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MisterFrog

@ MisterFrog @lemmy.world

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  • What a man

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  • Oh neato then. I had a full-sized corded lawn mower back when I lived in a house where I was burdened with a lawn. It was quieter, but still loud.

    Glad to hear that there are quieter ones.

    Or the properties are just so huge you wouldn't disturb anyone haha (I lived in a inner suburban place where the next house was less than 5m wall to wall)

  • What a man

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  • Why would you run it at night? They're not as loud as petrol mowers, but spinning blades are not exactly quiet when mowing

  • 'Power Rangers' writer says casting Black and Asian actors as Black and Yellow Rangers was 'a mistake'

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  • This went way over my head and I was thinking: the writer's taken their mask off as a racist??

    Didn't make the colour connection

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  • Tributes are still a thing. See Australia "buying" $300bn submarines from the US.

    So I can somewhat understand why Trump thought this is what tariffs are haha

    (My grumble, you're not wrong)

  • Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees

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  • In true modern Microsoft fashion. Remove features, lock forum posts of people asking for them back. Provide no reason. Profit because apparently this shit is crack to companies.

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  • Seems so arbitrary that they just block the entire project instead of the user in the sanctioned region.

    ¯(ツ)_/¯

    Probably for the best, GitHub seems like a liability (to a lamen like me, anyway)

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  • I ported !engineeringmemes@lemmy.world. Because of its limited volume, it's barely an effort to moderate.

    Just start the communities you want to see :)

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  • Would he not have already sold most when they went public?

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  • It's cursed because if you're not gonna use metric, then don't use it.

    Do drams per pound of body weight or something like that. Still cursed because it's not metric, but less so.

    Or do the thing that'll make everyone* happy, just use metric.

    (*me, personally)

    Moles are somewhat cursed, but we do need some standard number of molecules, else all our chemistry would be in insanely large numbers. May as well make it something related to the gram.

    Though, in fairness, I will grant, it's one of the less metric-y units out there since atomic weights aren't perfect round numbers anyway, other than carbon.

    Perhaps we could have standardised a mole as 1x1010 molecules. Ah well

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  • Good... Job? What?

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  • At will employment is insane (from someone who lives in a country where it isn't a thing).

    If you're an employee, you can't just be fired without cause

  • Commerce Secretary Urges Fox News Viewers To Buy Tesla Stock: ‘Elon Musk Is Probably the Best Person To Bet On!’

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  • Just an international correction to compensate for the US' Overton Window:

    Tesla was built on left wing progressive ideals*

    *wealthy believers of climate change.

    "Left-wing" is such a polluted term now lol.

    If Tesla was built on left-wing progressive ideals it would be a workers co-op focusing on quality. It's always been a for-profit company from day one.

  • High-risk

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  • I did this today while in excel. I knew what would happen. Call of the void. The undefined void.

  • Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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  • Last I checked you can only thread a conversation one level down from the channel and that's it (when I last used it like 5 years ago).

    To me that's practically unusable for what it's supposed to be. Slack even does a better job, in my opinion.

  • Physicists vs Normal People

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  • As someone who prefers not to drive where possible, and in a country where manual for regular cars is not common, why do people think manual is so great?

    Gives you some more control on your gears, sure. But heck, the only time I ever, ever need it is going up or down very steep hills - for which there are low gear settings on most cars which you can switch on for those moments.

    For most people, it's just a massive waste of time to learn, when an engineered solution already exists and presumably doesn't add significant enough cost to be worth not having it (I assume, because of the lack of demand, here).

    Is it just, for the "love of driving"? Okay fair enough, but that's your hobby then, not sure why we need to like it also

    In any case, do enlighten me because I don't get it haha

  • Don't be fooled by Big Math propaganda!!!

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  • Luckily for you that's the iso standard haha

    I wouldn't mind if it could be kept on the same line, but I don't believe there is a non-breaking hyphen in unicode.

    You can insert non-breaking hyphens into MS Office programs like word though. Very useful if you're an engineer and writing out tags in reports all the time (and dislike when they get broken across lines).

    The actual print character is a normal hyphen, though.

    Thanks for reading my pedantic preferences haha

  • Don't be fooled by Big Math propaganda!!!

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  • YYYY.MM.DD (or similar) is the best (I just think dots look better and keeps the date together in many word processors, where hyphens do not)

    DD/MM/YYYY is acceptable.

    MM/DD/YYYY needs to be put out of its misery.

  • Tim Walz says ‘we wouldn’t be in this mess’ if it wasn’t for him and Harris

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  • He's much more down to earth than the democratic establishment, or even Harris.

    At least, this is the vibes I'm getting.

    I don't blame him, despite not knowing that much about him.