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darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump plans to sign an executive order requiring commercial truck drivers to speak English.English3·12 days agoThis video, Why US Signs Look Different Than The Rest Of The World’s, contains a lot of examples of such US road signs that depend on English text to convey their message:
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump plans to sign an executive order requiring commercial truck drivers to speak English.English31·12 days agoIn the US, traffic signs with crucial information are often written in only English text, no symbols, pictograms or anything else that could make it possible to guess what the sign is saying without being able to read English.
I hate IG, no way to download photos to your phone, among many other flaws.
Why do you use such an app?
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Hope y'all are having a very NULL QA day42·20 days agoEven more real scenario: The first real visitor isn’t even a customer but a bored teenager who says nothing at all and instead takes a piss on the floor. (Anyone who ever published anything on the internet knows this scenario.)
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which?English3·20 days agoIn times past, when it was still thriving, I was an avid user of Usenet.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Linux@programming.dev•Atomic Linux Distros: What Barriers Stand Between You and Making the Switch?84·20 days agoThe primary barrier for me: I’m not convinced that it’s a good idea.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Technology@lemmy.world•THE 500 BILLION DOLLAR DELUSION: How the AI Sovereignty Wars Are Reshaping Humanity’s FutureEnglish131·21 days agoThere is a certain poetic glimmer in reading the phrase “documents of magnificent verbosity that accomplish precisely nothing” in a document of magnificent verbosity that accomplishes precisely nothing.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Technology@lemmy.world•Adobe Gets Bullied Off BlueskyEnglish61·1 month agoSome brilliant people invented photoshop
So the real question is whether Photoshop might ever have become successful, if Adobe hadn’t bought it.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL About the Smoot-Hawley Act, Which was the 20% Across the Board Tariff That Deepened the Great Depression and Resulted in the Largest Senate Seat Loss in HistoryEnglish2·1 month agoI had never heard of it before but I now just finished watching it after reading your recommendation and it was really great, thank you!
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Linux@programming.dev•Debian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI3·1 month agoFor interactive use, apt provides a nicer interface. I can easily see why some people would prefer that.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Linux@programming.dev•Debian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI91·1 month agoWhen scripting, it’s better to use apt-get instead of apt:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/590699/should-i-use-apt-or-apt-get-in-shell-scripting
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comto People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Every generation has their thing, I suppose.English6·1 month agoMy local Viking bar no longer has axe throwing, but they still serve Icelandic White Ale so it’s still OK, I guess.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Technology@lemmy.world•Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass productionEnglish3·1 month agoYou had me at “nuclear”.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”3·1 month agoAlready with a single standard in a single project things have a tendency to start breaking down as soon as there’s more than one developer and disagreement arises about what the text in the standard specification actually means.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Do any of you here use Programming socks?29·1 month agoI personally prefer programming barefoot, but then I also use GNOME.
How is that pu pronounced?
[ˈpuːtə]
Like pew or poo?
WTF?
What I’d like to know: For anyone using some app other than AntennaPod: Why? How is it worth it?