alsimoneau

@alsimoneau@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That definition exists because if you want to include Pluto and be consistent you have to include dozens of other bodies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Engineers use milliinches all the time! They call it thous but it’s the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news. :)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No thanks. Make your own country and we’ll be allies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨leading ai company⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I submit the fast inverse square root. That code needs to be in a museum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see magic eye pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But then you see them inverted.

  3d cross eyed pictures and magic eye work in similar but different ways

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So does sailing the high seas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  10 people or less.

  Captain of Industry is a gem with a 4 person team Risk of Rain was 2, expanded to 3

  That’s still at a human scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bounce bounce bounce⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s leg bouncing and there’s the house is shaking leg bouncing.

  I draw the line at when my monitor is shaking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In heat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Better for your health, better for students, safer for kids. Use local time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You do though. W10 EOL is October, and you’re not gonna move to Linux, sadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, just started using W11 for work and it’s insane how often I need to wait for character to buffer in after I typed something.

  I shouldn’t be faster than my computer in this day and age, and yet here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Newegg served me well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not “practically zero”, it’s zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨House members erupt into a screaming match following senators forced removal from press conference⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The riots are planned for tomorrow right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that what Scion does?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Method chaining ftw Input.then().doThis().lastly()

  Also it formats better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨light pollution⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mostly worked on the physics side, being a physicist. But I did dug up a reference for you. You can start from there: doi.org/10.3310/phr03110

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨light pollution⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did my PhD on light pollution. I don’t have the references on hand but it is well known in the field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨light pollution⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not actually less safe. No study was able to show a link between light and safety.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Malware is harder to find when written in obscure languages⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fortran is still widely used. I want a rockstar virus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You should probably just throw it away"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Buy one. It’s like 100$ and you’ll have a backup solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They tried. Their pirate game came out last year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PhD ain't no MD⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  MD’s aren’t doctors. They’re bachelors with an ego.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits America⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Try high fructose corn syrup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing Comments⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s from Lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To a point, yeah. But when it’s -40 outside, heating to 18 or 21 doesn’t make much of a difference energy wise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, that’s Java and JavaScript.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll take Python and Fortran, thank you very much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Americans win their country back?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PP coming in next year to do the same here though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie movies are having a surprising comeback in a bleak time for Hollywood⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indie movies (and indie games) are a breath of fresh air in the corporate hell world of the current entertainment industry.