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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Captain Disillusion: SNL VFX Mystery⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  From the very first video in glorious… Was it 240p? Well, since the very early days he’s had this great vibe of an edutainment program with the host being a metallic alien with holograms and stuff, and it’s definitely part of the appeal. You claim he could get more followers by dropping the whole gimmick, but I have to question how many regular viewers he might lose if he stops it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a math prodigy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe PHP? Since it runs as a server and returns computed results in a browser… Though I’m pretty sure it’d just return the compiler error text

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ohh ...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair, I’m not from the US, and when talking about private healthcare I’m thinking of my own experiences, paying out of my pocket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ohh ...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds entirely reasonable, and pedantic ;D

  I don’t mean it to imply lack of competence, and both issues you mentioned sound like they’d qualify as that “work” for me, notably would probably need legislations drafted and passed. Bureaucracy is slow, but hopefully things will steadily improve.

  Notably, public institutions are gonna be inherently tied into politics, having to deal with bureaucracy to get things done and subject to the whims of politicians playing their games for influence. It’s not that public administrators are dumb, but they’re part of a much bigger system that is funded by public money, and that presumably makes everything harder.

  One big issue is that, to my knowledge, there simply aren’t enough doctors. That’s not something that can be fixed just by working more on it, but hopefully it could improve with better technology and more funding!

  I will also say, I think one issue that can be improved rather directly is coordination - some private institutions can give you a list of timeslots available to sign up for and receive you in your allotted time, but in other places (both private and public) you might be waiting an hour for the doctor to show up, with no information on what’s going on and three people ahead of you. Shit happens, but it seems like the systems in place are severely lacking, if present at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ohh ...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the issue of waiting times - you might need care somewhat urgently, but need to either wait for multiple months or pay (or hope that when the issue becomes more immediately life-threatening they can handle it in time). Public healthcare isn’t perfect, and at least in many places still needs a lot of work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads the news⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, but just one detail from what I’m seeing on the linked article - “that person” committed suicide a month before any of that went down. I don’t think it invalidates the point, even though being alive and present to be interrogated might’ve changed things, but it comes off comical when talking about how horrible the experience must’ve been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For M2, it could also be an M.2 - presumably an SSD, but depending on context could also be the slot itself!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody said they’re unrelated, first of all - in fact, that arguably makes it worse. Quickly looking it up, I believe capacitance is distinct from charge, which coulombs are a unit of.

  But even if they weren’t, the point would be that they use the same character, possibly causing confusion so as to which is being referred to in equation or text when using the symbol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think zodiac cycles need to account for leap years, since it’s the leap years that account for things to make dates align. If by wobble you mean something like the tilt of the axis of rotation changing, then yeah, that’d mess things up - otherwise, I think the constellations are basically just based on where the sun is, and this which direction your part of the earth is facing during the night. If I’m correct, then I suspect the zodiacs do still align, but the constellations will differ depending on your latitude…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but it’ll still narrow down on one of those mods - perfect information would require figuring out why it crashes in the first place, but finding at least one of them would let you play the game without it and look up if anybody else reported problems with that mod.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We were there monkeys all along⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, they wouldn’t write it instantly - in the best case, they would start writing it instantly, and finish in optimal time. However, it’s possible that no monkey would actually write it on the first try - we’d have to get into some complex predictions on monkey brains and physiology, it’s possible that with their brains and muscle structure they wouldn’t go for the kinds of character sequences to produce Hamlet, perhaps changing up patterns enough to produce something more random only after a certain amount of time.

  Depending on how you formulate the experiment, it could be that no monkey could finish it before physiologically having to take a break or something, returning to specific patterns afterwards that would render it impossible for it to finish writing Hamlet, and thus no monkey would ever write Hamlet in a continuous string of characters, from start to end.

  But yeah, if we just say they’re typing completely random characters without pause forever, yup, infinity dictates some fraction of monkeys would immediately be on the right track and finish writing as soon as possible, for anything you can think of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like you’re doing something wrong with the nullables… I’m pretty sure you don’t need to mark up files, you can just enable it on the whole project? I’m not sure about the attributes, you might have a point there, but it just makes sense for value vs reference types IMO, since value types are already implicitly different in terms of nullability.

  But yeah, I can imagine it’s half-baked, since nullable reference types (that’s the name, previously reference types were just nullable by default with no extra features) are a more recent addition to the language, one that wasn’t built with them in mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delectable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like Italy might have that one covered, what with all the tortellini, ravioli, and such

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon pregames⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe what he expected was most likely to let a drunk girl let him go?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except you might want a client, both to keep your games in one place, and for extra features it can provide (like cloud saves and updates) - and if you’re on Linux, you’re excluded from that kind of stuff on GOG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peeble streamer on Doop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To think some people would instead ridicule others when you can have so much fun together…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prison Architect 2 Has Been Delayed Indefinitely, Pre-Orders Are Being Refunded⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering they supposedly cited performance as a reason, they might’ve been about to pull a Cities skylines 2 indeed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oldest computer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, so you consider calculators to be computers too? And I don’t mean the beefy scientific calculators, just simple ones with basic operations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I might be wrong, but since “saddened” would express a change towards more sadness, “consistently saddened” would mean I get sad (or more sad?) every time I see that kind of thing. However, my intention is to say more that the saddening is consistent - every time I see something happens, consistently. I’m not permanently sad, but the way the language is changing is usually making me sad.

  I feel like “constantly” might not be appropriate here, but again, I might just not know English well enough myself. To me, constantly would mean unchangingly, meaning I never stop being saddened. In this context, I feel like that means my mood is continuously descending - but instead those are isolated instances of temporary saddening of varying intensity.

  Of course, it’s just a lighthearted comment on a meme, but I’d be happy to learn if my understanding is wrong! And, honestly, I don’t mind this kind of slang and internet speak, but it annoys me to see “literally” lose its meaning and gain the actual opposite meaning, that kind of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can whistle at the speed of sound⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The real fun starts when things move faster than the speed of light, that’s when you get Cherenkov radiation!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  literally completely accurate

  I’m consistently saddened by the changing state of the English language 😔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube replaced unicode emojis with fucking images⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mind you, emoji were created in Japan, so a lot of the original ones can be weird to us due to cultural differences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*doing my best google impression* Did you mean: turn in up?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A beautiful B movie?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We here at lemmy love the antichrist⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it AI generated? I don’t know the brand and labels so maybe I’m missing something, but it just looks like a regular edit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Irresistible⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe he accreted the mass after collapsing?

  Alternatively, maybe that’s just the weight of his massive ego?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be because you replied to a random unrelated comment, instead of commenting on the post itself, or because you could’ve just looked it up easily, or maybe people thought you were being snarky somehow (especially since you were replying to somebody)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Falling⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the same way that earth has gravity that attracts objects, the objects have gravity that attracts earth. See also Newton’s third law, also known as “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” - for the earth to attract something, the earth also has to be attracted with the same force. It’s just that the earth has a lot more mass, so the force barely accelerates it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even the fish are turning soy 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 I couldn't even edge my skibdi to this one⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the vibrant red lips remind me of his red hair stripe, now that you mention it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨entropy⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason entropy is a “force” that dooms things is that once maximum entropy is achieved, there is no energy differential, and with no energy differential you can’t perform any work, life cannot exist, electricity cannot be generated, etc.

  The idea that entropy unstoppably increases predicts that, eventually, all energy will be “spent” and no life can exist - a timer for all sentience in the universe.

  Also, launching probes into space doesn’t increase entropy (to be precise, the act of launching probes uses energy with some inefficiency, so it does increase entropy, just not through the fact that a probe is now in space), because pulling matter away from other matter increases potential gravitational energy. Maximum entropy in this sense would be all matter in the universe clumped together into an inert, uniformly mixed… Clump?

  Also, I’m not a physicist, so I probably got some things wrong, especially terminology, so take this with a grain of salt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voyager 1⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh screw that, that’s an emotional post from somebody sharing their reaction, and I’m fucking STOKED to hear about it, can’t believe I missed the news!