GenosseFlosse

@GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber and Lyft now required to pay Massachusetts rideshare drivers $32 an hour⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this will reflect badly on ubers driver performance score if you turn down to many short or inconvenient trips…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never noticed that on Lemmy, but had your exact experience on bluesky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German parliament will stop using fax machines⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  a set of only 9 characters

  🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German parliament will stop using fax machines⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OCR existed long before the 486. AFAIK it was already used in the 70’s or 80’s to scan mail and presort them based on the postcode. I remember that postcards had light orange boxes (presumably because this color was invisible to B/W scanners?) with dots inside where you where supposed to write the postcode numbers in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German parliament will stop using fax machines⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ChatGPT can recognize text on images already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants to ride a zeppelin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you can have a lot of space for casinos, shops and pools with waterslides on a cruise ship to entertain passengers because weight is not important. But on an airship…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants to ride a zeppelin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know whats basically free, lighter than helium and not dangerous: Vacuum! /s

  Quick, someone give me Elons private number!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants to ride a zeppelin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While i would love to travel by airship, I dont think there would be a commercial success in airship passenger travel in the near future:

  • travel times of multiple days means you probably need 2-3x the crew of a plane on a 8h flight
  • this also means a plane that is 4x as fast can make the same trip 4x more often, bringing in more money for the airline in the same amount of time
  • you probably can’t land on existing airports, because an airship the size of a large building would be crawling accross your airspace blocking all flight traffic, or shaken by the turbulences behind a large jet powered airliner
  • new technology without any existing infrastructure is much more expensive than building on top of existing things
  • tickets would be much more expensive than a commercial plane because of the reasons above, the lower passenger capacity and the fact that you have to carry more supplies (water + food for days multiplied by people on board) for a longer trip. Each passenger with cabin and supplies was calculated as 300kg weight on a transatlantic flight on the hindenburg
  • Hindenburg could not fly in a direct straight line, because it travels at a height of only 400-600m. This means you had to go around high mountain ranges, because people and the combustion engines need oxygen which you dont have much above 4000m. However i dont know if this is still a problem with modern pressurized cabins, or if there is another limitation from the lifting gas…
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what we don’t have? Bears. Alligators. Cougars. Wolves.

  Because they all got killed by box jellyfish, venomous spiders or drop bears!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Australia also has yearly floods, wildfires or tornadoes depending on the area. And the wildlife will try to kill you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nz is more tolerant to different cultures, Australia offers a higher pay and lower living costs. However as a American they will not see you as much as an outsider.