I'm talking about people downvoting from all - if you're seeing content from some niche or geographic community because you're viewing all then downvoting something you're not interested in is a dick move.
I haven't watched, but assuming it's good I'm guessing it's idiots viewing the all feed and downvoting anything they're not personally interested in.
It doesn't help that the official Lemmy docs say downvote things you don't like, which is only good guidance when you have an algorithm you're training.
Ah, so this is the most popular cocktails on punchdrink.com - I thought the title was saying party punch was the most popular!
Edit: I think it's top-rated, not most searched:
these are the recipes you deemed best this month
They're all more obscure than what I'd expect to see on a populist list.
xennials
Ah, I was trying to remember what the term for that micro-gen was (I didn't think it was xennial but it probably makes sense than the one I forgot).
I guess it's the King's English now. I'm always careful to avoid spelling things the US way, because as a programmer there's some things (yup, like color) that I type more often in the US version than international English and muscle memory's a sticky bugger.
curtesy of zagorath
fyi, you mean courtesy - curtesy is an old legal term.
I've only just found the channel, and am currently watching the one on Biomimicry. Glad to hear the quality's consistent.
Piped mirror: https://piped.video/watch?v=UVlBmdvIC6s
This channel is about architecture, and this video (from Nov 2023\*) is about Solar Punk and covers some of the history and real-life attempts.
I was amused that shortly after talking about Solar Punk's rejection of consumerism she did the sponsor section, but that's Youtube for you.
\* it's been posted elsewhere on Lemmy but not here that I can see
It makes sense, and would lead to cleaner diffs. Breaking my muscle memory for uppercase keywords would be tricky, though.
I can't see the numbers in future getting any better, unless big changes are made. Many pilgrims are quite old, since some need many years to save up enough for the journey, and of course the temperature's only going to be going up (even after La Niña).
It's part of the rituals to get the timing exactly right, so it's not like it can be moved to cooler months, like has been proposed for the Summer Olympics. It is moving earlier by a week and a half each year (because of the Islamic calendar) but when you're talking 51.8C that's not really moving the needle.
I'd heard talk of health-monitoring bracelets, which seems sensible.
“Their analysts determined that frustrating the user results in more time spent on the app—and more time viewing ads—than if users are satisfied. Remember in ‘The Matrix’ when The Architect tells Neo that the first virtual world the robots created was a utopia, but the people rejected it? It works sort of like that.”
Brilliant.
I forgot that Lance Armstrong was in this - quite fitting for a satire.
Fixes catastrophic data loss, er,
bug, erpoorly documented feature... user error
Gotta love the Register
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website here's to you, everyone's favourite stargazing memelord! Without you, Lemmy would be a quieter and less funny place. Cheers!
Huh, I never knew there was a mobile version of the site.
I've just had a quick poke around, and you can load up other people's work - there's a massive variety which shows just how much is in this simulation program.
You can load up simulations with the bottom-left icon, then hit the pause button that's bottom right to start them off. If any talk about "sparking" they mean use the SPRK tool to put electricity in the thing they're talking about - you can search for SPRK using the search tool above the pause button, or find it under the Electronics menu (second one in that right-hand side with the plug icon).
A great read, thanks for sharing.
At first I thought it was another safe with even more money, and I was wondering if I should get a magnet.
Its IMDb page is a bit sus: the reviews are an almost unbroken stream of gushing 10 star reviews, but there's plenty of people voting it 1 star too. Astroturfing or just polarising?
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/15125500
> xkcd \#2942: Fluid Speech > > https://xkcd.com/2942 > > explainxkcd.com for \#2942 > > Alt text: > > Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.
xkcd \#2942: Fluid Speech
https://xkcd.com/2942
Alt text: > Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.
https://xkcd.com/2937
Alt text:
> Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.
While curious about the Centauri accent, I found this 2001 interview with Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari) and Wortham Krimmer (Cartagia).
http://www.earth62.net/transcripts/jurasik22feb01.htm
> The quick story about the accent, if I can tell you how I patchworked it together, is I was doing a play downtown, a Tennessee Williams play, and I worked really hard on a Memphis accent. I felt like I had really nailed it. But one L.A. critic nailed me and said, "That’s a terrible Memphis accent. That doesn’t sound like a Southern accent." I was really hurt. About that time was when "The Gathering," the pilot, showed up. I called Joe and said, "What do you want me to sound like?" He said, "Let him sound like whatever you want," so I purposely took a couple of different things. There’s a character who plays the parole officer in A Clockwork Orange, the guy who’s always saying, "And night-time is the best time, um, yes?" I took my Czechoslovakian grandmother. I had spent three consecutive summers in Ireland. I didn’t always take sounds; I took rhythms. Londo had a kind of musical thing.
The whole thing's worth a read, they seemed to be having fun.
This is "The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring" by Liron Gertsman, shot on a Canon EOS R5.
Source: https://liron-gertsman-photography.myshopify.com/products/the-frigatebird-and-the-diamond-ring
Article: How a Photographer Captured His Spectacular Dream Eclipse Photo (lots more pictures here)
Ruling means music in Russian republic must ‘conform to Chechen mentality and sense of rhythm’
- Chechnya officials have banned music deemed too fast or slow, restricting compositions to a tempo of 80-116 BPM.
- Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev announced the decision at a meeting, as reported by TASS.
- The ban affects all musical, vocal, and choreographic compositions in the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
Chechnya is a republic of Russia since losing the Second Chechen War but this means that the Russian national anthem, at just 76 BPM, is also banned.
This year's (belated, as is tradition) April Fool's XKCD is written in the Rapier.rs physics engine.
It's like The Incredible Machine, but each person can contribute a cell towards the larger machine.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17292833
> Abandoned industrial building 2/8
> Brand new #Taskmaster starts 28th March on Channel 4 and 29th March outside the UK on YouTube.
From this teaser (Youtube short): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Acq7mRa9ZYk
Contestants: Joanne McNally, John Robins, Nick Mohammed, Sophie Willan, and Steve Pemberton.
I'm hoping they have musical tasks to allow Nick Mohammed to shine. I still can't hear the Jurassic Park theme without singing along with his words.
Isolated for six months one winter, a group of scientists changed how they spoke.
> they were taking part in an unusual experiment, which involved tracking their own voices over time. This was done by making 10-minute recordings every few weeks. They would sit in front of a microphone and repeat the same 29 words as they appeared on a computer screen. Food. Coffee. Hid. Airflow.
> One of those changes was the "ou" sound in words such as "flow" and "sew" that shifted towards the front of the vocal tract.
I'm not actually sure what sound change they're describing there. Can anyone explain with examples or IPA?
edit: Cheers for the answers (turns out I misunderstood which part is the vocal tract)
De-Googled: https://piped.video/watch?v=WjnmzljtREk
Yes there is a lot of bad news around the climate crisis. But let's talk about the victories, and why there is no argument for despair.
[!](https://nebula.tv/videos/simonclark-is-there-any-good-news-about-climate-change)
I posted a comment with the message "Don’t let doomscrolling lead you into despair and apathy over climate" and got a fair few downvotes, so I thought this was worth sharing.
YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9p5VKd8VkE
https://xkcd.com/2896
Alt text:
> Also, we would really appreciate it if you could prominently refer to it as an 'eHit'.
Director Joseph Kosinski says:
> "The original version of the script we actually followed Maverick in his freefall back to Earth, which would have I guess debunked that theory," Kosinski told Happy Sad Confused's Josh Horowitz. "It was a pretty spectacular sequence imagining what it's like to reenter from space in your spacesuit."
> "I love it. Film is meant to be interpreted. I love that there's multiple ways to read it. It's, you know, hopefully it's a piece of art meant to be interpreted, and I love people reading those things into it. It's like The Big Lebowski Theory that Johnny's not really there so, no, I welcome that," he said."
The hit comedy show is back for a on-off special featuring some very familiar faces.
Spoilers for previous seasons, I guess:
Contestants:
- Dara Ó Briain
- Morgana Robinson
- Sarah Kendall
- Kiell Smith-Bynoe (standing in for Mae Martin)
- Sophie Duker
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8244726
> Image Transcription: screenshot > > > I ask Google Bard "What's the difference between Funtoo and Gentoo?" > > > > Bard replies: Both Funtoo and Gentoo are Arch Linux-based distributions known for their source-based installation and high degree of customization. While they share a lot of similarities, there are some key differences to consider: > > I checked, and both Gentoo and Arch initially released in March 2002, although Arch is older by 20 days.
Image Transcription: screenshot
> I ask Google Bard "What's the difference between Funtoo and Gentoo?" > > Bard replies: Both Funtoo and Gentoo are Arch Linux-based distributions known for their source-based installation and high degree of customization. While they share a lot of similarities, there are some key differences to consider:
I checked, and both Gentoo and Arch initially released in March 2002, although Arch is older by 20 days.
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