TeddE

@TeddE@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I assume it's corn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Bubba?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Graffiti⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak for Fediverse, but I recall that Reddit would add a randomly chosen modifier to the output, such that the total score is correct, but the specific upvote/downvote counts are off. My understanding is the bit of fuzz gives some anonymity by uncertainty against specific types of attacks.

  I assume something similar here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Santa is working on those lists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sata Clausen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ain’t that the naked truth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hindsight is…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pika Pika⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, went and did research (gasp!) and found I had been lied to! Or at least to say it’s complicated. My statement does have merit in that yes! The most popular cameras from 2019 average 25 megapixels, and that puts it neck and neck to several uses of film (frequently animated uses).

  I still think my primary argument is unchanged, but the precise details of my statement are somewhat hyperbolic. In my defence, “better than film” has been the marketing for at least a decade and there are things that digital photography shine at.

  Still, thank you for keeping me in check.

  learnfilm.photography/the-resolution-of-film-nega…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pika Pika⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but there’s so much more to compositing a good shot than just focal length. I’m recommending to a new hobbyist to walk before they run. Framing, lighting, perspective - a cheap phone from 2019 off eBay is still better than what your grandparents had, and is better than cameras from 99% of human history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pika Pika⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dont spend money on fancy new cameras, chances are the camera in your phone is already better than 90% of all cameras in history. Don’t drop a dime on equipment until you’ve hit the limits of the hardware you already have.

  The picture above isn’t a picture of what an expensive camera can do - it’s a picture of what a good photographer can do, enhanced by specialty equipment. In the hands of a novice the equipment cannot produce pictures like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chasing the Elephant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or because the idiom “the elephant in the room” is being depicted literally (insinuating their medicated autistic child is ‘an unfortunate unwanted fact’ - which I personally feel is derogatory to the child)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't eat it all! Don't be shy!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why did they want to hurt you?

  There is an art to preparing vegetables - a greenbean side could be done up in a fancy fat (butter at least), salt, and a good sauté, but if they dumped factory canned ‘beans in water’ into a saucer, heat, and serve as a dish? That’s basically a slap in the face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eat the rich and go to libraries⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s a ‘six, five thousand and forty’? I will never get meme culture. 😉! (=😉×(😉-1)×(😉-2)×[…]×3×2×1)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eat the rich and go to libraries⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d quibble that any organization that acts to spread knowledge qualifies as free in the sense of expanding freedom of choice, and argue thus that if their operational costs as a public nonprofit have to be expressed as an at-cost service (or reasonably priced and used to subside their other related operations) - that’s still a meaningful free in multiple ways.

  But on a more basic level - yeah, it is shameful that libraries (broadly speaking) often have to operate like they’re badly managed businesses. But that arguably in most cases is not the fault of the library itself but on society (late stage capitalism, billionaires and the other usual suspects).

  Tl;dr: You’re not wrong, but also is that really the hill you wanna plant your flag in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAGA, splitting hairs.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Laura Ingraham (of Fox News fame), put out an article that we should all relax, because Jeffrey Epstein’s victims were on average closer in age to 15 than 5, and spouted some technicalities about the definition of pedophile, as if that makes grooming children to sexually exploit and trade access to for favors any less repulsive.

  The timing of the news release is right after a clever procedural move in the US House brought a vote to release the Epstein files and now all the conservative media is trying the “maybe we did, but it wasn’t really that bad” lines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m normally happy to grant that - but not while they’re literally putting someone else down for doing effectively the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been randomly substituting the thorn ᚦ, the diphthong æ, the interobang ‽, and other such irregular typographical arcana into my casual writing for decades. Just took you-all an LLM to be mad at to pay attention.

  Let’s not crucify people for being weird please. Nobody is average. We all have quirks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s stop ᚦis before the train gets going:

  • The original post content’s auᚦor replaced the letters ‘th’ with ᚦe more archaic ᚦ
  • the original author said ᚦat all 't’s were replaced in an oversimplification
  • ᚦe parent author noted that oᚦer 't’s were used which were not replaced.
  • I’ve replaced about half my ‘th’ with 'ᚦ’s
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One step closer to Night City⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the dream

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be this guy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I contend a functional definition of privilege is the number of problems you can ignore. By this metric anon is likely privileged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Room for cream?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just label each with a cute yet distinct name. Then customers would associate each name with the blend they order, with bonus lore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨another TUI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re advocating is called genocide. Genocide is bad.

  We’ve tried this ‘separating mentally ill from society’ before - they were called asylums. We stopped doing that because they’re inhumane. (There is an academic debate on if they’re inherently such or simply attract/foster abuse, but were not having that debate today.)

  What you’re suggesting is an international crime and violation of human rights. Please reconsider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tell me something that I don't already know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Left ear, right ear, left nostril, right nostril, pore, pore, pore, …, pore, iris (light only), Prince Albert piercing, earlobe …

  I disagree with this joke’s premise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. If you’re not actively using the land you should sell it - if that were the general practice, many renters would be land owners themselves and an entire layer of middle management would evaporate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F dieting!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was obvious from the blooming cloud of mutant white spores in the last few seconds 😜 nuclear mushroom!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm too stupid for this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  … obviously /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English moment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hose is pronounced /hōz/ and dose is pronounced /dōs/ in “Standard English” (which is a specific and deliberately invented dialect taught to news anchors to try to smooth out all the regional differences), actual english varies so much over time and space that both words have numerous variations - www.howtopronounce.com/hose, plus we change our inflection on words depending on where they are in a sentence - and plenty of context can change if the emphasis is on the vowel or the ending consonant: All my hoes know a hose is a hose.

  Simply put - as long as people understand the ideas you’re conveying, don’t worry too much about precise spelling and punctuation - it’s literally all made up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve graduated to not considering any service they has an advertising tier. It’s like being in the court watching Gríma Wormtongue whisper into the ear of King Théoden of Rohan. No amount of concessions is good enough, they’ll always ask for more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GOBLIN ASS-SHOVEL

  • GOBLIN ASS-SHOVEL

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s step two or three, for sure. But the point being made is fascist isn’t a word that can be applied to anyone and everyone (setting aside the 2¢ insult version) - it is a specific political ideology that one earns by their words and actions.

  Unfortunately it is also complex to diagnose, particularly in early stages, especially as intelligent budding fascists will deliberately evade the formal definitions while still finding ways to accomplish similar effects.

  But yes - there’s also cases where fascists clearly and obviously are doing fascist things, and need to be stopped immediately, please feel free to give them a proper knuckle sandwich (or an appropriate grade of violence as the situation warrants)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  I’ve had this asserted before, but I’m not sure it lives up to the mathematical rigor of our conversation to this point. I recommend substantially more investigation. 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I apologize. I went back and reread from the top and I see my error.

  My mobile Lemmy client indicates replies with cycling colors, and I had the misunderstanding that your objection was to the axioms presented in Principia Mathematica. But your reply was fair in the context of the axioms you were actually replying to.