Hawke
@Hawke@lemmy.world
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 5 days ago:
Sure but not every opinion needs to be a discussion. There’s nothing wrong with downvoting or upvoting and moving on.
- Comment on Save as PDF 5 days ago:
Im not so sure. I bet more than half of the drivers out there produce PCL output, and there are a lot of printers that use other languages too like ZPL and a myriad of others.
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 5 days ago:
I just find it very odd, the seeming beginning of a Lemmy culture of “you would downvote me? EXPLAIN YOURSELF SIR”
No, I should not need to explain myself, a downvote shouldn’t carry that much weight, it’s not that big of a deal. Less than a middle-finger or even a thumbs down. At most a disagreeing shake of the head in conversation.
Further, the reasons can be their own, maybe someone wants to downvote everyone with a username starting with “h” just for a fun gimmick.
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 5 days ago:
As another downvoter I will also take the time to explain:
I will basically always happily downvote people whining about downvotes. Especially if the whining is preemptive.
If I were going to turn every downvote into a conversation I’d be at this all day. And it would further encourage bad behavior because any engagement is good engagement right?: If you can pull someone into a quagmire of discussion then ragebait comments and posts would be the order of the day.
The downvote button is a quick shortcut to let people know their comment is “bad”, with a lot less risk of raising attention to the level where someone might dig through post/comment history or worse doxx/swat someone.
Does that mean that downvoting is perfect? Of course not. I would say that probably downvotes should be weighted much lower than 1:1 with upvotes, and it wouldn’t surprise me if it makes sense to ignore them completely or maybe just a tiebreaker. Might also be important to distinguish comment-downvotes from post-downvotes, but I’ll gladly leave it to the software designers to worry about all that.
- Comment on You were always on my mind 1 week ago:
Nothin’ wrong with McClure’s.
- Comment on It keeps happening 1 week ago:
It seems she was paid but not very well: “a big job for very little cash”
- Comment on I'm losing my mind 2 weeks ago:
Everything reminds me of her.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You know you can break those units into smaller units right?
Also most thermometers are only accurate to about +/- 2 degrees F anyway.
- Comment on u WoT m8 4 weeks ago:
Username checks out.
- Comment on Butter 4 weeks ago:
Nah, probably corn syrup.
- Comment on Hard choices. Who would you choose? 5 weeks ago:
Then you already know your answer to “are there any female dog companions in cartoons?”
- Comment on Hard choices. Who would you choose? 5 weeks ago:
You mentioned Blue’s Clues but you ignored the main character? Or do you not consider Blue as a “dog companion”?
- Comment on Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers wins lawsuit against Colorado. Judge claims there is no evidence that gas stoves cause or contribute to health issues 5 weeks ago:
Not entirely true: some people will change with smaller warnings, even just this news. Others require graphic warnings plastered on the front to change. More warnings, more impact.
- Comment on seven 1 month ago:
Three.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 1 month ago:
Ticket Me Elmo
Is that the cop version?
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 1 month ago:
Only if you rarely eat them. They’ll last a few months before going rancid which is fine for many people.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 1 month ago:
Ah yes the famous 100% tax. /s
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 1 month ago:
Great, they did it and were successful. Now they can fuck off and do something else with their money, hopefully not something so destructive to society.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 1 month ago:
If you taxed Zuckerburg, Musk, or Bezos 90% of their wealth, they would lose control of their companies
Not seeing the downside here.
- Comment on Birbs & Dinos 1 month ago:
That was a brilliant explanation, thank you.
para- and mono-phyletic were indeed the problem words. I can tell they are related to phylum but “phylum” doesn’t mean much to me except to know that it’s a word for some grouping of species.
The other part where I was snagged is the significance of cladistics and the new/old classification methods. I knew both terms as “words for groups of species and hadn’t dug further.
Between the family tree example and the diagram — got it, thanks to you and your sibling reply.
- Comment on Birbs & Dinos 1 month ago:
I kinda know what some of those words mean.
Can I get a picture?
- Comment on Sea Level 1 month ago:
That is pretty severely exaggerated though to emphasize the form.
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 2 months ago:
This, although I wish my town still had a local bakery and a hardware store.
- Comment on why 2 months ago:
I think it’s to make it less ambiguous.
In English you just use the same word and figure it out from context. Someone else gave some other Spanish examples but I like “right” (direction) = “la derecha” vs “right” (human rights) = “los derechos”.
Of course there’s still so many variants of meaning that grammatical gender doesn’t help much.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 2 months ago:
Looks like a standard IEC C8 plug. Image
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 2 months ago:
If you are not familiar with the concept of sleep and/or waking up you may want to do the same.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 2 months ago:
They’re talking about sleep.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 months ago:
Light brown aka tan.
- Comment on Exterminate 3 months ago:
You the real MVP.
- Comment on anime titles be like 3 months ago:
