SlurpingPus

@SlurpingPus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denominator, go Mercator⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you seriously think that the geometrical properties of the projection change below the equator? You need to learn this thing called geometry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denominator, go Mercator⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Now guess where China builds railroads for exports to Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From light pollution. Or it’s just early morning in there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The number of conjugations is impressive, mostly because of the genders and the plural forms. But regarding the tenses themselves, half of them are formed by adding ‘stato’ to the other kind. Meanwhile English has twelve basic tenses without getting into the subjunctive, conditional and imperative moods (congiuntivo, condizionale and imperativo). The full tense–aspect–mood system greatly complicates things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  has way less verb tenses

  Wouldst I have been having an origin and thus a learning experience that might have been comparable to yours, I expect I should will agree with you. But having not had had my way into English from the same vantage point, I am going to have to go ahead and will have disagreed with you, in that in my view tenses in English are son of a fucking bitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you think it’s basically the world’s lingua franca?

  Afaik until WW2 German still was the lingua franca for academia. What, it became harder after the war? Oh wait, perhaps it’s just fallen out of favor while the US, having not been bombed to rubble and having had an influx of educated immigrants, enjoyed a huge economic boom and resulting political and cultural dominance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m of the view that a bunch of digraphs would be reduced to single letters if Polish used the Cyrillic script. But some commenters noted that other letters don’t map that nicely. However, then again, variations of Cyrillic across Eastern Europe and Central Asia include a range of letters that aren’t in Russian, for example, so idk why Polish couldn’t use those or add a few letters of its own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pls no⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ve seen posts on Reddit that went like “I thought surely datura can’t be that bad… I can now report that it’s absolute garbage of a drug and the worst experience I’ve had in my life”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon time travels⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is actually such a thing as encrypted computation, where the vm has no idea what it’s executing. But it’s slow as molasses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a tip⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk what I’m doing wrong, but any time I can’t find something in DDG and turn to Google, I get exact same results.

  Exceptions are:

  • localized search (obviously), however I don’t use that in Google either and just do ‘searchterm cityname’ or use the local map service instead.

  • searching on Reddit: Google has an agreement with Reddit for vacuuming all new content immediately.

  • looking for a meme image by its description or caption. This definitely works in Google and pretty much doesn’t in Bing/DDG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One source of entertainment for the past three or so years was seeing on social media how terrified USians are of the prospect of living like people in other countries do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pro choice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Another comment in the thread says that “isn’t pro-choice” is exactly about the rejection of the axiom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who's gonna tell him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the day I’ve listened to him at some panel gathering, about AI. And heard nothing that wasn’t already said by sci-fi writers and tech thinkers. So his ‘genius’ anyways eluded me, while him being the moneybag raised suspicions.

  Hearing that he was in PayPal immediately put everything in place, because that company was known for decades for freezing people’s accounts on random pretext and keeping the money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[meme] choochoo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, another US-centric post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[meme] choochoo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Things exist only theoretically if they’re outside the only real country, the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just saying that many posts don’t have a language specified. So if you disable ‘undetermined’, all those posts disappear from your feed. It’s best to select ‘undetermined’ and whatever languages you read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do I have to read ten reposts of everything happening in the US if it changes nothing and the comments are always the same?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beer is for GIRLS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also like to breathe hot leaf aroma, though from a different leaf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank God the protest people are here. They were constantly on Reddit for the last four years saying how Russians need to protest against the dictatorship. Good thing Russians heard that and had the massive protest of Bolotnaya in 2011 and endless protests in the far-east and northern regions in particular. As we know, Russia is a thriving democracy now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shame on all the children who didn’t go vote for Harris.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To add to what the above commenter said: afaik Grub allows specifying kernel parameters at boot by pressing some hotkey. You could type in the string from memtest86 if you find what the parameter should be called (or add the memtest parameter instead).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love science⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, ok. Then math isn’t science, it’s just a tool for physics, computer science, and such. Also physics isn’t science, it’s just a tool for engineering and biology. Biology isn’t science, it’s just a tool for medicine and agriculture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love science⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Physics, engineering, statistics, economics, and mathematically modeling in general aren’t science? Big claim there, bud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love science⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Watching races becomes way better if one plays some sim racing games and gets into adjusting the car for the track. Racing is a rare sport that one can somewhat experience themselves without athletic training.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Afaiu DHT works for any torrent. It’s not as quick as a tracker, but it works. I download some torrents by exclusively using the DHT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wikipedia still recommends against primary sources as authoritative sources of information (recommending secondary sources instead), which is not great.

  Indeed, Wikipedia should cite Trump and Musk on the actions and views of Trump and Musk, because who would know better about them than Trump and Musk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that published article is a primary source.

  It’s not a primary source, that’s the whole point. It’s a secondary source, which takes information from the primary source and publishes it with some degree of verification.

  The whole ‘no primary sources’ thing is simple if one considers that Trump and Musk are the primary sources on their own doings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Archive.org provide web seeding, and funnily the files typically quickly download from that before even finding any other seeds, defeating the point of torrents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Afaiu if you have a web server, you can web-seed from it, no need for trackers. Archive.org has that for every upload, although they also have a tracker of their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 531 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube playthroughs indicate that there are at least four ways to play the game.