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state_electrician , to programmer_humor in so my friend asked me to explain whats an rss feed

I am so old that I worked with SGML. Compared to that, XML is a lovely language. And sometimes I still miss writing XSLT to quickly transform some XML documents. These days you can do similar things with JSON, of course. But it’s not as easy and standardized as the XML tooling.

EndlessApollo , to lemmyshitpost in Bim

BIM :3

Zwiebel , to technology in Some basic info about USB

Additionally, USB 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 labels provide no information on the speed. Rather, “Gen 1” means 5Gb/s, Gen 2 means 10 and Gen 2×2 means 20Gb/s. These “Gen” labels are seldom found on products however.

So for example USB 3.2 Gen 1 is 5Gb/s while USB 3.1 Gen 2 is 10Gb/s

Plopp ,

The dear people at the USB Forum should be rewarded with the Nobel prize in namology for their clear, superior and non-confusing naming scheme and naming process that even the nerdiest of nerds can’t follow.

Valmond ,

All so sales people can slap on a 3.2 sticker over the 3.1 that was on top of the 3.0 sticker…

WoodScientist , to til in TIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.'

Now I really want to see an animation of what the European discovery of the planet looked like. Imagine a time lapse of a Civilization game, as the map is slowly revealed. I want to see that, except actual history.

lauha ,

Also make the map shape and style match that times maps.

waigl , to til in TIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.'

The only label on the map that’s both on Latin and in old German.

v4ld1z , to lemmyshitpost in Mr. Bean Under a Beam
@v4ld1z@lemmy.zip avatar

I see both a bean and a beam. Checks out, I’d say

originalucifer , to til in TIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.'
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cuba has always been cuba?!

FlyingSquid OP ,
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I’m guessing the Taino called it something else.

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

ha, good point. i was just kinda shocked to see a legible 'cuba' and 'florida'

Karyoplasma ,

Terra florida means something like “land with many flowers” in Spanish.

Zoboomafoo ,

Looks like they called it Cuba

Cuba - It is derived from either coabana meaning “great place,” or from cubao meaning “where fertile land is abundant”.

FlyingSquid OP ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

FWIW, this gives a somewhat different origin, although says it is derived from the local name.

www.etymonline.com/word/Cuba

Viking_Hippie ,

either “great place” or “where fertile land is abundant”

So…first impressions pretty positive?

Ilovethebomb , to noncredibledefense in Product testers

Some things never change.

galanthus , (edited ) to technology in Some basic info about USB

The superiority of german aryan ports proven once again.

(this is a joke, nazism is evil and I hate it)

schnurrito , to technology in Some basic info about USB

What is the difference between USA and USB?

One connects to all your devices and accesses your data, the other is a hardware standard.

finitebanjo ,

OIL

BossDj ,

One gives you power, the other does everything it can to make sure you are never do.

Sparky , to lemmyshitpost in Did you say BEAM?
@Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

They should be wearing JEAMS

Bean jeans

isolatedscotch , (edited ) to lemmyshitpost in Bim

am I dumb or just not getting it? where is BIM written

RavuAlHemio ,

trams are called „Bim“ in the Viennese dialect of Austrian German

gravitas_deficiency , to lemmyshitpost in Mr. Bean Under a Beam

Now do a beam made of beans

kate , to lemmyshitpost in Mr. Bean Under a Beam

holy shit

Eiri , to technology in Some basic info about USB

The USB standards are just… Comically overcomplicated. And almost everything about it is optional. They need a full revamp, making it simpler and mandatory on all future ports, devices and cables.

But they won’t do that, will they.

Telorand ,

I miss FireWire, too.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Now that was a peripheral protocol standard.

sigh

uninvitedguest ,
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I remember having a FireWire in one of the family desktops when I was a kid. Can’t remember what we might have used it for, though.

It resides in the same vague memory hole as the Zip drive that we had.

darkdemize ,
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Relevant XKCD.

WolfLink ,

Almost everything about it needs to be optional because sometimes USB is used to charge some cheap battery powered thing and sometimes it’s used to make a backup of a harddrive and sometimes it’s charging my laptop with enough power for it to be rendering video but still have a net charge increase to the battery while also providing Ethernet, video output, and keyboard/mouse input over the same one port.

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