overcast5348
@overcast5348@lemmy.world
- Comment on Day one and done 1 month ago:
I say that I like “garbage pizza” because that’s how everyone around me treats the pizzas I like. I don’t like the “good pizzas” that everyone keeps raving about. I’ll take Domino’s or Pizza Pizza any day of the week.
- Comment on teachings 2 months ago:
I’m guessing that you were one of those “I won’t ever use all this math” kind of students?
- Comment on *So far* 3 months ago:
Wait, what’s this?
- Comment on I have attempted science. 3 months ago:
Gotcha.
I thought that was the norm in all academia these days? Can a physicist (or anyone from another field) publish results that didn’t go as expected and save future scientists some time?
- Comment on I have attempted science. 3 months ago:
…because people don’t accept that it’s wrong? Or some other reason?
- Comment on Huh 3 months ago:
Tittles are the little dots above i and j, that’s why you weren’t autocorrected. You’re looking for “title” though.
- Comment on there are worse hills to die on 3 months ago:
Monkeys paw = you get what you asked for but it takes a nasty path to get there. Example from the OG story, the parents ask for money, then their son dies, and they get the insurance money.
Genie = chooses to ignore the spirit of the wish and gives you something that technically meets the criteria. Ex: you ask for a “hot chick”, and get a boiling hot baby chicken.
You can try to work around the genie’s trickery with more and more precise wording till there isn’t any ambiguity. The monkey will fuck you over anyway, because fuck you, that’s why.
99.99% of the comments on r/monkeyspaw are just granting wishes like they’re genies and not like they’re a monkey’s paw, and it rubs me the wrong way.
- Comment on brilliant as silver 3 months ago:
Is this the origin story of The Mad Hatter? 🙄
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
SEO itself is fine - it’s just optimising your website website for whatever a search engine considers important.
The problem is that search engines’ seem to have absolutely garbage metrics for what is important and worth it.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
An example of search engines failing me miserably last month:
I wanted to hire a photographer, so I started searching using keywords like “wedding photographer MAJOR_CITY_NAME”, “photography MCN”, “event photographer MCN”, etc. The top results I got were all mostly along the lines of “top ten wedding photographers in MCN” i.e. listicles with links to a few photographers who probably paid the listicle creator? There were maybe one or two links to a photographer’s website itself in the first page.
I’m okay with ignoring the first page of results and moving on to following pages. But rather than giving me individual photographer’s websites in subsequent pages, I started getting listicles for “top ten wedding photographers in OTHER_CITIES”. I’d click through multiple pages of results to find maybe 5 direct website links.
What actually helped me find a photographers eventually was entering the exact same key words on Instagram. Almost every single one of them that I found on Instagram had an excellent website and the city name, and their addresses were mentioned clearly on their websites. So, it wasn’t a case of them not having enough information on their website. It’s just that search engines chose to prioritise listcles of photographers from other cities rather than giving me links to individual websites of photographers in my own city.
In this case, I got lucky because photographers have a presence on Instagram which has a functional search engine. What if I want to find a plumber, or someone else? I’m forced to just trust a listicle creator because search engines don’t want to give away links to single purpose websites and only want to keep us on websites with a shit ton of content (that may or may not be what you need) and ads.
/rant
- Comment on The Jebus Said So. 6 months ago:
Your mom never existed.
- Comment on I love purple. 6 months ago:
Magic is purple! * Throws chair *
- Comment on Roman numerals, man... so close! 8 months ago:
69 isn’t “the funny” number because it’s an ambigram. It’s the “funny number” because it’s the sex position number.
You’re one of that’s 10000: xkcd.com/1053/ :)