Onomatopoeia
@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on Could you grind up a loaf of bread back into a flour and make a new loaf of bread? 1 day ago:
Not really, no - entropy is one-way at the macro scale.
The flour absorbed water, and combined with kneading, produced gluten.
Grinding it all up wouldn’t reverse that process - it would just be ground up bread.
- Comment on I don’t know what to do with this coworker. 2 days ago:
I’d start with not saying anything, but writing a log/journal hourly, even if it’s just in a phone app that reminds you. Remember squeaky wheels get treated like they’re the problem - best to have documentation on your side.
After maybe a month, then decide what your actions will be. Maybe just request shifts that happen to never coincide with this other person. Sometimes doing what you need is better than addressing the root cause.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 3 days ago:
That’s why you have the phone call, to discuss it, and in closing state you’ll send an email.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 3 days ago:
I don’t disagree it’s a focus thing for many people. I’m often stunned at the lack of comprehension or attention to detail using any medium, even in person (also technical field).
Like look, I just said to do what you’re asking would require 250 firewall rules…why are you now talking as if firewall rules aren’t required? I even went through the simplest math out loud during this meeting, so everyone would understand how I came up with that number and didn’t just pull it out of my ass.
People pay attention to what they want to pay attention to (or as my grandfather would say - people hear what they want to hear). If those questions aren’t a high priority for their own work, they simply don’t see them.
For OP: email is a terrible medium for such things, unless there’s been a conversation about it, and this is part of moving a project forward. Anything out of left field isn’t important to your audience, and… people dislike comitting to anything in email. As you work with people up the food chain, you’ll find less and less happens via verifiable comms like email (which is archived).
- Comment on Why Did the Government Declare War on My Adorable Tiny Truck? 4 days ago:
Safety.
See that minivan, where the driver is over the front wheels? That means the crumple zone is you. The US stopped making that design in the early 70’s because of the lack of crumple zones.
So thank all the people who complain when the smallest injury happens in an accident, and blame the vehicle. This makes safety requirements stronger (which has largely been a good thing), but makes Kei trucks unsellable in the US.
- Comment on Dick Proenneke. Alone in the Winderness 6 days ago:
What he did, starting at age 50 (I think - He for sure was no young man), is just astounding.
And he had the presence to film enough of what he did so we have the record.
- Comment on What vacuum should I buy for 66% carpets in 140sqft condo? Sub $500 6 days ago:
Anything will work, what’s most important is regular vacuuming, preventing dirt from working it’s way down though the carpet.
In another life I did some reno work. You could tell who vacuumed regularly, and who didn’t. This was long before vacuums became high-ticket items, they were all generic bag-based ones designed in the 60’s and 70’s.
- Comment on No, Kerosene did NOT save the Sperm Whale (2024) 1 week ago:
In the end, it was petroleum, this article even says so at the end.
- Comment on Why Do Sites Keep Shoving Features We Don’t Want Down Our Throats? 1 week ago:
YouTube does this stuff because it’s effective. The only way to avoif is to not play the game as defined by them.
Switch to other means of watching YouTube, like Grayjay, or an envious instance.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s abnormal.
That kind of speed requires 500hp+, depending on Cd and frontal area.
What percentage of cars produce 500hp?
(Im not even sure 500hp is enough, it’s been a while since I’ve done the math).
Small increments in speed require non-linear increases in power.
- Comment on How Gen Z is doomed to own nothing, but pay forever 1 week ago:
“Politically active” yet knows nothing about Cambridge Analytica 15 years ago. 🤦🏼
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 1 week ago:
It would probably help to define the terms you’re using, as there are many ways to interpret “big place”, “small place”, “many people”, etc.
I don’t even know if your starting point is accurate.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ok, Dr. Evil!
- Comment on How Gen Z is doomed to own nothing, but pay forever 1 week ago:
A friend of mine spends upward of $1000/mo on food delivery.
Like what the hell?
- Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 2 weeks ago:
It’s not like my 2016 version will stop working. Just means I’ll have to setup a SharePoint server to sync with mobile devices.
- Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 2 weeks ago:
Eff 365.
Thats fine, I actually prefer my software to not receive constant “upbreaks”
- Comment on ‘Little House On the Prairie’ Reboot For Netflix Begins Search For Ingalls Family Members 2 weeks ago:
Yea, the original is the same in name only.
- Comment on What are your top 10 series of all time? 3 weeks ago:
Currently watching Poirot (the series) for the first time. Hard to believe it started in the 80’s - the film quality is so high, it looks great even on a large TV today.
And the production values overall are amazing. The cars, the clothes, the buildings, etc - they really captured the 1930’s. I really appreciate the clear, well-balanced colors, too, none of today’s high-contrast, over-saturated crap.
- Comment on What are your top 10 series of all time? 3 weeks ago:
Baywatch was so bad, I couldn’t even watch it for the slo-mo girls running down the beach.
Now the movie - that was a riot.
- Comment on Opinion: It's time for a proper Steam-type service for TV alongside streaming exists. 3 weeks ago:
They’re already making gobs. You’re asking them to change to potentially make more at the risk of losing control of rights.
- Comment on Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don't work anymore 1 month 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 month 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 month ago:
Time to file the divorce papers.
- Comment on Observer 1 month 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 1 month ago:
I’ll blame the drivers (and some of that blame lands on MS).
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’ve never seen an ad on Windows. Not sure what people do to get ads.
- Comment on 1 month 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] 1 month ago:
Unhinged or older?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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} 1 month 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.