Lehmuusa
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- Comment on Are there words in reverse order within alphabet-based languages? 1 week ago:
So, you’re asking whether there are languages that have compound words that are in reversed order in other languages? At least you’ve taken a Chinese compound word as an example.
Yes, they exist.
In German a rhino is “nashorn”, where “nas” means nose and “horn” means horn. Therefore, the literal translation would be nosehorn. And in Finnish a rhino is “sarvikuono”, where “sarvi” means horn and “kuono” means nose. Therefore, the literal translation would be hornnose.
Q.e.d.
- Comment on How did Google win the search engine war? 1 week ago:
…and not filling everything with ads. They had very little ads and the little ads they had were not obstructive in any manner. The ads were text, but also formatted in such a manner that it was extremely clear what is a search result and what is an ad. You could not really say the same about the search results of basically any competitor.
Basically, Google had understood what others had not: Filling the results page with ads drives customers to competitors.
I’d say something may have slightly changed in Google’s behaviour since those days, though!
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen one recipe that uses them. But maybe we just live in different countries.
A millilitre sounds like a crazy level of precision for cooking or baking, though. How is that ever necessary? I guess you’re rounding to decilitres in practical use anyway?
If I encountered something like “150 ml” in a recipe, I’d assume it was written by a mad engineer and just use a measurement tool for 1 dl and put about 1½ of those. Makes life easier and the result will be just as good. Different nations have very different approaches to cooking, it seems!
- Comment on Eeeep 2 weeks ago:
Then it was probably designed to hop. What a cool feature!
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 2 weeks ago:
A yard is almost the same as a metre. That one’s easy :)
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 2 weeks ago:
the average American doesn’t know a meter from a hole in their ass
Do they actually know yards? A metre is pretty close to one yard. If you know yard, you know the metre.
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 2 weeks ago:
Deci is used for baking as well, all the time. How is that “only for drinks”?
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 2 weeks ago:
It’s on F-Droid, at least. F-Droid has a lot of open source apps that Play Store doesn’t have. Their data security tends to be better than those of apps on Play Store, as well, because they don’t send your data to advertisers/spy companies.
- Comment on Eeeep 2 weeks ago:
Must be from a movie of some kind. There doesn’t seem to be a back axle at all. To make a fancy explosion scene, they’ve kind of partially put the car together so that when it’s pushed up by some form of an explosion or by some cable on its roof or whatevers, the various parts would jump into random directions more beautifully.
I’d say it’s an intentional effect.
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 2 weeks ago:
For the record, I have about 15 accounts (alts) on various instances here. It took me “some” time to find out where I belong 🫣🤣
And when I finally did, I soon noticed I’m trans and that caused my old username to feel kind of “wrong” – a deadname of a kind. So, I had to create new alts and stopped using the old ones. Now I’ve got two alts I use regularly, and a third one I have as backup in case this favourite instance of mine goes belly-up at some point.
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. The two instances are completely separate servers and don’t know about each other. Also, remember to take backups of your data regularly in case that your instance goes down.
Go to Settings, then “Import & Export” and press the “Export” button. You’ll get a file that you can upload to another instance and keep going almost as if nothing had happened.
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 2 weeks ago:
Well, there’s still the problem of finding an instance ;)
For choosing my own instance, I’ve found this tool very handy: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list .
Click the top of the column for uptime percentage. The ones with 100% are probably a bad idea, because that means they’ve never been updated. Then maybe take a look at where the server is located. If something looks good by these statistics, click the name of the instance to check the server version number. You generally won’t want an instance that lags far behind others in the version number – that indicicates a lazy server admin. It’s also good to read the instance description.
Also, note that this listing currently conflates PieFed and PyLova, even though they are now two separate codebases. They still look and feel about the same because PyLova was forked from PieFed such a short time ago.
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 3 weeks ago:
Started with what? :)
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 3 weeks ago:
Tankie is a word coined for people who support the idea of a country using its military against its own people. A person saying that there was nothing wrong about the Tiananmen massacre is a tankie.
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that is likely to work. And you’ll get basically all of the same content no matter where. Some defederate the Tankie Triad, which results in better content.
I chose mine mainly based on it running on PieFed instead of Lemmy, because PieFed has a little more features and a nicer UI. And then secondly by this being hosted in the Nordic countries, where it is legal to say that genocides are always a bad thing. If there was something that defederated from the Tankie Triad, but fulfills the other two requirements I’d absolutely make the switch to that :)
- Comment on Who are these followers? 1 month ago:
They are Mastodon users. There is an interoperability bug between PieFed and Mastodon that causes some Mastodon users’ names to be replaced with some internal Mastodon user number.
- Comment on Why are plug sockets region locked? 2 months ago:
Type C is completely compatible with types E and F, though. Among with some other ones, such as the smiling Danish socket. So, at least something is being done to standardize this mess!
- Comment on Impossible 3 months ago:
In Finland you need to wave your hand for the bus to stop and pick you up.
I waved, and I waved, and I waved, but the bus driver just didn’t turn the blinker on.But, the bus stopped anyway.
So, me: “Hello! Is your own private car a BMW, perhaps?"
The bus driver, visibly proud that someone could recognize that from her outlook alone: “Yes, indeed!"
“Next time maybe use the blinker."
(The bus driver looked much less proud) - Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 3 months ago:
What could be cool would be a simple “included in my CV” button that you could click to bypass the field if it would be duplicating information already given. When you apply for 100 positions and each one requires you to painstakingly re-write all the content of your CV, it’s a big-time chore.
(Also, I don’t think it’s okay to ask half the stuff you are asking… Is that really legal someplace on Earth?! Blood type as reason to hire an applicant??)
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 3 months ago:
So? It’s magnificently easy not reading those parts of the CV.
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 3 months ago:
The resume does put on emphasis on specific stuff. Whatever the applicant has found most relevant to tell.
I still don’t agree that the extra workload for the applicant is justified.
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 3 months ago:
Why didn’t HR use the CVs for that? Can they not read?
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 3 months ago:
they are looking for different information
I have not encountered an electronic form that would ask for information not included in my CV. What would such information be?
- Comment on Map of the vascular system of the thigh 4 months ago:
Why the bidirectional veins?!
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Frontend is what is being actually interacted with by the intended user.
In a car the frontend is:
- Steering wheel
- Gear stick
- Wheels
- Seats
- Pedals
- Lamps
- Ports for pouring in oil, windscreen washer, fuel
- All the different buttons on the dashboard and elsewhere
- Doors
- Keyholes
In a car the backend is:
- Engine
- Gearbox
- Fuel pump
- Cabling
- The actual lightbulbs inside the lamps
- Mechanism for reacting to key being turned in the lock
Etc.
Frontend is what is what is being physically used, backend is what actually makes all of this function. Of course anyone can also go poke at the backend, but without some very deep knowledge, you’re bound to break something. Better let the backend specialists (regarding cars: a mechanic) handle whatever counts as backend if they need to be touched.
In a physical shop the frontend is anything the customer interacts with, while backend includes for example the workers’ pause room, the intermediate storage for goods brought to the store by lorries, etc.
- Comment on The T in LGBT actually stands for Thagomiser 4 months ago:
Okay, so transgender people are not included in LGBT then?
- Comment on What a meme 4 months ago:
The region being:
Planet Earth.
I wonder what this post looks like viewed from elsewhere, though!
- Comment on Sex Education 4 months ago:
Just came by to say that these two fit together very beautifully!
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 months ago:
Yes, and that’s precisely the reason many instances have defederated from lemmy.ml.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 5 months ago:
What would an intelligent person, by your estimation, take fault with in Marx?
The dictatorship of the proletariat was a horribly bad idea. It’s a dictatorship. And brings the consequences of a dictatorship with it. I would dare to blame Lenin and also Marx for that crap.
