Onomatopoeia
@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on do managers value if you're an engaged employee even if you had/have a bad reputation? 1 day ago:
FYI, the medical community is one of the worst from the popularity contest perspective.
It exists everywhere, but for some reason that world is especially bad.
- Comment on Why is it called Lemmy 🤔? 1 day ago:
OP isn’t asking “why do you like chocolate?”.
If OP were curious why his name is what it is, he could ask the person who came up with it. He could have reasons for it, or not, but that person would know.
In this case, he’s asking the community if they know the origin of the name for the Lemmy project. The answer could range from “It was completely random, just something that came up in my head” to “I thought the project reflected a trait in a particular animal, so felt the name would represent that”.
So it’s potentially an answerable question, unlike “why do you like chocolate?”.
- Comment on spidey senses 4 days ago:
Oh, shit.
- Comment on Shit 4 days ago:
Hahahahaha, omg
- Comment on Library 5 days ago:
3? You’ve been playing THREE games? How? Where do you find the time!?
- Comment on spidey senses 5 days ago:
That was a very cool read, thanks!
- Comment on critter vs varmit 5 days ago:
Also, as you noted, it’s varmint, not varmit. It’s etymology is vermin. Sounds like something a yank would get wrong (as a half-yank, I can speak to this).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Only 10 flags? You sure this doesn’t call for 11? I’ve never been fully clear on the guidance for how many to use. 😁
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you just met them, you’re likely asking to deep or personal of a question for the current relationship.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“Uhh, you just told me?”
- Comment on I just looked up out of curiosity how to build a pipe bomb on google. The how to build a dirty bomb nuclear bomb and so forth. They are all .gov sites. How do people keep building these things? 1 week ago:
Your question isn’t clear.
Just because the results they find are gov sites people don’t do it? I don’t follow. Seems like gov would be a good source?
- Comment on This one is going to be controversial 2 weeks ago:
Ewww.
Unpopular opinion: curry smells and tastes awful.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Make sure your stuff is not visibly dirty?
It’s dirty clothes. Please, enlighten me on how to make it “not visibly dirty”.
Life is messy. Ever changed a baby’s diaper? A cloth one? And had them pee and poop on you while doing it?
That’s life. It’s messy.
- Comment on Is there anything my girlfriend and I have to consider when traveling to America based on our skin differences? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t listen to the people saying there’s an issue anywhere.
All this racist nonsense is just that - nonsense.
I’ve lived or worked for extended periods in numerous states, from Maine to Alabama, North Dakota, Washington, Texas, California, and all over the midwest, especially in rural areas (worked with trucking companies), and you really don’t see all the racism people claim on the internet, even in the trucker world.
Yea, you’ll find an ass here and there, but that’s very much the exception today. Far more so than even the 70’s, when being openly racist in a small town was tolerated a lot more (“the older generation don’t know no better” kind of stuff).
So come to the US. You’ll be fine anywhere except specific areas in certain inner cities (and that’s a general crime issue, not a race issue).
- Comment on Is there anything my girlfriend and I have to consider when traveling to America based on our skin differences? 2 weeks ago:
Not really, it’s not the 50’s or 60’s.
99% of people don’t give a shit.
- Comment on Is there anything my girlfriend and I have to consider when traveling to America based on our skin differences? 2 weeks ago:
Middle of the country? Haha
Nobody gives a fuck
- Comment on Why is it when I watch a movie at home? It seems like I have to go deaf just this way. I can hear the audio of somebody speaking compared to the explosions and other special effect sounds? 2 weeks ago:
Yea, crappy mixing. It may technically be “excellent” mixing, but only works in a theater.
Even that isn’t true, pretty much every movie I’ve seen at the theater in recent years, the dialog is hard to hear.
- Comment on Why is it when I watch a movie at home? It seems like I have to go deaf just this way. I can hear the audio of somebody speaking compared to the explosions and other special effect sounds? 2 weeks ago:
Thank the asshole directors for choosing to make sound so crappy any more (my opinion, I think all movies have crap mixing, with too much focus on sound effects so even when voice is brought forward it’s still hard to hear clearly).
Part of it is the movie audio is mixed for a theater that has multiple channels and speakers, so the output is the better separated and voice can be delivered better. It would need to be remixed to sound better at home, and since all homes are very different, what would you target? (Plus they simply don’t want to pay extra for mixing which doesn’t contribute to seats in a theater). Yea, they could probably use a generic mix, but again, it costs to do so, and some home users would still (justifiably) complain.
The other is some directors intentionally crapify the mix because they want a certain experience while watching the movie in the theater. One director recently even stated he wanted dialog to be difficult to understand in certain scenes (I forget what movie). I get the director’s intent, even if I disagree.
- Comment on I'm trying to use Microsoft Excel 2019 and have Outlook as the default email program. Excel won't open outlook and I can't figure out why. 2 weeks ago:
I’d stop wasting time trying to make it work. Simply save your spreadsheet (you are saving it early, often, and keeping duicates, right?), and just copy/paste the file into an email.
At one point I supported Office for Microsoft, and while they’d never admit it, this process for embedding files has alway been a little wonky (directly from one app to another). Grabbing the file and pasting it eliminates the risk of either app causing a problem because the OLE registration isn’t perfect, by using a file system path to the object.
I believe you can paste into Outlook a sheet as a table this way, if that’s what you’re trying to do. Not something I’d do, because, again, this kind of stuff has always been a little less than perfect. Attached files seem to have fewer issues.
- Comment on There is a scene in Saving Private Ryan where a soldier gets shot in the helmet and it bounces off. Now a days soldiers seem to get shot in the helmet and it goes right thru. How come and why? 3 weeks ago:
Standard rifle rounds during WWI would go right through a WWII helmet.
Generally it’s very difficult to stop a rifle round.
Perhaps a WWII helmet could stop a contemporary .32 or .38 cal pistol, but I don’t know.
- Comment on For French origin words like "meter" American English inverted the last letters of "metre" to better match the pronunciation. Why isn't it also the case for other similar situations like "possible"? 3 weeks ago:
I think seven was answering the question
- Comment on Career tip #345 3 weeks ago:
Yea, I don’t know anyone, anywhere I’ve ever worked that wore a beanie.
Except when I did construction, or mechanic, or maintenance… You know, where we were outside in the cold.
- Comment on Career tip #345 3 weeks ago:
People see what’s in their own head.
- Comment on We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23 4 weeks ago:
Ooh, good Ole malicious compliance.
Make it a check.
Even better, pay with visa. The processing fee will be more than 23¢
- Comment on Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere? 4 weeks ago:
So I know whether to waste my time
- Comment on I know what I have 4 weeks ago:
“Devitio”
- Comment on If you can’t discriminate based on age, how are there 55+ neighborhoods? 4 weeks ago:
Have you seen the books?
I know someone in a place like this, and to love there they essentially sell any property they have to buy their space.
It’s not cheap, but these places also provide on-site medical facilities with trained staff so someone 65 having a stroke has a decent chance of being OK.
- Comment on If you can’t discriminate based on age, how are there 55+ neighborhoods? 4 weeks ago:
62 is first year of social security eligibility.
- Comment on Netflix bad... Shocker, I know 4 weeks ago:
So you have nothing to hide, eh?
These tvs, like smartphones, track lots of stuff. And the databases they feed make all sorts of inferences.
They even scan what you’re watching from other sources and can determine what show it is, and report that info too.
They know when you’re home and leave, to some extent.
I’ve read of patents for wifi tech in tvs that will connect to other TVs of the same brand for a connection of you don’t set one up.
They definitely use their own DNS, and probably have some hard coded IPs so you can’t block them phoning home via DNS (I’ve tested this myself). I can see this traffic even when I setup DNS blocks - they still hit the vendor’s service IPs (looking at you, Samsung).
These companies are openly antagonistic and adversarial to us, and you “have nothing to hide”?
- Comment on Netflix bad... Shocker, I know 4 weeks ago:
Another hero we didn’t know we needed.
Have my grateful uovote.