bjorney
@bjorney@lemmy.ca
- Comment on brains! 4 weeks ago:
Ok, not in the US so idk. the last CFL bulb I bought was long before 2009.
Either way, the brain still uses more power than a 13W CFL, and the tumblr post is from 2018, and the Reddit post is even more recent. “It would have been technically correct if it was posted 20 years ago” doesn’t really change the fact that it’s not true anymore
- Comment on brains! 4 weeks ago:
Yeah and LED bulbs were the norm 15-20 years ago. my point is this is a repost of a Reddit repost of a Tumblr comment that was reposting a factoid that was already wrong when it was originally posted 5-6 years ago.
- Comment on brains! 4 weeks ago:
Brain uses more wattage than a lightbulb, unless we are counting incandescent bulbs because it makes the stat seem more impressive.
- Comment on Before buying this printer, I made a quick search to confirm that it has wifi connectivity... (the algorithm lied to me) 4 weeks ago:
The library is a mile from me too, that’s a 30 minute round trip, or I have to drive and pay for parking
I bought a $60 inkjet 10+ years ago. Every 3-4 years I buy a multipack of aftermarket ink for $30. Every 18 months when the cartridge dries up half full in my printer I chuck it knowing the $5 of ink I just wasted saved me $400 in billable hours
- Comment on Before buying this printer, I made a quick search to confirm that it has wifi connectivity... (the algorithm lied to me) 4 weeks ago:
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if I didn’t have a printer I would need a standalone scanner, which costs almost the same amount
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Driving to Staples to print a $0.10 page wastes $50 worth of time and gas
A cheap printer pays for itself very quickly.
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- Comment on Funny but it's even less funny 1 month ago:
AFAIK if you spend at least 2 years studying here you automatically qualify for a 3 year work permit. I think rolling that into permanent residency is a lot easier than just applying for a work visa or PR out of the gate
International student tuition is way more expensive here in Canada than it is for citizens, but I’m not sure how it stacks up against normal US tuition.
Grain of salt, everything I’ve said is based on anecdotes from people I know who went through it
- Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often? 2 months ago:
Murica.
This was literally the overarching plot for the last season of curb
- Comment on Cords 3 months ago:
Yes, but if someone trips over the cord there is a 50% chance the wrong side comes unplugged and potentially kills them, hence why they don’t make these cords
- Comment on Hacker Shows How to Get Free Laundry For Life 4 months ago:
lol. Did this in my old building - the dryer was on an improperly rated circuit and the breaker would trip half the time, eating my money and leaving wet clothes.
It was one of the old, “insert coin, push metal chute in” types. Turns out you could bend a coat hanger and fish it through a hole in the back to engage the lever that the push-mechanism was supposed to engage. Showed everyone in the building.
The landlord came by the building a month later and asked why there was no money in the machines, I told him “we all started going to the laundromat down the street because it was cheaper”
- Comment on Wolfs Was Written Specifically For George Clooney And Brad Pitt: ‘It’s Like Two Michael Claytons’ 4 months ago:
“says”
- Comment on SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined 6 months ago:
Sqlite is absolutely installed on the most devices, but there is a big grey area depending on how you count “used”
I have 30 apps on my phone, am I a single sqlite user? or 30 of them?
Facebook/Netflix/etc. uses postgres/mysql, does that count as 1 user or a billion?
- Comment on Size Matters? Penis Dissatisfaction and Gun Ownership in America 6 months ago:
We find that men who are more dissatisfied with the size of their penises are less likely to personally own guns across outcomes
- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 8 months ago:
A couple of them fall into the “technically true, but misleading territory” - I’m sure the person handing this out couldn’t identify which though - broken clock right twice a day and all
“Can you reverse effects” - no you can’t make your immune system forget how to work. Probably not what they are going for here though.
“Risk of […] or other side effects?” - yeah the vaccines generally give people a headache and short lived fever symptoms
“Have there been deaths?” - The astrazeneca vaccine had like a 0.000001% mortality risk (more likely to die driving to the pharmacy), and was pulled in many countries because that was deemed too dangerous. Person handing out the flyer has likely been parroting “mRNA vaccines cause blood clots” nonsense for years while being completely unaware that AZ was a traditional viral vector vaccine
“Are there doctors recommending NOT taking it” - yeah, there are many notable anti-vaccine doctors, what they typically have in common is they earned their doctorate in computer science, social studies, or some other field that gives them no qualifications to talk about immunology
- Comment on Movies that “go from 0-100” in the last 15 or so minutes? 8 months ago:
Hereditary
- Comment on Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024 8 months ago:
Could go either way.
I ALWAYS share my stats for the steam surveys, because higher Linux market share = better Linux support
- Comment on Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox 11 months ago:
Problem with that is that when you click a link in the teams PWA it opens in edge rather than your default browser. I just use the unofficial teams electron app
- Comment on If only it was like that 11 months ago:
“the perfect scale”
Proceeds to list completely arbitrary temperatures and link them to completely subjective opinions
I can make all the same points about celsius but they make even more sense
0 freezing 10 cool 20 room temperature 30 hot 40 very hot
- Comment on Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for. 1 year ago:
64 bit computers exist