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- Comment on Don't Let Your Thoughts Wander 1 day ago:
I guess my username is relevant here…
- Comment on Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away 1 day ago:
I think this is the real question.
Did they quit and join a competitor who offered a better WFH option? Or did they get a taste of the good parts of white collar pandemic life — no commute, flexible hours, work from anywhere — and decide that actually, their entire identity is not just their professional life, and maybe they should retire to see the world/spend time with family?
There are definitely some high profile rage quits over return to office, but I think there are a lot more of the “hey this was fun but time to take care of myself” quits.
- Comment on Huh? It's not that big 3 days ago:
14.5 M⊕ (earth masses) to save you a search.
- Comment on Moon dust 6 days ago:
Jack Schmidt = Anakin confirmed.
- Comment on bugs 6 days ago:
I’d prefer vodka in watermelons, personally!
- Comment on bugs 1 week ago:
Yeah I always assumed “bug” was like “vegetable” — it’s a colloquial, not taxonomic, term. But there are “true bugs” so maybe the analogy isn’t completely sound.
(And tomato is absolutely a vegetable.)
- Comment on What a fun gi 1 week ago:
Bioavailable — the e is a little odd.
- Comment on What a fun gi 1 week ago:
Bioavailable — the e is a little odd.
- Comment on this picture is 27kb 1 week ago:
To be clear, most science/advanced education in the US is conducted in SI units.
- Comment on A healthy life goal 1 week ago:
Not to be that guy, but…wouldn’t it be domesticated/feral, or domestic/international?
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 1 week ago:
Good point — getting the shitty ones to identify themselves is a good start.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, I think there is no real way around companies killing games. Because as shitty as this is, is it worse than every game which doesn’t intend to comply simply selling the game as a service instead? I doubt that could realistically be made illegal.
In other words, one way of complying would simply be to only sell a 1-mo. “lease” to your game. You don’t own it, and at some point they stop selling more leases, and then kill the game. You never owned it to begin with, so you didn’t lose anything; you are no longer a customer. Of course…this is just describing a shitty subscription system.
That said: I think it would be a good start for companies to be required to list earliest end-of-support date. You already get this with many hardware vendors (enterprise network gear won’t be supported forever).
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
Was Jobs really a techbro? I usually think of techbros as being fairly political/libertarian (or some interpretation of libertarianism, at any rate), while Jobs was afaik pretty apolitical.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 2 weeks ago:
Disregarding the question but commenting on the material, I don’t think this is generally true. In labeling something as forever upfront (e.g., marriage, which generally includes a “forever clause”), it’s only natural though.
Contrast marriage with a “summer fling” — the expectation is a duration of at most one summer. Not really considered a failure (which is kinda the plot of Grease, dated though that may be…)
There was a great restaurant near me (Michelin star), and it closed a while back — the owner was upfront that he just had a kid and wanted to spend more time together. I don’t think anyone views that as a failure. A loss for the community, definitely, but not a failure.
- Comment on Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded? 3 weeks ago:
Some false premises in this thread — corporations are not required to maximize profits. Even if maximizing profit was mandatory, this is a pretty subjective topic — is short term profit while pissing off your customers “maximizing profit,” or is sacrificing short term gains for long term customer loyalty “maximizing profit”? It’s not a rhetorical question, and I think you can find examples of both.
Corporations are also not all pursuing endless growth; in addition to “growth stocks” there are “dividend stocks.” Some companies aren’t aggressively pursuing growth, but are making profit, and the stock reflects this. It feels almost antiquated in the “to the moon” era, but these companies do exist.
- Comment on What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called? 4 weeks ago:
What, the curtains?
- Comment on Every song has that one comment 4 weeks ago:
I’m guessing Baby Got Back.
- Comment on isopods are friends 4 weeks ago:
Same!
- Comment on Biden Wipes Out Another $7.4 Billion in Student Loan Debt 4 weeks ago:
As someone who paid off student debts as quickly as possible 10+ years ago…am I supposed to feel a great sense of unfairness? Because I don’t 🤷
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 4 weeks ago:
Something something Drake meme Discord/IRC…
- Comment on mimic 5 weeks ago:
James Bond already did that one I think…
- Comment on mimic 5 weeks ago:
As always, it depends on who you ask:
web.archive.org/web/20190422115828/…/octopus
- Comment on mimic 5 weeks ago:
Professor should know that it’s etymologically Greek, so octopi is generally considered to be wrong.
Octopuses, or octopodes if you’re feeling badass, would be preferable afaik.
- Comment on life pro tip!! 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I looked up energy density assuming fast neutron reactor, and it’s “only” 7 million US food calories.
- Comment on life pro tip!! 1 month ago:
I just googled around and I think the meme inflated the numbers. Fast neutron reactor gets 28GJ/g, which is “only” about 7 million food (kilo) calories.
- Comment on life pro tip!! 1 month ago:
Meme is referring to nuclear reactors, not complete antimatter annihilation.
Nuclear reactors don’t “burn” everything — most of the matter stays (this is what nuclear waste is). So you can only apply E=mc^2 to the difference in mass, not the mass of the fuel.
- Comment on Lay them on me 1 month ago:
Cycling? Great, increased funding for infrastructure and increased general awareness. Amateur radio? Lower prices for rigs, innovation, and more contacts to be made.
If your interest in a hobby is based on its exclusivity, it may be that you’re more interested in exclusively than in the hobby itself…
- Comment on A modern paper 1 month ago:
I dunno, I kinda like the “breadth first” approach: abstract should basically tell you most of what you need, at a 30,000’ level, but maybe not convice you. Main text should convince you. Appendix should tell you how to perform the experiment yourself.
- Comment on CFCs 1 month ago:
Similar with Y2K — it was only a nothingburger because it was taken seriously, and funded well. But the narrative is sometimes, “yeah lol it was a dud.”
- Comment on It's ok, we sigma now. 2 months ago:
I bet you encounter a lot of resistance…