Bluetreefrog
@Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is there a way to exclude topics from what I see on Lemmy? 4 days ago:
Others have talked about mobile apps, but if you are on a browser, check out Lemmytools. It also adds filter by keyword to Lemmy.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on Dark Matter Black Holes Could Fly through the Solar System Once a Decade 1 month ago:
The book, Seven Eves is about one of these hitting the moon.
- Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled 3 months ago:
Sounds like another reason not to use Chrome.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
Isn’t this just more of what caused the problem in the first place? Namely, centralisation. If you store data locally and you lose a machine, that’s bad but not the end of the world. If you store it centrally and you lose the data, that’s catastrophic. Nassim Taleb nailed this stuff. Keep the downside limited, and the upside unlimited or as he says, “Don’t pick up pennies in front of a steamroller.”
- Comment on How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds" 4 months ago:
Sorry, I don’t.
- Comment on How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds" 4 months ago:
I saw some documentary that suggested that they used to chip straight through fossilized feathers and skin to get to the bones because they didn’t realise what they were.
- Comment on What happens when two people with hyphenated last names get married? Do they hyphenate all four names and in what order? 8 months ago:
Gold!
- Comment on What happens when two people with hyphenated last names get married? Do they hyphenate all four names and in what order? 8 months ago:
I believe this is a thing in Quebec.
from …sbs.com.au/…/canadian-culture-naming
In Quebec, the Civil Code requires parents to assign their child only one surname (either a single or compound surname) derived from their respective surnames. Compound surnames may not have more than two parts, with or without hyphens. Thus, a couple named Joseph BOUCHARD-TREMBLAY and Marie DION-ROY could give their children the surnames:
- BOUCHARD
- TREMBLAY
- DION
- ROY
- BOUCHARD-TREMBLAY
- DION-ROY
- BOUCHARD-DION
- BOUCHARD-ROY, and so on.
In Quebec, the law provides that spouses retain their respective birth names when they are married.
- Comment on NBN sheds jobs as 'death spiral' worsens 9 months ago:
NBN switched half of my town to fixed wireless at a higher cost than FTTN just to get ‘bums on seats’ to make coalition pollies look good/less bad.
Let me put that another way.
I got a worse service, at a higher cost to the government, AND a higher cost to me, just so it could happen 6 months earlier.
I would have been happy to wait, and now FTTP is off the table for me.
Fuck 'em.
- Comment on Behold The Hyundai Uni Wheel. Transportation May Never Be The Same 11 months ago:
Came here to say this.
- Comment on Rebalancing the price to represent the value... 11 months ago:
FreeCAD. I’m not sure why more people aren’t using tbh.
- Comment on Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them 11 months ago:
I read somewhere that this can mean they think you might steal stuff.
- Comment on Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated 11 months ago:
Clickbait title. The graph looks pretty balanced actually.
- Comment on Introducing Numbat: A programming language with physical units as types 11 months ago:
Reminds me of Mathcad and Calca
- Comment on Your brain is sitting in a sealed, completely dark room with wires coming out of the walls. 1 year ago:
Your eyes are a part of your brain.
Doesn’t seem to match with my understanding. Got any references for that?
- Comment on Your brain is sitting in a sealed, completely dark room with wires coming out of the walls. 1 year ago:
Showing your age now!
- Submitted 1 year ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 60 comments
- Comment on Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media 1 year ago:
There doesn’t seem to be any monolithic music culture at all anymore. Everyone has super customized spotify playlists.
I’ve noticed this too. In some ways it makes it harder to find new music.
- Comment on Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago 1 year ago:
FooBarBaz
Found the dev.
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 1 year ago:
The bible apparently.
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 1 year ago:
Look up biblical cosmology on Wikipedia.
- Comment on Major Study Claims to Identify The Root Cause of Obesity: Fructose 1 year ago:
The thing that this perspective doesn’t take into account is hunger. It’s all fine and well to say control your calorific intake, but willpower is a finite and limited resource and if it’s the mechanism used to manage calorific intake it will inevitably fail you. Especially when self-control relies on glucose levels in the blood and the aforementioned willpower is being used to reduce those glucose levels.
In the absence of fructose, fat consumption is controlled through the suppression of hunger by the CCK feedback loop. In the absence of fructose, carb consumption is controlled through the insulin/glucagon feedback loop.
Fructose just gets converted into fatty acids without any control loop, leaving you laden with excess fatty acids and still hungry.
Sucrose, which is sugar, is 50% fructose. So it’s not just Americans with their high fructose corn syrup who are being bombarded with calories that our hunger can’t see, it’s anyone eating foods sweetened with sugar.
- Comment on Still trying to get me 1 year ago:
Optus, Latitude, Medibank, etc, etc. I have zero patience for any corporation getting prissy about me giving bogus details from now on. Just need a way to get disposable mobile numbers.
- Comment on Australia state swings from bush fires to flash floods in 24 hours 1 year ago:
I don’t know how anyone can be a climate denier any more…
- Comment on Best free (preferably FOSS) Rust IDE for MacOS 1 year ago:
I have to admit that while I’m old enough to remember VIM from days of yore, I never found the love that everyone had/has for it. Is it really as good as modern IDE’s?
- Submitted 1 year ago to programming@programming.dev | 35 comments
- Comment on Moderators wanted for c/HomeImprovement 1 year ago:
Happy to help out.
- Comment on Australia’s wealthiest 20% worth 90 times the country’s poorest, new report reveals 1 year ago:
It’s fucking unconscionable. We should be taxing these fuckers harder.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
To be fair, that’s true of most social media, including Reddit.