Venator
@Venator@lemmy.nz
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 3 days ago:
It’s used interchangeably
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 4 days ago:
Ignorant is more specific, only applies when someone doesn’t know or doesn’t want to know something. That can be referred to as stupid, but stupid can also refer to any other kind of stupidity, such as struggling to work out a basic math or logic puzzle, or failing to follow basic instructions.
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 4 days ago:
Ignorance can be used to refer to both cases.
- Comment on Is there a reason why bullets aren't squared? Glock's are squared on the outside but shoot round bullets. Why not square, was it ever tested? Not talking about all guns just usually handhelds. 1 week ago:
It would need to be a square extruded helix too…
- Comment on Is a black hole spherical? How come it looks different each way you view it like on it's side or up and down? 1 week ago:
Would the shape of the accretion disk also affect the shape of the black hole?
- Comment on What does "Woke" mean to you? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the context: When used positively it means being aware of social injustice or having empathy for your out group.
When used negatively it means anything/anyone they don’t like, and they mostly don’t like people who are a different color skin, gender, ablement, or sexual orientation to themselves.
- Comment on Forget Discord, I'm switching back to AIM 2 weeks ago:
I thought that was IRC
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 2 weeks ago:
But what about number go up this quarter?
- Comment on The way my partner eats avocado. 2 weeks ago:
If your knife is sharp it can be easier to slice it into quarters with the skin on, then slice the insides as normal, and then you can just pinch the ends and invert the skin and the slices pop right out. No scooping necessary.
- Comment on Also literally known as the Horror Frog 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s kinda hairy.
- Comment on Zebra!! 3 weeks ago:
White horses can have black skin too…
- Comment on How does code that's meant to fix one bug break other features? 3 weeks ago:
If it was always happening the same way every time it wouldn’t happen…
- Comment on Name that tune. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Xbox wanted 77M Game Pass subscribers by 2026 — today it has less than half that 3 weeks ago:
But if you give everyone a free trial you’ll have millions in “recurring revenue”, which you can tell your shareholders and inflate your share price.
- Comment on Target acquired 3 weeks ago:
JURASSIC PARK:
ARMAGEDDON
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 3 weeks ago:
I think steam might be older than Bright Candle…
- Comment on Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing? 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s called fast boot. Hibernation is slightly different.
- Comment on Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing? 3 weeks ago:
I think it just swaps it on shutdown and boot.
- Comment on Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing? 4 weeks ago:
I think it saves and loads the ram cache on the disk too, or maybe I’m thinking of a different feature…
- Comment on Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing? 4 weeks ago:
I believe windows 11 is kinda meant to do this automatically now, which is partly why it uses so much ram when you haven’t even launched anything yet…
It seems quite bad at it however.
This tool is meant to help diagnose issues with it, but I’ve not been able to try it, as the windows 11 machine I use is pwnd by my IT department and their antivirus blocks it from running 😅:
- Comment on How do you avoid AI music? 5 weeks ago:
Spotify generate it themselves
- Comment on Why do doctors not seem to give a fuck about pain? Is this just an American doctor thing, or is it universal? 5 weeks ago:
but if you’re in a hospital getting a procedure surely the probability of addiction is much lower…
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 5 weeks ago:
it’s called no stupid questions, not no stupid answers 😂
- Comment on Wiley Coyote 5 weeks ago:
oh so they’re just trying to trick people into signing up who don’t need to like those ads with a big download button people put on sourceforge or similar…
- Comment on Eggy 5 weeks ago:
except on pizza instead of pasta
- Comment on Eggy 1 month ago:
💡 this gives me an idea 💡: scrambled egg pizza with pineapple and bacon 🤤 🍍 🥓 🥚 🍕
- Comment on Can someone make sense of this chemical? 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoPutian#/media/File:Nano… is a better meme imo
- Comment on How do you distance yourself from your country when it doesn't represent your views anymore so you won't be viewed by the rest of the world as part of the problem? 1 month ago:
assassinate the president… (j/k) 😅
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 1 month ago:
Also depends if it’s someone’s last name… 😅
- Comment on 1 month ago:
but will the ai detector ai notice a joke in the footnote?
