calcopiritus
@calcopiritus@lemmy.world
- Comment on The land before time 7 hours ago:
I don’t think the difference is the minimum education for entry.
I’d say the difference is how much of your paycheck is because of you specifically and how much is for just general labor.
So a physics researcher job is “skilled” because most of the pay is because the specific researcher knows about physics.
But a waiter job is “unskilled” since the skills needed to do the job are the skills needed for basically any job:
- Basic maths skills
- People skills
- Willingness to work
- Physical endurance
- Enthusiasm to work
- Memory
- Handling stressful situations
- Other relatively basic skills
Of those, only physical endurance and people skills are “exclusive” to being a waiter. There are some actual jobs that require no physical endurance. And some jobs don’t require as much people skills as being a waiter does. But the rest of them are general across basically every job.
Of course, "unskilled job"s do require skills, I just listed a bunch of them. But most of those skills, any other worker that does any other job would have. Therefore I count payment for those skills as payment for “general labor” and not “payment for you specifically”.
- Comment on Valid point 1 day ago:
What the fuck
- Comment on Valid point 2 days ago:
You guys don’t pay with cash?
So every purchase you make, doesn’t matter how small, you give a cut to the payment processor? I’d be fucking pissed if I were a small shop selling to you. In fact there are many shops that just refuse to sell if you buy something too cheap through a payment processor.
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 1 week ago:
If buying is piracy, piracy is not stealing
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
I was just regurgitating yours
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
You don’t have to stop playing games from these companies. You just have to stop paying for them.
Piracy is and has always been easy.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
You’re probably being down voted because uninformed people giving their “opinion” has been a huge issue for SKG. Since big companies have been fighting hard for people to think that SKG means that companies would need to pay for servers infinitely.
Just mentioning that as a possibility could be harmful as it plants the seed of thought of “SKG sounds good, but they could be scheming this evil shit in the shadows”. Which is NOT the case, SKG has been very explicit in that they DON’T want companies to pay for maintenance for servers. They only want access to the server software in order for anyone to be able to run it.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
The average consumer has pirated a videogame. It’s not hard to do. We only not do it because steam is slightly easier, and you lose online/achievements, and because it’s not morally right. However, that one last barrier has fallen.
If buying is not owning, using without paying is not stealing. There is no moral issue on pirating videogames, just do it.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
Ackchually, the heat death of the universe means that nothing lasts forever. Therefore, boycotting asshole big game companies run by billionaires that oppose the stop killing games makes no sense!
Also, why do we punish murderers? Their victims would die anyway, it’s a scientific fact.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
You don’t need to list every company.
You know which ones are the big ones. If you see a “6” next to a game title, don’t pay for it. No indie game dev makes 5 sequels to a game.
- Comment on oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Go tell that to the people/slaves of the countries I mentioned.
As I said, USA is no good, but it’s not the worst.
You don’t seem to understand the meaning of “worst”.
“Bad” is absolute and can be judged with just the USA.
“Worst” is relative and you have to consider the other ones.
- Comment on oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members! 2 weeks ago:
The United States is pretty bad, especially for being a supposedly rich country. But no, it’s not the most brutal.
Even though I would not travel to the USA under any condition, if I have to choose between USA, north Korea, Iran, or some other random authoritarian country such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, sudan or somalia, I’m going to USA. Even though I’m a non-gay male.
- Comment on oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members! 2 weeks ago:
So a guy got imprisoned by the most brutal government in the world. And then he fell into vegetative state. But said government has nothing to do with the vegetative state?
Do people just do that? Do people just go “eh, I’ve had enough, maybe I’ll just turn my brain off for a while”.
- Comment on Flock of scissors 2 weeks ago:
Why is a pair of scissors separated in halves? Shouldn’t a pair of scissors be separated into 2 unit scissor?
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 2 weeks ago:
Of course the random dude I replied to on Lemmy owns a set of semaphore flags. What else would I expect?
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 2 weeks ago:
It’s a simple concept.
You need at least 2 people to form a conversation.
One of them has Whatsapp, Telegram, signal, MSTeams, smoke signals and those flags that ships used to communicate.
The other only has Whatsapp.
They are going to communicate over Whatsapp.
Even if the dude with 1000 communication methods meets another dude with 1000 communication methods, they are going to use WhatsApp, because they are used to using Whatsapp with everyone, so it’s just easier to have everyone on WhatsApp.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
Because the instance your account is on ends in
.de - Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 2 weeks ago:
They can wipe their tears with the millions of dollars he “extracted” from his customers and his own workers.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 2 weeks ago:
Good riddance
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
You can also have shit leaders that micromanage. What even is your point?
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
There’s 24h in a day for leaders too. A leader cannot achieve infinite output by being infinitely good, just like an expert cannot achieve infinite output by being infinitely good.
Expertise is also a force multiplier.
A single expert in a team of juniors can do so much more. Because it can delegate the junior work to the juniors while doing only expert work. Thus ending up with more expert work done.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 weeks ago:
Did you read my comment through an LLM summary? Your response has no connection to my comment.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 weeks ago:
Humans can be held accountable though. Which means they would rather say “I believe this is because …” than “you are absolutely right! If you remove the voltage regulator from the power supply, it will provide more power!”. And if they don’t, they can be fired or put in prison, where they can stop doing harm.
If your LLM repeatedly lies to you, there’s nothing you can do about it. Maybe try another LLM, but there’s not many of them and they all lie.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 weeks ago:
If that were true, there would’ve been a software explosion, since LLMs have “killed manual programming” for some years now according to the guys that earn money when people believe that.
There hasn’t been any perceivable increase of software products over these years. Nor a decrease in their price.
The only notable differences are:
- LLMs shoved into every software product.
- Microsoft software getting even worse since they claimed they were using so much LLM.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 4 weeks ago:
You either make driving fast less safe, or you put a speed camera on every corner with the appropriate punishment. Cameras are expensive, and drivers will complain about them. If you make driving fast less safe, only the ones that remember how the road was before can complain about it.
- Comment on Women in dating apps 4 weeks ago:
The thing is not who does it. The thing is who complains about it.
- Comment on The speed of light 5 weeks ago:
In this example all 3 observers are in the same reference frame. That is, each of them are moving at the same speed. This is not what the meme is about. In this example the night from Al would reach you 0.06s after he lit it. Which is expected in Newtonian physics.
The problem of the speed of light being the same for all observers is when they move at different speeds.
The scenario is: Alice is inside a train moving at almost the speed of light, and Bob is outside it, looking at the train. Let’s set that light moves at 1m/s (for simplicity) and the wagon Alice is in is 1 meter long.
Alice is at one end of the wagon, and turns a flashlight on. Alice will see the other side of the wagon illuminated after 2 seconds (since the light has to reach the other end and bounce back). Since the wagon is 1 meter long and the speed of light is 1m/s.
However, when she turns the flashlight on, Bob is also looking. Let’s say that the train moves at 0.99m/s. In that case, after 1 second the light would have traveled 1 meter, but the wagon (and Alice) has traveled 0.99m, therefore the light is only 0.01m away from Alice.
To summarize: after 1 second, in Alice’s frame of reference, the light has just touched the other side of the wagon. Meanwhile, in Bob’s reference frame, the light has only moved 0.01m away from Alice.
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 5 weeks ago:
If there were no billionaires, a corrupt person could still have power inside a government. Making it a corrupt government.
Then he could benefit from that corruption and become a billionaire.
It’s not a one way relationship.
Corrupt entities make powerful people. And powerful people (sometimes) do make the entities corrupt.
And this is an issue for all political systems.
It’s not a “get rid of billionaires and the issue is fixed”. We must both redistribute power so it is at more reasonable levels. And clean the entities.
And once the power imbalance is smaller and the entities are clean, it is a constant maintenance fight to keep those entities clean and the power balanced.
A single democratic election can give a lot of power to a person that previously had none. Power is always flowing.
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 5 weeks ago:
Because I don’t want to be a politician.
There are also too many stupid executives. That doesn’t mean that I want to be an executive. I cannot both be a politician and an executive.
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 5 weeks ago:
Yes, the post is meant to be pro-left.
But your first sentence in your comment is wrong. Classic correlation is not causation. With the addition of “if X is Y because Z, if Z wouldn’t be, then X wouldn’t be Y”.