olafurp
@olafurp@lemmy.world
- Comment on lol 3 days ago:
This is the way lol
- Comment on Found this in a workplace toilet today 4 days ago:
Mr. Jobs?
- Comment on Oh, behave! 4 days ago:
Faces should be reversed
- Comment on And Make It A Yummy One 6 days ago:
Just for funsies Caesar is also the ancestor of Tzar and Keizer which covers a lot of European country words for emperor. Emperor coming from Imperium, also Latin but Roman empire actually used Augustus (like English augment meaning elevated as in the citizen of the empire that was elevated). Eastern Roman empire (commonly referred to as Byzantine) used Basileus which survives as basilica and basil the herb.
- Comment on Anon has a proposal for you 1 week ago:
I’ll kill it by removing it’s food source
- Comment on Anon has a proposal for you 1 week ago:
Wait a month in the hut, if it dies on its own I win, if not I live anyway.
- Comment on Do you cheat in games? 1 week ago:
Usually no, I like taking the challange as intended by the devs especially if it’s hard. However, if it reaches a point where I would cheat to skip something tedious I’ve already stopped.
- Comment on Move over powered milk, it onion time 2 weeks ago:
Would eat the onion for a 100, rest for 1000
- Comment on Move over powered milk, it onion time 2 weeks ago:
I’d eat all 4 lol
- Comment on Is it still there‽ 2 weeks ago:
I’m autistic and my hand needs something. I otherwise pain stim and destroy my nails.
- Comment on life hacks 2 weeks ago:
It was a win win 😏
- Comment on life hacks 2 weeks ago:
When I was 10y old I got to cut a thingy for my younger sister to choose. A third had sprinkles so I cut just that third of. My mom implied I was gaming the system but I said my sister is free to choose the bigger one if she wanted.
It was a gambit but I got 2x bigger piece.
- Comment on Is it "Their name is Trevor," or "Their names are Trevor" if you know 2 Trevors? 2 weeks ago:
Both correct, it depends whether you are saying,1 “They both have names and their names are both Trevor” or “They both have the same name and that name is Trevor”.
So the real question is are you talking about their shared name or both of their names separately?
- Comment on I'd believe any of them. 2 weeks ago:
I’m assuming it makes sense to him in a weird way to add bacteria to water.
A - Plausible food fungus reasons B - Billionaires buy proper equipment, toilet brewing seems odd for a rich person C - Very impractical way to wash pits D - No reason to tell people and no benefit over just using regular water
- Comment on I'd believe any of them. 2 weeks ago:
It’s also the option that makes the most sense.
- Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine 3 weeks ago:
BRBRBRBRBRBR
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 3 weeks ago:
Glad somebody is onto it, now they just need to make the the rest of the buttons into a pad and I’ll have my idealised version.
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 3 weeks ago:
Easy to wipe true, but what if instead of a capacitor button we can have a magnetic control board with magnetic push keys?
It would be fully removable, attachment magnet snaps it into place and then it’s essentially a button with a magnet physically travelling up and down.
The I really hate the capacitor buttons since if you get pasta that boils over it fucks with the buttons pretty fast and the “off button” is just not good for quickly turning it off when flooded. It’s same for pan cooking sauce that splashes a bit, wiping the surface moist rag can have mixed results, paper towels become a requirement. There’s just a lot to not like.
A standard knob, as long as it’s not designed by an idiot, can be very simple by having a piece of heat resistant non corrosive material stuck out of the stove top and the button having a 1cm gap under it. Just make the pin chonky and you can drop a pan on it without anything happening. Lift the button off and it becomes still very easy to clean.
- Comment on Banana for scale 3 weeks ago:
Meter was defined as 1/10M of the length from equator to the pole. It’s not exact because the size was established by people literally measuring the distance while traveling. They got really close though. Rest of the units were derived from that length such as 10cm cube of water is 1kg and so on.
Meter is pretty useful though, a large step step is around one meter so you can measure a field by walking after a bit of practice to get the step right. The height of people’s waist is around 1m also.
The point you make about counting is not really an advantage since in metric we count in meters, 10s of centimeters, centimeters, 100s of meters or kilometer which is roughly 10 minutes walking.
The difference is that when you need to do calculation or anything scientific it becomes super easy to convert between units. A cubic meter of water is 1 metric ton (1000kg), 1L of water is 1kg so you can just measure 250ml of milk (~ a cup) by adding 250g of water to a bowl. A tablespoon by adding 15g and a teaspoon by adding 5g.
It makes cooking and baking a lot easier since you don’t need to bring out a whole range of measurement equipment because you can often just use a scale instead.
Then we have Fahrenheit temp scale. Goes from 0 very cold and 100 very hot. Both are intuitive after a while but metric make it very easy to reason about larger ranges and how close to freezing something is outside.
Bottom line is that both are very arbitrary but any time you go outside some regular guesstimates of “this is x long” metric becomes easier.
- Comment on Banana for scale 3 weeks ago:
Beat me to it
- Comment on Banana for scale 4 weeks ago:
We have also units in metric, except it’s always the same ones. Horse is around 2m and a small banana is 15cm, a human foot in around 30cm.
You can measure the parts of your body to get to the same point reference pretty fast and it’s very relatable when you live in a non-imperial country.
- Comment on When you're in a rush and need to eat on the go 4 weeks ago:
Most bottles made in this shape are unsafe to heat. It’s not common so it’s not cheap.
- Comment on I also have an opportunity to study abroad in Iceland. Is that also a good choice? 1 month ago:
Students visa allows part time, don’t remember the exact hours but around 18 per week I think. Employment prospects are pretty nice when going into hospitality or tourism but I’ve been out of the country for a while so I don’t know how easy it is to get a job. There’s also some work for disabled kids to be found, you could also find a role in your field if it’s a high demand field potentially. Also Icelandic in just not expected of people since it’s hard to learn so I wouldn’t worry about that.
- Comment on I also have an opportunity to study abroad in Iceland. Is that also a good choice? 1 month ago:
Little higher is a bit of an understatement.
- Comment on I also have an opportunity to study abroad in Iceland. Is that also a good choice? 1 month ago:
I’m from Iceland, if you go study in Iceland you’re guaranteed Northern lights. If you buddy up with someone with a car you can see plenty of sights since Icelanders in Reykjavik don’t go out too much but are very often up to going out to the country. If you like camping Iceland has amazing camping grounds, mornings are cold but camp sites have often heated kitchens and hot showers. Requires a tent, sleeping bag and inflatable mattress and a car.
Easter uni break is a whole week, budget for renting a car with other students who are staying in Iceland to go to more distant places.
Downside is that is pretty expensive, especially compared to Hungary. Hungary has shit rail but Flixbus can get you anywhere you want with less money and comfort.
Both very good options.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 1 month ago:
No anime on the list means they’re just uncultured.
- Comment on Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French: 2 months ago:
Next topic: When and when not to pronounce a consonant as schwa /ə/.
Spoiler: It depends
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 2 months ago:
Latin American Spanish might disagree so both sin and thin pass. Book came out before the languages split after all.
- Comment on One of the lowercase m is actually an r + n, and the other isn't. 2 months ago:
Ah, improper keming
- Comment on Is this true? 2 months ago:
Why not both? -your average dark souls enjoyer