vithigar
@vithigar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha 4 hours ago:
Best of luck to them, then.
- Comment on Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha 5 hours ago:
Are any of your content creator friends trying to get other jobs?
- Comment on silly costume dance 1 day ago:
One of the most important aspects of writing is to choose an appropriate style and language for your intended audience. The purpose of an FAQ is typically to address common questions from laypersons, but this is not written in a way that a layperson is inclined to consume.
It’s dense while also being aggressively loquacious. A.1.1 spends over 200 words before it even starts to meaningfully answer the question. Then, after answering the question in about a half a dozen words, continues with a philosophical essay about what hierarchy means. Yes, some questions are nuanced and may need elaboration, but this document goes far beyond elaboration into rambling.
Who is this FAQ for?
On top of this there is a complete lack of page formatting, making it not only stylistically difficult to read, but also tiring as you track lines the entire width of your screen.
If you want to win people over, give them something they might want to read, not something that’s going to discourage them literally the instant they see the page before a single word is even processed.
- Comment on silly costume dance 2 days ago:
Literally no one is going to read your one hundred thousand word FAQ.
- Comment on Just the way we likes it. 1 week ago:
After many years of being a developer I’ve come to the conclusion that the single strongest indicator of a person’s competence is how they handle CSV when asked to produce or consume it.
- Comment on Works like 2 out of 7 times 1 week ago:
Being together for a month or less and not only learning that your S.O. is a-okay with being woken up in the middle of the night by manual stimulation but also having the opportunity to do so two or three times seems like an absolutely wild relationship timeline to me.
- Comment on Preemptive farewell 2 weeks ago:
Heh. Doodoo.
- Comment on omg hes just like me 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m in my mid-40s and expanded my circle of friends by about a dozen people in the past year or so.
Just go out and do stuff. For me it was getting involved with the local fighting game community.
- Comment on its actually worse bc ports are counted twice for 2.0 & 3.0 2 weeks ago:
a mobo usually only has 1 USB controller for way more than 15 USB ports though
This is not true for the last… many PC motherboards I’ve used. The USB ports are almost always split between the CPU controller and a chipset controller.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 5 weeks ago:
Damn, so five whole days of the Iran war would cover it for a whole month for everyone?
- Comment on The new Voyager game was pretty bad. 1 month ago:
I agree that trading seems largely pointless. I renewed up extremely overpowered in combat when I played on the lowest difficulty. The middle difficult seems a bit more sensible so far, but I haven’t finished my run yet. Been enjoying the game overall though. Can’t say I ever ran into the need to scan planets as a result of an away mission.
They added manual saving in an update a few days ago.
- Comment on I am untethered, and my rage knows no bounds 1 month ago:
Aisle
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 1 month ago:
Really depends on the type of mess, I think. If there is a lot of dry crumbs I’d give that a quick brush into the dustpan before spraying and doing the full wipe down. I don’t want to just smear a bunch of wet crumbs around.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Those are type definitions for typescript. The results are completely relevant to your search.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 month ago:
For a while (maybe even still, I haven’t kept up with it) you could unlock paid features with a modded client, so they absolutely have a history of client-side verification.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 2 months ago:
Unless you really need to optimise for land use. An arbitrarily large solar array in space could transmit to a fairly small collector in the surface.
As for losing power to atmospheric attenuation, high frequency microwaves will pass right through most everything that would scatter visible light. Clouds, dust, etc wouldn’t really impede it.
I won’t say it’s not a silly idea, because it is. It’s fun to think about though.
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 2 months ago:
True size is possible just fine on a 2D surface. For both too large and too small to be even possible there must exist some transitional point where the size is correct.
You cannot have both the size and shape correct at the same time. Having the correct size means distorting the shape, and vise versa. One is the other can be correct, but never both.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 2 months ago:
I have a handed down Surface Go 2 with 4GB of RAM. The thing was damn near unusable with its stock Windows installation. I’ve put Mint on it now and it’s actually a nice little machine.
- Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 2 months ago:
People can be busy or tired or anything else. You aren’t owed 100% engagement all of the time, even from your friends.
- Comment on On dasher! 3 months ago:
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 4 months ago:
Holy cow. This is possibly the best description of how I usually think I’ve ever encountered. It was actually a bit unnerving to read. Though I’ve always conceptualized it as “shapes” and “holes” rather than vectors.
The ability to near-instantly make connections between symptoms and cause for any given issue in a system I’m familiar with especially resonated. The best explanation I could give someone without stepping back and basically re-solving the whole thing from a standing start would be “the shapes fit together”.
It feels like I’m being asked how I knew a puzzle piece fit in a space, and for some reason “I looked at it and could see that it fit” is not a sufficient explanation. No, I didn’t need to investigate other possible pieces. They are obviously different shapes. The one that you’re asking about doesn’t even belong to the same puzzle.
Similarly I am also utterly incapable of describing what a person looks like in any detail. I have a “mind’s eye” and can conjure up images of them in my head, but for whatever reason I just completely lack the ability to express what I see in words outside of very high level details. They have brown hair, they’re tall, what do you mean “what shape is their face?” Sara’s face is the shape of Sara’s face. It couldn’t be any other shape.
I do have an internal monologue or voice though, but it’s not constant. It usually only comes up when I’m dealing with other people and need to try to reason through what someone else is doing.
- Comment on Sensory issues 4 months ago:
I feel the need to ask about the choice of “loud” as the adjective here. Are the tags actually making audible noise, or is this just a non-standard usage of it an a synonym for “overwhelming”?
- Comment on Anon goes to a halloween party 4 months ago:
It’s highlighting “me” as a keyword. The only language I can think of that uses that is Visual Basic.
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 5 months ago:
I never understood the hate for Aloy. She was at worst bland with a pretty heavy helping of “I’m better at everything because I’m the main character”, but she’s hardly alone in that, and it doesn’t usually attract that much ire.
I really didn’t understand the complaints that she was unattractive or even outright ugly.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 5 months ago:
Average annual family income in the US is around $80k/a. Are you seriously suggesting that families should be looking for homes in the $20k to $30k range? What kind of home, exactly, do you think you get for that?
- Comment on Soon... 5 months ago:
“me at my parents age” is in the future.
- Comment on Fucking idiots 5 months ago:
Does the extra fuel you used hauling around your entire launch vehicle not count as waste?
- Comment on reddit chatroom 6 months ago:
This isn’t probing though. Probing would be like… mentioning some anime that featured fan service of questionably aged characters and gauging the response.
This is just straight up announcing yourself.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 6 months ago:
I’m in a similar boat. Pledged but it’s been years since I gave them money and I’m not really following it closely anymore. Can’t say I ever felt like a rube though, backing a crowdfunded project is always a gamble to some degree, and that money was so long ago that any impact on my situation from having it or not has long since faded.
I’m a little disappointed in the date potentially being pushed back, but it’s not like I marked it on my calendar or anything. If they had said nothing and the date just slipped by I probably wouldn’t even notice if no one else brought it up.
I’ll play S42 if/when it comes out, and probably even enjoy it, but I’m not chomping at the bit.
