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takeheart@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram on the rise after Meta ends fact-checking | TechCrunchEnglish14·6 months agoYeah,
1 + (1*5000%) = 51
Honestly I prefer just writing “51 times more frequent”.
takeheart@lemmy.worldto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•It's a Unix system! Elon knows this!15·6 months agoWaddaya mean we can’t just arbitrarily delete stuff of a public server once we know its ip address? It’s not fair! 😡
takeheart@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Worst Person You Know Made a Great Point; Asmongold Asks Elon Musk To Prove Legitimacy of His ‘Path of Exile 2’ AccountEnglish8·6 months agoHe made a post using command line lingo too, but anyone with even basic knowledge of those commands can tell you that both the syntax and the way he alludes to them are wrong.
It’s the equivalent of slinging a guitar in a picture to look cool but pressing the side with the strings against your belly.
takeheart@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Worst Person You Know Made a Great Point; Asmongold Asks Elon Musk To Prove Legitimacy of His ‘Path of Exile 2’ AccountEnglish1·6 months agoYeah, what a joke. Especially when Musk is right there in the headline 😞.
takeheart@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into forceEnglish101·7 months agoImo they should at the very least standardize some color coding and labeling. All charging-only cables are yellow, data cables are blue. Something like that.
takeheart@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen promptsEnglish26·8 months agoAh yes, there isn’t even an option to permanently disable this popup, only
remind me later
. When the operating system is the nag ware. `
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Na, names are about pronunciation (how you call someone). Written letters are an approximation of that. You can’t pronounce a newline, so there’s that.
takeheart@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What song did you love until you found out what it was about?291·8 months ago“Vamos a playa” by Righeira carries a lightweight, upbeat tune that vacationers might hum on the way to the beach. But the Spanish lyrics reveal that it’s about the devastation left behind by nuclear armaments. And the schism between trying to live an ordinary life whilst having a nuclear Damocles sword waver over your head. That it became such a world wide hit makes it all the more ironic. I love it all the more for it.
takeheart@lemmy.worldOPto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL about Titivillus a medieval demon that would feed on misspellings, mispronounced syllables and mumbled words. He was considered a natural enemy and tempter of scribes.English1·9 months agoThere was some degree of standardization. Especially for important legal and religious texts alteration, even if accidental, was considered a sin/vice.
Scribes very often simply had to produce 1:1 copies of existing texts. So the standard was right in front of them.
takeheart@lemmy.worldOPto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL about Titivillus a medieval demon that would feed on misspellings, mispronounced syllables and mumbled words. He was considered a natural enemy and tempter of scribes.English2·9 months agoYou wouldn’t think how far clerical errors could go when it was laboriously copied by hand by exhausted monks in candlelight.
The whole Mary was a virgin thing (aka immaculate conception) was started because someone mistranslated young woman as (sexual) virgin. In some languages those terms are really close (even today for example in German: junge Frau Vs Jungfrau).
takeheart@lemmy.worldOPto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL about Titivillus a medieval demon that would feed on misspellings, mispronounced syllables and mumbled words. He was considered a natural enemy and tempter of scribes.English2·9 months agoTo be fair some languages like English or French have so horrendous and outdated orthography that I’m not going to fault the writers.
Writers. Why is there even a W in that word still? Ridiculous, write?
takeheart@lemmy.worldOPto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL about Titivillus a medieval demon that would feed on misspellings, mispronounced syllables and mumbled words. He was considered a natural enemy and tempter of scribes.English73·9 months agoI initially wrote ‘temptor’ in the title but then double checked. Not today, Titivillus.
It’s quite relevant if you consider that coal mining is concentrated to a much smaller area really. Besides the destroyed habitat, the pollution, the dangers of sinkholes and the cost of renaturation you also have to contend with rain and ground water constantly filling in the mining pits.
Don’t know about the UK but in West Germany’s Rhein-Ruhr area, a former coal mining hotspot, the energy used to operate the pumps that keep the water out will eventually be greater than the energy gained from burning all the coal. Can’t find a source on the quick but I think it might have happened already. Of course it’s not a simple subtraction as all that energy was used to generate more infrastructure and capital that can now pay for the pumps. According to this German source their operation costs around 300 million euros yearly which gives you a rough idea of just how expensive that is.
I’m the opposite of this picture. It’s like I have to relearn the game each time and fluid play takes a long time to return.
Funnily enough my muscle memory persists to some degree though. So for instance if a particularly tough enemy is charging me I might push a specific key without actually knowing what it does. Afterwards I have to reason and rediscover what I was trying to accomplish and bind that action to the key I pressed.
You can see that it’s symmetrical and that they used 6 diametrical cuts to make 12 pieces. So 2 are missing.
Not that it matters much, but this little dishonesty just adds to the zaniness of the whole ad.
After watching the original video I started putting some additional powder at the bottom of the loading tray every wash and it works great. Clean dishes ever since, no pre rinse necessary. Can recommend 👍.
takeheart@lemmy.worldto AssholeDesign@lemmy.world•Experian, this less helpful than not knowingEnglish1·1 year agoYou can narrow it down by length. Not perfect but it’s a start. Unless the *****s are always the same length like in some password fields. Hard to tell from the message.
It’s a valid question. I originally read about it in a physical book, then wrote the (misconstrued) headline from memory before finding a digital source that people could click on. I’ve corrected it now.