Treczoks
@Treczoks@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is the most common stupid question you hear/see? 13 hours ago:
Can you fix my (Windows) computer problem?
Nope. I design computer chips, and don’t use Windows that much.
- Comment on Why weren't telephone lines and electrical lines not buried under ground? Which would have saved a bunch of money from upkeep and accidents? 13 hours ago:
Don’t know why they don’t this in your place. Here, power, phone, fiber, everything is underground for years now.
- Comment on That's the worst possible view for a hotel 1 day ago:
We lived across the parking lot from a LIDL (ALDI competitor), and they also got deliveries from 4AM onwards.
- Comment on That's the worst possible view for a hotel 1 day ago:
About as good as that hostel in London. 3.5 by 3.5 meters for four people, including the bath with shower and sink, and a window to a roof, not much larger than the roof, surrounded by buildings going up lots of levels.
But it was clean and cheap.
- Comment on Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French: 2 days ago:
Even in English, nouns have gender, even though the articles don’t show it.
- Comment on Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French: 2 days ago:
Oh yes. The good old vowel shift, and the many faces of e.
- Comment on Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French: 2 days ago:
It would still be a mixup. Starting from Celtic, then western Germanic (Angels and Saxons), Latin, northern Germanic (Scandinavians) already form a wild brew. French is only the latest major addition.
- Comment on Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French: 2 days ago:
Nope, the biggest problem is the vowel shift, but that is a complicated topic. Read “Why Q needs U” for details. Thanks to RobWords for that book recommendation!
- Comment on Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French: 3 days ago:
Gouda clearly belongs in the left column.
- Comment on Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French: 3 days ago:
Big complaints from someone with a language where the connection between the written text and its pronunciation can only be described as rather weak.
- Comment on The ultimate check 3 days ago:
We jumped Xilinx before we proceeded to Zync, so I don’t know the details, but loading the FPGA is not something I’d count here. E.g. a Raspberry Pi loads a bootloader before loading the kernel, and a PC loads it’s bios first.
- Comment on The ultimate check 3 days ago:
Depends on what CPU it simulates. Probably a RISC-V. It would be a big waste of resources.
Some Xilinx chips do have real ARM cores that do run Linux and Android.
- Comment on If I could a buffalo chicken chili kale salad would the show off my cooking skills? 5 days ago:
Well, that depends on how good you make it, and on if the other person likes it.
If you actually can cook, make a dish that a) your mom likes and b) that you can easily make because you have done it often enough.
Producing something from a random recipe off the internet, or worse, a chatbot, that happens to look fancy, but you are doing this first ever on this day, well, that is a catastrophe waiting to happen.
- Comment on Happy labor day to real workers 5 days ago:
The minimum wage for people in tip-oriented jobs like waiters is even lower, IIRC USD2.50 per hour. I can easily see bribes as tips.
- Comment on non issue 5 days ago:
Is there a link to this page, so we can all use the “I have the same question” button?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Hopefully they would impeach him. And then put anyone who supported him in front of investigative committees.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Not only the color. The food selection has turned rather minimalistic and bland.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The main horror is not that it’s closed, but that it is ketchup.
- Comment on Who approved this color combination? 1 week ago:
Of course they know. Do you think that was an accident? Whoever did that knew those things and did it on purpose.
- Comment on Who approved this color combination? 1 week ago:
In the US? You never know…
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 week ago:
It is more than sustainable. For those who profit off this.
- Comment on An insurance I don't love 1 week ago:
A general health insurance does not rule out private health insurance at all. They can cover things the normal insurance does not.
- Comment on How about instead, a longer healthier retirement? 1 week ago:
Following that argument, and with the dropping life expectancy in the US, shouldn’t people starting pension earlier?
- Comment on Why is USD susceptible to counterfeit in comparison to CHF? 1 week ago:
Primarily the bad design and lack of modern security features (in comparison to other currencies). The most stupid decision is all notes having the same size, enabling forgers to “wash” the ink off a 1 dollar note and print e.g. a 100 dollar face on it. Whatever quality the print is, the “paper” is the right type.
Then the worldwide acceptance of the Dollar in transactions, especially in third-world countries. They don’t have means to check the veracity of such bank notes, and forgeries often stay in local circulation long before they are found.
- Comment on Extra Milky 1 week ago:
Galaxy is Nesquick with milk powder. The British Nesquick would be Cadbury.
- Comment on Extra Milky 1 week ago:
There is a drinking chocolate powder in the UK called “Galaxy”. Which is intended to be dissolved in hot water instead of milk, therefore it contains milk powder. But if you mix it into hot milk, it is really amazing!
- Comment on Hot Ones trying to sneak in the package protection 1 week ago:
WTF is “Packet Protection”? Insurance? Extra padding? Or “Without it we just slap an address sticker on the original packaging”?
- Comment on Would 'Project Vulcan' from Austin Powers actually have done anything? 1 week ago:
That’s a different kind of thing. Yes, they would have buried the bombs, but not that deep. Just deep enough to form a nice, deep and just slightly radioactive crater.
It would have been interesting to behold. There were plans to actually bomb a new Panama channel, several miles wide and without any locks. This would have resulted in a steady stream of water from the Pacific side to the Atlantic side, with basically unpredictable results.
- Comment on Why is the approach to nudity and sex in films and tv so vastly different between the US and Europe? 1 week ago:
Have you seen their American versions in comparison to the European ones?
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 week ago:
Apart from being rather sparse helpings, are you sure there are actually cooks on the galley? Because any halfway decent cook can still produce decent meals even from substandard produce.