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bort , 1 month ago to 196 in 📄 rule

so why not copy them?

oh, I totally agree with you.

In fact standards are made to be copied. That's like the entire point of them.

bort , 1 month ago to 196 in 📄 rule

People behind ISO 216 thought of everyting

how to make a good standard:

step 1: copy from DIN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216#History

bort , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Skill

Why can’t anyone study to become a qualified surgeon?

anyone can try

bort , 1 month ago to Memes in Just one more lane

But only temporarily

but is it?

I thought the temporal improvement would be for everyone who already used the high way (because they will get to their destination a little bit faster). And for the few extra people, who start to use the highway but didn't use it before, the improvment will stay.

bort , 1 month ago to Memes in Just one more lane

When you add a new lane to a road, people think that the traffic will be easier there, so they take that route instead of their normal one

so for these people the new lane will create marginal improvement, right?

bort , 1 month ago to Technology in Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

The Ad sponsored web model is not viable forever.

a thousand times this

bort , 2 months ago to Technology in Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling

we’ll probably get a win 12 that is less good than win 10, but better than win 11,

I wouldn't count on it. MS is moving away from selling desktop-stuff and towards selling cloud stuff (think azure and office356) and consulting. That's why they changed their attitude towards linux (think wsl and c# for linux) and open-source (think github). MS wants companies to use open-source tools (preferably written in c#) and deploy them to azure with the help of MS-consultants.

Enshittifying windows is a step in that direction. For example: The more people have a MS-Account, the easier it is to sell office356. That's why they pressure windows-user into making MS-Accounts.

MS knows that desktop is dying.

bort , 2 months ago to Technology in Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling

most recently I had this with energy-settings, before that with network-settings, and before that with some language settings.

I’ve not actually had this problem ...(aside from [when I had this problem])

lol

bort , 2 months ago to Comic Strips in The new product manager

talking to clients

you want him to define features and deadlines?

bort , 2 months ago to Technology in Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling

the last time I had to set up a windows-system, I just said fuck-it and bought a key for 2€ from on of these shady key-sides.

bort , 2 months ago to Technology in Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling

There’s a lot to not like here.

the new snipping-tool is neat

bort , 2 months ago to Technology in Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling

yes I know if you look hard enough you can find legacy panels

In some case you have to actively looks for the legacy panel, because the new ones don't allow to change certain settings.

bort , 2 months ago to 196 in Ouroboros Rule

they were lied to by the landparasite

can't you sue the landlord for false advertising in burgerland?

bort , 2 months ago to 196 in That feeling

These are not the only two knee surgeries that exist, by any stretch.

If I was talking about every single kind of knee surgery, I would have said so.

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This should be the end of it, but you went on and constructed a personal attack from your faulty assumptions. I think that merrits some more "defense" on my part.

When there is a statement without an explicit quantifier, the quantifier becomes ambiguous. Assuming the all-quantifier in this case was your personal decision. Since you construct an insulting argument from this faulty and intentional assumption, I can only assume malice. If the ambiguity was a problem, you could have simple asked. Or better yet: Do what everyone else did and click the link. If you still thought, the ambiguity was an issue, you could have just pointed it out, instead of making an insult out of it.

Please don’t spread medical misinformation

Tell that to someone who actually spreads medical misinformation. Not only was my joke correct, I even provided a credible source, which is far beyond what you can expect from a comment on a shitposting community.

it’s not helpful

the information, that many knee-surgeries only work through placebo-effect is very helpful. In fact my simplified and sensational (and true) claim probably made many people click on the link, which helped spread the message even further.

Also I think it sets a good example to provide sources for all interesting claims, even if it is on a shitposting sub.

bort , 2 months ago to 196 in rule

yes, sure. But I would have counted those as "regular magic".