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nik9000@programming.devto Europe@feddit.org•Learning German has many benefits for young people – and it’s not as hard as its reputation suggestsEnglish2·9 days agoThanks for that video. It was fun!
nik9000@programming.devto World News@lemmy.world•Americans more vulgar online than Brits, Aussies — studyEnglish1·12 days agoI’m less interested in the average across all text. Lots of corporate bullshit maybe.
Im more interested in % of speakers with an average higher than… 1:100 or something.
Oh wild. When I first saw this on lemmy it was white and gold. Then I clicked the image and looked and thought, “yeah, that’s what I figured.” Then I scrolled up and it was blue and brown. Can see white and gold again. Fun.
I’ve read a bunch from both authors and think your point checks out. Gainan has much more variety. I’m not sure it matters though.
My guess, worthless as it is, is that Gaiman’s best works celebrated the marginalized. Loved them and taught you to love them. Respected them. His work taught people that his actions are terrible.
On the other hand, Stardust. Maybe my guess is totally wrong. Shrug
We’re two years out from the API apocalypse. I think. That’s how I got here.
nik9000@programming.devto News@lemmy.world•Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’7·22 days agoThere’s a book called Catch 22. Looks like the made a movie of it. The book is the funniest thing I’ve ever read. Made me think about how crazy fighting is. Sort of like a funny Slaughterhouse-Five.
Neither mentioned illegal orders as far as I remember. Was the movie quite different?
nik9000@programming.devto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift?5·27 days agoI think time wasn’t super kind to it. And I don’t remember how clear it was in the movie that Scott’s just not a good dude. My memory of the story is that the core is: Scott is bad. Scott accepts that. Scott starts doing better. But maybe that’s just my headcannon.
It’s a good lesson though! Just because you were bad doesn’t mean you are bad. You can change. Life isn’t a simplistic video game. It’s a lesson I’ve needed from time to time.
nik9000@programming.devtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Massacres of Black People, there are more8·29 days agoThis image from the Wikipedia page is great.
Certainly hypole comparing it to the Hamadian massacres. Still. Good image.
nik9000@programming.devtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•They're great at making us look very coolEnglish29·1 month ago
nik9000@programming.devtoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•JD Vance has changed his name multiple times over the yearsEnglish3·1 month agoIt’s weird I said “men” here. In the US women usually change their names once and men never. But adoption and grandma and going by initials are all changes I’ve seen and understand.
nik9000@programming.devtoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•JD Vance has changed his name multiple times over the yearsEnglish12·1 month agoThe story reads as totally normal. Not many men change their name that much but, “I want the same last name as my grandma who I love very much and not my second dad who I don’t talk to” feels right and good and maybe even sweet. The man’s a monster. This is fine.
I heard someone reply to that argument once with, “ask The Taliban”. I’m not sure I agree. But it did make me think.
nik9000@programming.devto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How important are the actors voices when determining if a movie is bad or good? Could changing the voice of an actor turn a really bad movie into a good one?4·1 month agoWould we remember Batman the Animated a series without Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill? Maybe.
nik9000@programming.devto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If there was any TV show that was cancelled or cut short that you could see the planned continuation/ending of, which would you choose?4·1 month agoI worry it would have fallen off. Now we can always dream of what could have been.
nik9000@programming.devto privacy@lemmy.ca•What is it with websites restricting passwords to 8 - 16 characters? Is there some technical limitation to their system??4·1 month agoI’ve always wondered about Unicode normalization and passwords. I don’t know a ton about it, but I think it’s that things like
ö
and be represented as one character for the whole thing or two, one for the umlaut and another foro
. That means that there are at least two sequences of code points that make the same… Glyph? I forget the word. The thing you see on the screen.Anyway, what if you have that
ö
in your password and one browser/keyboard/os/lovecraftian nightmare makes the mark one way and the other does it the other way? They aren’t the same bytes. So they won’t hash the same and you just can’t tell why. Without digging super deep.There are standard ways to normalize the Unicode but I don’t imagine most password systems use them. Maybe it’s some intermediate layer. But I kind of doubt it. Those are complex, evolving standards.
Oh. And that “evolving” thing might make trouble for password systems. Are these standards backwards compatible in the way they’d need to be for a normalization upgrade not to break any passwords?
Oh God, what nightmare have I found?
nik9000@programming.devto World News@lemmy.world•France to ban smoking outdoors in most places to protect childrenEnglish3·1 month agoI was in Vegas a couple weeks back. Same problem.
Brandt said he enjoyed being a meme, and he did frequently use the catchphrase, although he did say that his high school English teacher would not have approved of his usage of “ain’t”.[6][20]
That was fucking fantastic.