pedz
@pedz@lemmy.ca
- Comment on No explanation needed 2 days ago:
The plate will be round but the lasagna stays square.
- Comment on No explanation needed 2 days ago:
I can see the logic. It’s made in a pot, eaten in a bowl, fairly liquid and remains liquid while stored.
And lasagna is a square/rectangular food.
But what about stew? My father makes a beef stew in the oven using a square casserole. The leftover is refrigerated in the same square casserole and the whole thing congeals into a square. So to me stew can be square.
- Comment on Capital i and lowercase L look the same in pretty much any sans-serif computer font 2 weeks ago:
In French, he is il and it has always looked a bit weird when typed at the beginning of a sentence.
Il y a un I suivi d’un l.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m not an expert but from what I can find online, houses under 700 square foot (65 sq/m) are not covered by the local construction code so most municipalities don’t want anything smaller. It’s also forbidden to build a house with a single bedroom smaller than 320 sq/ft (30 sq/m), or a house smaller than 275 sq/ft (25 sq/m). According to old number, the average house here is about 1950 sq/ft (180 sq/m).
But ultimately it’s the municipality’s choice so it can vary depending on the region where you want to build it. I dreamed of having a small house to keep as much land as possible, but after looking into what’s possible where, it would be much simpler to just buy something already built that is grandfathered with the land.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Also depends on local law. I live alone, always wanted a mini house, but they are illegal in most municipalities here because there is a minimum size for a house. So if I really want a mini house, it has to be in a mini house approved neighbourhood, along with other mini houses. Like a mobile house park but for mini houses. They can’t be built anywhere; they have to be specifically approved.
After all, we can’t build a small house among bigger ones. Think about the neighbours’ property value!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Building a dream house also means an ungodly amount of debt for the mortgage. The matching kit is a better financial decision.
- Comment on [REDACTED] 2 weeks ago:
That definition made me think of samaras floating in the wind.
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 3 weeks ago:
As a Canadian, I have never seen a bag of milk “sealed” with a rubber band. Plus, standard bags are way bigger than these. Those bags are not Canadian.
En tant que Canadien, je n’ai jamais vu de sacs de lait “scellés” avec des élastiques. De plus, les sacs réguliers sont beaucoup plus grand que ceux-ci. Ces sacs ne sont pas Canadiens.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
Imgur has been pretty shit at hosting images for other sites for about a decade because it’s trying very hard to keep people captive on its site. They added ways to prevent hotlinking and if I paste an imgur link in a chat, starting with i., supposedly a direct link to the image, the preview will not work and the page the link sends to will always open their whole site around that image. They really really want people to stay on there, and interact, or watch ads. AFAIK they have made that change about a decade ago as they wanted to monetize.
- Comment on why 1 month ago:
It’s the same gender than all machines, which is obviously feminine.
There’s no fixed rule for this but if a noun ends with a consonant it’s probably masculine and if it ends with a vowel it’s possibly feminine. Again, not a consistent rule and it will not work for everything, but if you must take a guess, this might help, or not.
Now this reminds me of Sebastian Marx and his videos on French. Like this one on pronunciation.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 months ago:
In fact, the numbers are estimated to be around 2 billion animals a year globally.
As for people
- Comment on Definitely how it went for me 2 months ago:
I started tinkering with computers a bit before the 2000 and floppy drives were common at that time. Well, there is a right and a wrong way to plug the power cable, and the wrong way emits smoke.
I now have assembled enough PCs to know what I’m doing, but I had to learn.
- Comment on People who think an attack on another user is approproate for this sub, and the mods that enable them 2 months ago:
And that’s how you learn that Lemmy is full people that can’t tolerate diversity. I can read that person’s comments just fine but apparently others downvote and whine.
And they don’t even need to learn another language, just a letter. But alas, I guess this is very hard to do.
- Comment on Me right fucking now 2 months ago:
Unless you buy a plot of land in a forested area, it’s not yours, so you can be evicted at any time.
Or you will need to see a dentist or doctor at some point.
I had that kind of thought multiple times and ir’s so tempting until you think about the details.
- Comment on Any fuckin windows? 3 months ago:
If you consider god as capitalism then it makes sense.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 3 months ago:
In two parts.
- The before map would be of the only high speed train the US currently has, and it’s the Acela Express. So, something like this.
- If lots of people are consuming Tylenol in day to day life, and it causes autism, and some autistic people love trains, then the US should have a system like the map posted.
- Comment on New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state 3 months ago:
- Comment on Trump Says Critical Coverage of Him Is ‘Really Illegal’ 4 months ago:
What kind of dumb logic is that? Maybe you should be arrested for suggesting your president is not right.
It’s obviously not the same. Everyone loves Trump and nobody likes the Democrats. Everybody knows that the elections that gave Obama and Biden’s presidencies were rigged by the wicked woke antifa ecologists LGBTQ terrorists and therefore illegitimate. They were the real dictators coming for your guns, straws, ‘merry Christmas’, and gendered bathrooms.
It’s that simple.
(/s just in case)
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I am. That’s why I switched to DDG and deactivated it.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
It’s so fun to waste energy!
AI drives 48% increase in Google emissions
I love those energy hungry assistants! It’s wasting resources even faster than everything before but it’s so fun and useful!
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 4 months ago:
And yet you are saying this in a thread about the US restricting access to some vaccines. It was all nonsense a few months ago.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 4 months ago:
Why not? I’m not willing to provide links for everything I’ll list, so do what you want with it.
Democracy has failed in the US. They have a king with a dictatorship. They ignore their own laws. They kidnap law abiding citizens, on the streets, at work, in the schools, and send them into concentration camps. They kidnap people from other countries at the border. They invade their own cities with the military. They are sending a flotilla to Venezuela. They are renaming the Department of Defence to the Department of War. They have openly discussed invading Mexico. They have mentioned in the past that Canada should be part of the US. Maine’s Senator sent an open letter to Western Canada and invited them to join the US, like, a week ago.
All this shit is normalized in the US. They just do it little by little and so far people don’t react. They always say “Trump is joking” and “this will not happen” but it ends up happening every time.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 4 months ago:
At the rate that things are devolving, if you have the means, you may consider emigrating somewhere else. And maybe not Canada because we’ll probably be invaded by your country in the following years, or months.
- Comment on kansas can get fcked 5 months ago:
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 5 months ago:
The English speaking world should be isolated. Rupert Murdoch made it sick.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 5 months ago:
Sadly, it’s been a good part of IBM’s business model for years. They call it Capacity Upgrade on Demand.
Inactive processor cores and inactive memory units are resources that are included with your server, but are not available for use until you activate them.
I learned this when I moved into a corporate IT environment with Power servers. I couldn’t believe that some companies would pay a quarter of a million for a server that is intentionally stunted/limited unless you pay even more.
But cars are computers now. “Everything’s computer!”. So they will follow that subscription model.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Why is it a bad thing?
- Comment on Thinheritance 5 months ago:
There’s a song about this phenomenon in Québecois French called Dégénération, from Mes Aïeux.
It starts with your great great grand father clearing the land, your great grand father plowing the land, your grand father making a profit out of it, your father selling it to be a white collar, and you, living in a one room apartment, owing debts to corporations.
The lyrics are pretty conservative and portray a rosy past, but it goes with the traditional style and the fact the band’s name means “my ancestors”. This being said, the song is still pretty spot on about this phenomenon. Here’s a link to the translated lyrics, and the song.
- Comment on It would get old fast 5 months ago:
It would get old fast because I don’t drive a car and would turn crazy in such a neighbourhood.
- Comment on The computer is making that noise again 7 months ago:
I was working as a level 1 tech for a consulting company. I had to take calls and monitor the systems.
We had a ticketing system in place where we received alerts and various alarms in there. But because some of my coworkers didn’t do anything with these and some systems (and clients) suffered from this, people in management thought it would be a a marvelous idea to have those alerts and alarms make a notification in Teams.
So when some random location lost internet for a few minutes, we sometimes had hundreds of Teams notifications.
I quit last month. I couldn’t take it any longer.
