Onomatopoeia

@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cold Callers phoning during work hours and then not accepting your at work and can't spend 30 mins listening to their script.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, I don’t understand this answering unknown callers.

  At work any cold-call number isn’t someone I would talk to anyway.

  My personal phone blocks all unknown numbers.

  Blacklist or SpamBlocker work well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspired by a friends current vacation⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why I upgraded to an RV/Camper. The smallest, lightest I can find.

  I don’t mind being outside, cooking, eating, everything else. But I want a floor and a bed for sleeping, along with kind-of-solid walls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German Cyber Agency Sounds Warning on Grid Vulnerabilities across Europe⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like security was the last thing the energy industry considered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is video media easier to understand than books?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No.

  Most people have no idea how to present information, this on top of the average person being able to read about 4x faster than someone can speak. I regularly play podcasts at 1.5x-2x. There are perhaps 3 people who I’ll watch on YouTube for information, only because they show how something works and the video format is useful for the subject, and I still often play it at 2x, or just skip through all the nonsense.

  99% of video presentations are garbage to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis: What does a Gleason score of 9 mean?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I forget - wasn’t there a change to the scoring system recently (last 10 years?) because Gleason was too ambiguous, or was Gleason the new model to address the scoring limitations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis: What does a Gleason score of 9 mean?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think for prostate treatment necessarily does. In Biden’s case, he’s been declining for years - it seems like mortal disease comes on the heels of major cognitive decline - sadly I don’t think he’s going to live much longer, and it won’t be prostate cancer that gets him.

  Also, most men will get prostate cancer if they live long enough. The approach has changed in recent years, to only treat if it’s growing too fast or you get it very young (because it normally grows so slowly you’ll die of old age first).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hondas (90s) have been the easiet manual to get moving I’ve ever seen. You practically can’t stall them.

  And I disagree with the truck - those can make learning harder. One of the hardest I’ve ever driven was a Ford from the 90’s. Heavy as hell clutch that was too small, terrible gear ratios so starting off was a bitch, with big gaps between the gears.

  But I’ve also driven old trucks with granny gears - an extra-low gear below first for getting moving with a heavy load. Those you just let off the clutch and the truck moves at a walking pace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, you’re not going to hurt a modern manual with a learner. They’re not even likely to hurt the clutch.

  Internals if a transmission are primarily made of 3 materials: brass, aluminum, and *hardened steel".

  Aluminum is for shift forks, I can’t even imagine a way to break one.

  Brass is for synchros, which can be worn by grinding - which isn’t really easy to make happen anymore, plus but it’s not like you’re gonna sit there and hold it while it’s grinding, you’ll release it quickly. The last car I remember having grinding issues was because they didn’t use a synchro for second gear so you got a short little growl if you didn’t shift “just so”. Last time I drove that car it had 250k on the odometer.

  I’ve seen dragsters miss-shift on 1960’s gearboxes that weren’t built for 450hp/500lb torque, and they’ve survived it fine (I’ve also seen them fail the same way). A new driver in today’s cars just can’t do that kind of damage unless it’s intentional - and that would take some time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can learn to drive stick in 20 minutes with the right teaching approach.

  I learned in about 10 minutes, with my brother teaching me… Not exactly the teacher of choice. And these were cars without tachometers or hydraulic clutches.

  The key is learning how the clutch engages, where it’s “catch point” is. Using the “No throttle” method, people pick it up, fast.

  Plus with cars today you don’t have to rely on downshifting to slow down - Brakes are just that advanced now (though you still want to brake in short cycles for long downhills to prevent overheating).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, I think this is kind of “the way” to teach manual. It really focuses on getting a feel for a clutch and the non-linearity of friction in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “clutch portal”… I’m not really sure where that portal goes… Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, getting the lesson from Dad is probably a great thing. He’ll enjoy helping, it’s good bonding time, and he’ll have stories for the future!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(i feel really stupid asking, but what the hell!) could i be of french descent?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, a sibling did a DNA anaylis and it doesn’t match what we know (our family history is well understood due to people tracking it since the 1700’s.)

  Most people in the US with my surname come from a very small set of immigrants (3 or 4) from about 1700-1800.

  The thing is, my genetics are heavily influenced by who each generation married. Easy to see just on the US tree how quickly genetics mix, and it’s not like those immigrants were purely anything either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(i feel really stupid asking, but what the hell!) could i be of french descent?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the Normans invaded Britain in 1066, this changed Old English to Middle English, so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK I'm curious, sue me⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahahaha, I like your style

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the people wanted it that way

  Haha, love when people decide to just cowboy shit up their way. I’m sure they had reasons, but that’s still just awesome.

  The US didn’t (still doesn’t) use area codes for local calls on/to landlines (by definition, calls in the same area code are considered local). The reason the area code is important in places like Montreal (large cities) is the number of subscribers. Seven digits gets you 1 less than 10 million numbers.

  Though I suspect the original reason was performance on old mechanical switches (which were still in use into the 2000’s in some US cities). I’ve been in them and those switches are nuts, and crazy loud. If you can route calls to a new switch just using the area code, you don’t have to wait for 6 digits - just start routing after 3, and the new switches will handle the rest. Sort of a load balancing for switching, and would make calls faster - you could bounce the call out of the switching center sooner, especially in areas before tone dialing was a thing (again, mechanical switching was tied to “dialing”, tone became a thing with electronic/digital switches.

  I don’t know this is what they did, I’m just guessing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But, why?

  Seriously, if you understand how this came to be, I’m curious. I’d think they implemented land lines using extant hardware systems of the era, and the number structure surely was well established by that point?

  Now I’m off to go down a rabbit hole of telecom implementations worldwide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will all these multiplayer games being released without support for LAN or hosting our own servers will no longer be playable with others when the company shuts down the servers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This all started 15+ years ago.

  I vaguely recall this transition with a Call of Duty game, when you could no longer host your own, for a game where that really wasn’t necessary, unlike MMORPG.

  And today with the high bandwidth home connections, hardware capability, or even just using a VPS, you could still host with appropriate performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charles Barkley: ‘If you don’t like basketball, there’s something wrong with you’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Snoozefest, like most sports watching. Playing is a different… Game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I found an interesting USB-C alternative to barrel jack wall warts. Thought I'd share...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, I do have a box of wall warts if different voltages, max current, and a box of coax adapters. Not hard for me to grab what I need and modify as required.

  I also have a box of USB C chargers, many of them PD. This cable is a neat concept, but like you said it needs coax adapters, and adjustability on the cable for voltage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, I’ve listened to some Middle English on a History of English podcast, and could follow along only slightly. I’m sure I could come up to speed quickly, since it at least has the French influence already (if I remember right).

  I’m not familiar with the great vowel shift, is that a result of the Norman invasion in 1066, adding French into Old English? (That’s the sequence, right? It’s been a while since I read about it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty simple, the candidate didn’t meet the requirements.

  Not sure why you’re involved, this is an HR and legal issue. If HR said they don’t have docs showing eligibility, then that needs to be reported to the recruiter, otherwise they’re going to recommend this person to somewhere else, and run into the same issue. How would you feel if you were in their shoes?

  Whether someone can legally work somewhere is not your pro lem to solve, unless you can actually do something, like help them submit appropriate paperwork (I’ve done this for employees who were temps, to help them get more permanent status).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is all HR’s problem, not anyone else’s. It’s what HR is for.

  Not sure why they’re punting it back to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, first I’d have to learn Old English, I think. Hell, even Middle English isn’t understandable.

  Hopefully I could get up to speed before they locked me up, or worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Red Sea, the Baltic etc. considered Gulfs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there may be scale elements to these too. The chart I had included scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Red Sea, the Baltic etc. considered Gulfs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen a diagrammatic chart showing the difference, but damned if I can find it on my phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies that list all their products, but don't explain the different product lines suck.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And buy more things when you realize you need something that’s in product V but not product A.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you listened to any sports commentator? They all take about <insert current game on tv> as if it’s the most important, world-changing event ever, and every little detail had some significance.

  My god, baseball is a game for (as Brits would say) boffins. Fans of the game could put meth-head ravers to sleep. I’ve worked on more exciting spreadsheets for business planning.

  And football has become just as bad, with the incessant pre-game/post-game commentary examining every nuance of a play - “I’m pretty sure if the inner aglet of his left shoe had moved the other way, we’d be talking about a completely different game”.

  Bread and circuses, appealing to our base nature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is this something only introverts struggle with?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent approach, putting that in my book of tools.

  I’d also be sure to ask the second person to finish what they were trying to say after person 1 was done.

  There are 2 reasons:

  1. Never know if they have a different perspective or other ideas. They may also have thought of something while listening.

  2. In the help desk world you learn these kinds of people get worse when they get shut down. If you actively engage them (even if you don’t really want to), they’ll feel heard, and maybe be less likely to feel compelled to interrupt. Plus you come across as a Good Guy® at work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I create a Lemmy instance without coding or the use of Ethernet/router wiring?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The same ones you’d use with a wire.

  WiFi is just Wireless Fidelity… A play on HiFi. It’s just a wireless equivalent of wired ethernet. You still have an IP address, you still have a router (without a router only one device in your house could connect to the internet, typically your wireless access point is a combination router with a wireless access point in it).