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- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 day ago:
Directional cables kind of make sense in an analogue, single-ended connection if it’s about the shielding being connected to ground only on one side… although I haven’t tried it in practice. Still, it has nothing to do with signal directionality, just noise rejection. The ground lift switch on some devices does the same.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 6 days ago:
Might be an allergy. I used to have something like this with some foods some years ago. What’s interesting is that now I don’t seem to have it any more with the same foods; it might be true what they say about allergies - that they come and go. Not a medical professional - just speaking from my experience.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 week ago:
Context is everything.
“When are you guys coming over?”
“We were thinking 20th, but I couldn’t get off work then, so 21st it is.”
If you’re in that conversation, you’d be perfectly clear of what’s up. Imagine having to append “of December” to both dates (or also the year for that matter).
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 week ago:
Depends on the language honestly. In my native language (that’s not English) it sounds somewhat clumsy with the zero in front, but it’s still sometimes used. Depending on the context it might be a simple number (zero two) or it might be an ordinal (zero second). From 2010 and on it’s been easier because you just say the equivalent of “tenth”, “eleventh” and so on.
In writing it also depends on the context - if it’s something ambiguous (that could be 1925 or 2025), then sure, write the full year, otherwise two digits are fine.
- Comment on Foot In The Door 1 week ago:
Yeah, okay, I’ll somewhat agree on that one, but I was commenting on the “failed” part - it’s not like someone else (or you) was unsuccessful in masking it - it was deliberately masked enough to mess with automated flagging systems, but not enough to even start being ambiguous or unclear (like it would be with actual censorship). So… “task failed successfully”? I dunno.
- Comment on Foot In The Door 1 week ago:
I think it’s not censorship, just intentionally masking it like this, probably to avoid it being immediately flagged by OCR.
- Comment on Sea Level 1 week ago:
The sole fact that we’re here means that we don’t even have to think about those, but yeah.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
For me it’s been mechanical keyboards as of late.
Maybe I should start stocking up on GMK sets - those seem to resell nicely.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
Yeah, imagine the situation of “I don’t want anyone else’s ads, I’ll host my own and look at them by myself”.
Probably helped of the common misspelling of “ads” as “adds”.
- Comment on Construction magic 1 week ago:
So nobody has corrected “big-ass cranes” to “big ass-cranes” yet? I guess I’ll do it then.
- Comment on Do what one must! 1 week ago:
Have you tried rubbing Ozzy Osbourne into her eyes instead?
- Comment on Do what one must! 1 week ago:
In the same line of thought: stop killing babies to make baby oil. /s
- Comment on Education is important. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but hamburgers are importanter.
- Comment on Don't leave home without it 2 weeks ago:
I, for one, always carry my two eggs, but for different reasons.
- Comment on It was completely lost on me, at first. 2 weeks ago:
Someone forgot to floss
- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 2 weeks ago:
You know why Santa is so happy? Because he knows where all the bad girls live.
- Comment on Is this real life? 2 weeks ago:
I honestly forgot that… but the screenshot is from five years ago.
- Comment on Is this real life? 2 weeks ago:
Forget forgetting to switch accounts, he can’t even put together a complex sentence.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 2 weeks ago:
The map says North America and South America, any other subdivisions are arbitrary.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 3 weeks ago:
Yep, exactly that.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 3 weeks ago:
Which America out of the two?
- Comment on My Religion 3 weeks ago:
My “religion” says you shouldn’t be religious. Oh, you’re suddenly offended? Too bad…
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 4 weeks ago:
Weight aside, those took a lot of space too. Almost every CRT from that era was put in a desk corner, swivelled sideways, forcing you to turn sideways too - and many of those were 15-17". Now imagine 21…
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 4 weeks ago:
How’s airflow?
- Comment on What life hack helped you this year? 4 weeks ago:
“Almost”
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 4 weeks ago:
I see what you did there… and also there.
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 1 month ago:
This works for a tech demo if you want to show off a new rendering engine or a new GPU. But yeah, if you base the whole game around that, it’s like those movies with more CGI than plot.
- Comment on I didn't verify the headline. 1 month ago:
I guess the yellow man was speaking on behalf of the average US citizen…
- Comment on I didn't verify the headline. 1 month ago:
Is this how they get parasites out these days? I guess I should get on with the times…
- Comment on *Jarvis, arm the valediction* 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s fine - that’s all the respect that’s due.