CombatWombatEsq
@CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you have to deal with this during your morning commute? 19 hours ago:
The old dude driving slow in the morning probably doesn’t want himself to be driving at rush hour, either. Maybe if we had some kind of system where professionals planned and implemented a ride sharing systems, perhaps with planned routes and really big cars that lots of people could sit in? Maybe we even put it on rails so it uses less energy while moving?
- Comment on Is ice heavier than water? 5 days ago:
It’s an old riddle that only works with imperial units. In traditional British fashion, the imperial weights and measures had two pounds in it, and you had to choose the right pound for the right thing you were weighing. The troy pound was used to measure metals and only has 12 ounces, whereas the pound used to measure feathers had 16, so a pound of feathers was 4 ounces heavier than a pound of lead or gold or whatever.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 6 days ago:
Pretending they’re well travelled by bragging about how many states they’ve visited.
- Comment on Bicycles should be allowed on the road with the full rights and requirements (tags, inspections, and insurance) as motor vehicles. 1 week ago:
You should take your bicycle down for a smog check sometime. I think you’ll find it’s less useful than you expect.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing? 1 week ago:
A lot of foss projects don’t make sense as a torrent download. For instance, most of my foss projects are libraries that people who write websites use to compile and bundle the JavaScript they ship for their website. It wouldn’t make a lot of sense to distribute this via torrent, since torrents don’t have a lot of the features you would want, like checking for new versions of the software. Because the majority of foss projects wouldn’t make sense to distribute via torrent, the developers on projects that would make sense to distribute via torrent are more likely to vend it via methods that there is more infrastructure for (like a package manager), or is easier to set up and maintain (like direct downloads). I think if you were interested in changing this part of foss culture, your best bet would be to create and publish a GitHub action that would package and upload a distributable to a torrent provider.
- Comment on What are the currently confirmed features for Lemmy V1.0? 2 weeks ago:
Probably the best place to look is the v1 milestone for the project on GitHub: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/milestone/24
I didn’t really look very carefully so sorry if it’s all inscrutable technobabble.
- Comment on When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child 2 weeks ago:
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face with an outrageous credit card bill and a bunch of random crap.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s just one star past Kolob. Can’t miss it.
- Comment on relationship 3 months ago:
Once you get to an 88 person polycule, I start to wonder about upper limits. Could all of humanity just be one big polycule? That actually might… be awesome?
- Comment on American media is freaking about homicides on transit 3 months ago:
It depends on what you mean by “on purpose.” You didn’t mean to hit that light pole, but there was a lot of intentionality around the decision to drive and the decision to build a car-based society that is very much “on purpose” and the effect of that is deaths due to cars.
- Comment on Pet rent 3 months ago:
We need UBI for pets
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 3 months ago:
I don’t feel there are too many games, because I can simply buy fewer games, but I do miss the feeling that there are games that everyone is buying and we’re all playing at the same time. I felt like everyone I knew was playing BG3 and we were all talking about it all the time. I don’t want to only play those kinds of big, blockbuster games, but I do want a few of them per year.
- Comment on What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am? 3 months ago:
Plus you get to be one of the letters in the acronym! Lots of people disagree on which letters to use, but everyone puts a b for bisexual in there.
- Comment on Longest comment chain! 3 months ago:
Challenge
- Comment on Longest comment chain! 3 months ago:
R
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 1 year ago:
The thing I dislike the most is that my bot got banned. I made a bot to post carefully categorized articles into their proper communities, but it was banned without warning or explanation. All the communities I was modding dried up shortly thereafter because I didn’t manually post in them instead.
- Comment on What does "araffe" mean? 1 year ago:
Someone offered a definition here: lemmy.world/comment/8529913
From the discussion, that definition may also be a hallucination, though.
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- Comment on Why do companies love chrome so much? 1 year ago:
Not really, unfortunately. Firefox has only like 85% of the spec implemented, iirc. It is the browser I develop in most, personally, though, fwiw.
- Comment on Why do companies love chrome so much? 1 year ago:
64.7% of all web traffic was from Google Chrome in 12/23. Companies like it because you can develop for one browser and support most people.
- Submitted 2 years ago to [deleted] | 10 comments
- Comment on don't be shy, speak your mind 2 years ago:
Shower 4 lyfe
- Comment on What's the Best Non-Alcoholic Alternative to an Ice Cold Beer at the End of the Day? 2 years ago:
Athletic Brewing Company’s Blackberry Lemon Mango NA Sour Near Beer.
- Comment on What's your favourite Lemmy community so far? 2 years ago:
!nwsl@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bill's Not-So-Excellent Legal Services 2 years ago:
And I’ve seen real combat, too 😜
- Comment on Bill's Not-So-Excellent Legal Services 2 years ago:
You can’t make me
- Comment on Bill's Not-So-Excellent Legal Services 2 years ago:
All the cool kids are doing it
- Comment on Bill's Not-So-Excellent Legal Services 2 years ago:
Uh… I may have committed a little light fraud
- Comment on Do some people think rapping is a permutation of raping, subtly adding to the edge factor of this music genre and making it less likely older people will take to it than younger people who don't know 2 years ago:
It’s common enough that this dude made this song about it, idk 🤷
- Comment on 2 years ago:
I use rss to discover content that I post to Lemmy. The value of Lemmy, for me, is the community and the comments, so when I see something interesting in my rss feed reader, I post it to a relevant community to see what folks have to say.
