I rushed out the basics, editing the comment now. I’ve already written the ownership part but got distracted with what is now below the line. Come back in a while.
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That might have worked in a comic with established antropomorphic animals, otherwise “goose at a typewriter” must be the joke or part of it.
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Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Jucika looks for a jobEnglish
35·27 minutes agoThe photos are the contents of the “CV” and “Reports” (basically resume and qualifications) folders she brought.
Per TV Tropes on Jucika:
This strip references the comic’s change of ownership [trope page] from Érdekes Újság to Lúdas Matyi, presenting Jucika as a job-seeker trying to prove her qualifications to the titular Matyi and his goose [trope page].
Looks true, except “change of ownership” is definitely not what happened, Wikipedia says it happened after
in 1959, Érdekes Újság was merged with the Ország-Világ magazine
so the party was doing media restructuring, and Lúdas Matyi became the only explicitly satirical periodical allowed (and very popular as a result). This is the first Lúdas Matyi Jucika strip, marking the transition to color. Don’t ask me what kind of contract Pál Pusztai signed or how much say he had, I’m neither Hungarian nor have lived before 2000. And Hungarian is Hungarian to me, the only bits I recognize are új = “new” and ország = “country”, plus Erde is “Earth” in German so perhaps Érdekes Újság is “World News”? My qualifications are basically just knowing basic research techniques and the
xkbCombine key for diacritics.See also Wikipedia: Mattie the Goose-boy
I really like how the boy looks in the third image, reminds me of the 1973 Polish popular math book Przez rozrywkę do wiedzy: Rozmanitości matematyczne (“Science through Fun: Mathematical Curiosities”) by Stanisław Kowal (no illustrator credited so presumably also him), inspired by Martin Gardner, which I’m very nostalgic for as one of my first “nerdy” books.

I’m sure this was a reasonably common style but I haven’t read that many books from that era that used this kind of printing press so this is the reference you get.
The book’s not as good as Ian Stewart’s similarly-titled 2008-9 collections, there’s some tedious exercises (optional, obviously, but “here are factorials of 1 to 20, will you please fill out 21-25 if you’re good at calculating” feels like overly cheap content), but the translator did a great job, his notes are like 10% of the text.

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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Buying an Android phone is no longer enough — Google wants you to subscribe tooEnglish
4·4 hours agobring new, powerful features to users
Everyone’s a power user when the feature requires 10 GW
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•if imperfect skills are requiredEnglish
7·4 hours agoRight now, some MAGAt is replicating this plumbing to own the libs
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Extra Ordinary Comics@discuss.online•rain (2016-05-25) [Animated!]English
3·10 hours agoIt’s 18 MB because it’s GIFs, about 16 frames each… at least the palette of is optimized by panel. There is some charm to the dithering as opposed to DCT (JPG/WebP block) artifacts. Also, she only started using WebP in 2021, it wasn’t viable much earlier. Technically, the static background and low-color foreground could be separated (JPG + GIF with very small palette, maybe rotated to compress streaks horizontally (GIF uses basic lossless LZW compression of the palettized image that handles high run length very well); too early for APNG) and overlaid with CSS to achieve about the same signal-to-noise ratio at about one half to one third the size. However, the noise would be different…
The falling drops that indicate loading of each image are very cool but I wonder if something similar, plus the fade-in of all images at once, could have been done with just HTML and CSS, broadening accessibility to noscript users.
There are actually two interpretations of
N/A:N/A(not available): There is lost media so it can’t be evaluated.N/A(not applicable): The show is in sign language so evaluating that is outside the scope of this string-matching program.
Meanwhile,
undefinedseems to mean the value has not yet been evaluated. Maybenullis really the best.
There are different kinds of non-number “values” for numeric variables. Is this
∞,Overflow,NaNorN/A?
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Technology@lemmy.world•An Experiment Put LLMs in Charge of Radio Stations. You’ll Never Guess How It WentEnglish
2·1 day agoThere are viable stations that literally just play random songs from a playlist, jingles and ads so the bar is really low
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Games@lemmy.world•82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police carsEnglish
10·1 day agoI’m afraid “Watch Streamer Get Swatted” is a saturated market. Likely breaking the age record may help though
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Tesla@lemmy.zip•Man arrested after driving Tesla Cybertruck into Grapevine Lake to test 'Wade Mode'English
3·1 day agoWatch an Automobile Drown Embarrasingly also works but I like how you conveyed that shit is being dipped
Edit: Wager on Amphibianism, Die Early
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Tesla@lemmy.zip•Man arrested after driving Tesla Cybertruck into Grapevine Lake to test 'Wade Mode'English
3·2 days agoLake? If he actually wanted to wade he’d try a ߓord.
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Tesla@lemmy.zip•Man arrested after driving Tesla Cybertruck into Grapevine Lake to test 'Wade Mode'English
19·2 days agoIt stands for Water-Assisted Destruction Experience and worked perfectly.
I deliberately redirect Shorts to the default desktop player. And it’s more like 3 seconds in my experience, Grayjay takes way longer at 10-15 seconds.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00English
2·3 days agoFactory jobs are 6-14 and 14-22 (and 22-6 if there’s a rush), and office jobs usually 7-15, including a 30-min break. Then there’s the service sector, depending on when the shop opens…
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Malta Becomes First Country to Offer All Citizens a Paid AI SubscriptionEnglish
4·3 days agoLuxembourg has free transit and now everyone can ride without any ID, not just those who used to pay for single, full-price tickets plus paper ticket surcharge. Of course digital services are different but it’s clear there is an ulterior motive (besides subsidizing an unethical industry).
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•New mrbeast video is darkEnglish
5·3 days agoThose two, and many others, paid to get excluded from the draw. Finances the whole enterprise.
Awesome comic, my only nitpick is the lower-left blue heart somewhat out of place (clothing patch?), otherwise very expressive for only 2 panels with faces












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