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The Open Source Computer Science Degree by ziggurat in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

To be fair, this is my experience in academic computer science also

Edit: didn't click the link before commenting, this is referencing what universities already teach

My Empire of Podzols by ziggurat in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

I don't know how to speak music, but I'll try. I think the dissonant notes together with i believe micro tonal pitch bending (maybe I don't know i have bad pitch) in the original better illustrate the discomfort of Trent very poetically.

Also Cash sensoring the original lyrics is okay, but it doesn't deliver has hard.

Don't get me wrong, both versions are beautiful, and this is just nit picking

"We've won, but at what cost?" by ziggurat in c/memes@lemmy.world

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

For a browser...

A huge amount

Let's kalsarikannit it up by ziggurat in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

It's called a Kalsarikannit chair

Weird Al Yankovic - It's All About The Pentiums (1999) by ziggurat in c/90smusic@lemmy.world

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

What chip you got in there? A dorrito?

The only thing keeping us Millennials going at this point by ziggurat in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

He's not 65 right now

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite by ziggurat in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Yes

Side-effect of flattening a globe by ziggurat in c/funny@lemmy.world

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

So many projections to chose from and none of them are perfect. Except the sphere

Game Boy Advance schematics now available thanks to Reverse Engineering by ziggurat in c/games@lemmy.world

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

The information has been available for a long time. And the method to get it was done by sanding down each layer and making scans, and tracing each line.

Without looking to much into this, apperantly the main new thing here is the way this information is compiled. Which may be quite the improvement in accessibility

Favourite kind of american by ziggurat in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Free education for all, teachers who are paid enough to care

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[Fluff] Balders Gate is the name of a street in Oslo, Norway (no.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ziggurat@lemmy.world to c/baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world

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I hope this fluff post will be allowed if I actually share some facts about DnD and etymology

Balders Gate is named after the Norse god Baldr/Balder/Baldur

Baldur in DnD is named after a legendary explorer Baldurian from Faerûn, name obviously inspired by the norse god's name.

The word Gate means street in Norwegian, as well in Swedish/Danish/Icelandish but its spelled differently in those languages

The word Gate in English is a cognate with the word Gate in Norwegian, meaning they stem from the same root word, incidentally they are also spelled the same way today, which is not a requirement to be a cognate, Gate in English is also a cognate with the word for street in other nordic languages even though they spell it differently.

Swedish still spell it the same as in Old Norse, Gata, which at the that point meant path, road, or way, which is how it is used in current day nordic languages, but you can see how the English word Gate is now used for an entrance with a door of some kind. Other English definitions for the word gate, like a manner of walking or even a path, among others also stem from the same root word.

Denmark to seek legal means to prevent Quran burnings by ziggurat in c/world@lemmy.world

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I'm opposed to burning the Quran, but I am even more opposed to making it illegal to do so.

The wording quoted from the Danish politician by OP, assuming it is correctly quoted and translated sounds horrible and dystopian. Imaging making a law to make it illegal to do something that offends other people, or even offends other people from other countries. Now you have other people deciding on tummy feeling what is legal in your country. Absolutely disgusting.

Burning the Quran should continue to be legal, I just don't see why you would do that, or other books for that matter. There are way more price efficient ways to produce heat than book burning

Conservatism in 2023 by ziggurat in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The planet doesn't have a problem, the planet doesn't give a shit about a little plastic. Species die and come for all sorts of reasons, new materials pollute and become sources of growth for a new species.

It's not the planet that has a problem, its our fucking civilization that has a problem. We depend on things being stabel... The planet doesn't give a fuck, our civilization can go the way of the sumer civilization, just increase the average temperature a couple of degrees more and see what happens