Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.

Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

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  • palordrolap@fedia.iotoComic Strips@lemmy.worldPEMDAS
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    8 days ago

    PEMDAS/BODMAS/[your local variant here] is an important part of the grammar of a language that is surprisingly common and it may be useful to be able to communicate using it some day.

    This applies to more orthodox languages as well. You can often get by just fine and live your entire life without knowing any of the minority languages in your country, but there may be occasions where it would be really useful to be able to communicate with someone in one of them.


  • Any conclusions drawn from a child’s personality can’t necessarily then be applied to a parent. Hannah Montana Linux was ultimately a Debian, but it was so far from stock Debian that the comparison makes no sense. The same, I assume, applies with the Arch-derivative that runs on Steam decks. We’re not in Arch-kansas any more, Toto.

    The closest to “Windows with nerdnip” is probably Linux Mint, but even then that’s a fairly unkind comparison.

    I use LMDE, btw.



  • Schwa is a vowel, so it would be the long e, not schwa on “the”.

    A possible exception is when the following word begins with a long e, and people might actually break the rule to make it clear where one word ends and the other begins. Or rather they insert a glottal stop before the vowel sound - I believe this is called “hard attack” - and since a glottal stop is technically a consonant, that allows the rule-break.

    That is, something like “the eel” could go either way, but there’d be a very obvious glottal stop before “eel” if the speaker chose the schwa version of “the”, and they would have made that choice for clarity, to avoid sounding like they’d said “theel”.




  • I don’t get these often, but when I do, trying to point my toes at my chin often helps. Very occasionally that doesn’t feel right and I know to point my toes the other way before I pay for making that choice.

    If the bedclothes are tight or heavy and I’m under them, they can be used to hold the foot in place until the moment passes. Or until I have to get out of bed to writhe around or try something, anything else.

    I don’t remember the last time the toe pointing thing didn’t work though. Maybe I just don’t get really bad ones.




  • A disturbing number of people think that computers are magic* and therefore whatever comes out of them is automatically not only correct, but the best possible form of correct.

    And if they pay money for access to something that runs on a computer, most of them will double down on that belief until it ruins them.

    * or logical, or mathematical or some other grand attribute. “Infallible” is a good one.

    And you’ll get people in high sales and marketing places who know it’s a fallacy, successfully con others with it, but also fall victim to it when it comes from outside their sphere of influence.

    Humans™: We’re really not all that far from flinging our faeces at each other.


  • One day, the fish will discover a scratch on the inside of the bowl, and will then rediscover it in a different orientation with respect to the general orientation of everything else on subsequent cycles.

    What I can’t be sure of is whether this will cause a realisation of the truth or a more entrenched and complicated world view of the sort I can’t yet fathom.


  • palordrolap@fedia.iotoReddit@lemmy.worldIs this a win?
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    That’s about it. Mbin also provides a direct interface to the microblogging side of the Fediverse. Yes, you can already see posts from Lemmy on Mastodon and vice versa, but there’s no way to actually microblog from Lemmy. Mbin has that.

    I’m currently on fedia.io which is an Mbin, but the main reason I’m here and not on a Lemmy instance is personal preference. I wasn’t keen on the Lemmy / tankie connection, and I liked the kbin/Mbin interface better anyway.

    Unfortunately all the high traffic Fediverse groups (communities / magazines / what-have-you) have ended up on Lemmy instances, perhaps in part due to the problems the kbin creator had in his personal life and with the flagship instance, meaning people lacked confidence in spinning up their own instances and went Lemmy instead.

    A true VHS versus Betamax moment.





  • The Fediverse is also a sewer of both overt and covert Antisemitism

    Is this a problem unique to the Fediverse, or is this a case that it’s more rampant here? Or does it only seem like it?

    My feeds are fairly well curated, or perhaps you might say “blinkered”, so I don’t see a lot of it. Or maybe I don’t see what’s right in front of me, which is why I ask, since you definitely see it better than I can.

    (This is not an attempt at a bad faith argument; I’m firmly anti-anti-Semitism, and I’m not saying it’s not there. Frankly, I’d be surprised if there wasn’t any. Anywhere there’s people, their prejudices generally follow.)