[-] jago@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 month ago

The contents of the article must be consumed in order to discuss them intelligently, to create an informed opinion, and to pose questions that have positive worth within the conversation that ensues from its having been read and ruminated upon?

Preposterous notion.

[-] jago@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 month ago

The lions are nude, if that helps...

[-] jago@lemmy.cafe 18 points 1 month ago

Are you replying to/commenting on the OP's title? Did you not read past its first sentence, into its second, mentioning the plane?

[-] jago@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 month ago

Not NASA, Nasa.

[-] jago@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 month ago

Fair rebuttal; we're meant to infer the left-side hand pointing at the watch belongs to the same model of the right-side arm that's wearing the watch. Admittedly, this is an assumption based on insufficient data. It's not impossible that the finger-pointing left hand and the watch-wearing right wrist are owned by two different models.

That doesn't change the fact that the watch is worn on a right-arm wrist in an orientation that would show it as upside down to a right-arm wrist owner.

[-] jago@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 month ago

How is McDonald's wrong? A few of the others are, but where is the error on that one?

[-] jago@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 month ago

Struggling to spell, read, or write can all be signs of dyslexia...

This answered nothing… Could you explicitly state what a mouth has to do with dyslexia?

The irony. :-|

[-] jago@lemmy.cafe 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Placement of the shark's eyes makes me question Larson's qualifications as a marine biologist.

[-] jago@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 months ago

I was thinking the same thing. This is a fine example of the exception to the rule that you should not place the horizon in the middle of the frame.

[-] jago@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 months ago

...our word “diamond” comes from adamant…

As does our word, "adamant". 🙂

[-] jago@lemmy.cafe 1 points 11 months ago

I hope you have named these forks after Muppets.

From left to right, they are clear to me as: Robin the Frog, Kermit, Bunsen Honeydew, and Beaker.

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submitted 1 year ago by jago@lemmy.cafe to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml

On mobile I use(d) Relay for Reddit browsing. The app has a feature that I miss in Jerboa.

In posts/comments, [hyperlinked text can be long-pressed to reveal the destination](hi there i am a URI to any other website) in a pop-up overlayed on the link (sorry, I don’t know the proper term for this UI tool) without actually opening to the link. Upon tapping off the pop-up, it closes and I tap on the URI to follow through to it, or not, as I wish. In Jerboa, pressing a hyperlink only opens it, site unseen (pun intended).

This change would be useful because sometimes I don't want to open the linked page, given the target (e.g. youtube, instagram).

In Jerboa I see no way of discovering the URI of a hyperlink without following to it, which would be convenient to avoid.

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submitted 1 year ago by jago@lemmy.cafe to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml

This morning when I picked up my phone, the Jerboa icon on my phone's homepage had a transparent background, as it had when first installed a week-or-so ago.

Sometime, mid-day today, I saw the icon had a solid white background.

Did this change as a result of an update, or maybe my (admittedly old) phone just catching up to 2023?

I must admit, I kinda liked the transparent-background version.

[-] jago@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I also have heard Squirrel, the first time I ever heard of SQL. It was in a webinar info session for just a very superficial top-level type of understanding, really intended for nothing more than to acquaint first-tier support staff with technical terms and concepts. "SQL stands for Structured Query Language. For short, we can call it 'sequel' or 'squirrel'." (Cue stupid clip-art graphic of a buck-toothed smiling squirrel on a tree branch, holding an acorn, because what's a webinar without insipid mnemonics?) That sort of thing.

I grokked the use of 'sequel', because the letter sequence S-Q-L is exactly that word, sans vowels, and even if schwas are substituted for the vowels, the pronunciation doesn't change much.

But for 'squirrel' I had to imagine that they were taking the R from 'queRy' and injecting it to make SQL into SQrL for the sake of a cute memory device that would resonate with people who weren't expected to have any interest or investment deeper than a front-line customer service drone.

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