GreenMartian

joined 5 months ago

I'm going to have to kindly disagree on some points about manuals.

  1. Manuals are still popular in Europe and many parts of the world, on all levels of cars.
  2. I have a friend with a cheap(ish) Suzuki Swift that comes with manual transmission and adaptive cruise. Yeah it won't change your gears, but still makes interstate trips much more comfortable.

I myself now prefer to drive auto, after moving to a city known for its traffic jam, and I am inherently lazy. So that's one good argument from me.

Another is that if you injure one of your foot, there's a 50% you can still drive your auto. Which was really handy that one time I dislocated my left ankle. In a manual, that chance is 0%.

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Decades ago I had the pleasure of marking student essays. We humans have mastered writing vague, repetitive slop long before we taught machines to do so..

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

"We're done with Teams!" he said, referring to Microsoft's messaging and collaboration tool and speaking on a video call -- via an open-source German program, of course.

The article didn't elaborate much, but I'm sure there are other articles that will point us to a link to the source.

How very French of them..

And the person has waay too many benches to last ten lifetimes. And yet, instead of using the benches to help people needing benches to sleep on, they choose to use it to trip kids.

Huh. I always thought homonyms need to both sound the same (homophone) and spelt the same (homograph). But a quick search showed they could be either.

My whole life has been a lie.

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 months ago

Huh. I actually had to look this up, and you're right; they are largely monogamous and share parenting responsibilities.

My sincerest apologies. Say hi to them when you get home.

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Apologies for the very personal question, but were you homeschooled by a pigeon?

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

I love English. Where "fuck it" (let's do it) and "fuck this" (walk away) have completely opposite meanings.

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

Hello, fellow old person 🤝

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They have been pretty good on popular technologies like python & web development.

I tried to do Kotlin for Android, and they kept tripping over themselves; it's hilarious and frustrating at the same time.

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also turn off the adblocker at some point. Kids gotta learn what's an ad and what's not.

And install Windows while you're at it. Ransomware builds character.

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