bleistift2
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- Comment on Wikipedia not rendering math formulas? 1 day ago:
Seems plausible. When you edit the page and render a preview without changing anything, the formulas render correctly.
- Comment on Do I need to choose a language when posting on Lemmy? 2 days ago:
If a user doesn’t want to see an English post, accurately tagging your post allows them to filter it. So it’s a matter of being nice, but not strictly necessary to tag your post correcly.
- Comment on Wikipedia not rendering math formulas? 3 days ago:
Probably a transient error. Have you tried clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page? (Usually Ctrl+R or Ctrl+F5; dunno about Macs)
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 6 days ago:
Let us sing praise for the Rhineland Palatinatian Landesverordnung zur Ausführung des Gaststättengesetzes (Gaststättenverordnung - GastVO -), in effect since 1971, which mandates one toilet each for males and females in every restaurant or pub, and more for larger establishments.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
I think owl meant to talk in Microsoft’s voice.
- Comment on lmao get good. 1 week ago:
Every bug falls for this at most once.
- Comment on Trust your training 1 week ago:
“And the mitochondria”
“Is the power house of the cell”
Children cheer in applause and repeat it, because it rhymes.
Where the hell is the rhyme in this?
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 1 week ago:
I must admit that I’m more harmed by this image than I thought I would be.
- Comment on Oops, something went wrong! 1 week ago:
I give my users instructions on how to report an error if they seek assistance. It’s regularly ignored. Instead we get the ubiquitous “Something bad happened … somewhere. HALP!”
- Comment on Troy McMillan can't be bothered 1 week ago:
This looks more like an extended table of contents, where you get introductory paragraphs instead of just the headings. Much preferrable, IMHO.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 1 week ago:
WTF is going on on that article’s Talk page? Are teachers now assigning students to edit Wikipedia articles and have others “peer review” them?
- Comment on A Weekly Occurrence at Work 1 week ago:
What benefit does the dispenser bring, exactly?
- Comment on this is a meme about me 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but have you ever wasted hours of your life checking the documentation for the exact string of case-sensitive letters that force LaTeX not to yeet your image 45 pages further into the document, because that’s THE MOST PERFECT PLACE to put it?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Or they’re confident enough in their parenting that they can allow their daughter to come to her own conclusions about this situation after a while.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
she doesn’t want to because she knows it will be a difficult conversation.
That’s a lot of assuming. If we argue in her favor, then we might assume that her parents might not be the most receptive. This is a sensible assumption on her part. Any parent whose daughter is suddenly missing will be agitated. This state of mind is not conducive to a rational conversation.
So her reaction makes sense: She asks her brother whom she views as a good bearer of news to just tell their parents that she is fine, so they don’t go crazy. After they’ve calmed down, she intends to explain herself.
I think this is extraordinarily good thinking. Calling her parents immediately with the news that she’s gone will just end in a shouting contest. Not telling them at all is an undue burden on them and might have undesirable consequences like involving the police. This girl seems to do her best to have a calm talk. That’s way more than I’ve come to expect from adults.
- Comment on Technology just isn't there yet 2 weeks ago:
It also checks your browsing history.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
She said she’d talk to them afterwards. The way I read it she just wants her parents to not panic because their daughter is gone. This seems reasonable to me.
- Comment on Just watched someone walk their cart all the way to the corral at the back of the lot rather than back to the store that was much closer. 2 weeks ago:
Distance travelled is not the only metric by which you can judge a route. Others include:
- Traffic
- Traffic lights or other stops, since it’s nicer to drive uninterrupted.
- What turns you need to make (2 left turns over 6 lanes of traffic? Pass)
- Familiarity
- Road condition
- The view
- Comment on mass 3 weeks ago:
Would you mind sharing the source of that quote? I’m curious about the ‘relative position […] sums to zero’—relative to what? Suppose the mass is completely contained in the ‘upper right quadrant’ in 3D space (I’m lacking the language skill to express that accurately). Then I can’t find a definition that wouldn’t cause the sum to be positive.
- Comment on Does 'attempted murder' require a viable method? 3 weeks ago:
Depends on your jurisdiction. In Germany, the bar for murder is one of [1]:
- an [inner] desire to kill
- killing for sexual reasons
- greed
- “other despicable motivations”
and one of:
- cruelty
- insidiousness
- using “tools dangerous for public safety”
- the motivation to conceal or enable another crime.
In my layman’s understanding, pressing the button checks the ‘insidious’ box, since it is not at all expectable by the victim.
As for the first set of conditions, it would probably be down to a court ruling if the person checked the ‘desire to kill’ box (as I understand it, they wouldn’t) or the ‘other despicable motivations’ box – is killing for no reason a despicable reason?
- Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 3 weeks ago:
„signs of LLM writing” doesn’t mean that the whole thing was written by it.
- Comment on Red Flag Warning? Neighbor Has Fire 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. I couldn’t come up with a reason why the material would be relevant, so I thought there must be some context or other meaning of “vinyl fence” that I was missing.
- Comment on Red Flag Warning? Neighbor Has Fire 3 weeks ago:
There is too little information in that comment for me to be able to provide a meaningful response with the given context.
- Comment on Red Flag Warning? Neighbor Has Fire 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if that applies in your jurisdiction and situation. But I’d take a picture. If your neighborhood does burn down, you have proof that it was him.
- Comment on Red Flag Warning? Neighbor Has Fire 3 weeks ago:
First time I got to use a fire extinguisher was when a neighbor a few houses down the street thought it was a good idea to burn moss in his driveway with a blowtorch after it hadn’t rained in weeks.
That was the second time that neighbor’s neighbor’s hedge caught fire. He then replaced it with a fence.
- Comment on That explains a lot 3 weeks ago:
Replacing Jupiter with an equally massive black hole shouldn’t make a difference. We’d only have one bright dot less in the night sky.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Funny how that works isn’t it?
Yeah, because they had the brains to figure out that a $5 taco isn’t worth going to court over.
- Comment on NewPipe was failing me today, so I reverted back to the YouTube app. After the first ad (20 seconds), the app gave me a permanent blur. 4 weeks ago:
Let me rephrase: It would be illegal for them to not honour their contract. Of course shitty companies may be shitty and reap lawsuits in return.
- Comment on NewPipe was failing me today, so I reverted back to the YouTube app. After the first ad (20 seconds), the app gave me a permanent blur. 4 weeks ago:
They can’t not honour the contract, can they? The only risk is their going bankrupt, which seems unlikely, given for how long they’ve existed already.
- Comment on NewPipe was failing me today, so I reverted back to the YouTube app. After the first ad (20 seconds), the app gave me a permanent blur. 4 weeks ago:
If you’re considering Nebula, I’d, personally, go for the lifetime subscription. It’s the better deal after 5 years.