Onomatopoeia
@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don't work anymore 1 week ago:
To borrow from the racing world: Speed costs money son, how fast you wanna go?
Replication/Duplication/backup, with error detection is key.
Datacenter folks have been working on this stuff since the 90’s.
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 1 week ago:
Well, virtualizatiin systems tend to run at root level, since they need to emulate things like processors (yea, that’s not the only way, but business-class virtualizatiin is done at the OS level).
- Comment on Anon is confused 1 week ago:
Time to file the divorce papers.
- Comment on Observer 2 weeks ago:
Which is what’s so “magical” about it - Newtonian rules seem to break down at the quantum level.
It was an incredible discovery, and for practically anyone not a physicist, it’s incredibly hard to comprehend. I say this as a not-a-physicist who struggled to comprehend it decades ago, and read several books on the subject to finally get my head around it (as much as a non-physicist can).
Also, it’s just a meme mate.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’ll blame the drivers (and some of that blame lands on MS).
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen an ad on Windows. Not sure what people do to get ads.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
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Just installed Debian, no wifi
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Lots more stuff just like #1, such as my 10 year old and 3 month old Logitech wireless mice weren’t detected, and support for them is (fortunately) only available from a third party, which I found by searching the web for an answer.
I could give you pages of why Linux doesn’t compare to Windows for the desktop, which I’d follow with where it really shines - as a server for all kinds of things. It’s so good for specific tasks that even VMware replaced their own Workstation virtualization with Linux KVM.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Unhinged or older?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Ah, yes, another person who goes through life smelling like ass and foisting their stench on the rest of us.
- Comment on The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong [Veritasium} 3 weeks ago:
Yea, glad I wasted 7 minutes on that nonsense, and glad I never applied at Google.
Anymore if I get asked stupid questions like this I say it’s not a good question, and to ask a real one. Interviewers aren’t used to such responses.
And I also don’t do STAR type interviews. When they start in on them, I tell them how useless they are, and pull out several sheets of printed questions and answers.
- Comment on Wanted to watch the movie Pump up the Volume... 3 weeks ago:
I feel like this would do better in Dad Jokes
- Comment on Get a smiley for driving too fast 3 weeks ago:
Me too
- Comment on Why there is no photos of earth from space? 3 weeks ago:
Hahahahaha, omg, awesome. Wish I had more than one upvote to give.
- Comment on Am I a bad friend/rude for not engaging with my friends and giving one-word responses? 3 weeks ago:
If you don’t like socializing, you won’t have friends. Those things go hand-in-hand.
Maybe examining why you feel this way about socializing would help. Do you really not enjoy all socializing, or just certain things?
Socializing is a major part of life, you could almost say it’s “The Thing”. I’m not saying you need to go throw on a lampshade every day, just that we’re all engaging with each other every day. You may talk to a sibling for a while, then a friend, have lunch with a coworker, take a walk with someone from a class to discuss what you’re not getting.
Without socializing, we may as well go live in a cave, and that’s not good (nor realistic).
- Comment on Am I a bad friend/rude for not engaging with my friends and giving one-word responses? 3 weeks ago:
Spot on.
Only thing I’d change is when turning down an invite, act like you wanted to but can’t (even if the reason is you’re tired).
“Oh, man, I’d love to go, but I’m wiped. Need to get some sack time”. This may seem disingenuous, but it really isn’t - you’re not going because you need that recharge time, just phrasing it in a way others can understand, and making it clear you’d like to do such things in the future.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 3 weeks ago:
Anything in a can is not going to be good for us
- Comment on Got these (notes) provided by my school.. 3 weeks ago:
Self-centered? Hahahahaha
While it’s the extroverts that never “shut their pihole”.
FFS, being self-centered (in the selfish sense) occurs in both groups/all along the spectrum.
What maroon wrote this drivel?
- Comment on Got these (notes) provided by my school.. 3 weeks ago:
Even better, email the school with a well-referenced correction.
- Comment on Got these (notes) provided by my school.. 3 weeks ago:
Hahahaha, awesome!
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 3 weeks ago:
What counts is how the other person perceives it.
Talking amicably is just being polite. Knowing how to say things “with a wink and a nudge” would be more flirting.
Flirting occurs when you demonstrate attraction to someone indirectly or obliquely. Such indirectness creates tension, because we both know what I’m saying, but since I haven’t actually said it, there’s ambiguity.
It can also be direct statements, but that doesn’t demonstrate that you understand the dance. And I really do mean dance. Dancing is all about connection, being able to stay connected to a dance partner when you’re moving apart, and sensing just when, and how firmly, to pull them back toward you. It’s like you have a rubber band between you. Feeling that tension in it when you’re far apart is exciting, releasing that tension by coming closer resolves it. Back and forth you go. Flirting is the same.
Flirting should be a fun thing for you. Don’t view it as something you “just” have to do - it’s how we assess each other, it’s part of the process (it is a process, not a check box). It also never ends, just changes within a relationship.
We do the same with non-romantic relationships, there it’s called small talk (or you could say we don’t move from small talk to flirting).
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 3 weeks ago:
Really good points.
Own yourself, your goals, your intentions. People can sense/read when your behaviour doesn’t seem to align with what we think is concealed intentions.
Nearly all people enjoy when someone has the sense of self to be forward.
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 3 weeks ago:
No.
Yes.
Depends on context, and the non-verbal signals you give.
- Comment on Turning my printer on v. turning it off 3 weeks ago:
I last owned an inkjet about 2000. Since then, the worst I’ve owned is a infrared thermal printer that was, well, a bit slow (infrared in 2005!). I’d still take that printer over any inkjet.
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 3 weeks ago:
Flirting is part of the process, the dance. It’s also a pretty broad term.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Not really. Flights like that can be pretty reasonable, since they’re commuter flights.
And depending on the time, 4 hours in a bus (on the east coast, the North East no less, where congestion is brutal) could consume much of the time available.
I wouldn’t fly for this, but it’s understandable, especially if getting to the airport is trivial. It really depends on where said friend lives and time to the airport etc.
Unless you’ve driven through that area, you really have no idea what it’s like. I’ve done it many times for work, and you can’t pay me to get on those roads today, let alone in a bus. It’s like LA or the Bay Area in California, so congested that rush “hour” is all day.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 3 weeks ago:
Ooh, nice. I don’t own a Ford, but I’ll go find it for friends and family.
- Comment on What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? 3 weeks ago:
I imagine people are confused and don’t know the rules, because of things like the attempt to make English match Latin grammar, plus the rules from French and Middle/Old English (which is where some of these things come from).
English is very inconsistent in the rules, you almost have to know a word’s etymology to apply the right rules.
- Comment on What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? 3 weeks ago:
Such things are possibly influenced by things like Latin. English (generally) has different written forms for noun and vern forms, which kind of reflect spoken language (though none of this is set in pudding, let alone stone).
There’s a great podcast “The History of English” By Kevin Stroud, that discusses such things.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 4 weeks ago:
I imagine the manufacturers and their lawyers are why we don’t have greater access to OBDII and CANBUS info.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 4 weeks ago:
Fucking Jeep/Chrysler. Like who keeps buying this garbage?