I thought for sure you’d be right. But it turns out, no! Dupe comes from 15th century French duppe, thieves’ jargon, thought to come from Latin huppe/hoopoe, an extravagantly crested bird. Duplicity comes from Latin duplicitatem “doubleness”.

I’ve never heard “gyped” or “jipped”. I’d say you were “duped”.

But that could be because I speak a dialect which features strong yod-coalescence. So “dune” and “june” are pronounced the same. So perhaps I have heard it, but simply eggcorned it into “dupe”.

Huh?

I’m apparently banned in c/guns, c/liberalgunowners and c/asklemmy

Are you sure? There’s no ban that shows up for you in the mod logs of any of those communities.

Some clients go out of their way to mark posts by a moderator in some way, though

This is something I really think Reddit did better than Lemmy tbh. Mods don’t appear special in any way, unless they specifically declare “this post is me acting as a moderator”. And only then is it highlighted green (or in some other way depending on the client). Ditto admins.

3x / week is the minimum-threshold to sustain a yt-channel

Eh? There are excellent popular YouTube channels that post way less frequently than that.

I think it would be a mistake to try and draw any clear comparison between a YouTube channel and a Lemmy community. But for YouTube, I’d say weekly is really the minimum of where you want to be while trying to grow.

fitness-workout-threshold: 3x / week sustains our health, 4x / week brings us closer to our optimal health

I ran a 3:15 marathon on 7 runs per fortnight, and a sub-18 min 5k on roughly 3 runs per week. On the other hand, I wouldn’t dare try a triathlon, even a relatively modest goal of 2:30:00 Olympic distance, on fewer than 2 runs, 2 rides, and 1 swim per week, for 5 total workouts minimum.

Exercise is even harder to compare to Lemmy than YouTube is, in my opinion. Because with exercise, the length and intensity of that exercise plays such an enormous factor.

Ludo? I haven’t played that since I was a tiny kid! I can’t say I remember much about how it’s played.

I understand the argument in favour of dangling commas, but oh gods I hate it. Aesthetically it’s just so awful.

Fun fact: nothing justifies genocide. Nothing.

From what little Mandarin I’ve learned, I’d say the two are far enough apart

There are probably some loanwords, and I’d guess being able to read Chinese might help reading kanji, but beyond that, yeah, the two languages are completely unrelated linguistically. Japanese is effectively a language isolate, not related to any other languages in the world. (There are technically some minority languages on Japan’s outlying islands with their own separate but related languages, so it’s not quite a language isolate, but close.) That includes being unrelated to Chinese and Korean languages. (Incidentally, Korean is like Japanese, almost-but-not-quite a language isolate.)

Greenwich Mean Time.

Because it’s mean.

Not even auto-update. Just auto detect updates. Then you go and download it yourself manually.

Auto-update-detection meant that the software was calling out to a remote server, so they updated the TOS to reflect that, and people got upset.

From what I could tell when I looked into it after a comment someone left on [email protected], some people were very upset at the privacy implications of Audacity adding an update detection mechanism (which can be turned off, and which is not included at all in the default build if you build it yourself).

Watched last weekend.

On Nebula? [email protected] if you’re interested.

Not really related, but if you’re hankering for a soft serve, I highly recommend heading to your local GYG instead of Maccas. Their machines aren’t more reliable, but their soft serves are so much nicer. Thicker, creamier soft serve than Maccas offers.

Same on Dvorak.

Though the custom coder’s Dvorak I use while programming has a dedicated ! key. Shift still needed for : though.

Yeah I was honestly surprised to see how many people in this thread interpret “plotting” as inherently negative.

I’ve felt this about a lot of things over the past few years.

There’s this meme of ‘why is ChatGPT expert on everything but the area I have knowledge of’.

That’s just Gell-Mann amnesia applied to chat bots.

It’s often cited as an example of parallel creation, but in reality there’s a good chance Katzenberg started production of Antz deliberately as an attack on Disney/Pixar.

Dreamworks tried to use the threat of releasing Antz at the same time as A Bug’s Life as leverage to get Disney to give The Prince of Egypt a clear release window, but Pixar’s John Lasseter and Steve Jobs wouldn’t budge.