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:
- Comment on PoV you found oil 1 week ago:
Looks more like some variant of the Leopard 2.
- Comment on Protection 1 week 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.