[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 weeks ago

No, they really are. No doubt they do plenty of stuff at the behest of the NSA, but they are also a deeply disfunctional company with conflicts between departments and bare minimum funding for security, since it's seen as a cost centre

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 65 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ehhh i that's likely enough, but Microsoft is also just shit at fixing things

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 29 points 4 weeks ago

Ehh radioactivity is squarely in physics

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They mean pet textiles like dog blankets etc, I've seen the same rule in shared laundry facilities all over Europe. The hair fucks up the machines pretty bad and gets on the next person's washing. Sometimes there's a dedicated smaller machine where it's allowed.

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 month ago

Climate-wise, 5-10 story buildings are the most efficient, and they are plenty dense enough to support a good level of public transport service etc. It's probably not desirable to go much bigger except in the most constrained areas.

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 months ago

You wanted a lecture, here you go:

You can use less for countable nouns, any of them. We've been doing it for literally centuries. In fact, it has never been used only for uncountable nouns (unlike fewer, which has generally only been used for countable nouns). Correct language is determined by what native speakers use on purpose, not what a textbook or teacher says.

At least read the Wikipedia and the dictionary if you want to keep a strong opinion about this:

However, modern linguistics has shown that idiomatic past and current usage consists of the word less with both countable nouns and uncountable nouns so that the traditional rule for the use of the word fewer stands, but not the traditional rule for the use of the word less. As Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage explains, "Less refers to quantity or amount among things that are measured and to number among things that are counted.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_versus_less

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 45 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes, of course there are plenty of workplaces this bad, but they still wouldn't write "voluntary mandatory"

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 35 points 7 months ago

Can we please replace the racist slang? I get that there's not currently a better single word for superficial janky optimization but I'm sure one of y'all is funny enough to come up with one

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 36 points 8 months ago

hp bought this networking company so they'll make the products shitty like their printers

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 47 points 8 months ago

When it's right wing domestic terrorism

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