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Morlark

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  • Keep the change, ya filthy animal

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  • Can you think of any now?

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  • Eh, it's not really similar though. Yes, a lot of what we think of as "taste" is actually perceived via smell. But separately from that, there is actually a phsyiological sensation of taste that is unrelated to smell, i.e. the five basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savoury.

    Whereas there isn't really any meaningful distinction between the sense of acceleration and balance. They're exactly the same sensation, and the mind only knows which one you're actually experiencing by cross-referencing what your other senses tell you. If you're in a situation where these other senses are unavailable, people generally can't distinguish whether they're accelerating or off balance.

    This has led to a number of plane crashes in history, in situations where pilots are in dense cloud cover and can't see the horizon. During stressful situations, if they forget to look at the artificial horizon display, they think the plane is pitching up, and therefore try to pitch down to correct, when in fact the plane is accelerating (due to already being pitched down), resulting in a crash.

  • Feature Demos

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  • It's an older meme, but it checks out. This meme is from the peak meme era, circa 2004.

    Conventionally, rather than two panels with captions, it's made using four separate image panels. For that reason, the meme format is known as gaijin 4koma. You can search that term to learn more about it. Apparently the guys were IGN reporters.

  • The shortest distance

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  • People complain about the proportional sizing of Mercator but the sense of direction it gives us is completely broken.

    With respect, this is silly. People complain about the proportional sizing of the Mercator projection because disproportionate sizing is literally the only problem with the Mercator projection.

    The sense of direction being off has got literally nothing to do with Mercator. That's an inherent drawback of trying to project a three dimensional globe onto a 2D image. Literally every single projection has this exact problem, in one form or another. It is considered ot be an acceptable trade-off for not having to work with globes all the time.

    Stop looking for yet more baseless reasons to bash the Mercator projection, which is a perfectly reasonable and acceptable projection to use within its intended usecase (which this specific example literally is).

  • Nissin or Maruchan? (Chicken Flavor)

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  • Nissin, but you gotta get the Demae Ramen, not that Top Ramen shit.

  • xkcd #3126: Disclaimer

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  • the rare people who know the difference between i.e. and e.g.

    This honestly isn't rare at all, and people who try to flaunt it as some kind of mark of erudition tend to come across as... well, not quite what you intended.

  • Riding the bus to the underworld

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  • No, it's not you, the joke just doesn't work.

  • Spelthorne restricts hoverboards, catapults and balaclavas

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  • Ah, sure, the youths these days are so violent, they're always going about the place besieging castles and knocking down fortifications.

  • What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas

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  • Being a proud maritime nation, sure we should be celebrating this by having each denomination of note show a different famous vessel?

    £5 is Boaty McBoatface.

  • Welcome to the Labour police state

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  • If someone damaged my property, I'd feel pretty aggrieved... and it still wouldn't make them a terrorist. And the police wouldn't do nothing, because damaging property is a crime. That property being a few planes doesn't magically change the equation. Just like the government wouldn't be doing nothing if they hadn't designated PA as a terrorist organisation, because a whole raft of criminal charges would still apply.

    Literally, and I want to stress this, literally nobody has suggested that PA should not face appropriate and proportionate consequences for their actions. And you knew that. You knew damed well that people have no problem with the government taking action, as long as that action is legal and democratically responsible. Yet you deliberately chose to dishonestly equate opposition to terrorist designation with support for them getting off scot free, even though that's an obviously false and mendacious equivalence.

    You are not very skilled at this dishonesty malarkey. Consider yourself called out.

  • Hypothesis: Modern retro-inspired indies are much more enjoyable than the retro games themselves

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  • I think that's probably a fairly uncontroversial opinion. In the city-builder genre, Lethis: Path of Progress aimed to be the definitive city-building game of its time, hoping to match the peaks of Caesar and Pharaoh in the city-builder heyday. Instead, Lethis ended up being a huge flop, precisely because it slavishly copied the mechanics of Caesar without understanding that games as a whole have evolved since then.

    Lethis lacked certain quality of life features that now feel obvious and baseline. What's sad is that these features had already evolved towards the tail end of the city-builder heyday, in games such as Children of the Nile, and now feel glaringly obvious by their omission. Other city-builders that haven't been so tied to the classics have seen more success (although there's been no true breakout hits, sadly, no great renaissance in the genre).

  • What are your favorite blogs?

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  • I don't follow any blogs particularly consistently/regularly, but the one that I find myself coming back to at intervals is Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing. It's got a pretty heavy programming focus, but also occasionally covers interesting little trivia from Windows history. I'm not a professional coder, and I no longer even do any coding as a hobby, so take it from me when I say that there's content of interest to programmers and non-programmers alike.

  • Do you think Lemmy has a culture separate from Reddit or is it basically the same?

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  • References and phrases don't make a culture. The words may change, but the culture here is absolutely the same as Reddit. Which is why it's so damned cringe when you see someone on Lemmy offer a smug, self-satisfied criticism of some supposed inferiority in the Reddit userbase. That kind of smugness is peak Reddit-culture.

  • “Production” to describe multiplication?

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  • No. Everywhere uses the same terms, you just didn't understand the question.

    The result of addition is the sum. The sum is calculated by summation of inputs.

    The result of multiplication is the product. The product is calculated by __________ of inputs.

    OP's question is: why can't the blank be "production", by analogy with "summation"?

  • “Production” to describe multiplication?

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  • "Summation" already means something else, and funnily enough words can have different meanings in different contexts without causing any confusion.

  • “Production” to describe multiplication?

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  • OP literally emphasised the distinction between process and result in their post, specifically so that this exact confusion would not occur, and yet still everyone is talking about the word for the result instead of the process.

  • Wiltshire PCC supports calls to reclassify cannabis as Class A - BBC News

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  • PCCs were a mistake. Never should we have let the ruling class impose a politicised police force upon us. It was inevitable that it would lead to ignorant nonsense like this.

  • bad stonks :(

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  • Uh huh, because that's what they were advocating for. Sure. I'm gonna do you the favour of assuming good faith, so I'm not sure if you just didn't read the operative word "supposedly" in their comment, but if not: don't be so naïve.

    There are widely documented occasions on which smaller instances have been blacklisted based on entirely spurious and false accusations of "fascism". All it takes is for one large enough instance to defederate, and others will follow based on their word alone. This results in the affected instance becoming non-viable, due to absence of any visibility amongst the wider fediverse. In one well-known case, an instance was branded as "fascist" and forced to shut down because the admin refused to take censorious actions that would have been illegal in their country.

    That is the outcome you are advocating for when you suggest that such instances should be "iced out". And that outcome is the "toxic community" that we should be most wary of, because it is insidious and cloaks itself in a guise of supposed good intentions.

    And before you suggest that these are isolated incidents that don't reflect the behaviours of communities at large: don't forget that it was mere days ago that feddit.uk, a rather large instance, was defederated by another large instance based on entirely baseless and spurious claims of transphobia, prompting the instance admin to issue a "guidance" post that basically just reiterated the existing rules... and suddenly this was seen as ok, and not transphobic at all. Imagine if the admin had instead not issued this statement, and pointed out that the existing rules were already sufficient? The instance's anti-transphobia stance has not changed, but I don't doubt that other instances would have portrayed such a response as doubling down on transphobia and defederated. So even large instances are not immune!

    Defederation should be a last resort for rogue instances that support actual problematic behaviours like fascism. It should never be considered an action of first resort based on any accusation of supposed fascism or communism. Which was OP's point. Yet it never ceases to shock and amaze me at how openly and readily people are willing to suggest such a thing.

    Literally nobody is suggesting that actual fascist instances should not be defederated. Nobody needs to debate what should be done about those, because the answer is obvious, and already widely implemented (i.e. defederate). So why even bring it up, as if it's a valid rebuttal to OP's point? It's not, and it's disappointing how so many discussions on this subject devolve to comments with an absolutist stance that has a feelgood vibe, without actually analysing it for cogency to the actual discussion at hand.

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  • There was certainly a 'no-brain' somewhere in her thought process, I'll grant her that.