keepcarrot
@keepcarrot@hexbear.net
- Comment on magic box rule 1 week ago:
My printer started it
- Comment on solvents 2 weeks ago:
I remember DMSO from shadowrun to kinda “universalise” drugs and poisons
- Comment on definitely 2 weeks ago:
I did enjoy the glut of people online defiantly doing very mundane things
- Comment on We all took the DVD boom era for granted 2 weeks ago:
I remember being addicted to the “making of” section of Lord of the Rings
- Comment on Judas 2 weeks ago:
Are there just more pictures of musk in the training data to the point where people just look a little more musk-like when generated?
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
They got beaten up by an angry mob and there were mysteriously zero witnesses
- Comment on Petrichor 4 weeks ago:
Also welding. Also lasgun shots
- Comment on Why? 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, I’d probably think I was dissociating first
- Comment on Pants 5 weeks ago:
Haha I thought this.
I think it would wear one wide i item wide set of pants, and each leg would have one column
- Comment on Mushrooms 1 month ago:
There is mushroom for research
- Comment on Half as Hot 1 month ago:
Probably want it between the winter temperature and the current summer temperature, but genies are traditionally fickle and pounce on any ambiguity
- Comment on Proud globohomo 2 months ago:
I wish I could be this confident about anything
- Comment on Just Terrible 2 months ago:
Is linear algebra older than 0? Hang on (no, it is not, formalised in 17th century)
In my CS course, at least, it was treated as “engineering”, so we did both linear algebra and C programming. For everyone counting from 1 was more natural and the C method had to be taught a few times throughout the course (starting with java loops, which wasn’t used for malloc, OOP was probably the first unit anyone did for CS). As a habit it tended to stick even where we didn’t really use it (or in languages that don’t, e.g. lua), given how grueling C programming was and the other languages that were downstream of it.
I guess you could analogise things like saying “17th century” is 1600-1699 (first century is 0001 to 0099, I guess), in CS you are counting the very start of a thing (e.g. how many apple-widths to get to the first apple), vs the more common how many apples to have gotten the first apple. Or something, idk,
I’m drunk and avoiding housework, sorry
- Comment on Just Terrible 2 months ago:
Is there a reason for the convention other than that’s how most people count? (Which is a perfectly fine reason, I’m just curious)
- Comment on the flies 2 months ago:
Time to dust off my old timey prison outfit
- Comment on Ubisoft investors push for company sale as shares hit decade-low 2 months ago:
Investors do not play video games, which… What else are they doing with their time?
- Comment on Why Vacuum Cleaners Are So Loud 2 months ago:
I’ve started using a broom for most things, only using the vacuum for corners and carpets. I realised I was cleaning less because the noise stressed me out
- Comment on ‘The Crow’ remake ends its theater run. how much did it make? 2 months ago:
It was certainly a movie.
- Comment on Slapping Chicken 3 months ago:
My hand is a lot smaller than a chicken, so I hope everyone is prepared to have roast my hand as well
- Comment on PhD Funding 3 months ago:
These are the well paid conspiracists making up climate change nods
(My memory of phds on campus was they were very overworked and desperate for cash, I assume conspiracy theorists whose conspiracy relies on the silence of many grads do not know many phds)
- Comment on Burning Up 3 months ago:
Huh, I can only speak from my experience. I have a couple of thermometers in my room that give decimals, but my air con doesn’t give decimal options and the government meteorological service doesn’t either. I certainly don’t think I can tell the difference between 39 and 39.2.
- Comment on Curse of Knowledge 3 months ago:
Ok, but like… Everyone down the chain gets the joke, I don’t know what the problem is. Open your wine with the penis thing
- Comment on 😳😳😳 3 months ago:
My first thought was the They Live aliens
- Comment on Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming 3 months ago:
Oh, where’s that option in VLC? (I’d probably skip if given the choice, I remember wanting to constantly with game of thrones but whoever I was with insisted on watching the entire 5 hours every time)
- Comment on Borderlands is being fast-tracked to video on demand services 3 months ago:
It should be added to any humble bundle that includes a borderlands game
- Comment on Marie Curie, such a drama queen 4 months ago:
Posting this in response to every claim of Havana Syndrome
- Comment on The age of wood 4 months ago:
The text at the bottom suggests that you can also use the trees planting year to determine its age. Which is also true
- Comment on American Sex Education 4 months ago:
I assumed it was Albania or something
- Comment on Corn 🌽 4 months ago:
- Comment on pringles 4 months ago:
I believe shrinkflation has in fact made them smaller