FaceDeer
@FaceDeer@fedia.io
Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.
- Comment on Why are people talking about flying a flag upside-down? 21 hours ago:
Every accusation is an admission.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 days ago:
As I said, someone did complain about the caps.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 1 week ago:
I leave the little ring on and nobody's complained yet. I was just told to remove the caps one time, so I kept on throwing those out since then.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 1 week ago:
Very odd. Where I live you're not supposed to return the bottles with the cap, they're different plastics and the recyclers don't want the caps. You're supposed to throw the caps away in the regular trash.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 week ago:
Are you suggesting people shouldn't be allowed to own stuff? There are very few economic systems where people aren't allowed to own stuff and they tend not to be popular. Most of the people who are complaining about landlords and rent and whatnot really just want to own their own houses.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 week ago:
You answered your question in the sentence right after your question. The landlord owns the property and so he can do what he wants with it. He's letting you live there but has decided he wants something in exchange for letting you live there. If currency didn't exist he'd want something else in exchange.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 1 week ago:
I should note that currency and capitalism are not the same thing. Pretty much every existing economic system has currency of some form, it's just a way of tracking the relative values of various things so that people can make agreements about who gets what.
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 1 week ago:
Yes, and I'm saying there's nothing wrong with that "buzz word." It's accurate, just more generic.
I see a lot of people these days raising objections that LLMs and whatnot "aren't really artificial intelligence!" Because they're operating from the definition of artificial intelligence they got from science fiction TV shows, where it's not AI unless it replicates or exceeds human intelligence in all meaningful ways. The term has been widely used in computer science for 70 years, though, applying to a broad range of subjects. Machine learning is clearly within that range.
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 1 week ago:
Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence, so I don't see anything wrong here. The character's using a more generic term when talking to a layperson.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
It's just a matter of land management. Many of those grassland areas used to have other large grazing animals on them, so as long as the cattle herds aren't bigger than those old herds it should be sustainable.
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 2 weeks ago:
Gallium wants a word.
- Comment on Funding 2 weeks ago:
Depends who they're attacking.
- Comment on Funding 2 weeks ago:
Those all sound like pretty awesome projects in their own right, though.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
Do you think people in non-capitalist societies only eat the healthiest of foods?
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
There's no need to "torture" cattle to get meat from them. Indeed, meat from animals that are experiencing stressful conditions tastes worse. Not to mention simply having lower productivity. A farm with happy cows is going to be more profitable than one with stressed ones, all else being equal.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
And in those specific cases, sure, you could do more efficiently by getting rid of the cattle.
The point I'm making is that there's plenty of cattle raised in places that aren't like that.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
Most ranchland is, in fact, a "natural ecosystem." They just send cattle out to graze on it.
The point I'm making here is about food efficiency, though, not about land use.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
But as I pointed out, many cattle are ranched on land that cannot grow grain. They can't grow the sorts of crops that humans eat, only the sorts of crops that cattle eat. If cattle weren't being ranched on those lands they wouldn't be producing edible grain instead, or any other food that humans could eat. So the inefficiency is moot when it comes to the amount of nutrition produced, removing the cattle from that land would simply reduce the total amount of food we have available.
Sure, if you remove the cattle then wild animals could come in to replace them, but we should make sure that's not going to result in starvation and poverty if we do that. Many areas of the world have subsistence ranching by the locals.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
Because not everyone agrees that it's terrible for Earth. And even some of those that do may not consider it so terrible for Earth that it's not worth the tastiness.
You're wasting electricity running a computer right now, when we know that electricity generation is terrible for Earth. Why are you doing that?
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
Cows are not all fed on grain. A lot of cows are ranched on land that would not be suitable for growing grain crops.
- Comment on Weight 2 weeks ago:
It's not a planet.
- Comment on HOT SINGLE DINOS IN YOUR AREA 2 weeks ago:
Doubt this one scored a Hugo nomination like Space Raptor Butt Invasion did. Cheap attempt to ride its coattails to popularity.
- Comment on histories mysteries 2 weeks ago:
I think he's just snowballed in popularity over the years because he's good at reading these scripts in a way that sounds both smart and fun. The different channels focus on different styles and subject areas, letting you pick and choose what kind of thing you're interested in.
I rather like his "Decoding the Unknown" channel, where he gets scripts debunking various paranormal or otherwise mysterious events and he reads them for the first time as it's being recorded, taking lots of opportunities to interject his own theories and speculation and just generally rag on the concept of the paranormal as he goes.
- Comment on histories mysteries 2 weeks ago:
Except that's probably not what they're for, I saw a video recently (I think it was this one) that went into detail about the reasons why it doesn't make much sense for these to be a knitting tool.
- Comment on He revealed the secrets ! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on He revealed the secrets ! 5 weeks ago:
Over the past month I feel like all I've been doing is writing tech design documents for systems I don't actually know anything about because I haven't had the opportunity to go in and do anything with them.
Fortunately I've finally managed to reach the point where everyone agrees that we should just start implementing the basics and see how that goes rather than try to plan it all out ahead of time since we're surely going to have to throw out the later plans once we see what we're actually dealing with.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
Okay, bye, I guess. I still don't know what exactly you're accusing me of, but whatever.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
Yes. What's your point here?
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
You were the one who started talking on his behalf all of a sudden.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
Sure seems to be, he said he's "stoked" for when AI comes for the "tech bros"' jobs. But maybe he should speak up to clarify his own view, rather than you and I speculating about it in a side thread that wasn't actually about him to begin with?
