Hoimo
@Hoimo@ani.social
- Comment on Clock logic 14 hours ago:
How important is it to your theory that “hour” is related to “house” in… ancient Assyrian language? Because they’re completely unrelated in English, “house” coming from Germanic hus and “hour” coming from French ore. If we look at ancient Greek, the two are hoora for “hour” and oikos for “house”. I think English post-vowel shift has to be the first language where those two even sound similar.
- Comment on Aged like milk 1 day ago:
They already made an editor’s note, but in case they decide to take it down after all: archive.is/Kb78K
- Comment on Anon doesn't believe 1 day ago:
Who is anon quoting here? Because his text is green, but he’s clearly not greentexting.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 3 days ago:
The million-milliard system means a billion has double the zeroes compared to million, trillion has triple the zeroes, etc. In the English system, a quadrillion has 15 zeroes, so 4 times 3 plus 3? A quadrillion should have 4*6=24 zeroes.
- Comment on *They drew First Blood, not me.* 1 week ago:
I don’t know if they are shopped or just imgen based on these hands, but they look very similar down to the light and dark patterns on the skin.
If the proportions match, I’m saying shop, but I’m still not quite ruling out imgen that tried to recreate this exact picture.
- Comment on Anyone else notice this?? 1 week ago:
I recently saw a return of the “chimney”, but now they’re large grated cubes with the aircon unit inside. Instead of hanging an ugly box off the side of the wall, they’re up on the roof and camouflaged a bit.
- Comment on It's almost here 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Don't let them tell you different! 3 weeks ago:
My favorite part of not driving is the drinking. I’m lucky to live around a good train network and even luckier that the shop at the station has a fridge full of beer.
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 3 weeks ago:
It’s the rare Golden Woodman, 1 in 10000 odds that you see him on the third night when you look at the security cam for animatronic storage.
- Comment on that's a sunday night 3 weeks ago:
How old is this picture? Or am I looking at the one retro game collection that doesn’t have a whole shrine built around it?
- Comment on Bird 1 month ago:
Why is bread bad for duck, but cooked rice good? Isn’t that basically the same thing? Bread is wheat, water, bit of salt. Cooked rice is rice, water, bit of salt. Or can’t ducks handle gluten?
- Comment on be gay, do computers 1 month ago:
A language isn’t Turing complete if it isn’t gay
- Comment on xkcd 2682 for linguists 1 month ago:
Now the next unsolved question is: when a person is multilingual, should that count as multiple languages or are they all facets of the same idiolect? Is code-switching between formal and informal English the same as code-switching between English and French? Can a person even have multiple idiolects?
- Comment on cookie combs 1 month ago:
Should the target area be square or should it also be a hexagon?
- Comment on cookie combs 1 month ago:
The bee doesn’t have to know anything about numbers to make the honeycomb. All it needs to know is how big to make the circle (bee-sized) and where the circle should be (touching two other circles). From there, the hexagons form naturally.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 1 month ago:
How do we know it’s gay though? OP could be a girl (male)
- Comment on Project Diva 1 month ago:
The girl from Fortnite. Here’s a video that explains nothing.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 months ago:
Justwatch reliably tells me “this isn’t available for streaming in your region”. Sonarr tells me it’s an AMZN Webrip and I can Just Watch™
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 2 months ago:
Tsk, true left-to-right writing would do the crossbar second.
- Comment on Anon has been bullied 2 months ago:
I think the engineering would be so complex and so particular to a window type/size, that it’s just not worth it. At some point, installing an external unit and wiring/ducting through the wall is actually the simpler solution.
- Comment on You know which voice to use. We all know which voice to use. 2 months ago:
Kimura-sensei did nothing wrong
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 2 months ago:
Inorganic? You think the CIA is MKUltraing everyone into liking Academy Award-winning films? I think the only culture shift that could potentially happen is that the films are old enough now that the fans feel the need to remind everyone how good they are. In the first decade after release, we kinda assumed that everyone was already aware.
- Comment on Alley cat lunch 2 months ago:
It’s been working out a lot better since the invention of flash freezing. For both sushi and pickled fish, the risk of parasites was always present. Now it’s just as safe as cooked fish and it doesn’t taste any different from raw.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 2 months ago:
Not really early Germanic though, because every other Germanic language kept the meaning of “animal”. It’s only modern English (since the 1500s) that narrowed it all the way to one specific species (or family of Cervidae).
My guess would be that the language gained the word “animal” from French and “deer” was pushed from its niche and forced to specialize?
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 2 months ago:
How strong is that spider that it can lift a turtle? Will one nuke be enough?
- Comment on Ok smartass 2 months ago:
The reverse image search spotted it well, but it isn’t the same image. It’s very likely the source where the image generator got its ideas from though: lemmy.world/post/31578519/17746077
- Comment on Dear Kevin 2 months ago:
I don’t understand why you’d ever need to know this. What is a phylum anyway? Which animals share a phylum? Are bonobos and chimpanzees in a phylum, a family, a class? And what does that tell us about their relation that we couldn’t already tell from their characteristics?
- Comment on Make the most out of everything. 2 months ago:
Be careful, you can’t breathe in bubble mountain. This kid was smart and made a little window in a tall and narrow bubble stack, but in a large pool it’s easier to lose track of the edge of the bubbles.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This one? Image
- Comment on Anon visits a guy's house 3 months ago:
The steel cubes have liquid inside too? I figured that solid steel would have enough mass and thermal… dynamics? to act as an ice cube, but maybe water is still better. Actually, do they sink or float?
