this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
132 points (98.5% liked)

Asklemmy

47846 readers
1160 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
(page 4) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] superniceperson@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago (15 children)

There absolutely was a cornucopia in the fruit of the loom logo. That is the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is. It wasn't on any table or in any thanksgiving decoration in my childhood, it isn't a popular thing to exist in media, it was an obscure item that was a main part of an underwear logo.

Anyone that says differently is objectively wrong. I don't know why the logo changed and why besides a patent entry even the company itself denies it. I don't really care if this is an alternate earth or aliens or time travellers or an entirely natural quirk of existing in a quantum universe, but I know for an absolute fact the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is is because of my underwear, and not because my dick is coincidentally called the horn of plenty.

load more comments (15 replies)
[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 3 days ago (19 children)

Search engines should not use locational data including IP address to provide "more relevant" results. Checking for restaurants or weather forecast? You should have to manually add the relevant search terms. Want results in a specific language? You should have to manually apply this filter.

Convenience is not worth the potential harm of locationally biased search results.

For example, where I live is like White Nationalist Central Station. My search results are thus far more likely to net me results with a pro-US/nationalist skew, thus potentially entrenching or normalizing harmful beliefs.

Whenever I've tried bringing this up with Techlords, I get a feeble, "B-but then you couldn't say 'restaurants near me' UnU" and like ... good? It's not like it's hard to type city and state in the search field.

I've never found a search engine that even has this as an option. Even Sear XNG instances net results that are clearly aligned with the location of the instances server.

A Kagi dev even lied to me when I was looking into that as an alternative, saying they don't use location, when it's pretty easy to determine that they do.

I also don't want a "good" algorithm. I also don't want to see big corporate sites prioritized either. If some backwoods nobody has a site that's more relevant, show it to me. I feel like pre-Google search engines were better, but that's another vent for another day.

Now where did I put my false teeth and walker???

load more comments (19 replies)
[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 31 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Niche pronounced with a "ch" sound is wrong and dumb and I hate you

[–] DevotedOtter@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Omg, I always pronounced it niche. Then slowly over the years I've gaslit myself into believing it's nitch because that's all I ever hear

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

How else would you say it?

I've only heard /niʃ/

Do some people say /nit͡ʃ/ ?

[–] 6R1MR34P3R@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

how is supposed to be? I pronounce it similar to the spanish one but with the english c sound

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago

Those people who pronounce it 'nitch'? The word for that is WRONG. Those people deserve ridicule.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 days ago

Rhymes with "sheesh"

load more comments (9 replies)
[–] Astrophage@lemy.lol 45 points 3 days ago (8 children)

It is NOT "habañero." If you pronounce a "y" in the word, you're commiting what's called a "hyper-foreignism" where you over apply something you learned a foreign culture does.

It's just an N sound. Habanero.

It's not even my culture/language but damn this gets under my collar.

load more comments (8 replies)
[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 51 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Using the term ‘assless chaps’ infuriates me and I will not let that aggression stand, man.

All chaps are assless. Chaps with asses are pants.

Fight me.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] charonn0@startrek.website 51 points 3 days ago (3 children)

If a motorcycle has to be ear-splittingly loud for "safety", then it's too dangerous to be road legal.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago

It's explicitly the opposite, scientifically, according to my safety class

The deep rumble being loud overwhelms anyone's ability to properly locate the bike quickly, and they demonstrated this live. It's definitely harder to locate a LOUDER bike

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 55 points 3 days ago (20 children)

Pineapple is a legitimate pizza topping lol

load more comments (20 replies)
[–] addiks@feddit.org 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Using tabs for document management (f.e. Browsers, Text-Editors, ...) was a mistake. It would be way better if every document (website, text-file, image, console, ..) was in its own window, centrally managed by an intelligent window manager of the OS that allows quick and easy search between all documents like with a full-text searchable exposè-like view.

Using tabs for document-management was a bad but necessary workaround because Windows is a horrible window manager (despite its name, ironically).

Tabs work best when there is a fixed amount of them (Like with game settings: Controls, Audio, Video, Gameplay).

I could go on for quite a while on this, but I think this is where I stop.

[–] teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago

linux has tiling windows managers that allow you to do this

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] Juliebones@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pineapple on pizza is delicious, that is all

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 29 points 3 days ago (19 children)

Time units are just as cursed as American units.

Conversion between days, hours, minutes and seconds is a total mess. If you never have to do anything with those numbers, you don’t need to worry about it. The moment you need to do calculations or compare devices you run into completely unnecessary problems that would have been easy to avoid. Just think of pumps and fans with units given in l/min or m^3/h.

Just pick the standard time unit and stick with it. Use prefixes to deal with big or small numbers.

[–] isyasad@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This also reminds me of something I realized recently: 24 hours is NOT the amount of time it takes for the Earth to rotate 360°. Because the Earth (assuming North is "up") rotates counterclockwise and orbits counterclockwise, each day is slightly more than 360°, probably close to 361°.
So if we assume a year is about 365.25 days, Earth actually spins 366.25 times. One rotation is just kinda "eaten" by orbiting counterclockwise.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 5 points 2 days ago

Also known as a sidereal day. Check the animation. It’s pretty cool.

This topic also touches upon the concept of reference frames. When people say that the earth takes 24 h to make a full revolution, it’s in relation to the sun. From a universal perspective, the heliocentric reference frame moves and rotates. From the heliocentric perspective, the usual earth based reference frame also moves and rotates. Nothing is truly stationary, and measuring revolutions is impossible unless you define your frame of reference.

If you say a full revolution takes 24 h, it’s not wrong, but it’s only true in one reference frame.

load more comments (18 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›