NeatNit

NeatNit, 2 days ago

I hereby believe you without fact-checking, and may or may not pass this knowledge forwards, also without fact-checking.

NeatNit, 26 days ago

Off topic but I really enjoyed much of this show (Umbrella Academy), particularly I was so impressed with how the child actor actually pulled off carrying the entire show, he was not only the leading & most interesting character but also IMO had one of the best performances on it. Come to think of it, I should look into what else he’s done.

Anyway, what episode is this from, do you know? (I know it’s just a meme format now, worth a shot tho)

Excellent post btw, I gave all the upvote I could

NeatNit, 1 month ago

This just makes it more realistic

NeatNit, 1 month ago

The proposed time zone is to drift about 1 second every 50 years. I also suspect it wouldn’t really be a time zone in the same sense as the time zones we know - it would just be a standardised calibration reference. Dates and times expressed in “moon time” would probably just be some leap second off of a known Earth time zone, and because it’s mere seconds over centuries, I think the only use of this time zone is to calculate ultra-precise time diffs between two earth datetimes when the observer is on the moon. At least, that’s how I interpret the articles I can find about it.

NeatNit, 1 month ago

I have no reason to doubt what you’re saying, but I really have to say this is the dumbest bullshit I’ve ever heard. The whole idea of putting expiration dates on products (and nutritional info for that matter) is for consumers to be able to interpret this stuff. Not manufacturers and not store managers. Consumers. There’s no excuse for allowing this.

NeatNit, 1 month ago

“Who sings Take On Me?”

“A-ha.”

“What’s so funny?”

“Nothing’s funny. I was just answering your question.”

“Well what’s your answer?”

“A-ha.”

“Why I oughta…”

“What’s the problem?”

“I just want you to answer my question.”

“I just told you! A-ha!”

“What about this situation is so amusing to you?!”

NeatNit, 1 month ago

gestures at butterfly this code

Is this self-documenting code?

NeatNit, 1 month ago

I’m not following this story…

a friend sent me MRI brain scan results and I put it through Claude

…

I annoyed the radiologists until they re-checked.

How was he in a position to annoy his friend’s radiologists?

NeatNit, 2 months ago

obligatory: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/citations-needed

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/7c02b65b-d207-4658-97db-5310d2687eb3.png

NeatNit, 2 months ago

Wondering if you say this in order to protect others from the pain/horror of learning it, or to protect some deep conspiratory secret. Maybe I’ll just open a textbook and find out…

NeatNit, 2 months ago

Can I just say that is awful advice. There’s an easy way to save it:

“Tell me where you are and I’ll give you a few good options to start with”

When the poster is clearly a hopeless beginner this kind of response is useless and overwhelming in information that they have no chance of understanding.

NeatNit, 2 months ago

source: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pray

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/683ca685-84ba-4bd5-9943-cce5cb311323.png

NeatNit, 3 months ago

He might, but that’s the whole point of federation - there’s hundreds of other instances (including the one you’re using) that he can’t buy all at once. If one instance gets taken over, Lemmy as a whole is still strong.

Even if he buys the organization developing Lemmy, I have faith the community will fork it and everyone will stop using Musk’s version.

NeatNit, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I’ve been looking for info about this for months, as it was obviously a part of the EU’s anti-gatekeeping legislation from last year, but I couldn’t find any info. Specifically I wanted to know which apps would be able to communicate with WhatsApp - Telegram? Signal? Something else?

And now that there’s an article, it’s behind a paywall…

Edit: managed to read it through Firefox’s reader mode. Unfortunately they don’t know, but not for lack of trying:

So far, it is unclear which companies, if any, are planning to connect their services to WhatsApp. WIRED asked 10 owners of messaging or chat services—including Google, Telegram, Viber, and Signal—whether they intend to look at interoperability or had worked with WhatsApp on its plans. The majority of companies didn’t respond to the request for comment. Those that did, Snap and Discord, said they had nothing to add.

The only service they mentioned that definitely will have chat interoperability is Facebook Messenger… Yeah, no fucking thanks.

NeatNit, 3 months ago

Reminds me of:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/fad2f4a9-927c-4abe-8d25-95cb6a473c0b.png

(source)

NeatNit, 3 months ago

The takeaway is that the format doesn’t have any limit, but Adobe Acrobat in particular implements an arbitrary cutoff size. Other readers, such as Firefox’s built-in PDF reader or Mac’s Preview, can handle any arbitrary size. The article ends with a PDF the size of the universe, weighing an unimaginable 549 bytes!

But that limitlessness can come at a cost: according to the article, Preview doesn’t handle UserUnit which should affect page size, while Acrobat (and Firefox) do. I’m guessing (gut feeling) Acrobat probably supports the most features overall, Firefox probably supports the vast majority of those used in practice, and Preview only allows Apple Approved™ PDF features and extensions deemed worthy of Their Appleness’s consideration. Chrome’s PDF reader is probably on the same level as Firefox, I guess.