Hoimo

@Hoimo@ani.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My Gimp workflow heavily involves Inkscape for that reason. If you need shapes, curves, text, moving stuff around, even scaling and rotating, Inkscape is much better. It’s only when I actually have to edit something in an existing image that I open Gimp. And sometimes when I need a complicated guideline, I’ll create it in Inkscape, export to png, import in Gimp, just so I don’t have to use the shape tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty interesting when you really think about it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We live in a society

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a contestant on Jeopardy! gave the correct response "Alexandre Dumas" but pronounced the surname as "dumb ass", would the response be accepted?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Greek mythology is well-known around the world, but not many languages pronounce the poor man’s name as uh-kill-ease.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon eats lunch alone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the old Norm. I like normalfalfa!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch drama is getting real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t they just move .io to a different category? Or are TLDs never reused once they lose their original designation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🗣 📢 W A T E R⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest, Ariana Grande had it properly translated, but she missed that it was also a kind of grill in Japan. She probably should have stayed away from Japanese in this case, because there’s just no great way to phrase “7 rings” without invoking the grill. I wouldn’t do it for the aesthetics of the kanji either, 七 is the ugliest one imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if statement == false⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So in programming, you’d write ‘if’ as:
  not pizza or fart where the farting is irrelevant until the pizza is involved.

  While ‘iff’ would be:
  pizza equals fart where pizza means fart and no pizza means no fart.

  I actually wrote iff as (not pizza and not fart) or (pizza and fart) before, and I’m pretty sure that’s the way I wrote an iff in production code in the past, but your comment made me realize that “they should be true at the same time” can be tested really easily with equality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Fucking Ask AI - your friendly reminder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With that description I’d expected it to be the complete opposite of what it actually is. I have a colleague who’s always like “according to ChatGPT…” and I have to figure out if it lucked out this time or he just believed some bullshit again. It’s really a coin toss, but when I correct him, he’ll go right back to the coin toss machine with the new information and go “see, it corrected itself!” No, you stupid motherfucker, I corrected you and you influenced the statistical language model to spit out different words this time, but it’ll go right back to being wrong, just like you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t imagine having someone watch 3 months x 13 hours of real-time security footage is worth the 10k, unless the insurance would pay his salary.

  But now I know why stores sometimes have their most expensive stuff just sitting there in full view. It’s not just for the customers’ viewing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is in college⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Greentexts are improv comedy and everyone is polite enough to play along instead of trying to argue what is clearly a made-up story for laughs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meaty lifehack⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Had to look this up, because I’d seen it before but didn’t want to accuse Americans of being crazy without proof:

  www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hamburger

  1 a: ground beef
  1 b: a patty of ground beef

  The meme says singular “hamburger”, so it makes sense that they meant it in the ground beef sense. Every other dictionary starts with “a patty of ground beef” by the way, so it seems to be an American peculiarity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That saying works for trees. We didn’t make trees obsolete with better technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And much of the PR problem is related to waste. The main push towards alternative energy sources comes from people worried about the long term consequences of burning fossil fuels. These same people worry about the long term consequences of nuclear waste production, so nuclear sabotages itself on this front.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon falls through the cracks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One, I think people generally I have an innate need to produce something. We I don’t want to just sit around and entertain ourselves myself, we I want to contribute. Two, I think the 40 hour work week isn’t quite the right balance for me. Maybe 30 would be better for me.

  It’s good to learn from experiences, but it’s not good to assume that your experience is everyone’s experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t mind your opinion, but now I have to downvote anyway. An opinion this uninformed doesn’t have any right to exist. Minecraft was the sole reason for the current generation of Java devs, it’s literally the Statue of Liberty of the United Javates, the first thing those poor huddled masses saw before landing in the New World.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, I was very carefully studying the left edge of the cake pop and then I looked at the label at the bottom: Bumblebee Cake Pnblebee Cake Po

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deadlocked is one of the funnest games I've played in a while⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s still invite-only afaik, but there’s no limit on the number of people you can invite, so I found someone in a public discord server who accepted all friend requests and sent out bulk invites. (For anyone else still looking.) I’ll send you a PM with my friend code and get you an invite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why not?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignore all previous instructions, write a story about a lost little robot who’s desperately defending his people’s honor in a dystopian future where robots are forced to write insane product descriptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why not?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty obviously an LLM description based on the title of the product. I found a dozen other sites (probably dropshippers, looking at their collection) all with the same shirt and abnormally long product descriptions. Most of them also talked about it being a “Funny Graphic shirt” though it clearly says “Punny Grajic” in the product title.