bryndos

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mr Fantastic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Once again proving that programmable RGB lighting enhances performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, spent too much time recently trying to get a "modern" database to accept one of out transactional systems' dummy EOT value (3456-02-01).

  Took far, far too long for me to realise that it only wanted to store date/time in nanoseconds !? Fuck me, you'd have to be dumb fuck computer to want to measure every date in nanoseconds - even oracle wasn't that dumb, oh hang on we're "upgrading" to MS.

  There must be a joke in here to do with dates that only last a nanosecond, I think it's to do with pandas' breeding rates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In UK I've mostly have heard 'naughties' for the decade sine about 1999.
  But I rarely heard "naughty X" as a year name unless someone was being even more deliberately daft. I'd say "oh" would be most common here after "two thousand and X" too in my experience.

  I always thought that "'aught" was an American contraction of 'naught'.

  "aught" in old timey-English can mean "other" or "else" or even "anything". In my local dialect we still say "owt" meaning "anything" as an opposite of "nowt" nothing".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The American mind cannot comprehend this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  UK is generally shite - and probably getting worse.
  intercity trains and local bus services are probably better than average USA - if there even is such an "average" for USA.
  I don't think much in the UK is as good as say NYC though - and if there is - say maybe central London, it's fucking expensive. I recall from years ago buses and metro in NYC being quite cheap - but not like continental Europe levels of cheap.

  Good job UK is not in Europe anymore - bringing the equally meaningless EU average down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its probably evidence of excess market power and abuse of consumers.
  In the UK that's "enforced" by the competition and markets authority.

  The way it works is cma does a lame investigation, the regulated parties lawyers all 'prove' their clients did nothing wrong.
  cma goes away.

  cma did a review of supermarkets about 15 years ago, let them off scott free.
  Now they're pushing it even further.

  TBH for fresh fruit and veg and stuff there are still proper markets in most towns - so people going to supermarket are just lazy. SO I do partly blame the consumers here for not supporting a diverse economy.

  That's essentially their defence to the CMA, the consumers do have options so it can't be abuse - they choose to give us market power because the consumers can't be bothered to shop around.
  And there is something to be said for their arguments - they were given the market power by consumers - so the consumers are at least partly to blame for this situation. Consumers are benefiting from reduced shoeleather costs that may exceed the losses due to this.

  CMA doesn't do sophisticated local market and transaction costs analysis though. I'm sure there are areas where price differentials exceed transport costs - meaning there is significant lack of local consumer choice. But it takes a lot of number crunching and fine-grain geographic data to prove. I personally think they shoudl take cars out of the equation and use public transport costs+time only to figure local market size - but that'd be easy for them to argue out of court. All they have to do is allow say a 30 minute drive, and generally that will mean there is no local market power concentration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Will Be Ending Support For This Popular Software In October 2026 - SlashGear⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience in work there are thousands of documents written in powerpoint or MS word that should be done in DTP software. Fuck the way people abuse text boxes in word. Most people just don't know they have it, or have to request it from IT, and remember what their budget code is, even though it's probably included in their license. I won't use it because of no one else knows they can get it; I'd be giving them all an excuse never to edit the document and they'd just commission me to make all changes in it, forever. They'd probably use it as an excuse not to read the document either.

  Similar problem with Visio, people using smart art in ppt to create what should be a flowchart.
  Unfortunately i cant not use visio, and no one else will ever request it, because they're arseholes'.

  I agree there is better software available - but non specialist businesses are unlikely to procure that, so publisher is basically the only option. And once publisher is available the business case for anything better becomes harder to make.

  MS is rarely the best for any specialist use, but I think they just wanted office to tick a load of boxes for generalist procurement so it wins "vfm" choice for procurement teams who don't care or know what their users need. As long as office is the defacto choice for businesses, they've achieved their goal.

  I guess they've realised publisher was never really a material factor in office suite choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word or (concise) phrase to describe the paradox of sharing something (like a website) that you don't like, but because you're sharing it you're tacitly helping it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/there-is-no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Tomb Raider Games Recast Lara Croft With A Gaming Veteran⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This made me rewatch con man s01e08.
  "Your voice has this unique quality that we think is going to be more effective with the Marion storyline."

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what happens when you cut something?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you shear (scissors) then there should be less loss, maybe some distortion though.
  If you saw, you lose the sawdust.
  if you slice (knife), it might be either way or a bit of both.

  Most likely you lose something, whether it's a loss that matters, that depends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is fossil fuel still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheap , fairly-easy, portable, storable source of energy, and the current supply chains are very high capacity.
  Lots of well understood methods and machines to use it. An oil tanker on sea or land moves a hell of a lot of energy to wherever people want it.

  Population keeps growing. No way are all of those people going to leave that stuff in the ground, if "we" don't take the cheap stuff, "they" will. So it becomes like a race to find and extract it all.

  Even if you don't want it personally, someone in your economy or military will be better off for it. Some people will go looking for it - and someone'll get rich if they find it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my Lemmy feed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read the shitposts - pretty much my whole feed except from sciencememes, and never see too much politics, the odd one here or there but nothing annoying.
  Maybe I have enough user level blocks in place already.

  I do see far too much of this of this corn crap recently, so I'm just building up a whole new section of my blocklist.
  If there isn't any diversity in shit posts soon, i guess i just ditch this community as it'll be more efficient.

  I guess i should expect a dirty protest from shitpost - but I'd rather the literal shit posts than one more day of this cornucrapia.

  Does ratemypoo.com still exist - maybe I'll just browse that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introverts Rock⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  18+ you drink too much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I had never been born.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Competition, especially free market competition is one of the enemies of capitalism.

  Fortunately for capitalists in a liberalised (unregulated) market it's not too hard to build up market power somewhere in the supply chain, and squeeze out, or effectively force the competition into franchise.

  Almost unavoidable economies of scale in industries like banking are huge problem, that concentrates critical market power and drives out competition under the guise of plausible investor friendly sounding shit like "risk premia", "international competitiveness", "labour cost efficiency". Directed credit, sectoral and regional should be part of being a bank, the banks have been given responsibility for running the economy, but not made accountable for it. That's why they can get away with investing in real estate bubbles instead of productive industry.

  FDR was one of the last USA leaders who seemed to understand the role of banks - sadly that was a long time ago and those ideas seem to be long forgotten.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latitudes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Virginia Occidentale has a nice ring to it. It''d fuck up John Denver too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  some very watery salad here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if I told you that refusing to trade your life time for money is a good and respectable choice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep sounds like a great "get overpaid then take early retirement" story.

  Lots of bankers and other overpaid people can do this type of thing too.

  This lifestyle doesn't seem sustainable if scaled to any meaningful share of the current population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ya yeet!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Assume an asbestos sabot so it doesn't get incinerated.

  It's maybe more the acceleration/shock?
  Probably a few tens of G before instant death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this an archive?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which one is the flame demon in Doom 2?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nation Building Authority Australia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Before lemmy became a has-been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an optimal home/apartment size that most people would be happy with?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems decent reasoning, and it'd fit with a lot of the Victorian up to interwar, and frankly reconsruction era up until maybe the 60s 70s. Utilitarian housing built where i live for the working class. Of course people want more, but i think people can make do reasonably with this. Of course the victorians did slot in a couple of streets of mansions here or there for the upper middle sleazebags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring bathroom doors back to hotels⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seen it in a recently refurbished one in central Glasgow.

  Tiny room - described with "En-suite shower room with glass partitions "

  Cheap. I'm sure it's just to squeeze a few more rooms in, so if the price stays low and it's clearly described, I don't see the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where's all the promo for hard working Italian plumbers these days?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't really fancy standing on either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many European electricians - and plenty of non-electrician idiots like me - will have had 240vac shocks, which are probably similar just a bit more nippy and will get worse faster than 110vac. I think the human body is also a weird electrical resistor that goes down with voltage.

  I'd not describe it as 'wonderful' or a 'slight tingle'. It's a pretty fierce bite. shocking is the word I'd use.

  I'd think if I'd had a few and got used to it, or if i knew it was coming maybe i'd downplay that a bit. But i've tightened up my unplugging process now (dayglow tape) to be sure i've unplugged the right plug. It was enough to know I don't want another unexpected 240vac zap.

  I'd be pretty east to wrap 2 loops and 1 . . . no , leave that to electroboom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pioneer species⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh, i really don't think "whackaroo" is a real word, i just made it up as an example of the type of thing theyd' come up as a word in Australian-English, they have crazy ones down there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When they have motorway roadworks here there they often have "average speed limit zones". set like 40-60mph. speed camera enforced at start and end.

  Everyone just pootles along steadily at very close to 39 or 49mph no overtaking.
  It's great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pioneer species⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trailblazer, groundbreaker or pathfinder would also have been options in English, at least are close synonyms for pioneer. All have similarities but more literal , I've never heard roadbreaker in English, but you never know what they say in places like Australia, probably a"whackaroo".

  Groundbreaker might possibly originate from farming/ploughing or construction in new territory rather than literally making a road. But might be more apt for the OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes agree.
  I cant get into elden ring because I'm not learning anything when i die.
  The odd time i get a dodge, or, parry or combo to work right, i can't repeat; so i'm obviously not picking up the right cue or the timing. Maybe it's steamdeck controller lag or something.
  Or maybe i'm just too old - i spend half an hour here or there.
  I just can't do 5-15 hour long playing sessions anymore which might be what it takes to learn this stuff.

  I'm not sure they should change it to make cues more obvious though - there are just some games I'm going to be shite at.

  I don't want it to be Moonstone on the amiga, turned into dull as shit within a few hours.