calcopiritus

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One slur to rule them all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Why would you make a post about slurs and then censor all of them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I believe this comment chain is about spanish, not french.

In Spanish the last letter of the word is right most of the time. We do say “una Fanta”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t know what dialect you speak where “Mano” is masculine. In Spain it is feminine, and I’ve never heard anyone say “el mano”. I’ve also never heard anyone say “el manita”.

I don’t think “ser” and “estar” being different verbs is at all wrong with spanish. They are very clearly different concepts.

You can be something because it is part of you “I am tall” or you can be something situationally “I am at the library”. What is weird to me is that English uses the same verb for those clearly different concepts.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks out a girl⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Idk why you are choosing to imagine anon like that. But that is a pretty normal and socially acceptable behaviour in a bar
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks out a girl⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
He wasn’t listening to the conversation for 3 hours. He was seated there for 3 hours, and then he overheard a part of a conversation.

Overhearing is not the same as actively listening. Talking in public is public. They are at a bar, which is an extremely social place, it is normal for strangers to join conversations.

And what place and context is more appropriate than a bar for asking someone out? It has been the de facto place exactly for that purpose for millenia.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks out a girl⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Talking to a stranger is extremely rude?

How are you supposed to find a partner if you’re not allowed to talk to strangers?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That only happens in the US because of first past the post system. In European countries new parties with significant vote share are created all the time.

In fact, in my country the opposite of what you say happened. First we had a dictatorship with a single party. Then democracy came and we had a 2 party system. No we have 4 major parties, in addition to some minor ones.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Bookmarks are even harder to clear than tabs, since they are more “long term”. furthermore, they require more effort. Opening and closing a tab is 1 click each. Bookmarks take 1 click to create at least, but 2 to delete at least.

The browser history requires a lot of effort to find what you want.

Basically I use tabs because they require less effort than any other method.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The easiest solutions to the US problem are already solved in most other western countries. That’s why the US is the first (and at this time, the only one) that turned fascist.

Legal guns are uniquely a US problem. Having a system that only allows 2 political parties is a uniquely US problem. Limitless (in the billions!) political donations is a uniquely US problem. Relying on the stock market for retirement is a uniquely US problem.

I’m not saying that the rest of the western countries turning fascist is impossible, but it’s much harder. Most fascists are contained to their fascist political party. So until there aren’t enough fascist individuals, they can be mostly ignored. Of course, once they are enough fascists, the fascist party will inevitably win, and there’s nothing that can stop them at that point.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Simple.
1. I’m reading tab A
2. Tab A links to tab B
3. Open B in new tab, since I know I’m going back to tab A soon.
4. Go to tab A
5. Go to tab B again
6. I’m finished reading tab B so I close it.
Notice how I didn’t close tab A. Because at that point, I was not in tab A, therefore I don’t think about that tab much so I don’t even think if I should close it or not. Tab A will probably stay open until I decide to clean my tabs when there are 50+ tabs on them.

Another common scenario:
1. I’m reading tab C
2. Something comes up that makes me either switch to another task or shut down the computer
From this point there are 2 paths: either I never resume the task I opened tab C for, so it stays there for a long time, or I resume the task when tab C is too far up (I use vertical tabs), so I open tab D that is the same webpage as tab C. When I finish I close tab D, but tab C remains for a long time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You can’t shrink the yardstick down to an infinitesimal size.

Coastlines are not well defined. They change in time with tides and waves. And even if you take a picture and try to measure that, you still have to decide at what point exactly the sea ends and the land starts.

If the criteria for that is “the line is where it would make a fractal” then sure, by that arbitrary decision, it is infinite. However, a way better way to answer the question “where is the line” is to just decide on a fixed resolution (or variable if you want to get fancy), which makes the distinction between sea and land clearer.

It is like saying that an electron is everywhere in the universe, because of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. While it is very technically true, just pick a resolution of 1mm^3 and you know exactly where the electron is.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has had enough⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Sometimes? I’m not tall at all, and if I pee standing up I later see droplets of pee basically everywhere. It wasn’t that much of a problem as a child, so I guess it’s height-based. But again, for an adult I’m not tall at all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sucked in losers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Heh. Ironic.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
This comment was surprisingly easy to read. Definitely easier than if it were for the “th” sound
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any good 3D Nintendo FAN made games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Pokemon uranium is playable on PC, I don’t think it works in consoles. Played it long time ago so I don’t remember how good it is though.

I don’t know how easy it would be to find though since Nintendo shut it down.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches Lord of the Rings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
In the movies extended version you can see saruman clearly dying after the ENT counter-attack. So in the movies, only sauron is left at this point.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t think anyone denies that whatever happens after you no longer pass your genes around has no evolutionary effect.

Whether helping your offspring is evolutionarily helpful or not might be debatable (I don’t see how it would not be helpful though)

Even in beings that not form societies it has an impact. Example:

You reproduce, then instantly die. Now your offspring have more available resources around them, since you no longer consume them

Or, your reproduce and you become much stronger, but not aggressive towards non-predators. Now predators are less likely to be near you, and your offspring are probably near you. Therefore, they probably benefit from having less predators around.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You’re not stupid for it. Since it makes sense.

However, due to the way we “calculate” the sizes of infinite sets, you are wrong.

Even integers and all integers are the same infinity.

But reals are “bigger” than integers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're all going home early today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
My microwave has a sticker so you don’t heat liquids without a teaspoon. I’ve heated milk in it every day for years, every time with a teaspoon in it. It also heats up faster with it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You can spend millions on building power lines over oceans and such. Or you could just spend that money on building your own power production. Might be more expensive (or not), but you get to control the production.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
When 2 people that know a language want to talk shit about someone else that doesn’t know the language, the first thing they’ll do is speak that language.

It’s not an unreasonable fear at all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Depending on context it might be stupid or make sense.

At my company, which has 100% Spanish employees, we can talk among ourselves in Spanish. However, in things “for the record” such as jira tickets, git commit messages, documentation pages, they have to be in English.

It makes no god damn sense. Nobody is going to read Jira ticket #6738 in 40 years when we are a multinational. It’s a ticket about fixing a typo in page 567 of the documentation. 100% of employees speak spanish, and some have dogshit English.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Charlie Kirk Shooting FBI Narrative is Total Bullsh*t⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You don’t need to claim it to send a message.

For example look at Russia. If you see a defenestration in Russia or a radioactive-metal poisoning on Europe, you know it was the Russian government. They can say it wasn’t them and still send the message.

I’m not saying this is such case though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Because it can be done for multiple lines too. And you can do else-if too. Also, “if” and “else” is more recognizable than “?” and “:”
```
x = if y > 5 {
    println!("Y was over 5");
    z + 5
} else if y < 0 {
    handle_negative_y(y);
    z - y
} else {
    println!("<WARN> unexpected value for y"}
    0
}
```
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This is valid rust. I don’t know if there are more languages with this feature
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
When brown, they are inmigrantes anda those are ghettos. When white, they are expats in expat communities.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You think drivers from your <country/state/city> are bad? That’s because you have never driven in my <country/state/city>
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Mobile firefox allows installing add-ons. Unlike mobile chrome.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨healthy nutrition⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yes. Kilo means thousand. However in some contexts, a single calorie is the same as a kilocalorie. Don’t ask me why.

There are 2 calories, the small one and the big one. And the big one is exactly the same as a thousand of the small ones.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything is a problem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Simplicity is easy to pirate though.

If the product is a program that executes 100% of its functionality on your computer, it is impossible to make it pirate-proof. Even if all the functionality is client-side and the server is used only for authentication, it can be pirated.

The only way to make a program pirate-proof is if it runs on the server with a thin client.

That being said, some products execute on the client. Therefore if they want to prevent piracy, the only thing they can do is security through obscurity. That is, make it as complex as possible so the pirates take as much time as possible to reverse-engineer it.