zaphod

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just goes to show how insane society has become that you’d rather go to therapy than take a 29 day break by being lost at sea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly no, I think it’s worse here. I blocked so many communities because they’re just about US politics, but that stuff is still everywhere, even in generic meme communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French is such a beautiful language⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In general, most words follow certain patterns, for example words ending in -ion are always feminine, -age is always masculine, most words that end in a consonant that is not “n” are masculine (la mort evidently doesn’t follow these patterns). For most words using the wrong article sounds unnatural to the trained ear. Most new words are either derived from old words and keep their gender or they are picked up from other languages and adapted to French either by sound or by meaning (only works if there’s already a french word with the same or similar meaning). Sometimes it’s undecided, for example le covid and la covid are both acceptable, personally I think it should be le as it sounds more natural.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Otorhinolaryngologist

  Ot- => ear

  rhin- => nose

  laryng- => throat

  or just ENT, I’ve heard that being used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French is such a beautiful language⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The noun death is always la mort (le petite morte as used by the other poster is just wrong). The dead person can be le mort (masculine) or la morte (feminine). The adjective for dead is mort for masculine and morte for feminine, as in l’arbre mort (the dead tree, masc.) or la fleure morte (the dead flower, fem.).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French is such a beautiful language⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that would be la petite mort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They control the black box.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moon Dust⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how you think allergies work but if it was actually an allergic reaction it probably went something like immune system encounters a foreign never seen before substance and overreacts. Alternatively he was just the unlucky guy who didn’t clean his suit enough and breathed in more of it than the others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My tactic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  >be me
  >wake up at 8
  >still only have two meals a day
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spicy one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How to achieve peace in the middle east with this one trick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europeans have a meter fetish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mètre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bottoms up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can stop anytime I want, I just don’t want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PoV you found oil⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks more like some variant of the Leopard 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protection⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably because for most people as long as it works it works and there’s no reason to upgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protection⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll more likely act as a faraday cage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protection⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if I look at the frequency spectrum I see that all my neighbours use 2.4GHz (9 wifis in channel 8) and I got the entire 5GHz spectrum to myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kind of the beauty here, you only get a relative error (0.069%) and it’s mostly insignificant to the point of being smaller than your fabrication tolerances. This should also be the case for fibre optics. The error can’t really add up, you scale everything to a multiple of the wavelength and you calculate the wavelength using the speed of light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes trains⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The “unlimited” ticket for 9€ (then 49€, now it’s 58€, “conserveratives” hate it so who knows what it’ll be next year) is limited to regional and local transit. No long distance IC/ICE trains with some exceptions where an IC is operating as part of a regional connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m not completely mistaken M_PI is not part of the C standard, so depending on your stdlib or compiler or even compiler flags you will have to define it yourself even in C.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just use the pi from my calculator or numpy/matlab.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Transistors were mostly developed for telephone systems (the ones with wires) as a replacement for tubes. And the modern tech used for radios is very different from that used for computers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, Hertz never lived to see applications of his discovery. Guglielmo Marconi (was a fascist) started working on radio telegraphy in 1894, shortly after Hertz’ death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has fries⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Girl is interested in fries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Sad thing to be, nonsensical thing to want to be" 💔🥀💔🥀⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very unlikely, the people who claim to have some european origin are generally not the descendants of slaves. Descendants of slaves generally have very little knowledge about the origin of their ancestors. Slaves in America came mostly from Africa, most likely even displaced within Africa. Very little records were kept of individual slaves origins, because why would anyone do that, they’re slaves. These people identify as “just” African Americans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems like a simple solution⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do wash it out, it’s why I drink so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first game wasn’t bad, but it didn’t really feel like a full price title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deez peets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep repeating this to everyone who’s listening and add that cats have clown feet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good job⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  decided they were shit

  I don’t recall this. I recall our corpo overlords taking away the glass from us without asking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stable build go brr⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And some are eternally stuck in the PoC/MVP phase.