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- Comment on Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth 2 days ago:
The volume of updates would bring a lot of tech to its knees
- Comment on People who do not specify units of measurement in international contexts 4 days ago:
Sure. As I said, it makes sense to just… not be ambiguous. As for familiarity, I don’t think you really need it? You’ll have an inkling of where the recipe came from and be 90% sure most of the time. If not, searching for one more recipe means it’s suddenly really unlikely to still be unclear. No matter what you want you could search for non-US units to rule out/convert.
Familiarity would mean it’s even easier, you’ll go “of course this is baked at around 175°C like virtually all the other things like it” and almost certainly be right. Although baking is notoriously finicky…
- Comment on People who do not specify units of measurement in international contexts 5 days ago:
As with everything, we know it’s all the Americans’ fault. Joking. Halfway, anyway - they are a majority of the people who, internationally speaking, wanted to be all precious about this stuff. Although even if they didn’t, it’d still seem like “good practice” to include units anyway, though.
The cooking does tend to just be context, though, or at least “same as all the other recipes”. There’s only so many sane temps to pick for any given thing, and there’s a factor of ~2 between the two choices. E.g. if you were baking, 210° is either pretty hot or way too cool for most things.
- Comment on The slopification of recruitment 1 week ago:
On the other hand, who wants to fucking work for Microsoft?
- Comment on Is there a reason why toilets are made out of one of the most resonating materials possible while also being made in a shape that makes a small fart sound like a damn trombone? 1 week ago:
Did you accidentally get the wrong post here? Or are we playing Jeopardy or something
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 1 week ago:
I have to admit… I kinda get that sometimes. Maybe I’ll spin up a new user just to test if that’s it
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 1 week ago:
The reason I remember it is because the whole thing ended with that mod throwing a tantrum, promoting some random users to mods with an “if it’s so easy to moderate, you fuckin do it then” message, and deleting their account.
Can’t say I’m surprised. The quality of moderation here is, how do I say this… a fictional concept? It’s so easy to tell when someone is all “me want be important, me become internet dictator” and couldn’t give less of a shit about doing it vaguely properly.
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 1 week ago:
Hm. Kind of a weird thing to be doing then. I know storage prices are up and all, but that half kilobyte of text?
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 1 week ago:
… can’t really argue with that
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 1 week ago:
If we (naively, I’m sure) assume they apply the rules as they’re actually written, those make a lot of sense. If they’re removing on rule 1 and 5 (no fake questions, especially for some agenda) then that’s basically the exact same suspicion I have myself for most of this. But then the majority traffic is spam or even more malicious. hm.
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 1 week ago:
That would explain it, because some of them really are pushing the suspension of disbelief. Which is why it’s especially annoying when I go out of my way to assume whoever is not actually completely taking the piss or some other kind of idiot, and treat the question reasonably seriously. Deleting it afterwards makes me very suspicious indeed because, bluntly, many of the “questions” already felt… stupid… in the wrong goddamn ways. Not necessarily dumber shit, but differently dumb shit than people used to ask on reddit before LLMs, hint hint.
Seriously, have you read some of this shit?
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 1 week ago:
It doesn’t seem to mean that OP did it, because it doesn’t look like that when I delete my own stuff?
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- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s probably it, or pure cargo cult because “we’ve always had signatures so something’s got to go in that slot”. The whole idea of random scrawls for “authentication” has been weird all along. As if everyone walked around knowing what everyone’s signatures should look like. And if you do know, you can just… write it that way.
- Comment on Is there a reason why toilets are made out of one of the most resonating materials possible while also being made in a shape that makes a small fart sound like a damn trombone? 2 weeks ago:
(A rusty one?)
The simple answer is, porcelain is fairly durable, nonreactive and, well, smooth. You don’t want a material that’s prone to sticking in any way. The shape needs to be a certain way for the water to do away with… things.
That sucks when you have one of the THBPLTPLTBPHLTHLPTHPLTPPL ones in company, though.
- Comment on Why can't I change the terms and conditions in a pre-signed contract with a corpo? 2 weeks ago:
If you and I make a contract, and then I turn around and change some terms with crayon, it’s not like you’re beholden to the new ones.
The one who dictates the terms of service is the one who provides the “service”, questionable though it might be. You agree to it when you sign up. When they change it up on you, it is with the assumption you’ll quit if you disagree strongly enough to the changes.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Assorted “post infection” bullshit is not uncommon, if that’s the kind of sick you were. Certain infections have certain sequelae. Your doc is aware of the history, right?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s not normal ageing, unless you meant like 92. Have you mentioned how bad it is to a doctor? Been sick lately?
- Comment on How do people make mods for games without access to the game's source code? 2 weeks ago:
The hard way. Exactly how hard depends on what tech the game is built on. Easy access to code and assets is typically lost when “building”, but you can often decompile things at the cost of losing names for things, comments or whatever. A trained eye can still tell what’s going on in the resulting mess, and make any desired changes. Some projects intentionally try to make it harder in various ways, with obfuscation and attempts at tampering detection.
A similar exception (because it can get pretty complicated) is the modding API Nemo mentions. You implement an interface (contract outlining what your code can do) and the game calls your code at what it decides is appropriate times, like updating every frame or when it’s time to draw custom stuff. This can help make sure different mods don’t instantly conflict if they try to mess with the same part of the game.
- Comment on Anon orders a martini 2 weeks ago:
If you want to blend in, getting a standout unusual and kinda “wrong” drink order would be counterproductive. In an “eccentric” enough crowd it might just pass, but the wiser choice if you’re a spy would’ve been… do more cocktail research, don’t end up going to a foofy place and ask for ice cubes in your wine etc.
- Comment on Anon can't escape 3 weeks ago:
If reality was spackled together with js and PHP, it would explain quite a few things
- Comment on I hate Android! 3 weeks ago:
A bunch of the “fediverse” reacts poorly to this. But, speaking as someone who never even considered Apple, using Android doesn’t have to mean it’s smart to go into intentional denial of a long list of shit that sucks, just to be a fanboy.
- Comment on Is it reasonable to tell a person you once loved about the fact years later? 5 weeks ago:
Based on OP’s other replies it’s just trolling at this point, but if he wasn’t, everyone is so much better off by just leaving this alone. It was a weird idea from the start and every last post is another nail in the coffin for anything good coming out of this.
- Comment on Is it reasonable to tell a person you once loved about the fact years later? 5 weeks ago:
Swordgeek has a point - people will have selfish ideas, for selfish reasons. It’s just not very pleasant to have to admit, and therefore people often won’t do it, even to themselves. This makes ulterior motives a lot easier to spot when they’re not your own, and obviously something is up, here.
So if, deep down inside, you happened to be hoping for some kind of self esteem boost or stroked ego… that doesn’t seem very likely. And even if it was, probably not worth bothering a former acquaintance over.
Whatever you were hoping for, you seem pretty hellbent on it - you don’t need to be honest with strangers on lemmy, but might want to re-check your actual motivation here with yourself, because this is stuff that gets creepy real fast.
I would really want to cite some scientific study that “Over 80% of girls have their self-confidence lifted after being told they were secretly admired (p<0.05)”, but can’t find one.
You want something like this because it seems to rationalize the thing you wanted to do anyway. It is not your real reason for wanting to do it, but you’d have some kind of excuse for a thing people are lining up to tell you is a Bad Idea.
- Comment on Can you hide wired conversations behind a language barrier? 1 month ago:
Just get a translator and you’re screwed. No amount of complexity between any two real, actual languages will make this “good” encryption. That definitely includes Japanese.
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 1 month ago:
It’s easy to make you do it, that’s all.
- Comment on What ever happened to Ipecac? Why is it rarely used today, there was some side effects but not to warrant most hospitals to abruptly stop the use of it. 2 months ago:
There were some side effects that warranted hospitals to abruptly stop the use. In many cases you’re not even supposed to try to provoke vomiting.
- Comment on Anon works out the question to the final solution 2 months ago:
While in may ways it’s hard to navigate neurotypical society with all its prejudice, it’s also actually relatively easy to just not go there
- Comment on After 9/11 America was afraid of a Improvised Nuclear Something made out of used uranium. How would that work? Just get a piece of dynamite and some nuke dust and light the dynamite? 3 months ago:
Basically yes, that’s exactly how it would work. “Dirty bombs” are not nuclear per se, they’re conventional explosives that are meant to spread nuclear material.
- Comment on If you (a regular American citizen) had actionable, insider knowledge about the US Federal Government/Military and felt the public should know, how would you tell everyone? 3 months ago:
Contacting a journalist from some relatively non-US-Flavor aid-drinking media outlet? Find some that allow contact through encrypted media, work meticulously to not give any obvious identity clues. This being said, I feel “they’re a bunch of crazy, corrupt dumbfucks” might not work as news, per se.