rudyharrelson
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- Comment on Thoughts?? 2 weeks ago:
It is extremely common for classes to require students to learn to use proprietary software. It’s a tool of the trade.
I understand that; my position is more ideological than practical. In an ideal scenario, AutoDesk, Adobe, Microsoft, etc wouldn’t be so deeply entrenched in their respective fields such that they are the de-facto tools of the trade for every business which must be learned in order to be hired. I know a given student has to learn certain proprietary tools in the current academic and professional environment. My comment was saying I would prefer this not to be the case. I am fully aware that proprietary software domination in the academic and professional spaces is not going away any time soon.
- Comment on Thoughts?? 2 weeks ago:
I’m no academic, but it seems wrong to me that any field would require the use of a particular proprietary software in order to do one’s homework assignments.
May Excel or SPSS be the best tool for the job? In many cases, sure! But students should be allowed to use whatever other software can also get the job done, as long as the software exports the assignment in a data format that the professor can reasonably ingest (e.g.: turning in a CSV file, which can be understood by many different kinds of software, not just Excel).
- Comment on Listen here, Little Dicky 4 weeks ago:
Derivatives started making more sense to me after I started learning their practical applications in physics class.
d/dxwas too abstract when learning it in precalc, but once physics introducedd/dt(change with respect to time t), it made derivative formulas feel more intuitive, like “velocity is the change in position with respect to time, which the derivative of position” and “acceleration is the change in velocity with respect to time, which is the derivative of velocity” - Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Seems like you have perfectly valid concerns regarding the logistics of making such a move. Have you brought up these concerns with him? If so, does he acknowledge them or ignore them?
- Comment on How do I use Firefox and block YouTube ads? 4 weeks ago:
Ah, well that’s not ideal. I’m surprised just disabling the “Quick fixes” list resulted in ads appearing again; that didn’t happen for me. Have you tried updating the filter lists after disabling the “Quick fixes” one?
- Comment on How do I use Firefox and block YouTube ads? 5 weeks ago:
If uBlock Origin was working fine until recently, you can try this workaround (it worked for me when YouTube suddenly started showing me “Ad blockers are against YouTube TOS” messages):
Open uBlock settings in Firefox, go to “Filter Lists” and uncheck “uBlock Filters - Quick fixes” under “Built-in”.
Restart Firefox after unchecking it and see if it helps.
- Comment on Entirely too many questions about Mastodon. So sorry. 5 weeks ago:
Is it as interactive as Lemmy or is everyone kinda shouting into the void?
I’d say it’s a somewhat different kind of interactivity than Lemmy. Your typical Mastodon user won’t have many followers, but that doesn’t mean you’re “shouting into the void”. Similar to Lemmy, you can comment on (reply to) others’ posts and lots of other people can join in the discussion that way.
Is there an equivalent to communities?
Not really, but you can follow hashtags for whatever topics you’re interested in. Or follow an account for something you’re interested in (e.g.: organizations, weather, hobby news, content creators, etc)
If not, how do you find stuff you care about?
Follow people/organizations/tags that you find interesting and their posts will populate your feed.
And is reblogging the equivalent to upvoting? Is it like a like and share in one?
Not necessarily. Reblogging (“boosting” on Mastodon) is just putting more eyes on someone else’s post by sharing it; it isn’t equivalent to an endorsement per se. You can favorite posts on Mastodon, but I don’t think there’s really an equivalent to a “like” or “upvote” button.
Do they have memes there or what’s the range of content?
The range of content is as wide as anywhere else, memes and all. Can vary from instance to instance, though. (e.g.: code of conduct on mastodon.social may be different from fosstodon.org’s)
How does it compare to bluesky? I have used bluesky but the tone there is kinda shallow imo, rarely any meaningful interactions.
I haven’t used bluesky, so I can’t comment on this one.
- Comment on Say hello if you see this more than 6 hrs from posting 1 month ago:
Howdy
- Comment on Comment your strangest/dumbest cursed images that you find funny for no reason 2 months ago:
- Comment on Comment your strangest/dumbest cursed images that you find funny for no reason 2 months ago:
- Comment on First Time Receiving SSTV 2 months ago:
Just used the stock antenna that came with the HT. Cheapest antenna money can buy, just about. But I live out in the countryside and don’t have a lot of tall trees or building obscuring the view, so there was a solid 7 minute window where the ISS was passing directly overhead.
Was a bit cloudy, so I couldn’t actually see it when it was passing over, but the signal came through clear as a bell.
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- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 2 months ago:
You might enjoy Sid Meier’s Civilization games. I’m partial to Civ 6, but they’re pretty much all in the same vein of management games.
- Comment on Elevated 3 months ago:
Thanks for the link. My first question was, “What brand, what item?”
Per the FDA, the recalled item is Cabot Creamery Extra Creamy Premium Butter, Sea Salted. The butter, which is sold in 8-ounce packages, contains two sticks of butter in a cardboard box.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con may have the same stick drift problem as original Switch 3 months ago:
they make too much money off people buying replacements.
Didn’t they start offering free repairs at some point due to it being such a widespread issue? Or did they stop doing that at some point?
Between the damage to their reputation it would cause (knowingly releasing a very flawed product despite having already publicly apologized for it years ago) and the potential for more class-action lawsuits down the line, it seems like it’d be profoundly shortsighted for them to do this.
But maybe the profits from selling replacements outweighs all that in their eyes. I sure hope not. One would hope the profits from a considerably more expensive console and moderately more expensive games would be enough.
- Comment on We are so cooked 3 months ago:
I definitely don’t want to downplay a crisis, but I feel like I’ve been seeing headlines saying “all the bees are dying and we don’t know why” every year for nearly 20 years now.
I’m no bee expert. Just seems to me, based on the headlines, bees would’ve been extinct 10 years ago.
Some cursory searching led me to Colony Collapse Disorder which, apparently, has no agreed-upon cause. Apparently devastating losses to honey bee colonies started being reported around 1900. But it also mentions:
In 2024, the United States Census of Agriculture reported an all-time high in commercial honey bee hives (mostly in Texas), making them the fastest-growing livestock segment in the country.[38]
Link to the source cited there: https://archive.is/nfeb2
Apparently last year saw the largest honey bee populations in US history. Though apparently that huge boom in honey bee population is a threat to other native pollinators, so I guess that presents its own unique problems.
- Comment on Sun God 4 months ago:
It doesn’t exactly unsettle me, but pondering the mind-boggling scale of celestial bodies and the cosmos can certainly be… humbling, I guess?
I had a co-worker a while back who couldn’t talk about the great scale of the universe cause he’d get freaked out. It didn’t come up much, but when it did, he’d be like, “Please stop, it’s stressing me out” so we’d change the subject.
- Comment on If I’m mostly attracted to men, is it «wrong» to consider myself pan? 5 months ago:
Based on your description, “pan” seems appropriate. I don’t think ratios really matter when it comes to this kind of terminology. You appear to be, to varying degrees, attracted to people regardless of their sex or gender.
- Comment on The clever feature that makes cheap heaters safe - and why they're actually dangerous 5 months ago:
I read the post title and immediately thought it might be a Technology Connections video. Great channel
- Comment on It's that time of year again 6 months ago:
I resolved to get back in shape last year after sitting on my ass for a good long while. Happy to say I’ve stuck to it and am in the best shape of my life at the moment (at least strength-wise; my cardio is still trash lol).
For anyone else looking to hit the weights, I started with a simple 5x5 workout. I didn’t bother downloading any apps or anything; I just keep a simple .txt file on my PC tracking my progress. Personally I’m not a fan of how hard the Stronglifts website tries to sell users an app and spreadsheets and such, but their guides are useful.
And I love Dr. Mike’s channel. He’s been consistently helpful ever since I started hitting the weights again. Gives great advice in my experience; super knowledgeable guy.
- Comment on Is there any security in the communication with Voyager I? 7 months ago:
You might enjoy this read: destevez.net/2021/09/decoding-voyager-1/
- Comment on Literally c/THE_PACK 7 months ago:
I assume you mean “analogy” instead of “apology”.
The “THE_PACK” community is a parody of US biker (motorcycle) culture, where many men refer to their motorcycle as their “hog”.
“Hog” is also a slang term for a man’s penis.
“Cranking my hog” is slang for male masturbation. I think it’s also used to refer to revving up one’s motorcycle in the biker community, but I’m not 100% sure of that (my old man was a biker so I am loosely familiar with some of their slang).
They intentionally misspell “hog” as “hawg” for fun. So it’s just a bunch of guys standing around jokingly referencing masturbation under the guise of talking about riding their motorcycles.
- Comment on I'm thinking taffy. 7 months ago:
As someone who’s eaten many sauces and spice blends that incorporate Carolina reaper peppers, spiciness isn’t the same as temperature with regard to heat. Lava’s heat is physically destructive and one’s tongue would likely be immediately burned beyond recognition. One wouldn’t have time to assess the “taste” or texture at all before writhing in agony from severe burns.
In contrast, I can eat a hot sauce made from super hot peppers and, while I’m in agony from the extremely potent capsaicin in the peppers, I haven’t damaged my tongue in the process so I can actually taste the flavor and detect the texture of the food.
- Comment on 50 UNHINGED ways to cook chicken using SCIENCE 7 months ago:
Ah, that’s funny, lol. I didn’t finish watching this vid cause I decided to rewatch the slapping video when I recalled it a minute or two in.
- Comment on 50 UNHINGED ways to cook chicken using SCIENCE 7 months ago:
Reminds me of this video from a while back where a guy cooks a chicken (and a steak) by slapping it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHFhnnTWMgI
- Comment on definitely 7 months ago:
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 8 months ago:
It’s interesting to see some of the back-and-forth on this topic between different proponents of free software.
I listened to this talk by Linus Torvalds a while back and it relates to the GPL license used by the Linux kernel and why the kernel hasn’t changed to GPLv3. Apparently Linus doesn’t find this practice by Tivo and other hardware manufacturers to be an issue.
- Comment on (complete) lemmy.radio upgrading from 0.19.3 to 0.19.6 8 months ago:
Ahh, gotcha. Thanks for looking into it
- Comment on (complete) lemmy.radio upgrading from 0.19.3 to 0.19.6 8 months ago:
It seems like uploading animated .gif files may be currently broken. The server returns a 400 error with the message “Too wide”.
Dunno if this was an issue before the update, as I’m not sure I ever tried to upload a .gif file before; I usually upload .png files. Just wanted to give you a heads up either way.
- Comment on Jewel Beetles 8 months ago:
