silasmariner
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- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 6 days ago:
Lol yeah can only imagine what playing ‘hunt the bad device’ would’ve been like back when those boxes had actual fuses on them. (That’s the game where the main circuit breaker gets tripped and you have to figure out first what ring it’s on, and then which specific item is tripping it)
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 6 days ago:
No fuses in the switch box though, it’s a box of circuits breakers
- Comment on moms rule 1 week ago:
Honestly this is just the first one I found that mentions it, I’ve seen various different sources for different reasons in the past. But the average is based on genetic mutations, and obviously in any given human it’s irrelevant how large a generation is as to how much genetic mutation is contributed by the generation. Like even if there are 8 billion people today, that doesn’t imply that you somehow got more generic inheritance from your parents than they did from theirs back when there were 6 billion people or whatever. Judging average to be the average per generation (a reasonable inference given the methodology) the last few years won’t make much of a difference in a timescale of 250k years
I can’t find the article I vaguely remember from a while ago, here’s another random one that has mothers in the bronze age ranging from 16-40ish researchgate.net/…/314262257_Bronze_Age_Beginning… although you can’t really infer much about averages from that.
Anyway yeah there have been periods in time when average age of mothers was younger, but generally if you look back on a long timescale it’s been older than people seem to assume. Seems to be quite common to have the notion that women all had children at 16 or whatever back in the day but not much to really bear that out that I can find.
- Comment on moms rule 1 week ago:
www.openaccessgovernment.org/…/151423/ nah it’s pretty much been the average age of mothers for a very very long time indeed
- Comment on **SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT** 2 weeks ago:
Well you’re not fucking wrong mate
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 2 weeks ago:
But he was the one I was looking for
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s clearly Prince
- Comment on **SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT** 2 weeks ago:
Reader mode also works beautifully on mobile for sites that’re otherwise friendly but have a clunky layout on width-constrained windows
- Comment on Anon discovers Japanese jazz 4 weeks ago:
Fair enough, but it’s hard to tell unless the comparative images are from sufficiently-similar angles
- Comment on Anon discovers Japanese jazz 4 weeks ago:
According to this person: bricks = pangolin or some shit I can’t read
- Comment on Anon discovers Japanese jazz 4 weeks ago:
I would bother with these images tbh since the bottom one is clearly cutting out an unknown amount of the built-up centre…
- Comment on Initially he thought it would be a great video 4 weeks ago:
Thanks! That’s wild, what a trip
- Comment on Initially he thought it would be a great video 4 weeks ago:
For those of us who don’t, do you have a reference to this?
- Comment on Hurry 5 weeks ago:
Otter than it’d be without the sock, would be older then.
- Comment on Do linux users have wives? 1 month ago:
A tabula rasa? In my file system?
- Comment on Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff 1 month ago:
I legit use a J interpreter instead of a calculator on my phone. I wrote fizzbuzz a few times - it was hard for me in J, but I’ve done it. K is real but I can’t even write fizzbuzz in it.
- Comment on Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff 1 month ago:
Then you’re clearly not deep enough into the world of array programming languages. See, K is a a programming language that takes many design cues from J, which is I’m turn based on APL. It’s known primarily for that and for KDB, the database engine written in it.
- Comment on Middle coat is my grandma's 1 month ago:
Were nonetheless equally mean!
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 2 months ago:
Some trees do a bit, I guess? Like, beech trees will release some chemicals to inhibit other plant growth, and iirc their leaves do that as they decompose, as well as the root system itself. But depends on the plant and mostly bunk I believe.
- Comment on Thought-provoking 2 months ago:
Under any circumstances for anything
- Comment on Thought-provoking 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t take an eternity of existence under any circumstances for anything. Please just let me fucking die when I’m done.
- Comment on I'm sure everyone remembers 2 months ago:
Yeah, March 2025, don’t you remember? Plate armour was back in for a while.
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 2 months ago:
Check where you are, because come on, that’s the whole point of this community
- Comment on Roses are red in North Carolina..... 2 months ago:
Needs more jpeg. I can still read it
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 months ago:
Huh, didn’t realise it was that old. TiL I guess.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 months ago:
15… Years? On the fediverse? How’d ya manage that without time travel?
- Comment on He's a little feisty, but he looked cold 2 months ago:
Holy shit that film is so good and also like a really weirdly niche reference
- Comment on Pretty sound reasoning here. 2 months ago:
I think it’s probably fair to say that suggesting that a finger in the barrel of a gun would stop a bullet is a least 10x, if not 100x, worse than the Nazis.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 2 months ago:
*has bleen
- Comment on FAQ: Yes We Suppirt Kinect 3 months ago:
You’ve got one day a fortnight to spend arguing about what was worst about Lean Code with some random wanker on the internet