lemmyng

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[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Screw off telling people there's something wrong with using 10k km.

Yeah, it's not even a double prefix like the article implies. It's 10 with a suffix, and m with a prefix.

Also, no one outside of scientific papers is going to type the degree symbol for temperature because it's not a common feature of keyboards.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you want to see what it would be like in the wrong hands: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1213404/

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On the other hand it dilutes the effect of lower values because a lot of them are double digit. 20F, 40F, 60F... all double digit, but wildly varying. On the other hand, with Celsius you get:

  • Below 0: There's ice/snow.
  • 0: Things are freezing/thawing (depending on what the temperature was before.
  • 10s (Spring): T-shirt weather.
  • 10s (Fall): Sweater weather.
  • 20s: Nice in the sun.
  • 30s: Nice in the shade.
  • 40s: THIS IS PUNISHMENT FOR OUR HUBRIS.
[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

I like the "exotic cars" banner on the back.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

I don't know if it's still the case, but in my experience (years ago) PGP messed with the proper rendering of HTTP email bodies.

From a security standpoint also, the signature confirming that the email is from your is a double edged sword: Yes, your contacts get to verify that it's you, but you're also losing plausible deniability (privacy).

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

His other stuff is great too! Some of my favorites:

  • The Beast of Pirate's Bay
  • Dirtiest Song that Ain't
  • Hell in a Handbasket
  • Death, Death (Devil, Devil, Evil, Evil Song)
[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

First battle shots, then battle shits.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago
[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I will never forgive JSON for not allowing commas after the last element in a list.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago
[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

I don't mind if an IoT device has the capability to use a SaaS service. But it shouldn't depend on it.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 months ago (5 children)

A lot of things that come with software that people despise would be fine if the software wasn't designed to monetize the fuck out of you.

  • Having a media center built into the TV and being able to control both with a single remote is nice. Having the media center push ads and tell me which applications it's allowed to run sucks donkey balls.
  • IoT devices that depend on someone else's online service can go die in a fire. Programmable devices that work with my own home server are awfully convenient.

The common thread here is not that there's a niche where software hasn't been introduced yet, but that there's a dearth of good software/firmware.

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