BCsven
@BCsven@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I saw your face in a crowded place 9 hours ago:
I had an obscure/rare name tattooed on my arm. I was at a place and this girl called out to her friend, and it was the rare name.
So I moved over to them slowly so as not to make it obvious and mid convo I said hey are you (name), she was like yeah? And I raised my sleeve. Her seing her rare name as a tattoo…the shock and stuff , her face was priceless.
- Comment on Nice horsie! 🐎 17 hours ago:
Might take more than centuries, but yes.
We have a rescue dog from Korea as well as some neighbours ( not a standard breed, but a Korean Village dog, they basically live alongside humans as a breed but developed their own way). They are much different than “normal” dogs. They are more like cats. Their way on their terms. Like other dogs, don’t enjoy humans much. So even though they are domesticated, they still show the old lineage of being independent. My dogs idea of a good time is never chasing a stick or ball, but finding the highest vantage point at a park and watching everyone. A carryover from watching the plains from the hillside, or something.
- Comment on ESL homework 17 hours ago:
I don’t think bad marks were justified. This is how I see every interaction go with polyglot colleagues, its like a modem handshake and they settle into the most comfortable common language
- Comment on ESL homework 18 hours ago:
What was interesting about my son with down syndrome: as he learned to read he became a master at reading cursive…somehow.
We’d hand him Christmas cards that we struggled to read from old European relatives(that wrote in older script) and somehow he’d read it off no problem.
My guess is words always needed decoding for him and context played a role in guessing the word, so it became a skill somehow
- Comment on Website 4 days ago:
It’s already happening.
We get support tickets from professional engineers.
Sometimes it is “my software isn’t working send me how to get it working.” No details on what is not working or what they were doing, so we have to dig the information from them. Like “is your computer on, do you have a network connection, are you connected to your work server, oh you thought google search access is same as VPN to work? …”
Its rare to get somebody on the call that says “when I open this file and do this, this other thing happens, and here is the sample file and steps I did”
Other things are like: “This software is supposed to output this in this way, but it’s not.”
So we open the dialog and watch their steps, software says select objects to export, they are clicking Ok with no result, so we have to point out the message they are supposed to read…see where it says select an object to export, and it is highlighted in yellow to draw your attention and has a red asterisk? Yes? Well they are talking to you, you have to do the action required.I can understand grandma not understanding software, but an engineer is supposed to be a problem solver.
- Comment on Website 4 days ago:
That’s the joke. Guys says his job is done for, by buddy building a website via chatgpt, except the guy knows nothing about how the internet works.
- Comment on Save as PDF 5 days ago:
Heh, we were doing some cosigner banking and I asks my one adult kid to send me the bank documents needed (they were pdf files on their computer). They sent me low res screen shots. Lol
- Comment on Save as PDF 5 days ago:
Why do you need to flatten it?
- Comment on Save as PDF 5 days ago:
Gmail reads the images with OCR and adds it to search terms. Your steps are a noble effort to increase reverse engineering effort, however there are image to text desktop apps now so that effort on the receivers side is almost nothing these days.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 6 days ago:
Yes. Your body would panic immediately.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 6 days ago:
I’m sure the sleeping in the bath problem would be a sudden awakening when you take your first gulp of water…but a person who’s had a lot to drink may not wake up
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My old oven had Sabbath mode. It just stays on at a baking temp, and apparently because its considered a “golem” operating the “fire”, then no work is done by a human so it is allowed.
To me that’s just finding loopholes in your religion because you don’t like its restrictions
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Even then it’s just OK cake, and you feel full already
- Comment on HAWK SHARK 1 week ago:
I tried that decades ago, no results. I don’t wash my face with soap but my T zone is greasy in a few hours after a shower also. And unfortunately I have passed this trait onto my kids.
- Comment on HAWK SHARK 1 week ago:
😀 I have to use soap or the oil eventually drips down my forehead. Lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you downloaded from f-droid you can add the new pipe as an additional repo and get updates sooner. I had to do this to get newpipe working again.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 2 weeks ago:
Well scientifically it is exactly calories in to your metabolism vs calories burned out.
Whether your body is absorbing those, or too depressed of a system to burn at a normal rate would be the doctor’s investigation.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 2 weeks ago:
I lost 40lbs in 7 weeks. Would not recommend. It was from chemo and radiation making so that I vomited any food, and needed a liquid food pump inserted. Your body will be wrecked at that calorie loss.
- Comment on HAWK SHARK 2 weeks ago:
As a man, I choose the unscented antiperspirants. I hate scented stuff.
Ironically when I would bike to work or to an event everyone would be like “OMG you smell amazing, what cologne is that” and I would say its my sweat, and they’d say " no really its great, what is it". And I would repeat I just spent 15 minutes sweating.
- Comment on My dog's treatment cost £1,600 - vet bills are shocking 2 weeks ago:
People forget vets are doctors, and doctors of many species, not just one species. All that training, staff, equipment and supplies, building costs are expensive.
Corporate owned vets though, they can EFF off
- Comment on Bugger! 3 weeks ago:
Sexydlics
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I would say Intrusive thoughts are us processing reptilian instincts, and our logic mind countering instinctual behaviours.
People should let them flow through without giving them focus. But I know some people get stuck on them, which seems to make them more active.
- Comment on The Bots That Women Use in a World of Unsatisfying Men 4 weeks ago:
Is it a login type, or non-login? Login type will remember your info up to a certain depth (which can be far ranging). Non login is a fresh session if you close the browser
- Comment on Is it normal for a simmer to not produce any bubbles? 4 weeks ago:
So should be good then, technically a boil from water to steam is at that exact temperature , so less than that shouldnt be boiling. Maybe inductions have gotten that good where it doesn’t raise into the boil and drop back out?
- Comment on Is it normal for a simmer to not produce any bubbles? 4 weeks ago:
It would be a good test to boil plain water and see if your thermometer reads 212°F
- Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears 4 weeks ago:
Yes that’s why I said Laid off not fired. Laid off is about the role no longer being needed
- Comment on Is it normal for a simmer to not produce any bubbles? 5 weeks ago:
I found with induction on low it would sit for some length of time then for a few seconds boil, then sit. Repeat. Didn’t seem to be a low power, it just made the period between energizing longer. Newer induction stoves are supposed to be better though. Have you tried a different sized pot to see if the change in thermal mass helps
- Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but this is a BBC article and they don’t say laid off they say “made redundant”, its not a sanitizer term in UK, it is just the legal term everyone goes by for when you lose your job.
- Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears 5 weeks ago:
Redundant is the British term for being laid off.
- Comment on AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for the research, I appreciated it