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kernelle

@ kernelle @lemmy.world

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  • France's 'Excalibur' sword vanishes from the stone after 1,300 years

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  • That's why I called you tone-deaf, not even the article "mixed up" their magical swords. It's saying "France's 'Excalibur'" referring to a sword-in-stone myth located in France, using its proper name a few lines in.

    Using metaphors like that in titles is just a way to capture the readers attention. It's the fastest and most succinct way to discribe the news and have everyone understand the point of the article. It's not wrong, it's a metaphor.

    get annoyed when people mix up their magical swords

    I get annoyed by people reading only the headline and feeling like they have something useful to contribute.

  • France's 'Excalibur' sword vanishes from the stone after 1,300 years

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  • Most tone-deaf "Umm actually.." I've ever seen lmao

    Edit: "Excalibur" is obviously a metaphor for "sword in stone"

  • Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

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  • They're now all using WAN facing Windows 7 machines!

  • The enshittification of music, by Rick Beato

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  • I disagree with the sentiment that the music scene is getting worse, we are getting more content than ever but it's also much more discoverable, searchable and groupable.

    I was just at an insane EDM festival the other day and all artists there were up and coming 25-30 y/o, people who are touring Europe doing gigs all over the place. They were selected because they are amazing DJ's with their own style, playlist and original songs.

    Finding music, an artist or even an album you enjoy is just as hard as it used to be, but go into a local record shop, a local venue and ask them what bands you should check out, you'll see the same spirit people had 20-30 years ago going to gigs.

    You know what I think Mr Beato? I think you are heavily out of touch with the modern music scene.

  • What's the piece of technology that has impacted the modern world the most?

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  • One of the guys who invented the process for large scale production was Fritz Haber, to make explosives and chemical weapons. He's also responsible for using chlorine gas on the battlefield in WW1. His wife was a chemist and an activist, who shot herself in the heart after learning about his involvement. Haber left within days for the Eastern Front to oversee gas release against the Russian Army.

    He ended up saving more lives than he destroyed, but what a story.

  • ELI5: What is RISC-V?

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  • When you put all the five year olds on earth in one room, every one of you would be able to compare two blocks, a rod and a ball. Depending on how you were thought you either pass the rod along or the ball. Then some very smart people came up with special ways to do very hard maths using those blocks.

    Now, in the olden days they kept the way they thought those kids a secret. But we knew what the results were, so we could all do much harder math then we could do in our heads. So while the other adults knew how to pack you all closer together and needed new ways to do even harder math, there was a group of good people who didn't really like all the secrecy and thought that they were doing it way to complicated but couldn't do anything about it.

    Like it always is, years went by and the world changed, they kept making up new rules on how the blocks should be passed around so it became slower. Those good people then decided we should be simplifying, to make it faster yet again! "And no more secrecy!" - They said. "So everyone can build their own mini five year old sweat shops and it would cost significantly less then it does now!"

  • Nintendo is erasing its history - The war against ROMS

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  • I'd be willing to pay that yearly fee for one game, just to have it on there and play when I want. Meanwhile I'll be using my PSP, so good for handheld emulation.

  • Nintendo is erasing its history - The war against ROMS

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  • They've also locked N64 and GBA behind an extra subscription model on the Switch. I've paid a month here and there for online support, I don't want an entire year AND paying double to play one or two retro games.

  • The love story of Benny & Linda

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  • Is this.. loss?

  • Any idea how I can find this ~1GB of ghost file on GDrive?

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  • Belgium gives Ukraine nearly €1B in military aid, including 30 supersonic fighter jets

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  • Just please don't look how our politicians have reacted to the Israeli conflict

  • Life is pain

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  • Nah, the same reason why DJ's can be good or bad. Guiding the vibe of the audience is what they do, playing with the tension and energy of the crowd. Pleasing a crowd is easier than one specific person though, but the same rules apply when picking songs for yourself.

  • Checkmate

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  • "an error" okaay

  • qt π

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  • It's always "but it comes from the Latin and it means cute fury flying thing". Why not just name it Cute Bee Furry Face and be done with it?

  • xkcd #2932: Driving PSA

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  • I'm so used to roundabouts and red lights. They're annoying for the lone driver, but add a bit of traffic and they move everything along so much smoother.

  • Nintendo DMCA Notice Wipes Out 8,535 Yuzu Repos, Mig Switch Also Targeted.

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  • Comment OP is forking Yuzu code, we're talking about how this is fair or unfair. When you fork DMCA'd code you open yourself up to litigation and having to defend someone else's code in court.

    I won't, OP might. Did you actually not read the context before replying? Lol.

  • Nintendo DMCA Notice Wipes Out 8,535 Yuzu Repos, Mig Switch Also Targeted.

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  • It would, it has, next step after DMCA even in the EU is legal action, which nintendo already fought in court. I don't know about you but I'm not ready to defend someone else's code in court.

  • Medieval Doomsday Weapon

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  • It's becoming a meme because every creator who has anything to do with nuclear or tragedy has covered the demon core.

  • Doppler Effect

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  • Yeah I'm no physicist but that ticked me off, the speed of light is the same for any wavelength. As for redshift:

    a redshift is an increase in the wavelength, and corresponding decrease in the frequency and photon energy, of electromagnetic radiation (such as light).

    Speed of light isn't a factor in this, also when galaxy's move towards us (like the Andromeda galaxy) it is blueshifted, proving it's not the light that matters, but rather the direction of movement of the source. Proving the doppler effect.