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- Comment on Is it the American way to complain about the US, or is it that other countries aren't worth complaining about? 4 days ago:
Every country has problems. America is so big that its problems become everyone else’s problems too. If America sneezes the world catches a cold.
- Comment on Why is stack overflow so horrible? 5 days ago:
I’ve done some research after posting the OP, by which I mean watching a few YT videos of people who have looked into the matter. It seems the founder was insistent that the site not become another Yahoo answers, so the process of asking a question was made to be high friction in order to improve the signal to noise ratio for people looking up answers later, such as with google.
While they succeeded in not becoming another Yahoo Answers, they’ve instead become so impenetrable as to be useless. It got to the point I’d avoid clicking on SO when it came up in search results because I figured the question wouldn’t be answered anyway, so they ended up not making the experience better for future googlers after all.
- Comment on Why is stack overflow so horrible? 6 days ago:
Yes. I tell people that IT isn’t about knowing the answer right away, it’s about knowing which questions to ask, where to ask those questions, and how to interpret the results. These skills are in no way obvious if you aren’t familiar with the system you’re working with.
- Comment on Why is stack overflow so horrible? 6 days ago:
In my experience the question is either not actually a duplicate or the answer is no longer valid.
- Comment on How can I kill a buterfly? 6 days ago:
So THAT’S why it’s called the web!
- Comment on How can I kill a buterfly? 6 days ago:
They have chosen you. You’re clearly the protagonist.
- Submitted 6 days ago to [deleted] | 34 comments
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 1 week ago:
modulator-demodulator
One of the things that got me into ham radio was hearing “old school modem noises” while playing around with an RTL-SDR dongle. Turns out it was APRS.
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 week ago:
Maybe I phrased the OP poorly. The “can you buy a pizza” was rhetorical. The “is crypto good for anything.” wasn’t, though I suppose that was also poorly worded. I know people buy drugs with it etc, so it’s used for something other than just speculation.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
Take this for what it is, the thoughts of an internet stranger who’s not terribly well read on the topic. I think it wouldn’t work. I think hierarchy is so utterly baked into our primate brains that if we destroyed it, it would just come back and be even worse, because now it’s not official and nobody’s accountable.
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 week ago:
Oh I’m not losing sleep over it.
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 week ago:
r/buttcoin
hehe… “butt”
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 week ago:
I was on a forum in 2009-2010 when another member posted asking whether they should get into bitcoin. I found a video pitching it, can’t remember if the poster linked it or I googled bitcoin after reading their post. I said it sounded sketchy and advised against it.
- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 91 comments
- Comment on What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll? 2 weeks ago:
Been sitting on this one for over a year. I really enjoyed Tunic, and it seems Outer Wilds is a similar experience, relying on the player not knowing what’s coming.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 36 comments
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
“fighting the medium” is an excellent phrase! Never played Firewatch, though I have made some stumbling attempts at creative writing, and it’s made me realize that certain things are very difficult to convey organically in words. How do you get across to a first time reader that an alien isn’t actually shrugging or winking or pointing with an index finger, but expressing the same thing through non human body language? And then how do you do it over and over and over again, because when posting stories to a forum you have to assume this is everyone’s first time reading.
In a visual medium like a webcomic, it’s super simple to convey it through a combo of dialogue and visuals. Even the nature of the story itself has to fit the medium. With a comic, people expect short self-contained scenes or character interactions that may or may not connect to form a story arc. This is what I like to write about, little snippets that serve to build the world, just a few lines of dialogue or a paragraph describing a scene, but that’s not what people expect from prose. They want meatier stuff.
Makes me wonder what would be impossible to express altogether in one medium vs another.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 3 weeks ago:
I’m only on the periphery of the fandom, mostly just watch lore videos and play a few video games. The AdMech is my favorite faction. As for how real the machine cult is, it seems to depend heavily on the writer. My personal head canon is that the machine god is an actual warp entity like Isha and the other Eldar gods before Saanesh nommed them. If emotions and beliefs manifest as warp entities, then the Omnissiah should be one regardless of how the AdMech came to believe in it.
- Comment on How to find the standard term for a concept/idea? 4 weeks ago:
Ask a human.
“What’s the scientific term for when a word is on the tip of your tongue?”
“It’s literally just TOT (tip of the tongue)”
I initially thought your question would be about translating technical terms between languages. If it’s an extremely technical term that’s unlikely to be in a dictionary I look up the Wikipedia article in English and then see if there’s a corresponding article in the target language (usually Spanish in my case). The above phenomenon is PDL (punto de la lengua) in Spanish.
- Comment on Is there a spreadsheet that doesn't mess with the data I enter? 4 weeks ago:
Do you have any tabular data editors to recommend?
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to [deleted] | 13 comments
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 5 weeks ago:
And locally if you join a club. If there aren’t enough hams for a club there may be at least one you could seek out as an Elmer.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 5 weeks ago:
Hobbies. I got into ham radio for this very reason. It’s also adjacent to my job (IT), and it’s one of the quintessential “hobby hobbies” like stamp collecting and model trains.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 5 weeks ago:
When I think of vanity plates I think of the guy who registered his as “NULL” in the hopes that he could avoid traffic tickets by looking like a database error. But he ended up showing up every time anyone’s plate number was missing, so it showed him as having thousands of traffic violations.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 5 weeks ago:
That was the first thing that came to my mind, I saw all sorts of interesting stuff on our summer family trips.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 5 weeks ago:
Is that sort of thing relevant? I take the bus all the time and have never felt in danger (except for one time when the driver went off on another bus driver, but I just noped off the bus before it could escalate). Yes there are interesting characters, but if public transit were more common perhaps the crazies would become less predominant.
Around here there is a whole police department dedicated to monitoring public transit.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to [deleted] | 114 comments
- Comment on Do werewolves shed? Or do they lose their whole coat when transferring back? Do Vampires have little holes in their K9s to suck up the blood after puncturing someone or thing? 5 weeks ago:
Vampires don’t suck, they scrape and lick
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 5 weeks ago:
Texan here. 2 years in HS was required when I was there. I took Latin.