IrateAnteater

@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Painful to recover from⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The weird definition of intelligence they are using (how to succeed in life) does kind of cover that. The definition of what success is, and the millions of ways of achieving it covers just about all variations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix is garbage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this case, the ads are probably bringing in less per viewer than the service costs, so having non-paying viewers is still a net negative.

  Clamping down on this is probably a worse negative in the long run, but investors only care about this quarter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corn time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m 90% sure I’ve seen a corn bone video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the Home Alone house then and now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What people can do and what they actually tend to do are often extremely different things. And when you’re trying to sell a house, the idea is to get as many buyers as possible, so that you can get the most money. Whether it’s interesting or boring doesn’t matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pizza Party and Casual Fridays⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good lord, replace the words “middle class” with whatever you want to use to describe “population group that can use one income to support buying a home, having a spouse and 2.1 children, and saving enough to retire at 65”.

  The point is the massive increase in top level pay, not whatever term you are using to refer to the rest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the Home Alone house then and now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The after pictures look like a house being staged for sale, which means any colour and details that used to exist would have been removed to give buyers a “blank slate” look to work with. That’s why you keep seeing this same look in house listings, while very few people ever actually live in an interior that looks like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the Home Alone house then and now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When putting a house up for sale, you don’t paint the house white because of a shitty interior designer, you paint it white so that the buyer can easily paint it what they want. If, for example, you paint the walls red, and the buyer wants white, it’s going to take forever to get the red to stop bleeding through the white. Going from white to another colour however, is very quick and easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pizza Party and Casual Fridays⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In common usage, the “____ class” terms refer to income/wealth levels, and the social constructs derive from that.

  More importantly, the semantics of the comment are completely irrelevant to the actual message being conveyed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is 23⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So based on those statistics, I will say that those trades are definitely not “really dangerous”. Tortilla manufacturering is twice as dangerous at 6.2, and hospital workers were up above 10. Going from 0.8 to 1.6 is like going from laying on your couch to walking down the sidewalk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is 23⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Define “really hazardous”.

  What are the rates of workplace injury for trades compared to the rates of people getting long term health effects caused by sedentary work conditions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is 23⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on which trade and location you’re comparing with. Things vary wildly in the trades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is 23⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The pay part of that equation is dependent on where you are, and what trade you’re talking about.

  Where I am, trades generally get paid more than any office job you’re going to get with just a random bachelors degree. And if you join one of the trade unions, especially one of the higher skilled industrial ones (so like electricians, pipefitters, millwrights, etc, as opposed to general labour or residential construction), your pay will be much higher than entry level office positions, and will likely stay higher than anyone who doesn’t get themselves into an upper management type position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it so⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought someone redid the math a while back and got the energy requirement down to simply the mass of Jupiter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll take it to all 2 place it goes!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well then what was the point of even using the train?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We're all in this together"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And no flying to Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver? I know for a fact he didn’t drive there from the Webequie First Nation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bring back physical media on PC?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt it. At least for all but the most viral of indie games. Manufacturing physical copies is expensive and would involve minimum order quantity from suppliers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not going to lie, if you make a cereal with scantily clad women on the box, I’ll probably buy it at least once, just out of curiosity. Definitely taking that through the self checkout though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One can dream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds kind of like the ideal wedding attitude to me. Light on the symbolism, heavy on the “one last rager to remind ourselves that we’re actually kinda too old to be doing that anymore”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That probably factors into it too. The automakers have always preferred to have strong control over their suppliers, and doubly so after they played themselves with the chip makers during the pandemic. Battery plants take time to bring online, and unfortunately Trump’s bullshit kicked into high gear just as capacity was coming online, giving everyone cold feet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The small size isn’t specifically what is intended to make SMRs cheap; it’s the reproducibility. Not every location will be suitable for gigawatt scale reactors, but smaller reactors, made of components you can throw on a rail car, will bring cost down as production scales up. And there would likely be more reactors built, since there’s more flexibility in application.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d put a bit of an asterisk beside the carmarkers. In most cases, they are only pro gas due to demand and cost. For the most part, they are perfectly willing to switch if they know the sales will be there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the information superhighway!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure it was created for watching porn and selling drugs. All the arguing is an unfortunate side effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does the word data mean per se ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The GB version is more specific than the general term “data”. In this case, it specifically refers to 2 billion bytes (each byte being 8 bits, a “bit” being a 1 or a 0). But in the general sense, “data” can be a synonym for “information” which has many definitions, some of which are pure physics concepts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I think music sounds better on my old MP3 player?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It does technically hurt the quality, but 320 kbps mp3s are largely indistinguishable from lossless to most people.

  On a side note, why mp3 instead of a lossless format?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a no⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s the big asterisk on the “zipper merging is more efficient” premise. It assumes that things are already bottlenecked. If you have the space to merge early without slowing down, you do that. People trying to force their way in at the last minute (when they didn’t have to) is one of the things that triggers the bottleneck in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they structure their supplier contracts anything like the auto industry does, that would only be because they are on the back end of the product’s production lifecycle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Less of an issue with Valve. They don’t have as much of a need for a hardware loss leader since they earn from Steam regardless of which hardware it’s running on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨borger⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, seems to be missing the rest of the toppings. No way there’s any lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, bacon, or any combination of the above, on there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a busy morning planned⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I’ve had days where that is the literal plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doomer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty much implied by WW3.