thankfully, I can still call it gif bc the creator of .gif says jif. I shiver at the thought of jif…
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From JPEG.org, jpeg stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. Ph = F, ergo JPEG = JFEG. I irrationally dislike jpeg, so I will now try to call it jfeg as some light fun. I think more people shoulda normalise calling common things silly alternate pronunciations that are still clearly recognisable as the original word, just to add the whimsy of getting to chuckle silently to yourself thinking “that’s not how that’s said!”
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I seem to remember someone putting together a guide for newcomers to (various parts of) the Fediverse. Could anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!
3·1 month agoye, my bad, I’ll try to edit my comment to fix it
Honestly I’m 50/50 on whether this deserves downvotes bc on the one hand, wtf, who asked? On the other, it’s c/memes, and this is a MEME
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I seem to remember someone putting together a guide for newcomers to (various parts of) the Fediverse. Could anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!
6·1 month agoAre you perhaps thinking of fedi.tips and its sister websites? The author posts lots of guides for the fediverse.
Ether@aussie.zonetoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•Rare, dangerous side effects of some Covid-19 vaccines explainedEnglish
7·1 month agoThis was a really interesting read for me as someone who’s done immunology at uni, but might be harder to understand for others. However it’s still communicated really clearly so I would recommend anyone who’s interested to read it as I’m sure that the authors have done a good enough job to prevent education being a barrier to entry.
I’ll disclaim the rest of this comment by saying I gave the article a casual read and am putting minimal effort into this summary so am at risk of mischaracterising the article. It gave a more in depth explanation to why the Astra Zeneca COVID19 vaccine was dropped in a lot of places. Previously I just had a shallow understanding of an increased risk of dangerous blood clots, but the article did a great job of explaining more in depth what caused those blood clots (the development of unexpected autoimmune platelet antibodies). It also talked about the subsequent investigations and studies into what caused these reactions. One of the reasons it was such a rare side effect, 1 in 200,000 iirc from the article, is because it relied on both a rare side effect of the type of virus that they engineered to carry the vaccine into your body and a rare mutation in patients’ B Lymphocytes (an important white blood cell from your adaptive immune system that produces protective antibodies). It is standard in epidemiology to measure incidence, risk etc per 100,000 people, so the fact that this is only 1 in every 200,000 shows how rare this is, but because so many people were getting vaccinated against COVID the medical community still decided the risk was too great.
Sorry for any errors, hope my comment was helpful/interesting!
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Starting to think affluenza might be a real thing.
41·1 month agoI don’t think OP was being 100% literal
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Programming@programming.dev•Materials for Learning C? (for contributing to the kernel later)
9·2 months agoThe default answer to everyone who has ever asked this question (including me last year) is to read K&R C, the 2nd edition of the original book published by C’s inventor.
I wouldn’t recommend powering from start to end like a normal book, I wouldn’t even recommend a hard copy, but it’s a comprehensive reference and the appendeces etc are good. I haven’t read much of it at all tbh but it’s nice to have. It’s still being sold but you can get it from a tonne of libraries etc. I got a pdf from a “friend”.
Otherwise, I recommend watching and following along with Free Code Camp’s several hour C tutorial. Their editor of choice is so outdated I was’t able to install a working copy, but using JetBrains Clion or VS Code or Visual Studio etc etc are all good replacements.
I’m still new to C so hopefully someone will come along who’s been doing it since the 1900’s.
The Malloc and Nick Barker YouTube channels also have some excellent C videos that you might like.
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News@lemmy.world•Fed Agent Permanently Blinds, Fractures Skull of Anti-ICE Protester
6·2 months agoThe sins of the parent are not the sins of the child. I’m sure you said this because you are hurting unimaginably more than I am (I live several timezones away). However difficut it is, I think it’s worth trying our damdest not to be pulled down into fascistic vitriol, thinking children deserve a broken life for only the blood in their veins. I oppose ICE and other similar groups around the world because their actions conflict directly and harshly with my ideals, and I sometimes start to lose sight of those very ideals when I get more and more angry at the news. I’m very glad for the few voices I’ve heard that remind me to look up and try to rise above my feelings, not in a "turn the other cheek, we can’t stop the horrors bc red tape is our #1 priority), but just in a way that reminds of you of why your fighting, so you don’t find that you’ve started fighting yourself.
(sorry for the text block, definitely full of comma splice errors)
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Curated Tumblr@sh.itjust.works•A perfectly normal article about footballEnglish
3·2 months agoMOTHER FUCKER WHAT HAVE YOU INTRODUCED ME TO I CANT STOP READING BUT IM MEANT TO BE WORKING RIGHT NOW AAAAAAHHHH
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The Onion@midwest.social•White House Angered at Comparisons to Mussolini: “I’m Much More Like Hitler” [OC]English
8·2 months agoIt was just for a pico second, but I ate the headline XD
Is there a Hussein hiding ar the base of his hat? Maybe I’ve seen too many memes but that made me chuckle 😁
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Economy@lemmy.world•Trump says ‘makings of a deal’ exist to end Ukraine war as he meets Zelenskyy in Florida
1·3 months ago“Concepts of a plan”
Don’t call me put like this just after I wake up!
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World News@lemmy.world•Online porn showing choking to be made illegal, government saysEnglish
41·4 months agoThe only thing I could find online regarding this was this stackexchange with the accepted answer claiming that there is no legislation, only a ruling from the Australian Classification Board against some media that they said “depicted [young persons] on the bordeline of 18 years old.” I.e. it was a discretionary ruling by a statutory regulator that thought someone looked a bit too much like a child.
There are some more links on that stackexchange but some are dead and I only skimmed a couple of them so I encourage people to read through themsleves since I was too lazy to sort the situation out for myself; I only found enough to satisfy my curiosity and thought I should leave this comment to add context to a bizarre claim (not blaiming prev commenter, my memory is horrible too and I also found some news articles that were definitely depicting the situation the way they remembered)
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•RFK Jr. Is Very Interested In, And Likely Wrong About, Your Teenager’s Sperm CountEnglish
143·5 months agoPart of the reason there’s not more evidence and it’s hard to prove a causal link is because it’s next to impossible to find enough participants for a control group because of how prevalent microplastics have become in our food and subsequently our bodies. You can’t exactly run peer review observational, experimental and double blind studies on only one half (more like one third, as a causal study would need to induce change from a->b) of the required test groups. t- and p-tests also are much less valuable if the sample size is too small.
Literally what I’m doing right now (its 0246 pls help fix my brain)







Oh no! Another issue! I’m a jellyfish and can only respond to a limited number of stimuli at a time because I have not centralised nervous system capable of organising my critiques into diverse and disparate arguments! I can only talk about vanishingly simple problems that are one-dimensional enough for me to tunnel vision on repeating the same talking points, preferably no longer than a dozen syllables total to accomodate not having a long-term memory centre due to my aforementioned lack of a brain 🪼🥺
I am very tired and have gone absolutely overboard on this comment, to the person I’m responding to pls don’t take this personally, more rational, less sleepy me doesn’t want to be a troll. But SERIOUSLY? You’re argument isn’t even “this isn’t a problem”, it’s “I can’t see the value in doing a full deconstruction of this novel ethical scenario and just want to be a sheep saying it’s bad for the reason my favourite shepherd says so, not because of healthy discussion of ALL the pros and cons.” Reminds me of those cringe posts from a couple months ago where people were saying “the epstein files are a distraction! don’t forget about my favourite political issue {insert valid issue}”. I’m going to be a hypocrite for a second bc this long arse comment is 1,000,000x worse than yours, but consider why you’re commenting before you hit post next time.