darklamer
@darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 4 days ago:
When we’ve achieved Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 1 week ago:
Or does it need to be intended for 7-10 year olds.
I don’t know if there’s actually any publishing industry or library defintion of the word, but as I know it, it clearly indicates a book intended for children who are still learning to read.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 1 week ago:
what the fuck is a “chapter book”?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_book
It’s a kind of book for children who are learning to read, which unlike a picture book (or, to some extent, a comic book) consists primarily of text that the reader must read in order to get the story.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 2 weeks ago:
That all depends on what you actually mean by “no other proximate reason”.
I think we all agree that the police should take immediate action if someone is driving the wrong direction against traffic, even if they’re doing nothing else wrong and are driving the posted speed limit, to take an absolutely obvious example.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 weeks ago:
The argument can literally be made that you’re driving dangerously no matter how fast you go.
Well, that’s certainly true also in every jurisdiction I’m familiar with, as it should be, common sense, really.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 weeks ago:
Where I live there are only upper speed limits on most roads except highways. On other roads you can drive as slowly as you want,
Are you sure that you really don’t have any traffic rules against causing a hazard or impeding traffic flow by being too slow? That seems both unusual and unsafe to me.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 weeks ago:
There are speed limits in both directions, in every jurisdiction I’m familiar with it’s illegal to drive both too fast and too slow, to exceed the posted speed limit or to drive so slowly that it impedes other traffic.
- Comment on Arts & STEM 5 weeks ago:
I think the best tell that this is AI generated is the — character. There’s not even a key on the keyboard for that.
Then you must have a really crappy keyboard.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Treating brainfreeze by inserting a copper wire through the eye socket and then heating it on a candle was first proposed in a letter to the Royal Society in 1842.
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 3 months ago:
That sounds like sex and war to me.
- Comment on succession 3 months ago:
This is just an example of course.
Of course, but it does annoy me when something so specific is mentioned, instead of simply writing “hardwood trees” (or whatever information it was that the reader was supposed to infer from that example).
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 3 months ago:
You’re
a man(?)an officer of taste.Thank you! (No need to complicate things. ;-)
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 3 months ago:
Kira Nerys
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 3 months ago:
size in centimeters
Measuring like that would be even easier in the US, where the answer would always be simply “one foot”.
- Comment on succession 3 months ago:
There’s no way you’re going to get Hickory growing naturally in your garden, unless your garden is in some very specific parts of the world.
- Comment on Has anyone here watched Conclave? How was it? 3 months ago:
TL;DR: Very well made, but shallow and lacking in substance.
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 3 months ago:
- Comment on How do I pronounce "slava Ukraini"? 3 months ago:
[ˈslɑwɐ ʊkrɐˈjini]
- Comment on Anon is Turkish 3 months ago:
How is that pu pronounced?
[ˈpuːtə]
Like pew or poo?
WTF?
- Comment on Anon is Turkish 3 months ago:
The bird is named after the country: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_(bird)#Names
(So now when they’ve renamed the country, the bird ought to be renamed too.)
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 3 months ago:
Wikipedia knows what saint the city was named after: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego#Name
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 4 months ago:
That’s a Fältmössa m/59, truly one of the great ones, I still have mine too.
- Comment on Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku] 4 months ago:
Thank you for this very enlightening explanation!
While it doesn’t make any sense at all that “a Discord server” (an online community hosted by the Discord company) is used to mean a totally different thing from “a Discord server” (a server which runs the Discord software), your explanation makes all the other comments here suddenly make sense.
I had to check that I hadn’t dreamed this up on my own, but looking around now there are claims to having Discord servers all around, these were just the first handfull I now found:
“FreeBSD has a Discord server to socialize, get support, support others, learn, contribute, collaborate, and stay up to date on all things FreeBSD and Open Source.”
wiki.freebsd.org/Discord/DiscordServer
“If you have questions that are not covered by the documentation, you can get in contact with us on our Discord server or create a post in the discourse forum.”
“We’re transitioning to our own discord server!”
github.com/OpenNeptune3D/OpenNept4une/…/111
“We’re opening our own Discord server as a replacement for our Gitter.”
www.crowdsec.net/blog/crowdsec-on-discord
“I’m excited to announce the launch of our Discord server, VigneshDevHub, designed to build a thriving open-source community where developers of all levels can collaborate, learn, and work on amazing projects together!”
dev.to/…/join-the-open-source-community-on-discor…
“Our Discord server got a makeover.”
…hashnode.dev/channel-updates-in-our-discord-serv…
That you’re now telling me that none of them actually have their own Discord server is just bizarre. I can’t be the only one who took those words at face value, simply assuming that they in fact had their own Discord servers.
- Comment on What's your favourite classic movie you think everyone should have seen once in their life? 4 months ago:
Casablanca.
- Comment on Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku] 4 months ago:
Have you ever used discord?
No, not really.
The name server isn’t prescriptive. It’s not your own server. It’s just your own chat rooms
Eh, you lost me there, what’s that supposed to mean? How could my own server suddenly become not my own server if I started to use Discord?
- Comment on Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku] 4 months ago:
What’s that supposed to mean?
- Comment on Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku] 4 months ago:
What do you mean, how could your own server be “hosted by discord”?
- Comment on Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku] 4 months ago:
What do you mean by that? Tons of organizations, groups and people publish that they have their own Discord servers.
- Comment on Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku] 4 months ago:
But pretty much all of these organizations have their own Discord servers, don’t they?
So why would it matter so much what the parent company does? If some changes are seen as unacceptable one could simply just not apply them to one’a own server. (It’s not like the Discord company could force anyone to run some particular software on their server. How would that even work.)
I don’t understand why people care what Discord does. If they do enough unwelcome changes the people who run their own servers will simply detach from the parent company.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 4 months ago:
10 movies in 3 days!? That’s impressive!