queerlilhayseed
@queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 16 hours ago:
In emergencies when you need to use a compass you can save time by using these maximally efficient cardinal names:
,,, and. - Comment on What do you feel lucky forabout? 6 days ago:
Same. Feels very old to say but computers are so much more complicated and abstracted now, I feel like they were much more approachable when there wasn’t as much to them. Like being able to open the hood of a 60s era car and see all the discrete parts vs a 2020s car and you just see a tangle of plastic :/
- Comment on What do you feel lucky forabout? 6 days ago:
I met my partner when we were both in our early 20s and we clicked very quickly. Growing up and through my teens I assumed I would never settle down into a long-term relationship. I didn’t really have a good idea of what a long-term relationship would even be like for me; I certainly didn’t want to wind up in a mutually-resigned tolerance that my parents resolved into. Then for a while after we got together I (fortunately privately) assumed that we were too young and it was too good to last and that things would eventually fall apart but (so far) we’ve just never gotten tired of being around each other. We’ve had a few rough eras, actually in one of the scrabble periods now, financially, but as for the relationship itself we’ve been together almost 20 years now and going stronger than ever. Still rather in awe that it worked out this way when I think back on it. Feels very lucky.
- Comment on How do you respond to unwanted advice? 3 weeks ago:
It really depends on the advice, and my relationship with the advice giver. I generally give advice at least a thought, even if it was unwanted, unless I have a reason to mistrust the advisor. As for how I respond to the person, if it’s a friend I’ll usually have followup questions, for people I know less well it’s usually a cordial variant of “hmm, interesting perspective” and then I have to think on it for a while before I respond, if I respond at all.
- Comment on Just how? 3 weeks ago:
Yep, I think the accepted English pronunciation of “Euler” is as a homophone of “oiler”, so the award would be “the oilies”. I never heard the name out loud as a kid so I pronounced it “you’-ler” until well into adulthood, until someone made a big deal about me not pronouncing it correctly. I remember the occasion very clearly 🙃
- Comment on Just how? 3 weeks ago:
We can call it the Euler Award for Excessive Achievement in Science. Or the Eulies if you’re in the industry. And we make a big deal about it if anyone pronounces is " the yoolies”
- Comment on Valve released a new VR helmet? 3 weeks ago:
I hope it happens. And by it I mean VR / AR equipment that I can comfortably use for a few hours at a time without getting sweaty, fatigued, or motion sick. When I’m using a computer I like to have a bunch of displays, and it would be really convenient to have a comfortable headset that I can wear instead and live my dream of coding in VR / AR and spin displays up or down on a whim, or better still use some as-yet-undreamed VR native UI that takes advantage of the platform. That dream is still a way off, it seems like, but I still want it.
- Comment on X-Files '90s promo shoot 4 weeks ago:
I mean look at them. To quote Raymond Gillette, nobody’s that gay.
- Comment on Efficacy unparalleled 5 weeks ago:
I’m beginning to suspect Stamets isn’t even a real doctor.
- Comment on Efficacy unparalleled 5 weeks ago:
Concerning that researchers are giving their subjects full-strength memes like this and telling them they’re placebos. Hard to believe an IRB cleared this post.
- Comment on What are the most popular conspiracy theories? 5 weeks ago:
I remember “Covid was a Chinese bioweapon” being popular, alongside “Covid is fake and just an excuse for the government to inject us with 5G microchips”