corsicanguppy
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I LOVE EATING STIR BARS 19 hours ago:
Oh! Stir bars are the magnetic things at the bottom of lab jars when you’re missing stuff, right?
I thought Stir Bar was a nutrition bar or a chocolate bar like a Boost. Stir isn’t a great name for a protein bar, but it’s not the worst.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 1 day ago:
Although it’s been shown learning another language as a child changes the way your mind works, there’s only so much money in the teaching budget and so many hours in the day. Conservatives want to take both from our kids, for their own ends, so justifying the value of the resources to the student is a perennial challenge.
Given the low proficiency of current grads with their first language, and basic skills like punctuation and spelling, I say we’re a LONG way before we can open a second language in the curriculum.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 1 week ago:
It appears dementia has set in.
- Comment on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling 1 week ago:
libertarianism
I’m sorry to say you lost me at this word, so super-charged that my brain now filters the content and speaker.
But I came really to say: Dude. FOOTNOTES?!? We can do that here? Beautiful example; Legend. Thanks for showing me how.
- Comment on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling 1 week ago:
such measures are much simpler than fixing the current education system
it’s harm reduction while we also work to build a tolerance to the drug … through learning and reasoning.
- Comment on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling 1 week ago:
It’s also used in healthier ways, like search results, chat logs, and so on.
That’s an excellent point. Viewing a log file over the web, particularly when it’s still growing, absolutely needs infinite scrolling. The Old Way is UX poison.
Is RedHat the company in on this? Is it because they can’t figure out how to scroll text well in their AAP/Tower/whatever platform and are annoyed with people chanting YOU HAD ONE JOB at them? (no need to look it up – that entire Tower product and the tech behind it would be hot garbage 20 years ago and is hot garbage now, so I’m just dunking on them)
- Comment on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling 1 week ago:
I also don’t want some [bureaucrats] tell me what’s good for me.
These same policy wonks tell you to wear a seat belt because that’s (proven) good for you; as is not smoking. They tell everyone ELSE not to speed because those wonks know everyone else is a terrible driver, and that’s better for you. These are the types who maintain building code and human rights and legal process because - yep - it’s better for you.
There’s a trend, here. I get that we sometimes feel opposition to things, but when there is science behind it - sit DOWN, RFKjr and the rest of you whackadoos - it’s usually good to go with it.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
There’s my nemesis. Gen-X, and my rule is “if you don’t see blood or fire, don’t call me. If you do, call 9-1-1 and don’t call me.”
My exception is a planned call like with a bank or for an interview, and I’ll push zoom/etc at all costs.
- Comment on Anon finds a cool rock 1 week ago:
Nonsense. It was an important story, and OOP would have checked for spelling.
- Comment on Why is no news channel reporting on the school shooting in Canada? 1 week ago:
it does contain a false premise.
Someone’s learning what “beggaring the question” means.
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 2 weeks ago:
Is it rfc1178 that says not to use names that look like serial numbers because they’re not mentally distinct enough?
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 2 weeks ago:
In short, “be a member of the team” and a likable enough person to get along with at work.
The recurring themes in this message suggest that’s going to be challenging.
- Comment on What should I NOT do in front of rich people? 2 weeks ago:
You do not need to impress the clods who eat pizza with flatware. These people would eat a sandwich with flatware if someone “more important” did it.
- Comment on the moon is hollow and rings like a bell 2 weeks ago:
I like to read it as Pros Piracy.
- Comment on We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 2 weeks ago:
u
Downvote. Back.
- Comment on Bet 2 weeks ago:
how I started with
- How I started
- What I started with
You gotta pick a lane, my dude.
- Comment on Bet 2 weeks ago:
Why the extra X? Taxing, faxing, etc…
- Comment on Three dinosaurs in a trenchcoat 2 weeks ago:
Some power rangers Jurassic Park cross-over?
- Comment on It keeps happening 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for jumping to the defence of a deceased person for a potential disparagement another dead person made based on an intrinsic attribute we cannot confirm.
- Comment on You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections] 3 weeks ago:
Is there a text summary?
- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 4 weeks ago:
Forbidden dinner date
- Comment on Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road? 4 weeks ago:
Prep the downvotes.
I live in a larger Canadian city. I used to commute via transit. Sometimes the bus driver would stop abruptly. Every time the driver needed to stop the bus hard - twice a month - it was a bicyclist driving erratically, like cutting off a transit bus or, in one case, brake-checking the bus.
I’ve almost been hit twice - same intersection, different days - by a cyclist running the red, shooting through the crosswalk I was on, and cursing me out for it.
I have an idea as to why drivers worry about more bikes on the roadways.
I’ve been abroad. I’ve seen segregated bikeways where there’s a ribbon of green space between bicyclists and cars. This works really well. What they’re doing here Does Not .
- Comment on At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic? 4 weeks ago:
There is criteria for evaluating addiction. No need to speculate.
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 4 weeks ago:
I find it’s exactly identical to MSWord, but from the mso97 days before the Ribbon bollocks. I used o97 Word because it was like win3.1 Word … word-perfect? It’s been a while.
But, TL/DR, LOWord is like Classic MSOffice from when it didn’t suck. This will not help you adjust, but hopefully the knowledge that you’re going back to a better era of UX could help blunt the pain.
Go carefully, and have your favourite vice handy to goose the positive reinforcement loop.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 4 weeks ago:
forecasted
\sigh
- Comment on Brand new bag 5 weeks ago:
A fisherman vest with all those pockets?
- Comment on Brand new bag 5 weeks ago:
I admit: I get Bag Envy when I see something that looks durable and has a plethora of pockets. My bag is weak and puny, but this bag I see before me is epic.
Am I the only one?
- Comment on I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work? 5 weeks ago:
Your course is clear: choose the timing of your firing.
- Comment on I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work? 5 weeks ago:
Don’t feel you power loyalty to your employer
S/power/owe/ ?