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Then there’s Lin-ux, or Line-ux, I don’t know how you say it,
or how you install it, or use it, or play it,
or how you download it, or what programs run,
Wait til you find out who taught America the word “soccer”.
Piogre314@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca•TIL about Tetrachromacy, a condition which lets you see more colors. Normal people can see about 1 million colors, while tetrachromats may see up to 100 million. Up to 12% of women may have it.
1·2 years agoThere is a lot of misinformation about tetrachromacy and sadly this article perpetuates some of it. 12% of women are dormant tetrachromats, which means they have extra sets of cones but don’t actively use the extra ones. And the article suggests men are “less likely” to be tetrachromats, which is technically true, but misleading, since men cannot be tetrachromats at all.
Page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistosoma_haematobium#History for anyone curious
Piogre314@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•"Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report
29·2 years agoSouth of the Mason-Dixon Line includes almost half of your own state of Illinois, and multiple other states that remained loyal to the union.
Did you perhaps mean to refer to the 36°30′ parallel that was used in the Missouri Compromise?
Personally I’m more worried about the 3% of Iowa who doesn’t consider itself the Midwest.
Piogre314@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•Unity apologizes and updates their infamous Runtime FeeEnglish
15·3 years agoSo, I still don’t trust Unity, and wouldn’t in good faith advise its use moving forward given that there’s no way to know they wont try to pull this again in the future (especially given that John “Pay a Dollar to Reload” Riccitiello hasn’t resigned in disgrace as CEO). However, I feel there’s a part of the letter that you’ve left conspicuously out of this response.
But you still never answered how we can trust the install numbers that your tool supposedly collects
They addressed this, see this copied paragraph, emphasis mine:
For games that are subject to the runtime fee, we are giving you a choice of either a 2.5% revenue share or the calculated amount based on the number of new people engaging with your game each month. Both of these numbers are self-reported from data you already have available. You will always be billed the lesser amount.
This also addresses two your immediate followup concerns, piracy and install-bombs – always being billed the lesser amount would act as a safety valve against unprofitable install spikes, on top of the fact that using licensee-reported numbers allows for agency on the part of the licensee to screen for malicious activity before being billed.
Piogre314@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changesEnglish
8·3 years ago'member blackfaxing?
Piogre314@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•S.F. bakery won't serve cops, police union claims. Store says it's about the guns, not the cops
241·3 years agoCCW is legal with a license.
You can conceal carry while naked; it’s just unwise and uncomfortable.
For anyone curious, it’s illegal in the US too, and you can threaten to report them to the FTC for violation of the CAN-SPAM act.
Piogre314@lemmy.worldto
Minecraft@lemmy.world•Some old features I would like to see in Mc todayEnglish
2·3 years agonot since like 1.13 or so
I do not recognize the bodies in the water.
Piogre314@lemmy.worldto
Minecraft@lemmy.world•Some old features I would like to see in Mc todayEnglish
4·3 years agoI miss gravel beaches, and having full control over the color of water with a resource pack
Piogre314@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•All 50 states with the same naming convention as West Virginia
9·3 years agoIt’s appropriate that they all be slightly wrong, though. Virginia extends slightly west of West Virginia, so West Virginia should really be North Virginia. To use the same naming convention means to carry similar errors.




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