Danquebec
@Danquebec@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?" 1 week ago:
I just thought about this now, but any alternate history that explores tech in the Middle-Ages would count as medieval sci-fi. For example, the Eastern Romans building on the Greek techs and experiments and using Greek fire, concentrated mirror beams, calculators and steam engines.
- Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?" 2 weeks ago:
I found this universe that might be medieval scif-fi:
- Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?" 2 weeks ago:
The books follow a series of Allomancers, who are individuals who can consume metal to wield magical powers.
Doesn’t seem scientific.
- Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?" 2 weeks ago:
I just realized now that “Dubya” means W.
And now I understand why that US president is given that strange nickname.
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 2 weeks ago:
The Chinese invented the Chinese ideograms.
The script-less Japanese adopted them, but they didn’t fit their language well on their own. So, they created hiragana (a syllabary) to be able to properly write their own labguage. A Japanese sentence typically comprises Chinese ideograms and hiragana.
Later, both the People’s Republic of China and Japan simplified their ideograms, but not in the same way, and the Chinese went much further.
So, now, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao use the traditional hanzi.
Japan uses their kanji, somewhat simplified.
And the PRC, Malaysia and Singapore use the simplified hanzi.
South Korea uses hanja which is virtually the same as traditional hanzi. And North Korea completely abandonned the Chinese ideograms.
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 2 weeks ago:
In Chinese, they’re “hanzi”.
Or you can just say “Chinese ideograms”
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 2 weeks ago:
There are many false friends between French and English. Off the top of my head:
EN: eventually (FR: un jour) FR: éventuellement (EN: possibly)
“Enregistrer” in French both means to record something and to save a file, but you can’t use the English word “register” for both.
“Défense” in French both means defense and prohibited, but you can’t use the English “defense” for both.
- Comment on Anon can't escape 3 weeks ago:
Yea but you’re not going to see code running if you haven’t ever seen code. This is clearly something coming from culture.
It’s like people seeing hags in the US under sleep paralysis and people elsewhere seeing other mythological creatures.
- Comment on Anon can't escape 3 weeks ago:
Sleeping on my back and extreme tiredness used to make it more likely for me to experience sleep paralysis.
Bit I haven’t experienced those in a long time, even if often sleep on my back.
- Comment on Anon can't escape 3 weeks ago:
Of course it’s because of culture.
- Comment on Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like? 4 weeks ago:
Really? That’s really cool!
- Comment on Stereotypes 5 weeks ago:
While I think that caring about how you look is not the same as “attention seeking”, I think that “feeling good about you look” is still related to socialization.
If we didn’t care whatsoever about others, we wouldn’t have any reason to care about how we look. It doesn’t have to be consciously thought like “if I do that, I’ll be more attractive to the other sex” or “if I wear this, my tribe will recognize me like one of theirs”. But feeling good about your appearance is still, in a roundabout way, about socialization, I think.
When I look in the mirror and see myself with my long hair (as a man), my metal band shirt and a wristband with norse symbols, I feel great about myself. But I think it’s not random coincidence that I happen to be really into metal.
- Comment on Stereotypes 5 weeks ago:
It’s so bad. I hate this meme template.
- Comment on Stereotypes 5 weeks ago:
Yea and I don’t even get what appeals someone to the aesthetic if they’re not rebellious.
- Comment on Is it reasonable to tell a person you once loved about the fact years later? 5 weeks ago:
Best answer by far, in my opinion.
- Comment on What happens when you just refuse to pay and go ... ? 5 weeks ago:
Who’s crazy enough to write such delusional things in such an insane style?
- Comment on I agree with don 5 weeks ago:
So, it doesn’t stop it, but it definitely helps.
- Comment on If it were suddenly revealed that a significant number of questions posted in this comm were ai bots would that bother you? 1 month ago:
I think they meant that the question starts the conversation between humans, in the comments.
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 1 month ago:
My text bubbles are blue yet I’m on Android.
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 1 month ago:
I’m a big amateur of history and anthropology, and as I can tell, people in all civilizations have been trying to imitate the wealthy to an extant.
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 1 month ago:
Yea it’s just the most neutral color, thus the most safe for investment for renting out or selling.
- Comment on Genius 1 month ago:
It actually happened to me once.
- Comment on Femality is stored in the nipples 1 month ago:
This is crazy. If the show is meant to be seen by adults, what does it matter that nudity is shown?
- Comment on porch of geese 1 month ago:
If you go that way OK but it’s a weird way of saying it.
But Cape Verde is definitely to the West of Africa, not East.
- Comment on porch of geese 1 month ago:
No seriously you mixed up East and West.
- Comment on porch of geese 1 month ago:
What does it correspond to?
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 2 months ago:
I think you nailed it. I don’t mind the Christian songs of Black Sabbath. They are just true to themselves and sing what they want to sing.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 2 months ago:
Yea it’s dunny how they just angry downvote, and if they reply at all, they don’t really respond to the points. Who will do the fucking policing if there’s no police??? There will always be people who need to be forcefully stopped from what they’re doing.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 months ago:
Not AI but it is non-math stuff in Excel.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 months ago:
Is there a layperson-accessible way to paste a large number of email adresses and concatenate them with "; " that’s more recommended than spreadsheet software?.