Deebster
@Deebster@programming.dev
New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.
- Comment on Community 23 hours ago:
The higher protein part is true, and also humans are the only animal to shed emotional tears. It makes sense that it’s a signalling mechanism - we know that evolution has given social animals other visual indicators.
- Comment on Hey kid 2 days ago:
This was my face when I foolishly asked my maths teacher what pi was - he spoke for a long time, I understand nothing and I was late to my next class.
I’m not a teacher, but I’m so ready for a kid (or anyone) to ask me this so I can do a better job. Ideally somewhere I can get hold of coins because who carries those any more?
- Comment on Beans 3 days ago:
Also mixing crops (or non-farmable plants) has big benefits, but it’s currently cheaper to use chemically-derived fertilisers and go the monoculture route.
- Comment on Beans 3 days ago:
What’s that quote - something like “science progresses one funeral at a time”? Even scientists have their favourite theories that they’ll defend in the face of logic and evidence.
- Comment on Girl power 3 days ago:
Is your point that this source doesn’t back up the Mary Somerville etymology or just an FYI?
Either way, the quote taught me about the word sciolist - a person who pretends to be knowledgeable and well informed so thanks.
- Comment on robots 1 week ago:
What’s this kind of thing called in linguistics? Where you parse the sentence wrong (for comedic effect in this case), something about dangling modifiers, maybe?
- Comment on Hey there gamers 2 weeks ago:
So was he writing backwards, or did they print a custom flipped t-shirt?
- Comment on Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol 2 weeks ago:
Study after study has shown that trees in cities offer huge benefits: offering shade and cooling (reducing energy consumption), draining storm/flood water (very useful in our more extreme climate), cleaning the air and emitting oxygen, homing wildlife, improving mental health by reducing anxiety and depression, being nice to look at.
Every city tree should be treasured and protected.
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 3 weeks ago:
Why? Unless you like breaking into other people’s devices, this is good news.
- Comment on brendan was a hottie 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s been cropped into a square at some point (maybe for a preview image) and here we are.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 3 weeks ago:
Imagine how poor Pluto would feel if we decided this new entry counted as a proper planet.
- Comment on Turn up the heat 4 weeks ago:
Agreed - I think part of the humour in a meme is fitting new situations into the format and when this is ignored (or done poorly) it misses the mark, kind like as if you’d attempted a limerick but got the meter all wrong.
- Comment on UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s 5 weeks ago:
This is throwing the baby out with the bath water. The problems aren’t with mobile computing, but with social media and free-to-play games abusing the science of addiction to create psychological dependencies in users (and children are especially vulnerable to this). Even the timing of your notifications can and are used to manipulate you.
- Comment on Does the Dog Die? - A website for filtering movies by triggers 1 month ago:
I have no idea for this at all, but I’m glad it exists.
- Comment on Using Termux on Android for Self Hosting? Yes, really. – The Thin Computer 1 month ago:
Maybe if that site’s also hosted on an old phone running Termux.
- Comment on geography 1 month ago:
Good meme, wrong community for it though.
- Comment on '3 Body Problem' Is a Tech-Heavy Head Trip | Wired 1 month ago:
I think season 4 was the peak, and it looks like that’s a common opinion: ratingraph.com/…/game-of-thrones-ratings-26649/
The episodes remain highly rated until the last season, although those of us who had read the books were complaining more before then - for me it was the combining of characters in a way that created plot armour, which ruined a big part of what made GoT great.
- Comment on '3 Body Problem' Is a Tech-Heavy Head Trip | Wired 1 month ago:
Well GoT was good until they ran out of source material and the 3BP books are all out so maybe we’ll avoid it falling off a cliff.
I read the books back when they came out and I’m pretty fuzzy on the details now, so I’m not going to be able to complain about what they’ve changed.
- Comment on sorry 2 months ago:
- Comment on Elton John becomes 19th person to achieve EGOT status with Emmy Award win for 'outstanding variety special' 3 months ago:
Thanks, I didn’t want to have to read the article to find that out.
In return, did you know that in Lemmy you can put two spaces at the end of the line to not start a new paragraph?
E - Emmy
G - Grammy
O - Oscar
T - Tony