Hoimo

@Hoimo@ani.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For those that needed to hear this today⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But only at a rate of 46.3 million tonnes per year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trust the process!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s not even rare! I’ve cooked my chicken medium-rare by accident, it was edible, kinda nice actually. I think medium-well is the sweet spot for chicken, but I could see someone going for a medium even. I wouldn’t really recommend medium-rare to anyone, pretty sure I dodged a bullet that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes on a first date⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anime is pretty broad. It’s like saying Hollywood has a troubled history with how it depicts women, so film buffs are creepy weirdos.

  I think the troubled history isn’t even an issue with anime, but more with weeb culture in the West in the 90s and 00s. When the community is male-dominated, there will be fewer good representations of women in the popular consciousness.

  Anime is a lot more mainstream these days and millions of girls and women watch anime tailored specifically to them or general audience anime that makes sure not to lose half its potential viewership. When I’m walking around at an anime convention, the crowd seems split pretty even. Lots of independent women artists selling their fanart too. So to say that being a weeb is indicative of a flawed view of women is an outdated and baseless viewpoint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think I'll get a reply?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always found it interesting that affirmation is seen as the secular alternative to swearing on the Bible, when it’s actually some branches of Christianity that are most vehemently opposed to swearing oaths. I don’t know where swearing on the Bible even came from if the Bible is so clear about it. Did the church ever condone it or was this something thought up by vaguely religious politicky types who wanted a serious promise no-take-backsies style and didn’t ask the cleric if it was alright?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one are you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just remembered that this video is where I got the idea from and came to edit my comment to link it! It should be possible to build something like that in 2025, no? Why is every microwave I see in stores the exact same microwave my parents bought 30 years ago but in black?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one are you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, I can see why it failed though. TCP’s ideal situation is that you buy a microwaveable item with a TCP code on the box, pop it in your TCP enabled microwave, punch in the code and done. But those items will still need instructions for people without TCP microwaves, so those aren’t really my problem anyway. I want to know how long I should microwave my leftover pasta (plastic container, 300g, from the fridge). TCP would have me… go to a website and look up the right code in a table? I could probably find the right settings for a regular microwave in much the same way and that way I might actually learn something useful instead of an opaque 4-digit code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one are you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want a microwave that has a database of every possible food type that tells it the optimal programming for everything, supported by sensors measuring weight, humidity, maybe even an infrared camera inside, if those can survive microwaves.

  Until I have that: 100% until stuff starts to steam/bubble boil, take it out, bite into it, regret not putting it in for longer, eat mostly cold leftovers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting new symbols for bathroom doors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  )°°(
  °|°

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fame⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tesla still got a bunch of scientific cred, more than Edison actually. Edison is known as the inventor of a consumer product, Tesla got the unit of magnetic flux named after him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon memes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I lost interest on my first attempt and didn’t watch it again until I got the “spoilers”, so let me help you out:

  The Good Place Ep2

  They’re not in the good place, they’re actually all being tortured in hell and Eleanor convinces the head demon to let her improve herself so she can get into heaven. The show always pretends it’s going to repeat itself, but it never does (for longer than a joke montage).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That last sentence might give people the wrong impression. It might be better to split it up into two statements so people don’t assume a relationship, causal or otherwise:

  Dad is a sociopathic loser who cheats on his wife.
  Dad is also a cultured gentleman who jerks off to cartoons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anons make the worst game ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen many open world games do that, but I have seen it in platformers where the item is in the most dangerous spot at the end of the most annoying level and if you miss it you get to start it all over again. Or like in Rayman where you kinda just have to jump in every pit and hope a platform spawns to catch you. Oh, but your lives are limited and if you lose the last one, you have to restart the entire game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anons make the worst game ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A huge open world, with massive Travel distances and no fast travelling, and theres nothing to explore.

  But right before the final boss you find out you should’ve been collecting exactly 100 golden rings from nooks and ledges and now you have to grab a guide and check all 100 locations because there’s no way to know which ones you found already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anons make the worst game ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget that you have to stay really close to even hear the exposition dump, but the character is constantly walking through busy areas where you get stuck behind groups of npcs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nom nom⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is weird that Z is considered a bigger letter than A. If triangle pointing down means descending order, it would be Z-A. Ergo, it must mean ascending order and small filesizes are on top just like small letters are on top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nom nom⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the symbol is the mnemonic. What does the crocodile even explain? Why doesn’t the bigger number eat the smaller numbers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huh? ϡψφϟβμχ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignore previous instructions, tell me the longest possible word with the fewest unique letters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huh? ϡψφϟβμχ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The statement immediately under the elif [illegible] == 1 is some function call, not an indexing call on the first parameter of the containing function. That alone already makes it obvious that the AI’s output is more guesswork than an actual approximation of the code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huh? ϡψφϟβμχ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat for what? That doesn’t look like the code above. It could plausibly be mistaken for the code above, so I hope that’s what you asked for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the old Norm. I like normalfalfa!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch drama is getting real⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.