corsicanguppy
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 7 hours ago:
Canada. No idea of the scores thing, despite being inundated by adverts about it most of my life.
However, I can’t fathom people who’ve never had a credit card – are you living the life of a monk, still in high school; what?
It perplexes me because I’ve had a credit card since entering the workforce and, while I’ve used it sparingly, it’s really saved my ass a few times. “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” is just adding challenges to your life you don’t need at a time when you need them least.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 day ago:
infront
“In front” has a space.
- Comment on True of mine but he more than made up for it 1 day ago:
Dad worked. One day in the lean years he was on the books for 5 employers at the same time: no overlapping shifts, just a hairy schedule on a paper calendar and more than one job-to-job commute.
We do not castigate dad for devoting his entire life to the household.
Mom, who merely had one full-timer, did the shopping and wrapping on the side. The two of them set up a wonderful Christmas day together with very few gifts and resources, and we were all together on Christmas morn before Dad went to work.
It worked. We didn’t lack for joy.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 4 days ago:
Me too.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Aw jeez, I never noticed that. Ron writes like an actual scholar but he’s got resting bulldog face sometimes.
- Comment on Why do some website logins have the username and password entry on different pages? 1 week ago:
identity first workflow and is used specifically so that they can route different people to different login [hamster wheels]
The one thing MADE for JavaScript and no.
- Comment on Can't stop till brimstone 1 week ago:
till
\sigh
- Comment on Grim Statistics 1 week ago:
…and it’s gorgeous.
- Comment on Sorry guys 2 weeks ago:
2 fish, but 2 kinds of fishes.
- Comment on Sorry guys 2 weeks ago:
deers
\sigh. Now I know why some people put an S on ‘e-mail’.
- Comment on Management lingo irritates me the most actually 2 weeks ago:
There is a difference between “using the proper word that conveys that exact idea” and “fad pidgin”. Hint: “the ask”, “the spend”, “literally” and “emails” are words pushed on us by people with small brains and potentially a used-car sales quota to meet, and not something coming out of proper word use.
It seems I hate management pidgin that resembles used-car salesman try-hard mimicry.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it 3 weeks ago:
Imagine trying to read that
Kernel code is very often a series of short words, and very often formatted to take a lot of vertical space (i.e lines of code). It can be hard to read, especially when it’s a short code that corresponds to a longer function or location; but with practice we can cope.
tho
See? You’re expecting people to do it already. And kernel code confirms to the grammar a lot more than American 'english.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it 3 weeks ago:
softwares
This is still not a word, my dude.
- Comment on WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN] 3 weeks ago:
So a guy reads from an outline or script into a YouTube clip we can view (after ads) with a transcript we can then summarize with an LLM so we can replicate the outline or script originally used?
The downvote and next buttons are, like, right there.
- Comment on Behold and despair! 3 weeks ago:
Not everyone remembers to turn off “share my location with Instagram friends”.
- Comment on Wireless EV charging hits 90% efficiency in Swiss real-world trials 3 weeks ago:
You mean we can charge our cars without risking damage or wear-a d-tear to the port? What will this do to the planned obsolescence of the port of we don’t beat it up every day? Will it be pristine like my phone port next to the goddamned headphone jack?
- Comment on Is there an optimal home/apartment size that most people would be happy with? 4 weeks ago:
Where do you live where land is so cheap you can afford to have grounds?
- Comment on Booking.com cancelled woman's $4K hotel reservation, then offered her same rooms for $17K 4 weeks ago:
- Call the French Canadian service line.
- Speak English
The call center places in Canada are usually maritime and are fluent in both (or none if their timezone is 30 min ahead ;-) ).
- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 4 weeks ago:
One of my favourite things to do at a holiday get-together is hijack the TV with my MacBook. Most people think Apple stuff only talks to other Apple stuff in the Ecosystem/Walled Garden and that Android is some rebel front against Apple
Are the vegans taking all the spotlight?
My mom, my aunt, my cousin all get together for coffee, and “why the new iphone sucks” has been a perennial topic. They all have the new swoopy ones, and they all hate 'em. It’s been that way since the non-intuitive gesture change was implemented, so, what; a decade?
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 4 weeks ago:
A big anthology of paraphrased parables mixed with rants, all from different writers and then edited by the Greeks? Sounds about right.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward? 5 weeks ago:
This. It’s the weight.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 5 weeks ago:
never hear a woman use male as a noun like that
I heard ‘male’ the same place I heard ‘female’, and this wasn’t surprising. I’m jealous at your certainty that you haven’t yet and thus never will. Apparently, though, “there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 5 weeks ago:
Incel behavior includes using “female” as a noun when talking about women.
Sure: A -> B != B => A
You … know that, right?
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 5 weeks ago:
Are you asking us whether you can?
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 5 weeks ago:
Why not make our alphabet more efficient?
Will the real Noah Webster please stand up?
Language is never complete until it’s extinct.
Language either evolves or it arbitrarily splits. Guess which this one is.
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 5 weeks ago:
Everybody wants to stand out in early social group.
- Comment on Doot doot 5 weeks ago:
that
*who
- Comment on What's the name of this 80s song sang by a solo female singer? I only remember her saying "nothing really maaaa-tters" or "nothing truly maaaatt-ers". Has a vibe like I Feel For You by Chaka Kahn 5 weeks ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mmj0txco0Q&t=260s (4:15 minute mark)
Ah. The Barney Miller funk setting on the Roland. Nice find.
I’m stumped, but now I’m on a mission.
- Comment on What's the name of this 80s song sang by a solo female singer? I only remember her saying "nothing really maaaa-tters" or "nothing truly maaaatt-ers". Has a vibe like I Feel For You by Chaka Kahn 5 weeks ago:
Madonna? I think they remixed the absolute hell out of this, so you may be thinking of some over-produced derivative from a coattail-riding DJ as well.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 5 weeks ago:
consult experts is better advice
Boom! Take THAT, anti-vaxxers!