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- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 1 week ago:
Yeah, but also the red lightning bolt sign of the polish pro-abortion movement was introduced in 2016. The SS sign with the sigrune was introduced in 1929.
If nazis had time travel, how did they manage to screw their war effort up so badly? They must have been even worse tacticians than we thought!
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 1 week ago:
Dude, you got the timeline completely wrong: obieg.pl/…/210-the-red-lightning-of-all-poland-wo…
The red lightning sign as part of the polish pro-abortion movement came into existence in 2016! A whopping 87 years AFTER the Nazis created the SS sign.
- Comment on LA is proposing a subway system for Dodger Stadium. This will allow people to commute from the stadium parking area to the stadium 1 week ago:
Oh, it’s even better than just evicting mexicans. They did so under the pretence of building public housing. After the evictions they dropped the plan and built a privately owned stadium instead.
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 1 week ago:
I’m gonna need some proof of this. I wonder why a German, designing a sign for the German members of the SS in 1929 (10 years before Germany invaded Poland), would choose a sign with the purpose of harming a Polish feminist/pro-abortion movement.
It makes no sense and I can’t find any sources saying anything like that at all.
So cough up some sources. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Apparently, you are so much in need of parenting, that you call random people giving you good advice mom or dad. You must be a little child.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If you behave like a little child…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Please do NOT fill that space!
Any kind of flash/SSD storage requires free space to do wear leveling and disk management. If you fill one of these disks completely, they will wear out very quickly and then you are left with a broken console in need of an SSD replacement.
You should leave at least 20GB free, also so that there’s space to download update files.
- Comment on She only wanted the ring bros 1 month ago:
And still it might happen that the outcome on her side is the same.
Post partum depression is super common, same as self-image issues, body issues and so on. Also, even if you do everything right as a husband, she’s still not going to get a ton of sleep, especially if she breast feeds.
OP is an idiot for treating sex as just transactional.
- Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world 2 months ago:
Tbh, Lemmy admins and mods are hardly authorities. None of them make actual money or have actual power.
Remember: All of Lemmy combined as a bit fewer active users than the Crackberry forum. The LTT forum is quite a bit larger than all of Lemmy combined.
It’s not exactly mass media.
- Comment on how things become science 2 months ago:
Nah, I’m running a GNU Unix.
- Comment on how things become science 2 months ago:
This. Here’s a comparable case where human journalists did exactly what LLMs are doing now: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bohannon#Intentionally…
The difference is the scale.
- Comment on how things become science 2 months ago:
I think I caught an RSV virus from you.
- Comment on how things become science 2 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bohannon#Intentionally…
We did the same before AI. AI is once again just putting an old problem on steroids.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 2 months ago:
What’s really weird is: The person cooking and the person getting cooked have the same opinion, they just can communicate right.
- Comment on he forgor 3 months ago:
The process for this is usually like that:
- Software dev team lead: "We need another senior frontender."
- HR person: "Ok, what are you looking for?"
- Software dev team lead: "Someone who knows how to use Angular."
- HR person: "Great, so which version of Angular are you using?"
- Software dev team lead: "Version x.y.z"
- HR person (thinking, not saying): "Ok, so senior means 5+ years, so 5+ years of version x.y.z it is!"
- Also HR person: “Why can’t I find anyone who’s qualified?”
- Comment on he forgor 3 months ago:
Friend of mine applied for a job where they asked for at least 5 years of experience with Angular version x.y.z (can’t remember the exact version). The friend responded that he had 10 years of experience with versions x-3 to x+1.
The HR person doing the hiring asked back “But do you have 5 years of experience with the exact version x.y.z?” to which he answered “Version x.y.z has only been out for 3 years so it’s impossible to have 5 years of experience with it.” HR wrote back saying that he was rejected because he didn’t have 5 years of experience of experience with that exact version.
- Comment on Acciracy 3 months ago:
We wasn’t exactly as nice about it as I was lead to believe a Canadian would be.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Break laws and move things.
- Comment on ESL homework 3 months ago:
You are acting like you deliberately want to be offended.
- Comment on ESL homework 3 months ago:
Which makes my assertion correct.
Can you grow up in Wales never learning Welsh? Yes.
Can you grow up in Wales never learning English?
- Comment on Rayman 30th anniversary has save data bug and Ubisoft support says post launch support has ended 3 months ago:
There’s a ton of precedence for this.
We have accepted that our clothes don’t fit, that our non-fitting shoes ruin our feet, that our furniture all looks the same and doesn’t fit into the spaces we have, that consulting by knowledgeable sales people was replaced by product listings that can’t even reliably tell you if a printer is monochrome or color.
Enshittification is nothing new. It’s something that has been going on for at least the last 70 years.
I mean, just compare the fabric of clothes from 20-30 years ago to new stuff. I still got some clothing from the early 2000s that holds up just fine, while the newer stuff just falls to pieces after a year or so. You can even see that in the marketing. If you look at clothes ads even of cheap brands from the 80s, they all advertise with long-lasting quality. Pretty much no brand does that anymore.
So yes, AI will just make customer support, marketing and software quality way worse and we will just accept that like we have done for the last 70 years.
- Comment on ESL homework 3 months ago:
I’m not argueing that it isn’t the national language. I just said that you could grow up in Wales never learning Welsh, because English is just as much (if not more) the language used in every-day dealings.
That said, the farthest north I have been was Merthyr Tydfil.
At least in the areas I have been in and the time that I lived there, Welsh was a language you had to actively seek out and not a language that was necessary to know if you lived there.
And that’s the point of the 3rd category: That’s the language you need to know to get around well in that country. If you go to the doctor’s, if you want to talk to your coworkers, if you want to make friends with the locals, which language do you need?
I’m from Vienna and it’s a similar thing with the Viennese dialect. While there is a limited revival happening, it’s mostly a cultural relic more than a necessity in every-day life. 70 years ago, if you didn’t speak Viennese you’d be an outcast. Now it’s rare that someone speaks it.
While I was in Wales I got myself Welsh language resources and actively sought out Welsh speakers to try to learn the language, but of all the people I met there, I only met two adults who could fluently speak Welsh. The kids learned it in school as a second language, but by and large the adults didn’t speak it.
- Comment on ESL homework 3 months ago:
I lived in Wales for a year and I managed to learn some very basic Welsh myself. It’s been about 15 years now, but at least back then it was mainly old and very young people who spoke Welsh. Most people aged 20-60 didn’t speak Welsh at all, with the younger ones learning it at school.
But I guess with that generation being up to maybe 35 now, speaking Welsh is likely much more common than it was back then. So yeah, my chart above is likely outdated.
- Comment on ESL homework 3 months ago:
Not any more. It used to be, which is where the term comes from, but it hasn’t been for a long time.
- Comment on ESL homework 3 months ago:
Languages come in tiers. English is the global lingua franca. People use it to speak to anyone, no matter whether English native speaker or not. If someone from Norway wants to talk to someone from Japan, they’ll most likely use English since both of them likely speak it.
Then there’s regional lingua francas, languages like Spanish, Russian or Mandarin. These languages are popular in specific parts of the world and often used to get around there. Someone from Ukraine can speak to someone from Belarus using Russian.
Lastly, there’s local languages that are spoken only in a country (or even only a part of a country). People speak them because that’s what they were grown up with.
So in general, there’s 4 “language slots” of languages people speak:
- The global lingua franca
- The regional lingua franca
- The language of the country they live in
- The language they grew up with
One language can fill multiple slots.
So for example, if you grew up in Ukraine and moved to Germany, you might speak the following languages, according to the slots above:
- English
- Russian
- German
- Ukranian
If you are born in Wales and never moved away, it might look like this:
- English
- English
- English
- Welsh
If you spent your life in the US, it would be like this:
- English
- English
- English
- English
This is the reason why people living in countries with lower-tier languages frequently speak 3-4 languages, while English native speakers really struggle to even learn the basics of one additional language. Because the former group has an actual use for more than one language, while the latter one don’t.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 4 months ago:
You have to differentiate between a monopoly in economics and a monopoly in law.
In economics a monopoly is the only seller of a good with no other competition. If I am the only one who owns apple trees, I got a monopoly on apples.
In law a monopoly is someone who owns so much of the market that they can charge unfair prices. If I am the only one who owns large orchards full of the best kind of apple trees, it doesn’t really matter to me that someone else has a couple mediocre trees in their backyard. I am not a economics-monopoly, since someone else is also selling apples, but I hold enough of the market that I can set the price to whatever I want.
(Ok, the analogy isn’t perfect, but you get it, I hope. Basically the “excess market power” thing you talked about is the legal definition of a monopoly.)
Customers don’t necessarily need to be end customers. If steam is charging their business customers too much, that counts too. (It also affects the end customers too, btw.)
So the question is: If I don’t release a game on steam, will that cause it to underperform significantly? If so, does steam charge a lot above market price? If both of these questions are answered with yes, a lawsuit could be successful.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 4 months ago:
Tbh, british food is mostly just salt-deficient. Add salt to it and a lot of it tastes really good.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 4 months ago:
Tbh, that’s just the difference between someone who has nostalgia for a game and someone who doesn’t.
I played Pokemon Red as a kid. I replayed it dozens of times since and it’s always really fun. Just feels good.
I didn’t play Pokemon Gold as a kid. I tried to play it quite a few times and never got throught it. Objectively, Gold is a much better game than Red in every regard. But I don’t have nostalgia for it, so it’s just an old game with bad UX, outdated gameplay and weak graphics to me. Can’t get through it without getting bored and quitting.
HL2 was revolutionary, 22 years ago. Nowadays it’s just woefully outdated in every respect including gameplay.
As OOP says e.g. about physics: That stuff was amazing in 2004, but it really isn’t in 2026. Almost every shooter includes physics and in many cases better physics than HL2 did. In part because game designers have learned from HL2 and other games and improved upon it.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 5 months ago:
I’d be fine with “no US politics”. It’s so annoying that !politcs@lemmy.world is specifically and only about US politics. Because apparently, US politics are the only politics relevant for the world.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 5 months ago:
Yeah, that’s totally true. If you speak Serbian and you move to the Netherlands, nobody would (or could) switch to Serbian for you.