MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on nets 23 hours ago:
I also do not enjoy the taste of fish. High five haha
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 2 days ago:
It’s almost like this not-for-profit, for-profit subsidiary thing is a cancer (or at least, my selection bias of late thinks so).
Can someone ELI5 why a foundation can’t develop these products directly, with a for-profit subsidiary? Is there something forbidden about rasing revenue for a not-for-profit via product sales? Would this even fix anything?
- Comment on They seem to turn a blind eye to many things as long as you have a (R) next to your name and promise to hurt the right people. Must have missed that bible verse 5 days ago:
Many have referenced Nineteen Eighty-Four without reading it, and ironically then engaging in Doublethink.
- Comment on Indeed 5 days ago:
Offensive? Yeah. Hate speech? Nah.
- Comment on fish roast 5 days ago:
Wikipedia seems to not be unanimous on the brain-to-body ratio claim. There’s a discussion link next to the citation.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 2 weeks ago:
Awwww yeaaah. Welcome friend, stay a while
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
This is fair, however, not ubiquitous and all their servers are expected to place nice with others.
Thank god email is federated, and not locked down to a particular company
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
It’s very common, but in Australia at least, no ubiquitous
- Comment on Emma 2 weeks ago:
Heh, well done
- Comment on Murphy's law 1 month ago:
This is why you always copy something innocuous immediately after
- Comment on Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder 2 months ago:
Maybe a couple more assassinations of CEOs and the only country where this repeatedly happens will finally start looking into ways to prevent this.
Yeah by hiring private armies and getting special provision to hire police directly.
RoboCop here we come
- Comment on Fashion is cyclical 2 months ago:
When I say strong, I mean that a trend is it dominates and defines as decade. All those things you mentioned are trends that you associate with different times, but there are far fewer things you can dress up as and people will think: ohhhh are you “from the 2000s”.
They exist, just I’d argue it’s not as strong as the 90s
- Comment on Fashion is cyclical 2 months ago:
I’m only just now realising fads/trends seem to be way less strong these days.
Like, there’s a 00’s vibe, sort of, 10’s vibe??? Maybe?
But nowhere near as strong as practically every decade before that.
Perhaps it’s just there’s way more variety to bandwagon now that every niche is connected around the globe.
My random thoughts for your reading.
- Comment on Election Simulations 3 months ago:
Whoops :(
- Comment on Calcrelatable 3 months ago:
Let’s be honest, if you are doing serious math, you’ll have a graphing calculator to do way more stuff, and the controls are much more like a mini computer (with a backspace key, and being able to delete individual lines of history, or all of the history with menus)
- Comment on my boss hates this one simple trick 3 months ago:
HCl is already in your stomach, what’s the big deal of a little in the lungs?!?
- Comment on Of course telecom companies are suing the FTC to block the new 'click-to-cancel' rule 4 months ago:
Legal layman here, why is it I keep hearing of American companies suing regulators? I can’t recall that ever being the case in Australia, unless they’re claiming some law/regulation is unconstitutional or something.
Am I just ill informed? Seems weird.
Regulator is empowered by the law, law is made by legislators, unless it’s against the constitution of your country, surely the answer to any of these cases is: tough shit, company? No? How do they sue a regulator for regulating? Seems weird.
- Comment on Advertising 4 months ago:
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- Comment on Half as Hot 4 months ago:
I would be willing to bet there are more people in the US using Kelvin in their jobs than Rankine.
Lb-mole? That one I’m not sure.
To me, these wanna-be scientific units are weird, like, just use metric at that point 😅
Also 1000th of an inch. Like, come on! You’re just teasing us
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 4 months ago:
How is this not a warrantless search?
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 months ago:
It’s not cursed, it’s just a different way of grouping. Nothing about grouping in multiples of 10³ is a more natural grouping, were just more used to it.
And I’m pointing out how metric prefixes are actually euro-centric, and that’s annoying for them. But there’s nothing fundamentally worse about breaking digits in groups of 4, rather than 3
1,000,000,000,000 = 1,0000,0000,0000 (10^12^) [Meme of black and white muscular arms embracing.]
Look up the indian system, now that’s actually cursed.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 months ago:
Absolutely, mm > cm all the way. Other than you putting s at the end of mm, we don’t take the Lord’s (metric) name in vain around here.
I do feel kind of sorry for East Asia though, since their languages seperate at intervals of 10⁴, rather than 10³. The giga and mega prefixes just make no sense there. 1 GW = 10,0000,0000 W and 1 MW = 100,0000.
Language strikes again
Not sure, but perhaps they would prefer a prefix of 10^-4^ rather than mm (10^-3^).
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 months ago:
Stay strong friend 🫡, and don’t you let them take your numerals from you
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 months ago:
1.852 all the way in every single context. I will die on this hill haha
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 months ago:
You do you, but this is a big no-no from my point of view.
For example separating the prefix m from mm would be rather confusing, and look like another unit.
You can, however, put 10^x wherever you like 👍
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 months ago:
Can I ask why, though? I’m also an engineer and I just never spell it out, if I can avoid it (so far, luckily, haven’t had push back since I’m on delivery and not proposals or anything like that.)
To me, it’s just more annoying to read it as words, and no matter what you do, mistakes can still happen, including when it’s spelled out.
Just my 2 cents.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 months ago:
Touche, yeah, I’d totally be on board if everyone just uses $3.5*10⁹ or $3.5e9. Good luck getting it catch on outside eng/science circles though haha
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 months ago:
Oh damn, that is some nails on a chalkboard level stuff.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 months ago:
Yeah that’s fair. I personally prefer the first one, but I can see how it makes sense to not use digits there.
+1 ∆ for you (change my view points, a thing from r/changemyview)
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 months ago:
I’ll allow billion, but personally my preference is using powers of 10 or unit prefixes.
Just I’m not gonna be mad about the newspaper writing 3.5 billion dollars.