Hoimo @ Hoimo @ani.social

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"The only way out is through" is only true when:

1. The chosen path leads to some desired result
2. There is no other path that leads to the same result
3. There is no other path that leads to a result of similar value
4. Staying without result is not an option

People are very bad at keeping an open mind once they've chosen a solution. They tend to stick with it as long as they think they're still on track. They don't stop to see what their actual choices are and if they can switch approaches halfway. You don't have to "tough it out", even when you're already knee deep in shit and you'd have to wade back a mile to try a different path.

Nova also adds that quick menu with most used apps and recently used apps. And that also includes a search bar that will search installed apps by default but can be configured to search the web with your browser and search engine of choice. I used those features a lot, but these days I use Niagara.

There are useful group names, but they differentiate between some general types of animals, or by their collective movement. A pack of wolves acts very different from a herd of zebras, but much the same as a pack of hyenas. So if you're looking at a group of dog-like hunters from a large distance, you could call it a pack without knowing whether they're wolves or hyenas. That makes it a word with a proper function, communicating exactly as much information as you need and no more.

Species-specific is just a meme, no one in their right mind would ever use them in real conversation, because "a parliament of chimps" would technically be redundant if "parliament" already meant "group of chimps". But it doesn't, obviously, so you're forced to specify "chimps" anyway, making "parliament" useless and confusing.

But only at a rate of 46.3 million tonnes per year.

Yeah, that's not even rare! I've cooked my chicken medium-rare by accident, it was edible, kinda nice actually. I think medium-well is the sweet spot for chicken, but I could see someone going for a medium even. I wouldn't really recommend medium-rare to anyone, pretty sure I dodged a bullet that time.

I have seen this, but with "Y", "N" instead. That was the way the database stored it and the way the UI displayed it, but everything inbetween converted to boolean instead, because there was logic depending on those choices. It wasn't that bad, all things considered, just a weird quirk in the system. I think there was another system that did just use those strings plain (like WHERE foo = 'Y' in stored procedures), but nothing I had to work with. We just mapped "Y" to true when reading the query results and were done with it.

(And before anyone asks, yes, we considered any other value false. If anyone complained that their "Yes", "y" or empty was seen as false, we told them they used it wrong. They always accepted that, though they didn't necessarily learn from it.)

Telling people your age in response to a boomer joke is such a xoomer thing to do

I learned it by looking up a guide on how to win at the Mahjong minigame in Yakuza 0. The guide existed. It was a crash course on how to play Riichi Mahjong.

I also played a lot of Mahjong Soul after that. It's a little easier to open a website than having to walk over to the Mahjong parlor every time, but a lot less atmospheric.

I spent 40 hours in the Mahjong parlor, waiting for my businesses to drop off their monthly profits so I could invest it again. It is an accurate depiction of being a crime boss, dammit!

I've always found it interesting that affirmation is seen as the secular alternative to swearing on the Bible, when it's actually some branches of Christianity that are most vehemently opposed to swearing oaths. I don't know where swearing on the Bible even came from if the Bible is so clear about it. Did the church ever condone it or was this something thought up by vaguely religious politicky types who wanted a serious promise no-take-backsies style and didn't ask the cleric if it was alright?

But on the other hand, over half my friends are queer and it rarely comes up. Maybe if your movie is a romance it would be relevant who is fucking who, but if you wouldn't make it relevant for a straight person, why focus on it for a gay person? Like, gay James Bond would have to be fucking hot dudes left and right, obviously. But gay Robin Hood err Indiana Jones err Shrek err Barry B. Benson... Why the fuck do they all have romantic plotlines??

X is under total control of that person. As long as the lemmy source adheres to fediverse principles, this developer can believe whatever they want and run their instance however they want, and no one else has to care. If his beliefs starts affecting the lemmy source, it's always an option to fork.

If you exclude a branch of the fediverse because of one bad instance, you're missing the point of the fediverse.

Downvoted for vague and unsubstantiated claims. Also, is point 5 the same as point 2?

Instead of dumping AI output, consider giving 1 concrete example of something Anonymous did and what effect it had.

Edit: and I just noticed you responded to the wrong comment. Good effort, champ.

That's German. The French say "á rit gateaux"

I just remembered that this video is where I got the idea from and came to edit my comment to link it! It should be possible to build something like that in 2025, no? Why is every microwave I see in stores the exact same microwave my parents bought 30 years ago but in black?

Interesting, I can see why it failed though. TCP's ideal situation is that you buy a microwaveable item with a TCP code on the box, pop it in your TCP enabled microwave, punch in the code and done. But those items will still need instructions for people without TCP microwaves, so those aren't really my problem anyway. I want to know how long I should microwave my leftover pasta (plastic container, 300g, from the fridge). TCP would have me... go to a website and look up the right code in a table? I could probably find the right settings for a regular microwave in much the same way and that way I might actually learn something useful instead of an opaque 4-digit code.

I want a microwave that has a database of every possible food type that tells it the optimal programming for everything, supported by sensors measuring weight, humidity, maybe even an infrared camera inside, if those can survive microwaves.

Until I have that: 100% until stuff starts to steam/bubble/boil, take it out, bite into it, regret not putting it in for longer, eat mostly cold leftovers.

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I read it as the reverse initially. Thought it was a classic Lemmy take for what looked like a newspaper article. Why- who- how could someone know about the culture war and the class war and draw this conclusion? (Ed: she doesn't know about the class war, see below)

Or maybe it's a bait title and the body makes a completely different point, that's probably the reason I'm looking at a picture of the title right now and not reading the whole article.

Edit: the article

Edit 2: It's actually a kinda muddled argument she's making. She's using "class war" not in the sense a marxist might use, but to describe something a populist party would do, which is turning public anger towards a specific demographic to justify their political actions. She doesn't want Labour to alienate the richer parts of its voter base by "bashing the most wealthy" or "punishing the rich". But she doesn't show that Labour would actually message it like that, just that they have plans that would tax wealthier people more, which seems perfectly Labour-like and not something they would need special messaging to justify. So if Labour wants to pivot away from a culture war and towards actual left-wing policy, that's not "starting a class war".

Tesla still got a bunch of scientific cred, more than Edison actually. Edison is known as the inventor of a consumer product, Tesla got the unit of magnetic flux named after him.

Actually, the comic names Lorentz, Minkowski, Hilbert, which aren't household names like Einstein, but anyone who knows anything about relativity will still know their names and what they contributed. Who cares about being known as "some kinda smart feller" by a billion people if none of them actually know why you're seen as smart. To them you're about as significant as a character in a newspaper comic; an easy reference to make to show they've read a newspaper once.