat are you real?
- Comment on Future aspirations 4 weeks ago:
She used the cats to steal more cats
- Comment on A small price to pay 5 weeks ago:
Sugar cane grows faster on snad
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
They don’t harm your computer like insects do. Problem solved :>
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
By keeping them out of my home.
I live in Hong Kong, very warm and wet. We simply have mosquito nets on every window. Alternatively you can try to live higher.
But even without those, I don’t really see much people having this problem. Perhaps it’s sampling bias.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I see an Ammeter
- Comment on any alsume dwellers here? 2 months ago:
I’m using voyager and I can change them. Check settings->gestures
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
- Comment on Insurrection act — April 20th. Pls read! 3 months ago:
1 to 7 of the playbook is just what happened in HK
- Comment on They are lying to us 3 months ago:
It’s a nice planet that is commonly misunderstood
- Comment on If society goes completely cashless, bank robberies would no longer be a thing, which means there would no longer be "bank robbery" plots in future Movies/TV shows. 4 months ago:
They just rob data instead of money
- Comment on There is no war in Wah Sing Ton 4 months ago:
You made it look like the English pronunciation of Cantonese names commonly seen in HK
Wah Sing Ton is gonna be like 華升堂 or something
- Comment on Our brains remembers at random cringe and awful things we did in the past to prevent us of doing them again. 5 months ago:
That’s because they don’t perceive them as cringe or awful. It’s wrong from the start
- Comment on I knew it. Vaccines got him. 6 months ago:
- Comment on Where is he?! 7 months ago:
Don’t save that guy who took the money
- Comment on Don't! 7 months ago:
Being fooled IS the mistake
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 7 months ago:
Used in this context? Action. But it can mean both.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 7 months ago:
May as well combine words with the same pronunciation into one word and call it Simplified English (/s)
Honestly tho, this is one of the features of Simplified Chinese, which created the infamous “fuck vegetables” (干菜类).
It’s meant to say “dried vegetables” (乾菜類 in TC), but 乾→干. Meanwhile, there exists 幹→干 as well, which means “fuck”.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 8 months ago:
The problem is the ambiguity of the statement. Is it 50% of each species? Or is it 50% of all life as one set?
If it’s the former case, then sure 3.5b humans and n/2 bacteria gets snapped.
But if it’s the latter case, we group all 7b and n bacteria into one set and snap half of them. This 50% can consist of 50% humans + 50% bacteria, but there’s also a chance for it to include 0% humans + 100% bacteria. Therefore, the amount of humans snap is a random variable instead of a constant.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 8 months ago:
Yeah maybe posting it here doesn’t really help?
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 8 months ago:
Say, there exists 2 humans and 98 bacteria. Consider all cells of a human one life.
50% of ALL life doesn’t care which species the life is, and therefore there’s a chance that 50 bacteria die. The probability of that happening is 98C50 / 100C50 = 98! 50! 50! / (100! 50! 48!) = (50)(49) / ((100)(99)) = 0.247
For my previous argument, I did not actually do the math. Now that I have done a little bit, the probability seems to converge at 25%
Obviously, this is based on the interpretation of “all life”. For my interpretation, “all life” includes every life in a single set, and apply the 50% snap to that. For some others however, it may be interpreted as each species in their own set, and the 50% snap is applied on all those sets.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 8 months ago:
If you include bacteria, then probably no human died from the snap. There are significantly more of them
- Comment on On bugs... 8 months ago:
some wish computer science was that simple
