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- Comment on How old is the average open source programmer? 14 hours ago:
I’m at my age now and I’m just starting programming. My plan is to never do it for money, only because I want to as a hobby.
- Comment on why are fax machines still used by medical systems? 1 week ago:
Where I work, the fax was a way to ensure that information could be sent in multiple ways, if one way would fail. In the medical field (at least where I live) we must have systems with backup systems in a few layers. We have a nice digital medical chart system, and I still have to print out many things and put in a binder that no one ever reads. Because the internet could stop working, or electricity could fail. We even have routines for which types of pen and paper can be used if we need to write things by hand while electricity is gone.
- Comment on I swear to god 1 week ago:
The torso is a tricky concept, there’s no good anatomical definition that makes sense. Is the pelvis included? The whole axial skeleton? Everyone knows the general idea of where the torso is, but it’s hard to define with precision.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 week ago:
It’s like the first time I saw the movie Trash Humpers (2009), I was thinking to myself: is this a good movie? It isn’t. But, the beauty of that movie is that it exists. There’s no deep hidden symbolism, it’s a bunch of old people in long awkward scenes where they literally hump trash. The lack of a coherent plot adds to the question why they do that. In this world of endless choices and struggling, these people are trash humpers. And that’s respectable in a whole aspect.
- Comment on Hej 2 weeks ago:
Switzerland
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 2 weeks ago:
After reading this I was at the local grocery store and counted 17 different kinds of bearnaise sauce they sell. Sweden loves bearnaise.
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 2 months ago:
That’s how I think about it too. I guess the original description was a bit vague, what they did to the americas. It includes both. First invasion, then immigration.
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 2 months ago:
I could be wrong, but to me those words describe the initial phase. Once established as a society, the rest involves people moving into this society, which I would call immigration.
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 2 months ago:
What would you call it instead?
- Comment on Just had someone say they are going to have a Fatwa put on me . What the hell does that mean? Do I need to report it or something? 4 months ago:
It seems likely that the person who told OP meant it in the misused way, which makes the intent to intimidate clear.
- Comment on Firefox: The Data Collection, Advertising Browser. 4 months ago:
Lynx. Or maybe it’s time for gopher or gemini.
- Comment on The interior of your house is hot, the exterior cool. What would the most efficient orientation be for a box fan? Pushing hot air out of a window or pulling cool air in through it? 4 months ago:
It creates an effect where surrounding air is pulled with the stream due to the Bernoulli effect. It’s the same thing that pulls shower curtains in when you shower. If the fan is a bit inside the window, surrounding indoor air gets pulled into the stream, moving more air out in total.
- Comment on People are just now finding out that there are 27 letters to the alphabet 4 months ago:
I don’t know, that’s a level deeper than I know about, but you could be right.
- Comment on People are just now finding out that there are 27 letters to the alphabet 4 months ago:
In that case also add ð. If you say the words “think” and “this” out loud, they use different “th”-sounds. “These” would be “ðese”, and “think” would be “þink”.
- Comment on Mildred 4 months ago:
It could be a David Foster Wallace reference. “In the eighth American-educational grade, Bruce Green fell dreadfully in love with a classmate who had the unlikely name of Mildred Bonk. The name was unlikely because if ever an eighth-grader looked like a Daphne Christianson or a Kimberly St.-Simone or something like that, it was Mildred Bonk.”
- Comment on How do you pronounce a name you haven't heard? 4 months ago:
There are some old interviews with George RR Martin where people ask him about various characters, and GRRM would adjust his pronounciation to match the person asking the question. So he’s pronouncing names differently in different interviews depending on how others pronounce them. I wonder if it is to make the other person comfortable, or if he just doesn’t have a canon pronounciation.
- Comment on Growing up isn’t easy 4 months ago:
A good story about a bad day doesn’t have to be about complaining. It can be about learning from mistakes, a strange irony, the absurdity of coinciding factors, etc.
- Comment on Me, who doesn't use ai 5 months ago:
If you ever do write with pen and paper, it takes little effort to focus on just one improvement. A first step could be to try to get a consistent height of letters. When I’m in a hurry my “o” and “i” become way smaller than, say, “e”. Just a quick look when you’re done writing and a reflection like “next time I’ll try to make this letter as tall as that letter when I write”. When all lower case letter are as tall, focus on something else, like ascender height or baseline. Maybe your “l” tilts more than your “t”, then that’s a good thing to fix. One small step at a time.
- Comment on Language 6 months ago:
The second part of the Tractatus.
- Comment on There was such a simple solution all along 6 months ago:
This is paraphrasing a swedish politician called Annie Lööf. She has been made fun of and ridiculed for that phrase for a long time.
However, that’s not what she said. The context was simplifying rules and regulations for companies, and she was asked if fewer rules would make it easier for companies to do illegal things. Her answer was: “In Sweden it has since long been illegal to run a business with criminal intent”.
This “criminal intent” is the difficult part. If I buy and sell antiques that’s one thing, if I buy and sell stolen goods, that’s another. The difference is criminal intent. - Comment on Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available — Stability AI 7 months ago:
Di ffusion
- Comment on Kids these days are too soft. Can't even roll with these guys. 7 months ago:
It’s unusual to see the rounded r (ꝛ) after an a.
- Comment on Are you positive you didn't make that typo? The Ofif Gremlin has attacked 7 months ago:
The idea of a malicious entity causing spelling mistakes is very old. In medieval times they had a small demon called Titivillus.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titivillus - Comment on What if I ever need it? 7 months ago:
Yes, Swedish. Also, for unrelated reasons I reacted a bit triggered in my previous reply and my canadian girlfriend said that I was being an arrogant european, and I’m sorry about that.
- Comment on What if I ever need it? 7 months ago:
Maybe in your country, but not in my country.
- Comment on What if I ever need it? 7 months ago:
I have to do CPR training once per year, and almost every time they’ve changed the recommendations. I don’t even remember the current recommendations now.
- Comment on Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet? 10 months ago:
Similarly, the viking rune “alphabet” is called the Futhark, because the first letters are pronounced F, U, Þ, A, R, K.
- Comment on Open for discussion 1 year ago:
If people will be people, the interesting difference will be how the platform works. I guess this is the true test of the federated approach. What does it hinder or facilitate in practice and what are the actual effects?