Eiri
@Eiri@lemmy.ca
- Comment on J IS LORD 11 hours ago:
Oh thanks. I’d have never guessed
- Comment on J IS LORD 11 hours ago:
What is this supposed to be?
- Comment on Which game has your favourite dodges? 3 days ago:
I don’t know what’s best, but I know FF7 Remake’s annoys me because I always expect it to have i-frames, but it doesn’t.
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
That’s good. My first instinct would’ve been that what’s in toothpaste is plenty.
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
Before even wondering about the health effects, we should ask ourselves whether it actually achieves the desired goal. I doubt that.
If it doesn’t, we don’t even need to wonder about safety; we’ll just stop burning money.
- Comment on Why isn't Putin receiving the same level of hate than people like Trump and Elon are? 4 weeks ago:
Expectations.
People don’t expect a country that’s supposed to be a close ally to do actual pure evil.
Russia has always been in a different category. It’s oscillated between being an outright enemy and being a distant, somewhat-ally the West is suspicious of. Either way, Putin was never someone you trust.
When someone betrays your expectations, you have a stronger emotional response.
When you feel like your country is actually helping with evil acts, that’s another layer of emotional response.
But if someone you feel like you can’t do anything about and has always been bad anyway is being evil, again… Well it’s a bit of a “no shit, Sherlock” moment. Doesn’t spark anger in quite the same way.
- Comment on Anon needs cooking advice 4 weeks ago:
Once i completely forgot the salt in my bread. It was disgustingly bland; like, I couldn’t believe a teaspoon of salt would have such a massive effect.
But I actually salvaged it by putting salt on every slice of toast I made with that loaf.
It worked out okay!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Assuming it’s just like a Steam Deck without the screen, how would that compare to popular controllers like consoles first-party ones or 8bitdo’s offerings?
- Comment on How to avoid having cat hair all over my house and clothes every 2 days? 4 weeks ago:
Have you tried brush-gloves? The idea is that they allow you to brush your pet every time you pet them. Having several in every room where you’re likely to spend time with your cat could be the key to brushing more while not feeling like you do.
- Comment on gen z gorillas 4 weeks ago:
Both are young. I think that’s about it.
- Comment on Anon plays pretend 4 weeks ago:
I used to do it a lot as a teenager. For everything in my life. Now much less. I wonder why.
- Comment on RIP 5 weeks ago:
Feels vaguely threatening lol
- Comment on Anons discuss PC vs console gaming 5 weeks ago:
Sadly TVs with DisplayPort support are very rare, and mine is not one of them.
- Comment on Anons discuss PC vs console gaming 5 weeks ago:
Used to do this. I had issues with either the audio or the video feed randomly dying, though, so I ended up finding a way to make HDMI+USB work when I moved.
More reliable, but now that I’m starting to think about reorganizing my office, copper will no longer do for 4K120 as that’ll go over the 5-meter limit. And an optical high bandwidth HDMI+USB isn’t cheap.
Upsides and downsides…
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 5 weeks ago:
I wanted some foreign goods to get more expensive. To end slavery, not to escalate a trade war!
I should have checked my vicinity for any stray monkey’s paws when I made that wish.
- Comment on The doctor then had to go and treat that lawyer for being a burn victim 5 weeks ago:
Upscale it to 4K for no reason
- Comment on Why did the pope announce anime mascots? 1 month ago:
Come to think of it, I’ve heard that all my life but never questioned it. Is it really true for all of them?
- Comment on She must be unhinged 1 month ago:
I just thought that in real life, when they were out of on-stage roles, other children would do something else. But then again if the children are, like, 7, it’s not like you can assign ALL the jobs to them.
I hadn’t thought about it. But then again, I never did any sort of play at school.
- Comment on She must be unhinged 1 month ago:
I thought casting students as inanimate objects or plants only happened in TV shows.
- Comment on Half as Hot 1 month ago:
Wait, does it? Are joules in thermal energy per kelvin a purely linear relationship?
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 1 month ago:
How is that unclear?
- Comment on Drink it, I dare ya 2 months ago:
Dicarbon monoxide. Wikipedia is shockingly poor in information about it, but “stable” is certainly not the first word I’d use to describe it.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 months ago:
What kills me is when people will mix the two in a single context.
“Between eight and 13 percent”
NO. If you’re writing one number in digits, you need to write them all the same way.
- Comment on Anon has priorities 2 months ago:
What would be a solar eclipse though
- Comment on The 1900s 2 months ago:
Oh yeah, definitely very old stuff, huh.
- Comment on The 1900s 2 months ago:
I regularly say “from the 20th century” when I want to emphasize the age, the irrelevance, of my lack of knowledge of something.
I don’t know crap about cars, so sometimes, someone would ask me about an old one or something and I’d say “not sure, mid-20th century I think”.
It’s a funny way to talk about it and it almost masks the fact I just tried to get away with a 25-year window.
Although in a more rude manner I’ll also say I don’t care about some 20th century movie or something.
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 2 months ago:
Well they don’t know know, but there are signs. For one, we fill in timesheets, and lying on them is a no-no. I could probably get away with stretching the truth a little, but if they notice I only commit between X and Y time, or that I’m seldom available for developer questions at a particular time, they might get suspicious and investigate my hours.
As for overtime… Well I think how companies handle it is they don’t actually ask us to stay late; they just give us unrealistic targets that kinda require overtime unless you’re a god if we ever complained they’d say they never asked for us to stay late.
We used to be able to accumulate time indefinitely and take time off according to the bank of extra time we’d worked, but once, someone accumulated hundreds of hours and just left on an unplanned vacation for nearly a full month and they really didn’t like that. So now, you need to work your quota (which you can have them adjust to your capabilities; 30, 35, 40…) on average every month. So, sure, I can work only 20 hours one week, but that’s 15 hours of extra time I need to do within that month.
And if you have extra at the end of the month, well, that’s lost.
Which sucks, because I used to use those as sick days over the legally required two paid ones we get per year; my health isn’t exactly resplendent.
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 2 months ago:
This is so common in Quebec that I have trouble believing it’s illegal. I think it might be a loophole.
- Comment on Cheeky 2 months ago:
Oh yeah I pick up stuff with them sometimes but I wanna try the monkey experience lol