Bytemeister
@Bytemeister@lemmy.world
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 4 days ago:
Should be “Bee”.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 4 days ago:
Al-fa
Gulf
Niner
Null
Gotta love the fun pronunciations in the NATO phonetic.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 4 days ago:
Nine is evil because it’s a valid character. When you are using a phonetic alphabet, you don’t say “N as in Nine”. The whole point is to speed up communication over crappy connections. Adding “as in” afterwards defeats the purpose of having a standard.
As for L, I would go with “Letter”.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 4 days ago:
Got one behind me. Thank you for your service.
I use the semaphore code to shit-talk my boss to the fellow cubeslaves across the street from me.
- Comment on School of hard knocks 1 week ago:
My partner has a master’s in a STEM field and has been working full time since they graduated.
After 10+ years of payment on the IDR plan, they owe just slightly more than what they initially took out!
College for the vast majority of people (Millenials at least) was a scam built on lies, exploitative lending, and fear of social stigma. We aren’t just due loan forgiveness, we’re due compensation for long term damages in the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars.
- Comment on holy moley 1 week ago:
Ah, you’re young enough that language was developed “back in your day.”
I had to shit in my hand and throw it at someone if I wanted to show displasure at someone. Fancy words and carving hadn’t been invented yet. You want to go insult thaag, hope you had plenty of fiber the night before…
- Comment on holy moley 1 week ago:
I believe the classical interpretation is to nail your 99 complaints to the door with a dagger.
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 2 weeks ago:
It’s definitely a wrong answer.
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 2 weeks ago:
Asked my partner to look at this without any knowledge of what it is.
They say it’s a voice box panel for a robot.
- Comment on omg hes just like me 3 weeks ago:
Organs are a distinct structure made of multiple tissues. So if this thing is just a few layers of tissue, then you can make the argument that the whole creature is essentially a single-organ organism.
Truth be told, I suspect there is a certain amount of hyperbole in the infographic.
- Comment on idiot chess 3 weeks ago:
Props for having the chessboard setup correctly. Something most movies can’t manage with hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on consulting.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 3 weeks ago:
Long story short, logistics benefits from scale. The cost to ship a pallet of poptarts to a store is roughly the same as shipping half a pallet. Smaller stores can’t really undercut larger corporations because they don’t have the scale.
Also when your mom and pop store doesn’t make a profit for 3 months, they go under. When a Walmart doesn’t make a profit for 3 months, they stay open because they have those loses spread across hundreds of other Walmarts.
- Comment on its actually worse bc ports are counted twice for 2.0 & 3.0 3 weeks ago:
More realistic option is 15 other Logitech wireless device receivers, and you don’t know which one goes to your current mouse and keyboard, so you just leave them all plugged in.
At least, that is my experience working in IT. Personal record was 6.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 3 weeks ago:
Container garden. I even had one on my North facing balcony in Baltimore.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 3 weeks ago:
I dunno, we grow huge amounts of corn for ethanol to replace 15% of the fuel for cars… And it would be multiple time more efficient (in terms of land use) to cover that area with solar panels and phase out ICEs for EVs.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 4 weeks ago:
looks a solar panels
Yep, magic right there.
Sees nuclear power plants
What sorcery is this?!
Observes EVs, heat pumps, biofuels…
Mysteries beyond the comprehension of man!
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 4 weeks ago:
Xbox is going to be a subscription game console service, like stadia was.
Microsoft is going to use the “free” compute cycles when their AI slopcenters aren’t at full utilization to run Xbox games.
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 4 weeks ago:
The future of PC gaming is the community support of vintage games that you loved.
The future of consoles is amatuer AI taxidermy remakes of your childhood memories. A distorted uncanny-valley resemblence of a game you once held dear, stuffed to the brim with synthetic fluff and hung on a generic skeleton twisted and bent to roughly resemble a once vibrant and living thing.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 4 weeks ago:
It will still work in daylight, but the LEDs you’d use would have to be brighter than the sun.
Unless the camera has two separate sensors/lenses, one with an IR filter and one without.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 4 weeks ago:
Problem is that’s human readable. Unless you are the nerdiest of nerds, you’re not reading QR code or even most plain old barcodes.
Related, a few years ago, I could read 3of9 barcode font by sight because I spent like 4 years programming Honeywell scanners for POS systems and created an inventory system to track 60,000 iOS devices where I added a serial number and inventory number barcode for each device.
- Comment on It is time to dispel all of the disinformation surrounding the life & death of Charlie Kirk. 4 weeks ago:
Dolphinoplasty, a surgery on the bleeding edge of medical science and terminal ballistics.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
That’s why American Airlines had the “cheat line” livery. Bare hulls saved them enough weight to carry like an extra 2 passengers.
Plus, polished metal on airframes looks sweet IMHO. Real “DC3 golden era of aviation” vibes.
- Comment on That's the feeling. 5 weeks ago:
Don’t have what? A Steam deck, a PC, or a USB?
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 5 weeks ago:
Not of age, I got through the “draft period” during GWB. The US probably won’t have a draft, mainly because we have a sizeable “volunteer” military.
However, if I was drafted, I would talk to my recruiter about how I’ve read books about fragging, and how all I can think about is how powerful that is, for one man with one weapon on the inside to destroy or disrupt the chain of command. Then do your best Private Pyle “Seven Six Two millimeter. Full Metal jacket!” imitation. The military doesn’t care about sending untrained and unqualified conscripts into an active war, but I doubt they will take someone who seems to have uncontrollable fantasies about shooting their own officer.
- Comment on They're calling it the Trump Laptop. Highest quality. So affordable. We're making technology great again, folks. 1 month ago:
Right… trumptop would be a 35lb lead slab moulded around a 2016 Acer Aspire, spray pained gold, and comes with cheetos and pubes in the KB already.
- Comment on A product of his environment 1 month ago:
Hypothetically, near instantly. Realistically, I don’t think someone is going to bother to triangulate a random burst in the 2.4 and 5ghz bands, but someone logging radio traffic for shits and giggles would certainly notice 5-10 minutes bursts of noise early in the mornings saturating the band (you’d need to do the whole band as modern WiFi will channel hop for the best signal).
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 month ago:
Sure, but if you genuinely believe this, then you need to be in the streets, breaking the law, and overthrowing the establishment. I’ve got mad respect for people who are willing to do that. I’ve got respect for people who are willing to vote to keep trump and other far right fascists out of power. I’ve got no respect for someone who doesn’t vote, or votes 3rd party when literally everything is on the line, and then grandstands about it on the internet like they are fucking hero. Those morons risked everything for a chance to gain nothing, and the rest of us are stuck with the results of their 20 IQ bet.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 month ago:
My guy, that is the meaning of the meme in the post.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 month ago:
Real quick…
How many votes did Bernie get in the 2016 primary, and how many did Clinton get?
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 month ago:
In case you forgot 9/11 happened during Bush’s (a Republican) presidency, and his administration used it to get into Afghanistan and Iran, even though most of the hijackers were Saudi, and the whole operation was Saudi funded.
If you want, you can try to guess another manufacturered crisis that dragged a Democratic administration into a war?