folkrav
@folkrav@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What happens if I never activate Windows? 3 weeks ago:
I have 3 old DreamSpark Windows 7, 8 and 10 Pro licenses I’ve been upgrading/reusing between my main PC and laptop, so I haven’t bothered looking at the state of spoofing the MS activation process in years. Holy crap now it’s literally just on GitHub lol, used to have to download some zip on a random forum or a dodgy torrent…
- Comment on Is a peanut butter sandwich a balanced meal? 3 weeks ago:
Raw/natural PB tastes so much better anyways. I can’t buy anything else since I’ve tasted it.
- Comment on Whats the difference between "English is not my first language" bad grammar, and "The only language I speak jmis english" bad grammar? 3 weeks ago:
In what sense? If anything, the very concept of “everything is gendered” makes it sit at one extreme of the spectrum of languages, in the very literal sense of the word, wouldn’t you agree?
- Comment on Whats the difference between "English is not my first language" bad grammar, and "The only language I speak jmis english" bad grammar? 3 weeks ago:
We often make very different kinds of mistakes. Funnily enough, I initially learned English by getting exposed to pop culture (kung-fu movies, N64 games and anime dubs) through a bilingual friend I had through 3-6th grades. Formal English teaching in schools only started in 4th grade when I was a kid. I didn’t know anything about the language by then. My now 6yo son understands way more of it than I did when I started high school, and speaks it quite a bit.
- Comment on Whats the difference between "English is not my first language" bad grammar, and "The only language I speak jmis english" bad grammar? 3 weeks ago:
Same is true about second language French speakers. We conjugate articles with their nouns. E.g. “the father and the mother” would be “le père et la mère” (le/la is the same definite article in masculine/feminine form, it has no neutral form). English speakers get rightfully confused. It gets even more confusing as there’s a clear trend in the language where many feminine gendered words end with an E (porte/door, table/table, arme/weapon), but not always (nuage/cloud, véhicule/vehicle).
- Comment on I’m 43 but everyone at the workplace thinks I’m 25. Is this something I need to change? 4 weeks ago:
It was slow initially, then it picked up a lot in the last ~5-6 years. My beard is unequivocally gray colored at this point, and my sideburns are graying.
Coincidentally, I had my first son around that time…
- Comment on I’m 43 but everyone at the workplace thinks I’m 25. Is this something I need to change? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been graying since 23yo to be fair
- Comment on how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres? 5 weeks ago:
I have 0 merit in this. I just… can. I always could, apparently. My parents organized dance competitions when I was a baby; they used to make me sleep in the DJ’s booth as it was the quietest-ish place in the venue. I slept through all of those like a (literal) baby. I don’t know why or how.
- Comment on how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres? 5 weeks ago:
This was a life changer for me. I had an AHI of 69. For those not familiar, AHI means Apnea-Hypopnea Index, which is an average count of “events” per hour. An event is either a complete blockage of respiration for 10s or more, or a drop of 30% or more in blood oxygen level.
I went from sleeping 10-12h and not feeling rested ever, a literal zombie, to sleeping 7-8h regularly and feeling good.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 month ago:
There’s an episode of Behind the Bastards touching on the subject - “How Conservatism Won”.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 months ago:
Oh I don’t think I’m particularly old, statistically speaking I’ve got about the same amount or a bit more left to go… We just all have those moments that make you realize time flies, don’t we?
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 months ago:
My first non-prepaid plan must have been around 2006-2007, with a slide phone and the very minimum plan I could get which was, IIRC, 50 minutes, unlimited nights and weekends, and exactly zero text messages included, no caller ID nor voicemail 😂 First time I had a data plan was in late 2011, when I got my first smartphone (Galaxy SII), and that was definitely less than 1GB/month…
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 months ago:
As far as I could understand, North American carriers charged through the nose for mobile data for the longest time, but usually bundled SMS with some plans in some form, be it a set number of messages, or unlimited nights/weekends (oof, I don’t feel younger typing that one out). In most of the rest of the world, data became cheaper faster, but SMS was/is still expensive. This, combined with iPhone’s popularity in NA making people use iMessage, led to a lot of people just sticking to the defaults and use SMS on one side of the Atlantic, while the rest used WhatsApp or similar.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yes, but you also said it should be protected in “all cases” but went on about “exceptions”. Assistance in dying doesn’t fit this criteria that would make it acceptable as most definitely not everyone agrees with it. Some DNRs don’t either. The idea that the “whole society” needs to agree is also pretty disputable, and comes with its own set of moral issues.
I just think it’s a lot more complex than “save everyone always”, and the exceptions aren’t that straightforward.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Human life is to be protected, rescued etc. in all cases.
Where does a DNR and medical assistance in dying fit in this?
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 2 months ago:
You don’t have to look too far, honestly. It’s advertising/marketing driven, most of the time. They have a brand and image to maintain, and anything that slightly deviates from it tends to get shut down really quickly. The extremists I was talking about are the ones driving that uproar you mentioned. Most people don’t give enough of a flying fuck to do anything about any of it past the Facebook argument they’ll get into anyway.
These changes do tend to be driven by younger generations, that’s just how it is… I remember Gen Xers complaining about us Millenials wanting to change the world and being very difficult to manage, when we were joining the workforce lol
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 2 months ago:
1984 supposes it’s coming from big government and social structures. Seems like a lot of people just aren’t watching what big corporations are doing cause it’s getting at least just as creepy…
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 2 months ago:
Oh come on. Extremists gonna extreme. Some will try to make a bunch of words offensive, the others will keep fighting for their right to use these words. The vast majority of the rest of people will just keep living their lives and just use whatever’s the most appropriate word at a given time with the language evolving. It used not to be considered really offensive to insult people with gay slurs when I was in high school. Languages evolve with their times, and that’s perfectly fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I was kind of adding on top of it. Didn’t think I needed to say it either, but here we are lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Hot take: “thoughts and prayers” and “doing nothing” are the exact same thing
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Gotta appreciate how I Googled that phrase, clicked on the first YouTube link, and the very first comment was along the lines of “US conservatives reacting to mass shootings”
- Comment on What is wage theft exactly? 5 months ago:
Oh, after they moved me from store to store then fired me, I did. I’m in Quebec, Canada, so it’s through the CNESST. They’re all too happy to take cases against this specific employer. Still, after 2 years of back and forth, a depression then career reorientation later, I had to resort to an undisclosed settlement.
- Comment on What is wage theft exactly? 5 months ago:
Retail truly is hell. A previous employer chopped off our time after closing, regardless of how much time it took to close the place. In the two years and some I spent there, including 9 months full time, they must have saved hundreds of hours in unpaid wages just in the 3 stores I worked at. That was a major chain, mind you…
Rest assured that when I was closing at 9PM by myself, by 9:01 I had signed off on the day’s deposit, and by 9:02 I was out of there.
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 5 months ago:
I never really saw no ice as a cost saving thing, just as a “my drink won’t taste like water in 5 minutes” thing.
- Comment on Is there a chart where particular cuneiform or hieroglyphics are actually matched with emojis? 5 months ago:
Maybe it’s an English second language thing, or just how I expressed myself, but yes, I was referring to the first. Our technological capabilities are obviously on a whole other level. Electricity + transistors basically transformed the world. Plus the massive population growth.
- Comment on Is there a chart where particular cuneiform or hieroglyphics are actually matched with emojis? 5 months ago:
It’s incredibly easy to fall into the trap of seeing modern societies as more advanced. There’s no reason to think they weren’t just as intelligent and resourceful as we are today. They just lived a long time ago. If history can teach us one thing, it’s that nobody rules the world forever, as advanced a civilization can be.
- Comment on Why can't code be uncompiled? 5 months ago:
At a very low level, yes, everything is 1s and 0s. However, virtually nobody deals with binary anymore. Programming languages are abstractions over abstractions over abstractions not to have to deal with typing binary.
The point of programming languages is for humans to be able to read it and make sense out of it. It’s a way to represent in a kind of intermediate language that’s halfway between something humans can read and computers can interpret.
Say the game’s programmer wants to handle moving your character right on pressing the right arrow key. They might write some function called “handleRightArrow()”, which does whatever. Then your compiler will turn this to some instructions - read stuff in RAM at address XYZ, copy it over, etc. The original code with readable names, comments, documentation, proper organization, it’s gone. Once you decompile, it’s gonna be random function/variable names, compiler might have rewritten some parts of the implementation as automatic optimizations, unlined some functions, etc. The human readable meaning of the code is lost. It does the same thing as the original code, but it isn’t the original code either.
- Comment on Is jogging on sidewalks harder on joints than if one jogged on dirt? 7 months ago:
Flat feet tend to make knees hurt much earlier, believe me
Source: guess
- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 7 months ago:
There has to be millions of IoT/embedded crap that runs some long obsolete OS version or whatever. Consumer stuff indeed shifted a looong time ago.
- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 7 months ago:
Silver lining is, they should be done with the IPv6 migration by then.