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- Comment on You know, you look like your head fell in the cheese dip back in 1957 3 days ago:
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- Comment on Yup 6 days ago:
😱 + 🤮 = ...
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- Comment on try out my AI agent bro, it'll change your life bro, I swear... 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 4 weeks ago:
Oh ffs we’re calling the word “manual” a micro aggression now?
sorry, did that trigger you? 🙄
nobody called anything a microaggression or said anything about the non-abbreviated word manual; jokes about UNIX’s abbreviation of it being homonymous with the common noun man have existed since the
mancommand was created. - Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 4 weeks ago:
nb(short for nota bene) would actually be a good name for a modern replacement for themancommand 😂 - Comment on Anon is worried about AAA sales 5 weeks ago:
from the title i thought this was going to be about AAA batteries
geordi-no en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(video_game_industry) geordi-yes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy#Game_Boy_Pocket
- Comment on What actually is the 10-point proposal from Iran which Trump said is "workable basis on which to negotiate"? 5 weeks ago:
You asked a question and answered it yourself?
I posted the 10 points according to one source and then said
There are many varied but similar versions of these points circulating elsewhere
- What actually is the 10-point proposal from Iran which Trump said is "workable basis on which to negotiate"?lemmy.ml ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to [deleted] | 21 comments
- Comment on Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican? 1 month ago:
first, you’re in a country where this once happened 😬
I am a white European Spanish woman
Race is a social construct, and in the eyes and ears of your friend’s racist dad you are apparently not white (even if he might have classified you as white if he had only your appearance to go by and hadn’t seen your name).
Here are a few somewhat relevant wikipedia articles:
* en.wikipedia.org/…/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_th… * en.wikipedia.org/…/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit… * en.wikipedia.org/…/Race_and_ethnicity_in_Latin_Am… * en.wikipedia.org/…/White_Hispanic_and_Latino_Amer… * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Latin_Americans#Being…
- Comment on Oddly specific. 1 month ago:
did an LLM get involved in your dictionary somehow? (why are four of these six definitions very minor rephrasings of each other?)
Fwiw, the American Heritage Dictionary has only one definition; the other two are in wiktionary (which has citations for both).
- Comment on What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone? 1 month ago:
Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
to all five of your questions: yes
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 1 month ago:
what happened next? (do the terms actually allow you to cancel it immediately for no cost, or is their $10/month-for-nothing offer an alternative to paying a cancellation fee?)
- Comment on ard 2 months ago:
- Comment on ard 2 months ago:
howard’s awkward canard
- Comment on I say kill 'em all. 2 months ago:
Here is a youtube video purporting to show one actually working; they’ve been taking pre-orders since last summer but wikipedia editors say it’s unverifiable so they remove references to it from their “Mosquito laser” article.
- Comment on Darwin was a real one. 2 months ago:
this post is a screenshot of news.lettersofnote.com/…/oh-my-god-how-i-do-hate-…
see also news.lettersofnote.com/…/i-loathe-i-abhor-the-sea…
and www.darwinproject.ac.uk (where you can search and read the full text of over 15,000 of Darwin’s letters)
- Comment on 2 months ago:
don’t trust anyone over
300x30later:
don’t trust anyone over 30~20~ (that’s vigesimal notation, btw)
- Comment on A History of DHTML and Web Applications - The History of the Web 2 months ago:
I don’t think anyone called those “web apps” though. I sure didn’t.
As I recall, the phrase didn’t enter common usage until the advent of AJAX, which allowed for dynamically loading data without loading or re-loading a whole page. Early webmail sites simply loaded a new page every time you clicked a link. They didn’t even need JavaScript.
The term “web app” hadn’t been coined yet but, even without AJAX I think in retrospect it’s reasonable to call things like the early versions of Hotmail and RocketMail applications - they were functional replacements for a native application, on the web, even though they did require a new page load for every click (or at least every click that required network interaction).
At some point, though, I’m pretty sure that some clicks didn’t require server connections, and those didn’t require another page load (at least if js was enabled): this is what “DHTML” originally meant: using JavaScript to modify the DOM client-side, in the era before sans-page-reload network connections were technically possible.
The term DHTML definitely predates AJAX and the existence of
XMLHTTP(laterXMLHttpRequest), so it’s also odd that this article writes a lot about the former while not mentioning the latter. (The article actually incorrectly defines DHTML as making possible “websites that could refresh interactive data without the need for a page reload” - that was AJAX, not DHTML.) - Comment on A History of DHTML and Web Applications - The History of the Web 2 months ago:
Weird this article doesn’t mention Hotmail and RocketMail, which both had email client web apps in 1996.
- Comment on Real NASA research papers 3 months ago:
thank you OP for allowing me the opportunity to read this entire image here on lemmy prior to seeing the creator’s mastodon username, so that i could believe it was real for a minute :)
(for anyone unfamiliar with it, check out her other amazing work…)
also ping and thankyou to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social (in case mentions on lemmy notify mastodon users?)
- Comment on Real NASA research papers 3 months ago:
now do gtkmm
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- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 3 months ago:
