ThomasWilliams
@ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world
- Comment on why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right? 1 week ago:
The number system is Indian not Arabic.
- Comment on why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right? 1 week ago:
Pictographic languages go top to bottom or sometimes bottom to top even.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 week ago:
These are not enough ebikes.
They are 1000w twist throttle bikes they buy on eBay and AliExpress.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 week ago:
How do you think they arranged the meet ?
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 2 weeks ago:
They use behavioral psychology, a system of rewards, i’s not violent.
Only wild horses are “broken”
- Comment on Why I gave up electronics club 2 weeks ago:
The current does flow from positive to negative. Electricity is not the flow of electrons - they just generate the field that the electric wave flows through. The electrons don’t actually move very far. The wave flows outside of the wire, not in it.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 2 weeks ago:
The expert systems that the console manufacturers supply to developers can already do this sort of thing.
- Comment on Xbox Hardware Sales Plunge 32% YoY as Services Keep Gaming Division Afloat 3 weeks ago:
That’s not that much. YouTube would have you believe they’ve crashed 95%
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 4 weeks ago:
Most of the bots are generated by the moderators.
- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 5 weeks ago:
In China you can exit from a 12 lane freeway into a creek bed.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 1 month ago:
Electrical, plumbing, HVAC are all pretty solid.
Heh no. All of those are being automated and dumbed down.
In a few years all you’ll need is an unskilled labourer and a robot.
- Comment on Linux will be unstoppable in 2026 - but one open-source legend may not survive 1 month ago:
They still haven’t even begun to fix the bugs in rust utils and sudo -rs. Rust is going nowhere.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 1 month ago:
Biden increased sanctions on Venezuela.
During the Venezuelan election, when the US-backed opposition leader said that he wouldn’t give the oilfields back to the US, Biden had their financial support cut off and arrested opposition members living in the US.
The Venezuelan policy is bipartisan.
- Comment on How did far-west era US dealt with "Male loneliness" 2 months ago:
Violence.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 2 months ago:
This is not an opinion piece.