minorninth

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[–] minorninth@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Certainly many others would have tried to invent something like the web.

HyperCard predated the web browser and had the concept of easy to build pages that linked. Lots of people were working on ways to deliver apps over the Internet.

I think in some alternative timeline we'd still have a lot of interactive content on the Internet somewhat like the web, but probably based on different technology. Maybe more proprietary.

[–] minorninth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You get to choose how your 401k is invested, though. The only difference is a tax advantage.

The advice is just: save money, let it grow using compound interest, use tax laws to your advantage.

There's no "trust the government" in that advice.

[–] minorninth@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I think it’s more that it’s hard to understand when you’re extroverted and your job depends on talking to people all day.

[–] minorninth@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I’m sure this is true for some businesses, but there are also tons of businesses that have no vested interest in commercial real estate. It doesn’t explain all of it.

Honestly I think a much better explanation is that on average, bosses like being in the office and they don’t understand why everyone isn’t like them. Top leadership tends to be extroverted and they got where they are by lots of networking. They don’t have enough appreciation that for a lot of other types of people and types of jobs, being in the office just makes things harder.

[–] minorninth@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

Are you trying to illustrate the point?

It wasn't 200, it was 2000.

And while most did not carry guns, they brought other weapons and armor, and used improvised devices as weapons. And some did bring guns. Source: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/07/28/politics/armed-insurrection-january-6-guns-fact-check/index.html

Thank God they were poorly organized and that the capitol police resisted...but it's a complete lie to say it was 200 unarmed people.

This is all on video! This isn't a matter of opinion!

[–] minorninth@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think there are different aspects to it.

Amazon’s delivery service is better than ever. You get products in half the time, with less packaging, and fewer miles traveled to deliver it to you, without any significant increase in delivery fees.

Price is still competitive when you take into account delivery cost and speed. If you don’t care about those, Amazon isn’t the cheapest.

Search and reviews are down the tubes. It’s like Amazon no longer cares if their site is overrun with crap products as long as people are buying them.

Amazon still works great if you only buy name-brand products that are fulfilled by Amazon.

[–] minorninth@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

So wouldn’t the fees be proportional to the price? The added taxes on a tiny cheap holiday home would be cheap too.

[–] minorninth@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

It explains the answer is 4 before the 5 minute mark.

Part of the reason is because it goes into the story of the SAT being wrong and a student being the one to catch it, which I found interesting.

After that it mathematically proves it several different ways and then shows how it relates to some real problems in astronomy.

[–] minorninth@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate on what happened when you tried to search? I’ve never had trouble.

[–] minorninth@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Those are all protocols for accessing an entire calendar or sharing your whole calendar, not for general-purpose inviting one user to one event.

[–] minorninth@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Ask it to come up with evolutions too. I tried and this was my favorite:

Breezling (basic) • Evolution: Gustoon • Final Evolution: Cyclown

[–] minorninth@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m talking about using the ChatGPT API to make a chat bot. Even when the user’s input is just one sentence, it can cause ChatGPT to forget its prompt.

 

I'll start:

4yo: Knock knock! 9yo: Who's there? 4yo: Banana! 9yo: Banana who? 4yo: Banana you glad I didn't say Orange?

 

Just posting this because I didn't realize it! It was shut down for several years due to Covid and actually taken over as a Covid vaccine site, but now it's back.

 

VASAviation is a great channel, it's all real air traffic control radio communications. They've got everything from pilots landing on the wrong runway, sick or injured passengers.

If you haven't checked it out before, I think this is a great one to start with: a 17yo student pilot flying solo loses a wheel, and flight instructors provide guidance and moral support to help her land safely.

The channel is full of ATC communication from other similar incidents including everything from other successful recoveries to some fatal crashes.

 

At California's Great America theme park

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My 4yo is just starting to get the hang of knock-knock jokes. She told this one this morning that I think turned out unintentionally pretty hilarious.

4yo: Knock knock

9yo: Who's there?

4yo: Banana

9yo: Banana who?

4yo: Banana you glad I didn't say Orange?

 

All of them!

It's not a holiday...but they have a 4th of July.

 

We bought some new roller coaster cars on BrickLink because a couple of the wheels/axles were just slightly worn and the cars wouldn't make it all the way down. Now it works great!

I was surprised at how it can still be a really creative set for the kids, they don't try to modify the track (that'd be too hard to make it work), but they have fun building it into a whole amusement park with other Lego sets and bricks.

 

One of the most common questions that comes up involves trouble setting up VS Code - in particular if you want to not just use it as an editor, but set it up to fully run and debug your code.

Obviously the details vary by platform on language, so I'd welcome any resources you think are particularly good that specifically walk a beginner through how to set up VS Code on Windows with Python, or how to set up VS Code on macOS with C++, etc.

 

I love the drawing and the spelling

 

I grew up going to church but I'm not religious now and I never really understood this part.

Please, no answers along the lines of "aha, that's why Christianity is a sham" or "religions aren't logical". I don't want to debate whether it's right or wrong, I just want to understand the logic and reasoning that Christians use to explain this.

 

Tears of the Magic Kingdom

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