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  • There's a non-obvious freeze function in the Task Manager - for as long as you hold the Ctrl key, it'll stop updating the list. I have no idea why this functionality is hidden, but I guess Dave Plummer had some unusual ideas about UX.

  • For sure, but when he says the right things to disillusion a fraction of the supporter base, let's recognize that even if he is a part of the problem.

  • White Ninja is a blast from the past! I'm sure I had a bunch of favorites, but this one jumps out at me:

  • When you install LibreOffice now, the set-up guide encourages you gently to use the newer, friendlier tabbed interface. I don't know if the same is true for in-place updates.

  • If you don't love getting dog shit on your newly washed car, you should have thought of that before living 2-3 counties away from a future Float-a-Poo owner, and you have only yourself to blame.

  • Continued exchange from Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (2006):

    Kurt said, "You just said they're gone. Which is it?"

    Dr. Halsey considered a moment and then replied, "Both. The quantum-mechanical implications do not translate to simple, nonparadoxical, classical terms."

    "Then let's stick to practical terms," Kurt said, growing annoyed. "Are they safe?"

    She tilted her head, considering, and then replied, "You could detonate a nuclear warhead on these pods and because the extruded Slipspace within is not in this dimension, there would be no effect to their contents."

  • Original reads "Naw, I'm the Grim Peeper".

  • It's Dutch with a few cute changes, I think. My Dutch is very weak, but I believe it'd be:

    we [zijn] [heel] hard aan t werk om dit te [maken], [mischien] kan je beter [fietsen]

    which gives a rough literal translation of something like:

    we are very hard to the work for this to do, maybe can you better cycle

    i.e. "we're working hard to sort this out, but maybe it'd be better if you cycled"

  • I found a matching listing on Amazon (with the expected deluge of one- and two-star reviews); I won't link it because fuck Amazon, but here are the two prominent product pictures:

    My favorite part is the inexplicable extra angle on the top book that made it into the actual cup.

  • Don't forget Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair and the gold Sharpie.

    To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump. There is always a photo of him — generally a tear sheet from a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers. I almost feel sorry for the poor fellow because, to me, the fingers still look abnormally stubby.

    (I think this photo is actually a reconstruction by BBC Newsbeat rather than a Short-Fingered Vulgarian original, but still).

  • At the risk of sounding stupid, what would the problems caused by a large number of people making their own cheese be?

  • 5½ flaps per second is impressive; you must be playing Foldy Hummingbird.

  • I don't for a second want to sound like an AI apologist, but ignoring the AI being predictably shit, the reporting here is shockingly bad. The facts are basically true, but neither this article or the one it links go any way to really actually provide any substance.

    From local news, it sounds like the original context given to the press was a second-hand report given by Police Chief Parker Sever to the Heber City council:

    I read the report, and I'm like, "Man, this really looks like an officer wrote it." But when it got to one part, it said, "And then the officer turned into a frog, and a magic book appeared and began granting wishes." … It was because they had, like, Harry Potter on in the background. So it picked up the noise from the TV and added it to the report.

  • different spacing between the shelves is intentional to be able to fit my glasses properly

    Always good to have a dedicated place for your regular glasses, your pince-nez, your opera glasses, and your monocle.

    (Seriously, though, it looks nice -- good work!)

  • It's hypothesized but not evidenced that dwarf elephant skulls on Sicily might have caused locals to fantasize about cyclopes.

    Paleoartist Mark Witton has a good article encouraging skepticism of this conclusion, though. Worth a read.

  • Thanks. I really wrote "Castilian" to mean that sources on the web suggest his dialogue is at least somewhat modern Spanish Spanish (so to speak) -- but I'm ignorant of the differences between Spanish spoken in the Americas, including North America as you rightly point out, and the Iberian peninsula. I didn't mean to suggest that Castilian was archaic.

  • I'm out of the loop - does the hyacinth emoji imply something, or did the responder just replace their original message wholesale with that emoji?

  • Thank you, that's interesting to know!

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    TIL baking and brewing yeasts produce alcohol to kill off competing microorganisms