[-] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 month ago

You have the correct legal definition

[-] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 months ago

Chicken Tikka Masala appears to have credibly originated in the UK. It's probably as British as Beef Stroganoff is Russian (okay, looking it up, it looks like the latter may be at least a bit of a myth, but it gets my point across).

[-] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 months ago

I enjoyed how everyone in the comment thread already knew. Technology Connections is a real treasure.

[-] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 7 months ago

Wirecutter used to be good, but they've pretty much entirely sold out to whoever pays them I think. The Spruce Eats seems maybe slightly better than them these days for that sorta household stuff?

TechGearLab and OutdoorGearLab are still good.

Project Farm on YouTube is top tier testing for tools and whatever else catches his eye, though I wish it was a little easier to see the results in a spreadsheet instead of having to screenshot the video.

[-] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 7 months ago

Doesn't work as well these days when everything is too big to fail and gets bailed out, instead of letting the economy endure the destruction part of creative destruction.

[-] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 10 months ago

Tbf, that's kinda what people thought about leaded gasoline, or greenhouse gas emissions.

In this case, yes, everyone seems perfectly fine, but dilution isn't the solution to everything when the body you're diluting into is finite.

[-] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 year ago

Bill Gates has done significant good fighting disease. Still something that should've been decided by society, not a single person, but credit where credit is due.

Unfortunately anti vaxxers have destroyed a lot of that legacy anyway.

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Would be nice to have an option to mark posts as read after scrolling past. This is in Jerboa, and has proven useful in making refreshing the feed much less repetitive.

[-] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 year ago

Garmin also has titanium watches with sapphire glass on their high end. I'm ridiculously clumsy with watches, so I got one thinking I'd stand a chance of not breaking it. Now the new problem is, the watch is way harder than anything else I accidentally smack it into, and can break stuff around it instead.

[-] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Asian American here who's into car culture (where the term originated). It has always been a racist term from its inception, and is still used as a racist term today, from my experience.

[-] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago

Compression algorithms generally rely on sensing patterns in the data to allow you to store just one example of that data and where it repeats, instead of storing it all fully. This is extremely visible in H264 and H265 for video, where the first is easily 1% the size of the raw video data, and the second is easily 1/10th the size of that, since it can detect more patterns to compress.

White noise means your mp3 is basically the size of the uncompressed data, instead of being 5-25% that size (stat from Wikipedia on compression ratio of mp3). This costs Spotify more for storage and streaming bandwidth.

[-] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago

Honestly, none of the points on the "Male Depression Risk Scale" listed in the article match my experience. It's always been closer to hopelessness for me I think. Hopelessness and a growing desperation for a way out.

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